ick will mehr. :) liebe grüße und vielleicht bis sonntag.

Cord Labuhn

One more night full of glitter, inspiration, emotions and high energy with the magic of Hütte Collective ✨. 

Here is a bit of my set recorded at the Blue Dream Floor that night. Be ready for the second edition of Onironauta this June 17th at Christa Kupfer 🔮🌈.

Some of the artists on this tape: @damswindle @romanthonyofficial @robosonic @hurmofficial @n808official @stan_jericho @quadrakey @kerri-chandler @aarand @georgeprivatti @gplacencia @tobikramer @bobby-hebb @domenicorosa @krs-one-official @dilbydj @samdexteruk @tomsavagedj @ghetto-groove @sante-sansone @krystalklear @gigidag1 @inaya-day @robinsofficial @vakabular @joncutler

Onironauta by Hütte - Christa Kupfer - Berlin 15.04.23

SLEEP OUT
Dear tired, sleepless friend, I’ve laid down ‘SLEEP OUT’ as ground zero (#000) of my new project and creative hub OUTTAKES. A golden-tinged, therapeutic 3 hour mixtape depicting the most sleepy, meditative and cosy curation of tracks. Featuring works from the likes of Prefuse73, Burial, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jon Hopkins, Robag Wruhme, Stimming, Nils Frahm, and Sigur Ros to name but a few this is a mix to happily get lost within; 48 tracks to soundtrack the most libidinous of moods.

Two of my own productions ‘Gone Love’ & ‘Unter Deck’ bookend this mixtape, which were tailored to stand alongside some of the most beautiful tracks by artists, friends and labels that I truly respect and who have all been a source of inspiration for me. I’m excited to present their work in a such personal space. Further original production work will follow in future editions of OUTTAKES with this set of selections serving as a serene opening chapter and a statement of intent of things to come. Researched and road-tested over the last few years, the end result is the product of a tireless labour of love and stands in stark contrast musically to the majority of my previous artistic endeavors. After playing hundreds of house and techno gigs in over 40 countries with ROBOSONIC, this dedicated mix represents the very opposite of physical music, redressing the balance I would seek to attain as a tool to relax whenever I needed to unwind. Thus it was only natural for OUTTAKES to start at the lowest level possible… horizontal business.  Go share this heartfelt mixtape far and wide, but most importantly hand it to those who deserve sweet dreams and a good rest.
1Love. C:

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Cord / Gone Love / Outtakes
Gregor Schwellenbach / Kaito's Everlasting / Kompakt
Stimming / The Train / Diynamic
Addison Groove / Locked Groove / 50 Weapons
Flying Lotus / Intro / Brainfeeder
Guillaume And The Cotou Dumonts / Intermède / Circus Company
Nils Frahm / Familiar / Erased Tapes
Nonkeen / The Invention Mother / Erased Tapes
Robot Koch / Love / Project Mooncircle
Matias Aguayo / Walty / Kompakt
Kangding Ray / Sub.Res / Raster-Noton 
Dimlite / Yes Welcome / Now Again Records
Hudson Mohawke / Star Crackout / Warp
Sigur Ros / Ba Ba / Geffen
Jon Hopkins / Breathe This Air / Domino
Noisia / Paper Doll / Vision
Dimlite / Stromausfall / Sonar Kollektiv
Charles Atlas / Demus / Ochre 
Robag Wruhme / Anton II / Pampa
The Genle People / Superstar / Rephlex
Kollektiv Turmstrasse / Dazwischen / Connaisseur
Prefuse73 / Simple Loop / Warp
Arovane / Ten Hours / City Center Offices
Kangding Ray / Altiz / Raster-Noton
Philip Jeck / Anatomy / Touch
Loscil / Mistral / Kranky
Raz Ohara And The Odd Orchestra / Love For Mrs. Rhodes / Get Physical
Nikita Quasim / Ghost / Clown_And_Sunset
Robag Wruhme / Anton I / Pampa
Roman Fluegel / Pianopiano / Dial
Jacaszek / Dale-gale / Ghostly International
Donato Dozzy / Vaporware 01 / Spectrum Spools
8GB / Vingt Mille Lieues
Burial / Forgive / Hyperdub
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto / Naono  / Raster-Noton
Jon Hopkins / Abandon Window / Domino
Greg Gives Peter Space / February Space Duet / Erased Tapes
Alva Noto / Monophaser / Raster-Noton
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto / Logic Moon / Raster-Noton
Dadub / Endless / Stroboscopic Artefacts
Triangleline / Chronon and Echo / Other People
Darkside / Sitra / Other People
Valentin Stip / Sigh / Other People
Ezekiel Honig / Drafting Hindsight / Other People
Bohren und der Club of Gore - Beileid
Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm / a2 / Erased Tapes
Cord / Unter Deck / Outtakes

