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Nelson of the East sets out on a deeper exploration of percussive house and techno on Sub Erotic, the first release on Tartelet Record’s new dance floor-focused sub-label DANCEMPORIUM – out May 6th

Following his 2021 album release of Kybele, Nelson of the East (Nicolas Meyer) is embarking on a new area of sonic exploration rooted in club music motifs. His forthcoming EP, Sub Erotic, builds on his accomplished artistic imprint, balancing the urgent pulse of dance music with the rhythmic sensibilities of non-Western cultures.

“After the release of Kybele, it took me a while to figure out what would be a good sequel, and I found myself deconstructing tracks from the album,” says Nelson. “I came to the conclusion that the most important thing on the new EP would be the relationship between the different elements, while trying to use fewer layers.”

While the lilt and sway of organic musicality remains at the heart of his sound, the Berlin-based producer applies these qualities in a variety of ways. On “Ellipsis”, for example, live percussive patterns were recorded and recreated using synthesis, which Nelson found to be more effective than the acoustic originals.

The result is three tracks that pivot around danceable structures while moving well outside the established norms of house and techno. From the pinging textures and staggered beat impulses of “Ellipsis” to the Go Go-flavored funk of “Sub Erotic” and the trance-inducing acid incantation of “Memoria”; Nelson’s distinctive inspirations spill out of his music in intriguing formations.

Danish mainstay Kasper Marott rounds out the EP, applying a seductive pulse to push “Ellipsis” towards a psychoactive peak. The perfect brooding partner to the original, while reinforcing Nelson’s vision of an electronically minded album.

Sub Erotic marks the first release on DANCEMPORIUM, Tartelet Records’ new home for dance floor-oriented music. Having grown to become a broad church of musical modes and expressions, the label is now breaking out into more focused sonic spheres. With his use of rich timbres and adventurous spirit, Nelson of the East is the perfect inaugural candidate.

Sub Erotic

:: Nelson Of The East - Sub Erotic EP - TARTELET DANCEMPORIUM 2022 ::

Artist: Max Graef
Title: Rivers of the Red Planet
Cat.No. TARTALB003
Release date vinyl: March 2014
Release date digi: April 2014
Tartelet Records © 2014 
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Itzehoe - A2

Superswiss- A3

Jazz 104- B1

Tamboule Fudgemunk - B2

Quackeljochen - B3

Ohne Erdung - B4

Buchsenoffner - D1

feat. Wayne Snow - Jane (fur Hannah) - D2

2 - Tomorrow Is Beautiful! (w  Glenn Astro)

Taking his cue from seminal mix albums of days gone by, Glenn Astro is back with a compilation of original productions from a cast of fictional artists on Nothing Is Real, releasing May 4. 

Across 13 tracks, the Tartelet mainstay celebrates the thrill of discovery which came as standard listening to new entries in series’ like X-Mix and DJ Kicks, moving between head-nodding downtempo, ambient techno, broken beat and all manner of chill-out room delights. You might be left wishing artists such as DJ 1999, Mental Trance and Eye Soul8r had actual discographies to go and explore, but as Astro himself is keen to point out, “nothing is real.” 

Astro has never been shy to embrace classic tropes and tones in his past albums for Tartelet, Apollo and Ninja Tune, but he’s drawing on a different set of influences for this album and embracing the flexibility afforded by using imagined aliases for varied production styles. 

“I had the idea to do a mixtape, preferably with unknown dance tracks that also reflect that whole 90s/early 00s vibe,” Astro explains. “Instead of digging for some records that haven’t been sourced yet or trying to find those ‘forgotten’ treasures, I made the tracks myself. That way I had full control over BPMs, feel and the whole arrangement of tracks. I thought of a few alter egos and started producing the tracks in the order that I intended to play them in a mix. In the end a whole compilation of tracks emerged.” 

While the concept might suggest you’re going to hear a lot of over-familiar sounds, don’t be fooled. Astro is inspired and inquisitive, channeling the experimental spirit of the 90s and early 00s when electronic music was still continually being redefined in all kinds of micro-scenes. In many cases, Astro’s productions slip into the cracks between genres rather than specifically mimicking a style. 

