Earlier in the year the trio that is Pink Skull released a debut LP that was full of a metallic, liquid,and raw sounds, delving into urban landscapes and deep space industrial wastelands. Here
select tracks from it get remixed by a fine selection of modern talents – Raxon, disCerN, Stefan Z
and Balcazar & Sordo - and have plenty of new life breathed into them.

First up, ‘My Other Feet is My Car’ gets reworked by Balcazar & Sordo, the hot Mexican act that
has released on labels like Culprit and Audio Tonic. Their version is a dramatic, macho disco
affair with tight drums, slick arpeggiated melodies and crisp synth lines all building to dramatic
peaks.

Raxon, label manager at Dubai’s foremost imprint Audio Tonic, then flips ‘Ryryryry’ into a freaky
bit of wonky and unhinged tech house with bendy toms, echoing voices and lots of little alien
spirits. It’s a peak time, main room bit of tension-fuelled house that will undoubtedly bring
dancefloors together.

Stefan Z, who has had his own full EP on the label back in late 2013, then goes to work on
‘Abalone’ and opts for a sparse remaking that is propped up with a bobbling, dirty bassline.
Above it industrial synths are allowed to ring out into a chilly night sky before more radian
patterns unfold and his bleak vision of the future full manifests itself.

Lastly disCerN aka esteemed DJs and producers Jonny Cruz and Silky then team up to remix the
same track. Their version is a deep and constantly decaying house effort with feathery
percussion, swaying drums and some serious somber chords that strike a truly introspective vibe.
This is another fine packages of remixes from some of the day’s best.

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Pink Skull - Huitlacoche Remixes (My Favorite Robot Records) (Out 11th August)

A weekly selection of the last releases made for the Berlin underground club scene. 
From the smoothest to the roughest
Enjoy!


PDV Berlin Summer Selection #4

Various Artists - My Favorite Robot's Best of Year 6 (Out Jan 19)

Tracks

My Favorite Robot serves up another unique and uncompromising release from Pink Skull, this time in the form of an exclusive vinyl release, months ahead of its digital companion. Energetic analogue forms that are simultaneously playful and moody define the sound of their latest full length Huitlacoche.

Huitlacoche, the group's fourth release, sees its first full length foray with a new pared down line up of Julian Grefe, Justin Geller, and Joe Lentini. Days on end spent tethered to their synths have yielded a purely electronic record; in a way, a return to their roots and a serious step forward.  

This line-up has recently made waves with their EPs for MFRR, Throne of Blood, and Days of Being Wild, with each garnering attention across the globe.

The title track kicks off with a serious raw groover, whose ticking, machine made percussion lays down a strong foundation for the dance floor whilst the synth frippery completely takes one's mind away to another place.

'Trans Gender Express' continues in the same vein with molten acid lines set off by gentle, ambient synthscapes. 'Perfect Suites' is a deeper, more elastic affair offering up sublime and surreal synth work that conjures up images of otherworldly perfection.

‘Mutant Comfort' is a trippy melodic free-fall and 'Burmese Engines' is a beatless trip through inner space. All of the releases conjure up the ghosts of synth pioneers past, from warm ambient to proto industrial - all the while keeping their attention focused on the future… and it's all hugely captivating.

Pink Skull - Huitlacoche

Pink Skull - Perfect Suites

Pink Skull - Trans Gender Express

My Favorite Robot turn once again to Sin Cos Tan for the next single and deliver a remix of their own, as well as one from Aiden Lavelle, to complete the package.
Last summer My Favorite Robot Records further cemented their relationship with Jori Hulkkonen(and Sin Cos Tan partner Juho Paalosmaa ) with the release of an exclusive remix package of tracks from the debut Sin Cos Tan album. Now they strengthen the bonds once again with a single based around one of the cuts from the duo’s latest album ‘Afterlife’.
‘Destroyer’ is a doleful slice of emotive house come pop with taut, sinewy chords and insular and introspective vocals delivered in a breathy tone. It’s the sort of nagging tune that never leaves your brain with clean, crisp synth work that makes for a truly absorbing track.
The label bosses themselves turn in the first remix and layer it up with plenty more rubbery kick drums so it drives on the dancefloor that bit more purposefully. The synths are less smooth and more ragged around the edges making for a darker, more dystopian vibe, but the original lyrics remain intact.

