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

In prevision of my performance at Cruquiusgilde this June (http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?713391), I've recorded a DJ mix for the Kommune crew. It features a handful of favourites that I've been playing for a while (Dorisburg, Aybee, Simon Haydo) as well as some new tunes from Session Victim, Lando and myself. The mix is more on the techno tip... although I don't think it goes beyond 124 BPM ;-) Enjoy!

Kommune Podcast #1 - Quarion

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/

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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

Stagnation is one of my worst fears and for this reason, I love to set myself new challenges. So I recently chose to ditch the  computer for live shows and started building a strictly hardware setup with the wonderful Octatrack as the main hub. Definitely one of the best decisions in my musical life ;-) From now on, I'll be performing live shows exclusively with this new configuration and you can get an idea of what it sounds like with this 20-minute one-take demo!

Bookings

Machine Passion: Hardware-only Live Set (snippet)

I've had a string of very inspiring DJ sets over the last few weeks but I couldn't manage to record any of them unfortunately. Hence my idea of selecting a few current favorites and blend them as if I was playing in a club. It's impossible to translate the energy of a party into a DJ set recorded at home... but I think this mix comes pretty close!
Special thanks to Loe.Loe. (https://soundcloud.com/loe-loe) for the pic and Paul Kav (https://soundcloud.com/cousin-paul) for the extra gear.

Clubbing Afterglow (DJ Mix)

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:
https://clone.nl/item40190.html
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

This one is out on Ripperton’s Perspectiv records. It’s an exclusive track part of the “Family Tree” compilation.
                  Basically, I wanted to make a deep and heavy DJ Tool that would fit in House or Techno sets…

Takin' No Shorts

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.

Shades

Listen

Shades - LP Teaser

Turquoise (99 'til Infinity)

Teal

Indigo (Aries)

Cerulean

Periwinkle

Sunday Night

Falling Down

Azure (Émotion) [feat. Ripperton]

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

One of my personal highlights of 2012 was to play again at the wonderful Zukunft club in Zürich along with my buddies Alex Dallas, Soultourist and John Daly. John recorded both of our live shows with a mic that was set near the turntables, so you can hear the music AND the crowd. It's the real deal! 
Equipment: Mac Laptop, Roland TR-909, Moog Minitaur, M-Audio Trigger Finger & Echo Soundcard.
Tracks: "Free To Grow" (Remix), "Vibrations", "A Night At The Zukunft" (of course!), "Karasu" and "Turn Off The Light".
Special thanks to John Daly for recording this session!

Live with TR-909 & Moog Minitaur @ Zukunft (snippet)

They say nothing gets lost on the internet but for some reason this decade-old mix seems to have fully disappeared from all portals... so when someone recently reached out via Facebook and told me that he would like to listen to it "again during quarantine", I thought it would be the perfect excuse to finally upload that mix on my own page.
Back in 2009, I recorded this selection for Mono_Cult, a cool and dedicated crew from Leeds who were running parties and a podcast series. The series had a strictly "no playlist" policy and I remember getting quite a few "Track ID?" requests via mail or myspace (LOL) when the mix was published... let's see if it's still the case now!
Enjoy!
Q
ps: special thanks to the Mono_Cult crew and Ed for reaching out.
pps: what RA thought of the mix back then: https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/48129
ppps: that pic was taken in Tokyo in 2009. I was proud that Retreat's second EP by Session Victim (featured in the mix) found its way over there!

2009 Mono_Cult DJ Mix (2020 Remaster)

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.



I Found You On Facebook

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.

Booking: elie@mensch-booking.com

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