OUTTAKES

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CORD LABUHN / Sleep Out [OUTTAKES #00]

Töröö. Recording of my set for @elliver-twist birthday @ Kiosk @ Kater Blau...Sunday to Monday night 2-5am. danke @pruzza für den sprung im timetable, @benet-rix, @nilstwachtmann, @mila-stern, @k3lle und spät dann @kotelettzadak und noch ein paar andere... allet jute, elli!

Cord Labuhn @ Kater Blau Kiosk - Für Elliver (2017-01-15) SUN 2-5am

In the early evening and into the night on Sunday 26th March, Cord Labuhn https://soundcloud.com/cord - played an exemplary set for the Something Slow series during his Berlin birthday party at the cosy, cuddly Beate Uwe, where friends had gathered to celebrate his day... 

And now that some of the tracks from Cord's new Outtakes Project have been brought out at our Slow party, you may hear this set and want to know more about these tracks of his. To get news of the upcoming mass of releases in 2017, check it...

HEAR : http://soundcloud.com/cord
SEE : www.instagram.com/cordlabuhn
FACE : www.facebook.com/labuhn.cord 
SLEEP : www.sleep.outtakes.co
VIBE : www.outtakes.co
DANCE : www.robosonic.cc / www.soundcloud.com/robosonic / www.facebook.com/robosonic.berlin
SWEAT : www.punchi.de / www.instagram.com/punchi.love
WORK : www.cordlabuhn.com
BOOK :  world (except america): sebastian@wilde-agency.com / north & south america : mike@clandestine-artists.com / australia : mike@thickasthieves.com.au

......The Isle 9 "Something Slow" event series, held during the colder months in Berlin, allows downtempo, slower electronic music to take center stage in an intimate and cuddly space.

HERE!!!
www.facebook.com/somethingslow/

And if you want to keep tabs on our growing international project, here is our website where you can sign up for a newsletter:
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Cord Labuhn | Something Slow on Sunday (26/03/17)

Welcome to the second episode of The Ambient Zone Radio Show, featuring tracks from The Ambient Zone Playlists, including our two new releases this month – Sker’s ‘Burgundy’ and Digitonal’s ‘Mirtazipine’ from the Essential Playlist and two tracks from our featured album of the month, Hotel Neon ‘Context’.

The second hour features a Guest Mix. This month we have the amazing Berlin based Cord Labuhn selecting and mixing his choice of great music exclusively for The Ambient Zone.

