Curating and sharing hidden gems & classics of the last 25 years of electronic dance music. 1 Track per week. 

This playlist is focused around year 2014.

Echoes of Electronica's Year 2014

Sunday 4:44pm

"Runs so deep it puts your butt to sleep", to paraphrase actor/musician Ice Cube in his seminal hit It Was a Good Day. And it is a good day for lovers of high-grade house music.

Szikra is Kornél Kovács at his most wistfully nostalgic. Ultra-smooth keys offset by noisy lo-fi breakbeats and vocals urging you to git fucked up, like Metro Area caught up... in smoke!

All the trademark sounds of the Barnhus massive are present - off-kilter playfulness paired with the cocky swagger of a south Stockholm roughneck and an infectious pop sensibility that lingers in your head long after the needle hits the inner groove.

The so-called Bónusz Beat is actually a track in its own right, sacrificing most of the hook and the vocals for a dubby smackdown ripe for adventurous dancefloors.

Young Stockholm producer Abdulla Rashim closes out the set with a perfectly horizontal techno groove, using only elements from the original production.

Szikra

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Sailor & I - Turn Around EP
Release date: 30.06.2014
Pre-order: https://itunes.apple.com/album/turn-around-ep/id885324375?l=en

Sailor & I are back with their latest productions for Life and Death. The two original tracks, while very different in moods, both share lush productions and a dramatic musical storytelling not often found in a typical dance release. While Boys & Girls offers a slowed-down mournful and yet beautiful nostalgic tale of childhood days gone by, Turn Around comes straight out of the gate like a racehorse on fire, flanked by strong strings and a vocal that pleads a case for love that comes straight from the heart. 

And of course rounding out the release is arguably one of the most anticipated tracks of the summer. Ever since it first started falling on people’s ears earlier this year, the Âme remix of “Turn Around” has been the high point of sets by Tale of Us, Dixon, Mano Le Tough as well as the few select others that have had their hands on it up until this point. It’s been giving goosebumps to club goers everywhere and with good reason — this is Âme at their finest, taking the song and extending it into an epic masterpiece that works wonders on a dancefloor while never losing the bewitching essence of the original.

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Sailor & I - Turn Around (Âme Remix)

No Distance

No Distance - Guy Gerber & Dixon

🗓️ Released in 2014 
🎹 Soundbed feat. Jenny Lovelein | Turnaround | Pezzner's 15 Watt Vocal Mix
©️ MEME Sounds

Minneapolis label MEME Sounds released 'Turnaround' with an incredible Pezzner Remix. His Vocal mix comes with filthy guitar riffs, heavily delayed vocal chops and enough fx fills to rival a progressive house track. His amazing work on the main vocal sends chills down our backs, if you don’t believe, listen for yourself.

Turnaround

Soundbed feat. Jenny Lovelein | Turnaround | Pezzner's 15 Watt Vocal Mix

Dem Howl - Feat. Troels Abrahamsen (KOM314)

Released - Nov 3rd on Kompakt Records
Buy Vinyl: www.kompakt.fm/releases/dem_howl…troels_abrahamsen

