2015.4

Paul Woolford - Erotic Discourse (Dense & Pika Remix)

A ‘pan-pot’ is a simple, functional dial that governs the left and right axis of the stereo field, useful but unremarkable; mobilee’s Pan-Pot is an entirely different proposition, a duo whose mastery of audio principles allows them to turn conventions on their heads, casting functionality aside as they plumb the deep, uncharted depths of pitch-black techno.

Since their inception in 2005, Pan-Pot have become a dominant presence in modern techno, an ascent mirrored in the rise of their home label mobilee records to the top tier of electronic music. Tagging themselves as “the dark side of the force,” Pan-Pot have melted minds, warped perceptions and reinvigorated the dancefloor with their heady, unorthodox sound; within their work, subtle pitch manipulations square off with wall-of-sound distortion, the dark stomp of 4/4 is tamed by intricate sound design, and minimalistic frameworks duel with throbbing bass lines, epic builds, and murky, off-kilter melodies.

Tassilo Ippenberger and Thomas Benedix met at Berlin’s SAE, and their studies in the production and manipulation of sound aided them in identifying Pan-Pot’s overarching sound aesthetic. The duo booked Anja Schneider for an ill-fated party in 2005, but the unfortunate circumstances helped forge a fortuitous connection with Schneider and her then-fledgling mobilee imprint. Within weeks, mobilee’s second ever release was Pan-Pot’s official debut, „Copy and Paste“. The steady stream of original tracks and remixes that followed on mobilee and Einmaleins, charted the duo’s unwavering commitment to precise, undulating and kinetic grooves.

The defining moment of Pan-Pot’s career came in 2007 with the release of their debut artist album, Pan-O-Rama. The aptly named long-player offered a 360-degree view of techno at its most twisted, balancing somber atmospherics with a lightness of touch, and spawning the overground hit “Charly”. More recently “Confronted” and “Captain My Captain” have demonstrated their classic, strong and timely production style, presenting them as the most consistent purveyors of techno around.

Pan-Pot are ceaselessly working and endlessly inventive. When not in the studio writing original material or remixing tracks by a myriad of artists, they can be found on the road, touring. Their DJ sets reveal a keen understanding of the dancefloor’s needs, and they are unconstrained by boundaries, traversing techno, house and everything in between.

Pan-Pot may have taken their name from an unexceptional element of studio equipment, but as with their music, they have rewritten notions of form and function through their own idiosyncratic language; once you’ve experienced Pan-Pot’s colossal, haunting soundscapes you will never forget them. Their vision, passion, and love of music continues to drive Pan-Pot — and the extended mobilee team —in all that they continue to do, and all that will come.

Pan-Pot - Charly (Original) - mobilee030

This is a remix I did for EDITORS, it will be released on beatport August 21 and all other digital September 4 on Play It Again Sam (PIAS).

Editors - Our Love (Solomun Remix

Kat Vinter - Islands (Johannes Brecht Remix)


Pan-Pot - The Other One EP
[SECOND STATE: SNDST009]
 A: Pan-Pot - 808 Nirvana
B: Pan-Pot - Pina

VINYL
Decks.de: bit.ly/1IR319a

DIGITAL
Beatport: http://btprt.dj/1CGPwMR

With Pan-Pot’s eagerly anticipated album, 'The Other’ on the horizon, it's only fitting that we begin early with a glimpse of what’s to come. 

'The Other One' is the first of two EPs from the duo's upcoming long player and with the two carefully selected tracks; 'Pina' and '808 Nirvana', it's exactly what you come to expect from the duo. 

'808 Nirvana' is a white knuckle ride laced with fast paced stabs, shakers and snares while meteoric rises carry you into deep space. 'Pina', aptly titled after the newborn addition to the family, is a bundle of energy. It constantly grows larger and more complex before finally unleashing a fierce, sonic blast that wouldn’t seem out of place on the soundtrack to a Hitchcock film. In perfect Pan-Pot fashion. 

'The Other One' is the perfect teaser ahead of the full album release, with both tracks the epitome of the Pan-Pot sound. 

Big room, serious, dramatic techno.

@pan-pot
@secondstateaudio

Beatport

Pan-Pot - Pina

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PRE-ORDER USS here: lnk.to/undergroundsuicide

L O C O ♦ D I C E

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Keep It Low

LOCO DICE - Keep It Low (feat. Chris Liebing)

