Introducing "Paraphe", a new label from Quarion to showcase his steps alongside a never-ending musical quest.
The "Attic Dubs" series offers stripped-down cuts that walk the thin line between Deep House, Techno and Dub Techno.
Precise, bass-heavy and just right.

PRPH01 - Attic Dubs Vol. 1

Shades

This is a minimix containing all tracks from my latest EP on Retreat, "Shifts In The Environment". It's my first record in almost 3 years and I'm very happy with it ;-) 
Additional info can be found here: http://www.retreat-vinyl.de/38381/releases/quarion-shifts-in-the-environment-ep-rtr13/
The mix is a quick and easy blend with 2 vinyl copies and some live EQing. The tunes played are "The Plump Shrew", "Digging For Water" and "The Red Room".

Shifts In The Environment (minimix)

This is off the "Moons Around Jupiter" EP on Retreat (http://www.retreat-vinyl.de/19651/releases/quarion-%E2%80%93-moons-around-jupiter-%E2%80%93-rtr08/). It's a vinyl-only release so I recorded this version straight from the record ;-)
I just felt like sharing this track because I honestly think it's one of the best pieces of music I've produced so far...
Special thanks to Âme & Mark August for the inspiration, Jules Etienne for the extra gear and Hauke Freer for pushing me to finish this tune!

Callisto

A snippet featuring my 2 reworks for Love & Mercy on Man Make Music! First up is the digi-only Quarion Remix, a lil SH-101 journey that ventures in different territories. Oh, there's some 808 action at some point too! 
Then there's the vinyl-only QRN dub, a stripped-down-to-the-bone version using only my good old MPC 3000 and the 909. Which one do you prefer?

Love & Mercy - Rainfall - Quarion RMX & QRN Dub - snippet

A little teaser of my upcoming remix for the talented J.E.E.P. AKA Jules Etienne. Coming out in june 2014!

J.E.E.P. - Answering Machine - Quarion Remix - Snippet

A snippet of my upcoming remix for Jerome C, out on Apersonal at the end of June. I went straight for the gut on that one...check out the evil Juno-6 bass which should rumble a few speakers this summer!

Jerome C - The Wind - Quarion's Bethlehem Remix (Snippet)

A little taste of my upcoming remix for the "Cosmic Society" collective, coming out soon on vinyl & digital formats. A true journey to the stars!

Sold 1 (Quarion Remix)

GALGA - Sold 1 (Quarion Remix) - Teaser

"Zukunft" is a rather small club nested in Zürich's red light district and might just be the main spark that started my Quarion project ages ago... this spot has a very special place in my heart and it always has been my "home away from home".
On that night in July, the people on the dancefloor were open to everything and I had the pleasure to share the decks with Schacke99, an excellent DJ who played very inspiring tunes.
This one-hour set was recorded after his intro and I enjoyed turning up the heat bit by bit!

Tracklist:
Mark E - Mirrored Cube
Mr. Fingers - Something’s Going On
6th Borough Project - Keep On
Róisín Murphy - You Knew (Payfone Remix)
Fred Everything - Barbarella (I:Cube Remix)
Crowdpleaser - Disrespect (Ripperton’s Hoola Hoop Club Mixx)
Felipe Gordon - The Answer (Session Victim Remix)
Eddie Leader feat. Kids In The Street - Pressure (Dub)
RiskSoundSystem - The Sound is Yours (Kerri Chandler Remix Instrumental)
Everything But The Girl - Caution To The Wind (Fka Mash Remix) 
Ripperton - SP1 (Aera Edit)

Live DJ Set In Zukunft - July 2023

A very deeeeeeeep remix i've produced for James Blonde & Oliver Deutschmann, coming out on a new, strictly-limited to 300 copies label named Falkplatz Limitiert. This is on the nautilus tip...

Milanese (Quarion's Sicilia Profonda Remix)

The track that changed everything for me...still getting played in clubs, years after its release...many thanks to everyone who supported it and extra special thanks to the Drumpoet crew!

Karasu

wow...more than 25000 fans...I am speechless! As a little gift for your vital support, here's an exclusive track that you can stream, download, play out in the club, bump in your earbuds or listen to at home...
Indeed, you and I "got a good thing"! THANK YOU!
ps: extra shouts to https://soundcloud.com/dachshund for the tight mastering and to https://soundcloud.com/loe-loe for the psychedelic drawing!

