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Proxy - Decoy

Bass Drop EP

Texture Mapping

Radio Bliss

Cables N' Things EP

Super Connector

Mega Signalizer

Dear Turbo fan,

The truth is I cant write this one-sheet.

I have no weed, and am working on my own album, trapped in DFA studios in NYC trying to hit notes I didn't know existed. Writing turbo one-sheets requires the exact, and delicate proportion of: time, freedom, space, hash and desire. Right now these are all in short supply, so I'll leave it to Von Party to hit you with things like song titles, artist names and other useless facts.

Tiga


         O man... tough act to follow. We all know Tiga is the undisputed onesheet king so I'll try to take it easy on the jokes and tell you a bit about Popof and the A&R process here at Turbo.

About 20 demo tracks get sent to me every day. Some are ok... most are incredibly sad... I've tried to come up with a system, make rules for myself based on territory like 'always listen to Belgians' or 'ignore Americans'... but really there's no substitute for just taking the time and actually listening. No matter how bad the name or horrid the myspace profile, you never know where you'll find the next Proxy... or the next Tiga!!! haahhahahaa

September '007: I get an email from 'Kaotik System', Popof's manager, with 6 tracks. My intuition tells me it'll be trance and it'll be wack. Demo senders out there, take note: 6 is too many songs to send! This ain't folk music and you're not telling a story... almost every time the more demos in an email, the worse they are. The only exception is when someone sends you their first track ever and asks for 'producin assiste'. Anyway... the first 3 were so-so... I gave them each about 5 seconds and thought 'meh'. The fourth one 'Bitchy Groove' sounded pretty dope, but partly because of the name, partly because of the first three being not that great, and partly because I was in 8 ichats and also on the phone, I did what any good A&R person would do: I replied telling him how 'cool' the music was but that our 'schedule' was 'crazy busy' and to please send me any new stuff.

Then I just sat back and waited for a bomb to hatch... 4 months later... BAMM!!   They sent The Chomper EP.

I was ecstatic... sometimes records come along that fit in so perfectly to your set that they magically transform the same tracks  you were bored of the week before... that's what The Chomper was for me... alchemy... a new core sound had been crystallized... hyper-minimal-monkey-acid... like a HI-NRG Shonky... but on Turbo... YES!!!
That incredible feeling lasted until I went back and listened to 'Bitchy Groove' again and felt like a complete idiot for not signing it. I listened to the others and it was almost as bad. But in the end it landed us my favorite Popof EP yet... and I LOVE his others.

Trust me, you'll ALL love this EP. It just fits... somewhere in between minimal scarf vibes and full-on fire trance....  yet still accessible to nurave blogfucks!
To wrap it up…

Popof is French (AGAIN!!)

There are three tracks... all A-side material... one is called 'Chiken Flavour'... note we NEVER correct artists' spelling... that's how much we respect their creativity.

Incredibly, he's been putting out records since '96, staying beneath the radar cruising at the speed of trance... and now all of a sudden in a few short months he's topped techno charts and made it into the playlists of a wide range of superstar DJ's from minimalists like Villalobos & Luciano, ex-trance DJ's Sasha and Tiga, and even, believe-it-or-not, THE top dog himself: Tiësto.

Love from freezing cold Montreal,

Thomas Von Party


The Chomper EP

Popof - Chiken Flavour

Sweden 1 Canada 0

Dahlbäck & Dahlbäck - Forsberg Loves the Acid

Turbo 55
Mr. James Barth
Workin' The Truth


In Jori’s words:

In 1995 me and my friend Ari of Lumi records realized it maybe was actually a waste time to try to run a dancelabel with no experience from the north of Finland. Indeed. Instead, it might be a smart idea just to focus on making music and find a label that was already established and have them put the music out.

Swedish radio had a show at the time called "Tema: Dans", and they would have some guest DJ's coming over and doing their thing. Usually more traditonal housey stuff, but one wednesday evening Calle had a guest that blew my mind: Cari Lekebusch.
Playing what could've been jacking Chicago traxx, but somehow it was all different... and as it turned out it was mostly done by what the world would become to know as the Stockholm Techno Gods; Cari, Adam Beyer, Jesper Dahlbäck, Alexi Delano, Joel Mull, Jean-Louis Huhta, et al -and all their aliases.

Impressed by all this I sent Cari a letter (yes, a handwritten one) with a democassette of some of my tracks telling him how I had heard all this music on the radio and since his name (Cari, not Lekebusch) implied a Finnish connection he might be interested in expanding his empire eastbound.

A week later I received a letter from Cari simply stating "You're definitely not faking the funk" and a phonecall followed a few days later and a friendship was established. My friends Ari Ruokamo and Tuomas Salmela also sent tracks to Cari and he was quite excited about this northern Finnish sound and even started a new label called Trainspotter's Nightmare to release our stuff on.

Of all the music Cari himself has done my favourite is maybe the Mr Barth stuff. Slightly less abstract than some of his other more experimental techno, but easily as uncompromising, and on some levels more open minded with a certain crossoverpotential.


Workin' The Truth

Mr. James Barth - Workin' The Truth

Mr. James Barth - For the Lords

Polybius - The Original Soundtrack - 01 Gareth Noyce - Brace Position

Polybius - The Original Soundtrack - 02 Junosix - Kronoses

POPOF - tempered dance (turbo)

TurboCD027 - Various Artists - Omnidance CD Compilation released May 2009

CD1

1. Chromeo - Turbo It's Your Birthday
2. ZZT - Lower State of Consciousness (Original Munich Version)
3. Moby - I Love to Move In Here (Proxy Remix)
4. Rainer Werner Bassfinder - Minimal Scarf Fuckers Drown!
5. Proxy - Raven (Crookers Remix)
6. Zoo Brazil & Adam Sky - Circle Jerk
7. Brodinski - Oblivion (Noob Remix)
8. Kolombo - Sniff
9. D.I.M. - Sysiphos
10. ZZT - The Worm (Original Munich Version)
11. Mike Mind - Acid Machine
12. Popof - The Chomper (LSD Version)
13. Zyntherius & The Dove - Synthesizer
14. Tiga - Mind Dimension 2

CD2

1. Zyntherius - The Only Dance, Omnidance
2. DMX Krew - Placid Acid
3. Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night (Konrad Black Remix)
4. Zak Frost & Lazersonic - Aquaplane (Unit 4 Remix)
5. Boys Noize - Gezahlt
6. Chromeo - Mercury Tears 2
7. Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin (Jori Hulkkonen Remix, short edit)
8. Dahlbäck & Dahlbäck - Forsberg Loves the Acid
9. Mr. James Barth - Workin the Truth
10. Guy J - Shaman
11. Compuphonic & Kolombo - Antimatter (Unreleased Edit)
12. Cari Lekebusch - Shaded (Jesper Dahlbäck's Lost Remix)



"I started Turbo in 98 to put out my own mixcd and get a chance to work with the music I loved. 10 years later it is still the same, thank god. I hope you enjoy the fruits of our labor.... with the help of Thomas Von Party, I present to you, not pandance, not multidance, but something so much more.... behold OMNIDANCE"

- Tiga

2-02 DMX Krew - Placid Acid

2-04 Zak Frost & Lazersonic - Aquaplane (Unit 4 Remix)

This account has basically been abandoned. My Soundcloud keeps crashing every minute ever since I set up a data protector.

Jeff Minter is DJ 🐑🐑🐑

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