Shlomi Aber & Guy Gerber -  Sea Of Sand (Cocoon)

Angel Remixes

Angel (Jerome Sydenham Vocal Dub)

L.B. Dub Corp | Nearly Africa Dub

Hell & Sel - Save The Robots (The Hacker Remix)

Heiko Laux & Teo Schulte - Polyrhythm

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/the_floor_is_lava_2xlp_dl

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

Brainwave 2.0

Michael Mayer - Brainwave 2.0

THIS IS MEANT030 - MARC HOULE - WAS IST DAS EP
RELEASE : July 2025. Listen : bfan.link/was-ist-das-1

Everywhere and nowhere, there are those who transcend.
Properly. Philly’s finest. Head of the cult.
Started low, flew continental.
Real-deal believer. A true one.
Respect where it’s due.
Without him — well — we’re almost nothing.
Shouts to the spine.

But some beliefs dig deeper.
Much.
The kind that hum beneath the floors.
Started quiet, now it’s creeping.
Tremors. REMAIN feels it.
Not alone in the twitch.
Some have been fiending for a new Marc Houle record.
He knows. They know.
We all know at least one who has.
Don’t lie.

From Restore to Bay of Figs, from weird to wide.
Techno vocals. Raw loops.
Backwards analog love.

REMAIN has been starving.
And starving for sound — well — that’s sacred.
He’s been craving for more.

There are those who wait. There are those who believe.
There are those who make things happen.
And those who get lucky.
Today, the lucky ones: that’s you.
The wait is over. The hunger fed.
The cult rejoices.
The time: NOW.

But wait — WAS IST DAS ?
Ah, yes :

« WAS IST DAS »

That’s the name.
That’s the spell.
You’re not supposed to understand.
You’re supposed to feel it.

Marc touched it. Twisted it.
Let it rise weird and wonderful.
Only he could. And he did.

MARC IS ALL YOU WANTED

We knew.
So here.
Go.

With love.
Always.

MEANT IS ALL YOU NEED

DIGITAL TRACKLIST:
01 – MICROMAN (Original Mix)
02 – BREAKOUT (Original Mix)
03 – WALK SIGN IS ON (Original Mix)
04 – WAS IST DAS (Original Mix)

Listen to the EP : bfan.link/was-ist-das-1

Buy on Bandcamp

Marc Houle - Was ist Das (Original Mix)_MEANT030

PREMIERE: 4Moon Music - Jaley Ka [Tibetania Rituals]

Buy on Beatport
https://www.beatport.com/de/release/cosmic-roots/5382643

PREMIERE: 4Moon Music - Jaley Ka [Tibetania Rituals]

For our milestone 10th release, Brisbeats Records welcomes progressive house maestro Ewan Rill with a pair of uplifting originals. Mother River and Soul Strings radiate pure feel-good energy — hypnotic grooves, warm melodies, and an unmistakable flow built for the dancefloor. Adding their own magic, Richie Blacker delivers a euphoric, nostalgia-tinged remix primed for peak-time moments, while Brisboys push deeper with a rolling, underground rework that brings serious fire to the floor. An uplifting journey through melody, movement, and emotion — this release celebrates everything progressive house is meant to be.

Ewan Rill - Mother River (Original Mix) [Brisbeats Records}

My melodic deep house twist of the beautiful song Kibō by DRKTMS

DRKTMS - Kibō (Figo Remix)

Levon Vincent - Tubular Bells (James Groove's Back to Berlin Edit)

Bookings: jessica@blivemusic.art (Worldwide)
diana@provocateur-booking.de (Gsa)

An unequivocal industry visionary, DJ Hell's career has embodied and then transcended his many guises: Anti-Superstar DJ, International DeeJay Gigolo Label Boss, GQ Man of the Year, Playboy, Jetsetter, Bon Viveur, Munich Machine, New York Muscle. Seeing, and envisioning - that is of enormous relevance to Hell. He managed to convey pure artistic prowess as well as pure style during his thirty year DJ career. The individual look, the do-it-yourself approach, the elitism. That's how it grew.