In an attempt to destroy the cohesion of the Crusader army and unsettle their resolve, the Ayyubid onslaught was accompanied by the clashing of cymbals and gongs, trumpets blowing and men screaming war-cries.

"In truth, our people, so few in number, were hemmed in by the multitudes of the Saracens, that they had no means of escape, if they tried; neither did they seem to have valour sufficient to withstand so many foes, nay, they were shut in, like a flock of sheep in the jaws of wolves, with nothing but the sky above, and the enemy all around them."

-"Battle of Arsuf", Itinerarium, Book IV Ch. XVIII, p. 178.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arsuf

Historia De Bellum IV: Arsuf

1604

A P R I L / 16

Spring2016

For the debut release on my own new label IPSO with Kompakt Records, I wanted to try something different. The new label, IPSO is for me to invite a friend or a hero, - someone I admire musically to do a collaboration.
I’ve long been a fan of limiting myself in the studio. 
Sometimes working with less equipment brings out the best in you, so for the first release I figured it would be interesting to experiment with this. 
Inspired by the danish dogma films, I decided to make a rule. 
As I’m not one for overdoing things, the rule is very simple.
We are only allowed to use one instrument.
I reached out to my friend and all time hero Michael Mayer to do the first collab. 
Other than being co-founder of the mighty Kompakt records, and signing me in 2009, he is a genius in a dj Booth and a great producer. 
He has always been a great inspiration to me, so we agreed to start of my new Label with a bang. 
I set out the challenge, that Michael should choose the instrument. 
As I arrived in Cologne, Michael had chosen an old Yamaha Organ. Funny side note, is that it is actually Jörg Burgers organ. Jörg is actually quiet the legend himself, but that is another story. 
Michael and I spent 1 day in the studio, and we had a blast. 
The outcome is 2 great pieces of music that I'm very proud to share with you. RELEASE DIGITAL & VINYL - MAY 20 

Kölsch & Michael Mayer Dogma 1, Dogma 2 - Ipso 001

Dominik Eulberg - Bionik (Guy Gerber Redlight Remix)

Our Rmx für Stephans upcoming Album "Powers of ten".

Stephan Bodzin - Birth (Super Flu´s Early Contractions)

Ether is out now on Last Night on Earth. 
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Sasha - Ether

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Artist: Dahu, Nick Devon, Animal Picnic 
Title: Steyoyoke Reconstructed by Animal Picnic
Label: Steyoyoke Black
Format: Digital
Digital Release Date: May 18th, 2015
Cat No: SYYKBLK007

Steyoyoke Recordings are well known for their constant innovation and this new project arrives with much excitement. ‘Steyoyoke Black Reconstructed’ is designed to enable artists to delve into past Steyoyoke Black releases and rework them with their own personal touch. First up are Animal Picnic, who revisit two memorable tracks, Dahu’s ‘Ruin’ and Nick Devon’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid’.

Animal Picnic’s rendition of ‘Ruin’ maintains a perpetual vibe, which is derived directly from the original. Right from the get go, the bass line settles into an unyielding rhythm, bountiful of techno grooves and tough percussion. The breakdown then allows for the underlying melody to briefly shine through, before succumbing to its previous momentum.

Splicing the old with the new, this version of ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ establishes a more subtle build of intensity. The mood is set with an eerie presence and heightened with severe yet passionate chord changes that embellish the entire track. The echoing vocals from Benji also empower this remix, ascertaining an audio delight of malicious beauty. 

TRACKLIST

01. Dahu - Ruin (Animal Picnic Remix)
02. Nick Devon - Don't Be Afraid feat. Benji (Animal Picnic Remix

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Deep Loni Frequency w/ Midnattssoula
This week Norway's @midnattssoula will be sharing some truly soulful and deep groovy vibes through this tropical/disco/chillout/house/awesome set.
So, sitback, relax and relax even more...

Tracklist:
1. Don't Tell Me Darko Kustura Remix - Keely Timlin Polar Lights
2. Yo House - Deep88 & Melchior Sultana
3. We Will Greet You - Petr Serkin
4. The Look (Sasha Anastasov Rmx) - Daniel Dalzochio
5. Rise Hour - Amberflame
6. Yo House (Andras Fox Remix) - Deep88 & Melchior Sultana
7. Nothing But The Beat (Hot Toddy Vocal Mix) - Oh Yeah
8. Fruit Punch (Toby Tobias Remix V1) - Trujillo
9. Something - Paulo Olarte
10. Human Knowledge - Ronald Tings
11. Back But Half (Lauer Remix) - Egyptian Nipples
12. Hotel In Rhodes (Rotciv Re-edit) - Blasquez & Holocaos

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IV63 - Frank Wiedemann - Moorthon EP

Moorthon II
Kleiner Vogel
Moorthon I

Release dates: 
18/03/2016 worldwide

Moorthon EP

IV63 - Frank Wiedemann - Moorthon II - Moorthon EP

Remix EP with Remixes from Rampa, Johannes Brecht, Christian Löffler and Solomun will be released April 15 on Diynamic.