In the run up to its release on May 4, the album will be framed by four key single releases which embody the omnivorous attitude Astro brings to the album. As Crystalline Reality, he explores classic breakbeat in detail, fusing it with starry eyed ambient techno synthesis in an unlikely but wholly convincing combination. Eye Soul8r’s ‘Autumn Subs’ injects ambient synth work in a Fax Records style with a rolling drum funk calling back to the trip hop era. ‘Steppers Worldwide, Unite!’ by The Foundation lands somewhere between pitched down breakbeat hardcore and dubstep, echoing the seldom-mentioned breakstep sound but injecting it with a subtle touch of dub techno. Brain Liquor’s ‘Jaque?’ revels in beatless, Detroit-informed machine funk, laces in some wriggling 303 squelch and gives everything a generous dubbing, but hold tight for the plot twist. 

Even if the reference points are detectable, the end result is a curious blend as indebted to ambiguity as the overall concept of the compilation. Like the spine-tingling sensation of hitting play and awaiting the waves of unknown sonics on one of those seminal mixes, you never know exactly what you’re going to get as you take the trip through Nothing Is Real. 

“In terms of dance music, the 90s and early 2000s are pretty much the blueprint for everything that I’ve later on made myself,” Astro admits. “At the same time, I don’t want to be overly nostalgic about it. We often look at those times, specifically the Y2K years, as being a lot simpler, realer, more honest, which in some cases might even be true. Simultaneously, it's insanely naive. Everything plastic isn’t necessarily futuristic, you know?” 

Nothing is Real drops May 4th on vinyl and digital. 

All tracks written and produced by Glenn Astro

Nothing Is Real V.A. - DJ MIX - Mixed by Glenn Astro

Artist: Wayne Snow
Title: Red Runner EP

A1. Red Runner
A2. Under the Blue Moon
B1. Red Runner (Glenn Astro & IMYRMIND remix)
B2. Red Runner (Session Victim remix)

Cat.No. Tart029
Release date vinyl: July
Release date digi: July
Tartelet Records © 2014 
DISTRIBUTED BY OYE RECORDS / ALL EARS

Through ties with the likes of Glenn Astro, Muff Deep, Brandt Brauer Frick and CTEPEO  ́57, Copenhagen’s Tartelet Records have become a coterie for an auspicious breed of modern-day oddball. Opting for analogue gear, the Tartelet mainstays bring together lopsided sampling and loose- limbed rhythms suffused with a distinctive degree of resistless energy.
Shapeshifting with each record, the releases continue to roll behind the success of Max Graef’s ‘Rivers Of The Red Planet’ LP. The next instalment comes courtesy of a previous collaborator with Max - Nigerian born vocalist and songwriter Wayne Snow. Now a resident of Berlin and with music as his liberator - Snow stands at a comfortable vantage point where escape from a tough past is visible.
Now in full flow - his first EP ‘Red Runner’ sees Snow drop a deluge of soul over grubby Rhodes tones, contorted melodies and tumbling drums backed up by remixes from Glenn Astro and Delusions of Grandeur regulars Session Victim.
The title track rubs Snow’s harmonised vocal lines against choked horn stabs and chugging guitar flashes while Glenn Astro & Imyrmind inject some mangled synthesis and Session Victim pack in a rhythmically tight revision that remains pinned under a persistent 4/4 throughout. Blue Moon brings things to a close as it softly gallops like a Dilla record making use of stuttered shuffles and granular drum samples.
The first of it’s kind - ‘Red Runner’ is a collaborative project between Tartelet and Comet Records. Based in Paris, Comet specialises in bringing a myriad of Afro Psych Rock sounds together and are lauded champions of the Afrobeat revival through close affiliation with such luminaries as drummer Tony Allen. A positive step for both camps - Wayne Snow’s EP is the inaugural step for a promising artist and an enlivening insight into things to come from both Comet and Tartelet.


Red Runner EP :: Wayne Snow :: Tartelet Records 2014

Stream, Download & Pre-Order LP: https://melting-pot-music.lnk.to/aix

Acclaimed Jazz Beat producer FloFilz teams up with experimental Hip-Hop/Jazz quartet Bokoya for collabo album ‘Yurika’ on Melting Pot Music. ‘Aix’ is the second single.