Hour One
1	Sker – Burgundy  (The Ambient Zone)
2         Loscil – Resurgam  (Kranky)
3	Odd Nosdam - Sisters (Boards Of Canada mix) (Leaving Records)
4	Martin Heyne – Carry (7K!)
5	Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place  (Interscope Records)
6	Digitonal – Mirtazipine (The Ambient Zone)
7	Hotel Neon - 4.10AM  (Fluid Audio)
8	Hotel Neon - 5.20AM  (Fluid Audio)
9	Susuma Yokota – Tobiume (Skintone)
10	King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Starboard Home (Domino)
11	Olafur Arnalds - Pu ert solin (Erased Tapes)
12	The Beacon Sound Choir - Fortunate Ones (First Terrace Records)
13	Silver Maple - Particle Emission (Silver Maple)
14	Illuvia – Surrounded (Ludvig Cimbrelius)

Hour Two - Guest Mix: Cord Labuhn 

1	Cord Labuhn  - Gone Love  (Outtakes)
2	Gregor Schwellenbach - Kaito’s Everlasting  (Kompakt)
3	Stimming - The Train  (Diynamic)
4	Addison Groove - Locked Groove  (50 Weapons)
5	Flying Lotus - Intro  (Brainfeeder)
6	Guillaume And The Cotou Dumonts - Intermde  (Circus Company)
7	Nils Frahm - Familiar  (Erased Tapes)
8	Nonkeen - The Invention Mother  (Erased Tapes)
9	Robot Koch - Love  (Project Mooncircle)
10	Matias Aguayo - Walty  (Kompakt)
11	Kangding Ray - Sub.Res (Raster-Noton)
12	Dimlite - Yes Welcome  (Now Again Records)
13	Hudson Mohawke - Star Crackout  (Warp)
14	Sigur Ros - Ba Ba  (Geffen)
15	Jon Hopkins - Breathe This Air (Domino)
16	Noisia  - Paper  Doll                 ( Vision)
17	Cord Labuhn - Unter Deck    (The Ambient Zone)

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The Ambient Zone  // Episode 2 featuring guest mix by Cord Labuhn

Childish Gambino - This Is America (killa kowalski edit)

DOWNLOAD INFOARTWORK (includes full tracklist, infos & photography):
www.berlin-kreuzberg-institut.de/cord/CORD_Heart_Ship_Home_INFOARTWORK.pdf

With his original productions “Heartships” and “Home” framing this mix composition, CORD defines a spectrum of HipHop-infused electronica, minimalist songwriting and beat science.
In contrast to his other recent teamworks (like ROBOSONIC‘s mixalbum “Sweet and Nuts” http://www.robosonic.cc/2012/02/01/sweet-and-nuts-mixalbum-free-download/ & “Worst Love EP” for OFF Recordings http://www.robosonic.cc/2012/05/03/worst-love-ep-off-recordings-31/, or C&Gs “Hypnotize HypHop” http://www.berlin-kreuzberg-institut.com/wp_bki/2011/05/25/cord-gaucho-cg-hypnotize-hyphop-mixtape-punchi2/) this collection doesn’t aim at the dancefloor at all.
Instead, it‘s made for sofa low riding, day-long bus trips, focussed work, sweet solitude, love making...you name it!

...USING:
vinyl records & turntables, music files in various qualities and from different sources, synths, NI Maschine, Ableton Live, controller, cassettes, binaural field recordings, smartphone, accordion.

...FEATURING BITS & PIECES FROM:

inspiring artists like Dimlite, Prefuse73, Samiyam, Sina, Teebs, Paul White, Evian Christ, Mount Kimbie, Philip Jeck, Lapalux and many more...

...ON LABELS LIKE:
Project:Mooncircle, Pampa, Brainfeeder, Alpha Pup, All City Dublin, Stones Throw, Hotflush, Warp, Ghostly International...

www.cordlabuhn.com

CORD - Heart Ship Home [mixtape]

Incredible night at Barbarellas @ DEFECTED CROATIA 2018 alongside Ninetoes, Amine Edge & Dance and Scott Diaz!