Good Thing

Last summer, I was fortunate to play a string of gigs in various clubs around Berlin and I've thoroughly enjoyed it. To be honest, I hadn't had so much fun behind the decks since the pandemic: it rekindled my love for Deejaying and reminded me why I was doing it in the first place.
This mix is an attempt to somehow catch some of the magic that transpired through these summer sets and I'm very happy how it turned out!
Featuring tracks that span 30 years of dance music across various genres (although with a strong emphasis on House), "Summer of 24" is my personal snapshot of this moment in time. Thanks to @mensch-booking for releasing it!
Playlist in the comments

Summer Of 24 (Mensch Mix 026)

Attic Dubs Vol. 1

Lausanne

First Mind Then Body

Hypnotic and reduced Techno but at a House tempo.
Features a twirling riff from my trusted SH-101 while a deep bassline from the Moog Minitaur growls in the background.
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino at Analogcut Mastering

A groove that never ends atop a boomin' beat and washed-out dub effects.
What started as an ambient piece while trying Ripperton's modular system in (you guessed it) Lausanne, evolved into a stripped-down, no-nonsense, "Dub House" gem back in Berlin.
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino at Analogcut Mastering

This is the first episode of Q Radio, a series of DJ mixes showcasing tracks I've recently (re)discovered that particularly resonate with me.

Episode #1 Playlist:

Session Victim - Sometimes - Delusions Of Grandeur
Sebb Bash - Grade E (Q Edit)
Lexx - Far Away
Mr. Beatnick - Dance Of The Dolphins - International Feel
Broke One - Gazelle Flip - Big Bait
Roberta - Make It Right - Night Moves
ex_libris - #32 (Walrus)
Metric System - Soul 440 - Kontakt
Soundstream - Show Off
Belcampo - Love & Affection (Manuel Tur Remix) - Lazy Days
Impérieux - Cawuso - Hessle Audio
Anthony Naples - Scanners - ANS/Incienso
Genius Of Time - Kinetic (feat. Matinda) - Aniara
Baikal - Baby You - Maeve
Quarion - Broken Sword - Paraphe
PVNV - Intrasolaar (Shlømo Remix) Taapion
Stimming - Lucky Me

Q Radio Episode 1

Here it is, a trailer featuring all 4 tracks from the "Busted Moniker" EP. It's quite a jazzy affair and I had a lot of fun producing these 4 tracks! Get all the info here: http://www.retreat-vinyl.de/39657/releases/quarion-busted-moniker-ep-rtr16/

Buy "Busted Moniker"

Busted Moniker EP - Trailer

Another sweet selection of boogie and disco tracks that I'm particularly fond of... There are many "classics" in there but it never hurts to hear them again and again ;-) Thanks to Volcov, Hunee and Sadar Bahar for making me discover some of these gems.

A Dance With The Clouds II

My grandmother embarked on her ultimate journey a few hours ago... I just felt that I had to give her a proper farewell with my medium of preference. Grazie per tutto nonna, ti amo.

L'Ultimo Viaggio

Released on Ripperton's Tamed imprint, this EP contains two of my deepest excursions to date. At the time, I was making music in the Funkhaus, a huge complex that used to be the GDR Radio offices for East Berlin. The building would become rather eerie and spooky during the night, and this would be the time where I would come up with strange and hipnotic tracks such as these...

Vinyl:
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https://hardwax.com/76141/quarion/funkhaus-phantoms/
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/quarion-funkhaus-phantoms-tamed-musiq/138535
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/quarion-funkhaus-phantoms/609785-01/
http://oye-records.com/sgl.php?id=148986&aplay=0
http://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/quarion-funkhaus-phantoms-476288?p=lrzZAN
http://www.decks.de/t/quarion-funkhaus_phantoms/c7m-jk

Digital:
https://quarion.bandcamp.com/album/funkhaus-phantoms-ep

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Funkhaus Phantoms - Snippets

Inspired by my new neighborhood, this club mix is built on trippy, soulful, quirky and heavy tracks which I've been excited to play out recently. Enjoy!

164 Feet Field Elevation (DJ Mix)

This is a DJ set I recorded about a year ago for the LUVJAM crew in Wales and contains some of my all-time boogie favourites! Mega shouts to Hunee, Jules Etienne, Sadar Bahar, Theo Parrish, Force Of Nature and DPC for the inspiration!


A Dance With The Clouds

This is a remix I did for Jamie Lloyd, one of Sydney's most talented musician. 
                  The track came out in January 08 on Future Classic, backed up with a Soultourist remix of "You're Out or In?". In other words, it's a Drumpoet release in disguise. The virus keeps spreading ;-)
                  Concerning my remix, I wanted something with more "ooomph" than my previous tracks...judge it for yourself, but I think this one is on a rave tip!

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Jamie Lloyd / May I? (Quarion RMX)

This is a teaser of my rework for youANDme, coming out in a few weeks on Drumpoet Community. Feel those bassbins rattle!

All Comes Back

youANDme - All Comes Back (Feat. Gjaezon - Quarion's Motion Tracker Dub) - Snippet

Back in the summer of 2018, I was invited by my good friend Ripperton to perform for his "To The Blaze" party series in Lausanne's Folklor. Somewhere around 5 in the morning, we decided to play back 2 back and this resulted in one of my favourite moments of 2018. Merci Raph!

