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DFRNT is a DJ and music producer. He hosts the Insight podcast, runs the Echodub and Cut labels and writes the Sitting Ovation blog. He remixed this track for Roy's Iron DNA as part of the Under my Skin Special Edition remix album released in late 2013. 

Roy's Iron DNA - Everything Is Everything (DFRNT Remix)

Pedestrian - Hoyle Road (Drew Hill Remix)

Out on Lochmann Records 03.01.2014 (Vinyl) / 19.02.2014 (Beatport)

Digital: http://www.beatport.com/release/different-moves/1226554
Vinyl: http://www.deejay.de/Different_Moves_Ep__138101

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Ju'go feat. Mat - Different Moves (Oliver Schories Remix) - OUT: 19.02.14 on Lochmann Records

Pezzner & Amina - Exit (Scuba Remix)

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/01/trails

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Rioux - Trails

Purchase "Montana" on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/montana-single/id799641047

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": http://shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
CD/LP/DIGITAL

artwork by:
ISO50

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

WEB - www.tychomusic.com 
TWITTER - www.twitter.com/iso50 
FB - www.facebook.com/tychomusic 
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/user/iso50 
INSTAGRAM - @iso50

Montana

Concor - Tale Of Us & Vaal

Seahnak - Vaal

Final Mix of Crestfallen - making it's way to vinyl via the good folks at www.lapsus.cat later this year

Crestfallen (Nanostudio - Final Mix)

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/01/jungle-fever

Pulshar - Jungle Fever

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/01/milk-cassius-select-remix

Rainbow Chan - Milk (Cassius Select Remix)

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/01/mind-games-pedestrian-remix

Jon Phonics - Mind Games (Pedestrian Remix)

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/01/call-reason-feat-danglo

IYDES - Call to Reason (feat. Danglo)

DFRNT - Herman's House

DFRNT - Clouds Collide

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/01/dreamless-instrumental

SnowSkull & Jauge - DreamLess (Instrumental)

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/01/button

Mia Dora - Button

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/01/treasure

Hatti Vatti - Treasure

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/01/sleep

Silkersoft - Sleep

Release Date: Feb 3rd 2014
192kbit/s

BEATPORT
www.beatport.com/release/diamond-days/1209829

ITUNES
itunes.apple.com/de/album/diamond-days/id770736693

TRAUMSCHALLPLATTEN
http://www.traumschallplatten.de/traum/traumv172/traumv172.html

YOUTUBE 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q1dFC7WRBI

Egokind & Parra for Cuva - Nuba

A snowboarding genre confused dj from Maine who now lives in Utah.

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Jodie Stackhouse