Ost & Kjex  feat. Anne Lise Frokedal - Queen of Europe (Solomun Remix)

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Martin Eyerer ft. Princess Superstar - Intimacy (Stephan Hinz Remix)

Artist:			Uakoz & Alex Lentini
Title:	 		Isolated EP
Label:			OFF Recordings
Release number: 	OFF127
Labelcode:		LC-37385
Format:  		Digital / Vinyl
Releasedate: 	04.04.2016 (Digital) / 2016 (Vinyl)

Web: 			www.off-recordings.com

Tracks:
1. Uakoz & Alex Lentini - Isolated
2. Uakoz & Alex Lentini - Puzzling
3. Uakoz & Alex Lentini - Changeless
4. Uakoz & Alex Lentini – Puzzling (Andre Crom Remix)
5. Uakoz & Alex Lentini – Nothing More

Italian bred artists Uakoz & Alex Lentini deliver their debut OFF EP, after earning much praise for their recent outings on Terminal M, Flash and other labels.

A love for spacy techno is the common element of all 4 originals. While Isolated & Puzzling rely more on psychedelic sinewave melodies, Nothing More & Changeless feel closer to dub techno.

OFF-head Andre Crom created a very functional remix, reinterpreting parts of "Puzzling"'s notes with a bass synth, and a hypnotic arrange that works steadily towards a central break.

TEASER - Uakoz & Alex Lentini - Isolated EP (Incl. Andre Crom Remix) - OFF127

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Roman Flügel - 9 Years (DJ Koze Remix)

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The Duster

The Duster (feat. Green Velvet)

i made this over during my last asia tour. #unofficial 
Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express 


Roked - LS  REMIX

Keinemusik main-man and long time Saved associate &ME returns to the label with a unique and exciting new single.
The German again teams up with vocalist Dwayzo Lawrence - who also featured on his club hit 'After Dark' - to create the epic 12min opus. A true masterpiece and one that will be heard for many months to come.

Shadows

&ME - Shadows

Seth Troxler played on Saturday at the Digital stage during DGTL festival 2016 AMS.

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Seth Troxler @ DGTL Festival 2016 - Amsterdam - 26.03.2016

Business As Usual: April Track Listing:

01. The Hue - Spaced Out (Classic Music Company) 
02. Levon Vynehall - Saxony (Running Back) 
03. Damian Lazarus and the Ancient Moons - Tangled (Acid Pauli Remix) (Crosstown Rebels) 
04. Louie Vega feat Cassio Ware - Just The Way I Like It (Vega Records) 
05. Javonnte - Keep Bouncing (NDTAL) 
06. Dangerfeel Newbies - What Am I Her For (Defected) 
07. Peggy Gou - Phonica White 
08. Mary Clark - Take Me I am Yours (LA Shawn) 
09. Underworld - Exhale (DJ Koze remix) 
10. Infinity Inc - Too Strong (Different) 
11. DJ Honesty - Xstasy 
12. Floorpan - Tell You No Lie

Through the Eyes of with Eats Everything

13. Steve Silk Hurley – The Word Is Love (Say The Word) (Silk’s Anthem of Life)
14. Sole Fusion – Bass Tone (Underground Network Mix) 
15. Underground Sound of Lisbon – So Get Up (Junior Vasquez Factory Mix)
	
A Classic MasterMix: 30 minx with Tristan Da Cunha (Dungeon Meat) 

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Business as Usual, because… well, it is. I will be playing dance music that you may or may not have heard, that will be readily available, if pointed in the right direction of course. The idea is for you to use me as your selector slash shop assistant in a virtual record store. I will be your slightly odd, slightly off-centre, guide. But ultimately and most importantly, your friendly on-line record shop assistant.

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Business As Usual April 2016: Luke Solomon, Eats Everything & Tristan Da Cunha

Chapter24 >> soundcloud.com/chapter-24/
Anton Dhouran > https://soundcloud.com/userquasar

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Early support from the likes of Luciano, Frankey & Sandrino, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Robert Babicz, Miguel Campbell, Eelke Kleijn, Edu Imbernon, Nick Warren, Undercatt, Oliver Weiter, Marc Poppcke...

Release date: 8th April 2016

Why do we tell stories?

We breathe, we eat, we sleep. We seek connection. These are our basic human needs.

But there is one more need we all share, and it centres on stories. All across the world, stories are being recounted everywhere, in every imaginable way, at any given time. For telling stories is at the very essence of what it is to be human.

