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"Elan Vital" from the album "Virtualis" 2001
Composed and produced by Serge Blenner
Multitrack Digital Sequencing
Programming and realization at: Hamburg / Germany.
(c) and (p) 2001 by MdeC Editions

Elan Vital

Transitions

Hold The Line

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Maya Jane Coles : Something In The Air - Bonobo Remix

Highs And Lows

"Lonely" by @Ultracity. Rollerboys Recordings 010. Vocals by Donald Waugh.



Ultracity - Lonely - Waldemar Schwartz Remix

Made a beat and remembered clueso's voice still lingering on my hard drive: VOILÀ! Thanks to Steer M for the rap.

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Clueso — Dort Wo Du Wohnst (Tilmann Jarmer Remix feat. Steer M)

June The Mixes

June

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Summer is here
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Cee-Roo - I'm So Happy

Format: 12inch | Releasedate: 12.09.2014

TRACKLISTING 12INCH:

A1 – Caught Up
A2 – Caught Up (Alex Barck Remix)
B1 – Caught Up (Kyodai Remix)
B2 – Caught Up (Paskal & Urban Absolutes Remix)

Digital bonus tracks: 

Stee Downes - Caught Up (Rocco Raimundo Version)
Stee Downes - Caught Up (Instrumental)

12inch: www.sonarkollektiv.com/releases/SK262
Download: http://geni.us/SK262 


It has been more than a whopping five years now since Stee Downes released his last album (“All In A Day”, SK203CD) . But the Dublin born, Amsterdam based jack of all trades has been simply too busy with numerous other successful projects and his renowned DJ gigs to take the time to record its follow-up “The Bigger Picture” in Berlin's Jazzanova Recording Studio. This longplayer is set to be released in 2014 / 2015.

Now, for starters, we are treated with the pre-12inch “Caught Up”. It's almost take for granted by now that Sonar Kollektiv A&R-manager Alex Barck and Paskal & Urban Absolutes, the label's unofficial in-house remix duo, have looked after the track. And that's how we actually get two times uplifting vocal house that works as well in the club as on the airwaves.
Further on, the currently massively uprising siblings Kyodai take no prisoners and go for a thriving club burner and give the arrangement a fantastic sweeping beat and pump the bassline all up to the front.

All the way, from Australia comes the contribution by Rocco Raimundo, who prowls audibly in calmer climes. This way “Caught Up” wins even more points and could molt to become – in form of this remix – a proper summer smash.

On the digital release you'll find on top of Raimundo's remix also the instrumental version of the original. You won't regret to give it a try: Next to the ultra funky bass by Alex Grube, the guitar by Arne Jansen, the drumming by Michael Grabinger and particularly the piano and rhodes, played by none other than Sebastian Studnitzky, put you in an outrageous good mood.
That's then how the summer 2014 sounds!

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Caught Up

iTunes

A1 - Stee Downes - Caught Up

Freidrehen hier in einer Akustik Session mit Tim 
und Christoph. 

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Clueso - Freidrehen (Akustik Version)

Format: 2CD, 2LP, Download | Releasedate: 19.09.2014

Order:

iTunes: http://geni.us/DanielGrauiTunes
Amazon CD: http://geni.us/DanielGrauCDAMAZON
Amazon 2LP: http://geni.us/DanielGrauLPAMAZON
Amazon MP3: http://geni.us/DanielGrauMP3AMAZON
SK Webshop: http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/releases/SK281CD

TRACKLISTING 2CD:

CD1:
01 Dejando Volar El Pensamiento (Dejando Volar El Pensamiento, 1974) 2:40 02 La Ceiba (Dejando Volar El Pensamiento, 1974) 2:31
03 Delirio En Fa Menor (Mas Allá de Las Estrellas, 1976) 3:56
04 Prama (Mas Allá de Las Estrellas, 1976) 3:14
05 Tren Del Espacio (El Sonido Mágico De Daniel Grau, 1978) 3:22
06 Dulce Suave y Ligero (El Sonido Mágico De Daniel Grau, 1978) 2:34
07 Robot Mágico (El Sonido Mágico De Daniel Grau, 1978) 4:48
08 Beside Me (El Sonido Mágico De Daniel Grau, 1978) 3:44
09 Disco Fantasy (Disco Fantasy, 1979) 6:14
10 Sonido Mágico (Disco Fantasy, 1979) 3:10
11 Atlantis (Disco Fantasy, 1979) 7:51
12 Disco Dance (Kryptonita Liquida, 1979) 3:19
13 Skylab (Kryptonita Liquida, 1979) 4:00
14 Volando Libre (Kryptonita Liquida, 1979) 4:35