Aidan Lavelle, a producer of increasing repute on labels like Crosstown Rebels, then reimagines the track as a kinetic bit of tech funk that is run through with plenty of synthy turbulence.

Yet another seriously synth driven package from My Favorite Robot Records that confirms them as one of the artiest electronic labels out there.

Sin Cos Tan - Destroyer (My Favorite Robot Remix)

Just ahead of the release of his excellent Crossing Wires compilation, Timo Maas’s relationship with the My Favorite Robot label continues to flourish with this new EP. Offering two new and exclusive cuts from said forthcoming compilation - plus another special remix from My Favorite Robot - it is pure techno excellence.

Timo Maas is of course an enduring techno icon famed for his eclectic sound and always compelling EPs and LPs. The most recent of those came late last year and featured high profile collaborations with the likes of James Lavelle, Mikill Pane and Placebo's Brian Molko, whilst throughout his career he has released on labels including Cocoon and Perfecto as well as running his own Rockets & Ponies outlet.

First comes ‘Watching the Robots’, a meandering bit of deep and mid tempo techno with a fat, dystopian synth line that spreads across the whole horizon of the track like a search light. Subtly fizzing electronics and imposing melodic drones circle to add even more sci-fi ambiance and it makes for a pleasingly otherworldly listen.

On the flip is ‘Z Panorama’, an equally bleak vision of the future with a droning synth line falling down the scale and sucking you right in as a result. The slick beats roll on below and sad piano notes linger long in the air, all the while conjuring filmic intergalactic imagery in the listener’s mind. The My Favorite Robot trio quicken the tempo on their remix, layering in a light dusting of dancing hi hats and miniature melodic explosions that colour the night sky in some style. A molten acid line also creeps in to complete the perfectly future facing and expansive sonic
picture.

These tracks are at the very heart of the forthcoming compilation and prove Timo, decades after first announcing his arrival with that remix of Azzido Da Bass, is as pioneering and essential as ever.

Timo Maas - Watching The Robots

Following on from the inaugural Crossing Wires compilation by Toronto trio My Favorite Robot, next to mix it up for the exciting series is global electronic music icon Timo Maas. Still riding high off the success of his latest and greatest full length relaese, Lifer, back in 2013 (which blended trip hop with ambient, sleazy house with wonky techno and included collaborations with the likes of Placebo’s Brian Molko and Brighton chanteuse Katie Cruel as well as James Lavelle, founder of seminal ‘90s label Mo Wax) Timo has long been a pioneer in his field. Of course, he also runs his own influential label, Rockets & Ponies, and the German producer has also appeared on the MFR label before with standout track ‘Dancing For My Pleasure’ from the first Crossing Wires. Timo is also a revered DJ and in 2013 celebrated 10 years as resident at one of underground house and techno’s most mythologised clubs: Circo Loco at DC10 out in Ibiza. As such, this new Crossing Wires compilation draws on his skills as both selector and sequencer and proves few can do it better than this long-standing talent. The mix features 14 brand new and exclusive tracks from a range of artists old and new – some are closely associated with MFR, some less so, but together they paint a perfect picture of the state of modern electronic music. Man of the moment Eric Volta kicks things off with the serene synth stylings of ‘Dreams Don`t Turn to Dust’, a suitably lush affair that sets a soothing tone. From there we soon drop into a compelling groove courtesy of My Favorite Robot’s ‘Dead of the Dance’ and Timo masterfully balances the tempo through his ensuing selections. Never does he get stuck in one place for too long, instead coherently going from spaced out sci-fi house (Discern & Signal Flow’s ‘Coarse Language’) to tripped-out tech (Tim Green’s ‘Plenty of Spiders’) and kinetic and synthetic sounds (Martin Buttrich’s ‘Bubble Heat’) with ease. Timo’s own productions appear twice, first in the form of the growling, shadowy ‘Watching The Robots’ then in collaboration with long time partner Santos on ‘Z Panorama’. Tracks and remixes from Chris Carrier, Villanova and Daniel Stefanik then make up the latter half of the mix in which energy levels are kept up and heady, futuristic imagery is never far away. This is a compelling mix that showcases both the modern sound of house and techno whilst proving that Timo Mass has an understanding of dancefloor dynamics that few could ever question.

