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Label - Tour de infinite

Release Date: 30/04/2022

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Celebrating the 150th vinyl EP release, and as a prelude to 15 years of Poker Flat Recordings, Steve Bug returns to his own label to drop a sizzling three track EP of powerful, seductive house music.

Lead cut 'Pelican Glide' exhibits his trademark driving grooves and highly effective off-kilter synths - the sort of track that turns dance floors and festivals upside down when dropped at the right moment. The deep kick hits hard while clever interplay between pads, melodic leads and percussion keep the tension finely tuned.

Fellow Berliners youANDme yield a remix of 'Pelican Glide', which transforms the track into something spacey and cinematic, before subtly reintroducing Steve Bug's killer synth line.

Also gracing this release is 'Till It's Gone'; built around a tough-as-nails house groove, and coupled with a breathy, alluring vocal from Delhia De France: the grand diva of the German electronic scene.

Pelican Glide

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Upercent makes his debut on Frau Blau with 'Mongolics EP'.

Sonic experimentalist Upercent has made quite a name for himself in the last few years.
Bursting onto the scene over a decade ago, his singular vision and avant-garde style have won him plaudits from across the musical spectrum. Signed to an impressive number of high profile labels including Innervisions, Watergate, Kompakt and more. Upercent continues to delight.

Opening with the rollicking disco of title track 'Mongolics' industrial drums and metallic percussion are the perfect milieu for the sinister male vocals that drive the track, with squelchy keys hooking you in midway.

On the remix duties, Sam Shure takes a leaf out of 2ManyDJs book and dubs us out with his 'Drum Treat' — Finishing the pack off, another original, 'Begine' Tough 808 kicks and scattergun percussion framework some wonky computer sounds and repeating arps.

Totally wacky and infectiously fun. A Tour de Force!

Mongolics EP

Upercent - Benigne

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Let Me Dance

Born and raised in a town called Bacau, Romania, he started to get in contact with electronic music in his early teen years. This, by venturing in the famous Zebra Club where one of the leading pioneers of romanian underground music, Raresh, has kick started his adventure. His passion to the beautiful sounds grew over the years and that lead him to start producing and mixing.

Yuda-Don't let them change you

Minimal techno for dancing
Experimental and mechanical sounds, rich in unique colors and nuances, transport the listener to different atmospheres and alternate between ambient, melancholic, vibrant, and minimalist tracks to create dry yet rich atmospheres.

minimal relax

The spoken text comes from a two-page poem that I’ve wanted to use for a long time. Originally, it was written in Danish. It describes the dilemma I’ve always struggled with: managing an insanely creative brain while trying to connect with other creative people. Falling in love with their unique personalities—falling in love with the artist, and falling in love with creativity itself—and then, when relationships and relationship-related thoughts start to appear, a huge conflict arises within me.

I know the trach needs a better production! 

I love to dance, and I love to play with patterns and sound design. I’m not trying to produce something specific—just whatever I feel drawn to. 

I once embraced the traveling lifestyle as a member of Beat Bizarre and later Behind Blue Eyes. With Beat Bizarre we released four albums, and with Behind Blue Eyes two albums—most of them on Iboga Records between 1999 and 2006. Those years were filled with creativity, connection, and exploration, and they became an important part of the foundation for the music I create today.

Now i make music solo for fun and also wriote and make art of recyled trash. . 

Parts of the poem!

Clashes that float out and touch:
They are two stars colliding for the first time, lying next to each other for billions of years. Particles, stardust, and undefined dark matter tumble like children in a great chaos of unpredictability. Between long conversations about projects and life, the sun rises and sets for days. He hides negativity. The feeling of being wrong rises within him. In captivity between gazes, there are no wrong thoughts or too much. It is explosions of thoughts about hearts, kisses, and love. Before they know it, love and words sneak out of his curly and crooked pomade-framed mouth. Seconds feel like hours, and in every millisecond thereafter. 

The magic disappears at the same pace as words become sentences. They talk about the creative process, develop ideas, their connection, muse magical moments out of hesitant sentences. We do not know each other. He lifts his chin and meets her gaze slowly. He understands he has once again let words crush the moment and blind creativity. Time is rolled back, words taken back. And in a split second, the magic is gone

Brain to Mouth

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As the Summer draws to a close Serge Devant returns once more to Damian Lazarus’s Crosstown Rebels with the highly infectious ‘This Moment’ EP. Serge original tracks are accompanied by a great Dinky remix, to complete this great package.

