Kollektiv Turmstrasse, one of the most successful German live acts in electronic music, is an influential presence in the global techno and house scene. With a compelling discography featuring releases on renowned labels like Kompakt, Diynamic, Cocoon, Fabric, and FFFR, his sound is deeply rooted in house music while also drawing inspiration from breakbeat, indie dance, techno, and even elements of hip-hop and modern pop. Turmstrasse is a complex, progressive and intriguing artist who focuses on the liberated space between driving house tracks and dancefloor anthems.

What is techno? Scientists and philosophers have long since pondered the concept of its musical definition since it burst out of Detroit in the mid-‘80s. Is it that notion of the “ghost in the machine”, of soul from electronics that its inventors elicited? Or is it more the repetitive throb and thump of 4/4 beats and slow-burning momentum that the Berghain generation are proponents of? Croatian producer Petar Dundov’s stunning music manages to marry both ideals in the most explosive of fashions.

To Dundov, “techno is music that precedes movement. It is dance music, solid enough to carry emotions through the dance floor and abstract enough to be a template for ever”. And indeed his breathtaking productions embody this ethos, serving the inherent function of making your body pulse spontaneously while also challenging your brain with its complex melodies and slow-burning, hypnotic progressions. It’s the antidote for anyone who thinks that techno is about senseless, dull looping.

Although maybe the word “techno” doesn’t give enough detail about his style, it’s probably the nearest ballpark to whose principles his music adheres – and he is keen to expand the horizons of what people know and expect of the genre. But it’s that sense of his tracks being alive, forever evolving and expanding and increasing in intensity, which gives his music its unique sound and has seen his work crossover into a myriad of different areas of the global electronic music scene. The last two years have seen his mind-bending single Oasis (played by everyone from Dubfire to Sasha to Ben Klock to Prins Thomas to Timo Maas) take the scene by storm with its intricate, ever-changing melodies, John Digweed snap him up for an epic rework of Alan Fitzpatrick’s Reflections, and Gregor Tresher squeeze a deep, mesmerising remix of his track The Life Wire out of him.

His music shows you that he’s a producer with more than churning out mindless, functional and dispensable drivel on his mind. There’s a philosophy entrenched in his productions that breathes the very spirit of life and dynamism into them: “My ultimate goal as a producer and musician is to bridge the world of inspiration and physical world to the extent where the listener wouldn't be able to distinguish between the two. Music has this unique property to communicate deep emotions that are inherently in all of us. We just forgot how to use them, and my search is an attempt to revive those emotions where we all resonate as one.”

Born in Zagreb in the early ‘70s, his career in dance music stretches back the best part of 20 years, but it’s only in the new millennium that he’s been using his own name for his productions. Over the years he’s graced many of the world’s most prestigious and best-loved techno institutions – including mega-festivals I Love Techno, EXIT, Awakenings and Wire, and cutting-edge clubs like Berghain, Matter (RIP), Womb, Air, Fuse and Space. He counts a longstanding relationship with Belgium’s legendary Music Man label amongst his achievements, an imprint that has also played host to releases by everyone from Jeff Mills (for whose label Tomorrow he created the Sculptures mini-LP) to Green Velvet to Robert Hood, and after completing his acclaimed debut album Escapements in 2008, he’s got the follow-up in the works (for completion by the end 2010).

Petar Dundov makes intelligent electronic music that breaks boundaries, moves feet and twists minds. He is without a doubt one of the most inspiring, original and daring producers in electronica, and with the likes of Sven Väth, Francois K, Laurent Garnier, Adam Beyer, Josh Wink, Guy J, Glimpse, Hernan Cattaneo, Brendan Moeller, and Danny Tenaglia amongst his fans, it would be hard to disagree.


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Heavily inspired by the synth based, melody-driven sound of the 80's, danish producer Sivesgaard has evolved his own sound, which often is difficult to categorize. Often melancholic, always melodic, his songs are created to immerse you and bring out your innermost feelings – as he tells it: “Music needs soul and all emotions; sadness, melancholy, euphoria, happiness and above all - purpose! Never make a song you don't feel - then it becomes artificial, a construct of wrong reasons.”

Releases (chronological order):

Sivesgaard - Inner Orbit (Original Mix) [Noir Music]
Sivesgaard - Inner Orbit (Moonbeam Remix) [Noir Music]
Sivesgaard - Inner Orbit (Noir Remix) [Noir Music]
Noir & Sivesgaard - Vitek (Original Mix) [Parquet Recordings]
Noir & Sivesgaard - Vitek (Rodriguez Jr. Remix) [Parquet Recordings]
Sivesgaard – Fomalhaut b (Original Mix) [Free Download]
Sivesgaard – Unorthodox (Original Remix) [Parquet Recordings]
Sivesgaard – Unorthodox (Oliver Schories Remix) [Parquet Recordings]
Sivesgaard – In the Night (Original Mix) [Eklektisch]
Sivesgaard – Be With You (Original Mix) [Eklektisch]
Sivesgaard – Pure Strings (Original Mix) [Eklektisch]
Sivesgaard – Heaven’s Fall (Original Mix) [Free Download]
Sivesgaard – In the Night (Blond:ish Remix) [Eklektisch]
Sivesgaard – In the Night (Hot Since 82 Remix) [Eklektisch]
Sivesgaard – In the Night (Viadrina Remix) [Eklektisch]
Sivesgaard – True Blue (Original Mix) [Free Download]
Sivesgaard – Half Dreaming (Original Mix) [Eklektisch]
Sivesgaard – Half Dreaming (Inxec Remix) [Eklektisch]
Sivesgaard – Half Dreaming (Pete Oak Remix) [Eklektisch]
Sivesgaard – Half Dreaming (Oliver Schories Remix) [Eklektisch]
Sivesgaard – Half Dreaming (Martin Dawson Remix) [Eklektisch] (free download)
Sivesgaard – Sunrise (Original Mix) [Free Download]
Sivesgaard – The Answer (Original Mix) [Free Download]


Remixes:

Terry Grant – Tigerskin (Sivesgaard’s B2R Remix) [Soul Sheep Music]
Deep Future – Black Cat (Sivesgaard Remix) [Espai]
Victor Berghmeister – Deep Disc [Nonlocal Records] (TBA)

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Jake Fairley aka Fairmont is an electronic music producer, live performer and DJ from Toronto, Canada. He began his career in the early 2000s making records under his own name for labels such as Kompakt, Sender and Cocoon. However, it was his 2005 smash-hit Gazebo under his Fairmont pseudonym that solidified him as a heavyweight in the global underground scene. Released on James Holden's Border Community label, Gazebo sold 20,000 vinyl copies and made Fairmont a household name. Since Gazebo Fairmont has released 2 albums and several EPs. Recent releases such as Carthage (MFRR 2016) Shadows Of Mine (Suara 2017) and Brothers Keeper (Bedrock 2018) have been big club hits, getting played by such DJs as Maceo Plex, John Digweed, Sasha, Dixon etc.

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Alexander Valentijn is Amsterdam based producer / DJ. After working intensively on his own sound, he took another road in electronic music. With a more mature sound and a personally renewed touch in house music, he created a deep and nostalgic sound. With two new EP's on the way and an enthousiastic feeling about playing parties he's looking forward to show the crowd what he's all about. 

Played in venues such as : studio80 | Studio/k | Chicago Social Club | Social Club (Paris) | 

14 july - Stoorzender / Club Home / Amsterdam.

20 july - Tripstream / Triphouse /
Rotterdam.

Worldwide: James Blonde james@sweatlodgeagency.com North & South America (exc Brazil): andrew@liaisonartists.com

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