What I did in 2020

22.01.2021

Electronic Love Collective - 7

Release Date : 27th March
Beatport : http://classic.beatport.com/release/cross-roads/1977441

Cross Roads

Cross Roads (Pacco & Rudy B Rmx) [Superordinate Music]

Roam Recordings maestro steps up to the plate for Wonder Stories with a two track EP of druggy, cosmic sounds. De La Mode is a Middle Eastern fantasy piece full of phrygian scales and eastern sounds which gets an excellent stripped down remix by Maya Danon. 

On the b-side, Sun Kissed is exactly what it sounds, a sunny cosmic journey that grows and and grows until it peaks euphorically. Remixer Pino slows things down and amps up the drugginess that manages to creep along just perfectly.

De La Mode EP

Sun Kissed (Pino Remix)

Buy EP: https://K7.lnk.to/StrangeFolkEP

Headed by the “Michael McDonald meets-an-MPC” ‘Which Way’, James Alexander Bright is set to release ‘Strange Folk’, a five track EP of lo-fi psychedelic soul, husky croons and forwards-looking-backwards studio techniques on 12th October 2018.

http://jamesalexanderbright.com
http://k7.com

Which Way

Which Way (Edit)

Mankind is dying. Only one man can do anything about it, Space Captain Harlock, Harlock, the name of a fictional space pirate from a cult Manga film. When not being hunted by the Gaia Coalition and saving the human race, Harlock lends his name to the latest release from Shubostar.
Shubostar is nothing short of a rising star, a Korean Expat making waves in Mexico with releases on Physica and Controlla forthcoming as well as this tasty little number from her own label Uju records. Harlock nods to the 80s without ever getting derivative, this slab of cosmic disco does more than enough to remind us of Flesh by Split Second but without the darkness, and we all know that the absence of darkness is light! 
If this release is anything to go by, Shubostar is going to be the brightest thing in the sky come 2019.

https://soundcloud.com/shubostar
https://soundcloud.com/ujurecords

PREMIERE | Shubostar - Harlock [Uju] 2018

Major figure of Los Angeles electronic scene, Kompakt affiliated artist Alexandre Mourcade aka Sonns launched the label Machine Limited in 2013 with TK aka Travis Kirschbaum,  with whom he also makes music as Split Secs. They are opening 2019 with their first various artist EP, made up of material from LA’s best known an rising talents, and 2 personal tracks including ‘Easy Love’, a splendid hazy and mesmerizing house jam, perfect teaser of this charming release. Machine Limited Various 1 is out on Machine Limited on 22nd February, also including works from Dave Aju, Split Secs, Live For Each Moon, Warehouse Preservation Society, Silk Road Fantasy and Second Language.

https://soundcloud.com/sonns

Various 1

PREMIERE | Sonns - Easy Love [Machine Limited] 2019

It Was Only An Orange

Immortal And Lifesize

Jesus Toy

Tygers

A Day Seems Wasted When We Don't Meet

Man Power - IPCRESS (Statement 1. Me Me Me)

Out now on Lone Romantic: lnk.to/LR016

If Galaxy Lane’s first EP didn’t send the portals of time and space upside down, then the second EP will throw you down a vortex of hypnotic grooves juxtaposed with eerily erratic rhythms built in outer space. The first of two EP’s to be trusted in the hands of Lone Romantic, ‘Night’ and ‘Later That Night’ will explore the concept of capturing moments in time. Maybe Galaxy Lane can best summarise... “I want people to really feel the mistakes in this music, the dirt, the rough and raw approach, the ‘sitting on the floor surrounded by wires at 3am messing with synths’ approach. That to me is the magic of this music, the interaction of man and machine, to hear the nuances, the tweaking of knobs and pushes of faders. I think we have lost that somewhat with digital technology, and have lost a lot of feeling in the process.

‘Night’ will propel the listener into ethereal textures layered over rough and raw beats, as outlined on opening track ‘Deep Space Nine’. If that sets you up for thinking this will be a dreamy ride, ‘Communication’ hits hard at the rear of the spaceship, coming at you with intergalactic bleeps, zaps and back cracking rhythms made for getting down.

