Tracks & Releases

Part 5 of the various artists series is at it again with 5 tracks by 5 different producers and a mixture of feel good party time music and contemplative music. You will hear familiar Running Back names like Storken (this time together with JStaaf) refining their comic tropes (or imagine Foreigner doing house music) next to newcomers like Archie Ward. His Pizza Girl puts musical toppings on a pounding underbelly that wouldn’t be out of place in any warehouse, while Moritz and Amount dial it back a bit. Their respective tracks are gleaming with a special kind of elegant end-of-night euphoria that is hard to come by – and all the nicer if it happens. Remember: trance is a state of mind! Last but not least, Australia’s Jonus Eric delivers an IDM-leaning piece of outsider dance. Hot soup, hot swallow!

A2 Amount - In Den Tropen

stream/buy: https://ursl.fanlink.to/expandingabundanceremixes
Gerd Janson, Johannes Albert, Sebo & Kuriose Naturale, and Sarah Wild & Maltitz are the creative minds behind this fantastic 4-track remix EP of Amount's debut album 'Expanding Abundance'. Whether it's Gerd Janson's subtle vacation remix of 'Supermelodie', Sarah Wild and Maltitz's dancefloor-ready hyped version of 'Lovestorm', the reinterpretation of 'Panik unter Palmen' (with newly added vocals) by Sebo & Kuriose Naturale, or Johannes Albert transforming the Slow Rave track 'Faces' into a Disco banger – this remix EP is bursting with fun, skill, and abundant musical creativity.
Tracklist:  01. Amount - Supermelodie (Gerd Janson Remix) / ISRC: DEY472373228
02. Amount - Faces (Johannes Albert Remix) / ISRC: DEY472373229
03. Amount - Lovestorm (Sarah Wild & Maltitz Love Piano Remix) / ISRC: DEY472373230
04. Amount - Panik unter Palmen (Sebo & Kuriose Naturale Remix) / ISRC: DEY472373231

Written & produced: Nayan Soukie

Copyright & Productinfo: 2023 URSL Records

URSLINT049 I Amount - Panik Unter Palmen (Sebo & Kuriose Naturale Remix)

URSLINT049 I Amount - Lovestorm (Sarah Wild, Maltitz Love Piano Remix)

URSLINT049 I Amount - Faces (Johannes Albert Remix)

URSLINT049 I Amount - Supermelodie (Gerd Janson Remix)

Taking over for our next transmission, here comes Hamburg-via-Berlin special disco forces Nayan Soukie, alias Amount, and fellow A Tribe Called Kotori affiliate, Madmotormiquel (check out his 2022-released ripper 'Bombo' if you haven't). Responsible for a stream of choice outings on their own imprint, URSL, and noteworthy detours through our good friends Katermukke's dedicated platform and Gerd Janson's seminal disco house haven Running Back, the pair clocks in with their collaborative debut on the label, 'Holiday' - a straight out bouncy fruit born in confinement and painstakingly polished into the blazing trio of heaters it is today over the last few months.
All in curvy syncopations and flashy, neon-woven envelopes, 'Lifou' breaks the EP in with undeniable punch and chromatic vibrancy. Engineering a fine mix of brightly hued arps and earwormy bass set against a prog-friendly momentum, Amount and MMM let their implacable sense of the groove and intricate tune-making do the talk. Trading the roundness of the opener's bounce for a more angular take, 'Amedee' breathes in a Detroit-ish influence to its driving build-up as flocks of crisp hats, volatile snares and incendiary bass coalesce to eruptively smashing effect. True to its idyllic name, the final number 'Ouvea' takes us on a journey across cerulean skylines and endless strips of white sands. Infused with a healthy dose of balearic abstraction, slo-burning electronica tropes and full-blown disco vox lines, the track has us drifting in-limbo serene all-blue Edens and a steamy sweatbox. The ultimate Ibizean house / balearic funk weapon, just let the groove get in.

Amount & Madmotormiquel – Amedee [Snippet]

Taking over for our next transmission, here comes Hamburg-via-Berlin special disco forces Nayan Soukie, alias Amount, and fellow A Tribe Called Kotori affiliate, Madmotormiquel (check out his 2022-released ripper 'Bombo' if you haven't). Responsible for a stream of choice outings on their own imprint, URSL, and noteworthy detours through our good friends Katermukke's dedicated platform and Gerd Janson's seminal disco house haven Running Back, the pair clocks in with their collaborative debut on the label, 'Holiday' - a straight out bouncy fruit born in confinement and painstakingly polished into the blazing trio of heaters it is today over the last few months.

