techno

NIC FANCIULLI B2B CARL COX @ SPACE IBIZA - 6/8/13

Continuing Marc’s 2013 podcast series, his latest mix was released by Soundwall.it - Italy’s no. 1 website for electronic music. This energetic, dancefloor-orientated mix features lots of new unreleased music and some of Marc’s latest hits.

Full article & download link here: http://www.soundwall.it/soundwall-podcast-164-marc-houle/
On Mixcloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/Soundwall/soundwall-podcast-164-marc-houle/

Tracklisting:
1. Marc Houle - Alpha Bit (unreleased)
2. Marc Houle - Cola Party (unreleased)
3. Marc Houle - Fusion Pop (unreleased)
4. Phil Kieran & Green Velvet - Birds and Bees (Marc Houle Remix) | free track via DJMag Weekly
5. Marc Houle & Click Box - Razzmatazz | out Sept 20 on Items & Things (IT025)
6. Alexis Raphael - Brickwall (Marc Houle Remix) | Heidi pres. Jackathon Jams, HPJJ02
7. Marc Houle & Miss Kittin - Where Is Kittin? | Items & Things, IT022
8. Marc Houle & Click Box - Cable Line | out Sept 20 on Items & Things (IT025)
9. Nyma - Kybernetik (Marc Houle Remix) | Items & Things, IT020
10. Marc Houle - Borrowed Gear | Minus023
11. Marc Houle - Suces Mes Graines | free track via Dancing Astronaut

Connect with Marc Houle:
www.marchoule.net/
www.facebook.com/marchoule.official 
www.mixcloud.com/marchoule
www.youtube.com/user/MarcRHoule
www.twitter.com/MarcRHoule
www.itemsandthings.com

2013-07 Marc Houle - Soundwall Podcast #164

Cooked Up (Omega Mix)

Kevin Coshner -The Joker (MiniKore Remix) - LOW Q Mp3

I would say "Circus EP" is a bit groovier than previously. I've been working a lot more with bass. Before, my music was more minimal with a shuffle techno vibe but for this release I didn't do any shuffle. I guess you could call this my new sound. It's in between tech house and techno. The bass is more housey anyway, but the energy is still techno.

Shake It (Daniel Stefanik Berghain Edit) - Circus EP, SCI+TEC

Nicole has returned to Drumcode all guns blazing with her new ‘Bittersweet EP’. The A- side ‘I Know Where I’ve Been’, is a deep rolling techno machine that uses a constant building percussion loop that eventually explodes into some serious funky signature Moudaber techno! ‘Bittersweet’ is a techno belter that uses a hypnotic synth rhythm that will take the listener into another world. The repetitive claps induce a flurry of energy and excitement whilst supported by the crisp highs.

Nicole Moudaber - I Know Where I've Been - Drumcode - DC127

Adam Beyer’s new EP titled ‘Teach Me’ is an accomplished piece of work that highlights Beyer's year thus far. 'Teach Me' starts with some eerie chords before the distinctive vocal kick in and the track drops into a rumbling techno track. ‘Darlek’ uses rhythmic beeps and huge synth stab to create a funky rhythm before the atmospheric pads create a beautiful setting for this incredible techno track. ‘Stop Talking’ is a deeper offering from Beyer using weird and unusual noises to create and interesting piece of work that is helped along by the throbbing bass underlying in the track. ‘Spaceman’ uses a rhythmic vocal, percussion and sub bass to turn this track into a funky techno piece.

