Cocoon recordings mixed

Dear friends,
As I have been mixing the Cocoon in-house compilation for the last 9 years, I want to share with you all the episodes of this incredible adventure from the very beginning up until today!

After the first 5 years at Cocoon Recordings, Sven Väth (OFFICIAL) asked me to mix my favorite tracks of the previous years into a nice compilation.
It was a big honor as it was my first big job although my young age, in fact I was only 19! This was definitely a sign of trust!
The name of this compilation is as simple as good: Eins (one) and includes masterpieces like: Roman Flügel – Geht´s Noch, INGO BOSS – Little Eternity, Dinky - Acid in my Fridge or Legowelt – Discorout just to name a few.

Have a listen to Cocoon´s most wanted 2000 – 2005



artist: Various
title: EINS - mixed by Chris Tietjen
cat :	CORMIX014-2
label : Cocoon Recordings
barcode : 807297075526
format :	CD
rel.date:	29th of May 2006
style: Techno

DESCRIPTION:

Five years Cocoon Recordings, that makes twenty-two 12"es, fourteen Mix-CDs and five Label Compilations. Cocoon youngster Chris Tietjen went about compiling the best tracks of the Cocoon Recordings 12"es to a musical cross-section. The result is a unique mix which contains pieces from recent times (Roman Flügel, Dinky, Oliver Koletzki) as well as tracks from the starting time of the label (Frank Lorber, Glove or Legowelt).
Chris Tietjen's style alternates between groovy tech house and hypnotic minimal sounds, but one can also find driving techno tunes in his record case. However, his sound is not easy to describe, and his sets are always full of surprises and guarantee many hours of frenzy.


TRACKLISTING:

01	J. Sienkiewicz - Dream Machine	
02.  Glove - Drogenkontrolle	
03. Ingo Boss	 - Little Eternity	
04. Dinky - Acid in my Fridge /	T. Neumann rmx
05. Pig & Dan	Oh -  Yeah!	
06. Roman Flügel - Geht's noch /D. Eulberg rmx
07. Anthony Rother - Bodytalk	
08. Oliver Koletzki - Der Mückenschwarm / David K rmx
09. Väth vs. Rother - Komm	
10. Legowelt -  Disco Rout	
11. Frank Lorber - Electric Sparkle	


EINS

Dear friends,
As I have been mixing the Cocoon in-house compilation for the last 9 years, I wanted to share all the episodes of this incredible adventure with you. From the very beginning up until today!

So here we go now with the third Compilation, I did for cocoon recordings 7 years ago, called DREI!

Listen to Cocoons most wanted 2007.

Artist: V.A
Title: DREI MIXED BY CHRIS TIETJEN
Cat.: CORMIX020-2
Label: Cocoon Recordings
Barcode:	807297110128
Format:	CD
Release date:	18.04.2008
Style: Techno / Tech-House

INFO

For the third time now, Next Generation host Chris Tietjen compiles the best Cocoon releases of the year on one CD and succeeds in providing a mix that is summarizing the party highlights of the past year in a perfect way.  With three artist albums, the Compilation G and numerous 12"es, Cocoon has again set standards in 2007 and is also planning a lot for 2008: besides the upcoming Minilogue album, there is also an album from Extrawelt in sight.Besides the big hits ("Unreliable Virgin", "Hunter" or "Horizon"), Chris has also included some flip side pearls ("My Cube" oder "Alpha Blend") to the CD, and delivers an impeccable 70 minute set that elegantly steps on the border between House and Techno. Nonchalantly he opens with Martin Buttrich's "Hunter, continues with shooting star Lucio Aquilina and developes a driving and groovy atmosphere up to Pig&Dan's "Sly Detector", which marks an emotional highlight before he closes the mix with Adam Proll's "Elevator", Joel Mull's "Harmonautic String" and Jacek Sienkiewicz's "Good Luck". A very atmospheric and competently made mix with carefully chosen highlights!


