Sounds like Dub Taylor, feels like Dub Taylor and provides the pleasure expecting Dub Taylor to deliver. SOOOOOO lovely!

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Harry Wolfman | Sly Contrast EP | Dirt Crew Recordings
https://soundcloud.com/harrywolfman

Cat No. : DIRT130
Release : 09.04.2021
Format : Vinyl & Digital

Track list:
A1 A21z
A2 Walk With Me
A3 Courage ft. Mona Vale
B1 Sly Contrast
B2 Fhloston Paradise 
B3 Workit Shep

Info:
Harry Wolfman has been a staple member of the Dirt Crew family since his debut collaboration with Loz Goddard in 2016. We’ve since seen considerable growth with EPs on Phonica’s “Karakul”, “Omena” and “Outplay” all lending a hand to the development of his signature sound into its now established lo-fi style, delving into a range of genres... ethereal ambience, electro and left-field rhythms, and of course deep, often break beat laden house grooves.

This new EP is no exception, Harry drops some irresistible dance tunes with “Walk With Me” and the banging title track “Sly Contrast” but also explores the boundaries of his palette with the vocal interludes “A21z” and the majestic “Courage” featuring the voice of “Mona Vale”, dipping a toe into the floaty world of lo-fi pop.

We also find ambient and Jazz elements cleverly combined in “Fhloston Paradise”. And the closing drum break joint “Wokit Shep” loops live drums, strings, piano and brass elements, twirling towards a majestic finale reminiscing dusty jazzy Trip Hop and instrumental Hip Hop pieces.

This record offers hope for better times... we are really glad to have Harry back with these strong tunes and can’t wait to hear these out again on a juicy sound system. Enjoy!

Sly Contrast EP

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Harry Wolfman | Fhloston Paradise | Dirt Crew Recordings

The second Vivacity music podcast is taken over by DJ Javas, our friend and longtime house hero. Well you know what to expect, warm deep & funky house grooves with spiced by nudisco feel.

Tracklist:
01. Athlete Whippet – Fanfa – Toy Tonics
02. Last Nubian – Share Your Path – Flat White
03. Sisto, Jack District – Belive In Jazz – Love & Loops
04. HATT.D – Somewhere – glbdom
05. Ruff Stuff – Self Reflection – Shall Not Fade
06. Andy Compton – Music Is Life – Peng
07. Golden Dawn Orchestra – Cosmic Dancer (JKriv remix) – Razor-N-Tape 
08. Bassik Grooove – Day By Day – Buslife
09. Ricky Razu – Break Up – Happiness Therapy
10. Sticky Boyz – Sundown Serenade – Bizarre Trax
11. Calmos & Berzingue – Java – Pont Neuf
12. Javas – Space Race (Cubik W-arped remix) – Vivacity Music
13. Jovonn – Pianos Of Gold (Ian Pooley mix) – Royal Oak

https://soundcloud.com/javas
https://www.facebook.com/djjavascz

Vivacity Podcast 002 with DJ Javas

Burger Steak | BS-02

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01 - Krypton8
02 - Krypton87

Burger Steak is back with his second ever release for us. The BS-Style can be best described as a suspenseful blend of slowed down DnB, Electro and jazzy early 70s movie soundtracks. Krypton8 is the darker tune here with Sci-fi pads and mysterious bleeps and noises. Krypton87 almost has a song structure with distorted lyrics on top (if you can make out what they say, the drinks are on us), mandolin (sic!), brass instruments and flutes and its overall vibe remind us a bit of early Yello recordings. We hope you enjoy these two beautiful pieces as much as we do. 

All tracks mixed by Stefan Janson and mastered by Salz Mastering.