TRACKLIST:
Robosonic & Ferreck Dawn - unsigned feat. Big Shug / Gang Starr Foundation
Ferreck Dawn & Robosonic - Old Dollars
Robosonic & Ordonez - Music Works
Robosonic & Ferreck Dawn - Lovers & Haters
Digitaria - Favourite Addiction (Groove Armada Cord-Cut)
Nhan Solo - Head Up High 
Robosonic - Madman
Vaggio - Don't You Want Some More
PAWSA - Trip
Finn - STGGALT (Ferreck Dawn & Robosonic Remix)
Tini - That's Life (Mario Aureo Edit)
Robosonic - Unsigned
Alaia & Gallo - So Special
Eddie Amador - Rise (Robosonic Remix)
Eddie Amador - House Music (Robosonic Remix)
RYBO & Lubelski - Favela Funk
Soulsearcher - Can't Get Enough! (Illyus & Barrientos Extended Club Refix)
Robosonic - Spanked 
Ferreck Dawn & Robosonic - In Arms
Robosonic - unsigned
Fat Larry's Band VS Aaliyah - Act Like You Know (Ardalan's Edit)
Pional - XME

ROBOSONIC @ DEFECTED CROATIA 2018

“Never Ending Story” (https://fanlink.to/NeverEndingStory) is 4PAWS Records’ second release, written & performed by Kristina Sheli on a beat produced by Da Beatminerz. The song addresses motives of being stuck in dysfunctional and frustrating relationships of all kinds. The recognition of dissent and discrepancy will finally and often painfully lead to awareness – realization may peak in relief.
The beat was made by the legendary producer team Da Beatminerz from Brooklyn. It features an authentic and warm New York Golden Era HipHop flavour with horns and a timeless drum programming.

Written-by: Kristina Sheli
Produced-by: Da Beatminerz
Arranged-by: Cord Labuhn aka Robosonic
Mixed-by: Jesco Lohan
Artwork-by: G-Brüder aka Arne&Niels Grugel
Photo-by: Sasha Scherdin
Executive Producer: Rob Lange

Never Ending Story

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Kristina Sheli & Da Beatminerz - Never Ending Story (Original Mix)

Masta Ace is in the house. The New York rap legend, originally part of the famed Juice Crew in the mid-80s (with Marley Marl, Biz Markie, Big Daddy Kane among others), is known for collaborations with artists such as MF Doom, for influencing rappers like Eminem, and is still known as one of the truest rappers alive. Ace made a teenage dream come true for Cord when he recorded an original feature part and hook on top of the soulful club joint ‚Good Old Feel‘.

The scratch & sample workout and the handcut artwork of this release is paying hommage to ‚A Long Hot Summer‘ (2004), one of his many timeless storytelling LPs, where Ace writes reminiscent rhymes in his natural habitat of Brownsville, Brooklyn but is organically relocated into the streets of Berlin Kreuzberg - right next to the good old Robosonic studios, birthplace of ‚Golden Era House‘. This unreleased Black Out version is now boasting the full vocal performance, while the extended 12inch dub was made for the clubs and pressed on vinyl earlier.

‚That‘s the deal, it‘s that good old feel - it‘s for real, it‘s that good old feel.‘

written & produced by : Robosonic (www.robosonic.cc)
lyrcis written & performed by : Masta Ace
mixed by: Jesco Lohan (www.jescolohan.com)
executive production: Rob Lange & Cord Labuhn

Robosonic – Black Out Series [RBO]

Good Old Feel

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Robosonic & Masta Ace - Good Old Feel [OUTTAKES RBO#02]

I flipped together some nice 4-2-Floor thumper tracks heard in the warehouses of Berlin for my new mix `Straight Outta Warehouse´. The last track `Block Party Theme´ with  Robosonic, Psycho Les &  Greg Nice (distributed through our label OUTTAKES Records)is the bridge between a warehouse rave and the afterhour Block Party. We call it #GoldenEraHouse.

