Earlier on this year Andy Stott found himself playing on the same bill as New York “Heavy Metal hoarders” Batillus. Despite operating in completely different spheres, Batillus had been playing ‘Luxury Problems’, Stott’s most recent album, on their tourbus and suggested a remix.
The result is pressed up on this one-sided 12”, a deadly reduction that pitches the original down into the abyss,...
Andy Stott will be back in 2014 with new material.

Andy Stott - Batillus - Concrete (Andy Stott Remix)

Faith In Strangers’ was written and produced between January 2013 and June 2014, and was edited and sequenced in late July this year. Making use of on an array of instruments, field recordings, found sounds and vocal treatments, it’s a largely analogue variant of hi-tech production styles arcing from the dissonant to the sublime. The first two tracks recorded during these early sessions bookend the release, the opener ‘Time Away’ featuring Euphonium played by Kim Holly Thorpe and last track ‘Missing’ a contribution by Stott’s occasional vocal collaborator Alison Skidmore who also appeared on 2012’s ‘Luxury Problems’. Between these two points ‘Faith In Strangers’ heads off from the sparse and infected ‘Violence’ to the broken, downcast pop of ‘On Oath’ and the motorik, driving melancholy of ‘Science & Industry’ - three vocal tracks built around that angular production style that imbues proceedings with both a pioneering spirit and a resonating sense of familiarity. Things take a sharp turn with ‘No Surrender’- a sparkling analogue jam making way for a tough, smudged rhythmic assault, while ‘How It Was’ refracts sweaty Warehouse signatures and ‘Damage’ finds the sweet spot between RZA’s classic ‘Ghost Dog’ and Terror Danjah at his most brutal. ‘Faith in Strangers’ is next and offers perhaps the most beautiful and open track here, its vocal hook and chiming melody bound to the rest of the album via the almost inaudible hum of Stott’s mixing desk. It provides a haze of warmth and nostalgia that ties the nine loose joints that make up the LP into the most memorable and oddly cohesive of Stott’s career to date, built and rendered in the spirit of those rare albums that straddle innovation and tradition through darkness and light.

How It Was

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Swallowed (v2 demo 2)

Last Track of my 10 Track album "Timeless Relativity" 
The rest will be uploaded soon.

Enter The Emerald Dream

Rebound (v3 demo 4)

Probably never going to finish this, as so many, so no use waiting another year to upload

Trance Glitch

Trance Gender (2018)

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On the 13th July, KD RAW’s "Master Cuts Vol. 2“ compilation will see daylight. The VA features Mark Michael’s new track, "Labyrinth“, along with four other slamming productions.  

Mark Michael struck already two times this year. First, with the release of "Solar Storm“, on Spartaque’s label IAMT. The eponymous track climbed all the way up the Beatport Techno Charts to number 4 and eventually stayed in there for over 20 weeks. Since then, Mark put out a 3 track EP on Andre Crom’s label, OFF Recordings, called "Hologram“ which again achieved two chart entries on Beatport. The EP features tracks like "Concentration“ which has received big support by Charlotte de Witte in her Lockdown Session at Kompass Club in Ghent.

Now, three months later, Mark is back and makes his debut on Kaiserdisco’s highly esteemed imprint, KD RAW.  With the release of "Labyrinth“, the young Austrian once again shows his harder interpretation of peak-time techno with dominant kicks, syncopated melodies, a hypnotizing modular lead sound and detuned synth shots, leading the listener into distant spheres. 

No doubt, this track will hit hard on the dance floors.

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Master Cuts Vol 2

Premiere: Mark Michael "Labyrinth" - KD RAW

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I like to work on a variety of different types of music, doing scores for film, podcast background music and someday something with pop.
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