Laidback Luke & Marchand Presents Highstreets - Don't Let Go (Sebastien Leger Mix)

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Elemental Vol. 1 moves through earth, air, fire, and water not as metaphors but as emotional states. The songs drift like weather systems, mixing tenderness with atmosphere - acoustic guitars and field-warm vocals meeting the pulse of understated techno rhythms. The production is deliberately porous: wood and wire breathing alongside soft synths and spectral drum-machine traces. It's an "acoustic techno" album in the sense that rhythm and resonance share the same dirt. The songs carry the physical textures of wind in rafters, gravel underfoot, or rain on a roof, yet they shimmer with digital light. This meeting of folk intimacy and electronic timbres gives the album its peculiar gravity - part back-porch confession, part after-hours heartbeat.

Lyrically, Elemental Vol. 1 abandons conventional pop architecture. Instead of verse–chorus–bridge repetition, each piece unfolds as a field poem - free-form, continuous, and responsive to its own inner weather. The writing treats structure as tide rather than grid: refrains return when they need to, not when they're told to. This openness lets the language breathe in sync with the natural imagery that drives it - storms, light, stone, silence - and invites listeners to inhabit the songs as evolving spaces rather than predictable forms. Across the various mixes of its six song poems - We Learn the Sky, Don't Sightsee This Heart, Be a Storm in Me, Til the Heat Is Gone, You Happen Like Weather, and Wild Gifts - the album traces the cycles of intimacy and impermanence, finding in their motion the same quiet power that turns seasons, wheels, and hearts.

Til the Heat is Gone (I)

Shaded EP

Shaded (Compuphonic & Kolombo Remix)

In 1995, I was playing Goa Trance mixed with Funky-breaks. I owned Diesel leather motocross pants and considered it a waste to NOT have a ring on every finger (thumbs not included). I had slowly veered away from my hard techno roots, and had lost my way. The adrenaline fueled glory of 1992 was a distant memory. Records were not "crazy", they were "phat". The whole era makes me nauseous. Anyway, around this time, my dad was in London, and I asked him to get me some records at Zoom Records (RIP). He came back with Canada’s first copy of Hardfloor's "Acperience" and a white label that just said "FRED 1". That is the point of this story... FRED 1 changed my life. FRED was hard techno updated. FRED had a sound I had never heard, super-compressed and insane: the attitude of gabber but with style. I burned my pants. I smelted my rings. I was reborn and inspired to change my name (to Tiga). FRED also had another name... Cari Lekebusch.

In the mid-90's a small group of Swedes basically changed techno. They'll never get the props that Detroiters (or now Berliners )get... but that's cuz Swedes are dorks. And at the center of this revolution (that also included Adam Beyer, Jesper Dahlback (note to reader, John Dahlback was 8 at the time), Alexi Delano and Joel Mull) was the Godfather... Cari Lekebusch. Most of what I write is bullshit, but this is all true. Cari's records were so ahead of their time that he got kinda screwed. He wrote the book on running an indie techno empire... the graphics, the limited editions, the alter-egos, he did it all. For me it was inspirational..... and now more than a decade later its time to pay tribute to a legend.

Fast forward to 2003. I'm in stockholm working on the follow up to Pleasure From The Bass with Jesper. He gives me a remix he just did for Cari.... it sounds like Sting but EVEN better. I fall in love. The track was "Shaded", and for years I closed sets with it..... it never totally fit in, and on paper it SHOULD have sucked: but it didn't. Not since my own records had male-vocal, sexy, electro-tinged club music sounded so good.

Now 5 years later, to kick off 2008, we at Turbo are re-introducing a lost gem: first, the unreleased original Jesper demo mix, then new mixes by Compuphonic & Kolombo and new Turbo artist Clouded Vision aka Matt Walsh and Stephen Cook. I swear these mixes are something special, not your usual remix-filler crap.

Clouded Vision deliver a fantastic new-era late night acid version. I'm not even gonna insult Matt by calling him up-and-coming, he rocks and looks great and is the future of everything....and C&K continue their global domination with one of the best remixes I've ever heard. Cross my heart. 

Not so many jokes. I'm saving them up for our compilation.

Tiga


Cari Lekebusch - Shaded (Compuphonic & Kolombo Remix)

A-Studio ft. Polina - S.O.S. (Skylark Vocal Remix)

Sharam jey - 4 da loverz (original dub mix)

Rebirth - The Supermen Lovers

Chab - closer to me (original mix - album version ((club)) 10'50....

Soda Inc - Big Love (Original Mix)

In for the Kill - La Roux vs Dataworx (Hook N Sling Edit)

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Laidback Luke & Marchand Presents Highstreets - Don't Let Go (Sebastien Leger Mix)

Sebastien Lacasse