Tracklist:

The Juan Maclean - Just Once More (Original Mix) [Classic Music Company]
Jon Cutler & E-Man - It’s Yours (NiCe7 Remix) [4 To The Floor Records]
Finn - Sometimes The Going Gets A Little Tough (Ferreck Dawn & Robosonic Remix) [Defected Records]
DJ Le Roi - Pere & Files  [Upon You]
Tigerstripes - Jack My Jum (Original Mix) [Hot Creations]
Ferreck Dawn - Don`t Stop (Original Mix) [Simma Black]
Josh Butler - Switch Off (Original Mix) [Origins Rcrds]
Malte Seddig - Downstream Movement (Original Mix) [Clap Your Hands Records]
Gorge - We Start Again (Original Mix) [8bit]
Bruce Leroys - Rev Is Out (Original Mix) [Get Physical]
ANOTR - Bend (Original Mix) [No Art]
Manuel Tur - Ara Anam (Original Mix) [Freerange Records]
Pig&Dan - Chemistry (Original Mix) [Drumcode]
Pleasurekraft - Dopefiend (Original Mix) [Drumcode]
Honey Dijon - Personal Slave feat. Charles McCloud (Eli Escobar Remix) [Classic Music Company]
Traumer - Flume (Original Mix) [Herzblut Recordings]
Tommy Vercetti - Beaux (Josh Butler Remix) [Origins Rcrds]
Modular Project - Leaving (Acid Pauli Remix) [Rebirth]
Gorge - Don’t Stop (Original Mix) [8bit]
Solee - Pink Panther (Original Mix) [Parquet Recordings]
Robosonic & Klangkuenstler - Nuts (Original Mix) [Mother Recordings]
Robosonic - Block Party Theme feat. Psycho Les & Greg Nice (Original Mix) [OUTTAKES]

Mixed & Artwork by: Rob La
Rabbit: Great Silver Rabbit

Rob La Presents: 4PAWS Straight Outta Warehouse

This week’s Traxsource LIVE! is graced by Berlin based Robosonic AKA Cord Labuhn. 2018 was a solid year with top tracks that included Good Old Feel, No Price and In Arms, featuring on legendary labels such as Defected and their Disco imprint Glitterbox. Back in 2017, Labuhn set up his own label Outtakes, based on his own definitive sound. 

Check this hour long show with phenomenal artists including Ferreck Dawn, Todd Terry, DJ S.K.T., Gene Farris and many of his own productions and edits.. We can't wait to see what he has in store for 2019!

20+ countries, 80+ radio networks and 10 million+ weekly listeners can’t be wrong. Keep it Traxsource. Keep it underground.

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ROBOSONIC – TRACKLISTING: JAN 3RD, 2019

01. A-Trak & Todd Terry - DJs Gotta Dance More (Illyus & Barrientos Remix) Fools Gold
02. Alex Preston - Another Man (Robosonic Remix) Neon Records
03. Robosonic & Ferreck Dawn - Lovers and Haters - Defected
04. Robosonic & Ordonez - Music Works - Mother Recordings
05. Mattik & Petros Odin - Let the Beat - Snatch! Records
06. Finn - Sometimes The Going Gets A Little Tough (Ferreck Dawn & Robosonic Remix) Defected
07. Robosonic - Bootycall
08. Robosonic - Madman - Simma Black
09. ANOTR - Let Me Hear Ya - Solid Grooves Records
10. DJ S.K.T. - Lipstick And Perfume - Big Beat Records
11. Nathan Barato, Gene Farris - My House (Francisco Allendes Remix) Rawthentic
12. Slam Dunk'd feat Chromeo - No Price (Robosonic Remix) Glitterbox 
13. Italobros - Don’t Go - Swerve Digital
14. R.FK - untitled/unsigned 
15. Emanuel Satie feat. Nanghiti - Fade - Crosstown Rebels
16. Sllash & Doppe - Aguella - Toolroom
17. PBR Streetgang - Transfunction (Tom Demac Remix) Skint Records
18. Kideko - Gonna Be - Solotoko
19. Ferreck Dawn & Robosonic - In Arms - Defected

FORTHCOMING GUESTS ON TRAXSOURCE LIVE!

