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We are back in 2013.
Beginning of 2012 a new name appeared on the international dancefloor: CLAPTONE (artist of the year 2012 in German Trendcharts DCC).
The track ‘CREAM’ became the worldwide Top Track (No.2) of Beatport in the category Deep House and was among the Top 10 of the most charted tracks for 2012 on Resident Advisor.
The new year brings 2 more surehots for the clubs: WRONG & NO EYES featuring JAW from dOP.
Early support by Tensnake, Solomun, Noir, Laurent Garnier, DJ T…

In a now long forgotten world, many generations ago, a bird like shape emerged from wooded darkness, floating and fluttering, drifting and dreaming. Backlit by a bright glow of iridescent light, the undecipherable form wore a dazzling golden mask. Its long beak swooped down like an inverted horn and since then, people have referred to the mythical being simply as Claptone.
Years spending wandering medieval landscapes have informed Claptone’s view of the world, experiencing both magical mystery and muted melancholy he enchanted onlookers with occult instruments and beguiling sounds. Forever surrounded by a sense of intrigue, the world soon cottoned on to the elusive yet enchanting musical powers of this otherworldly beast. The results are that today his shamanistic sonic powers take him all around the world.
Whilst Claptone has continued to roam in his own circles, 2012AD proved to be a year dominated by his infectious ‘Cream’ track. It became an immediate hit, topping new world charts at Beatport and RA, whilst the sonic conjuring of the ‘Night On Fire’ EP also lured all those who heard it, with the result another Top 20 hit. But that’s not all, for the creativity flows freely in our hero, and his ‘Another Night’ also proved to be just as successful on the dancefloor. Deep and woozy, the Claptone sound pairs theatre with tragedy, feel good vibes with acute melancholia and imbues each groove with a Rhodes laced funk, an organic string hook and myriad earthy elements.
Up to the present day, Claptone releases have been birthed on Germany’s influential Exploited label, picking up props from the likes of Pete Tong, DJ Sneak, Soul Clap, DJ Hell, Jesse Rose, A-Trak along the way. Who or whatever Claptone is, it is alive, with a life of its own, evolving and revolving in equal measure, exploring new sounds naturally and forever taking inspiration from long gone and occult worlds.
So far, esteemed and influential dancefloors at clubs in Berlin, London, Paris, Melbourne, Shanghai, New York and many others around the world have fallen under the sonic spell of this secretive alchemist. The future is unpredictable for Claptone, but a new release ‘Wrong’ including the track ‘No Eyes’ with the inimitable JAW from French funsters dOP is on the horizon. Beyond that, your guess is as good as ours…

Some early feedbacks:

DJ-Mag: Part transcendental house, part pop. Lush!

Tensnake: Two tracks that will sure fill the dancefloors. Great piano/strings breakdown always work in a club.

Noir: Both tracks are good. Claptone keep the quality high.

Round Table Knights: Bang Bang!!! No Eyes is sooo good! Claptone as always on fire!!!

Ralf Kollmann: Wow! Mutig, aber spielbar und wird funken. Hot! Hot! Hot!

Andre Crom: And another 2 massive bombs. Love it, Will chart and play both tracks.

Laurent Garnier: Wrong is a cool track.

Waifs & Strays: Both tracks are killer...thanks!

Freeform Five: No Eyes is great.

Kasper Bjoerke: Mainfloor Bomb!!!

Munk: Works well for sure.. :) Cool.

Zombie Disco Squad: Claptone always deliver.

Jesse Perez: Wrong sounds dope! Nicely produced.

Jerry Bouthier: Nice melodic vibes. Supporting.

Doctor Dru: No Eyes is mine! Cheers to Claptone. Looking forward to play.

M.in: Great release! No Eyes is pretty cool!

Kiki: Heard both by the man himself on NYE and yeah - they both rocked! Wrong is fun!

Hannah Holland: Wicked release. In love with Jaw's vocal.

Thyladomid: No Eyes!!!:)

Acid Pauli: I have No Eyes, but there's nothing wrong about it...I still can dance.

Wildkats: Badboy!

Sinden: No Eyes is the jam for me here.

Tom Flynn: Thanks, will try out for sure.

Stefano Ritteri: Wong is SO good!! Claptone dont miss ze beats!!

Homework: The whole Chris-Isaak-Wicked-Games vibe on No Eyes is absolutely fantastic.

