The only thing being NOT good with this track is that you can’t like it two times. Period.

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/the_tiger_ep

With The Tiger, Matias Aguayo returns to Kompakt with his first EP for the label since 2014’s Legende. Since then, he’s been busy with all manner of experiments and explorations – a monthly radio show on Worldwide FM, 2019’s Support Alien Invasion; the essential El Rudo Del House series; an album on Crammed Discs with his group The Desdemonas; collaborations with Sano and Gladkazuka (as Rionegro), DJ Spoko, Mujaji, Julianna, a new trio with DJs Pareja, named MDM Factory, and the latest offering on his Cómeme imprint, El Cameron featuring Ricardo Villalobos. But something special happens when Aguayo returns to the mothership, as though he’s reconnecting with something essential: “pop melancholy is just right there,” he says.

On The Tiger, Aguayo is in touch with the core of the flame, the music that’s at the centre of his being. While most of the music may have originated “in the foggy Mexican forest,” he’s sure that the EP is “still a Cologne record,” something you can hear as soon as the prowling bass, shuffling rhythms and ghostly voices of the title track lope stealthily into earshot. The titular character is caught up in the sensuous tangle of the night, that space between dusk’s delirium and dawn’s dreaming. Aguayo sings, “Do you see the same I see? Are we having the same dream?” – here, he’s picturing an after-hours revelation, “on a warm muggy night with all sorts of background noise from various nightwalking animals – but at the same time, I was a city dweller stranded in the jungle, who still dressed like he was about to go to the disco.”

The ascending, ever-circling bass of “Nightshift, The Red” tells another story, a spiralling mantra that’s hypnotically psychedelic, yet elegant, refined, filled with sonic textures you can almost reach out and touch, like knotted twists of exotic fabric. “The lyrics are very associative and somewhere between urban and jungle nightlife,” Aguayo mentions, “fireflies shine, but also the reflections of the disco ball.” “Show Me What You’re Feeling” takes us back to the 1990s, with Aguayo re-working some vocal and lyrical fragments from three decades ago, its beautiful uncertainty remarkable in what Aguayo calls its “extremely emotional openness”. Dappled with melancholy, it’s a lover’s hymn to intimacy and vulnerability.

Aguayo signs off The Tiger with “El Propio Propio”, a celebratory ending to an EP that’s rich and complex, full of lovely musical moments – the tender melodies woven through “Show Me What You’re Feeling”; the warping, pliable, plastic textures that Aguayo crumples and crinkles through “El Propio Propio”. Like much of Aguayo’s music, The Tiger highlights the senses, to advance a new sensibility, one that inhabits a fever-dream of hints and clues, a mystery that’s solved by the deep, dark sensuality of the rhythms here, fully in love with the nightlife. It finds its exoticism in unexpected moments, sideways glances, surprising twists and turns. After all, as Aguayo says, “moths are far more glamorous and mysterious than butterflies.”

Matias Aguayo - The Tiger EP (Kompakt 454)

Brainwave Technology

'Allround Player' features vocalist Sjengsen delivering a forlorn vocal hook over a light but choppy house beat and dark bassline. The track is constantly ascending, with a rugged lead synth phrase making way for more delicate and dreamy pads, before subtle acid also colours these warm and wavy grooves.

Milio - Allround Player (feat. Sjengsen)

A re-work of my track "Badlands" originally released on the @roamrecordings 100th release compilation in October 2021.  

This new version also has guitars from human&one.

Enjoy! x

Kate Stein - Badlands (Elysian Rework feat. human&one

Der schwedische DJ und Producer Harald Björk veröffentlicht mit „Drifting“ seine zweite EP in diesem Jahr, die wie die erste „Lust“ ebenfalls auf seinem eigenen Label Kranglan Broadcast erscheinen wird.

Wir präsentieren vorab den Ada-Remix von „Waldmeister“ in einer exklusiven Premiere.
Mehr Infos: https://wp.me/p2dHkQ-mKP
Buylink: https://kranglanbroadcast.bandcamp.com/

Exklusive Premiere: Harald Björk – Waldmeister (Ada Remix) (Kranglan Broadcast)

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Ripperton - A Skilift Upstairs The Sleeping City

Out now on @drumpoet as single and in september as part of the triple LP 15 years of drumpoet!

Jimi Jules feat JAW - Too Young For Me (Ripperton's Neptunians Marathon Mix)

Buy/stream: kompakt.fm/releases/total_22

It’s common knowledge that KOMPAKT’s TOTAL series serves as our yearbook, a musical wrap up of the past 12 months. Therefore it doesn’t come as a surprise that this year’s edition is informed by another pandemic year, where dancefloors were still mostly deserted and the devastating developments in Eastern Europe. Kompakt’s A&R team still kept on foot on the imaginary dancefloor, while scouting different realms apart from the big room euphoria. Anyway, brain dance has always been a key ingredient to our catalogue.

The Voigt brothers are opening this year´s vinyl edition in an unusually romantic fashion. ‘Why’ combines a bubbly FM bassline with lush washes of looped guitars. High off the (presumably high) heels of her recent album ‘Jesus Was An Alien’ she delivers a spanking new excursion into her sonic world, ‘The Hill’. Our Mexican friend Rebolledo makes his first ever solo appearance on TOTAL with his trademark hypnotic desert sound. Jürgen Paape is calling a spade a spade with ‘Le Monde À Changé’ – The world has changed indeed. Our prodigal son, Matias Aguayo, returns to the mothership with ‘Cinco Y Rojo’. An exercise in Chicago-esque groove theory paired with a cheeky visitor from Denmark. Spot the reference and win a pair of hooves. It’s hard to find a quality party around Cologne without Jonathan Kaspar on its bill. Rightly so, as he continues to hone his craft as an impeccable DJ and producer. Michael gives the tremendously talented Danish singer songwriter eee gee a proper Mayer treatment and Kompakt founding member Jörg Burger closes off the festivities with a groovy midtempo chugger that reminisces ‘Blue Lines’ era Massive Attack as much as the late Andy Weatheralls low slung psychedelia.

Total 22

Voigt & Voigt - Why

The Tiger EP

El Propio Propio

Show Me What You’re Feeling

Nightshift, The Red

The Tiger

Taken from Horizons Remixes II by @popnoname
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Popnoname, the German electronic music artist, is back with a bang with his latest EP release "Horizons Remixes 2" on the renowned Cologne-based label Feines Tier. This EP features reinterpretations of two original tracks by the talented artists @fangodiscos and @almamater2012 , giving the listener a fresh perspective on Popnoname's already captivating soundscapes. Get ready to be taken on a journey through an ethereal and experimental sound experience with "Horizons Remixes 2". A must-listen for fans of Popnoname and electronic music enthusiasts alike. The release is distributed by the iconic Kompakt distribution, known for their unparalleled taste in electronic music.

Veröffentlicht von:
Feines Tier
Erscheinungsdatum :
10 Februar 2023
P-line:
℗ 2023 Feines Tier

Horizons Remixes II

6 Steps To Nowhere (Fango Remix)

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