• Qubiko (Jan 10th)
• Yuksek (Jan 17th)
• Cody Currie (Jan 24th)
• Scott Diaz (Jan 31st)

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Traxsource LIVE! #205 with Robosonic

My new mix containing music I have heard this summer at several music festivals like Feel Festival, Nation of Gondwana, Defected Croatia or Defected London FSTVL and of course at our own 3 party episodes of "Aus Der Reihe Tanzen" @ Ritter Butzke, Berlin. The Robosonic crew & Raw D had the chance to invite lovely artists like Amine Edge & Dance, ANOTR, Jesse Perez, Ruede Hagelstein, Nhan Solo, Kevin Knapp, Lost Boyz, Sebastian Porter, Melina, Felidea, ARA, Robine and many more to our Robosonic curated floor. Enjoy the train ride. 

Save The Date for "Aus Der Reihe Tanzen" Episode 4-7: 1 Feb, 2 May, 1 Aug & 3 Oct 2020

Tracklist:

Chis Stussy - Edge Of The Mirror [2019, Rutilance Recordings]
Jansons - Burnin’ [2019, 8bit]
Paul C & Paolo Martini - Take Some Time [2013, Recovery House]
Josh Butler - The Hydra [2019, Rejected]
Benno Blome - Abotha (Mihai Popoviciu Remix) [2015, Time Has Changed Records]
Catz’n Dogz, Zenssofly & Maxville - Wave [2019, Pets Recordings]
Ekai & Solo Tamas - Shout Out To My Ex (Jesse Perez Remix) [2019, Black Rock Publishing]
Bonetti - Picket Lines [2019, Phoenix Soul]
Darren Sains & Balo feat. J. Horton - Pray (If You Want More Mix) [2018, Quantize Recordings]
Brett Gould - All About Good Times [2017, Solid Grooves Records]
Dombresky - Simple Hit [2019, Insomniac Records]
Robosonic & EPMD - For The People (Illyus & Barrientos Remix) [2019, Armada Subjekt]
Sascha Dive - The Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues (Woody Remix) [2014, Deep Vibes]
Marianto - Simple World (Thodoris Triantafillou & Cj Jeff Remix) [2013, Rhythmetic Records]
Dave + Sam feat. Mike Dunn - Til The World Blow Up [2019, Classic Music Company]
Armand Van Helden - I Want Your Soul (Hipp-E’s Bonus Mix) [2007, PIAS Recordings]
Armand Van Helden - I Want Your Soul  [2007, Southern Fried Records]
Chris Stussy - You & Me, Together [2018, House Puff Record]
The 2 Bears - Get Out (Emanuel Satie Remix) [2015, Southern Fried Records]
Butch & C. Vogt - Desire [2019, Running Back]
Robbie Rivera & Billy Paul W. - Sex (Matt Sassari Remix) [2019, Glasgow Underground]
Robosonic, Ferreck Dawn & Big Shug - Let Live (Roger Sanchez Remix) [2019, Mother Recordings] 
Tommy Vercetti feat. Abi - I Want You [2019, No Art]
The Gibson Brothers - Ooh What A Life (Gerd Janson & Shan Edit) [2017, Running Back]

Mixed & Artwork by: Rob La
Rabbit: Wild-colored Miniloop aka Guru

Rob La presents: 4PAWS Waiting For The House Train

MORE THAN 1,800 PLAYLISTS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC SETS BY UNDERGROUND ARTISTS
(PODCAST - LIVE - LIVE ACT …)

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PLUS DE 1'800 PLAYLISTS DE SETS DE MUSIQUE ÉLECTRONIQUE D'ARTISTES UNDERGROUND 
(PODCAST - LIVE - LIVE ACT …)￼