Fred Everything: Nice EP

The Mekanism: Nice!

Karmon: Great!

La Fleur: Cool release, will try it out this weekend! :) Thank you!

NTFO: Wrong is so good ! Solid pack again from Exploited thank you!

No Eyes ft. Jaw | Exploited

sleeping without you - Deborah De Luca
solamente010
sola_mente records
out on august 2014

sleeping without you - Deborah De Luca

The main element on “Carthago” is the Moog. It was a new approach, influenced by the new kind of sound that was slowly taking over. Minimal was on its way to dominate the dance scene in the coming years, but I didn’t consider myself minimal. The new sound, focus on particular machines for main elements of the tracks. That approach felt somehow German and old school, and the result had to be released on an old school German label.  Thank you Sven and the team!

Loco Dice - Carthago (Cocoon)

OUT NOW
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4FumQBQYCNV7GYp03FY4qI
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/liquid-spirit-claptone-remix/id1020668510
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/10848326

CLAPTONE LINKS
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1ec0ZAm
Twitter: http://bit.ly/1zFz9Ou
Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/1dxbgHn
RA: http://bit.ly/1dxbgHn
Beatport: http://btprt.dj/1ESqCWY
Instagram: http://bit.ly/1B2cGbK
Full Tour Schedule: http://bit.ly/1DAKPQL

Berlin based enigma Claptone has just announced to the world that a new remix of Gregory Porter is coming out soon. The Grammy award winning Jazz vocalist is probably one of the coolest people walking the planet with his incredible presence and god given voice. Who else but Claptone could do this voice justice on the dance floor!?


Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit (Claptone Remix)

Dear Life feat. Jaw / ♥ on HYPEM http://bit.ly/1R6mAR9
OUT: May 22nd, 2015

‘Dear Life’ is the next chapter for Claptone and the second glimpse of his first full-length set for release in Autumn 2015. The mysterious enigma with the golden mask has gone from strength to strength of late, following an acclaimed BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, a Beatport chart-topping smash remix of Gregory Porter and an incredible live show at the Miami Ultra Music Festival.
 
The single breaks new ground for Claptone as he delves deeper into songwriting. This time he is reunited with French singer Jaw (1/3 of production trio dOP) with whom he previously worked on ’No Eyes’, a big record for him back in 2013 on the notorious Berlin House label Exploited. In the new offering ‘Dear Life’ Claptone has created a spellbinding dance floor ready anthem that’ll sound just as good on your home stereo.

The masked figure recently shared teaser 'The Music Got Me', the first taste of the album and a track which went on to reach the top 5 on Beatport’s deep house chart, as did B-side Forest of Love. For the club heads, Claptone and Jaw deliver a second cut ‘Secret Lover’, a track packed with raw funk and a highlight of his recent Essential Mix.


Dear Life

♥ on HYPEM

AVAILABLE NOW: http://ultramusic.lnk.to/GetComfy

Bang! Here's my new album for u!

It’s been 7 years since "7 Dunham Place“ - my first electronic album. An artist album isn't just a compilation of club tracks. It’s a concept that allows experiments, that opens up spaces for narratives, and allows the artist to go really far. At least that is the way I see it. I put everything into it, it was all or nothing. Martin Buttrich and I packed our studio and moved to Brooklyn in 2006. That album is a musical document of my time in and experience of Brooklyn, it sums up a period of my life, and for me it was a natural conclusion.

After "7 Dunham Place" there weren’t enough stories for an album. I was in the mood for straight, banging club tracks - for singles. I’d say that my "Toxic" EP from 2012 marks the end of that period. It was the time when I built my studio in Düsseldorf, and loose stories and ideas slowly intensified and condensed.

We invited guests to jam with us, rock the drum machines, synths and old, raw gear with us. Guti, Miguel de Ipola, Kobe aka Pimp Jackson, Chevy, my old hip-hop crew with whom I used to share stinky hotel rooms and tour buses in 1995. All the dots connected. What was meant to be warm-up sessions with guests, instantly became the sound I was looking for and the soundtracks to these new scenarios.

Then the features came...

