Don`t Disturb Björn

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Release date
16 October 2025

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DIAMOND

ZKR 02
THE LEGENDARY LIGHTNESS - HEY RON (REMIXES BY FRANK WIEDEMANN (ÂME) + KEJEBLOS

Digital release: 12th of October 2015
Vinyl release: 5th of October 2015
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ZKR 2 - The Legendary Lightness - Hey Ron Remixes by Frank Wiedemann + Kejeblos Snippets

Altocamet - Pasion Descalza (Swayzak's Vocal Mix 2)

It’s not everyday that pianist and composer, Francesco Tristano, joins forces with one of the Belleville Three — the godfathers of Detroit techno — and yet, anyone who’s followed the Luxembourg artist will know that expectation is not a currency he deals in. 

Set for release on Transmat, the groundbreaking label from said techno pioneer, Derrick May, Surface Tension is not just the latest album from the prolific Tristano, but perhaps the most significant in his ongoing explorations into electronic music. Described by the man himself as his “most techno and synth-based project yet,” the eight-track effort is both a celebration of electronic instrumentation and the first record May has worked extensively on for the better part of two decades. “I had to lure him into my studio,” Tristano says of May with a smile, “he was like Alice in Wonderland when he saw the synthesizers.”

Originally developed as a way create new material for Tristano’s p:anorig project — a unique live set-up debuted at Barcelona’s Sónar festival earlier this year, which finds the artist surrounded by large array of keyboards, synthesizers and other equipment (although ironically, no piano) in full view of the audience — Surface Tension grew into a project in its own right. Now 34 years old, Tristano explains that he is only now at a time in his life where he has a studio he can truly call his own. “I can hook up all these synthesizers that I’ve picked up over the years,” he continues, “it’s the fulfillment of that.” With an instrumentarium of analogue, digital, classic and modern gear — ranging from Prophets to Moogs, to Rolands and Yamahas — at his and May’s disposal, Tristano has aimed to keep processing to a minimum from the word go. The pair aren’t just using these synths, they’re paying tribute to them, honoring the rich, recognisable sound palettes that have made them household names.

The result is an album that feels, at once, nostalgic and fresh; that feels like an old friend, but one who never ceases to surprise. From the ambient vision of ‘Esoteric Thing’, drifting along to the sound of birdsong, to more beat-centric pieces such as ‘The Mentor’ and the quirky ‘Xokolade’ , the equipment, and the love it’s been treated with, shines through. Both Tristano and May’s individual presences are obvious too, yet work in a way so complimentary to each other as to blur the lines at which they cross. ‘Pacific FM’ is a lesson in uplifting techno, keys fluttering over padfoot bass; the futuristic Detroit dance of ‘In Da Minor’ is undercut by eerie, unpredictable glass synth-work; ‘Rocco's Bounce’ is free-form jazz tugged into line by structured four-to-the-floor; there’s even an itchy, jittering, Decca Records-sanctioned remix of Japanese pianist and general Renaissance man, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s classic ‘Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence’.

Those hoping for a Francesco Tristano piano album: be duly warned. “The piano is there, but it’s more like the shadow of the piano. We don’t have the mass of that sound, it’s more like the reminiscence of that sound,” says Tristano. But it’s this which gives Surface Tension the aforementioned significance. Tristano hasn’t abandoned his roots — they’re deep, but there, for those who wish to find them — yet has simultaneously transcended what it means to be a pianist in the 21st century. Tristano and May have brought together old and new, within themselves and on a wider musical level, and in doing so, rekindled the spirit of futurist expression that techno was first founded on all those years ago.

Francesco Tristano Feat. Derrick May - The Mentor(Snippet)

Kiani & His Legion - Lima Oscar Victor Echo - Mini Album

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Tracklist:
A1 I Can Take You There (If You Let Me Take You)(7:31)
A2 Eindeloos (6:01)
B1 Oval Flight (7:34)
B2 If You Remember Me, Then I Don’t Care If Everyone Else Forgets (3:44)
B3 L.O.V.E. (5:42)
L’Illusiothèque (digital only) (6:45)
Eindelozer (digital only) (18:03)

Something Happening Somewhere 
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Artist: Kiani & His Legion
@thomasneyens
Title: Lima Oscar Victor Echo - Mini Album
 cat nr.: SoHaSo 011 2
12” vinyl (limited to 300 copies)(05-05-2017) 
Digital: (12-05-2017)
  Artwork: Wilbert Leering & Veelbomen
 Distribution: Kompakt

Language is a tricky thing. It’s possible to convey the most beautiful and heartfelt experiences with just a few words but meanings can be lost in translation. Language itself being just a symbol pointing to the actual thing, like fingers pointing to the moon it’s key not to mistake the finger for the actual moon. If you do you might miss all the heavenly glory the finger is pointing to. The map is not the territory.
Kiani & His Legion is back on SoHaSo with the next chapter in his sonic explorations. A mini-album that’s more than the sum of it parts, drawing you in with a story worth to be told. Using a language that doesn’t need to be explained trough words, the symbols merge with their meaning through sound.

The story commences with a female voice whispering gently to you to ‘close your eyes and fly’ and while making your journey don’t forget to ‘breath’. You get introduced to the sturdy drum patterns and eerie string pads that have become main ingredients for Kiani’s soundworld. Eindeloos takes an irresistible groove and badass walking bass winding up between endless flanging spirals.

Oval Flight starts out with the cheeky sound of an electric harp but inside it hides a seed that sprouts to enormous proportions. Beneath the beauty you can feel something sweltering, wanting to expose itself. It links back to the beginning and finally lifts you off with a grand gesture. If You Remember Me Then I Don’t Care If Everyone Else Forgets, uses haunting atmospheres that remind of 80’s science fiction or the eerie vibes found in Twin Peaks to provide safe landing ground beneath the feet after your flight.

L.O.V.E. forms an appropriate conclusion to the story, reflecting with a melancholic chord progression, soul healing choirs and the phonetic symbols ‘Lima, Oscar, Victor, Echo’ repeating till infinity.

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Theo Kottis - Misunderstood (Lauer Remix)

Artist: Dave DK
Title: Ahh, So So 
Label: EKORD
Cat: EK023
Genre: Deep House
Release Date: 17/07/2020
Buy Link: www.beatport.com/release/ahh-so-so/3007934

'Ahh So So' is a warm and laidback summer tune and was composed during the last time Dave DK toured Mexico. The artist is known for his very strong activism against animal abuse and consumption and this EP is dedicated to all suffering animals in farms and cages who will only see the daylight on their way to the slaughterhouse.

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Curator:
Enrico Cherbino

Artwork:
Kaio Batista

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Francesco Tristano Feat. Derrick May - The Mentor(Snippet)

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