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A08 - Waiting For Zion
BUY LINK: https://compostrecords.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-for-zion
Label: Compost Records (https://soundcloud.com/compost)
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A08 (https://soundcloud.com/africaine-808)

Carribean, jazz, afro, reggae the full spectrum of world music sophisticated and ingenious fused with electronica. A08 is the brainchild of the two Berliners Dirk Leyers and DJ Nomad. Formerly known as "AFRICAINE 808" – the studio/live music project with an album and various EPs on NYC’s Golf Channel Recordings and Vulcandance.

AFRICAINE 808 started as an experiment where the two succeeded in the amalgamation of rhythmic world music heritage with the zeitgeist and aesthetics of electronic dance music.
After ten successful years touring the globe as a live music project, a praised double album, 5 EPs and remix work for legends like Tony Allen, Amadou & Mariam among many others, the two decided to re-invent their sound for a new album, exploring Jazz and Caribbean music among their "classic" working genres of electronic world dance music.
For the production, A08 included an illustrious crowd of guests into the band line-up, featuring artists from Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Trinidad and Germany.
The outcome is "Waiting for Zion", a double album that will be released on Compost Records in winter 2023.
As a live P.A. A08 are performing either as a Soundsystem with Dirk Leyers and DJ Nomad playing live and DJing, or as a live act with live percussion.

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PREMIERE : A08 - Nineoneone

!! These are stripped-down 160mp3 snippets of the original tracks !!!

Artist:  A08
Album:  Waiting For Zion
Cat.No.:  CPT 620-1/-3
Format:  2-LP incl. poster & download card / Digital

Tracklisting:

Side A
1. Waiting For Zion (4:27)
2. Life (4:22)
3. Yamahaica (3:41)

Side B 
1. Water (3:12)
2. Pomplemousse (5:48)
3. Nineoneone (5:13)

Side C
1. I Want More (4:22)
2. Big City Blues (4:04)
3. Five G’s (4:02)

Side D 
1. Kisumu Bound Bus (Nyatiti Mix) (6:16)
2. Bubbles (5:06)
3. Sunset (4:09)

Info:
Caribbean, jazz, afro, reggae the full spectrum of world music ingeniously and ingeniously fused with electronica. A08 is the brainchild of the two Berliners Dirk Leyers and DJ Nomad. Formerly known as "AFRICAINE 808" – the studio/live music project with an album and various EPs on NYC’s Golf Channel Recordings and Vulcandance. 

AFRICAINE 808 started as an experiment where the two succeeded in the amalgamation of rhythmic world music heritage with the zeitgeist and aesthetics of electronic dance music.
After ten successful years touring the globe as a live music project, a praised double album, 5 EPs and remix work for legends like Tony Allen, Amadou & Mariam among many others, the two decided to re-invent their sound for a new album, exploring Jazz and Caribbean music among their "classic" working genres of electronic world dance music.
For the production, A08 included an illustrious crowd of guests into the band line-up, featuring artists from Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Trinidad and Germany.
The outcome is "Waiting for Zion", a double album that will be released on Compost Records in winter 2023.
As a live P.A. A08 are performing either as a Soundsystem with Dirk Leyers and DJ Nomad playing live and DJing, or as a live act with live percussion.

All tracks written and produced by Dirk Leyers and Hans Raabe.
Dirk Leyers: keys, bass, guitar on track A2 / A3 / B1 / C2 / C3 / D1 / D2, lyrics on A1 / B3 / C1, vocals on track A1, programming on all tracks
Hans Raabe: lyrics on A1 / B3 / C1 / C2, vocals on track B3, programming on all tracks
Eric Owusu: percussion on track A1 / A2 / C1 / C2 / D1 / D3
Andre Hasselmann: additional drums on track A1 / B2 / C2
Ben Abarbanel-Wolff: horns & flute on track A1, tenor sax & bariton sax on track C2
Makadem: vocals, lyrics & nyatiti on track A2 / D1
Nickolai Salcedo: vocals & lyrics on track B1 / C1 / C2 / D3
María del Rossario: vocals on track C1 / C2
Laura María del Rosario Cardona: lyrics on Track C1 / C2

