knopychka

Gabriel Ananda's debut for Suara Recordings

Gabriel Ananda - The Hunt (Suara 097)

Mano Le Tough - Primative People (Tale Of Us Remix)

ARMA PODCAST 098: Ion Ludwig @ Season Opening

Creep (Tale Of Us & Vaal Remix) [feat. Wayne Tennant]

Digital: 
Beatport: http://btprt.dj/1qOLxXr
iTunes: http://bit.ly/1jeSMCT
Juno Download: http://bit.ly/1oHsY5D

12":
decks:  http://bit.ly/ROsm03
Juno Records: http://bit.ly/1jLT9QX
Deejay: http://bit.ly/1sKc0kT

Poker Flat Recordings welcomes back the ever-prolific Alex Niggemann for another speaker-troubling dispatch. This time out, the Aoen and Soulfooled boss drops a hea- vy–duty release that more than lives up to his usual high standards.
'Materium' is epic in every sense of the word- a sprawling, tough journey into analog tech- no – with a dash of house thrown in. It rips through the speakers – the crisp and aggres- sive production provides the space for grow- ling synths and atmospheric, tense pads. What’s more, the whole track audaciously dissolves into silence mid way through – be- fore exploding back into life via a descending analog synth line.

Beatport

Alex Niggemann - Materium

Money

@recondite's "Solan" will be released on Plangent's (@user-25586874) first label compilation, due July 8th. More info: bit.ly/Recgent

Plangent Compilation Vol. 1

Recondite - Solan

Out now on 12" & digital release - 
Juno - http://bit.ly/CRM165
Phonica - http://bit.ly/CRM-165
Beatport - http://bit.ly/CRM_165
Deejay - http://bit.ly/crm-165

Creative partnership Audiofly are the next to release on Crosstown Rebels with the show stopping ‘In The (Last) Moment’ featuring the angelic voice of Georgia Lewis. The release comes complete with a steadfast remix from Germany’s Robag Wruhme.

‘In the (Last) Moment’ sets the foundation with broken chuggy beats as intricate layers and grumbling pads unfold beneath the beautiful sounds of Georgia’s voice. Audiofly explain that, "sometimes it’s nice to not have to write the usual peak time bomb, with this one we followed our hearts and the vibe of young vocalist Georgia Lewis and what emerged was a sunrise moment."

With 13 years behind them Anthony Middleton and Luca Saporito AKA Audiofly have established a creative empire, which includes two record labels and their Flying Circus global party brand, which celebrated its 10th anniversary earlier this year with a world tour. Working harder than ever, a second artist album is in the works following on from 2011 long-player ‘Follow My Liebe’.

Industry veteran Robag Wruhme has more recently had releases on the likes of Kompakt and Pampa Records. Here he makes an imprint on Crosstown Rebels with this epic remix that fuses elated synths and industrial elements over solid rolling percussion.

In The Last Moment

Audiofly feat. Georgia Lewis - In The (Last) Moment (Robag's Ponk Pramen NB Remix)

DJ KRUSH 20th Anniversary Project "Monthly Single Series" #6 (released on Feb 2012)

Time flies by so fast, it's already been a year since that Higashi-Nihon Earthquake that attacked my homeland. Natural disasters, human disasters, wars, economic declines, racism,...so many tragic realities happening everyday across the planet.DJ KRUSH will be sending messages of requiem in 2 consecutive months, to all the people giving all they got to survive NOW. "The Black Rain (Kuroi Ame)" and "The Pale Rain (Aoi Ame).""The Black Rain" which is to be the 6th of the serial release depicts the duality of human beings, the tears shed from endless sorrow and anger, and on the contrary, the strength to live through all such emotions. And it will be followed up by the 7th of the series, "The Pale Rain," which depicts the thawing and breathing of lives after surviving through all difficulties. The 2 sound-soul radiated in a strictly original manner. Never mind the bollocks, all it matters is to deliver something to people's hearts...