Tracklisting 

01. Martin Buttrich - Hunted
02. Lucio Aqulina - My Cube
03. Phonogenic - The Last Beer On Earth
04. Martin Buttrich - Hunter
05. Argy - Unreliable Virgin
06. Pig&Dan - Sly Detector
07. Adam Proll - Elevator
08. Beroshima - Horizon (Pig&Dan Remix)
09. Joel Mull - Harmonautic String
10. Phonogenic - Alpha Blend
11. Jacek Sienkiewizc - Good Night

DREI

Label: Cocoon Recordings
Artist: V. A.
Title	: VIER MIXED BY CHRIS TIETJEN
Catalog No. CORMIX 023
Format: CD
Release date	May 2009

TRACKLISTING:

1. Martin Buttrich – I lost my wallet 5:14 
2. Tiefschwarz – Liquid Cherries 5:33
3. Inxec vs. Matt Tolfrey – Just can't take it 5:17 
4. Minilogue – Jamaica (Dubfire RMX) 5:48
5. Guy  Gerber – Timing 8:42 
6. Reboot – Mirasierra 7:41 
7. Timo Maas – Subtellite 8:31 
8. Sven Väth – The Beauty & the Beast (Eric Prydz RMX) 6:47 
9. Adam Proll – Flug 407 7:05 
10. Minilogue – Animals (Tolga Fidan Remix) 06:18
11. Schneider & Galluzzi feat. Florian Schirmacher 05:08
12. Minilogue – Hispaniola 07:53


INFO:

Since 2005, the 23 year-old Chris Tietjen is a part of the Cocoon family. With his Next Generation series at CocoonClub Frankfurt, he established one of the most important creative pools for upcoming DJ talents; besides that, he regularly provides the listeners with one of the most crucial musical determinations of contemporary Techno. The characteristic elements of Tietjen's understanding of DJ skills are on the one hand the stress of intensive bass lines and driving percussions, but also the respect for the arrangement of the individual tracks. This fourth label compilation presents all dancefloor burners of the last 12 months on Cocoon Recordings in a diversified and coherent mix: Martin Buttrich, Schneider & Galluzzi, Guy Gerber, Tiefschwarz, Reboot, Adam Proll and Timo Maas undisputedly belong to the group of artists who have enhanced electronic dance music in the past year. In his terrific mix, Tietjen focuses on the releases of Swedish duo Minilogue whose CD/DVD album "Animals" belongs to the most successful releases on Cocoon and thus is represented her with three tracks (among them remixes by Dubfire and Tolga Fidan). And when Tietjen briefly reduces the tempo after Timo Maas' brute Tribal masterpiece "Subtellite", only to continue with the Väth classic (and one of the hits in the last season) "The Beauty & the Beast" in a remix by Eric Prydz, one can definitely get an impression of Chris Tietjen's skills as a DJ.


VIER

Artist Chris Tietjen  
Title FÜNF
Label Cocoon Recordings
Cat No CORMIX029 
Barcode CD 827170108523
Release Date 10.05.2010 physical / 10.05.2010 Digital

TRACKLISTING:

01	Stefan Goldmann - Yes To All
02	Alex Flatner and Lopazz - Make Up YOur Mind
03	Nick Curly - Pujante
04	Julian Jeweil - Color
05	Egbert - 	Groots Uitpakken
06	Electric Rescue - The Darkest Star
07	Tim Green - Lone Time
08	Egbert - Vreugdevuur
09	Extrawelt - No But Yeah But No
10	Len Faki - Death By House (Ed Devenport Remix)
11	Tiefschwarz - 	Keep On
12	Yousef - Come Home


The Cocoon Recordings Mix Compilation Series is celebrating its fifth anniversary: after Chris Tietjen, being still a youngster in 2006, had compiled the label's best tracks of 2006 on the CD "EINS" and thus offered a review on twenty-two 12" maxis, we are now facing "FÜNF", on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of Cocoon Recordings.

