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Bärtaub - Bazalt (Original Mix)

VBX 002 - Meeting In Another World EP by @ferro
A1 I See You Again
A2 Now The Stars Are In A Different Place
B1 This Is The Time
B2 The Other Seems Out Of Phase

VBX.002 Ferro - Meeting In Another World EP (Previews)

A Walrus - Full Of Feeling (snippet)

Artist: Bärtaub

Title: Atrax & Remixes 

Label: Petra Digital/Vinyl 

Catalogue Number: PTR017

Release Type: Vinyl Only (distribution by DBH Music/Frankfurt)

Release Date: 20/11/17

Tracklisting:

A1  Bärtaub - Atrax (Original Mix)
A2 Bärtaub - Find and Hide (Original Mix)
B1  Bärtaub - Raw Land (Origina Mix)
B2 Bärtaub - Bender (Original Mix)

A1  Bärtaub - Atrax (Roger Gerressen Mood Rework)
A2 Bärtaub - Find and Hide (Tolga FIdan & Cesar Merveille Remix)
B1  Bärtaub - Raw Land (Havantepe Remix)
B2 Bärtaub - Bender (Swayzak Remix)

FEEDBACKS:

Laurent Garnier: Very moody tracks -- love the atmosphere of this

Dale Middleton: Really good original productions here, some seriously cool vibes! support

Marc Poppcke: Fantastic music! Thanks!

Mihai Popoviciu: solid tracks overall, will try raw land original and remix!

Animal Trainer: Bender originial and the remix by C. Merveille & T. Fidan of Find and Hide are great!!!

Reboot: wonderful remix by my Pal cesar & tolga! full support

Pillowtalk: Well rounded release with loads of stuff for different sentiments. Swayzak remix is FIRE!

Tim Green: have been playing Atrax for quite a while now! love Raw Land also. Will support more! cheers

Mongo: Super hypnotic this track, love it. Digging Roger Gerressen's Mood rework too. Thanks.

Dean Demanuele: Thanks for the music!




Petra Digital/Vinyl label is back with a bumper new release that boasts four originals by Bärtaub and then four remixes by a top selection of contemporary artists. These include Swayzak, Roger Gerressen, Tolga Fidan & Cesar Merveille plus Havantepe and between them they make for a fantastic and essential release.

Bärtaub is two musical figures that hail from the concrete jungle of Istanbul. Mutlu San’s electronic music productions are blessed by a perpetual, spacious and moving nature, while Batu is deeply appreciated by house and techno aficionados of the city as being a restless DJ.

Their first tune Atrax is a deeply atmospheric house roller with great chords bringing light and colour to the groove. Find And Hide is built on a brilliantly programmed drum line that rocks back and forth on its heels and has loose percussion tumbling over the top as skewed synths bring some freakiness. Raw Land then gets more gritty with a prying synth riff that is edgy and mysterious as trumpets drift up top. It’s an intriguing track with a real sense of story telling then final original Bender is the most slick and up tempo of the lot, with rubbery drums and deft percussion all interweaving to groom and hypnotic effect.

The first remix is of Atrax by Roger Gerressen and is a super stripped back and deep dubby house roller which burrows far into your brain. The esteemed Cesar Merveille and Tolgan Fidan then work their magic on Find And Hide which is a super supple and subtle minimal track thats alive with synths, hits, bass strokes and rumbling drums. It’s the sort of thing you cannot resist dancing to.
Havantepe’s version of Raw Land is an uptempo, quick and slick house number with soft but forceful drums and chords that bring ever more pressure and tension as they build above a molten acid line. Last of all the legendary Swayzak flips Bender into a futuristic techno cut with gentle, soul infused pads but busy, electro styled percussion. It makes for a nice interplay as the drums bounce along and closes out an essential EP.

Atrax & Remixes

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Bärtaub - Atrax & Remixes | Petra Digital/Vinyl

Nathan Øye @ Perfect Sundays ::: Hoppetosse 01.10.17

Third episode of our podcast series with label co-owner @LunarConvoy

This mix is a recording of his warm up set at DeepInHouse NYE Rave in Brussels (31/12/2017). He opened the main floor before A.Brehme, Henning Baer and Kafim. This is the first hour, recorded between 11pm and midnight (vinyl only).