All in curvy syncopations and flashy, neon-woven envelopes, 'Lifou' breaks the EP in with undeniable punch and chromatic vibrancy. Engineering a fine mix of brightly hued arps and earwormy bass set against a prog-friendly momentum, Amount and MMM let their implacable sense of the groove and intricate tune-making do the talk. Trading the roundness of the opener's bounce for a more angular take, 'Amedee' breathes in a Detroit-ish influence to its driving build-up as flocks of crisp hats, volatile snares and incendiary bass coalesce to eruptively smashing effect. True to its idyllic name, the final number 'Ouvea' takes us on a journey across cerulean skylines and endless strips of white sands. Infused with a healthy dose of balearic abstraction, slo-burning electronica tropes and full-blown disco vox lines, the track has us drifting in-limbo serene all-blue Edens and a steamy sweatbox. The ultimate Ibizean house / balearic funk weapon, just let the groove get in.

DHSA Premiere: Amount & Madmotormiquel - Ouvea (Original Mix)

HMWL Premiere: Amount & Madmotormiquel - Lifou (Original Mix)

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Taken from "Amount - Psycho Disco EP (Darkroom Dubs)". Out June 30th 2023. Buy here : https://darkroomdubs.bandcamp.com/music

Amount (aka Nayan Soukie) returns to Silicone Soul's Darkroom Dubs with a vibrant new EP, just in time to join the celebrations of the label's landmark 20th anniversary.
After making his name in the burgeoning minimal, techno and house scenes in his hometown of Bremen and rolling out revered collaborations with close friend and production partner Fritz Windish (as Soukie & Windish) and URSL label co-founders Sebo & Madmotormiquel, the Berlin-based producer has turned his attention to his live solo project. His latest offering, 'Psycho Disco', flirts with his minimal, downtempo and disco influences before dragging the listener into a time-distorting vortex in an impressive showcase of technical skill.
The deceivingly minimalistic 'The Snake' opens proceedings with aplomb, gripping yet groovy, before gradually twisting into a mesmerising blend of carefully crafted sonic layers. Underscored by robotic echoes and metallic notes, the relentless rhythm fades out only to come back in full force, dialling into the red and electrifying the dancefloor.
Next, the stripped-back 'In the Desert' brings a constantly escalating tension that hints at an underlying frenzy yearning to surface. Distorted and fragmented voices intertwine, looping into a hypnotic kaleidoscope that beckons us to surrender control and spirit away into an altered state.
Closing the EP is the gritty, acid-tinged title track, 'Psycho Disco' - an after-hours groover with a beat that bounces around your brain, slowing into tense cascading tones before shifting abruptly on its axis to take an entirely different direction and purpose.
Minimalist in approach yet complex and multilayered, this latest dispatch is a powerful reminder of the raw power of live electronics. Let yourself go and prepare for an exhilarating ride. Amount will also feature on the Darkroom Dubs vicennial compilation out on the 28th of September.

Artist social media:

https://soundcloud.com/amounttechno
https://www.instagram.com/amount_ursl

Label social media :

https://soundcloud.com/darkroomdubs
https://www.instagram.com/siliconesoul
https://www.facebook.com/darkroomdubs
https://www.darkroomdubs.com

Psycho Disco EP

In The Desert

PREMIERE : Amount - In The Desert (Darkroom Dubs)

Amount (aka Nayan Soukie) returns to Silicone Soul's Darkroom Dubs with a vibrant new EP, just in time to join the celebrations of the label's landmark 20th anniversary.

After making his name in the burgeoning minimal, techno and house scenes in his hometown of Bremen and rolling out revered collaborations with close friend and production partner Fritz Windish (as Soukie & Windish) and URSL label co-founders Sebo & Madmotormiquel, the Berlin-based producer has turned his attention to his live solo project. His latest offering, 'Psycho Disco', flirts with his minimal, downtempo and disco influences before dragging the listener into a time-distorting vortex in an impressive showcase of technical skill.

The deceivingly minimalistic 'The Snake' opens proceedings with aplomb, gripping yet groovy, before gradually twisting into a mesmerising blend of carefully crafted sonic layers. Underscored by robotic echoes and metallic notes, the relentless rhythm fades out only to come back in full force, dialling into the red and electrifying the dancefloor.