Every year, Chris compiles his personal Cocoon highlights in a musical cross-section and each time he produces a very unique mix of the best Cocoon dancefloor bombs of the past 12 months. First came "EINS", then "ZWEI" followed, and meanwhile we have reached "FÜNF. Chris, who is now resident of his own night "Loaded" at Sven Väth's homebase cocoonclub Frankfurt, has now put together the best tracks of 2009 and assembles artists from the likes of Egbert, Tiefschwarz, Electric Rescue, Alex Flatner & Lopazz, Tim Green, Nick Curly, Stefan Goldmann, Julian Jeweil, Extrawelt, Len Faki or Yousef in this mix.


FÜNF

Artist Various Artists  
Title SECHS - MIXED BY CHRIS TIETJEN
Label Cocoon Recordings
Cat No CORMIX033
Barcode CD 827170116122
Release Date 27.05.2011 physical / 27.05.2011 Digital

TRACKLISTING:
1. Arnaud Le Texier - Elusanes (Beatless)
2. Moritz Von Oswald - 	Cocoon Dark Dub
3. Dinky	- Acid in My Fridge (Visionquest Rmx)
4. Argy - Unreliable Virgin (Tim Green Rmx)
5. Christian Burkhardt - Stopover Goa
6. Maetrik Feat. Kule Runner - Snorkel
7. Loco Dice - La Bicicletta
8. Phil Kieran - Blood Of Barcelona (Pan-Pot Rmx)
9. 2000 And One - Tropical Melons (Paul Ritch Rmx)
10. Psycatron & Paul Woolford - 	Thunder
11. Harrison Crump - Deep Down Inside (Reboot Rmx)
12. Dubfire - Rejekt
13. Chymera - Pump
14. Johannes Heil	 - Twentythree
15. Outro

INFO:
Even if no other contemporary music style is as consistently searching for new sound horizons as electronic dance music does: in the end, the tradition of series within this constant development provides us with well-known structures from the house of Cocoon. 30 years of lived DJ culture, 11 years of label history and, after all, already the sixth mix compilation by Chris Tietjen are events that need to be celebrated this year. The 26-year-old Frankfurter is an essential part of the Cocoon family since 2005 and his annual compilation is on the one hand a most welcome definition of the state-of-the-art of modern Tech-House, and on the other hand shows his own personal development from the promising Rhein Main newcomer to one of the most influential DJs in Europe. In the true sense of Cocoon's publicised aesthetics of the DJ as a mediator of visions apart from the Sync button, Tietjen starts out for a journey through the last 12 months of Cocoon Recordings. And, once again, the acoustic cornucopia is full to bursting, containing tracks by Loco Dice, Dubfire, Phil Kieran, Christian Burkardt and many more: from the Pop Ambient of Fabric resident DJ Arnaud Le Texier ("Elusanes" Beatless Version), Tietjen dives into the depths of Dub with Moritz von Oswald's "Cocoon Dark Dub" before the Vision Quest remix of Dinky's "Acid In My Fridge" sets the signs – careful but unmistakeably – to a more club-esque format. What follows is yet again a tour de force through modern Techno where anything goes, from percussive reduction (Johannes Heil "The Ace - Butch Remix"), noise-heavy Deep Tech House (Maetrik "Snorkel"), winding and harmonic Detroit Techno (2000 And One "Tropical Melon - Tim Green Remix") up to an almost Balearic emotion overflow towards the finale (Chymera "Pump"; Johannes Heil "Twentythree") – a picturesque and more than inspiring kaleidoscope of modern electronic music.

SECHS

Dear friends,
As I have been mixing the Cocoon in-house compilation for the last 9 years, I wanted to share all the episodes of this incredible adventure with you. From the very beginning up until today!

So here we go now with the second Compilation, I did for cocoon recordings 8 years ago, called ZWEI!

2006 was a simply fantastic year for Cocoon Recordings as we got huge releases like Guy Gerber – After Love, LOCO DICE– Carthago or Adam Beyer – Stereotypes, which were my personally fav´s.
But Extrawelt's – Titelheld or Dominik Eulberg's – Bionik were also high listed everywhere!