NORCAST03: lunar convoy

Tom Trago - Bergen - Dekmantel (DKMNTL056) 

a1.	Tom Trago - Bergen
a2.	Tom Trago - The Creation Of Lalibela
a3.	Tom Trago - Zeeweg
b1.	Tom Trago - Faith Belongs To Us
b2.	Tom Trago - Always be With You
b3.	Tom Trago - Underwater Wings
c1.	Tom Trago - Morph
c2.	Tom Trago - The Interval Of Happiness
d1.	Tom Trago - Fari
d2.	Tom Trago - Working Machines

https://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5960/bergen

Bergen is the next, and natural step in the expanding career of Dutch producer Tom Trago. The acclaimed producer behind Voyage Direct will release his fourth LP, with the label and crew he's built a close relationship with over the past ten years - Dekmantel. With a new studio and approach to music, Bergen is Trago sounding at his very finest, returning to his roots with a focussed, and dedicated production ethos.

“If you change your environment, your music will also change with you,” Trago reflects on the new album. A staple in the Amsterdam club scene, Tom Trago has been a familiar face at the Dekmantel events for over ten years. “I was even playing Dekmantel parties, before they were even called Dekmantel,” he states. Tom Trago's collaboration with Dekmantel has allowed him the space to grow and finish his most accomplished, and honest album to date. Bergen is an LP that connects his legacy, family, and commitment to dance music in one resplendent package.

DKMNTL056 // Tom Trago - Bergen

TASCAM DR-05

Black Mixx

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TASCAM DR-05X

XDB - Red Mixx

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There are not many artists these days who manage to forge their reputation solely as a DJ, but Pierre comes proudly from an era when the craft of stitching records together into a meaningful experience had just as much importance placed on it as being the producer behind the tunes. From his position of influence as one of the long-standing residents of the world famous Fuse club, he has been responsible for countless moments of shock and awe amongst the club-going crowds of Brussels and beyond.
His roots are in the foundations of funk, soul and disco, although like any seasoned digger his tastes reach into the pulse of new wave and obscure 80s electronics. From catching the house and techno bug in 1991 at Fifty Five in Kuurne, he made a natural progression to spinning US deep house at a Sunday residency at Café d’Anvers, at a time when it was rarely heard in Belgium.
This determination to play the music he wanted to hear, whether fashionable or not, has guided his style ever since, and when Fuse opened in 1994 his remit to explore Detroit house and techno as one of the residents gave him the perfect platform to shape the identity of the iconic club.
Through the years of the mammoth I Love Techno events, sharing a radio show with Dave Clarke and delivering numerous mix albums, Pierre also found time to channel his groove instinct into studio sessions. Of these excursions, one of the most timeless is his “Reconstruction Mix” of Spokesman’s “Acid Creak”, originally released in 1994 and still slammed out at techno temples across the world to this day.
However the increasingly knuckleheaded thump of schranz and other such monochromatic techno styles meant that Pierre’s focus started to evolve towards a more experimental style, and with JessicaBossuyt he started the Lessizmore events, label and booking agency as an outlet for the most creative aspects of European house and techno.
The boom in more adventurous minimal records in the early ‘00s was a perfect match for Pierre’s wild tastes, and as the credible corners of the scene kept moving on to pastures new so Lessizmore has evolved naturally to present some of the most exciting music revolving around, but not limited by, the 4/4 groove.
With his years served in the nightlife of Brussels Pierre has turned his hand to parties in unofficial locations, held down residencies at Le Triptyque in Paris and Arma 17 in Moscow and also been invited to launch the Fuse label. It’s this mixture of professional instinct and a constant hunger for new, challenging ways to experience music that have made Pierre such a lasting influence on generations of party people, with the art of his DJing and the direction of his events at the heart of what he does. In his own words, “whether it be for the Fuse’s bookings or those for my label Lessizmore, it’s more of a feeling and family business than anything else.”

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Pierre (Fuse-Lessizmore)