What happens when a four-headed human drum computer meets a classically trained violinist turned beatmaker to spend time in the studio? A beautiful lily blossom. At least this was the case when Bokoya and FloFilz entered Atelier 21 in Aachen (a Produzentengalerie für globale Kunst) for a musical encounter with no goals set. The music that was born out of these sessions is simply amazing and we are more than happy to release them as an album under the name ‘Yurika’ - Japanese for „beautiful lily“.

‘Yurika’ will be available digital and on LP with artwork by Jens Roth & Jeremias Diekmann. The 19-track strong instrumental album includes one vocal track featuring Japanese singer Kano San. Prior to the album drop in December, we will release five digital singles.

FloFilz is one of Europe's most acclaimed Jazz Beat producers with four albums on MPM under his belt (and close to 300 million streams). His last album ‘Close Distance’ came out in 2022 and featured artists Alfa Mist, Blue Lab Beats, Jerome Thomas, and Summers Sons. FloFilz is a classically trained musician who not only plays the TR 404 but also violin. 

Bokoya describe themselves as a four-headed human drum machine that play improvised beat music. You can call it jazz if you like (all four members are graduated jazz musicians) but be ready to stumble over some Dilla, Kraut Rock, Ambient or Dub in the mix. In 2022 Bokoya released their second album ‘Hausensession’ on MPM, followed by a collabo album with Cologne-based producer Gianni Brezzo (Jakarta Records) called ‘Minari’.

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Leon Raum – Drums, Percussions, Bass
Lucy Liebe – Guitar, Bass, Keys, Bongo
Darius Heid – Keys, Bass
Ferdinand Schwarz – Trumpet, Synth, Bass
FloFilz – Violin, Sampling, Drums, Synth, Bass

Produced by Bokoya & FloFilz.
Arranged & mixed by Leon Raum & FloFilz.
Recorded at Atelier 21, Aachen.
Mastered by Roe Beardie at The Brewery, Berlin.
Artwork by Jens Roth & Jeremias Diekmann.

A Melting Pot Music & Wadada Records co-production.

Cat No: MPM 330-2
Artist: FloFilz & Bokoya 
Titel: Aix

© ℗ 2023 Melting Pot Music

FloFilz & Bokoya - Aix

I Left My Heart In Ladera

Honey

Max Graef's still unfuckwithable 2014 debut    Rivers of the Red Planet  was the site of various pleasures. It had smoked-out soul by the blunt-load. It juggled boom-bap with neo-soul and rubbed together dusty jazz with the heft of house. It was the kind of statement record where a young producer was able to lay out his aesthetic touchstones and play them off each other in casual synthesis. It was also where we had the pleasure of meeting Nigerian-born vocalist extrordinaire Wayne Snow – an androgynous, mellifluous falsetto that wound perfectly into Max's half-time haze.    

After expanding album standout 'Running' into a fully-fleshed EP, the pair continue the chemistry with 'Rosie' – a new five-tracker coming out via Copenhagen label and shared home Tartelet Records. We're glad to say the same magic's still there in spades – the thick thud of Graef's signature kick, the warbling warm basslines and ever the star of the show, Wayne's tenderly acrobatic vocal lines. 

Peep the EP's title-track above and cop the whole thing on June 1st.

Wayne Snow "Rosie" - Boiler Room Debuts

This is a preview from the upcoming "Love like this" EP by Samuel André Madsen
Release 10.31.11 (vinyl)
Release 10.15.11 (digi)
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Cat. No: TARTELET020 // Format: EXCL12” &amp; digital.
© Tartelet Records 2011


"Love like this" EP by Samuel André Madsen :: TARTELET RECORDS 2011 ::

Digital pre order: tartelet.lnk.to/AlexSeidel

Artist: Alex Seidel 
Title: Alex Seidel EP
Cat.No. TART035
Release date vinyl: Feb 2016
Release date digi: Feb 2016
© 2016 Tartelet Records 
DISTRIBUTED BY OYE RECORDS & ALL EARS

And just when you thought you’d seen it all Alex Seidel joins the party. 
Known for getting on the mic, throwing down b-boy style and hijacking Boiler Room sessions, the young man has been making a name for himself this past year. Hot on the heels of his well-received debut EP for Money $ex Records, Seidel returns with a nifty four-tracker, mixing flavours like a true chef.

