"Warriors" from Joyce Muniz & Kiki, out August 4 on Exploited Records. 



Joyce Muniz & Kiki - Warriors

Open Your Eyes

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Chambray - Untitled (Len Faki Remix)

Counting Infinity

Fire 🔥

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<p>Steve Shaden teams up with Kristina Lalic once again for the stomping opus that is &#8220;Denial&#8221;, where a one-note riff clears everything in its way and leads to a breakdown of epic proportions. Thomas Evans&#8217; version opts for a more sinister approach, complete with manic snares for added excitement and another ominous break for guaranteed maximum impact. The gears get pulled back a bit on the closing &#8220;Phase&#8221;, yet spacious chords and the trademarked rhythm section we&#8217;ve been accustomed to ensure for a suspenseful ride.</p>

Kristina Lalic & Steve Shaden - Denial (Thomas Evans Remix)

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01 Spartaque - ID	
02 Ramiro Lopez - Tight [Odd Recordings]
03 The Southern - Work Out (Loco & Jam Remix)[Pursuit]
04 Sama - Curiosity [Noir Music]
05 Gary Beat - One (Gene Karz & Lesia Karz Remix)
06 Ellen Allien - Jack My Ass (Alan Oldham Remix)[Bpitch Control]
07 Steam Shape - Membranophone [Metaphase]	
08 Luiz Ramoz - Suburb [RZ Music]
09 Charlotte de Witte - This [Suara]
10 Galya & Juliet Fox - Like Gravity (Spartaque Remix)[Set About]
11 Mattia Saviolo - Feralgo [Tronic]
12 Frankyeffe - Background [Riot Recordings]
13 SAMA - We Always Knew [Pursuit]
14 Stiv Hey, Matteo Magni - Freedom (Spartaque Remix)[Codex]
15 Wehbba - Protocol [Drumcode]

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Filth on Acid builds on its already strong 2019 for with a new and powerful EP from Metodi Hristov who serves up three dynamite tracks. The Bulgarian is making huge waves in a short space of time with a dark and rugged style that he showcases again here.

Awaken is first out of the blocks with laser synths and driving drums. The atmosphere is stark and futuristic and it’s a track that will blow up any warehouse. Completely features Juliet Fox and is stripped back, with low riding bass and spooky little vocals layered into the groove. Insight then slithers along on an icy hi hat line, with frazzled bass stabs adding energy and synth builds taking you to the next level.

This is powerful club music for one of the finest labels of the day.

Metodi Hristov - Awaken EP

Metodi Hristov feat. Juliet Fox - Completely (Original Mix)

Markantonio - Matter Of Mind 
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Matter Of Mind

Markantonio - Matter Of Mind

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EP Release Date: Dec 17, 2012

Nightlife’s International treasure, Heidi is back with the second release on her label project, this time presenting ‘Jackathon Jams feat. Alexis Raphael & Marc Houle’. With bubbling UK talent, Alexis Raphael at the helm and a remix by Items and Things label boss Marc Houle, this is a nifty little collection of club weapons with that all-important Jackathon swagger.

Heidi started her Jackathon Jams imprint earlier this year, bringing Miss Kittin, Maya Jane Coles and tINI together in one tidy package and is next championing Alexis Raphael, one of London’s favourite DJ/Promoters. With a handful of sensational tracks under his belt (on Hot Creations and Lower East) and running one of London’s most popular club nights Crèche, it’s no wonder Alexis has caught the attention of Heidi.

Delivering two special productions for the imprint’s sophomore release, both tracks carry a nod to retro house with some offbeat modern flavour. A-side ‘Brickwall’ kicks off with sauntering percussion and a rubbery bassline soon to be invaded by wonky synths and FX along with a central vocal line. Second original ‘You Can Do It’ follows in a similar vein with another distinctive spoken male vocal entering the pulse of the rough-edged, jacking groove.

A superb Marc Houle remix rounds off the package as the Berlin pioneer takes ‘Brickwall’ and bestows his own stripped back and expansive approach, warping the vocal to form a barely recognisable framework then unleashing darkly seductive chimes, building the drama with big beats and abstract melodies.

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Alexis Raphael - Brickwall (Marc Houle Remix) | Jackathon | 2012

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