The universe of stories can be broken down into seven basic plots which underlie all stories ever told. Recognising these patterns is the gateway to unravelling the universal symbolic language from which all storytelling is spun.

Beginning with Overcoming The Monster, Chapter 24 has gathered artists from across the globe to bring these themes to life for its Seven Stories VA series.

Up-and-coming Dutch producer and Paradigm resident Malbetrieb (SoHaSo, Selador) opens proceedings with ‘Epic’. Fiendish acid licks intertwine with soaring vocal pads and uplifting top lines in a driving, melodic track.

One of the biggest producers in Ukraine, Stas Drive (Hope, Sudbeat) is up next with the titanic ‘Aphrodite’. A tribal tech groove pounds forth, underpinned by brooding and mysterious atmospheres.

Enter Dragon Suplex, a twin-headed tune producing beast from Switzerland who deliver the third track with ‘Mystified’ feat. Samzing. Another behemoth, this one is equally dark and banging, bringing a good dose of tension to proceedings.

As the compilation advances to its denouement, a little brightness starts to pierce through the storm clouds. Hailing from Peru, a breeding ground for young talent in the underground house scene, Frank Serin strikes a more hopeful tone with ‘La Sonrisa de la Mujer’.

‘Somnium’ by the London-based Chapter 24 boss Sam Pauli and label regular Reiver enhances the dreaminess on offer. A drifty, hypnotic and emotive cut unfolds into a tremendous, musical break.

Finally, the compilation ends with a focus on French producer Anton Dhouran. Having already been signed by Diynamic and with music forthcoming on Jeudi Records, Anton deploys his considerable skills on ‘Meyah’, a deep, groove-laden number enhanced by ethereal pads. The real story, however, comes with ‘A Kind Of Light’ which closes the narrative with a heroic instrumental tale.

They say that there are only seven basic plots but a thousand different stories.

And so, as the storyteller utters that age old, magical formulation, "Once upon a time...", let yourself be carried away…

Chapter 24
{Stories in sound}

Stay Tuned! 

PREMIERE: Anton Dhouran - Meyah [Chapter 24]

Buy Now: https://pro.beatport.com/release/panorama-remixes/1738004

Artist: Claus Casper, Jean Philips
Title: Panorama Remixed
Label: Definition:Music
Release Catalogue: DMU048
Format: Digital
Releasedate: 18. April 2016
Genre: Deep House, Tech House, Techno
Web: www.definitionmusic.ch

1) Claus Casper, Jean Philips - Panorama (Original Mix)
2) Claus Casper, Jean Philips - Panorama (Piemont Remix)
3) Claus Casper, Jean Philips - Panorama (Marc DePulse Remix)

Previously released on Definition:Music, Claus Casper and Jean Philips’ ‘Panorama’ has been turning heads with a new set of remixes by German duo Piemont and Marc DePulse. First up is the dark, brooding original mix we’ve come to know and love, building itself a dense and electrifying atmosphere while banging out a heavy groove. Now Piemont’s remix lightens the mood a bit, letting a bit of sunshine in but still keeping the energy up. Then with his remix, Marc DePulse pulls the track back into the deep night where it thrives. The remix is glowing with a dark ambience, and effectively lures us into its shadows. A beautiful take on what was an already stunning piece.

Artwork by Hannah Frances

Panorama (Marc DePulse Remix)

Available 18th. April

Claus Casper, Jean Philips - Panorama (Marc DePulse Remix)

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Matador - Not Enough [FREE DOWNLOAD]

For the debut release on my own new label IPSO with Kompakt Records, I wanted to try something different. The new label, IPSO is for me to invite a friend or a hero, - someone I admire musically to do a collaboration.
I’ve long been a fan of limiting myself in the studio. 
Sometimes working with less equipment brings out the best in you, so for the first release I figured it would be interesting to experiment with this. 
Inspired by the danish dogma films, I decided to make a rule. 
As I’m not one for overdoing things, the rule is very simple.
We are only allowed to use one instrument.
I reached out to my friend and all time hero Michael Mayer to do the first collab. 
Other than being co-founder of the mighty Kompakt records, and signing me in 2009, he is a genius in a dj Booth and a great producer. 
He has always been a great inspiration to me, so we agreed to start of my new Label with a bang. 
I set out the challenge, that Michael should choose the instrument. 
As I arrived in Cologne, Michael had chosen an old Yamaha Organ. Funny side note, is that it is actually Jörg Burgers organ. Jörg is actually quiet the legend himself, but that is another story. 
Michael and I spent 1 day in the studio, and we had a blast. 
The outcome is 2 great pieces of music that I'm very proud to share with you. RELEASE DIGITAL & VINYL - MAY 20

Kölsch & Michael Mayer "Dogma 2" (snippet)

Kölsch & Michael Mayer "Dogma 1" (snippet)

For Rune Reilly Kölsch, Kompakt has become a great label to call home. In 2013 the German imprint celebrated 20 years of record releases at the cutting edge of electronic music, championed in June by one of the most genre re-defining albums and personal music projects for an era: Kölsch’s landmark long player, ‘1977’.

