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Now lot of people don’t like Mondays and we think that’s fair enough; going back to work feeling a decade older after a heavy weekend spent making memories with friends can be a chore for even for the most optimistic of us as we trudge back in to the daily grind. Fear not this week though as our favourite type of Monday, Acid Mondays are on hand to help stave off those post weekend blues today with the exclusive premiering of their new Wolfgang Haffner remix for Rockets & Ponies.

With it’s HQ in rural Germany Rockets & Ponies has long bucked the trend by providing a coterie for the outsiders ­ those deemed  ‘too strange for the normal business’ (which considering the amount of labels based in uber liberal Berlin is quite a statement) with an ethos that fosters freedom of  expression, experimentation and an avant­garde approach. So who better to present a remix package of works by Jazz luminary Wolfgang Haffner that includes Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer, Nightmares on Wax, Acid Mondays and label founder Timo Maas. 

When approaching Wolfgang Haffner’s output ‘prolific’ doesn’t quite seem to cover it. With a career that spans over 30 years beginning in the German and French Jazz Ensemble and moving on to collaborative works with the likes of Chaka Khan, Bill Evans and Roy Ayres, Haffner has appeared on over 350 recordings.  The selected material within this package is taken from his latest album ‘Heart Of The Matter’ released through The ACT Company in 2013 ­ ‘Melodia’, ‘Luna’ and ‘Bing’ are twisted, stretched and reformed by the eminently prestigious roster of remixers. 

For us the pick of the bunch was DT favorites Acid Monday’s alternative take on ‘Bing’ and we knew from first listen that this was a release we needed to secure for the hallowed pages of DT.

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Exclusive Premiere: Wolfgang Haffner - Bing (Acid Mondays Remix)

DNDM is fresh and inovative collaboration project between Danielle Nicole and Derek Marin.
Growing up in New York, Danielle was first influenced by techno music in the late 90's during a legendary era when dance music and club culture were rampant in New York City. Nightclubs like the Tunnel, Limelight and Sound Factory spawned an inspiration that she could not ignore and she decided to translate her fifteen years of classical music theory and performance training into djing and producing and was immediately recognized as a forceful new talent in the industry. Known for her unique minimalistic take on techno, Danielle's presence as an artist cannot be ignored. Intense bass and dark animated synths are sprinkled with percussive detail and idiosyncratic sounds. She first introduced her sound to New York club goers at venues like Cielo, Sullivan Room, Love and Pacha before spreading her musicality globally. By now, she has engaged techno lovers in cities all over the United States, Central & South America, the Middle East and Europe. Despite a hectic calendar, Danielle is insistent about making time in the studio. Since releasing her first EP in 2008, she has released records on various labels including Little Helpers, Fantastic Friends, What Now Becomes, Thoughtless Music, Draft, Sullivan Room Records, NOSI Music, Klectik, Tulipa Recordings, Frequenza and Minitec Series. Danielle has remixed and collaborated with top techno artists including Someone Else, Matt Star, Dilo, Pablo Denegri, Alland Byallo, Jonny Cruz and Francesco Assenza.
Marin has been a staple of underground music for over 21 years & is one of the hardest working human beings in Techno. His productions are heading into the 1000s.
Derek has performed & collaborated with some of the biggest artists in the electronic music world like Andrew Fletcher of Depeche Mode, Mr. C, Alexi Delano, Carl Craig & Adultnapper just for starters.
Here is but a fraction of the great labels that Mr. Marin is associated with: Plastic City, Thoughtless, Superfreq, Get Physical, Little Helpers, Hidden, Fade, Surface, Thema, Siesta and many many more. Derek also produces under the monikers Sideview, Platonik, Modest D & others. In 2004, he established his own imprints Faucet Music & Like Button plus heads Subtrak Records. Keep a sharp eye out for Derek Marin's continuing onslaught of releases and his unbelievable live sets.

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After serving up an excellent album on the label, Jori Hulkkonen’s ‘Oh But I Am’ now gets remixed by a crack team of expert beatmakers as selected by the on point My Favorite Robot label bosses.

Jori’s original album was full of moving melodies and succulent synth layers and was perfect to be picked apart and reimagined for different dance floors. First to do so are Musumeci & Lehar who tackle ‘Waiting Is All We Have.’ The pair has worked together before on cuts for labels like Connoisseur and have a weekly show on Ibiza Global Radio. Their brain soothing track is a patient, magically melodic one with low swaying bass, tooting arps and dreamy vocals that melt right into the background in expert fashion.