CD2:
01 El León Bailarín (El León Bailarín, 1980) 4:42
02 Con El Cielo En Tus Ojos (El León Bailarín, 1980) 3:34
03 Apártate (El León Bailarín, 1980) 6:46
04 Corre Caminos (El León Bailarín, 1980) 4:27
05 Por Que No Podemos Hacerlo (Por Que No Podemos Hacerlo?, 1981) 3:27
06 Combination (Por Que No Podemos Hacerlo?, 1981) 3:49
07 Canción Del Amanecer (Canción Del Amanecer, 1982) 5:36
08 Meditación (Canción Del Amanecer, 1982) 3:14
09 440 Torker (440 Torker, 1983) 3:45
10 Nunca Conocí Amor Igual (Fallen) (440 Torker, 1983) 3:30 11 Funky Bip-Bot (440 Torker, 1983) 4:34
12 Amor A Primera Vista (440 Torker, 1983) 3:42
13 To Night (New Inedit Track, 2014) 4:35


Daniel Grau has recorded nine legendary LPs between 1974 and 1983; all of them never available outside of Venezuela though. Born 1950 in Caracas the thoroughbred musician first and foremost was one of the most sought-after studio engineers in his country. Almost any respectable artist in Venezuela (Vytas Brenner, Aldemaro Romero, Aditus, La Misma Gente etc.) was at least once in the Studio taking advantage of Daniel Grau's mastery.

Just for the fun of it Grau asked some of the musicians who frequented the studio on a regular basis to use the free studio time to record some own songs and compositions under the name of “La Orquestra De Daniel Grau”. The fist two albums from 1974 and 1976, released under this moniker, already display perfectly what an adept composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bass and keyboards) Grau was and still is. The influences and references, which characterize his entire, short and Venezuela-only career, are unmistakeable: North American Fusion Jazz, orchestral Bossa Nova and Latin American funk in the sense of Eumir Deodato and Sérgio Mendes.

Daniel Grau's variety of musical styles doesn't end here though. At the end of the 1970's he moved more and more towards disco music and incorporated what we today all call Cosmic Disco. And it's exactly this scene, which started to become a worldwide movement about ten years ago, which embraces now the forgotten work by Grau and numbers his nine albums among the “holy grails” of this genre. Jazzanova member Claas Brieler was aware of this when he visited Caracas in 2012 as part of the cultural exchange programme by the prestigious Goethe Institute. Together with befriended Venezuelan DJ Trujillo all the stops were pulled to make Daniel Grau's music accessible to a worldwide audience.

In close dialogue with the by-now 64-years-old Daniel Grau the show case compilation at hand was compiled. As a CD release it encompasses 27 of the best tracks out of Grau's archive. The vinyl edition confines itself over two LPs to the 15 tracks that are the most danceable. On both formats you find a new composition (“To Night”). More than thirty years after his last official release Daniel Grau returns with “To Night” and looks ahead confidently.

Sonar Kollektiv now releases “The Magic Sound Of Daniel Grau – compiled by Jazzanova & Trujillo” as a double CD, double vinyl and as a digital download. All songs were restored by Calyx Mastering in Berlin. The compilation is packaged in a magic design by internationally renowned and Latin Grammy award winning, Venezuelan artist MASA.


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CD1 - 03 - Daniel Grau - 03 Delirio En Fa Menor (From Mas Alla De Las Estrellas 1976)

Format: Download | Releasedate: 03.10.2014

TRACKLISTING DOWNLOAD:

01. Doubter feat. Jonatan Bäckelie (Ada Remix)
02. Move Slowly feat. Bea Anubis (Vindahl Remix) *
03. We Get High feat. Jonatan Bäckelie (Kalabrese Remix)
04. Re-set feat. Pete Josef (Marlow Remix)
05. Oh Africa feat. Christine Salem (Full Crate Remix)
06. Like A Drug feat. Stee Downes (Luis Leon Remix)
07. Spinning Around feat. Pete Josef (Chopstick & Johnjon Remix)*
08. Oh Africa feat. Christine Salem (Frank Wiedemann Remix)*
09. Doubter feat. Jonatan Bäckelie (Mao Remix)
10. Like A Drug feat. Stee Downes (ComixXx Remix)
11. Oh Africa feat. Christine Salem (Osunlade Remix)
12. Re-set feat. Pete Josef (Hannes Fischer Remix)
13. Doubter feat. Jonatan Bäckelie (Alex Patchwork Remix)*
14. Atmosphere (VECT Remix)
* EXCLUSIVE

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Amazon: http://geni.us/AlexBarckRemixAMZN

Almost to the day, a year ago the brilliant solo debut album by Alex Barck, „Reunion“, was released and caused quite a stir amongst the fans of sophisticated and boundaries- exploring dance music. A buzz lasting to this day, only considering all the different remixes that came out over the last twelve months. You can find them now, fourteen in number, nicely assembled in this digital release package. The ten reworks already officially released are joined by another four exclusive remixes, which haven't been available so far.