Next, the stripped-back 'In the Desert' brings a constantly escalating tension that hints at an underlying frenzy yearning to surface. Distorted and fragmented voices intertwine, looping into a hypnotic kaleidoscope that beckons us to surrender control and spirit away into an altered state. 

Closing the EP is the gritty, acid-tinged title track, ‘Psycho Disco' - an after-hours groover with a beat that bounces around your brain, slowing into tense cascading tones before shifting abruptly on its axis to take an entirely different direction and purpose.

Minimalist in approach yet complex and multilayered, this latest dispatch is a powerful reminder of the raw power of live electronics. Let yourself go and prepare for an exhilarating ride. Amount will also feature on the Darkroom Dubs vicennial compilation out on the 28th of September.

Mastered by Conor Dalton at Glowcast Audio
Art by Elena Galkina
Design by made.by.andy

Psycho Disco

PREMIERE: Amount - The Snake [DARKROOM DUBS]

Amount (aka Nayan Soukie) returns to Silicone Soul's Darkroom Dubs with a vibrant new EP, just in time to join the celebrations of the label's landmark 20th anniversary.

After making his name in the burgeoning minimal, techno and house scenes in his hometown of Bremen and rolling out revered collaborations with close friend and production partner Fritz Windish (as Soukie & Windish)and URSL label co-founders Sebo & Madmotormiquel, the Berlin-based producer has turned his attention to his live solo project. His latest offering, 'Psycho Disco', flirts with his minimal, downtempo and disco influences before dragging the listener into a time-distorting vortex in an impressive showcase of technical skill.

Closing the EP is the gritty, acid-tinged title track, ‘Psycho Disco' - an after-hours groover with a beat that bounces around your brain, slowing into tense cascading tones before shifting abruptly on its axis to take an entirely different direction and purpose.

Minimalist in approach yet complex and multilayered, this latest dispatch is a powerful reminder of the raw power of live electronics. Let yourself go and prepare for an exhilarating ride. Amount will also feature on the Darkroom Dubs vicennial compilation out on the 28th of September.

@amounttechno
@darkroomdubs

Amount - Psycho Disco [Darkroom Dubs]

FRANK MUSIC I Amount - Feel You

FRANK MUSIC I Amount - Did I Dream?

Twenty Year Weekend (Two Decades of Darkroom Dubs) is the twenty-anniversary label compilation compiled and curated by Glasgow's Silicone Soul. Rather than take the retrospective route, they mark twenty years since they launched one of the UK's most revered underground house music labels with a new collection of music from a fresh global roll call who like it deep, dark and a little twisted.

Also marking a quarter century since Craig Morrison and Graeme Reedie released their first Silicone Soul 12-inch on Slam's esteemed Soma imprint, the compilation gets underway with the duo's own Fahrenheit 625 featuring Bitch Traxx originator Franklin Fuentes on a scene-setting killer groove declaring presciently, "I’ll take you there."

Thirteen further early-hours throbbers ignite with Italian future disco duo Phunkadelica unleashing malevolent chugger Phunkarama lashed with robotic vocals, metallic swells and early 90s bleeps and hoover tones. Mexican DJ/ producer Theus Mago, co-founder of the Duro label in 2015 with Moisees, then uncannily plugs into the metaphysical Darkroom Dubs current with Intensify, garnishing its groin-thwacking turbo groove with cascading melodic synth interplay.

Lucky Luciano uncorks another top-notch percussive workout from Glaswegian Darkroom Dubs favourite Am$trad Billionaire, its dense, percussive groove mosaic slashed with ghostly sample shards. Hot on its heels are Berlin-based, Greek-German tour-de-force Brax Moody and Vamparela – aka Local Suicide - who duet with Wiener Planquadrat for some sexy rogue electro on Flashdance, splattered with lacerating Moroder-esque sequencer savagery.

Next is the Factory City head-honcho Undo, fresh from his recent sublime house missiles on Darkroom Dubs, like Acid Summer and Aliens Go Home, who unleashes his ominous bass-driven acid monster, Vencejos. Before Nayan Soukie - aka Amount - rides the shimmering skyline surfer Figure Skating, packing the Darkroom Dubs trademark subterranean bass to the hilt. Then, the mysterious Subcisco conjures the ultimate funk party behemoth with Boiling Point evoking blaxploitation soundtracks in its aquatic stew of mangled strings and brass spectres hot-wired by contagious elastic bass.

