XAKK Records presents: John Keding & Bjorn Fogelberg – Stellar EP
Release Date: 8 Aug 2025
Format: Digital
Label: XAKK Records
Catalogue: XAKK111

XAKK is back with its first collaborative release of the year, courtesy of Swedish producers Bjorn Fogelberg and John Keding. Both artists have been active in the progressive house and electronic music scenes for decades, with recent solo and joint releases on labels such as Dissident, RKP, ICONYC, Freegrant, Krafted, Hexagonal, and more.

Their new EP, Stellar, delivers three versions of the title track, each offering a slightly different take on the deeper side of progressive house.

The Original Mix features a steady, driving groove, rumbling low-end, and spacious pads. Airy stabs and restrained melodic elements help create a hypnotic atmosphere throughout the track.

The Sunset Remix moves into darker territory, adding more weight with deeper pads, dissonant stabs, and menacing yet warm synth swells.

Finally, the Sunrise Remix brings more energy and melodic variation while maintaining the depth and drive of both the original and the Sunset mix.

All tracks mastered by Cid Inc.

Steallar

Stellar (Sunrise Remix)

Beatport

Keding vs Fogelberg - Stellar (Sunrise Remix)

Nikoow - Severus (Original Mix)

Cold Machinery

Already supported by: Adam Beyer, Alan Fitzpatrick, Andhim, Boris Dlugosch, Karotte, Kiki, Nick Curly, Pan-Pot, Sasha, Solomun, Stephan Hinz, 2000 And One...

‘Raw’ returns with the long awaited remixes of Kaiserdisco's 'Jet Stream', a summer smasher spun by almost every key DJ this summer and a key track in the sets of Solomun, Marco Carola, Tensnake or Adam Beyer.

Riding the pulses with perfect balance are the Brazilian connection Christian Smith and Wehbba, whose remix is a svelte classic of layers and loops, minimalism and maximums.

Diynamic’s star man H.O.S.H. goes Euro-skeletal, sharpening the original’s mechanoid riff to ricochet around the lab before bringing in an ear-piercing breakdown, and then embarking on a fuller, more celebratory vibe with his ‘Melodrama mix’.

The Junkies are tasked with taking ‘Ten Commandments’ to Toronto and give expert insight into cyclical techno, simultaneously sweeping the underground and sending down lightning bolts from up high.

Kaiserdisco - Jet Stream (H.O.S.H.´s Melodrama Mix) - KD RAW 002R

Origins / Rise

Origins

Artist: Mateo Murphy
Title: Dimensions
Label: My Favorite Robot Records
Cat: MFR173
Genre: Tech House
Release Date: 23/11/18
Buy Here: goo.gl/m7YBc8

Canada’s My Favorite Robot Records welcomes another home talent to the label in the form of Mateo Murphy, who deliver his own truly serene take on techno.

Montrealer Mateo Murphy has a fine discography dating back to 1999 with Eps and album on a wealth of label from Tronic to Turbo, Underwater to Relentless and of course the ever excellent My Favorite Robot Records. He has a journeying techno style that is elegant and full of artfully crafted synths and here makes a welcome return to the scene.

This new single is part of the label’s 10th anniversary releases and closes out a year which has seen music from the likes of Satoshi Tomiie, Jori Hulkkonen, Rework, Speaking Minds, Fairmont and the My Favorite Robot duo themselves.

Opener ‘Dimensions’ is a nine-minute deep techno opus built on rubbery drums and brooding bass. Sci-fi sounds colour the airwaves while broad, rasping synths bring a sense of tension and suspense to the adventurous track.

Then comes the majestic ‘Rise’, a more edgy and spacey techno track with a sense of paranoia in the swirling pads, while the driving drums carry you off into an astral sky. It’s expansive, thoughtful stuff that also makes you move.

Last of all, ‘Tides’ is the deepest of the lot, cocooning you in muffled, dubby baselines. A microcosm of distant pads drifts by and the whole thing is perfectly cerebral.

This is a classy EP of timeless and futuristic techno that really takes you somewhere.

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Enrico Cherbino

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PREMIERE: Mateo Murphy - Dimensions (Original Mix) [My Favorite Robot]

Dear Future Self

Plexus 3AM

Acid Brain

Torch (Interpretation)

Atlantic Beam

Berlin-based duo Booka Shade, aka Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, have carved out a reputation as one of the most celebrated electronic acts to come out of Europe over the past two decades. 

With their beginnings in Frankfurt and their sights originally on synth-pop, the duo Booka Shade quickly gained a strong following within electronic music, and in 2002 the pairing formed the now legendary dance label Get Physical Music (together with M.A.N.D.Y., Thomas ‘DJ T.’ Koch and Peter Hayo), where they would have a platform for their own music. 

Three years later, in 2005, their EP’s ‘Mandarine EP’ and ‘Body Language’ - the latter co-produced with M.A.N.D.Y. - launched Booka Shade into the stratosphere with both EPs becoming international successes, whilst the following years soon welcomed an extensive body of work featuring a combination of stand out albums and singles that quickly achieved further global success.

Since their break-through performance at Sónar in 2005, Booka Shade have earned huge recognition with their innovative live shows, even being named one of Resident Advisor's Top 5 live acts in the world in 2010. They have opened for legendary acts such as Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk, whilst headlining stages at the likes of Coachella, Glastonbury, Rock Werchter, and Red Rocks just to name a few. In recent years, the band has appeared amongst the likes of DJ Mag’s ‘Alternative Top 100 DJ List’ (2018), whilst their notable live sets have led to key mentions amongst a host of distinguished festival reviews and round-ups, including placement within DJ Mag’s ’10 Unforgettable Sets From The History Of Exit Festival’.

Booka Shade were also inducted into Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 Hall of Fame, having received strong support from the station throughout their careers, playing at both the ‘40 Years of Radio 1’ celebration with Annie Nightingale and the ‘20 Years of Essential Mix’ party, whilst also mixing Pete Tong’s ‘All Gone Ibiza’ compilation album. 

The duo’s fan base is in no way restricted to electronic music enthusiasts, with great success playing slots at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Lollapalooza, and more by utilising their massive crossover potential, which is as evident in their billings as it is in their remix credits, including acts like Depeche Mode, Moby, Hot Chip, Kings of Leon, Woodkid, The Knife and many more.

Add to the mix their Blaufield Music imprint, founded in 2013, and it’s clear and easy to see the pairing's musical knowledge not only as producers but also adept A&R’s, with releases to date on the imprint from both emerging and established talent alongside their own productions resulting in a string of releases and collaborations that can be regularly found amongst the upper end of Beatport’s Top 100 charts and championed by many of the industry’s biggest names.

Twenty years, dozens of EP’s and six albums later, Booka Shade have become more than a household name, they have become synonymous with the spirit which drives electronic music and have set a precedent to which electronic music is still held to today.

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