Links:
Instagram > www.instagram.com/a08.music.official
Facebook > www.facebook.com/A08OFFICIAL
Spotify > open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/3gdn7xdZxwccaxuO2chpMy

A08 - Yamahaica (Snippet)

!! This is are stripped-down 192mp3 snippet of the original track !!!
...taken from:

Artist:  All Is Well
Release:  A Break In Time Extensions
Cat.No.:  CPT 633-3
Format:  digital EP

Tracklisting:

1. All Is Well - Tranquility (Yuu Udagawa Remix) (6:02)
2. All Is Well - Cosmic Winter (Beats Dub) (4:40)
3. All Is Well - Cosmic Winter (Original) (4:51)
4. All Is Well - Isol8 (5:06)

Info:
Following the release of All Is Well's “A Break In Time” album last November (check here: https://CompostRecords.lnk.to/All-Is-Well-A-Break-In-Time), we bring you a new EP of alternate versions and unreleased from the album. Starting with a remix from up and coming Japanese artist Yuu Udagawa, whose recent work on labels such as Cyphon, Razor-N-Tape and Compost has been turning heads as of late. She puts a slightly more dance floor twist on Tranquility, a highlight of the album for us. Another high moment on the LP is Cosmic Winter, here in its original form and with an unreleased Dub. Closing out the EP with one more exclusive - Isol8, a dubby track that has been featured in All Is Well’s live sets but didn’t make it on the album.

A Break In Time

A Break In Time is an ambient album written during the lockdown as a sort of calming therapy / meditation exercise. The project quickly took form with a unique sonic identity and message inspired by this feeling isolation felt during that time. The album is about fragility, naivety, contemplating our vulnerability but also of our resilience and the feeling of alone/together.

This album might have taken less than a year to make, but it’s a culmination of influences drawing back to his early 90s growing up in Québec City. He was then known simply as Everything, performing live in Raves and Chill Out Room, armed with nothing but a 909, an SH-101 an Ensoniq EPS and a Quadraverb. His love for ambient music never faded. With early influences such as Carl Craig seminal “Landcruising”, Warp’s “Artificial Intelligence” and Black Dog Production “Bytes”, this album bridges the gap between here and there, now and then : where time stands still.
This is a collaborative release from Compost Records and Drumpoet Community.

Links:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/alliswellisit 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/aiw.alliswell 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/6sUqmXdGEuB20zBkmhMxTG

All Is Well - Isol8 (Snippet)

!! This is a stripped-down 192mp3 snippets of the original track !!!
...taken from:

Artist:  A08
Album:  Waiting For Zion Remixes Pt. 1 (Dengue Dengue Dengue / Nerk)
Cat.No.:  CPT 636-3
Format:  Digital

Tracklisting:

1. Nineoneone (Dengue Dengue Dengue Remix) (4:41)
2. Yamahaica (Nerk Remix) (3:33)
3. Nineoneone (Original) (5:13)
4. Yamahaica (Original) (3:41)

Info:

Here comes the first of three remix packages for A08’s “Waiting For Zion” album.
The peruvian maestros Dengue Dengue Dengue! present a highly energetic broken beat rework of “Nineoneone” with a tropical twist. 
Nerk, musician and co-founder of Berlin’s supergroup Toktok delivers a brilliantly crafted uptempo electro dub version of „Yamahaica". 

Dengue Dengue Dengue! is a musical duo of electronic music from Peru established in Lima, made up of Rafael Pereira and Felipe Salmon. The highly contagious duo have brought a new level of tropical madness to the cumbia world, fusing modern production savvy with traditional rhythms. Their early tracks caught the ears of bloggers and DJs around the world but it wasn’t until their 2012 debut album, La Alianza Profana, that they really received worldwide recognition. Together with the Auxiliar Collective, they have cornered the market in neon tropical bass exports.

