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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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Unknown

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“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”

Es wird getanzt, was auf den Teller kommt.

Attendances was born in 1987 in Ancona, a small city on the east coast of Italy. He's an Italian dj and producer influenced by different types of music, mainly progressive, trance, new wave, electrobeat, EBM, industrial, leftfield, techno, indie-dance, dark disco and electronic music.

His interesting in DJing began almost as a game and he started playing and then working in different clubs and social centres such as Thermos and Kontatto (Ancona).

During university years he began studying different softwares for the creation of sounds, producing songs intended as a photograph of the soul within the passage of time.

After several years of working in sound creation, in 2014 he started his project called "Attendances", he then created his podcast series "Retrofuture" and started publishing some songs with different labels such as Play Pal, Maleante, Esthetique and Emerald & Doreen.

In 2018 he became a member of the Italian-Spanish crew "Carajillo electronique" In 2022 he became also a member of another crew "Circuits" playing in different clubs and festivals in Italy, Spain and France such as:

Bunker 83 Club - Urbino (IT) 2018
Torrione Club - Città di Castello (IT) 2018
25 April REDD BBQ - Ancona (IT)2018
Camping Electronique Festival - Caprese Michelangelo (IT)2018
Freedonia Club - Barcelona (ES) 2018
Sideral Club - Barcelona (ES) 2018
Slow Club - Barcelona (ES) 2018
Torrione Club - Città di Castello (IT) 2019
BE ONE’S club - Arezzo (IT) 2019
El Casal - Valencia (ES) 2019
Umami Club - Manresa (ES) 2019
25 April REDD BBQ - Ancona (IT) 2019
Camping Electronique Festival - Caprese Michelangelo (IT) 2019
ÖND 3rd Birthday at UBU in Rennes (FR) 2019
BE ONE’S club - Arezzo (IT) 2021
DONG (Circuit night) - Macerata (IT) 2022
HANGAR - Ancona (IT) 2022
ELECTRIC WAVES Pescara (IT) 2022
PITINO ELETTRICO (Circuit night) San Severino Marche (IT) 2022
DONG (Circuit night)  - Macerata (IT) 2022
MAGMA - Tolentino (IT) 2023
SISMA (Circuit night) - Macerata (IT) 2023
REDD BBQ - Ancona (IT) 2023
REDD BBQ - Bologna (IT) 2023
COPACABANA July - Porto Recanati (IT) 2023
ELECTRIC WAVE Silvi Marina (IT) 2023
COPACABANA August - Porto Recanati (IT) 2023
LIBECCIO 2.0 - Numana (IT) 2023
BORDERBASS Arcobaleno beach - Cingoli (IT) 2023
MAGMA (Circuit night) - Tolentino (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO Oct (Circuit night) - Recanati (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO Nov (Circuit night) A-TWEED - Recanati (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO DIC (LUST LAST LOST NIGHT ) - Recanati (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO GEN (Circuit night) NICK HANZO - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO MAR (Circuit night) OLTREFUTURO - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO APR (Circuit night) - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO APR CLOSING PARTY WINTER SEASON - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO AGO CIRCUIT SUMMER FEST - Porto Recanati (IT) 2024

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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