French pair Villanova tackle ‘Four Step Program’ with typical élan, as you would expect of the Cocoon, Loveyeah and MFRR affiliated producers. In their hands it is a synthetic bit of delicate minimal techno with a feathery light percussive scattering. Echoing vocals add soul to the deep space drones and this one is sure to send people wild in the dead of night in some tiny back room. Mexicans Balcazar & Sordo (hotly tipped by Maceo Plex, who also releases their music) then link to remix ‘Quick to Judge, Slow to Execute’ into a gorgeously
fat deep house roller with hypnotic synths meandering over the perfectly drum line. Holding you in suspense throughout, it is another cultured late night club cut that is full of rich sound
design and original ideas.

Camea, the long time minimal techno goddess and label boss at Clink who also releases on BPitch Control, gets dark and abstract on her circling and spookily desolate remix of ‘It’s Taken Too Long’. A final and excellent hurrah is from UK act and Eskimo Twins member Heretic, who has been on an atmospheric acid tip when working solo in the last few years.
His interpretation of ‘Songs of the Eastern World’ is a laid back jaunt through the galaxies with cosmic patterns and twinkling melodies all making for an ambient opening before a cold
boom-bap and slow machine gun bassline add real drive.

This is a fantastic package that covers many different bases with real class from all concerned.

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Jori Hulkkonen - It's Taken Too Long (Camea Remix)

Jack Pattern - Ponteloco

This amazing trio from Zurich will release soon the "Ponteloco EP" on Drumpoet. We start with the upload of the title track. Enjoy!

Jack Pattern - Ponteloco

BNJMN - Amygdala [Delsin Records]

Julian Stetter - "Bushwick"

Out now (Vinyl + digital):  https://LifeAndDeath.lnk.to/Displaced    

Various Artists - Displaced Soundtracks

Release Date: November 3rd, 2017
Label: Life and Death
Format: Vinyl / digital
Cat #: LAD030

A1 Artefakt - Magnetic Midnight
A2 Black Merlin - OPI
A3 Appleblim - Sacred Rowan Grove
B1 Stimming x Lambert - Trafic Aérien
B2 Kink - Megadrop
B3 Fango - Nung
C1 Axel Boman - Just Imagine (Part I & II)
C2 Duncan Gray - Smelly Little Man
D1 Simian Mobile Disco - Hades Rocket
D2 Redshape - Theme
D3 Danny Daze - Orb

Seven years into its celebrated journey, Life and Death assembles its third and most adventurous compilation to date - Displaced Soundtracks.

For the first instalment in a new series, DJ Tennis has given free rein to some of his most trusted contemporaries, enabling many of today’s most respected dance music producers to display their hidden talents as composers. Gathering music from a long-aborted film, the collection stands as another bastion of Life and Death’s perpetual evolution.

Duncan Gray embraces dissonance, Black Merlin, Appleblim and Artefakt go interstellar and Fango channels post-punk squat music. Hades Rocket showcases the expertly-sequenced synth work that has graced Simian Mobile Disco’s illustrious career, while Redshape revisits all the right sides of 80’s Wave and Library music. Danny Daze and synth-savant KINK embrace non-standard tempi with great success, while Axel Boman delivers sitar-laced gospelhouse without a bass drum. Elsewhere, your favourite producer’s favourite producer, Stimming, team’s up with pianist Lambert and the pair learn to fly.

Inspired and challenging, Life and Death ventures into their eighth year confidently, constantly evolving without compromise.

Redshape - Theme

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Premiere: Leif Müller - Teleshop [Shtum Records]

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My Favorite Robot Records has been a strong force in underground electronic music since 2008.

The Toronto based label is an offshoot of the act “My Favorite Robot” formed earlier in 2002 by Jared Simms and Voytek Korab.

The label has managed to consistently release quality music by some of the electronic dance world’s most renown producers such as H.O.S.H, Kenny Glassgow, Jori Hulkkonen, Eric Volta, Sasse, Fairmont, Tiger Stripes, Tim paris, Chymera, Sid Le Rock, Tim Green, Clarian, and My Favorite Robot themselves just to name but a few and there is no slowing down for them!

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