Rebolledo meets Kasper Bjørke... It couldn´t be better. Just great! :) Peace!

Salut everybody... after 4 years of hiding in the shadows with a label emphasis on letting the music speak for itself and only unveiling artist names two months after release date we can now pull back the velvet curtain to reveal the two people behind Cod3 QR. Both deliver a track each on the label’s 10th release... ladies and gentleman... Cod3 QR is Laurent Garnier and Scan X.
After much speculation, the cat is finally out of the bag. Laurent is of course one of the greatest techno artists on the planet, having rocked every club and festival many times over. Whilst his legendary status has been catalogued recently both in words (the book ‘Electrochock’) and this year’s documentary film ‘Off The Record’ he remains as ever dedicated to the music first and foremost.
Laurent’s partner in crime, Stéphane Dri a.k.a. Scan X is one of the original pioneers of the French techno scene. His career began in 1993 when he released his first two EPs on FNAC MUSIC before signing to the now legendary F Communications run by Eric Morand and a certain Mnsr. Garnier.
Leading by example they have both contributed to the label’s tenth release. Laurent’s slice of dancefloor techno on ‘How d'ya like your Beef’ is as funky and emotional as we have come to expect from France’s electronic ambassador. While Scan X’s ‘Internal’ drags us into the murky depths with piercing sonar like stabs showing the way. The EP is rounded off by Italian producers Speaking Minds & Amarcord collaborating on the deeper rolling sonics of ‘Poliritmo’ whilst finally we head to Uruguay with the exquisite, string-laden techno funk of Diego Infanzon’s ‘Bye Bye’. A stunning conclusion.

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Speaking Minds & Amarcord - Poliritmo [COD3QR010]

Exclusive: Superpitcher - Lush Life feat. Fantastic Twins

He’s back. He’s back with some lush music. He’s back with his Lush Life single. Aksel Schaufler alias Superpitcher, a Kompakt mainstay, the co-label head of Hippie Dance, one part of the Pachanga Boys and known as the ambassador of the golden rave days, debuts on the Live At Robert Johnson label with a two tracker as golden as the twelve ravey chapters he’s put out on his own label. Lush Life, the EP’s eponymous track, features French-Berliner Fantastic Twins’ for the vocals, and comes in as Superpitcher-esque on the one hand and quite different on the other. The almost ten minute lasting track is probably a typical Superpitcher feature, what is new though, is the selection of sounds and the result in general. Aksel created an utterly atmospheric take, which flows by as fast as the rave-days, and takes its listeners back to the days when Francois K delivered dubby House music takes per excellence, just like Superpitcher does now himself. Peaceful almost spiritual and endearing are traits that describe the emotional components the track evokes in its listeners with a Julienne Dessagne, Fantastic Twins real name, delivering those charming vocals that hunt you through the night and over the floors.

Superpitcher's single Lush Life will be released on Live At Robert Johnson on February 18th, 2022.

Buy the EP: https://liveatrobertjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/lush-life

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Superpitcher: https://facebook.com/The-Golden-Rave-Days-Superpicther-148065942492317 // @superpitcher_official // https://instagram.com/thegoldenravedays
Fantastic Twins: https://facebook.com/thetrulyfantastictwins // @fantastictwins // https://instagram.com/trulyfantastictwins
Ata Macias: @atamacias
Horkheimer: https://instagram.com/_horkheimer
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It’s common knowledge that KOMPAKT’s TOTAL series serves as our yearbook, a musical wrap up of the past 12 months. Therefore it doesn’t come as a surprise that this year’s edition is informed by another pandemic year, where dancefloors were still mostly deserted and the devastating developments in Eastern Europe. Kompakt’s A&R team still kept on foot on the imaginary dancefloor, while scouting different realms apart from the big room euphoria. Anyway, brain dance has always been a key ingredient to our catalogue.

The Voigt brothers are opening this year´s vinyl edition in an unusually romantic fashion. ‘Why’ combines a bubbly FM bassline with lush washes of looped guitars. High off the (presumably high) heels of her recent album ‘Jesus Was An Alien’ she delivers a spanking new excursion into her sonic world, ‘The Hill’. Our Mexican friend Rebolledo makes his first ever solo appearance on TOTAL with his trademark hypnotic desert sound. Jürgen Paape is calling a spade a spade with ‘Le Monde À Changé’ – The world has changed indeed. Our prodigal son, Matias Aguayo, returns to the mothership with ‘Cinco Y Rojo’. An exercise in Chicago-esque groove theory paired with a cheeky visitor from Denmark. Spot the reference and win a pair of hooves. It’s hard to find a quality party around Cologne without Jonathan Kaspar on its bill. Rightly so, as he continues to hone his craft as an impeccable DJ and producer. Michael gives the tremendously talented Danish singer songwriter eee gee a proper Mayer treatment and Kompakt founding member Jörg Burger closes off the festivities with a groovy midtempo chugger that reminisces ‘Blue Lines’ era Massive Attack as much as the late Andy Weatheralls low slung psychedelia.

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Rebolledo - The Sharper Image

'‘Dont Worry Psy Happy’ is the 2nd release and namesake single from Sebra Cruz’s album. While the first single ‘Margaret’ was defined by classic Italian cinematic samples, this single doesn’t have any but a driving live bass guitar and four analog monophonic oscillators alternating open gates and cascade synth sequences. ‘Don't Worry Psy Happy’ is a tribute to psychedelic disco without sticking to classic formulas.

Don't Worry Psy Happy - Sebra Cruz

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The debut solo LP from TERR, ‘Consciousness As A State Of Matter’ arrives digitally on Phantasy following an enviable run of singles that have transported the music of Daniela Cadellas onto an increasingly rare diversity of dancefloors.