Since its first outing in 2004, Matthew Dear’s AUDION
guise has predominantly acted as a darker, edgier
commentary to the pop-infused house concoctions to
be found under the producer’s birth name. A twisted
reflection of sorts, it contemplated electronic music
through the lens of grime-flecked techno and sinewy
funk - resulting in relentless floor-fillers like the aptly
named “Kisses”, “Just Fucking” or “Mouth To Mouth”.
Compared to the itchy momentum and carnal damp of
these freak classics, the sophisticated elegance of new
offering DEM HOWL is rather unexpected: chaperoned
by the emotionally charged timbre of TROELS
ABRAHAMSEN’s vocals - first introduced to Kompakt’s
vocabulary via Kölsch’s “All That Matters” -, this cut
steers away from the battle-scarred body music of yore
and towards the more introspective moments on the
dance floor - without sacrificing one iota of the
precisely engineered groove machinery that is Audion.
“This song was a product of the modern age we live in”,
says Matthew Dear about DEM HOWL’s genesis: ”I heard
a song with Troels singing on it and immediately fell in love
with his voice. I found him online and directly messaged
him about collaborating. He happily agreed and I sent him
the instrumental - he promptly came up with the lyrics and
melody and sent them back to me. A few days after that, I
had the song complete and ready to go. All in all, it took
about a week from the idea to a fully-fledged new piece of
music.” However, the straightforward production does not
keep the track from incubating his own mysteries - deeply
steeped in melancholia, it displays theurgic qualities and
seamlessly transitions from emotional to somatic urgency
without batting so much as an eyelash. Gripping remixes
come from Kompakt head MICHAEL MAYER and Dutch
maestro JORIS VOORN (digital only) who cater to the
enthusiasts of evocative bells and homeric synth pads -
beautiful mood pieces just as immersive and timeless as
the original.

05 Audion - Dem Howl Feat Troels Abrahamsen - Joris Voorn Mix

🗓️ (Un-)Released in 2014 
🎹 Dan Croll | From Nowhere | Âme Remix
©️ Unreleased

Âme's remix of Dan Croll’s ‘From Nowhere’, hotly tipped to be one of the stand out tracks in Ibiza during 2014. “Every now then I Lose My Mind” and thats exactly what the clubbers were (and will be) doing when they hear this track.

However, with numerous rips circulating the internet (including this one), none delivering sound quality sufficient enough to be played on a proper club system. Âme’s remix of ‘From Nowhere’ by Dan Croll is an elusive unreleased track. It probably will never be released, as apparently Dan Croll’s management and the label decided not to include it on the EP.

Dan Croll - From Nowhere (Âme Remix)

Next on our TAU Cast series, we are graced by label heads Adana Twins alongside TAU's dear friend Upercent, for a very special B2B mix....ahead of their upcoming Falling EP releasing next week on March 29th! Dont miss out!

@adanatwins @upercent

TAU Cast 057 | Adana Twins B2B Upercent

out now digitally:
Itunes: http://smarturl.it/caribouc2itunes
Beatport: http://smarturl.it/caribouc2beatport
Bleep: http://smarturl.it/caribouc2bleep

Available on 12" very soon

Remix and Extras by Carl Craig for Planet E Comm. Inc Detroit.
Engineered by Carl Craig at Beast Labs.

Photograph by Jason Evans.

Itunes

Your Love Will Set You Free (c2's Set U Free RMX)

Matthew Dekay - Fangtango

Jesse Bru - Roach Fingers

Artist: Isolée
Label: Maeve
Title : Mangroove 
Catalogue : Maeve 10
Format: Vinyl, digital
Release date: 
Digital: 20/01/2017
Vinyl:   20/01/2017


Isolée’s Arrival

When three people run a label together it is exceptionally rare to find a positive unified opinion of a record upon first listen. When Isolée sent his "Mangroove" EP to Maeve, this was in fact what happened. But it is Isolée after all....

Mangroove came about last summer when The Drifter happened to catch Isolée's live set at a festival in Switzerland. Instantly blown away by the A side "Pisco" he was determined to find out what it was and if it was to be released. After chatting, Isolée suggested that he would send "Pisco" along with a couple of other "demos" to Maeve and a few days later the EP was happening.

Isolée has created some of the most important and beautiful records of our generation and has being a huge influence on what we do, thus we are incredibly excited and humbled to release his work.

This three track EP shows several different sides of the Frankfurt native, from the A-side dance floor catalyst that is "Pisco" to the deeper dubbier B-sides of "L5 Syndrome" and "Mangrove". This is the perfect record to mark our tenth release. 

Track list Vinyl / Digital :

A. Pisco
B1. L5 Syndrome
B2. Mangrove

A - Isolée - Pisco

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Dan Croll - From Nowhere (Âme Remix)

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