There are strong bonds with all artists involved and everything unfolded naturally. I danced to Neneh Cherry's music when I was hip-hop kid, and I still do. Pulshar is one of my favorite bands who's two albums we released on my label Desolat Music Group. With Just Blaze, it was like two hip-hop guys working on something completely different, something harder, and it instantly worked. Jaw is not only that crazy guy who shares Tunisian roots with me, but his voice is special and fitted perfectly. Behind Mr. Techno there is Chris Liebing, super warm and funny guy with whom I share a lot, but whose artistic expression is quite different than mine, so here the opposites collide. Miss Kittin is a long time friend, and it was only her who could have completed that one song. Last but not least there is Giggs. You can’t ignore him if you look out of the US hip-hop box. He is unique. When I met him in London and played him the album, he was totally diggin’ it, he understood where I wanted to go with it, and I had him on board.

There have been so many changes around me since my first album that has become the narrative for "Underground Sound Suicide", and in a way I used music as a transmitter. It comes from the heart and is a testimony of who I am now.

Ultra Music's got my back on this one and the album will be going through the team there. They believe in it, and I'm happy to have them on board. Also here paths are crossing again. David Waxman from Ultra and I know each other since my early gigs in NYC in the early 2000s. Now we write this exciting new chapter together.

Here's a small sample of what to expect! Keep up with me, I'll be dropping more details in the coming weeks.

One love.

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Get Comfy (Underground Sound Suicide)

LOCO DICE - Get Comfy (feat. Giggs)

LAD026 Tale Of Us & Mind Against – Astral 
Get it here: http://btprt.dj/1j96pHe

Is the doctrine of the mind fully contained within the physical brain? Or are there places that we can traverse, places between places, that exist outside of ourselves and the consensual reality we all seem to inhabit? Close your eyes and just try it for a second. You may be surprised where you go…

Exploring this theme of journeying beyond our strict sense of self, label mates and friends Tale of Us and Mind Against have joined together once again to create a work that works, fittingly, well past the summation of it’s parts. Playing with tension and release and a restrained but expressive sonic palate that paints a picture without words, these accomplished artists from the Life and Death team bring us to a place that seems to surely exist. Even if we might not be able to pinpoint exactly where that is.

Artist: Tale Of Us & Mind Against 
Title:  Astral
Format: Digital & 12”
Digital Release Date: 05.10.2015
Physical Release Date: tbc

Tracklisting Digital & 12”:

1. Astral
	             
Astral written and produced by Tale Of Us & Mind Against 

LAD026 Tale Of Us & Mind Against - Astral

Weltschmerz EP got released on Turbo Recordings on December 11th 2016.

1. Weltschmerz (Original Mix)
2. Damage Control (Original Mix)
3. Lonesome (Original Mix)
4. Relatives Of None (Original Mix)
5. Weltschmerz (Melodic Theme)

"Weltschmerz: The kind of feeling experienced by someone who understands that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind."

Lead track ‘Weltschmerz’ sounds like an instant Berghain classic; dark, massive, trippy, and with an emotional character all too rare within the genre. The kicks are banging, the verbed out percussion is fierce, and it all moves around a haunting melodic breakdown that artfully dances on the right side of ‘progressive.’ It’s a killer track that perfectly sets the tone for the whole record.

‘Damage Control’ is a straightforward flex-a-thon, a housier rhythm that struts along confidently. The technical term is ‘floor-filler.’ ‘Lonesome’ brings the emotion back, with it’s super-tense, unresolved melodies, this is perfect for all your mega-club yearning & gurning needs. ‘Relatives of None’ is the nastiest of the bunch, and probably the most at home on Turbo, built around a screechy synth hook. Finally, ’Weltschmerz (Melodic Theme)’ provides an epic ambient outro, crystallizing the emotional tones of the EP and establishing a sense of artistic vision that ascends well beyond the pedestrian.

All buy links: https://turbo.lnk.to/turbo175

BUY ON BEATPORT

Weltschmerz (Original Mix)

Damage Control (Original Mix)

"Marilyn Monroe said 'imperfection is beauty' and we agree. This is one of the most special releases of the year. Probably the most beautiful, risky and sophisticated cuts ever released on Suara."

"Varpulis - Ancient deity known in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania and Croatia. According to the mythology, he is a God of storm winds."

Varpulis (Original Mix)

Pre-order: TurboRec.lnk.to/Sehnsucht

"Young artist Charlotte de Witte continues to bolster a credible catalogue of tough, no-nonsense Techno with the introduction of her second solo EP for Tiga’s extolled Turbo Recordings. 