A1. ‘Altitude 89’ a hypnotic oddball: Rhodes chords & melody, rolling acid bass-line and shuffling hi-hats suck you into the void.

 A2. ‘Secret High’ venturing into electro territory, Seidel serves up a drum machine workout accompanied by a cheeky acid bass-line and rhythmical background vocals. 

B1. Bridging the gap to yet another genre ‘Quinn’ comes through with groove, hook and clever arrangement. With disco at its core this pacey peak-time roller will make you freak.

B2. Droned out and experimental, ‘Phoenix’ is creepy like David Lynch. 


Alex Seidel EP :: Tartelet Records 2016

Digi Preorder: https://Tartelet.lnk.to/27KY

Henry Wu & Tito Wun take the listener on a worldly journey with this collaborative release, recorded over seven days in the legendary former Kraftwerk studio “Electro Müller” in Düsseldorf, 2015. The six tracks, all recorded live, are so rich with flavor and North African ambience that you can taste the dry spice-filled air of the souq on your tongue.
With Pascal Schäfer (Sin & Soul Records) on flute and sax, Henry and Tito reconnect with the era that laid the cornerstone of modern dance music, while respectfully adding their signature texture and sound.
This is a Tartelet limited edition of 500 copies, with hand-drawn artwork by Guapo Sapo, gold on black print - collectors item. No repress!!

a1) O.S.T.
a2) Don Müller
a3) A3
b1) Andre The Giant vs. Bob Sapp
b2) Cheese'n'Kraut
b3) Peruvian Gold Theme

Artist: Henry Wu & Tito Wun
Title: 27 Karat Years EP
Cat.No. TART037
Release date vinyl: November 2016
Release date digi: November 2016
© 2016 Tartelet Records 
DISTRIBUTED BY OYE RECORDS & ALL EARS

27 Karat Years

:: Henry Wu & Tito Wun - 27 Karat Years EP - Tartelet Records 2016 ::

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A1. Uffe - Love is Everywhere
B1. Uffe - Love is Everywhere (Rytme Version)

Uffe is back with a two tracker that will set your pants on fire. The A-side is a fresh take on Pharaoh Sanders 1974 cult classic 'Love is Everywhere’; an eleven-minute journey through broken piano melodies, layered vocals, party-time cowbell rhythms and heavy sub. The B-side 'Rytme Version' unfolds over eight minutes and is a dubbed out instrumental bomb of claps, hypnotic cowbells and added synth chords further building the suspense. Peak time alert!

A1. Uffe - Love is Everywhere / Snippet

Tartelet Records and The Vinyl Factory join forces for a release showcasing remixes from two prominent Americans and a great Dane.

GE-OLOGY and Byron The Aquarius of Sound Signature fame and Tartelet veteran James Braun deliver three outstanding remixes of Wayne Snow’s feel good tune ‘Nothing Wrong’ taken from his debut album ‘Freedom TV’.

The original version, produced by Naples-based duo Nu Guinea, is an irresistible up-tempo funk tune that has been getting serious spins from some of the most respected selectors in the game.

Ge-ology’s ‘In-Reverse-Reflip’ mix is a trippy ten-minute journey through layered in-reverse melodies and subtle acid carried by a tight, stripped-back groove. The result is a hypnotic gem that sits comfortably in any late night set.

Byron The Aquarius slows it down for his ‘Live Mix’ adding a playful bassline, live drums, rhodes and synth almost reminiscent of Kool & The Gang’s 1974 hit ‘Summer Madness’.

Tartelet mainstay James Braun steps back into the limelight after years of silence with a highly effective club mix; combining his signature low-slung house grooves with Wayne’s backing vocal, turning it into something that is both pumping and exotic.

Nothing Wrong Remixes

Nothing Wrong

:: Wayne Snow - Nothing Wrong Remixes :: (Snippets)

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20.10.23

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