HOTEL HOLZ hits the Modul8 theme, “sublimation of contemporary dance music”, spot on, refining a seemingly harmless, stomping club banger into pure, dry Knarz. Following releases on Berlin label Shitkatapult, this is the long-awaited debut by HOLZ on his home turf. In tune with the label’s motto, exuberant club culture energies fuse with puritan Cologne-style minimalist sound. HOTEL HOLZ, club bar with a swinging sauna on the side, contemplative cactuses and cacophonous calm. A hotel with heart.

Hotel Holz

SÖRUS makes choices easily for melancholy, against uniformity. Surely this sound has its roots in Detroit, a brother in the Spirit of Minimal, but ultimately you get a polished darkness that can only emerge from the north, where the winds howl and the current flows. Strings echo in the distance while the bass drum marches gently on into eternity. Pure unadulterated sounds of the harbour. All you need is here. 

Sörus grew up in Cologne, studied in Aachen/ Aix-la-Chapelle, lives in Hamburg now.

Sörus - What Happened

Elektro Willi and Son have just pocketed the piggy-pink record for best-shaved album of this summer, so the family dodgem business is going full tilt once again. The remixers are passing the stick-shift back and forth in their dodgem cars and locking all the steering wheels into position with their sights set on the dancefloor. Caution is still recommended for bunchy bouncing, bounding or bumping, remember: "Without a helmet I don't walk out that door: duty comes first, then the dancefloor!" ...

Elektro Willi und Sohn - Autoscooter (Mittekill Remix)

'Gun Song' remixed by Nightmares On Wax. 
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Gun Song (Nightmares On Wax Remix)

Sublimierung Zeitgenössischer Tanzmusik // Sublimation of Contemporary Dance Music

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