Recording from my last set on our Calypso Cvlt residency at @opiumclub in Vilnius, Lithuania.
One to remember...

Iñigo Vontier / Calypso Cvlt @ Opium Club // DEC 2019

https://my-dear.bandcamp.com/album/my-dear

Music by @adaofficial & @david-hasert
Remix by @superpitcher_official
Written by Bob Lind / Verve Folkways 1966
Mastering: Hans Frage / Deinklang
Original Version: Kompakt 298 / 2014 @kompakt
Label: MY DEAR / 2023

MY DEAR

DAMH - Black Night (Superpitcher Remix)

another precious day

Raphaël Piacentino - I Just Wanted To Fly

A pulse, a raw energy simmering beneath the surface where each transition feels like a jolt – one minute you’re floating in a tranquil soundscape, the next you’re engulfed in a wall of gritty, textured noise. 
A soundscape that feels alive with motion, constantly evolving, challenging you to listen deeper, to feel the tension and release as the music shifts between quiet introspection and visceral energy.

Dragana @ Juicy - Garbicz Festival 2024

Buy/stream: kompakt.fm/releases/the_floor_is_lava_2xlp_dl

Michael Mayer albums don’t come round too often, which is one of many reasons why his fourth collection, The Floor Is Lava, is a genuine event. It’s been eight years since his last one, the collaborative & released on !K7; its predecessors, Mantasy (2012) and Touch (2004), took their sweet time, too. It’s no real surprise, given the many hats Mayer wears – globetrotting DJ, revered remixer, inveterate collaborator, and boss of both Kompakt and Imara – that his solo productions are relatively sparing. But this also speaks to their quality: Mayer’s name on a record sleeve is a sign of quality, of music that’s both looking to the future and calling back to the past, that balances the imperatives of the dancefloor and the loungeroom, that’s as exploratory as it is functional.

On The Floor Is Lava, Mayer seems to be taking the temperature of both the music that surrounds him (past and present), and the ideas of the industry he works within. There’s that iconic album title, for a start. “The album’s mindset,” he says, reflecting on those four words together. For Mayer, it’s partly a critique of the way the industry boxes in both producer and listener, focuses them on genre, on market, on the next new thing: “Being a free minded spirit that transcends genres has become an uphill battle.” A battle worth fighting, though, and with The Floor Is Lava, the result is an album that’s varied, quixotic, idiosyncratic, charming, and deeply, addictively listenable.

Throughout, Mayer finds thrills in exploration and juxtaposition, allowing unexpected things to blossom and giving them their life, their platform, throwing the listener exciting curveballs: “It’s a DJ album by a DJ that’s easily bored.” Either easily bored, or endlessly curious, The Floor Is Lava is rich with ideas. It opens with “The Problem”, which looks back to look forward, embracing the rickety way early house productions threw samples together with gleeful abandon. Mayer mentions Pal Joey, and the scene around Rockers Hi-Fi and their Different Drummer imprint, as reference points, and you can hear that freewheeling spirit throughout.

That’s The Floor Is Lava: then and now, brainwaves and nerve structures, problems and solutions, genres on fire; the real, the unreal, and the surreal. An album for the easily bored and the endlessly curious. Mayer has the last word, telling us all you need to know about the album’s spirit: “Burning for the cause, being zealous, being addicted to the heat of the night, the exuberant powers of music.”

The Floor Is Lava

The Problem

Michael Mayer - The Problem

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/meine_unterkunft_ist_die_unvernunft_remixed_ep

At the end of last year, we celebrated the release of Jo “Schlammpeitziger” Zimmermann's brand new album “Meine Unterkunft ist die Unvernunft” on his 60th birthday at Kompakt Recordstore. Now we are delighted to present the accompanying remixes. An illustrious group of long-time companions has come together to pay tribute to the master of electronic eccentricity with remixes. Schlammpeitziger says thank you in his own way by immortalizing all the contributors with finely selected photos, hand-decorated on the cover.

Meine Unterkunft ist die Unvernunft Remixed

Loch ohne Licht (Ada Remix)

Schlammpeitziger - Loch ohne Licht (Ada Remix)

Taken from the new DJ Koze Album “MUSIC CAN HEAR US” , out on PAMPA RECORDS: djkoze.lnk.to/MusicCanHearUs

Unbelievable, the new single from DJ Koze’s upcoming album Music Can Hear Us (out April 4, 2025), sees DJ Koze and Ada deliver an otherworldly piece of music, drifting like a feverish dream sequence somewhere between beauty and unease.

In just 4 minutes and 30 seconds, DJ Koze and his “mental muse,” as he affectionately calls her, create an infinite space where familiar logic no longer applies, where nothing is as it seems, and where the uncanny lurks just beneath the surface. Hovering over this detached, dreamlike scenario is Ada’s angelic voice: a sound from another dimension, a plumb line cutting through the alienation.

With Unbelievable, DJ Koze has once again crafted an original piece of music—nostalgically familiar yet boldly futuristic—powerfully shredding through the boundaries of anything heard before.

He delivers, and delivers again. You can’t quite grasp how.

Music Can Hear Us

DJ Koze Feat. Ada - Unbelievable

Der Grundton (Michael Bum-Bum Mayer Rmx)

Der Grundton (Michael Mayer Bum-Bum Remix)

Rammelwolle

Bäume Strahlen Stress Aus (Robag Wruhme Mfda-Mfda Remix)

Move D & Fred P - Building Bridges [AUSLP010]

Pampa Records is a independent record label dedicated to releasing music that's seriously danceable without recourse to the tried and tested ingredients. A home for tunes that will conquer hearts and take root there forever, music that's brave and not afraid to break with convention. The record label is owned by DJ Koze.

Pampa is happy to receive demos at demo(at)pamparecords.com. If we like your music we'll be in touch. But if you don’t hear from us, it doesn't mean that the music isn't good, it just means that it doesn't suit to us and our plans. Thanks for sharing!

DJ Koze Feat. Ada - Unbelievable

Pampa Records

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