Marc Houle @Crobar  03.04.15

Ellen Alliens Remix for Shinedoe - Panoramic
released on her label Intacto
http://www.shinedoe.com/

Ellen Allien Remix for Shinedoe "Panomanic" 3min cut

Marc Houle is back with his latest full-length album entitled “Cola Party” on his own Items & Things imprint.

The album contains 9 tracks, with the main singles being “Cola Party” and “I Don’t Wanna Know About You”. “Cola Party”, the lead track of the album, sets the scene with Houle’s textbook pitched down vocals weaving through tightly programmed drum patterns and heavy low frequencies. “I Don’t Wanna Know About You” is a late-night jam whose pulsating lead synth and effortlessly catchy main vocal hook make it one of the more upbeat tracks of the album. Both tracks will be released two weeks and one week before the album’s release respectively on iTunes.

“Cola Party” comes as a long-awaited follow up to Houle’s well-received 2012 LP “Undercover”. As an album, it contains all the elements fans and followers have grown to love with every Marc Houle release; his signature take on techno and jacking minimalistic-funk shines through from start to finish. If anything, the album is a clear example that Houle is still at the top of his game after more than 10 years in the business.

As a bonus for digital DJs and Traktor users worldwide, the album will be part of the Native Instruments' Traktor Remix Set series in July. The stems of 7 of the tracks from the album will be on this Remix Set release, following on from an array of other well-known artists who have done the same since the Remix Set series’ inception in Autumn 2012.

“Cola Party” is Houle’s sixth studio album and comes just in time for summer, with the release date set for 27th June.

Press contact: press@marchoule.net

Connect with Marc Houle:
www.marchoule.net/
www.facebook.com/marchoule.official 
www.mixcloud.com/marchoule
www.youtube.com/user/MarcRHoule
www.twitter.com/MarcRHoule
www.itemsandthings.com

Marc Houle - Jackn' Jill | Items & Things | 2014

Marc Houle is back with his latest full-length album entitled “Cola Party” on his own Items & Things imprint.

The album contains 9 tracks, with the main singles being “Cola Party” and “I Don’t Wanna Know About You”. “Cola Party”, the lead track of the album, sets the scene with Houle’s textbook pitched down vocals weaving through tightly programmed drum patterns and heavy low frequencies. “I Don’t Wanna Know About You” is a late-night jam whose pulsating lead synth and effortlessly catchy main vocal hook make it one of the more upbeat tracks of the album. Both tracks will be released two weeks and one week before the album’s release respectively on iTunes.

“Cola Party” comes as a long-awaited follow up to Houle’s well-received 2012 LP “Undercover”. As an album, it contains all the elements fans and followers have grown to love with every Marc Houle release; his signature take on techno and jacking minimalistic-funk shines through from start to finish. If anything, the album is a clear example that Houle is still at the top of his game after more than 10 years in the business.

As a bonus for digital DJs and Traktor users worldwide, the album will be part of the Native Instruments' Traktor Remix Set series in July. The stems of 7 of the tracks from the album will be on this Remix Set release, following on from an array of other well-known artists who have done the same since the Remix Set series’ inception in Autumn 2012.

“Cola Party” is Houle’s sixth studio album and comes just in time for summer, with the release date set for 27th June.

Press contact: press@marchoule.net

Connect with Marc Houle:
www.marchoule.net/
www.facebook.com/marchoule.official 
www.mixcloud.com/marchoule
www.youtube.com/user/MarcRHoule
www.twitter.com/MarcRHoule
www.itemsandthings.com

Marc Houle - Hot Sauce | Items & Things | 2014

Get it at https://fanlink.tv/PD5984

Italian dj/producer Gianmarco Staccone pairs two lush deep house bangers, Caminando and My Name, on this single. Part of Play Records' Summer Sessions 2025, Vol. 2 collection.

Hear more Gianmarco Staccone DJ at https://soundcloud.com/gianmarco_staccone_dj

Close out your Summer with this astounding collection of house, tech house, deep house, and progressive house bangers.

Summer Sessions 2025, Volume 2, features 16 new works from ACRAFT (Germany), Ash Brimelow (UK), Barros (Portugal), Beatmechanic (Canada), Blord (US), Eoghan Schlindwein (Northern Ireland), Ezequiel G (Argentina) & Hector Moralez (USA), Francesco Ferraro (Italy), Gianmarco Staccone DJ (Italy), Jayson Miro (St. Maarten), Maik D (Italy), Munro Blue (Canada), Not Yurs (USA), and Tim Gläser (Germany).

