We are a start-up label from Weimar in Thuringia/ Germany which has specialized in the releasing of House and Deep House music.
After long-standing experiences as DJs and producers in the area of electronic music we had to find out that in spite of the existence of a variety of different underground labels „something is missing“. With the foundation of „artflakes recordings" we want to offer another opportunity to present House and Deep House music as an accepted art form.
With „artflakes recordings" we would like to release not only music, but tracks with depth. We want no mediocrity, but prove that music from the "underground" can be professionally produced. Hence, it is important to us that „artflakes recordings" releases music that is honest and authentic, in other words, music that is "real”.
House and Deep House can feature different forms and styles. Therefore the tracks on our label should be very much different referring to expression and sound. Therefore, we don’t want to limit the label according to style.

I havent posted a track in a million years, but am actively still producing privately.  As a dubstep producer, I tend to aim for tracks that are somewhere between hard and gritty.  What I usually end up with, however, is something between gritty and chilled out.  Dubstep is not for everyone, and my personal flavor of dubstep is for even fewer people.    Music is not my career, but rather, a passionate hobby.  I know I will never be famous, and I do not care.  I do this for me.  I am my own biggest fan, and my own worst critic.  I have been making hip-hop beats casually for over a decade.  Then i  discovered Dubstep, and it was love at first listen.

I always have a bassline or a melody running through my head, and I make tracks as an outlet for that constant stream.  I also produce because the process moves me.  When I am producing, I am in another world.  Each track is born out of a particular mood or feeling, and when I listen to the tracks months or years later, I am drawn right back into the mood of that time, for better or worse.  I began putting my music online because I figured if I can move myself with my music, then perhaps it can also move somebody else.  I am thrilled to see so many people enjoying my music.

My current setup revolves around Ableton Live.   I use a Beringer 49-key keyboard and an Akai MPK Mini pad-keyboard.  I also own a Novation Launchpad (which admittedly gets little use.  Most drums are done on a Mashine Mk2. To create my basslines and synths,I mostly use NI Massive + Kontakt.    I have no formal training, and learned all I know by experimentation and online tutorial.

MUCERO, alias Thomas Gondi, was born and raised in Weimar, Germany. He sees his musical skills rooted in his own family. His father, who was himself a studio musician, influenced him since his early childhood. Therefore, it is no incident that he took a strong liking to synth sounds of the seventies and eighties. It was his father who introduced him to Jean Michel Jarre’s „Oxygene“. That moment and that very album reinforced his interest in electronic music – and keeps doing so to this day.

Bands like DAF, Der Plan, Die Krupps or Kraftwerk, who combine musical styles such as synth pop, electronic funk or Detroit techno, also had an influence on him. 

In the early nineties, electronic music manifested itself through media influence and radio channels such as “DT64“ or “HR3 Clubnight“. Depending on the show’s host, they played a broad range of danceable hip hop, rap, techno, trance or trip hop. “I wanted to play that same juicy mix”, says Mucero. Before long, a music scene was formed in his hometown which made it their business to organize initial shows – Mucero being among those pioneers. “We bought our first records and played them to a wide public”, says Mucero, now forty years of age, enthusingly.
There came a time when playing someone else’s records just wasn’t enough anymore – he had to produce and perform his own music. He traded his turntables for an Atari computer, a Cubase MIDI-sequencer and three of his father’s synthesizers and composed his first musical tracks. Composing and experimenting with sound with the aim of translating his own ideas into music is a desire still growing in him. 


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Can´t Stop Recordings
Postfach: 2351
D-99404 weimar
Germany

Mail: csrecordings@t-online.de
Web: csrecordings.de

Worldwide Bookings:
andre[@]kompakt.fm

Management: 
owyn[@]sidexside.management

FPS is a freelance programmer and musician based in Bielefeld, Germany.

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