In these days of high-speed internet, immediate access to music and everchanging hype phenomenoms, RETREAT invites you to take a deep breath, put a record on the turntable, turn up the volume and just enjoy 15 minutes of pure, undiluted and concrete GROOVES, for RETREAT is a vinyl-only label…

Founded by Quarion and Hauke Freer (one half of Session Victim), the label simply intents to release quality dancefloor music: its roots span from Jazz to Drum n’Bass, its sound carries a modern House esthetic and its vision embodies the concept of “Techno” (as a forward-thinking music genre). Like a REAL postcard from an old friend, free espressos after a fine italian meal or an extra surprise record in the package from your favourite discogs dealer, RETREAT aims to be this ‘lil something you didn’t expect that puts a smile on your face…and moves your ass!

Koris is an artist of trajectory. Trajectory of sets, which the DJ and producer of Swiss origin knows how to put together like sensitive trips, on the outer borders of contemporary electronic trends. An artist’s trajectory too, as Koris is coming back front stage after exploring other creative fields – contemporary dance, urban happening and event layouts.

Coming back to music as well as returning to being himself. A major figure of the international scene since the early 2000s, he is now letting personal inclinations blossom more than ever in terms of deep house, techno and IDM. The eclecticism of his selections envelops the body as much as the mind: in the connections which link one track to another, emerges an organic space, an invitation to poetry and escape.

Starting point: an adolescence of synthesizers, turntables and samplers, tucked away in the basement of the family home, Koris tried out his ear and technique. He was soon invited to the biggest festivals: Mayday, Energy, Street Parade. A set in San Francisco in front of thousands of people in a disused warehouse, launched a career spanning Europe, the United States, Russia and Japan.

With a commitment to making the pulse serve emotion, Koris favors human dimensions of music, powered at the heart of machines as much as in terms of the imagination.

At a time when a new generation of labels and listeners is allowing a culture, which has long been confined to the night, be brought into the light, Koris wants to defend a techno which is one of sharing. "Today, styles and audiences are combining in new ways. I want to go towards this spontaneity."

An innovative, flexible techno is the trajectory which is already shining its first golden light of tomorrow. 

record label from Berlin and  Munich, Germany, founded and run by Benjamin Fröhlich and Tom Bioly

Max Richter trained in composition and piano at Edinburgh University, at the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence.

On completing his studies, Max co-founded the iconoclastic classical ensemble Piano Circus, where he stayed for ten years, commissioning and performing works by Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe and Steve Reich.

In the late 90s he worked with a number of electronic artists, notably Future Sound of London on their album 'Dead Cities". He subsequently collaborated with FSOL over a period of two years, also contributing to the albums "The Isness" and "The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness". Max also collaborated with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size, on "In the Mode".

In June 2002, Max released his debut solo album, "memoryhouse", recorded with The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. This was followed in March 2004 by FatCat's release of "The Blue Notebooks", with featured readings by Tilda Swinton.

In 2005 Max produced Vashti Bunyan's outstanding comeback album "Lookaftering".

2006 saw the release of "Songs From Before" based on Haruki Murakami texts read by Robert Wyatt. That same year, Max began performing "from The Art of Mirrors", an evolving score to previously unseen Super 8mm films of Derek Jarman.

Max's more recent work continues to stretch the notions of what Classical music is.  ‘24 Postcards In Full Colour’, released in August 2008, is an experimental work made up of 24 composed ringtones.

Max works widely in film music, installation and the theatre, most recently on INFRA, made with Wayne MacGregor and Julian Opie for The Royal Ballet, London. The Ballet was the subject of a BBC 'making of' documentary.

Max was named 2008 European Composer Of The Year for his score to Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir, for which he was also nominated for the Prix France Musique.

Pampa Records is a independent record label dedicated to releasing music that's seriously danceable without recourse to the tried and tested ingredients. A home for tunes that will conquer hearts and take root there forever, music that's brave and not afraid to break with convention. The record label is owned by DJ Koze.

Pampa is happy to receive demos at demo(at)pamparecords.com. If we like your music we'll be in touch. But if you don’t hear from us, it doesn't mean that the music isn't good, it just means that it doesn't suit to us and our plans. Thanks for sharing!

For production/remix/general enquiries:
Chris - cg@285.group

For bookings:

Ryan - ryan@liaisonartists.com (N & S America)
John - john@higher-ground.de (Rest Of World)

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