Adam Beyer - Spaceman - Drumcode - DC132

- Vinyl Box-Set limited to 500 copies + includes the Compilation on CD - 

Release Date: 08 Sep 14
Format: 6x12" BOX, CD
Label: Cocoon Recordings
Cat: CORLP036 / CORCD036

Time is running...and it seems like we just woke up out of our interstellar sleep-mode as we are facing the arrival of the 14th edition of the almighty COCOON RECORDINGS COMPILATION. Starting with the letter "A" we reached "N" meanwhile which probably marks one of the longest running techno compilation series ever around. The list of the featured artists is amazing and almost endless. Big names like Funk D'Void, Alter Ego, Michael Mayer, Steve Bug, DJ Rush, Adam Port, Christian Smith, Nina Kravitz, Henrik Schwarz or Argy can be found here. Not to forget some of the biggest players in the circus like Sven Väth, Anthony Rother, Extrawelt, Timo Mass, Radio Slave or Ricardo Villalobos, DJ Koze, Dubfire and even Berlin's Basic Channel mastermind Moritz Von Oswald.

Lucy - Luminous [Cocoon] - Cocoon Compilation N

Inspired by the summer of 2005, new sounds and new music, our journey continued. Our main focus had been in the arrangement. We left that behind and went deep into the pure sound. We were exploring the machines and their dimensions of sounds. It was the time of experiments, exploration in many different ways, learning… Complex, yet still tender and innocent, it was like “Orchidee.” 

Loco Dice - Orchidee (Minus)


Release date (3LP, cd & digital format): 3rd of November

TRACKLIST
1. Ø [Phase] - Insectoid
2. Lucy - Sana Sana Sana Cura Cura Cura
3. Ctrls - x.y
4. Rødhåd - Haumea
5. Planetary Assault Systems - The 808 Track (Parts 1 and 2)
6. James Ruskin - No Trace
7. Surgeon - Fixed Action Pattern
8. Inigo Kennedy - Arcing
9. Karenn - Pace Yourself

INFO
It was early 2007 when Inigo Kennedy inaugurated Token. Since that Identify Yourself 12” the Belgian label has gone from strength to strength, integrating both Kennedy and Ashley Burchett, aka Ø [Phase], into becoming integral cogs in the Token machine. In between releases by Grovskopa, Oscar Mulero and Go Hiyama, both Ø [Phase] and Inigo Kennedy dominated Token’s output, but it wasn’t until Burchett’s watershed Binary Opposition that Token received the shower of praise it deserved. Following this, label founder Kr!z issued three remix 12”s of that release which, including Token regulars, took in a profound cast of producers to reprocess “Binary Opposition” by the way of Sigha, Peter Van Hoesen, Planetary Assault Systems and Ben Klock. It was here Token stamped their authority on contemporary techno.

Since then Token has grown exponentially, bringing into their fold artists like Xhin, Mark Broom and Rødhåd, while Ctrls, formally one half of Northern Structures, has seen his solo career flourish on Token with the release of five records to date, and he joins Inigo Kennedy and Ø [Phase] as a label stalwart. Additionally this year, Orphx and Ancient Methods debuted their relentless Eschaton collaboration on Token, and Christian Wünsch’s Spherical Coordinates dalliance with Oscar Mulero has gained even more momentum with a second release called Kinematics Equations. Now, seven years after that debut Kennedy record, Token present Aphelion, a nine-track CD and triple vinyl grandstand of new and exclusive material from label regulars and like-minded artists whom Token founder Kr!z specifically commissioned for this milestone release.

The penultimate record before Aphelion was a second Token 12” by Rødhåd, another artist adding to the cultivation of the label’s sound and roster, and for this compilation the Berliner supplies his cosmically inspired “Haumea”. Joining the Dystopian founder on Aphelion are three of the UK’s most influential techno artists: Surgeon, James Ruskin and Luke Slater under his Planetary Assault Systems alias who provide Token with solo material for the first time after previously appearing on the imprint in remix form. Entirely new names to grace the label via Aphelion include Stroboscopic Artefacts founder Lucy, and Blawan and Pariah's Karenn project, while label faithfuls Inigo Kennedy,  Ø [Phase] and Ctrls naturally commit three Token defining productions.

