FREQUENZ OST - MINIMAL 2

Released on Nov 25, 2009. Buy on Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/release/salamandarin-ep/206156

Marc Houle returns to Minus this year with a special digital only release of tracks collectively titled the Salamandarin EP. The purpose here is functionality, as Mr. Houle simply puts "these are five tracks to dance to".

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Marc Houle - Salamandarin | Minus | 2009

Marc Houle & Miss Kittin - 'Where is Kittin' with remixes from Dubfire and John Foxx and The Maths.

Out on Items & Things
Beatport: http://ow.ly/lo2PP
Vinyl: http://bit.ly/14Yt3VP

Official Teaser Video: http://ow.ly/kZsY4

Marc Houle & Miss Kittin - Where is Kittin (Dubfire Remix)

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Ninetoes - Escape (Tiger Stripes Remix) (Kling Klong)

CAMBRIA01 Side A

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A1 - NATHAN FAKE - BLACK DRIFT

Grasscut return with the second single from their forthcoming debut album. Continuing their theme of exploring the essence of our culture, on “Muppet” Andrew Phillips and Marcus O’Dair deal with losing your ability to communicate, something Phillips describes as “a very English kind of frustration.”

“I was talking to a bunch of people having a conversation none of us could be bothered to have,” Phillips explains. “And I could hear someone gossiping about a mutual friend behind me – I couldn’t resist pretending to text while actually recording them.” While this may not make Phillips your ideal friend, it results in great music. “I wrote the song while walking home and recorded the vocal straight into my phone. Musically it had to go from a pop song to total self-destruction. I remember Marcus ramming a drumstick into a cymbal, jamming the stick into a tom and bowing the cymbal furiously while I was yelling at the end. We really went there.”

Remix duties are ably dealt with by Nathan Fake, the estimable Norfolkian who can throw in everything from next-wave computer rock techno to vertiginous ambient pilgrimages, or in this case, come up with something in between. The package is rounded out by the ecstatic, electro-psych sweep of “Meadowhall At Last”.

Already acclaimed by Tom Robinson as “making genuinely daring music that still remains an accessible and enjoyable listen,” Grasscut are set to release one of the oddest, most listenable and strangely uplifting albums of the year.

Press:
“One of that select band of artists who are making genuinely daring music that still remains an accessible and enjoyable listen” Tom Robinson BBC 6music
“Ghostly, weird and enveloping electronica" Sunday Times
"Highly melodic, intelligently crafted and genuinely interesting" Clash magazine
"Pastoral psychedelia... wonderful stuff" Stuart Maconie BBC 6 Music
"Rich, moody folktronica - and if that doesn't get you going, well - you might be beyond hope" Bearded
"A celebration of England at its naffest & most beautiful... I like it a lot!" Steve Lamacq BBC 6music
"Off-kilter wonky keyboards, choral layerings of robotic vocals... brilliant" Tasty Fanzine

Muppet

Grasscut - Muppet (Nathan Fake mix)

03 Nathan Fake - Audio Gold

Nathan Fake and Wesley Matsell's new Cambria Instruments label already got us salivating with a split release between the two Border Community-affiliated artists in August. NF's track 'Black Drift' was intriguing and restrained, a subtle return to the fray after two years without releases – but now we have 'Nuuk' from his first full solo Cambria Instruments EP, and he's really cut loose. It's a stunner, somehow both fragile and nails-hard, and easily as spine-tingling as 'The Sky Was Pink'. It's good to have him back.

Nathan Fake "Nuuk" - Boiler Room Debuts

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krankbrother - Zipp (Marc Houle Remix)

Minus. On Beatport 06 April & 4 May on vinyl.

w/ Popof, Joris Voorn, Julian Jeweil, Dany Daze, Harvard Bass.
 

Marc Houle - Girl One (Cosmic Boys Remix) Minus

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Marc Houle- Borrowed Gear (Joris Voorn Remix)

'Restored' will see artists such as Danny Daze, Popof, Joris Voorn, Harvard Bass and MonkeySafari all remix tracks from the original 'Restore' album by Marc Houle. We've heard the whole thing and trust us, it's fucking great.

Today however we have the premiere of M.A.N.D.Y's edit and the German duo have gone in hard with their re-imaginging. 'Business' has been turned into a dark and menacing roller, with mutant undertones and fierce zaps to boot. It's a trippy one and we're sure it'll hypnotise any crowd that hears it.