Across eleven tracks, TERR continues a long, fulfilling journey in electronic music with a visceral, vulnerable full-length statement that alchemizes a delicate chemistry between the catharsis of the dancefloor and the ever-renewing promise of pop.

Consciousness As A State Of Matter

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Tale Of Devotion (Sunny Version)

Remix for The Draughtsman on Tim Paris' Marketing Music.

Codicil (Roman Fluegel Remix)- The Draughtsman (snippet)

“To me, remixing is about honouring the original composition by deconstructing it and adding new ideas from my own sound universe, and in that sense create something entirely new.“

Kasper Bjørke is no stranger to the art of the remix, having amassed a prodigious back catalogue over the past half decade. However, unlike so many other artists driven to churn out versions to keep their name in the limelight, one gets the sense that the young Dane has a quality control mechanism that elevates each mix he puts his name to – and a crucially deft ear for the artists he invites to rework his own compositions.

It’s with that in mind that hfn music proudly presents Remix Crusades (2007 – 2013) – a timely reminder that remixes can offer committed artists the creative platform to produce some of their most inventive work. Split evenly down the middle, half of this release focuses on remixes of Kasper Bjørke tracks over the past 5 years (including tracks of his 2012 album release ‘Fool’), with the second half a treasure trove of remixes he made for other artists.

Available in one place for the first time, the collection (which also contains a couple of exclusive unreleased tracks), is a perfect summation of the Bjørke’s disco-fied house music style, and a great opportunity for the non-DJs to catch up with his exceptionally high output over the last few years.

The list of artists lining up to re-interpret his original compositions is mouth-watering to say the least – from US sensations Nicolas Jaar, Still Going and Slow Hands, to the cream of European club land – rising stars Mano le Tough, Maxxi Soundsystem and Catz’n Dogz, underground flag-bearers Wareika, and fellow countrymen Trentemøller, WhoMadeWho and Kenton Slash Demon.

When Bjørke himself is at the controls, the results are no less devastating. Bjørke describes the process thus, “a remix portfolio becomes a sort of production diary that can go hand in hand with my own original material. It reflects my influences of the time I worked on the remix – and sometimes you can hear sounds and ideas in the remixes that have affected compositions on my own singes and albums.”

As evidence of this, witness the outstanding work he produces for the likes of Michoacan, Trentemøller, Ilya Santana, Moby, Gluteus Maximus, Human Woman and many more. His talent for deconstructing wildly disparate styles and pulling together tracks that are definitively by the hand of Kasper Bjørke, is clear to see.

iTunes customers will also be blessed with the chance to snatch up two unreleased tracks – made up of Bjørke reworks for GusGus and Danish legends Laid Back - and an exclusive pre-release remix of Cómeme´s hot property Rebolledo.

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Rebolledo - Positivisimo feat. Raquel Wolff (Kasper Bjørke Remix)

Exclusive: Alan Dixon - Edge Of Forever (Prins Thomas Diskomiks ft. Bugge Wesseltoft)

After its annual summer break Correspodant around label-head Jennifer Cardini is back and starts the new season with a four tracker from Alan Dixon. His Edge of Forever EP comes with three originals and a Diskomiks from the maestro of the genre Prins Thomas ft. Bugge Wesseltoft for the title track. The rework from Thomas M. Hermansen, Prins Thomas' real name, and pianist Bugge Wesseltoft is a groovey homage to summer season, to a better time, to hope and freedom, to music and the joy and the lust of life it evokes in people. Dramatically perfectly arranged the Diskomiks comes with a crunchy housey beat which is shortly enriched with a funky bass line melody that, in the course of the track, sets the base for the piano. The latter holds several tonal arrays switching between lower and higher ranges that are stretched over 10 minutes and 20 seconds. But those are a dramatically and musically a symphony over several octaves, split in multiple chapters and held together by the combined genius of these two artists. 

Alan Dixon's EP Edge of Forever will be released on Correspondant on September 25th, 2020.

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Beatport: https://beatport.com/release/edge-of-forever/3115844

Artist & label information
Alan Dixon: www.facebook.com/AlanDixonMusic // @alandixonmusic // www.instagram.com/alan_dixon_music
Prins Thomas: www.facebook.com/Prins-Thomas-66565233112 // @prinsthomas // www.instagram.com/prinsthomas
Bugge Wesseltoft: www.facebook.com/buggewesseltoft // @bugge-wesseltoft // www.instagram.com/buggewesseltoft
Correspondant: www.facebook.com/correspondant.records // @correspondant // www.instagram.com/correspondantrec

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Alan Dixon - Edge Of Forever (incl. Prins Thomas & Bugge Wesseltoft Remix)

Alan Dixon - Edge Of Forever (Prins Thomas Diskomiks ft. Bugge Wesseltoft)

EXCLUSIVE: Alan Dixon - Edge Of Forever (Prins Thomas Diskomiks ft. B. Wesseltoft) [Correspondant]

This is a 128 kbps extract from the original track.
Mixed & mastered by SCAN X.

"Better Days" EP Released :
Collectors Edition (100) 12inch during Astropolis # 19
Vinyl 12inch in September
Digital the 30th of September

Better Days [Astropolis Records]

Gottwood festival fundraiser compilation on Gottwax. Written and Produced by Manfredi Romano and Joseph Ashworth
> 2020

Dj Tennis & Joseph Ashworth - Cariad (Original Mix)

Connecting The Dots (DJ Mix)

Lovefood [Mixed] (Matias Aguayo Mix)

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Rebolledo - Positivisimo feat. Raquel Wolff (Kasper Bjørke Remix)

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