Martin Buttrich - Bubble Heat

Earlier in the year the trio that is Pink Skull released a debut LP that was full of a metallic, liquid,and raw sounds, delving into urban landscapes and deep space industrial wastelands. Here select tracks from it get remixed by a fine selection of modern talents – Raxon, disCerN, Stefan Zand Balcazar & Sordo - and have plenty of new life breathed into them.

First up, ‘My Other Feet is My Car’ gets reworked by Balcazar & Sordo, the hot Mexican act that has released on labels like Culprit and Audio Tonic. Their version is a dramatic, macho discoaffair with tight drums, slick arpeggiated melodies and crisp synth lines all building to dramatic peaks.

Raxon, label manager at Dubai’s foremost imprint Audio Tonic, then flips ‘Ryryryry’ into a freaky bit of wonky and unhinged tech house with bendy toms, echoing voices and lots of little alien spirits. It’s a peak time, main room bit of tension-fuelled house that will undoubtedly bring dancefloors together.

Stefan Z, who has had his own full EP on the label back in late 2013, then goes to work on‘Abalone’ and opts for a sparse remaking that is propped up with a bobbling, dirty bassline. Above it industrial synths are allowed to ring out into a chilly night sky before more radian patterns unfold and his bleak vision of the future full manifests itself.

Lastly disCerN aka esteemed DJs and producers Jonny Cruz and Silky then team up to remix the same track. Their version is a deep and constantly decaying house effort with feathery percussion, swaying drums and some serious somber chords that strike a truly introspective vibe.

This is another fine packages of remixes from some of the day’s best.

Pink Skull - Ryryryry (Raxon Remix)

Pink Skull - My Other Feet Is My Car (Balcazar & Sordo Remix)

Pink Skull - Abalone (DisCerN Remix)

Pink Skull - Abalone (Stefan Z Remix)

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/07/midnight-tempo

Download

Lokiboi - Midnight Tempo

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/07/elevator-song-ulrich-schnauss-re

Swoon - Do You Love

Finally, my remix compilation and tribute to Lee Burton's 
great album, "Busy Days For Fools", which was supposed 
to be released nearly a year ago, is now available.

http://www.decks.de/t/lee_burton-busy_days_for_fools_remixes_pt02_-_lake_people_remixes/c3m-rb

http://www.beatport.com/release/busy-days-for-fools-lake-people-remixes/1320216

B1 Lee Burton - One (Lake People Remix)

Two years after releasing his first album “Lessons in dub”, Marc DePulse brings Ostwind another melodic techhouse tune called "SERIOUSLY?". On the flip Niconé (Dantze / Stil Vor Talent) comes with a brilliant and very intelligent “ahhahaa” remix. 

A1 Seriously? (Original Mix)
B1 Seriously? (Niconé ahhahaa Remix)

Release: August 2014

https://www.beatport.com/release/seriously/1388801

Seriously?

Marc DePulse - "Seriously?" (Original Mix)

For their next release, leading Canadian indie dance label My Favorite Robot returns to a huge release from earlier in the year by Montreal duo Flowers and Sea Creatures. Their ‘Afternoons & Afterhours’ release featuring Wrong Jeremy was a serene and widescreen EP that built patiently and won them many fans, and now label regulars Eric Volta and Speaking Minds, alongside Adriatique all remix it. 

