SEP'18

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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Noir Music favourite Olivier Giacomotto blesses us with another stunning EP on Noir Music and this time he teamed up with legendary Kiko who has been one of France biggest underground names for years where he has been djing and producing music since 1990.
2 true talents put their minds together and give us this excellent 2-tracker. Beautiful Place is the melodic and dark track that picks up nicely from Olivier Giacomotto's recent success “Bipolar Star”. Reckless is pure club heaven with its straight up and relentless groove. Classic floor functional stuff to keep the dancefloor's burning.

Kiko & Olivier Giacomotto - Beautiful Place (original Mix)

"Cambia" is the missing piece of the cilantrophy ep and cambia is a call for change. 

H.O.S.H. - Cambia (snippet)

H.O.S.H. - Cilantro (Original Mix)

Soon on Monotonik Records
VA Da Cruz 2.0
Release Date : 28/09/2015
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Alex Twitchy - Too Out Bitches! (Original Mix) [Monotonik Records]

Jain - Makeba (Reworked by Discothèque Fantastique)
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Makeba (Discothèque Fantastique remix)

Jain - Makeba (Discothèque Fantastique remix)

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I realized last weekend that I had not done a mix since early 2017 and it was about time to bring the series back. So here is Habibi Funk Mix 008 with a selection of vinyl and tapes which were originally released in the 1970s, 1980s, and even as late as late 1990s. We got a couple of previews for material we have licensed and that will drop in the future from artists such as the Golden Hands, Attarazat Addahabia, The Scorpions and Majid Soula. Apart from the that I’m super happy to have Libya covered with 3 tracks, a country about whose musical heritage I didn’t know much outside Ahmed Fakroun obviously. From the obscure to the more known....
Thanks to Mehdi for the Golden Hands recording.
Photo by Robert Winter
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"Habibi Funk 008 Mix" (70s, 80s & 90s vinyl and tapes from the Arab world)

@Quadratschulz is famed for his unmistakable blend of smooth electro grooves & playful melodies and it is this combination that the German synthman brings to his debut 12” on @BordelloAParigi.

The 'La Boum'  EP features 4 cheer soaked pieces. The title track really standing out.... a cocktail of crisp beats, clean keys and just a twist of acid which are blended to produce a fresh, uplifting tune to keep us hanging on to Summer.

Release Date - 10/09/18

Sinchi Blog - https://www.sinchi-collective.com/premiere-quadratschulz-la-boum-extended-version-bordello/

Youtube - https://youtu.be/MSXjfr0xyHw

PREMIERE - Quadratschulz - La Boum (Extended Version) (Bordello)

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https://www.beatport.com/release/ya-wey/2363956

Tkuz - Delincuente  - (Tiempo De Maldad Remix)

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Minilogue - The Leopard (Extrawelt Remix)
Release date: January 2007
Genre: Minimal

Minilogue - The Leopard (Extrawelt Remix)

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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