Cantora is a music company that invests in and develops artists, startup technologies and live entertainment experiences. Cantora is known for signing bands like MGMT and Bear Hands, investing in and executing the music industry strategy for startups like Sonic Notify and BioBeats, and for creating live event properties like Smartwater’s Music Tech Smartlounge and the immersive events brain trust Mainframe Group.

Catching Flies on Spotify/Apple Music: linktr.ee/catchingflies

Enquiries:
MGMT - James Wilson - james@catchingflies.com
Other - hello@catchingflies.com

Bookings:
N & S America:
bowen@teamwass.com
ROW: james@catchingflies.com

Etsy Germany Country Manager, chaos racoon, tiny dancer

In the late 1600s, the Turkish army swept across much of Eastern and Central Europe, arriving at Vienna in 1683. Besieged and desperate, the Viennese needed an emissary who could pass through Turkish lines to get a message to the nearby Polish troops. Franz George Kolshitsky, who spoke Turkish and Arabic, took on the assignment disguised in a Turkish uniform. After many perilous close calls, Kolshitsky completed his valiant deed, returning to give the Viennese the news of the Poles’ imminent rescue of their city. On September 13, the Turks were repelled from Vienna, leaving everything they brought: camels, tents, honey, and strange bags of beans which were thought to be camel feed. Kolshitsky, having lived in the Arab world for several years, knew these were bags of coffee. Using the money bestowed on him by the mayor of Vienna for his heroic deed, Kolshitsky bought the Turks’ coffee, opened Central Europe’s first coffee house (The Blue Bottle), and brought coffee to a grateful Vienna.

319 years later, in Oakland, California, a slightly disaffected freelance musician and coffee lunatic, weary of the grande eggnog latte and the double skim pumpkin-pie macchiato decides to open a roaster for people who are clamoring for the actual taste of freshly roasted coffee. Using a miniscule six-pound batch roaster, he makes an historic vow: “I will only sell coffee less than 48 hours out of the roaster to my customers, so they may enjoy coffee at its peak of flavor. I will only use the finest organic, and pesticide-free, shade-grown beans.” In honor of Kolshitsky’s heroics, he names his business The Blue Bottle Coffee Company, and begins another chapter in the history of superlative coffee.

Now, a few years later, thanks to the enthusiastic support of many loyal customers, Blue Bottle Coffee has grown to a small network of cafes, wholesale partners, an espresso cart, a coffee kiosk, and some vintage German coffee roasters. We are still united by the simple purpose of getting great coffee to everyone who asks for it.

Improbably and delightfully, there are several dozen of us now. We roast coffee on vintage gear, put it in compostable bags, and still get it to our customers within 48 hours. We roast great coffee on two coasts, we make great drinks, we clean up after ourselves, we bake cookies, we type up invoices, we get change at the bank, we say please and thank you. We offer the elderly and pregnant our seats on the bus and brush and floss daily. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Buy the album - Deluxe version - http://bit.ly/1HRxuJG // iTunes - http://smarturl.it/Darker-Than-Blue


Inside Switch EP is out on vinyl. Digital release will be a bit later on. Get the record here: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/carl-borg-inside-switch-ep/722979-01/

Carl Åborg who goes by the artist name Carl Borg is a Swedish producer, sound designer and film music composer.
Carl started making electronic music at the age of 14. He found his way into house music after buying a Yamaha A3000 sampler, sampling through his friends and parents vinyl collections. In 2004 he began to tour through Europe, South Africa and Russia together with Forss (Eric Wahlforss) as Forss Versus Borg. Playing live-sets consisting of both up-tempo house tracks and experimental glitchy electronica. Carls debut release, the classic 12 inch Splinter Body Scene EP, was released on German label Sonar Kollektiv during that same time. Since then he has released several EPs, remixes and produced a number of original soundtracks throughout the years. 
One of the soundtracks, Tasteology Soundtrack made for House of Radon in Stockholm, has today over 15 million streams on Spotify. With several tracks on the platforms largely popular playlists like Peace and Sleep.
Carl played an important part of the band project SFB, The Stoner + Forss + Carl Borg, a fusion of acoustic jazz and live electronica, in 2006. The project resulted in a number of live gigs around Sweden, and later the album The Lektor Tapes on Gothenburg based label Hoob Records.
 
Inside Switch EP is Carls follow-up to recently released Hidden Focus EP on Swedish Brandy Productions.

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