Listen to Cocoons most wanted 2006.


Artist: V.A. mixed by Chris Tietjen
Title: ZWEI
Cat.: CORMIX0172
Label: Cocoon Recordings
Format:	CD
Release date:	02.03.2007
Style:	Tech-House / Techno

Tracklisting:
01.Guy Gerber & Shlomi Aber – Sea of Sand (Patrick Zigom Remix) 
02. Pig & Dan – Touch 
03. Fuckaponydelic -  Switsch the Lights
04. Loco Dice - Carthago
05. Adam Proll -  Hummel 
06. Extrawelt - Titelheld
07. Adam Beyer -  Sterotypes
08. Pig & Dan – On the Beat
09. Guy Gerber % Shlomi Aber -  After Love
10. Dominik Eulberg - Bionik
11. David K. -  Mayann

Info:

Over the last twelve months, the Cocoon Recordings crew has written another chapter of the German Tech House Book. With releases by Loco Dice, Dominik Eulberg or by shooting stars like Guy Gerber and Pig&Dan, we could celebrate some of the biggest records of 2006. 
Guy Gerber's "Sea of Sand", Eulberg's "Bionik" and Loco Dice's "Carthago" even belong to the absolute high-flyers, and with Fuckaponydelic's "Switch the Lights", the first big release of this year is also included. "ZWEI" continues where the first label revue "EINS" had stopped and will be anticipated particularly by fans and clubbers who don't have a record player anymore but have not completely switched to mp3 yet. 
A CD containing the best of the current Cocoon releases, compiled and mixed smoothly by CocoonClub's Next Generation host Chris Tietjen. 
Chris has advanced steadily since his CD debut and without doubt belongs to the top league of young Tech House and Minimal DJs. With more and more routine, he extends his national and international fanbase. 
Chris has developed into one of our best ambassadors and is a popular DJ who is capable of reflecting the Cocoon vibe and transporting the Frankfurt mood to the clubs. in this spirit... we feel the bassline!



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ZWEI


Chris Tietjen ‎– Sieben
Label: Cocoon Recordings ‎– Cormix039
Format: CD, Compilation, Mixed
Country: Germany
Released: 05 Apr 2012
Genre: Electronic

Tracklist 
1 Ross Evana - Thrilla In Manila 	
2 Maetrik - Crush On Me 	
3 Nick Curly - Sun City 	
4 Pele - Nothing Else 	
5 Ilario Alicante - Balance 	
6 Sante & Frank Lorber - Rootdown 	
7 Boys Noize - Adonis 	
8 Guy Gerber - Timing (Kassey Voorn & Pete McCarthy Remix)	
9 Christian Burkhardt & Einzelkind - Icon 	
10 Dinky - Luvin 	
11 Youandme - Raw 	
12 Junyamabe - 3745.8 	
13 David August - True Romance


The itchy seventh year can obviously do no harm to Chris Tietjen. With his usual aplomb, the 27-year-old DJ from Frankfurt compiles the gems of the last twelve months of Cocoon Recordings into a fulminant tour de force, and once again, it's not until this 77-minute-long overall picture that it becomes clear how many superb club moments have accumulated in the Cocoon record case in the past year.
Of course, Maetrik's dark and deep particle house "Crush On Me" plays a significant role here, but also Nick Curly's analogue bass-driven hi-energy attack "Sun City" was ranked quite high in last year's reader's charts in Groove Magazine. Besides that, we find Pele's Dub Tech monster out of Rosenheim ("Nothing Else"), the thrilling rework of Guy Gerber's classic "Timing" by the two Athens-based DJs Kassey Voorn and Pete McCarthy, Dinky's surprisingly dirty and song-like declaration of love from the K compilation ("Lovin") and, of course the Ibiza anthem 2011 by Boys Noize ("Adonis") can't be ignored here, too. Tietjen's special DJ quality is once again obvious in his habitually unpretentious DJ mix that nevertheless always has the arc of suspense in focus and respectfully leaves the tracks the compositional air to breathe but gives you the final kick right through the combination of the tracks. And this is exactly the reason why the whole-blood DJ Chris Tietjen has turned from a promising newcomer from the Rhein Main area to one of the most formative DJs in Europe over the last seven years.

