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ARTIST: Moderat
TITLE: Bad Kingdom
LABEL: Monkeytown
R/D: OUT NOW

Moderat are Modeselektor and Apparat...

Hardly anybody has brought electronic music from Berlin to the farthest flung corners of the world with more passion and enthusiasm than these two heavyweights.

Modeselektor – Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary – are bass music heroes. Together with a veritable army of collaborators, guest artists and with their two labels Monkeytown and 50 Weapons, they have built a broad network. They assimilate and process the tiniest vibrations in the global bass continuum and at the same time, their wobbly salvos and their oblique sense of humour are unmistakable. They became known to a select audience through their records on BPitch Control with which they catapulted themselves out of the Berlin 4/4 cosmos, whilst simultaneously reflecting the raw and full-on spirit of the 1990s Berlin club scene.

Apparat (real name: Sascha Ring) could hardly be more opposite. He fuses tricky electronics with heartfelt and auspicious pop. Together with T.Raumschmiere, he founded Shitkatapult. From early on, Apparat realised that the LP was his preferred form of expression. With each album, he reinvented himself on a personal, stylistic and social level: gradually bringing ever more strata of his emotional persona to light, exploring previously unknown musical styles and involving guest musicians in the process.

In 2002, Sascha, Gernot and Sebastian met for the first time. At that point in time, Apparat and Modeselektor were well established in the Berlin music scene. Sascha had already released his debut album and Gernot and Sebastian, a series of 12”s. Their shared studio time wore them down to such an extent, that they were forced to shelve the project almost immediately. But the foundations were laid and the three of them were able to present the fruits of their labour: the “Auf Kosten der Gesundheit” EP. Eleven years later, one still can have a sense of the sparks that must have flown in the studio: complex beats wrestling with furious bass and reduced rap elements.

Six years went by before they got together again. In the mean time both acts had established sensationally successful careers. In 2005, Modeselektor’s debut album “Hello, Mom!” gained them international recognition at light speed. Pitchfork rejoiced and Thom Yorke constantly mentioned them. Their second album featured vocals from Otto von Schirach, Maximo Park and... Thom York. Modeselektor stormed the festival stages and were honoured by Beatport and Resident Advisor.

Apparat had not just one but two breakthrough albums: in 2006 and together with Ellen Allien, he founded the “Orchestra of Bubbles”, with which the two of them explored the language of song. In 2007 he released “Walls”, his first time working with a band. He developed a live show that fused together acoustic and electronic, and club and pop music. Just as with Modeselektor, Apparat is the epitome of the Berlin sound, but nonetheless lifts the sounds of the city to another level. Significantly, both acts toured with Radiohead.

In 2008, Gernot, Sebastian and Sascha came together once again. Their eponymous debut album was released on April 20, 2009. Busdriver, the Californian rapper, the German reggae heroes Seeed and the dup poet Paul St. Hilaire joined them on a several songs. Perhaps the secret of Modeselektor’s and Apparat’s collaboration lies in the fact that they never even tried to get close to one another. Modeselektor’s thundering bass rumbles in the cellar, Apparat’s sensitive and subtle melodies float high in the eaves. The fact that what one assumes to be incompatible actually communicates, is what makes Moderat so unique. Moderat is not just a studio project: with a set of visuals created for these concerts by Pfadfinderei, they toured all five continents.

With Monkeytown and 50 Weapons, Modeselektor created a highly potent label empire, which unites the music scene’s old heroes with crazy bass kids. The two of them have curated a whole stage at the Melt! Festival a number of times and have released their third album. Apparat travelled the world with the freshly re-formed Apparat Band. He relinquished his position as auteur for the first time by becoming part of a theatre performance and in the album that resulted, released the raw and mostly unedited sessions.

Now, twelve years after their first meeting, Modeselektor and Apparat have come together once again: more mature, but not worldly-wise, wiser but not unquestioning, more experienced but without having sacrificed any of their pioneer spirit. 

