Man, this groove is rolling. Seriously, seldom felt the room so much in a track. Really good stuff.

Alex Cortiz

Architeq - Birds Of Prey (Kelpe Remix)

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)

Rollin in clouds

04 - 158

Excuses...Excuses

Download @ https://grizzleboogie.bandcamp.com/album/fortunate-mishaps 

And if you're feelin' froggy donate a couple bucks.

Time Travelerr...

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)

Track from the album Zooming In.

Availalble at all download stores and streaming services worldwide

Funked Up Flow

Funked Up Flow (long preview)

Track from Groove Gecko's new album 'Something Cooking'

Available at all download stores and streaming services worldwide

Something Cooking

Urban Fittie

Urban Fittie (long preview)

Track from the album 'Something Cooking' by Groove Gecko.

Available at all wonload stores and streaming services worldwide.

Sputnik Love

Sputnik Love (long preview)

Basement Flow pt 2

Basement Flow pt 2 (long preview)

Track from the new album 'Going Deeper' by Alex Cortiz.

Available at all download stores and streaming services worldwide.

Going Deeper

The Wonfrous World of 6 AM

The Wondrous World Of 6 AM (very long preview)

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Discret mais essentiel, Petit Prince est le fil rouge du label Pain Surprises. Il est celui qui accompagne, guide et conseille tous les artistes en studio, comme le garant de l'identité sonore. Aujourd'hui c'est à son tour de sortir son disque "Je Vous Embrasse". Une pop mélancolique et psychédélique portée par une majestueuse maitrise des arrangements et des mélodies qu'il est capable de jouer sur ses instruments de coeur: une guitare saturée et un moog voyager. Son chant sensible raconte ses tumultes amoureux vécus entre deux belles aventures. Avec une petite part d'adultère qui le nourrit de nostalgie. Un Petit Prince aux grandes histoires.

Une étoile en parade

Soana (feat. Cameo Adele) (Koresma Remix)

Album available here:
keno.bandcamp.com/album/transatlantyk

The story of how Transatlantyk came to be is, in many ways, one typical of our times. We've grown accustomed to being isolated, even stranded, in recent months, and Technology has become our means of overcoming these aspects of quarantine.

For Lübeck-based producer David Hanke, a.k.a. Keno, and Los Angeles-based musician Tristan de Liège, their intercontinental relationship began long before the days of lockdowns and social distancing. The pair 'met' on-line through mutual friends back in 2018 and quickly realised they were, in a musical sense, kindred spirits. Their shared tastes meant that what started out as a single track quickly morphed into an EP, and finally the full length album that you're enjoying right now.

Tristan's experience as a neo-classical musician was the ideal foil for Hanke's skills with a sample and production expertise. Both shared a love of the more lush and cinematic end of instrumental Hip-Hop and Downtempo music. This sound partnership is evident throughout the album, but particularly on tracks like Nkosi, and the title track, where luscious string sections dance playfully with fractured, programmed beats; or the melancholic opener, Kouyou, where more laid back drums underpin muted horns and joyous harps.

The pair's perfectly formed fusion isn't the end of the story though, as French chanteuse Elodie Rama is on hand to provide not only some impeccable vocals, but also irresistible melodies to this already mellifluous long-player. Speak The Language sees this brilliant vocalist drift seamlessly between euphonious song and spoken word whilst delivering one of the ariose moments of the whole album. Elsewhere, on Dancing In The Dark, Elodie gives a slightly more sombre performance, combining with lavish strings and driving rhythms to a tee; and on To Find A Way offers up an even more emotional and almost heart-breaking performance, aided by wistful and forlorn instrumentation.

Transatlantyk is a body of work from an amalgamation of rare talents who combine beautifully to take us through myriad emotions; from the urgent and compelling Off The Mark via the pensive Forever We Were, and finally find their Way Across thanks to a shared love of graceful and refined musicality and a good song.

To this day the three have never actually met in person, but here's a last hopeful thought that one day soon, as we emerge out of the darkness, they can finally join together in a physical, as well as a musical, embrace.

Text by Dom Servini

Transatlantyk

Keno & Tristan De Liege "To Find A Way feat. Elodie Rama"

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.

The Funka Redux (long preview)

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