Parisian DJ/ producer Id!r, whose Darkroom Dubs missives include 2016's bass bin shredding Two Days In Hell, pulls off a typically dark, simmering groove beast on Haowie, topped with a gargling robo-vocal hook. Madrid-based Rotten City Records owner Alvaro Cabana then detonates 90s-style peak mayhem with Arde, casting its wailing power rhythm with crashing snare action. “Born in the 80s, raised by the 90s, lost in the 00s”, exclaims maverick techno-punk Pvlomo, immediately standing out with the sci-fi robot-gargling and Godzilla-like bass on My Little Vampire, his strength lying in lethally audacious twists and turns executed as the track powers mercilessly on into the darkness.

Oslo-based duo Of Norway are the only act to feature on both anniversary compilations (bridged by 2015’s towering Black Desert Disco Cult 12-inch). Mixing glacial electro with spaced-out strings and eastern-tinged melodies, Always Almost is suitably auspicious. Istanbul’s Gunce Aci follows with Fallen Leaves, built on a juddering mutant electro lurch lathered with devilish voices, climaxing in the snarling acid disco thunder of Lead Boys, cultivated in Bogota’s Kaputt Club by enigmatic duo Nuclear Digital Transistor. Dense and pulsing with disembodied goth-like vocals, the track makes a suitably idiosyncratic finale for a compilation tangibly driven to breathe new life into Silicone Soul's manifesto to celebrate, nurture and push the music they love to play, make and support.

Proper underground house music has always been about fearless electronic innovation with a human soul. An ethos crystallised in this spellbinding collection. - Kris Needs

https://darkroomdubs.bandcamp.com/album/twenty-year-weekend-two-decades-of-darkroom-dubs

Twenty Year Weekend - Two Decades of Darkroom Dubs

PREMIERE: Amount - Figure Skating [Darkroom Dubs]

Acud - Supermarkt (Amount's Dark Disco Mix)

Acud - Supermarkt (Amount Remix)

Ready for takeoff?
@seniorcitizen_wav is for sure, and we couldn't be happier to have him on board. As he caused some ruckus in the last years with his super bouncy and jolly productions, outstanding DJ sets or his unique persona, we were keen to release some of his music. So here we go:
Elephant stomp is a true sloppy midtempo banger, as you could have guessed from the name. Arrival then takes you on an aciddy trip to lalaland.
Diverse remixes were contributed by @amounttechno, @seebo1 & @vonspazier and @matijasound & @richardelcox.

Mastering by @bryankessler.
Artwork by www.instagram.com/en.ost/

Senior Citizen - Arrival (Amount Remix)

Frankmusic 12053 I Amount - Fantasy

Frankmusic 12053 I Amount - Way to Heaven

Frankmusic 12053 I Amount - The Way

Frank Music, Little Helper, Running Back, URSL, A Tribe Called Kotori, Darkroom Dubs, Laut und Luise, Feines Tier, WUZA
Dates
14.5. Walther Schreiber Platz 1
15.6. irgendwo bremen 


Born in Bremen in 1980, Nayan Soukie's musical fascination began with Prince, Michael Jackson, Art of Noise and Franky goes to Hollywood. At 13, he swapped the classical guitar for computer music and never looked back. He tried his hand at Hip hop beats, later Easy listening, then Experimental sounds, and House music. Between community service and the start of the cooperation with Fritz Windish, which continues to this day, Nayan also went to search for meaning in other realms - but always ended up back in music. At the beginning of the 2000s, Techno, Minimal, and House music were also discovered in Bremen, and Nayan and Fritz took the bait. However, it would take until 2008 for the first vinyl release by the duo to appear on the Hamburg label Eminor. Fritz and Nayan moved to Hamburg, where they worked in a shared studio. Collaborations with Sebo and Madmotormiquel were followed by the founding of their label URSL and the move to Berlin in 2011. Here Soukie & Windish found a studio in Renate club together with Kotelett & Zadak and made a name for themselves as a duo. Since 2018, Nayan has been focusing more on his left-behind solo project Amount - and made a name for himself with his spirited live sets that alternate between Downtempo, Minimal, and Disco. An EP on Minimal Little Helpers was followed by his first Disco releases on Frank Music and Running Back. "The future will be disco for me, that's for sure," says Amount. And we can't wait to follow him into that future.
Booking Contact: julia@ursl-records.com