A melodic autobiography on black wax, the Kölsch project has seen 36/37-year-old Rune take stock of a diverse and successful production career and draw upon his own personal beginnings: a nostalgia for childhood, family, friends and the confusion of applying his split-cultural heritage to what it means to think of ‘home’. As Rune freely admits, “being half Irish, half German and living in Denmark – it was all one big messy period of my life.” 

Born to hippie parents in the freetown of Christiania (a commune-like autonomous borough of the Danish capital Copenhagen) his childhood was spent surrounded by creativity. His mother was an artist whose family had roots in German politics and his father a singer songwriter who travelled through Asia playing music in the early 70's. Kölsch, however, did miss out on building friendships and found solace in making up “this imaginary world that I would spend days in,” before the family moved to Germany – a period of memories, relations and characters from which ‘1977’ derives its titles.

For Rune, the tracks he began building from 2010 took in this personal reflection, his being “completely locked in to reminiscing about what shaped me as a kid and into the individual that I am now” – contemplating his unique past to form the brickwork of ‘1977’, one of the most future-facing techno albums of recent years.

Influenced by hip hop, pop and the incredible legacy of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, Rune started producing in 1995, embarking on a string of success stories. In 2003 he released the multi-million selling, saxophone-infused ‘Calabria’, that saw collaboration requests pouring in from artists as diverse as Nicki Minaj, Shakira and Flo Rida. He then set up Tattoorecs – releasing pioneering underground tracks with no titles, just tattoos for artwork, that garnered critical acclaim and support from minimal and techno trailblazers such as Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Tiefschwarz and Ricardo Villalobos.

This appreciation of the complete musical spectrum has gifted Rune with a devotion to groove and melodics and with it the dexterity to input real creative change to the genres he reveres, not least his beloved techno. “2010 was the year of the ketamine house wave, where the music was 118 bpm and everything was extremely boring”, reflects Rune. “I wanted some melodic techno, some energy back in this scene. People needed the energy to express themselves and go crazy for a bit.”

This notion faced opposition, even from within Rune’s close circles. But it was Kompakt founder Michael Mayer who had the insight to see what Kölsch was trying to achieve. Rune’s conviction that vibrations and melodics are the key to human response had tipped the balance, underlined by his experience as a hip hop DJ where he “needed something to catch me and drag me in. And that’s what techno should do!” Here too he drew on his love of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, recalling how “they used to make mistakes all the time. It would be a big mash of all kinds of stuff, but at least something was happening. That’s what I was missing and that’s what I’m trying to change with the Kölsch project.”

The result is ‘1977’, a personal collection of dancefloor destroyers that are continuing to send clubs and festivals across the globe into melodic supernova. Take this video of Kölsch’s set at Belgium’s I Love Techno festival, one of Rune’s 2013 highlights, where “people were doing sit downs, singing along to all the tracks”. Watch it. It puts the hairs up on the back of your neck. “The response was overwhelming,” said Rune in a recent interview with Mixmag (who named Kölsch as one of their ‘Stars Of 2013’), as “when you think about it, it was just a bunch of childhood memories with a kickdrum underneath.” 

Elsewhere he’s ripped up the airways with an acclaimed Essential Mix for Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, delivered his incendiary soundscape to Singapore’s world-renowned ZoukOut Festival, boomed his live show through the heaving basement of London’s XOYO and played the hallowed Space Terrace – in his words “a boyhood dream since I started going to Ibiza in 1999. That was what I wanted from life!” So opening Amnesia in 2014 with Joris Voorn will be a bonus then...

While these are reasons enough to keep the beaming smile beneath Kölsch’s trademark black fedora, his humility remains just as striking. While tracks like ‘Goldfisch’ have taken pivotal positions in the set lists of world class DJs from across the dance music spectrum – traversing the underground with Seth Troxler, while simultaneously providing credible new euphoric highs for the likes of Axwell – Rune remains joyously down to earth. All despite producing, with ‘1977’, an album that has crossed as many cultural and musical boundaries as his own childhood past.

From the face-twisting melodic drive of ‘Opa’ and ‘Bappedekkel’, to the chord-surfing piano groove of ‘Der Alte’ and the euphoric crescendos of ‘Lorely’, ‘Oma’ and ‘All That Matters’ (all hits in different countries), the fact remains that whether in your living room, on the dancefloors of the world’s greatest parties, or simply in your headphones on your way home, Kölsch’s ‘1977’ has re-defined techno and become an achievement that speaks for itself. 

Words: Phil Dudman – Clubs & Live Music Editor, Mixmag