Casting one’s eye over Token’s back catalogue and it’s clear to see the label is a staunch advocate of absolute techno, remaining steadfast in issuing quality material that remains true to classic strands of the genre regardless of its popularity flux. In that respect, Aphelion - a word used to describe the point in orbit when a planet or comet is farthest from the sun - provides a simple analogy that the magnetic force of Token, unfazed by the shadows cast by popular opinion, will proudly shine light on their artists and given styles. 

“We started in an era where our genre was very unpopular,” Kr!z explains. “And in the end that seemed a big advantage for us, because when everyone was giving up, we started our mission.” Regularly hosting label nights in prominent clubs around the world, Token has become a label supported by a wide-ranging body of artists like Âme and Ben Klock to Efdemin, Truss and Ancient Methods. With the label now branching out into album and compilation territory, Token’s duty to techno may not yet be accomplished, but it’s been a job well done.

www.tokenrecords.com
www.facebook.com/tokenrecords

Aphelion

Lucy - Sana Sana Sana Cura Cura Cura

Matador_Korrado_Minus

Matador_Kingswing_Minus

Paul Ritch presents his new EP &gt;Secret Garden&lt; and celebrates 3 years of his own Quartz Rec. After 20 releases the label has stablished itself as a leading force in the techno scene and this new 3 tracks will raise the bar even further.

Atmospheric sounds, hybrid textures and organic layers laced with broken voices and bonded all together to generate the required voltage for each of the 3 cuts to be dance-floor explosive hymns. A delight!

Paul Ritch - Shape (193k)

Continuing a busy run of recent releases on Minus is one of the label's core contributors, namely Jon Gaiser. Since late 2005, the Detroit-born, Berlin-based producer has been intrinsically linked to the rise and rise of the label owing to key releases like his Eye Contact EP, genre defining 2008 full length, Blank Fade, and last year's huge EP, Unstable Witness. 

Gaiser - Some Slip

1st runner-up in Carl Cox 'The Revolution Recruits' Theme Contest
Samples used: CV1 - Cristian Varela 125 BPM And The Conga By Yousef

The Revolution Recruits Theme by Fory

Bambam_Original Mix_Minus

Kenekt_Original Mix_Minus

Klay_Original Mix_Minus

Marc Houle's live performance on March 6 at Boiler Room Berlin! 

See full video here: 
http://boilerroom.tv/marc-houle-70-min-mix/
http://youtu.be/yTvYbhlpeAI
https://soundcloud.com/platform/br-brln-marc-houle

Track list:
01- Red Axes - Caminho de Dreyfus (Marc Houle Remix) | Correspondant Rec. (COR15) | out May 24, 2013
02- Phil Kieran & Green Velvet - Michael Jackson (Marc Houle Mix) | Phiel Kieran Recordings (PKRD009) | 2011
03- Marc Houle - Undercover | Items & Things (IT012) | 2012
04- Alexis Raphael - Brickwall (Marc Houle Remix) | Jackathon (HPJJ02) | 2012
05- Marc Houle & Miss Kittin - Where is Kittin? | Items & Things (IT022) | out end of May, 2013
06- Marc Houle - Slowpe | Items & Things (IT07) | 2011
07- Nyma - Kybernetik (Marc Houle Remix) | Items & Things (IT021) | out March 15, 2013
08- Marc Houle - Zorba | WetYourSelf! (WYS! 015) | 2012
09- Marc Houle - Break Down (unreleased)
10- Marc Houle - Time Walker (unreleased)
11- Marc Houle - Borrowed Gear | Minus (Minus23) | 2004
12- Battant - The Butcher (Marc Houle Remix) | Kill The DJ (KTDJ0016) | 2009
13- Marc Houle - Like LSD (unreleased)
14- Marc Houle - Under The Neath | Items & Things (IT012) | 2012
15- Marc Houle - Sweet | Minus (Minus98) | 2010

2013-03 Marc Houle (live) @ Boiler Room Berlin

Minilogue - The Leopard (Extrawelt Remix)
Release date: January 2007
Genre: Minimal

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