They release the 1st single "Bad Kingdom" today 1st July 2013 and drop longplayer " II "  in August 2013 through Monkeytown Records ... You can catch Moderat Live in the UK at Eastern Electriks Knebworth House on August 2nd 2013...

MODERAT " Bad Kingdom " ( Lauren Laverne BBC 6Music RIP ) MONKEYTOWN OUT NOW

***Grammy winners unleash new Single***
***As featured on La Repubblica, Billboard, max, MEDIASET, Rai, Rolling Stone, Vibe, Vogue***
***TOP 100 AIRPLAY RADIO in 12 hours***
***As heard on Pete Tong’s FUTURE STARS – BBC Radio 1***
***Top 10 DMC Buzz Chart / Top 15 Music Week UK COOL CUTS CHART / Highest NEW entry ARIA CLUB CHART***

Steve Smith and Paul Harris are well versed in the world of electronic music creating Dirty Vegas over 10 years ago and are ready for the next step in the bands evolution. Continuing a legacy of excellence in a career that has garnered innumerable accolades including the pretentious Grammy for Best Electronic Album. Smith and Harris have spent 2013 working on new material, not to chase the trend of "EDM" but because electronic music is in their blood, in their being and soul. The result is their 6th official release; an EP titled Let The Night which will be released on D:Vision Records on January 24th, 2014

Let The Night is an optimistic EP that roughly resembles the semblance of The Chemical Brothers "Swoon" and Moby-like alternative dance elements. The EP a refreshing break from the the oh-so-popular bangers. Let The Night is emotionally alluring yet manages to be compellingly danceable; it's unapologetic electronic music that refuses to adhere to rigid boundaries. 

The song glows strapping on a pair of rose-colored glasses for the listener with the lyrics "You should see how good you look right now. Let The Night Follow You". Lead vocalist Steve Smith's smitten vocals serenade the listener on top of a sunny nu-disco groove. Remixes for Let The Night include the hand of Vanilla Ace's who piles on the funk with squiggly synths and a cool bouncing bassline that will take you to the white sandy beaches of Ibiza and back. Additional remixes from Sharam Jey and Betoko round out the encapsulating package.

Dirty Vegas - Let The Night (Original Mix)  [out now on Beatport]

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Helvetic Nerds member CEDRIC ZEYENNE detects his deeper side of producing music and delivers a stunning and forward thinking deep house track on Enormous Tunes.
FEEL YOU convinces with soulful vocals by Australian songstress Alisa Fedele, groovy guitar licks and a pumping deep house beat pattern with a catchy organ bass line underneath. We invite you to close your eyes and get on a journey with Cedric, discover his beautiful musical world. iTunes exclusively contains radio edit.

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Cedric Zeyenne - Feel You (Radio Edit)

David August – Epikur (Unreleased)

This new EP from Speaking Minds is a debut release that marks the start of what will surely be a great journey for the Italian trio. It comes backed with remixes by MEXA’s Louie Fresco and former Footprintz man Clarian. The Speaking Minds project was born in 2012 from the union of 3 Italian guys with a common passion for music who have appeared on Noir Music, have remixed Superhero and have had support from the likes of Tale of Us.
Opener ‘The Lost Dramatic Arp’ shows plenty of musicality from the off. It’s filled with rippling, lush piano lines and synth chords and has gently underlapping, warm house beats lazily tumbling below in inviting fashion. More searching and skyward melody patterns unfold throughout, forever folding you deeper into the emotive world within. Louie Fresco’s remix retools the track for the dancefloor, speeding up the pace and laying in some more direct and rubbery synth lines whilst retaining the melodic colour and sense of scale of the original.
The other superb original is ‘Amnesia’, a deep and involving house come techno track that is marbled with killer synth lines all treated in various ways – some are loose and liquid, some stiff and strained, but together they make for engaging listening that comes tinged with more than a hint of heavenly emotion. Clarian, who is fast making a name for himself as a solo artist, remixes this one into a tightly coiled,dark and bubbling number that lives in the shadowy underworld. Space ships appear to fly by, leaving trails in their wake, but the minimal groove is never lost and keeps pulsing from start to finish.
Now that the word about Speaking Minds is out there they are likely to go on to become one of the most successful acts of 2014 – once again thanks to some fine A&Ring from the MFR crew.