母国日本を襲った東日本大震災から早１年。天災、人災、紛争、経済破綻、差別などなど、世界中で日々起こり続ける様々な現実。２か月に渡り、現在(いま) を必至に生きるすべての人に送る DJ KRUSH なりの鎮魂のメッセージ。本シリーズ第六弾となる『黒い雨』では、止まない哀しみや怒りの涙と、反面それらを乗り越えて必至に生きていく強さ、両局面にある人間の性を表現。次作、第七弾の『蒼い雨』では、困難を乗り越えた先にある心の雪解けと伊吹を表現。独自の世界感で放つ２つの音魂。難しい事は抜きにして、人々の心に何かが残ってくれたら...。

Kuroi Ame - black rain (short ver) / DJ KRUSH

DJ KRUSH 20th Anniversary Project "Monthly Single Series" #8 (released on Apr 2012)

2011年9月よりスタートした本シリーズもとうとう第８弾。現在世界各地で開催中の２０周年ワールドツアーを見据えて書き下ろされ、各公演でのフロアの反応を踏まえ、幾度もの手直しを経てようやく１つの音魂に！今回のツアー・セットの中でも反響の高い１曲で、継続的な問合せも相次ぐ話題作がいよいよ登場する。フロア映えするシンプルな構成の中にも、随所で体感できる繊細 且つ 奥深いDJ KRUSHならではの世界感を是非ご体感あれ。

It's already been the 8th of the monthly series since its launch in September 2011. Originally made as a part of the live set for the current 20th anniversary world tour, it's been rearranged and refined multiple times reflecting the reactions of the audiences around the world, it finally came together as a complete tune. It's one of the hardest head-knodder of his current live set, and what everyone desperately awaited and inquired to be released. Experience the simple yet abstractly sensitive & in-depth world of DJ KRUSH in this floor bomber.

Genun - passage of time (short ver) / DJ KRUSH

Maceo Plex - Mutant Pulse Feat Paradigm Shift

The World, as we know it, has changed. A routine rethought has allowed time to create. With borders closed and friends isolated from one another, our ‘40 Days In Quarantine’ series has invited artists to connect us all together once more via the power of music, as we live out this surreal and dystopian period. 

Borders Of Light’s boss, Toto Chiavetta, delivers our first installment - three tracks characterizing and capturing the varying emotions felt whilst confined by himself in Italy. It touches against the chaotic, the calm and the positive - emotions we have all been battling with over the past weeks. It shows the testament of the human mind and the strength and emotions we have all been experiencing. 

Suheir Hammad - What I Will (Toto Chiavetta Liaisons Dangereuses - 326 Michigan Ave Edition): A nostalgic battlecry

Polishing off the release is a penned tribute to two of Toto’s inspirations - Ron Hardy and Liaisons Dangereuses. Hardy was one of the purveyors of house music in Chicago in the 80s, and as a resident at The Music Box (address 326 Michigan Avenue) in the city, he would often play music from the equally innovative and unconventional German band. 

‘What I Will’ combines elements regularly expressed by both artists with a poem spoken by Suheir Hammad placed on top. The words are a feisty piece of art - a battlecry of rebelling against what’s considered the societal norm of thinking. In the background, bright harmonic chords beam through to form the uplifting groove, as raw hi-hats daze in for a classic disco structure: an element quintessential to and continually showcased in early house music. Coming to its peak, the line ‘I will dance and resist’ are looped repeatedly - highlighting a strengthed state of mind. Nearing the end, industrial-sounding elements inspired by Liaisons Dangereuses take their place for a punchier approach.

Seamlessly blending together a sense of tact with soulful sentimentality, driven by the powerful words of Hammad, ‘What I Will’ is a vigorous reminder of our own fighting spirit, and that we are stronger than we know right now.

Words by Joanne Philpott.

Suheir Hammad - What I Will (Toto Chiavetta Liaisons Dangereuses At 326 Michigan Ave Edition)

Our new track Obscure promises out soon on renaissance recordings exclusively on our mix cd.

Tale Of Us - Obscure Promises

Distant Shores

Highway Records presents new digital EP by talented producers from Belarus Trockensaft and Friga. In the mid 00’s Pavel was a part of famous Access Denied duo, performed all over the Europe. Later he started Trockensaft project and his very own KDB Records. 2 versions of Guns Gungsters are completed with remixes by Karol XVII & MB Valence present Jackspeare (Loco Records, Toolroom, Moodmusic) and amazing live project Tantsui, based out in Moscow.