With a recent nod from Alan Fitzpatrick who included her Weltschmerz (Melodic Theme) in his recent Fabric mix she is an artist with a penchant for dark and moody atmospherics. Now - after her inclusion in the recent 12-track VA on Suara - the previously gold-selling Ghentian producer follows up her collaboration with Oscar & The Wolf and her first solo EP on London’s Bad Life with Sehnsucht: a bold four-track record packed with burly kick drums, steely synth tones and hypnotic vocal sampling primed for discerning big-room crowds. Also included in the package is a ruthless remix from Suara boss Coyu.

The title track is an apocalyptic march propelled by a purposeful kick and an unapologetic clap that keeps the pressure up throughout before ‘My Feeling’ lays a circling, hypnotic vocal over scuttling claps and luminous, flashing hi hats. 

Coyu then steps in with his take on ‘My Feeling’, pushing it into overdrive and marrying brash, white-noise snare drums with shuddering hats and vocal snippets. 

‘Enough’ then sets sharp drums knocking against cold and capacious textures before a disquieting and arresting vocal suffuses the track to stunning effect. ‘Den Ganzen Abend’ then brings the record to a sinister close as a pellucid German vocal sample is set creeping over an ineffably weighty low-end sitting it comfortably on the floor of Berghain and capping off another coup for a consistently reliable label and an artist firmly on her ascent."

"Sehnsucht describes a deep emotional state and is translated as 'longing', 'pining', 'yearning', or 'craving' or in a wider sense a type of 'intensely missing'. It represents thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alternative experiences."

Played/Supported by: Len Faki, Shadow Child, Jackmaster, Eats Everything, Tiga, Andre Crom, Junior Sanchez, Digitalism, Dense & Pika, Maceo Plex, Anja Schneider, Truncate, Huxley + more

Release date: June 10th, 2016

Tracklist:

A1 Sehnsucht
A2 My Feeling
B1 Enough
B2 Den Ganzen Abend
DX1 Sehnsucht (Melodic Theme)
DX2 My Feeling (Coyu Remix)

www.turborecordings.com

Sehnsucht (Original Mix)

DEEP INSIDE ME - Deborah De Luca (Dandi & Ugo Remix)
sola_mente Records
Solamente026
november 2016

DEEP INSIDE ME - Deborah De Luca (Dandi & Ugo Remix)

GIVE ME BACK - Deborah De Luca, David Temessi
Riot Recordings
ADE Compilations 2016
available from 9 dec 2016

GIVE ME BACK - Deborah De Luca, David Temessi (Original Remix)

Deborah De Luca live set @ LOFT - Ludwigshafen, Germany 28.01.2017

From Another Mind first started as a South German party series but soon evolved into a fully fledged label run by SHDW & Obscure Shape. Now it operates as a label and for the fourth release, they've invited a high-profile techno squadron to remix some of their tracks.

Artists like Rødhåd, Dax J, Konstantin Sibold and Ryan James Ford have all offered up their own high-octane and emotive re-imaginings of the duo's tracks but today we feature Tale of Us & Mind Against's edit.

Their remix of 'Die Weiße Rose' is a piledriving techno behemoth, one suited for dark, dank warehouses. Its synths zap across the forefront while venomous kicks thump away in the background.

It's the sort of demonic, mutant-energy track we've come to expect from both sets of producers and we're fairly certain it's going to explode. Check it out exclusively below.

Version 004.2

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LAST SONG FOR YOU (Original Mix)
solamente035
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LAST SONG FOR YOU - Deborah De Luca

ABBRACCIAME - Andrea Sannino (Deborah De Luca Remix)
solamente 036
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ABBRACCIAME - Andrea Sannino (Deborah De Luca Remix)

"Closer goes first and is seven spooky minutes of spacious, acid-laced techno. Distant pads bring a cosmic feel and intimate spoken words make the whole thing feel personal yet unsettling as rubbery drums roll on below. Nothing pairs pulsating acid daubs with vocals drenched in reverb as slick drums drive things along. It’s a masterfully sparse yet engaging track that will cast its spell on all who hear it. Lastly, Motion is another absorbing track with deep drums and meandering pads sucking you into a cavernous sound world where alien motifs and acid gurgles work your mind as much as your feet.”

Closer (Original Mix)

BAD MORNING - Deborah De Luca
Sola_mente Records
Last song for you ep
solamente 037
track n2
december 2017

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