Das verflixte siebte Jahr vermag Chris Tietjen nichts anzuhaben. Gewohnt souverän packt der 27-jährige Frankfurter DJ die versammelten Juwelen der letzten zwölf Monate bei Cocoon Recordings zu einem fulminanten Parforceritt zusammen, und wieder einmal wird erst in dieser 77-minütigen Gesamtschau so richtig klar, wie viele grandiose Clubmomente da im Hause Cocoon im vergangenen Jahr zusammenkamen. Maetriks düster-deeper Partikel-House „Crush On Me“ spielt dabei natürlich eine herausragende Rolle, aber auch Nick Curlys analog-bassbetonte Hi-NRG-Attacke „Sun City“ wurde in den Leser-Jahrescharts 2011 des Groove Magazins zu Recht hoch gehandelt. Mit dabei sind außerdem Peles Dubtech-Monster out of Rosenheim („Nothing Else“), die spannende Überarbeitung des Guy Gerber-Klassikers „Timing“ von den beiden Athener DJs Kassey Voorn und Pete McCarthy, Dinkys überraschend dirty und songgeneigte Liebeserklärung aus der K-Compilation („Lovin“) und natürlich darf die Ibiza-Hymne 2011 von Boys Noize („Adonis“) ebenfalls nicht fehlen. Die besondere DJ-Qualität Tietjens zeigt sich aber wieder einmal in seinem gewohnt unprätentiösen und dennoch stetig den Spannungsbogen im Fokus habenden DJ-Mix, der den Tracks respektvoll die kompositorische Luft zum Atmen belässt und dennoch erst in der Kombination den entscheidenden Kick setzt. Und genau damit schaffte es der Vollblut-DJ Chris Tietjen in den vergangen sieben Jahren vom vielversprechenden Rhein-Main-Newcomer zu einem der prägendsten DJs Europas.


SIEBEN

Artist Various Artists
Title ACHT - MIXED BY CHRIS TIETJEN
Label Cocoon Recordings
Cat No CORMIX043
Release Date 04th March 2013

TRACKLISTING:
1. Sawlin – Posay
2. Daniel Stefanik – Everything Goes Green
3. Ilario Alicante & Todd Bodine – Modern Apocalypse
4. André Galluzzi & Dana Ruh – Voyage
5. Maetrik – Particle House
6. Christian Burkhardt – Waffles
7. Sian – East of Eden
8. Daniel Stefanik – Rush
9. Maetrik – The Reason
10. Secret Cinema & Peter Horrevorts – Ana Bola
11. Mark Broom – SQ18
12. Ambivalent – Iwato
13. Doomwork – Independence
14. Chris Tietjen & Markus Fix – Active
15. Daniel Stefanik feat. Cassy – Keep On (Version 1)
16. Chris Tietjen & Ricardo Villalobos – TV Watching