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( Techno - Tech House - Drum’n’Bass - Jungle - Minimal - Deep Minimal - Slow Tech - Slow House - Deep House - Organic House - Melodic House - Midtempo - Downtempo  - Beatmakers - Hip-Hop - Rap - Abstract - Lo-Fi -Boom  Bap … )

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🎶 MUSIC IS LIFE 🎶 ❤️ LOVE IS ALL❤️
✨🎶  mathi / Mathias  🎶✨
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Sans la musique, la vie serait une erreur, une besogne 
éreintante, un exil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

Without music, life would be a mistake, a task Exhausting, an exile.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Cover Page  :  Mayan hieroglyphic script white design isolated on black

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BOOKING
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australia : mike@thickasthieves.com.au

contact: info@robosonic.cc

Cartoon life - At six years old, CORD LABUHN had his first real career aspiration : becoming an ‘inventor’. Or space traveller. At least working in some kind of laboratory. Hence he became a producer of beats, tunes, records, imagery & merch - and toured the whole planet to play music for the most spaced out...

Earlier, when the ghost of Jimi Hendrix jumped out of his parents record collection and passionately promoted the guitar as the weapon of choice for a leftist punk, folk, if not eurodance infected teenager of the 90s, the piano and his sister’s drumset would have to step back for a while. 

A few years later when TV was still the thing and gaming consoles like PS1 were battling N64, Cord the Beatmaker was rather staring at tiny AKAI S2000, MPC and CRT displays, head-nodding, turning the jogwheels, dreaming of a second turntable to complete his DJ setup - the true school, golden age hiphop way. Next mission - still as a school kid - was a self-released vinyl record with international distribution through a self-founded label – learning everything from scratch, only a few years before DJing went 99,9% digital, crazy fast and globalised anyway. 

To date, his longest running project is ROBOSONIC, which was formed as a DJ-producer duo together with Sacha Robotti over 10 years ago. A while after their unconventional, free-spirited debut album „Sturm und Drang“ (2007) they took the world by storm with a string of popular tunes and remixes that went into the crates of tens of thousands of DJs worldwide and made it to top spots in the infamous Beatport charts (“Worst Love”, “The Edge” 2012, “La Fique” 2013, “House Music” 2015, “Rise” 2016). With releases on labels like Defected, Toolroom, Get Physical, Diynamic, Stil vor Talent, Deep Dish’s Yoshitoshi, Nervous or lately Mother Recordings, ROBOSONIC became an authentic figurehead for something dubbed “Golden Era House” (Juice Magazine). Not only because Cord was convincing real rap icons like Masta Ace, Jeru the Damaja and KRS-One to collaborate on house tracks, but also because ROBOSONIC remixed legends like Todd Terry, Arthur Baker, Kerri Chandler and Eddie Amador.
Today, after his partner emigrated to the US, Cord the DJ is playing most of the ROBOSONIC shows alone. The house & techno driven sets and releases under this moniker are internationally recognised and performances in 40+ countries (and counting) reflect the universal appeal of a trademark sound they unleashed into the world. And with a string of new remixes and releases it seems that he won’t stop shedding club sweat and tears.
For 2017 Cord Labuhn has redefined his structures and launches a series called OUTTAKES. The label and collaborative hub serves primarily as a studio-to-listeners feed – to pilot an own musical direction, independent from A&R decisions, laws of the market – out of the box. A conscious counterpart and soulful antidote to the dance music business with its particular formulas. 
The zero point (#000) of the OUTTAKES series is the ‘SLEEP OUT’ mixtape - a carefully composed 3 hour set indulging in the tones and frequencies of sleep, representing this important human state in musical form –  horizontal business. Two of his own productions ‘Gone Love’ & ‘Unter Deck’, which bookend this mixtape, are being released through the label as a wake-up call, followed by hypnotic beat science, hiphop infused electronica, songs, fragments, field recordings and probably some dance music in the future, that would not fit under any other label than: OUTTAKES.

CORD LABUHN / Sleep Out [OUTTAKES #00]

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