BS-02

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Burger Steak | Krypton87 | Forms & Figures

ZACHARIAS
https://soundcloud.com/zachariasmusic

Cover photo by
https://soundcloud.com/yannicklabbe

Mastering by Lootbeg

Zacharias - Rebooting Systems EP [afin52]

Shura | Recreated Silence | Forms & Figures

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01 - Alone (Instrumental)
02 - Snowdrops
03 - Room in a Room
04 - Heaven
05 - Shellac
06 - Alone (Dub Taylor Mix)
07 - Busta Thromp
08 - Brightness

"Recreated Silence" was originally intended to be Dub Taylor’s second album. Since Alex Krüger had just released his Dub Techno debut, the "Forms And Figures" album on Raum…musik in early 2001 and another LP "Detect" was already planned to be released in autumn that same year via Forcetracks, seven of the album tracks had been put out under the Shura moniker on the "3b" Label in summer 2001. It often happens that an unfamiliar name gets overlooked even though it most likely would have reached a wider audience with a bigger name on it. So unfortunately this happened here too. While the two Dub Taylor albums both became genre classics for many in the Dub House/Dub Techno field, though the tracks of the double vinyl were un-mistakenly unique Dub Taylor trademark beauties of that era, the Shura album stayed completely under the radar.
 
What fascinates us the most is, how much "Recreated Silence" is the perfect connection between "Forms And Figures" and "Detect". There's the more dirty, atmospheric and experimental approach of the debut paired with the tools, loops and the minimalism of the Forcetracks LP. If you ask the man himself, he'll tell you that even after twenty years this still is his favourite of the three Dub Taylor albums in 2001. There was also a fourth, yet unreleased album, recorded in 2001 that goes beyond the Detect-vibe. But that’s a different story and very likely to be released here in the future.
 
For the reissue we've chosen to swap the original vocal version of "Alone" with its formerly unreleased instrumental mix. The Recreated Silence sessions also included three more unknown tracks of which we felt the spooky ambient tune "Shellac" to blend in perfectly with the other seven tunes from the original "3b" release.
 
So here it is again, freshly remastered, dubby, dirty and for the first time available digital. We really hope you like it as much as we do.
 
All tracks are remastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Recreated Silence

Shura | Heaven | Forms & Figures

Shura Alone | Alone (Dub Taylor Mix) | Forms & Figures

Tigerskin | Playgrounds Ep | Forms & Figures

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01 - Pink Zebra
02 - Hirokos Riddim
03 - Melancoholic
04 - 33 Travellers

With his new EP, Alex Krüger aka Tigerskin continues his journey through wild, versatile and groovy Caribbean moods and beyond pure club functionality. Pink Zebra and Melancoholic both transport proper island vibes with a wink yet are still undoubtful Tigerskin trademark productions. Hirokos Riddim is a wet-sounding homage to the ‘Sleng Teng Riddim,’ a preset groove found in a certain trashy Japanese keyboard of the early 80s that accidentally lead to the invention of Dancehall Music by King Jammy and Wayne Smith in the mid 80s. The EP closes with the majestic rock-ish 33 Travellers, a tune based on a groove of another model of japanese trash keyboards that Alex distorted and recorded through grannies old tube radio when he was a teenager. Positive vibes for y'all! 

All tracks mixed by Stefan Janson and mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Playgrounds EP

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Tigerskin | 33 Travellers | Forms & Figures

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Number six in our Break 3000 revisited classics series looks back at the pre Dirt Crew era in Cologne between 2002 and 2005. When he first made contact with the Traum and Trapez network by visiting the Kompakt record store frequently. In this period Break 3000 made a switch from pure Electro to Techno and House and crafted a unique style that can't be put in a box really, it's a mix of Trance, Techno, Electro, Rave, what later would be stamped "Electro House" by some.

The first track "Flash" was released on MBF in 2005, a sub label by Traum Schallplatten and was picked up by many DJ's back than and created a real buzz for it's Epic sound and lenght .. a real trip! The second track "Fix" was written in the same session and is filled with the love for early 90s rave records, hence the vocal samples! This track was released on his first solo EP on Dirt Crew Recordings back in 2005. 

All tracks were mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Flash / Fix

Break 3000 | Flash | Electron Feel

jonesyy - Beg of You

https://worldvolume.bandcamp.com/album/exotic-manifold

EXOTIC MANIFOLD

Patchy

Coracao Mix

"Forms & Figures" will release restored and remastered classic, lost and new music by Alexander Krueger aka Dub Taylor aka Tigerskin aka Korsakow and friends.
Contact : licensing@dirtcrew.net

Shura Alone | Alone (Dub Taylor Mix) | Forms & Figures

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