Supported by Hot Since 82, Kruse & Nuernberg, Someone Else, Walker & Royce, Michel De Hey, Moodymanc, Giom, DZeta N’ Basile, Jay West, Samuel Dan, Adriano Filippucci, Darin Epsilon, Francys, Sahar Z and many more.

Buy on Beatport:
http://www.beatport.com/release/guns-gungsters/1097650

Highway Records on Facebook: 
http://www.facebook.com/highwayrecords

Trockensaft & Friga — Guns Gungsters (Tantsui Remix)

What is techno? Scientists and philosophers have long since pondered the concept of its musical definition since it burst out of Detroit in the mid-‘80s. Is it that notion of the “ghost in the machine”, of soul from electronics that its inventors elicited? Or is it more the repetitive throb and thump of 4/4 beats and slow-burning momentum that the Berghain generation are proponents of? Croatian producer Petar Dundov’s stunning music manages to marry both ideals in the most explosive of fashions.

To Dundov, “techno is music that precedes movement. It is dance music, solid enough to carry emotions through the dance floor and abstract enough to be a template for ever”. And indeed his breathtaking productions embody this ethos, serving the inherent function of making your body pulse spontaneously while also challenging your brain with its complex melodies and slow-burning, hypnotic progressions. It’s the antidote for anyone who thinks that techno is about senseless, dull looping.

Although maybe the word “techno” doesn’t give enough detail about his style, it’s probably the nearest ballpark to whose principles his music adheres – and he is keen to expand the horizons of what people know and expect of the genre. But it’s that sense of his tracks being alive, forever evolving and expanding and increasing in intensity, which gives his music its unique sound and has seen his work crossover into a myriad of different areas of the global electronic music scene. The last two years have seen his mind-bending single Oasis (played by everyone from Dubfire to Sasha to Ben Klock to Prins Thomas to Timo Maas) take the scene by storm with its intricate, ever-changing melodies, John Digweed snap him up for an epic rework of Alan Fitzpatrick’s Reflections, and Gregor Tresher squeeze a deep, mesmerising remix of his track The Life Wire out of him.

His music shows you that he’s a producer with more than churning out mindless, functional and dispensable drivel on his mind. There’s a philosophy entrenched in his productions that breathes the very spirit of life and dynamism into them: “My ultimate goal as a producer and musician is to bridge the world of inspiration and physical world to the extent where the listener wouldn't be able to distinguish between the two. Music has this unique property to communicate deep emotions that are inherently in all of us. We just forgot how to use them, and my search is an attempt to revive those emotions where we all resonate as one.”

Born in Zagreb in the early ‘70s, his career in dance music stretches back the best part of 20 years, but it’s only in the new millennium that he’s been using his own name for his productions. Over the years he’s graced many of the world’s most prestigious and best-loved techno institutions – including mega-festivals I Love Techno, EXIT, Awakenings and Wire, and cutting-edge clubs like Berghain, Matter (RIP), Womb, Air, Fuse and Space. He counts a longstanding relationship with Belgium’s legendary Music Man label amongst his achievements, an imprint that has also played host to releases by everyone from Jeff Mills (for whose label Tomorrow he created the Sculptures mini-LP) to Green Velvet to Robert Hood, and after completing his acclaimed debut album Escapements in 2008, he’s got the follow-up in the works (for completion by the end 2010).

Petar Dundov makes intelligent electronic music that breaks boundaries, moves feet and twists minds. He is without a doubt one of the most inspiring, original and daring producers in electronica, and with the likes of Sven Väth, Francois K, Laurent Garnier, Adam Beyer, Josh Wink, Guy J, Glimpse, Hernan Cattaneo, Brendan Moeller, and Danny Tenaglia amongst his fans, it would be hard to disagree.


Distant Shores

petar dundov

Recent comments

Ramona Peters

Ramona Peters

MinimalVerstrahlt...

Bobby Eller

Related tracks