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Searchin' feat. Natalie Claude (Andre Lodemann Dub)

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Michael Mayer albums don’t come round too often, which is one of many reasons why his fourth collection, The Floor Is Lava, is a genuine event. It’s been eight years since his last one, the collaborative & released on !K7; its predecessors, Mantasy (2012) and Touch (2004), took their sweet time, too. It’s no real surprise, given the many hats Mayer wears – globetrotting DJ, revered remixer, inveterate collaborator, and boss of both Kompakt and Imara – that his solo productions are relatively sparing. But this also speaks to their quality: Mayer’s name on a record sleeve is a sign of quality, of music that’s both looking to the future and calling back to the past, that balances the imperatives of the dancefloor and the loungeroom, that’s as exploratory as it is functional.

On The Floor Is Lava, Mayer seems to be taking the temperature of both the music that surrounds him (past and present), and the ideas of the industry he works within. There’s that iconic album title, for a start. “The album’s mindset,” he says, reflecting on those four words together. For Mayer, it’s partly a critique of the way the industry boxes in both producer and listener, focuses them on genre, on market, on the next new thing: “Being a free minded spirit that transcends genres has become an uphill battle.” A battle worth fighting, though, and with The Floor Is Lava, the result is an album that’s varied, quixotic, idiosyncratic, charming, and deeply, addictively listenable.

Throughout, Mayer finds thrills in exploration and juxtaposition, allowing unexpected things to blossom and giving them their life, their platform, throwing the listener exciting curveballs: “It’s a DJ album by a DJ that’s easily bored.” Either easily bored, or endlessly curious, The Floor Is Lava is rich with ideas. It opens with “The Problem”, which looks back to look forward, embracing the rickety way early house productions threw samples together with gleeful abandon. Mayer mentions Pal Joey, and the scene around Rockers Hi-Fi and their Different Drummer imprint, as reference points, and you can hear that freewheeling spirit throughout.

That’s The Floor Is Lava: then and now, brainwaves and nerve structures, problems and solutions, genres on fire; the real, the unreal, and the surreal. An album for the easily bored and the endlessly curious. Mayer has the last word, telling us all you need to know about the album’s spirit: “Burning for the cause, being zealous, being addicted to the heat of the night, the exuberant powers of music.”

The Floor Is Lava

Ardor

Michael Mayer - Ardor

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One most beauty prog/techno track
04-09-2006
https://www.beatport.com/release/along-the-wire/29858

Along The Wire

Lawrence - Along The Wire (Superpitcher Remix)

Tom Bioly - Chasin' A Dream

LIVE ONES 2

LAST DABS

written, mixed & mastered by Davron Mananov
vocals & album art by Bee R

special thanks to Tom P

Be In France

Serenity, live jam.

Recorded using:
Ableton 12
Arturia Beatstep Pro
Roland MC707
Behringer TD3 x 2

Serenity (LiVE)

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BUY IT HERE: https://pampa.lnk.to/DaveDK_ChicamaEP
OR HERE: www.pamparecords.com/products/pampa034-chicama-e-p
Release date 12”: May 31th, 2019 
A crackling fire is burning under the bridge.

BANG! the brow hits against the steel drum, Hey!

I only bowed down! BOING! The elbow jabs into the door of an abandoned ragtop, To lash the laces! CRACK! the knee strikes the rusty trash can, Of my brand new black sneakers!

RASP! YAWP! SCREEECH! The gang rabbles on the dancefloor. Metallic sounds blaze out of the speakers. A rustle, a chatter, a rattle, a flapper. Cops troop in gazing in wonder while converting into liquid coppers. A warm kicking bass sets in. A voice from down below. Though, right next to your ear. The floor is demanding a sacrifice.

Jog your head, swing your hip. Wave your hands, and shake a leg: Tighten up, and then let go, for this Dance aboulic!

Producer and DJ Dave DK with his new »Chicama« EP on Pampa. Three kicking, bumping tracks for all day and all of the night. Euphoric percussive floorkillers with a hint towards an alluring gloominess.

Chicama EP

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Arrival EP

Arrival

12 new remixes which push the source material even further: club primetime house and techno, the warehouse afterparty, IDM, shoegaze and fully deconstructed ambient by a crew of Greene’s friends and family.

Buy • http://jacquesgreene.com

Night Service (Fort Romeau Remix)

DJ producer of electronic music based in Portugal, I mix rhythms to create unique sound experiences with passion and sincerity. Inspired by sounds from around the world, I produce authentic electronic music for curious souls." Do you like it?

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