Listened to this yesterday for the 1st time at @donotsit. Loving it <3 @surrealflight

feat Abrão

https://soundcloud.com/switchdance
https://soundcloud.com/rinalive
https://soundcloud.com/avilev
https://soundcloud.com/durolabel
🛒 https://durolabel.com/album/baba-music-vol-i-jonathan-kusuma-remixes
🔊 https://youtu.be/9-6qV0v_A8o

Duro is honored to present the birth of the “Baba” brotherhood. During the last pandemic year, Rina traveled from Tel Aviv to Portugal, where he met Switchdance. After some trips around the beautiful city of Lisbon, plates and plates of hummus and samosa, a visit to pick up raspberries at a field that used to be a medicinal cannabis farm and lots of hours in Switchdance's studio, 'Baba Music Vol. 1' was alive.

The journey initiates with "Reak" or "empty" in Hebrew; the cut refers to a state of consciousness where there is nothing in the brain. Playful percussion, acid basslines mixed with digitally distorted synthesizers create the sensation of breaking out reality, an experience blended with algorithms, binary codes and atomized sounds where it is hard to distinguish the realness. A roar to all the Babas around the world to gather on the dance floor.

Next comes the Hebrew version of "Give Way",a cut that narrates the moment when you are in a high state of mind and try to describe the process to get back to reality. On this first version Rina takes control of the vocals. It’s followed by the Portuguese version where the duo worked with vocalist Abrão. An alternative version with deep and resonant bass, a synthesized voice, electric and acid melodies, and distant pads run through the space.

To consummate the brotherhood with an embellishment, master Jonathan Kusama came up with two versions of "Give Way". The first one is an energetic cut with a flickering and harsh bass, mixed with mind-bending and unhinged synthesizers. For the second version Kusama brings up a futuristic and dystopian dub masterpiece, with distorted bass lines, shady vocals and liquid percussion.

Tracklist: 

Reak (Original Mix)
Give Way (Original Mix)
Give Way (feat. Abrão)
Give Way (Jonathan Kusuma Remix)
Give Way (Jonathan Kusuma Dub Mix)

Baba Music Vol. I

Give Way (feat. Abrão)

PREMIERE: Switchdance + Rina - Give Way (feat. Abrão) [Duro Label]

Kadosh & Johannes Albert  - Sandcastles (Ft. Abrão)

Ewan Pearson remix of last year hit 'Space Me Out' by Downtown Party Network and Egle Sirvydyte. Will be avaible via Silence Music.

Downtown Party Network ft. Egle Sirvydyte - Space Me Out (Ewan Pearson remix)

Opening with an irresistible beat and percussion samples along with warm analog synths on lead and bassline duties, this is a track indebted to afrojazz with an unmistakable house feeling but in Red Axes’ trademark style of course, enhanced by Abraõ, the lush portuguese crooner heard on several of the duo's previous productions for I'm a Cliché.

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Red Axes - Balma (ft. Abrão)

coffee-n-cookies (mirojam version)

I Start To Wonder

Israel’s hottest export follow up excellent EPs on Hivern and I’m A Cliché with a 3-tracker for the global psychedelic cult of Multi Culti.

Tel Aviv’s Red Axes are one of the most exciting new acts in dance music, with rich sound that is musical, deep, trippy and organic, while remaining precise and lethally effective in the club. The range in their sound is impressive, their talent unmistakeable. They are one of our favourite artists of the year, and this latest record is one of their best yet.

Lead track 'Waiting for a Surprise’ builds around a mid-tempo disco bassline, with tough percussion, and rugged synth stabs, but it’s the eerie and unique sounding vocals of Brazilian collaborator Abrao that bring everything together. This one is a guaranteed bomb for building up, tearing down, peak time or chilling out… an outstanding track in every sense, the kind that force trainspotters to the DJ booth to discover what’s playing. Next up, ‘Hope’ kicks off with resonant, delayed toms, adding a haunting howl and synths before dropping into a wild, clanging, carnivalesque frenzy. It’s understated, but advanced, with an interesting arrangement that really opens up in the second half. Finally, 'The Metal Bender’ slows the tempo but ups the vibe into an elated, slow-burning space-disco anthem. Fantastic stuff!

Melbourne’s Kris Baha, fresh from launching his Power Station imprint, offers a stripped down remix of ‘Waiting for a Surprise,’ with a heavy, industrial-influenced groove that wanders into the deep, dark end of party strasse.

Red Axes - Waiting For A Surprise

PREMIERE: Red Axes 'Sabor Feat Abrao'

Flash / Pachanga boys remix

Browsers & Sisters (Dombrance Mix)

Red Axes - Caminho De Dreyfus

J.M.F. is a joint venture consisting of Dresden’s Jacob Korn and Leipzig’s Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt. Together they howled with the coyotes deep down in the notorious uncanny valley and created two sparkling tracks “Philipp Dolphia“ and “At The Ranch“. 

Jacob Mikesh Filburt - Philipp Dolphia

Union Match's third release: Compuphonic - Sequoia Remixes. With remixes by Glimpse & Lee Jones.

Compuphonic - Sequoia (Lee Jones Remix)

D.B. - GLORYHOLE (KR002)

Nhar - Innerplace

At the beginning of last year I went to listen and see Isolée during his live act in Lausanne. He started that night with a really amazing tune - something so full of love and harmony, something that is definitely rare at the moment.

One week later that song was still in my mind and so I asked Rajko what it was, to which he answered: "I did a soundtrack for a skateboard movie and the track I started my live set with is a draft of it." I asked him to make me an edit to be played in my set. I’ve been playing "Dennis" for the past year in all my sets around the world and always receive a fantastic reaction from the smiling crowd.

One year later this special song called "Dennis" is ready to be played by you and the world and I'm really proud and excited to start "Xtra Tamed" with such a masterpiece! I asked one of my best friends and one of the most talented producers around, Baïkal (from Maeve and Innervisions), to work on the remix and trust me when I say that this rework has a similarly funny but long story as the original cut! Isolée vs Baikal sounds like a match made in heaven, don't ya think?

Maybe one day I'll release a book about all these genius making-of stories but for now, it’s all about the music and emotions. The mastering was carefully done by Hans at Deinklang. You can also check out the skate video mentioned above here: http://rollenaller.de/#

Ripperton, April 2013

Written and produced by Rajko Muller
Promotion by Tailored Communication
Distributed by Clone.nl

a1 - Isolée "Dennis" (original 12" mix)  soundcloud edit

• Abrão Levin •
Musician born in Brazil 1963, 
at the 80's Guitar & Vocals with the band Kafka, Jardin das Delícias, CPSP. 
In the 90's form the group Abraham & The Lincolns... 
Vocal performer with the Red axes, 
Music Producer at AvalonStudio®.
Singer & Songwriter 
Abrão

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PREMIERE: Red Axes 'Sabor Feat Abrao'

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