Opening up the EP with ‘This Moment’, Devant has created a track that implores the listener to stop and take in all the vibrations, effects and melodies. This is a piece of music that intricately weaves together a hefty bass, curious sounds and an addictive horn. Pay close attention to ‘In Time’ and you will be absorbed once more in an enchanting world where all you can do is follow the rhythm of the drums. On the flip and Dinky adds her signature vocals, and hooky synth stabs creating a deep and textural remix of ‘This Moment’.

TRACK LISTING

A1. This Moment
A2. In Time
B1. This Moment (Dinky Dub Remix)
B2. This Moment (NU Remix) Digital Only

Serge Devant

This Moment

Serge Devant - This Moment

taken off the upcoming artist album 'Noir' by Steve Bug - out Oct. 01

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Steve Bug, one of the world's most renowned artists in the electronic music circuit, presents his fifth and most mature longplayer. "Noir" doesn't deny its roots, but expands the usual spectrum and invites the listener to an exciting listening pleasure.

The title is ‘Noir’. The cover is dominated by the filmic aesthetics of light and shadow. The title evokes a world of shady transactions and secret crimes. Most of the tracks emit a suitably dark and moody atmosphere, with at least three directly referencing the film noir genre – From the well-known classic ‘The Spiral Staircase’, to more obscure ‘Somewhere in the Night’, and ‘The Seventh Victim’. Is ‘Noir’ a concept album? Origi- nally it was planned that way, but in the end Steve found the concept too rigid.

"I play all over the world on a constant basis, and always come back with different impressions", says Steve Bug. "Accordingly, this changes the music that I produce. I’ve had the idea to make a concept album for some time, but on the other hand, that’s not the way I work. My music expresses my moods, and of course, they are always changing. "

The material for the new album was created over a period of three years, which makes its consistency and coherence all the more amazing. The mood is dark, spooked. Over the relentless beats and basslines ghostly sounds swirl and conspire. Although all the pieces are driven by head-rushing beats, ‘Noir’ is more than ever, a listening album. "If I had worked longer on the album, I probably would have replaced even more of the dance tracks with listening tracks", says Steve. "I think a lot of albums in dance music are not convining as albums - more a collection of tracks, than a coherent whole."

‘Noir’ is definitely different. Although the film noir concept isn’t carried through completely, it infuses the spirit of the record in a way reminicent of the sci-fi obsession of Jeff Mills or Carl Craig. In fact, ‘Noir’ could soundtrack a 21st Century ‘Blade Runner’ - tracks such as the pre-re- leased single ‘Those Grooves’ and ‘No Adjustments’, with their evocative spoken word texts, play in to a vision of an apocalyptic-dystopian disco.

‘Noir’ is very much an electronic album. Richer than its predecessor, these tracks easily transcend the merely functional - Steve Bug has in- jected the harmonies with serious emotion. Avoiding the trap of many house music producers, Steve has resisted the temptation to throw in an album full of live instrumentation, explaining: "the results have never convinced me. You have to find musicians who understand repetitive music, otherwise the whole thing is so watery." ‘Poison of Choice’, with its sensational guitar solo, is the exception - and the result of a techni- cal difficulty. Due to non-compatible plug-ins, access was blocked to a sample, and Steve ended up asking his mixer Hannes Bieger to play the guitar chords. While the recording was made, the idea to add the solo happened and the results were so good they ended up defining the track. Two of the standout tracks involve sublime vocals from performers Steve has a strong affinity for. Emilie Chick, the Portland born, genre- scrambling rising star brings a femme fatale’s touch of jazz to 'Moment of Ease'.

The aforementioned 'No Adjustments' with its driving, edgy groove and out of control synth, is enhanced by the spoken word exhortation to just let the beats flow - the unmistakable work of the Foremost Poet Johnny Dangerous.

Aside from that, Steve Bug has always recorded everything on his own – and similarly, developed his distinctive harmonic knowledge by himself. "I have no training as a musician - I taught myself about harmonies. When I realised that many of my heroes in electronic music, whose mu- sic always seemed so rich, was done with the help of others, I have al- ways been a little disappointed". In this respect Steve can be proud about the fact that his experience producing the intricate and exceptional ‘Noir’ was achieved on his own.

From the driving opener ‘Tell Me Why’ to the emotional closing track ‘The Seventh Victim’, Steve Bug has crafted a rounded, atmospheric al- bum that throws a long and impressive shadow over most contemporary dance albums.

Noir

Steve Bug - Tell Me Why

I hear you feat. Black Soda

Low Blow

Low Blow (Bug vs. Hawtin)

Resilience

Out Of Fashion since 1999 - Founded by @SteveBug
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