Quarion x Ripperton (To The Blaze @ Folklor 16/06/18)

Thirteen years after Quarion released the instant classic "Karasu" on Drumpoet, he returns to the label with yet another remarkable debut. His first album "Shades" takes you on an emotional journey to the deeper realms of House Music encompassed by elements of Detroit Techno, Dub and Electronica. All of the nine tracks fully display Quarion's unmistakable musicality and state-of-the-art production skills and are, undoubtedly, the artist's most accomplished work to date.
Ever since starting to produce as Quarion back in 2006, Yanneck Salvo has enjoyed an exciting career with stellar releases on Retreat, Innervisions, Tamed Musiq and certainly Drumpoet. 2016 proved to be a turning point artistically as well as personally, which eventually triggered an outburst of inspiration consolidating in the core of "Shades". After two years spent on refining this music, Yanneck felt that the bond between the tracks was too strong to be split across various EPs and chose instead to elaborate his vision as a full-scale album.
The nine pieces that make up “Shades“ are quintessential Quarion, yet their scope is both broader and more precise than on previous releases by the Swiss producer. The beautiful melancholy of “Indigo (Aries)”, the rich layers of “Periwinkle” or the panoramic journey of “Cobalt (Plains)” are testimonial to the new depth in the music of the Berlin-based artist.
In addition, the album has highly benefitted from a more experimental writing process, showcased in the bass-heavy ambient piece “Teal” or the sliding pads of “Ultramarine”. This passion for unrestrictive creativity is clearly at the heart of “Azure (Emotion)”, a thrilling collaboration with Ripperton where both artists twist life out of a modular system.
Finally there are tracks as intense as the Acid workout “Sapphire (Tessellate)“ and the techno- influenced “Cerulean“. Their electric tension easily creates a watershed moment on the dance floor that lingers long after the night is gone.
An imperceptible thread lays within the album's tracks. It molds “Shades” into an outstanding album by an artist on top of his game, highlighting Quarion's ever-growing talent for producing music of the deeper kind.

Listen

Shades - LP Teaser

Ultramarine

Turquoise (99 'til Infinity)

Indigo (Aries)

Periwinkle

Cobalt (Plains)

Hôtel Costes 14

I Found You On Facebook

This one came out on "Treats Vol.4" and its the first track of a new project with multi-instrumentalist Jules Etienne (one of Berlin's best kept musical secrets). The info sheet goes like this: "The Hints prefer an old school approach to making music, so apart from the mpc beat and sampled vocal, all the instruments have been played live by Q & J on the 110 bpm Boogie monster that is Downtown: liquid Pianet chords, Poly 61 stabs, a killer bassline, dramatic organ layers, live (and loose) percussion and even a quick trumpet melody! The groove is tight and could go on for hours but the Hints like to come up with new chords so we’re treated with a wonderful bridge that appears twice in the song. The Hints also love to keep things short and sweet, so Downtown stays under the 6-minute mark but leaves a fulfilling impression."

The Hints - Downtown

For the release of my upcoming EP, I was eager to find a new way to present it and I came up with the idea to do a trailer, hollywood-style! Since "Moons Around Jupiter" is on the cosmic tip anyway, I thought it would be suited to edit this snippet like a science-fiction movie...
So in this trailer, you'll hear elements of the tracks "Europa", "Ganymede", "Callisto" and "Io" while a narrator adds some extra information about those moons...
Complete info available soon on http://www.retreat-vinyl.de!

Moons Around Jupiter - Trailer!

This is an exclusive track I recorded for the "Drumpoems verse 2" compilation. it's a quite moody song with a singing bassline and a catchy melody...kinda like an old Quarion song ;-)

As for the title, it goes a little something like this: my dad was a diplomat so when I was a child/teenager i used to live in many different countries, making a lot of friends but having to leave them after 2 years. Flash forward in 2008 and I stumble accross people that I haven't seen in 15 years on that monster that is Facebook. I had a rush of various emotions when I saw some old pictures or learned what happened to all these friends over the years...and so it all materialized into this track.



At the beginning of January last year, Iron Curtis and I played a memorable all-nighter at Paloma Bar for which we decided to dig deep in our Broken Beat and Dubstep collection so that we could try to stay clear of the four to the floor. Of course, we ended up playing House and Techno as well :-)
This was a special night for multiple reasons, the most peculiar one being that this gig would turn out to be my last club performance before the pandemic...
This edit of the original 10-hour recording covers roughly the first four hours of our back 2 back. 
Special thanks to Finn and the Palomas for the invitation (and the recording!) and all the friends who showed up that night.

Iron Curtis B2B Quarion - Astral Basement @ Paloma Bar, 11 Jan 2020

Quarion releases on Drumpoet Community, Innervisions, Tamed and co-owns the Retreat label with Hauke Freer of Session Victim.

02.08 - Sisyphos, Berlin
13.08 - Rundfunk, Zürich

Booking: elie@mensch-booking.com

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