Speaking Minds - The Lost Dramatic Arp

Borough 2 Borough

6th Borough Project - U Know U  [Delusions Of Grandeur] (96kbps)

KARIN PARK

“The black sheep of pop” leads 2014 with new single.

“SHINE”
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SINGLE RELEASE DATE – 24th FEBRUARY
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Continuing to reignite the electronic scene with her own injection of dark, synth driven pop, Karin Park is regarded as Scandinavia’s hottest new export and now into 2014 proudly delivers the her new single ‘Shine’; dark, poetic and deliciously romantic.
 
As a Grammy Award winning 6 foot plus Swedish raised in the jungles of Japan, Karin Park’s sound and live performances can be hailed hypnotic and fantastically toxic; captured by a fan’s comment after the latest sold out show at Berghain, Berlin in September.

“I felt a whole new scope of emotions i couldn’t even begin to define…”

Now following on from her critically acclaimed “visually striking and emotionally stimulating” album Highwire Poetry produced by Christopher Berg (Fever Ray) and Barry Barnett, “Shine,” continues into 2014 where the dark side of love and poetically induced dance music meet.

Occupying a notably creative space somewhere between the lines of live electronics and more endearing deep slow-burning club jams, Karin Park’s new single “Shine” is a heady throbbing 4/4 mix of deep grooves that maintains a breathless pace and a unique sound.

Karin Park has done only a few, but carefully selected collaborations in the past year and her vocal appearance on "Everything" marked a key collaboration between Karin and acclaimed DJ/Producer Maya Jane Coles, a noir tale of ornithological obsession. The video's director Thomas Knights also responsible for some of Karin’s recent and most striking photo shoots.

The package also includes remixes from hotly tipped Brighton foursome Let The Machines Do The Work, Lovegrove and rising UK Stars Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo.




Karin Park - Shine - Radio Edit

Flex Cop - Next Time EP
Cat num: SF011
Release date: 17 March, 2014 (Beatport Exclusive)
All Other Stores: 31 March, 2014


Flex Cop - Next Time (Original mix) OUT NOW!!!

Taken from "Romance" Ep out on Roche Musique 24.02.14
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Tracklist : 

01 - Espoir
02 - S/ash
03 - Hot Hands
04 - Vanyll
05 - Omeo

Romance - EP

Espoir

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Taken from "Romance" Ep out on Roche Musique 24.02.14
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02 - S/ash
03 - Hot Hands
04 - Vanyll
05 - Omeo

Hot Hands

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Detroit Swindle | Boxed Out | The Debut Album

Out 24 March 2014

01 B.Y.O.
02 64 Ways feat. Mayer Hawthorne
03 Me, Myself & You
04 Thoughts of She
05 Monkey Wrench
06 Shotgun
07 Center of Gravity feat. Sandra Amarie 
08 For the Love of...
09 The Fat Rat
10 He’s Just This Guy, You Know?
11 Huh, What!
12 F6
13 You, Me, Here, Now

The Debut Album by Detroit Swindle. It has everything you would expect from the Swindles, some slow burners with a hint of disco, some deep house, some banging club monsters and hey, even some leftfield hip hop jams.

The album opens with "B.Y.O.", a track that balances nicely between the DS shuffle and an old school New York style block party. The track is a taste of things to come for the rest of the album, hinting towards a big party vibe, but mellow enough to make it a really interesting listen.

