EXTRAWELT - UNKNOWN - CORLP044

Extrawelt are Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe. Both have been around for about 40 years, and making music together for half that time. They enjoy normal things and are ashamed of their carbon footprints due to the large number of flights they take to bring them to their gigs. Unknown, is the tenth studio album from the producer team, and the fourth under the name Extrawelt. Its largely devoted to another side of their creations.

Something’s different. Well, Extrawelt releases always have been somehow different yet, despite becoming instantly absorbed into the familiar Extrawelt atmosphere when listening, I can’t help but notice again: something’s very different. Feet are bouncing, mind is traveling and my fingers speed across the keyboard like they’re on fire. I’m trying to imagine what it would be like to listen to Unknown with closed eyes in the midst of a throbbing concert instead of through laptop speakers. Listening to Extrawelt on crappy speakers is anyway never a good idea, as it really deserves the backing of the loudest and best possible sound system.

With this, I leave the audio confines of my lo-fi laptop world and get in the car. Cranking up the stereo, I cruise around aimlessly — lost in appreciation of the music from within the bubble of my metal highway-pod on wheels. I’ve got the urge to speed up — which is surprising considering I’m a usually a very sensible driver. The bass and the beats blow up in my face. Something uncluttered. Something broken. Something grimy. Something sideways. Something undeniably Extrawelt, yet inherently different to what we’ve come to expect from the Hamburg pair. I don’t plan on getting all emotional, but something about this twelve track journey fits together so superbly it’s hard not to be overcome with at least a few shivers up the spine. With profound bass lines and cutting drums, I keep coming back to these sounds. Again and again these sounds. On one hand you feel that you know them, on the other hand you don't know them at all. Is that a synthesiser or a voice? Is it rotating or just linear reinvented? Whatever the answer, my mind goes astray. Whether this is exotic or native doesn't matter: all I know is that it’s great. Meanwhile I’ve reached track seven and now I realise what’s been different all along — it isn’t techno! Somehow, they’ve accomplished staying true to themselves despite deploying not even one four-to-the floor-bass drum. Admittedly, you can find a couple of similar tracks on a few of their previous releases, but here you’ve got a whole album full of it. I gotta listen to track seven again. As a music writer I’m asking myself: what genre of music is this actually? Neo-Electro? Alternative Electronica? Emo-EDM?? Ah, whatever — these guys don’t like to be put into boxes anyway. It’s simply Extrawelt.

As I talk to Arne and Wayan later on, I discover that the tracks on Unknown began simmering more than ten years ago without any goal or idea regarding if they’d end up releasing them. Come 2018 though, the time felt right to dedicate an entire album to this side of their musical spectrum. This also explains how Unknown appeared so quickly after their most recent LP ‘Fear Of An Extra Planet’. As the guys mention “We just felt these tracks a lot when we made them, and never cared really if anyone would be interested in it”.

We’re definitely interested!

Yours sincerely,
Cocoon

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EXTRAWELT - UNKNOWN - CORLP044

The live recording of our beach closing set at @sisyphos-berlin 🦆🦆

Thank you to everyone who danced with us and stayed in that moment! 🤘🏾❤️

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Artist: Various Artists
Title: [QR].V.297.TBFKB.25
Label: COD3 QR
Cat No: QRV297TBFKB25
Format: Vinyl
Released: 24 October 2025

Track Listing:
 
A1. Skatman – "Man In The Mirror"
A2. Costello – "Tangerine Boy"
A3. Lois (FR) – "Quintessence"
B1. Carlos Nilmmns, Keter Darker – "The Third Message"
B2. Jay Robinson & Majestic – "The Deacon"
B3. DCLVIII OFC – "Little by Little"

Laurent Garnier's COD3 QR doubles up this October with accompanying vinyl and digital releases featuring two tracks apiece from Skatman, Costello, Lois (FR), Carlos Nilmmns, Jay Robinson and DCLVIII OFC.  
One track from each artist on the vinyl version, and a different track from each artist on the digital version… it's The Big Fat Kahuna Burger!

COD3 QR: Music diversity is our strength!  www.cod3qr.com


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A1- Skatman - Man In The Mirror_PREVIEW

Panel talk at MOMEM / Frankfurt 15.10.2025

with Christian Arndt, Daniel Woeller, Sascha Lüönd,
Jörn Elling Wuttke, Martina Metzner, Ingo Boss

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DJ-set by: Ingo Boss 



Sven Väth '4 Decades Behind the Decks: A Journey of Music, Magic, and Euphoria' 


SVEN VÄTH

4
DECADES
BEHIND
THE
DECKS

Sven Väth continues to celebrate techno with contagious enthusiasm. Few can party as passionately as he and his crowd—they've been doing it for over four decades! He made musical history with the OMEN club in Frankfurt am Main, and his Cocoon events in Ibiza have become legendary. To mark his 40th DJ anniversary, Sven Väth and his Cocoon Family have given themselves a special gift: the photo book Sven Väth ‘4 Decades Behind the Decks: A Journey of Music, Magic, and Euphoria’ presented in a vinyl-sized format, offers a wealth of imagery and stories from the career of this DJ, entrepreneur, club operator, event organizer, producer, and artist. The book captures Sven Väth’s journey through the voices of his companions, business partners, friends, and family.


MOMEM - BOOKED2025 - Panel talk + DJ-set at MOMEM / Frankfurt 15.10.2025

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Extrawelt - Clapland (x Jimi Jules)

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Cocoon Recordings has been founded in the year 2000 as a part of the Cocoon Music Event GmbH. Sven Väth has initiated Cocoon Recordings in order to complete the Cocoon platform as a supporting tool for young artists in Electronic Music. The label philosophy is as simple as demanding: helping young producers and DJs to release their music without depending on Major Label structures. The releases can mainly be assigned to the genres Techno and House.

Cocoon Recordings as a label and Sven Väth as an artist stand for the use of vinyl as sound carrier, also in the future. Admittedly, the Digital Division of Cocoon Recordings has also been set up in 2008 and the numbers of downloads are indeed enjoyable. However, the label's focus is on vinyl, now and in the future. In order to complete the range of services that Cocoon Recordings offers, the publishing company Cocoon Publishing was founded in 2010.

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