The sound of the EP is awesome, the early electronics from seventies of ‘’Panamax’’ is sharing the same bed with early Sven Vath’s, as OFF, Deutsch dark room illusions.  ‘’Nishinomaru’’ is epic, still in Deutschland dance:ground, direction  Eye Q and beyond? (those guys are listening a lot of classics), I like a lot the Asian keys in the intro… ‘’Two For Wood’’ sounds organic, at least in the beginning…

!!! These are stripped-down 192mp3 snippets of the original tracks!!!

Artist: YOKTO
Title: Compost Black Label #114
Cat No: CPT 446-1
Format: 12" / Digital
 Release: 30th May 2014

With stunning drifty grooves, YOKTO kick off their debut 12’’ on Compost Black, a proper gem of state of the art house music! Two For Wood is already supported and charted by Kristian from Âme and Marcus Worgull!

DJ-quotes:
Nishinomaru is suuuuuupaa !!!  :) | Ian Pooley (Pooled)

Yuhu - very good one! | Agoria

This sounds really great. Panamax will be getting plenty of spend from me. | Jimpster (Freerange)

Whaouuuu this is awsome. Ohhh yessss i would loooove to play this out. This is going to become a biiiiig one for me -- I LOVE IT | Laurent Garnier

Sounds great! Would love to get it to play. Panamax is my favorite of the 3 right now. | Tim Sweeney (Beats In Space)

Nishinomaru is very nice! Will play at the end of my sets. | Gregor Tresher

I´m pretty much into "Nishinomaru", really nice trip into soundscapes!!! | Marc Romboy

bam! ace ep - nishinomaru (what does that mean btw?) all the way for me. open air intro bliss. | Motorcitysoul

Die Two for Wood Platte ist Top! | Adriatique

Super ep! | André Lodemann (Bestworks)

Great release! will play! thanks;-) | Luna City Express / Norman Weber

Awesome, two for wood is great. | The Drifter (Maeve)

Ich bin absolut verliebt in Two for Wood! Der Track ist der absolute Hammer und ich kann es kaum erwarten den am Wochenende zu spielen | Sandrino (Innervisions / Mood Music)

Nishinomaru – Hammer! Die ganze Platte klingt super! | Matthias Meyer (Watergate)

Info:

Hello together,
we are Jürgen Graf and Christian Nainggolan.
Together we are YOKTO. Both of us have a long standing interest in electronic music in general and electronic dance music in particular. The studio of YOKTO is sited in my home in the countryside close to the french border in Saarland (Germany). We meet up regularly on Fridays in order to get our tracks done and having a good time.
The geographic location of the studio has advantages for us. On the one hand, we can fully concentrate on our work and are not distracted. On the other hand, we enjoy the culinarily delicacies from our french neighbors, like wine, oil, cheese and baguette, before leaving the kitchen and going to the studio, beginning with our recording sessions.
Having a good mood in the studio is something really essential for us. The reason for this is due to the fact, that we create music using our brains, our souls and our backsides. And these organs are exactly what we want to put in resonance with our audience.
Sometimes we play music in small- and mid-sized clubs. The grass roots of our work is House Music and all its manifold derivatives. This is fundamental for our work in the studio and also for our appearence in the club. If we have the chance to present our musical vision the whole night, we are pleased to begin the night playing experimental music or ambient and then draw an arc which incorporates the various styles of House. Of course, we always have an eye on the crowd on the dancefloor in order to maximize the fun for both. It is very important for us, being state-o-the-art when it comes to our track selection, despite playing seminal tracks from the past.

Compost Black Label #114

Panamax

YOKTO - Panamax

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.“

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