The one thing Detroit Swindle are known for best is their knack for picking the right vocals. For Boxed Out, they came up with some perfect partnerships. They recorded "64 Ways" with none other than one of America's finest soul singers: Mayer Hawthorne. Being a fan of their sound he proposed to do a track together in return for a remix on one of his album originals to be released in 2014. "64 Ways" has a lazy shuffle, a bunch of catchy rhodes chords and few well placed layers of synths that give this track a hint of "Detroit Experiment", wrapped up in an almost poppy house jam.

One of the other vocal tracks is "Thoughts of She", that effortlessly samples the voice of UK soul singer Alice Russel from the track "Pushin' on" by "The Quantic Soul Orchestra". There's also the gorgeous track "Center of Gravity" that has Berlin based, Ghanese-Canadian soul singer Sandra Amarie on vocals. It's particularly this track that reflects the true spirit of Detroit Swindle's music, a mixture of soul and UK garage meets Detroit house slowed down to a sexy groove with some of their trademark pads and stabs.

They pushed themselves to explore different tempos as well, which not only resulted on some slow house burners, but also in 2 hip hop tracks. "For the Love of..." is a homage to the old school sounds of "J. Dilla", "A tribe called Quest" and "The Pharcyde", combining off-beat shuffles, a gritty bass line and a warm cut-up soul sample. "You, Me, Here, Now" is almost a love song, disguised in a s(w)ing-a-long down tempo type of track. It's one of those "one more tune" kinda tunes.

So there's hip hop, there's soulful vocals, but It just wouldn't be a Detroit Swindle album without a few bangers on it. "Huh, What!", "Shotgun", "The Fat Rat" and "He's Just This Guy, You Know?" are all relentless dance floor monsters, pushing the tempo to match old school Chicago and New York house cuts from the late 80's and early 90's.

With these tracks "Boxed Out" has a great combination of gritty percussions, hot vocals and catchy chords and it is exactly this recipe that has become the much-loved trademark of Detroit Swindle's house universe. The album has a little bit of everything in exactly the right dose, making it both a good listen, and an extremely infectious club album.

Huh, What! EP

Monkey Wrench

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My new album "Back To Basics Chapter One" is out on 28th April on Hospital Records. You can pre-order now from iTunes and the Hospital Shop. Hope you enjoy.

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Back To Basics Chapter One

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When we started throwing our Dancing On The Charles parties next to Boston’s most famous river back in 2008 we had no idea it would become the inspiration for a now annual music compilation showcasing the immense talent of Boston's electronic music producers. In fact we had no idea we’d ever even have our own record label! Yet, here we are in 2014 proudly presenting the second edition of DOTC. A collection of music embodying the spirit and persistence that once fueled those epic riverside summertime parties and continues to guide the Boston dance music scene.

Dancing On The Charles Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 left off and features an even more diverse range of music. An overall deep feeling is this years’ theme as we dive into a 13 track selection from repeat contributors and new Soul Clap Records recruits. Returning to the comp is quickly rising deep house talent Caserta, our favorite afro-funk producer of 2013, Bosq (who has teamed up with us, Soul Clap), Bon Jonson (this time appearing as Nightriders AND Peyote Purple), Tate Masimore aka Chas Bronz (who presents his new project The Sheffield Boys with young guns Smeed & Suspence), and of course the smoothest of the smooth Roldy Cezaire. New artists include: Boston tech-house staple Tamer Malki, former Phoenix Landing resident D-Lu (this will be her very first release!), disco-connector Serge Gamesbourg and all around disco dude Brenden Wesley, Tuck Diggz (working alongside Mystery Roar) and new Boston transplant James Cook who we've been following since his college days and are finally getting out on our label!

Time flies when you’re having fun. Six more years can blink by and who knows where we’ll be. One thing’s for sure, we’ll never forget where we came from and Dancing On The Charles Volume 2 is our latest tribute to our hometown.

CREW DOWNLOAD

James Cook - Tempers Flare

Nightriders - Secrets

Alix Perez - Gully Halves

Gareth Bilaney - Enchanted Breath (Original) {Um Records}

one of the fist track i released 
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