INFO:
It's hard to believe, but somehow we seem to be living in a time leap... A time leap that already brings us the eighth (!) edition of the Cocoon in-house Mix-CD series. And it's almost as if the first editions have just been released – especially if you listen to them from a today's point of view –, as the tracks of the first Cocoon Recordings Mix-CDs appear very contemporary even in 2013, and not at all outdated, let alone eight years old. Of course, this is above all praise from within our own ranks, but we would like to claim proudly that Cocoon Recordings still manages to present Techno and Tech-House in a timeless look, against all odds. And that whets our appetite for a new edition of this CD series!
Just as with its predecessor, Chris Tietjen was responsible for selecting and mixing the tracks, being deeply ingrained in Cocoon since his teenage days. And even more than with its predecessors, Tietjen manages to draw a big line and to reconcile the sometimes very heterogenous Cocoon Recordings releases. The great gap that Techno fans might see between tracks by Stefanik, Ambivalent and Secret Cinema is skilfully bridged in the mix by Tietjen's combination of tracks, and is even beneficial for the flow of the mix. This diversion is typical for Cocoon: a lot of variety within the set, using only musical material from one single label, without ever losing the tension.
Of course, Stefanik's contributions and the tracks by Mark Broom or Maetrik stand out a little bit, but this is also a sign of a good mix: to find the right proportion between a fluent passage and similar styles on the hand and variety on the other. To stay in the flow but never become monotonuos.
That's why the eighth edition of this in-house Mix-CD series is fully dedicated to the label's philosophy and to all the Cocoon DJs' philosophy who defy all these "Style-DJs" and their loop Techno and Ableton monotony, but rather bring in their sets great variety and a wide range of music. These sets all have a special stamp and bear the hallmarks of their DJs, but they still manage – just as the other Cocoon Mix-CDs – to bring different styles together and this is probably why they appear so timeless... when you listen to them again, many years later.

ACHT

Release Date: March, 31st 2014

Artist: Various Artists mixed by Chris Tietjen
Titel: NEUN
Release: CORMIX046
Release Medium: Digital, CD

 Tracklist:

1. Matt John – Britz Wind
2. Minilogue – Atoms With Curiosity That Looks At Itself And Wonder Why It Wonders
3. Matt John - Froydish
4. Adam Port – Black Noise (&Me Remix)
5. Popof, Animal & Me – Hangover feat. Arno Joey
6. Nick Curly – When The Wild Horse
7. Pele & Shawnecy – Can’t Wait
8. Santé & Frank Lorber – All About
9. André Galluzzi & Dana Ruh - Beetle
10. Mauro Picotto & Riccardo Ferri – The Riff
11. wAFF - BeatMakerZ
12. Julien Bracht - Acheronian
13. Temma Teje - Nueva
14. Uner - Monamen
15. Mind Against – Argo


Cocoon Recordings very own "best of" series presents the next issue which is again simply called by the number of the release-order. So it's number „nine“ this time ("Neun"). Yep, you heard right, number nine it is and another proof how fast time is passing while we listen to house and techno ;)

Sven Väth has choosen Chris Tietjen again to compile and mix the pearls of the last Cocoon Recordings releases. Tietjen started as a young gung in Väths Cocoon Booking agency and developed into a proper club-dj over the last years. He even released his first solo-12" on Cocoon Recordings in 2012 which marked his final arrival in the techno-business.

Tietjens progression as a DJ is clearly noticeable here as he laid down a very elegant and smooth overall mix. He delivered one of the best of his mix-compilations so far. He starts the journey with two Matt John and one Minilogue track which creates a very moody and warm introduction. The transition into the following part can be seen as a kind of "warm up" one would like to hear in a good techno-club. Next in the mix are Adam Port, Popof (Animal & Me) and Nick Curly who step by step feed the mix with more energy. From minute 22 onwards the mix starts to kick in and the bass-cabinets of your speakers should defintely move stronger now.

Pele & Shawnecy, Sante & Frank, André Galluzzi & Dana Ruh are the following names in the mix and together with the next track by Mauro Picotto & Riccardo Ferri we have four strong collaborations waiting in this section of the CD. It seems the "techno duet" is the new way to create cool club music these days. The amount of energy here is triggering the right senses and beams us back to the high days of the Cocoonclub Frankfurt, the Cocoon Ibiza nights or all these infamous summer open airs. Nice one!

The ending section is based on tracks by wAFF, Julien Bracht, Temma Teje, Uner and Mind Against and it is the dignified counterpart to the elegant beginning. Tietjen manages to swing out as smooth as he started the mix. To cut a long story short: "Neun" turns out to be a very nice overview of what has happened over the last months in the Cocoon Recordings universe and it defintely calls out for more... number ten we are waiting!

Cocoon recordings mixed

Alex.J