Play Records - https://playrecords.net

Summer Sessions 2025, Vol. 2

My Name (Original Mix)

GET IT

Gianmarco Staccone DJ / My Name (Original Mix)

Too Much For Me

Beatport

Ouw£ - Mine At Last (Behavior Recordings)

Download EP: http://www.beatport.com/track/slowpe-original-mix/2668001

EP Release Date: 05/09/11 

Troy Pierce, Marc Houle & Magda team up to present their first ever trio release on Items & Things, "Down & Out Vol 1" - which takes its name from their newly created party series - events that are based around the dark & intimate, off the radar, and under the ground.

Marc Houle’s ‘Slowpe’ ends the EP with a slightly slower pace, but in a disconcerting way: taking it down a few notches this one that transports the listener to the strangest dimension yet. Filtered melodies start the track’s ascent, sounding like a trumpet that’s been bent out of shape and played from the void. With dark textures compactly knit into a condensed wall of sound, a low-slung bassline trades places with eerie chords and sparse percussion.

Track list: 
A1: Troy Pierce “Majikal” 
B1: Magda + Suade “Fixation” 
B2: Marc Houle “Slowpe”

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Marc Houle - Slowpe | Items & Things | 2011

Alex AQ - Shake It (Original Mix)- LPZ004

Out 30 now on Blackstrobe Records: https://blackstrobe.lnk.to/thepianist
Produced by Fabrizio Rat and Arnaud Rebotini.
Written and performed by Fabrizio Rat on Prepared Piano, Roland TR909, Roland TB303, Roland Space Echo RE201.

TRACKLIST
A1 Lupu
A2 Michelangeli
A3 Horowitz
A4 Gould

B1 Aimard
B2 Pollini
B3 Argerich
B4 Rubinstein

Fabrizio Rat - The Pianist [Blackstrobe Records]

Download here: http://www.beatport.com/track/michael-jackson-marc-houle-mix/3101021

Release date: 06/12/11

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Phil Kieran & Green Velvet - Michael Jackson (Marc Houle Mix) | Phiel Kieran Recordings | 2011

The Tempranos - Amba'y

Especial Podcast in quarentine time, includes tracks by producer girls
that I admire for their work, ANNA, ANETHA, VTSS producer as T78, FARRAGO, AIROD and remixes of KOBOSIL, 999999999,

Quarentekno 2020 - Aldo Ayala Podcast

streaming live from Office909

+ info: 
@inbetween_py
www.inbetween.com.py

Bud66xInbetween Live Streaming / March 2020

En este episodio #008 presentamos un mix exclusivo de @juanjobn.
Dj Residente en Sub Club. Tanto el minimalismo como el techno en sus variadas ramas predominan la biblioteca musical de Juanjo Benitez.
Listen, enjoy

Episode 008 w/ Juanjo Benitez

NoTe Enamores - Elefante Mecanico, (quena)

Download EP here: http://www.beatport.com/release/sixty-four-week-1/127858

Release date: 06/08/2008

Marc Houle follows 2007’s Techno Vocals EP with a string of releases that experiment with the true potential of the digital download age, 3 tracks released per week for one month.

The project aptly titled Sixty-Four represents an exciting phase in Marc Houle’s production cycle with most of the year having been spent testing ideas for his album. As a result, these twelve tracks were only ever meant to represent ‘work in progress’, functioning primarily as DJ tools for Magda, Troy Pierce and Richie Hawtin over the summer with Marc also performing them live on the road and during the Contakt shows. However, exactly because of their 'in-between' nature, their inherent quirkiness and route one approach the crowds have really taken to them and other DJs have been desperate to get their hands on them. To satisfy demand, Minus has put together this very special series of digital releases for August, before a double pack 12" hits the shops in September featuring seven carefully selected tracks.

They contain such a wealth of unique and twisted sounds that it’s a challenge finding adjectives to describe them. Houle attacks each idea with verve and tenacity, constantly varying the unconventional line up of machines at his disposal, in fact there’s a vast collection of equipment on display here - early analogue synths, sequencers and drum machines, 80s digital synths, modern buchla synths, samplers, vocals, acoustic drums, electronic trigger pads, bass guitar - even a vst! The result is a plethora of sound encapsulating different styles and multi – coloured dimensions as each track revolves around a musical motif that’s subsequently stretched, contorted and wrenched in every direction possible. It all works perfectly as Houle never loses sight of the basic orthodoxies needed to make a techno track kick.