Premiere: Marc Houle 'Business' (M.A.N.D.Y Remix)

My rework of the 2004 Marc Houle classic 'Borrowed Gear'.
A great piece of minimal techno form the amazing double LP Restored of which I used the track 'Business' on my 2005 Fuse Presents mix CD.
Needless to say I was honored to make a rework Borrowed Gear.

Marc Houle - Borrowed Gear (Joris Voorn Remix) - M_nus

Satisfy (Tiger Stripes & Pleasurekraft Remix)

Pleasurekraft are gearing up to ship a new EP on Kraftek called ‘3x3’, and we’re bringing you the first listen of Tiger Stripes’ remix of ‘One Last High’.

The original, a deep techy number, first appeared on Pleasurekraft’s 2014 ADE compilation ‘The Garden of Earthly Delight's’, but Tiger Stripes has given it the solid remix treatment, transforming it into big, bleak house roller that’s a perfect peak time weapon.

http://www.mixmag.net/read/premiere-pleasurekraft-one-last-high-tiger-stripes-remix-premieres

Premiere: Pleasurekraft, Jaceo, Vedic 'One Last High' (Tiger Stripes remix)


Tiger Stripes has delivered some heavy hitting tracks with his new EP on Truesoul. Each track has chunky drums that are laced with insanely catchy vocal hooks that keep the tracks and give them each a distinguishable character. The energy throughout the single is always kept up with the sweeping pads and stabs adding a dynamic flavour and showing us why Tiger Stripes is at the top of his game.

Tiger Stripes - Snapshot - Truesoul - TRUE1263

Tiger Stripes - Brrr - Truesoul - TRUE1263

Sydenham and Swedish Tiger Stripes compose another star-gazing Tech-House number to dance to under the Northern lights.

Ibadan Records, easily one of house music's most consistent labels for over a decade. They are astounding audiences again with the latest installment "Elevation" which comfortably eases its way into prime time deep house and tech house sets.
The result: sheer dance floor satisfaction!
Artist: Jerome Sydenham and Tiger Stripes
Title: Elevation

Produced by Jerome Sydenham & Tiger Stripes.
Written by Jerome Sydenham and Mikael Nordgren
Publishing by Bodija Music (ASCAP) and Warner Chappell - Admin. by Bodija

(p) © Ibadan Records. 2006
Release date: December 16, 2006


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Jerome Sydenham & Tiger Stripes - Elevation (Part 2)

Inspired by Acid Pauli, I made a playable version for me with more of the original lyrics...

Originaltrack: Mathilde Hutfeld - Die endliche Liebe  
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Stefan Biniak - Unknown White Label Vol.3

Download EP here: http://www.beatport.com/release/techno-vocals/73547

Release date: 28/09/2007

Why are the vocals turned down so low? This is the way we make Techno!

To mark the label’s 50th release Marc Houle gets right back to basics with two raw, stripped down future classics. What’s more both vinyl cuts, “Techno Vocals” and “On It” clock in at under six minutes meaning that this compact 12inch’s sound and message is going to be coming through extra loud and clear.

On “Techno Vocals” (as with all Houle productions) each sound is perfectly realised, commanding its own space with metronomic discipline. The rigid drum patterns, analogue explosions, regimented snare rolls, laser guided effects and delayed bleeps interact with supreme efficiency, while the arrangement is mapped out with cool, calculated intent. The result is a totally robust example of A-grade techno that’s really brought to life by the self-referential, pitched down vocal hook!

It’s well documented that Marc has more than a passing interest in 80’s electro, New Wave and retro computer games and these influences are somehow more apparent on Minus 50 than on his earlier solo releases or as part of Run, Stop, Restore. “On It” in particular will turn a few heads, making, as it does, a detour into previously unexplored territory. Revolving around a heavily filtered melodic bass riff, Houle punctuates the dry, upfront groove with a choice selection of rough, old school samples before dropping into a series of moody bass variations that give the track its distinctive flavour.

To complete the release, dub and accapella versions of “Techno Vocals” are also available as digital downloads offering amongst other things the chance to reformat the vocals over the original beats.

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Marc Houle - Techno Vocals | Minus | 2007

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.

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FREQUENZ OST - MINIMAL 2

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