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Adam Beyer – “Dieper is the one for me but all of them are good trax. Funky and perfect like always from Egbert!”
Marc Romboy - “Dieper is fantastic!! Playing!”
Laurent Garnier – “One word – Wwwwwaaahouuuuuu!!! Vrijheid the pick for me.”
Len Faki - “Dieper is definitely the best for me here!!”
Stephan Bodzin - “Will play out all 3 of the tracks at Mayday tomorrow. BOMBS!”
Samuel L Session – “I like it! It has groove and some soulful elements. Will play all three.”
Gregor Tresher – “Wow, Monster release by Egbert & GEM – all tracks are for me, straight into my October Top ten.”
Agoria – “Will try them out this weekend. For now Vrijheid is standing out.”
Ramon Tapia - “Vrijheid….BIG BIG BIG!!!! Support for sure!”
Cristian Varela – “Dieper is great!! Really excellent! Playing!”
King Unique - “Like the glistening chords & twinkling percussion on Vrijheid, lovely bit of sunshine techno.”
Pig – (Pig & Dan) – “Always excited to hear from one of my favorite producers out there…. Grooveg and Dieper are fantastic. Dieper is just a growling techno beast ready to be unleashed on the danceflooor, while Grooveg is as the name says a nice rolling groove…..”
Kaiserdisco – “Massive ep! Love all tracks Egbert! Big support from us!!”
Orde – (Slam) - “Another cool release from Egbert and Gem – playing Vrijheid!”
Dosem – “In love with Gem Records, Egbert and this whole melodic techno EP!”
Alan Fitzpatrick – “I LOVE Egbert!! And LOVE this ep!!”
Alexander Kowalski - “Dieper is the best of the release for me. Very solid EP from Egbert.”
Sasha Carassi - “Wow amazing release again from Egbert! Playin them all.”
Marco Bailey – “Full support always for Egbert and Gem ..i am a fan. ”
Hernan Cattaneo – “Really liking Egbert’s Vrijheid. Very nice. Gonna play it!”
Martin Eyerer – “Yeah! Very driving stuff here. Liking Vrijheid… will use for sure.”
Karotte - “Vrijheid is good! Groovegg is a goodie too. Playing them!”
Joseph Capriati - “Since I discovered Egbert there is always a track of his in my long sets. Love the melodies and hypnotic sounds he uses. Full support!”
Michel de Hey - “Yeah cant go wrong with Mr Egbert all 3 are cool, no use trying to pick out a winner here. :) ”
Sian - “Bomba ep!!! As always from Egbert. Support from me on all.”
Wally Lopez - “Really cool tech tunes again from Egbert..Virjheld my fav! Will play.”
Carlo Lio – “Dieper is def the one here… sounds like a dancefloor killer.. will be trying this tonight for sure.. support.”
Nuno dos Santos - “Rockin tracks! Will play Vrijheid & Dieper for sure!”
Rocky – (X-Press 2) – “Vrijheid is nice. Reminds me of a faster Tuccillo. Which I like ”
Dave Seaman – “A great EP of cool and BIG tracks. Definitely playing these.”

Egbert - Vrijheid [GEM Records]

Paul Ritch presents his new EP &gt;Secret Garden&lt; and celebrates 3 years of his own Quartz Rec. After 20 releases the label has stablished itself as a leading force in the techno scene and this new 3 tracks will raise the bar even further.

Atmospheric sounds, hybrid textures and organic layers laced with broken voices and bonded all together to generate the required voltage for each of the 3 cuts to be dance-floor explosive hymns. A delight!

Paul Ritch - Black Door (192k)

Beatport:http://bit.ly/Dios_bp
iTunes: http://bit.ly/Dios_iT

After the positive reactions on "Diablo", Oliver and I naturally decided to dive into a follow-up (with a rather appropriate title)! Not sure why we chose Spanish names but we seemed to be onto a good thing so we decided to keep nurturing those creative instincts. We had quite a few ideas going back and forth with this one, hence the two-part approach to the final version. Conceptually and with the working title, we wanted to take a lighter approach to this one, creating something less sinister than "Diablo" and I think that we succeeded nicely, helping to eventually take things into our "Elements" series. I should also mention how excited we were to have a brilliant Gaiser mix for this! - Dubfire

Oliver Huntemann & Dubfire - Dios

Agile Encodings 013

Dema & Paride Saraceni
Crazy Circus ep
incl. remix by Sian

With a powerful tech house groove the Italian duo Dema & Paride Saraceni produce for Agile "Crazy Circus ep", enriched by the presence of the Octopus label boss Sian who reworked the track "Panic"

Dema & Paride Saraceni - Panic (Sian MS Dos Mix)

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Cocoon

Radio Slave, SRVD, Patrick Mason - Elevate (Stefan Biniak Edit)

From early breakout hit "Phat Dope Shit" in 2002 to "Heavy Heart", a new collaboration with Skrillex and Fireboy DML, Dice has always been in the headlines. After his debut album "7 Dunham Place" on his own now long-running and well-regarded Desolat in 2008, came the major label follow-up "Underground Sound Suicide" on Ultra Music with guests like Giggs, Just Blaze, and Neneh Cherry, then the agenda-setting and club-focussed house and techno showcase that was "Love Letters" in 2018. 

Add in tens of EPs on Ovum, Minus, Cocoon, to name a few, and his remixes from everyone from Kevin Saunderson to Moby, Black Coffee to Disclosure, Warren G to Basement Jaxx, Loco Dice has always been at the beating heart of the electronic scene. 

His DJ sets, too, always brim with personality, whether in a small underground basement or on an iconic main stage at some of the world's top festivals like EDC Ultra, Tomorrowland and Coachella to name a few, playing to thousands. He has had era-defining residencies at iconic Ibiza super clubs like Circoloco at DC-10 and on the Amnesia Terrace as well at Space Miami. 

His lockdown move has been to unveil En Coleur, a label reserved exclusively for his own music produced at that time. SB Recordings followed. A new label open to all styles of dance music.

Since day one Loco Dice constantly pushes the boundaries of techno and house music production, from his appearance in 2004 PlayStation2 game "Decks & FX" to cooking up his own ideal fusions of hip hop and electronic music with his FKD side project or writing critically acclaimed runway soundtracks for Italian fashion designer Marcelo Burlon during Men’s Fashion Week in Milan for both FW20 and SS20.

Dice's distinctive fashion sense and strong visual aesthetic manifest in his collaborations with Amsterdam fashion label Daily Paper, pro sports hat purveyors New Era and in his own clothing brand Seran Bendecidos. 

All of this and his longevity prove that Loco Dice is undoubtedly an insatiable creative force most interested in the uncharted territory between genres and styles, the elements that link everything together.

LOCO DICE - Keep It Low (feat. Chris Liebing)

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