Week 1 sees the digital release of Sands, Deathray At You and Jouster, and the depth and quality of sound generated from his arsenal of machines is immediately apparent. Just check out the heavily treated raw bleeps and blips that usher in the huge, filtered bass loop on Sands. Every element is given space to breathe as the slow techno groove constructs around a dark acid bassline before the 808 hats introduce more beautifully crafted sounds, creating a lush analogue landscape. The beginning of Deathray At You reflects the title perfectly. A four-note descending bassline then takes the floor and Houle starts running amok with a selection of modulated effects that literally pull the sound inside out while the unobtrusive beats keep everything ticking over. Jouster combines more classic beats with laser cheeky unquantized toms and a low slung, warbling bassline in a rough and ready style including a classic, sampled vocal section.

There’s a strong reference to 80s computer and video game culture during week 2 with Buchla9 as it leaps and cavorts across the sonic spectrum - Just wait for the bass to kick in. Steeplechase is another high-end mixing tool continuing the theme of machines in meltdown with a fuzzy bassline slowly warping up and down while the loose groove speaks with a lazy tongue. Door Nobula then rounds off the instalment with a more aggressive techno workout. The beat hammers the point home with lethal precision as a twisted, freaking acid line dominates the majority of the track.

Week 3 returns to a slightly more sedate state of affairs with Flapping Around displaying some distinct early techno tendencies although its not long before Houle launches the unassuming riff and we’re off again. Selection 12 contains authentic bass guitar work, looped and filtered against a backdrop of delayed drum rolls and thick, reverberating swathes of guitar. The post punk overtones bring a dark, brooding quality to the project making it a welcome but not entirely out of place departure. Ketchup and Beans then kicks in with a tasty electro-funk groove. It’s an infectious dancefloor warmer complete with bouncing, elastic bassline and hypnotic hook taking control and ordering you to dance.

As we enter the home straight of this mammoth release, the fantastically titled Meatier Shower rains down as the title implies, complete with raw sampled hook line and creative interplay between the bass and a Magda vocal. It’s a bomb that detonates with insane harpsichord riffing at the end and a deeply meaningful last note. Investments instigates more mischief with shifting time signatures and delay effects that disorientate the dancefloor before What Are You Doin brings the curtain down. Drifting amid a haze of classic beats and a self referencing cut up vocal, it revolves around a programmed sequence, chattering in a way that reaffirms Marc Houle’s complete and almost unnerving control over his machines.

Press contact: press@marchoule.net

Connect with Marc Houle:
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Marc Houle - Deathray At You | Minus | 2008

Digital EP (24 May) - itunes.apple.com/gb/album/where-i…ttin/id638765522

A collaboration between Items & Things label boss Marc Houle and Grenoble born techno/electro legend Miss Kittin, IT022 sees the release of “Where is Kittin?” a six track EP featuring two original tracks, as well as remixes from Dubfire, John Foxx & the Maths, and two further edits from Miss Kittin herself.

Building on the disco-not-disco, industrial and new wave influences of Houleʼs recent Items & Things long-player “Undercover”, the two originals on “Where is Kittin?” demonstrate the wide-ranging influences and potent pairing of the production duo: the title track a jagged hybrid of Houleʼs signature style and Kittinʼs deadpan vocal talent. In sharp contrast, A2 track “Black Star” presents an equally driven, yet slightly more ambient affair: its haunting synth lines, detuned claps and granular vocals a poignant reminder of the pairʼs production abilities both on and off the dancefloor.

High profile remix duties come from Sci+Tec Techno mastermind Dubfire, as well as John Foxx & The Maths: a recently formed musical project featuring electronic music pioneers John Foxx and modular synth experimentalist Benge. Dubfire furthers the main room potential of the EPʼs title track, with John Foxx & The Maths bringing the male vocal line to the forefront, turning the track into a roaring techno/electro-pop live hybrid.

With “Where is Kittin?” also acting as a succinct accompaniment to Miss Kittinʼs double album “Calling From the Stars”, out on 22nd of April via wSphere/Wagram, Kittin appropriately rounds off the package with a further two of her own edits, a pair of eloquently stripped-down digitally exclusive versions of the EPʼs two title tracks.

Press contact: press@marchoule.net

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Marc Houle - Slowpe | Items & Things | 2011

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