The 20th anniversary year of Dial Records couldn’t have been more exciting for us so far! After the extraordinary well-received release of Soela’s debut-album Genuine Silk and steady excitement around our ongoing series of digital anniversary compilations, we are more than thrilled to announce the second album release of this very special year: XDB - INSPIRON. As a longtime companion and true inspiration throughout the label’s twenty-year history, Kosta Athanassiadis aka XDB enriched our lives with his brilliant productions in the form of countless 12”s and legendary remixes. His long-overdue full-length debut album Inspiron in hand, we find ourselves unpacking the most beautiful jubilee present we could have ever imagined. 

For almost three decades now Kosta Athanassiadis aka XDB has been involved in the constantly changing world of dance music. His curiosity and dedication to electronic music spiral deep into the depth of House Music and Techno and where ever he appears he generously shares his unique knowledge in this field with equally dedicated crowds. Whether you follow his bloggish “Tracks I do really LOVE”, a collection of club essentials and a library of taste, or you witness one of his remarkable DJ sets from Panorama Bar to Freerotation Festival - XDB will  elevate you to one of those unforgettably magical music moments.

In 1993 Kosta Athanassiadis started his DJ career in the medieval hometown of Goettingen. To find what he was really looking for, namely, the newest and most exciting new records he frequently had to leave this picturesque city, that is most popular for inventing the traditional Baumkuchen pastry, but has not been on the maps of music connoisseurs necessarily. Frequent trips to visit records stores and clubs around Germany built a network of likely minded people. Some of his favorite and most thought after record labels of the time like the Chicago imprint Relief, or UK's Mosaic, are still fundamental to his very specific musical taste. 

By the turn of the century, XDB hosted a series of nights at Goettingen's Eletroosho, where he invited Dial’s own Lawrence and Carsten Jost in 2002- the beginning of a still ongoing friendship.  He had established himself as a sought after and internationally active DJ and started his fist endeavors into music production as well. Later on XDB founded his own Label Metrolux and released on iconic labels like Sistrum and Wave to be followed by countless remixes for legends like Aaron Carl, Norm Talley and Patrice Scott.

An extraordinary stream of gravity connects both, his productions and DJ sets. Once breaking through a seemingly transparent surface, one get’s lost in the beauty and depth of forms and figures. There’s barely DJs and producers who keep searching for this hidden formula in such a microscopically detailed way to pass a lifetime in House Music and Techno on to the world. XDB's Inspiron embraces this unique approach, filters and develops inspirations in an entirely delicate way, and magically emphasizes the desires of the most dedicated listeners and dancers. 

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DISTRIBUTION: KOMPAKT (PHYSICAL) / WORDANDSOUND (DIGITAL)
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Dial Fonk

DATES 2021: 
06.08.2021. - Wake The Lake Festival, Lokve, Croatia
30.10.2021. - Masters, Zagreb w/ Mathias Schober & Felver

DATES 2022: 
12.03.2022. - Manual Club, Rijeka, all night 
07.05.2022. - DVA OSAM Club, Zagreb
16.9.2022. - Tanzen w / Jennifer Cardini & TJ Mozer

DATES 2023:
23.9.2023. - Planet Srijeda w / Felver, Mufti, Ece Özel, Sacha Mambo & Zozo


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Time To Sleep or much better known by his real name Karlo Pavlović, is an electronic music producer from Pula, Croatia. Growing up with his father's music in various genres of music ranging from trip hop to noise, Karlo infuses his own melancholic, and at the same time playful sound into his productions, not being overly obsessed with genre definitions. Be it techno, house, IDM, minimal or disco. One day he might even make some jazz.

South African born DJ and producer, Gilberto Dos Santos started his journey as a DJ expressing his avid love for music through the distinct atmospheric, minimalistic and deep sounds he has come to love.

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