Eskadet - La Repara - Lemongrassmusic 2013

Track taken from the bonus cd coming with my latest release Magnifico! volume 2. Warning: not your average Alex Cortiz dope :-)

Low Red Moon (Full Version)

jazzy pimpin’

lance river

Track from the new Alex Cortiz album 'Zooming In'. 

Available at all downloadstores and streaming services worldwide

Zooming In

The Funka Redux

The Funka Redux (long preview)

Another track from the new Alex Cortiz album 'Zooming In'

Available worldwide in all download stores and streaming services

Paluka Days

Paluka Days (long preview)

No Way Home

During the process for the Long Way Home recording, there were many tracks and alternate versions that had been left out from the release. We decided to select a few in the form of a new album, No Way Home.

First off, long time best friend and collaborator Atjazz reworks Space Time in such an elegant way that only he can achieve. Palma gets reworked by one of the leaders of the balearic genre via Zagreb, our new friend Ilija Rudman. He strips down the arrangements while keeping the vibe of the original intact.

On the title track, Long Way Home (No Way Home), Fred used alternate drums while adding some space to the mix. One In A Million (Freestyle Instrumental) gets a new beat reminiscent of 80’s freestyle but this time, without the original vocoded vocals of Franky Selector. by Day feat Sio gets a slightly more uptempo broken beat treatment while Un Dimanche Soir (Sunday Night) is a housier version of Un Dimanche Après-Midi, written in the evening of the same day.

Things break down a bit with an ambient version of Palma. Silver Light (Original Dub) is here in its original dub form as the album version was updated last minute to a regular 4/4 beat. Alright is an unreleased track, written during the album sessions. Barbarella Dub is inspired by a sunrise set at the infamous Tisno outdoor club and we finish the album with a reprise version of Something.

This is the last chapter of the Long Way Home story. We hope you enjoyed the ride!

Many thanks to all who’ve supported and the following artists for their contribution :
Sio, Jinadu, Hot Toddy, Franky Selector, Andre Lodemann & Fabian Dikoff, Lauer, Ian Pooley, Atjazz, Ilija Rudman, Stéphane Lavoie…

Long Way Home (No Way Home)

Lyrics written and performed by Fifi Rong
Music by Alberto Accento Sabatini
Mixed at Candyworx Studios
Mastered at Blackhead Studios, Berlin

Taken from the album Metropolis by Guess Disco
Release on Save The Black Beauty, Germany
April 5th, 2019

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Guess Disco

'Nahi' ft Fifi Rong - Guess Disco (Video Version)

Track from the new album 'New Tunes Vol. 2' by Alex Cortiz.

Available on all downloadplatforms and streaming-services worldwide.

New Tunes Vol.2

Fly 69

Fly 69 (full version)

'Mantra Moderne' is a stunning, contemporary masterpiece that fuses Anatolian Psychedelia, Brazilian Tropicalia, 60’s European pop and American jazz. A must for fans of Khruangbin, Portishead, Arthur Verocai, Goat, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Os Mutantes, Cortex and co.

The duo is formed of Kit Martin, who lives between London and France and plays all instruments on the album, and Merve Erdem, vocalist and multi-disciplinary artist from Istanbul, now based in London. This is their debut album.

The album explores universal themes such as love, loss, decay, language and ideology, mixing three different languages: English, Turkish and French. Written and recorded by the duo - Kit composed all the songs and Merve wrote the lyrics - in rural France during 2018, each song was completed within a 12-hour window, pawning contemplation for spontaneity.

Dubbed by Kit and Merve as ‘lo-fi-hi-fi’ in reference to the high-end tube equipment that helped it find its way to 8-track cassette tape. The style owes its sound to narrow tape width, valve distortion, spring reverb, the mixture of high end gear with lo-fi equipment as well as a disregard to the norms of hi-fi studio techniques. All instruments were analogue and no samples were used. The instruments that are used range from tablas to darbukas, balalaikas to ouds, MS20 synths to Farfisa organs and a lot of cuica. The mixing techniques were done on-the-fly, tracking immediately to tape: compression, EQ, delay and reverb; meaning mixing could not be revisited!

The deluxe edition of ‘Mantra Moderne’ features two previously unreleased tracks - ‘Kozmos' and 'Rain (باران)’. It also includes remixes of album tracks from Baris K, Halal Cool J, and Natureboy Flako (who also contributes an unreleased cover version of ‘Senden Baska’).

Tracklist:
1) Senden Başka
2) Mantra Moderne
3) Tyranny 20
4) Pangea
5) Kuytu
6) Yanımda Kal
7) Yürüdüm, Büyüdüm, Çürüdüm
8) With A Sense Of Grace
9) Durma
10) Kozmos
11) Rain (باران)
12) Durma (Baris K Dub)
13) Senden Baska (Natureboy Flako Remix)
14) Kit Sebastian vs Halal Cool J
15) Senden Baska (Natureboy Flako Cover)

Kit Sebastian - Rain (باران)

From 1998 onwards Alex Cortiz has produced more than 30 albums of deep vibin’ grooves with elements of chill out, nu jazz, cinematic dub, soulful blaxploitation and chilled- and deep house. 
He became one of the leading producers in groovy relax and funky chill out. Often he has been linked to Kruder & Dorfmeister, Air, Nor Elle, Audio Lotion, Dj Cam, Session Victim, Zap, Dazz, Ron Basejam, Solee and lately Nils Frahm.

To dig a bit deeper into the musical carreer of Alex Cortiz... His roots in international dance music go back to 1990, when he produced one of the first worldwide techno club hits as D-Shake with Yaaah / Technotrance. After that he was succesful with a.o. Paradise 3001 (ambient techno) and Flygang (disco) And then, after that… producer / dj Alex Cortiz took over.

Discography: 19 albums: 1) Volume One 2) Moodfood 3) Make Believe 4) Mesmerising 5) Magnifico! 6) Phoenix 7) Lo Tek 8) Camera 707 9) See Me Flowin 10) Magnifico! vol.2 11)New Works Vol.1 12) Deep Deluxe 13) Oddities 14) Zooming In 15) Going Deeper 16) Dope Spheres 17) Lo-Fi Explorations 18) New Tunes Vol. 1 /  19) New Tunes Vol. 2 / 20) New Tunes Vol. 3 / 21) New Tunes Vol. 4 / 22) Heads Up 23) Dancing Naked on Pluto 24) Pensées Melodiques 25) Barista 26) Dancing Naked on Mars

4 EP's: 1) Barfly (remixes) 2) A-Chill (remixes) 3)Magic Touch (remixes 4) Funk Me up Baby (remixes)

You can buy Alex Cortiz' music on cd or on Beatport, iTunes / Apple Music and all other major digital download stores or stream it on Spotify, Apple Music and many others.

Also known as: D-Shake, Paradise 3001, Flygang and many other artists.