Galaxy Lane - Made

Buy/stream: kompakt.fm/releases/total_20

Two decades. Twenty years. Twenty compilations. Over 400 tracks. Over two days of total playing time and countless coloured dots. If someone would have told us in 1999, when we put together TOTAL 1 that this would turn into one of the longest standing compilation series in techno world we would have laughed out loud. But here we are – in the year 2020 which will probably go down in history as the most difficult period ever for club culture. But we won’t stop doing what we’re doing. Music is our oxygen. We’ll dance together soon again.

The TOTAL series has always been like KOMPAKT’s yearbook and to say it with the late Frank Sinatra: It was a very good year. Our family of artists delivered a strong heterogeneous mix of uplifting sounds, from the lush reveries of ROBAG WRUHME and SOELA to the stark primetime bangers of MARC ROMBOY or ANNA & KITTIN and everything in between. Notable new entries to our crew are the Londoner KIWI with his wonderfully careless “Hello Echo” that picks up the camp disco vibes Justus Köhncke made a staple in our repertoire. Amsterdam’s DAVID DOUGLAS delivers an appetizer for a full course meal. His quirky pop approach sits comfortably between fellow dutchmen WEVAL’s abstract beats and AGENTS OF TIME’s opulent Italo Disco. YOTAM AVNI blends Detroit techno with new age jazz that reminisces the sound of ECM artists like Jan Garbarek or John Surman. The man with the hat, KÖLSCH also picks up jazzier notes in his very own big room style. Youngblood JONATHAN KASPAR appears twice, fortifying his status as one of the hottest beat smiths of our hometown Cologne. TOTAL wouldn’t be TOTAL without our permanent staff present in full force. As per tradition, KOMPAKT’s founding fathers, VOIGT & VOIGT, JÜRGEN PAAPE, JÖRG BURGER, MICHAEL MAYER as well as our Berlin outpost SASCHA FUNKE all deliver exclusive gems that also feature on Total 20’s double vinyl edition.

May TOTAL 20 become your trustworthy companion in these uncertain times.

KOMPAKT PREMIERE: Jonathan Kaspar - Young (Total 20)

Pista

Kobudai

Jürgen Paape - Vox Acris (Total 20)

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/total_20

Two decades. Twenty years. Twenty compilations. Over 400 tracks. Over two days of total playing time and countless coloured dots. If someone would have told us in 1999, when we put together TOTAL 1 that this would turn into one of the longest standing compilation series in techno world we would have laughed out loud. But here we are – in the year 2020 which will probably go down in history as the most difficult period ever for club culture. But we won’t stop doing what we’re doing. Music is our oxygen. We’ll dance together soon again.

The TOTAL series has always been like KOMPAKT’s yearbook and to say it with the late Frank Sinatra: It was a very good year. Our family of artists delivered a strong heterogeneous mix of uplifting sounds, from the lush reveries of ROBAG WRUHME and SOELA to the stark primetime bangers of MARC ROMBOY or ANNA & KITTIN and everything in between. Notable new entries to our crew are the Londoner KIWI with his wonderfully careless “Hello Echo” that picks up the camp disco vibes Justus Köhncke made a staple in our repertoire. Amsterdam’s DAVID DOUGLAS delivers an appetizer for a full course meal. His quirky pop approach sits comfortably between fellow dutchmen WEVAL’s abstract beats and AGENTS OF TIME’s opulent Italo Disco. YOTAM AVNI blends Detroit techno with new age jazz that reminisces the sound of ECM artists like Jan Garbarek or John Surman. The man with the hat, KÖLSCH also picks up jazzier notes in his very own big room style. Youngblood JONATHAN KASPAR appears twice, fortifying his status as one of the hottest beat smiths of our hometown Cologne. TOTAL wouldn’t be TOTAL without our permanent staff present in full force. As per tradition, KOMPAKT’s founding fathers, VOIGT & VOIGT, JÜRGEN PAAPE, JÖRG BURGER, MICHAEL MAYER as well as our Berlin outpost SASCHA FUNKE all deliver exclusive gems that also feature on Total 20’s double vinyl edition.

May TOTAL 20 become your trustworthy companion in these uncertain times.