DJ and production duo Adrian Schweizer and Adrian Shala aka Adriatique hail from Switzerland and have really put their country on the map in recent times. Releasing a string of standout EPs on labels like Culprit, Diynamic and Hive Audio, they are also regulars in the world’s best clubs and this year are residents at Solomun's Diynamic night at Cova Santa. Their version of the ‘The Very Next Day’ repackages it as a trippy, melody rich house roller with deep, groaning and moody basslines underpinning the whole thing. It grows increasingly chaotic as things roll on, taking dancers ever deeper down the rabbit hole in the process. 

Next up is Eric Volta, a MFRR regular and masterful synth craftsman who also releases well received sounds on 1trax, No.19 Music and Visionquest. His ‘Navigate the Untold Cosmos remix’ is a fantastically moving thing that initially casts you adrift in a celestial and heavenly sphere of beat-less ambience. Eventually it coalesces into an engaging, ticking house number with synths spraying about of their own free will and vocals bleeding in to add more layers of heavenly atmosphere. It’s hugely sensitive and emotive and will make all the hairs on your body stand right on end. 

Last but not least to remix is Speaking Minds, a project born in 2012 from the union of 2 Italian guys with a common passion for music: they have appeared on Noir Music, had a standout EP on MFRR earlier in 2014 and have had support from the likes of Tale of Us. Their remix of ‘Citadel’ is similarly spine tingling in the way it so patiently builds on spaced out kicks. A sombre, undulating synth line adds a sense of drama and the airy vocals are allowed plenty of space to breath up top. It’s the sort of peak of your set track that really brings everyone together in magically moody fashion. 

This moving package is a fantastic way to revisit one of the MFR label’s biggest hits this year and proves they know exactly who to call when it comes to choice remixes.



Flowers And Sea Creatures Feat. Wrong Jeremy - 'The Very Next Day' (Adriatique Remix)

Villanova - AR 2 (Original Mix)

Production outfit Pink Skull join the swelling ranks of the My Favorite Robot Record artist
roster, dropping a stunning new five track EP of spaced out grooves in 5 distinctly different
flavours…
Julian Grefe and Justin Geller have been working together for the best part of a decade now releasing a string of singles and albums that have gained the Pink Skull name a hallowed respect. The duo’s shared love of early disco and primitive electronic music has been instrumental in forging their sound and ensured that their take on things is always far from predictable. Now Grefe & Geller have joined forces with Joe Lentini (Schematic, L.I.E.S.) for their latest offering to be released by the everexcellent, Toronto based My Favorite Robot Records, the label that has stormed its way through 2012 with music from the likes of Jori Hulkkonen. Fairmont, Sasse, Tom Demac & Tiger Stripes.
The ‘Definitive Gauze EP’ opens with stunning ‘Germ Free Iridscent’, an off kilter slice of electronic music that taps into elements of techno, ambient, drum & bass and electro whilst never quite being any of the above. Swirling FX and an ever-shifting arrangement give the track an otherworldly feel and help make a record that has a truly unique feel. Second of the five sees Pink Skull shift into acidic techno mood for the rolling rhythms of ‘Laotion Size’, a track which morphs between a heads down warehouse groove and its quirky electro interludes. ‘Primitive, Jelly Covered’ comes next with its discordant ethereal synth lines and tape-delayed stabs sitting over a deep insistent backing track,
quality stuff. Penultimate title track ‘Definitive Gauze’ offers up a squelchy slice of techno with some deep, Detroit influences and finally the excellent ‘Taupe Heroics’ journey into blissful ambient territory with a retro inspired soundscape that conjures up the best of Tangerine Dream, sublime.
Another winner from the My Favorite Robot Records team and a great sign of what’s to come for
2013, enjoy!

MFR067 - Pink Skull - Primitive, Jelly Covered (Original Mix)

MFR067 - Pink Skull - Definitive Gauze (Original Mix)

www.myfavoriterobotrecords.com
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!