Nerk, aka Benjamin Weiss, a member of the legendary Berlin rave act Tok Tok has a long, extensive history in the techno community. As well as a writer for formerly leading German music magazine De:Bug, he has a long recording history collaborating with Dirk Leyers on Kompakt, Klang, V-Records and many remixes to his credit.

About the “Waiting For Zion” album:
Caribbean, jazz, afro, reggae the full spectrum of world music ingeniously and ingeniously fused with electronica. A08 is the brainchild of the two Berliners Dirk Leyers and DJ Nomad. Formerly known as "AFRICAINE 808" – the studio/live music project with an album and various EPs on NYC’s Golf Channel Recordings and Vulcandance. 

AFRICAINE 808 started as an experiment where the two succeeded in the amalgamation of rhythmic world music heritage with the zeitgeist and aesthetics of electronic dance music.
After ten successful years touring the globe as a live music project, a praised double album, 5 EPs and remix work for legends like Tony Allen, Amadou & Mariam among many others, the two decided to re-invent their sound for a new album, exploring Jazz and Caribbean music among their "classic" working genres of electronic world dance music.
For the production, A08 included an illustrious crowd of guests into the band line-up, featuring artists from Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Trinidad and Germany.
The outcome is "Waiting for Zion", a double album that will be released on Compost Records in winter 2023.
As a live P.A. A08 are performing either as a Soundsystem with Dirk Leyers and DJ Nomad playing live and DJing, or as a live act with live percussion.

Links:
Instagram > www.instagram.com/a08.music.official
Facebook > www.facebook.com/A08OFFICIAL
Spotify > open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/3gdn7xdZxwccaxuO2chpMy

A08 - Yamahaica (Nerk Remix) (Snippet)

A08 - NineOneOne (Dengue Dengue Dengue Remix) (Snippet)

Michael Reinboth’s first ever release under his real name. After early Beanfield productions, circa 20 remixes (some old ones labelled simply Compost Remixes), more than 30 compilations and 30+ years of running Compost, a few 12”s under alter egos, the Compost boss decides to liberate the alias and mystic.
“Let The Spirit” is a kinetic cover version of a house classic, released way back in time on Ron Trent’s legendary Prescription imprint. It has no samples, everything is self-programmed and produced in team play with Jan Krause (Beanfield). The flipside brings us the trippy “RS6 Avant” which comes in two versions. The Cosmic Version is a invite to float over the Landstraße (or the dancefloor with eyes closed in the late night hours). And as Michael loves to drive fast too, he decided to add the Club Version - a much more energetic take with which works a treat on peak time dancefloors (and the Autobahn of course). 

Watch out for more Michael Reinboth releases 2024.
LINKS:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/michael.reinboth / https://www.instagram.com/elaste_mgzn/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/5qtrVLWJtbfaGIqRckj9yL

Let The Spirit

DHSA Premiere: Michael Reinboth - Let The Spirit (Original Mix)

More than 30 years in business, over 800 catalogue releases, over 8000 songs + remixes and still going strong!! Compost is one of the most prolific, highly acclaimed and in demand indie labels in Europe. Compost and its sublabels Compost Black Label, Compost Disco, Drumpoet Community, Derwin Recordings and rumpelmusig standing for quality music, a sophisticated mixture of electrifying disco, house, techno, soul, jazz and a little bit of pop. XLR8R wrote: "...top address where electronica meets musicality". Besides internationally respected artist like Robert Owens, Trüby Trio, Koop, Beanfield, Christian Prommer, Felix Laband, Karma, Ben Mono, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Marsmobil, Eddy Meets Yannah, Sepalot, Alif Tree, Shahrokh, Wigald Boning a.o. the label is also well known for its praised compilation series V.A. "Elaste" (Vol.1-4), "Future Sounds Of Jazz" (Vol.1-14), "Partykeller" (Vol.1-3) or "Glücklich" (Vol.1-5). Like Gilles Peterson once said: “With great pleasure I pronounce Compost the most consistent and forward thinking record label of continental Europe.“