First of all we'd like to put a spotlight on the extraordinaire works by Ada (for “Doubter”), Kalabrese (for “We Get High”) and ComixXx (“Like A Drug”). Three remixes operating at the intersections of house, pop and leftfield you can't classify, and therefore influencing the sound of 2014. Even a lick more unorthodox come in the remixes by VECT, Full Crate and Mao. This is refreshing club music, somewhere between deep house and the sinister reincarnation of RnB.

But now let's shift the attention to the four remixes, which you don't know yet: Ronni Vindahl from Copenhagen goes one step further and turns „Move Slowly“ into a proper Soul-Funk track, including horns and guitars. This is as cheerful as it ever can be!

The two Berlin based producers Chopstick & Johnjon have a go at „Spinning Around“ and club the arrangement straight to the peak time of the (imaginary) best dance floor in the world. Captivating as well with the current sound of Berlin, one half of Âme, Frank Wiedemann does a mesmerizing job in remixing „Oh Africa“. Two times absolute world class and highest warranty for dance floor frenzy. London's Alex Patchwork, on the other hand, dismantles „Doubter“ in a fashion that only Jonatan Bäckelie's voice remains to be the single fundamental element floating on a fascinating, sentimental sea of futuristic sounds. Music for the morning after.

„Reunion Remixed“ is not just paying tribute to the infinite talent of Alex Barck, but is also a chronicle of all the prevailing trends and tendencies of current club music – be it in Berlin's underground clubs or on your headphones.

http://soundcloud.com/alexbarck
https://www.facebook.com/alexbarckofficial


Reunion Remixed

Doubter

01 - Alex Barck & Jonatan Bäckelie - Doubter (Ada Remix)

RELEASE INFO

Hamburg duo Hauke Freer and Matthias Relling aka Session Victim return to Delusions of Grandeur with their second long player, 'See You When You Get There'.

Right from the start it's clear Session Victim's way with a groove hasn't diminished in the two years since their debut album, 2012's 'The Haunted House of House'. ‘Do It Now’ and ‘Hey Stranger’ open the record with the duo's trademark blend of subtle sampling, gloriously swinging beats and the same off-kilter sensibility that consistently raises them above their modern disco peers.

The new album marks a conscious progression in Freer & Relling's approach, evolving the sample-based production style that's won them plenty of fans since their emergence in 2008. Whereas their debut album was recorded in the duo's bedrooms, the new LP instead sees them embracing a full studio set-up, split between their own Hamburg-based studio and the fully-kitted out Room G studio in San Francisco.

Despite being situated in one of the USA's most beautiful locations, the duo found little time for anything outside the work at hand. Time not spent in the studio saw them raiding the two-dollar bins of Amoeba Music for interesting records to sample. "Having access to a fully-equipped studio was like hitting the jackpot. It was a bit intimidating too - we thought 'if we cannot write the LP here, it’s not in us'. A few days later we already forgot about this and were immersed in jamming and exploring," says Hauke. "We had access to all sorts of 80s drum machines, synths and fender rhodes of course that added another layer to the whole thing."

The resulting LP is as expected one that suits a variety of moods within SV's idosyncratic range - from the dancefloor thrills of the piano-led Never Forget, the classic disco percussion & filtered guitar licks of Stick Together and the heads down groove of The Most Beautiful Divorce Ever to the more laid back jazz tempos of Hyuwee and Crystal Maze, while the record also has a place for the more oddball moments of Under Your Spell and Eos Place. ‘See You When You Get There' finds Session Victim at their best yet, with an accomplished album that will likely emerge as one of 2014's strongest in its field.


TRACK LISTING

A1. Do It Now
A2. Hey Stranger
B1. Make People Dance
B2. See You When You Get There
C1. Never Forget
D1. Stick Together
D2. Hyuwee
E1. The Most Beautiful Divorce Ever
E2. Crystal Maze
F1. Under Your Spell
F2. Eo's Place
F3. Outro

A2. - Hey Stranger

Joy Denalane - Niemand (Was Wir Nicht Tun)

The album "Funkhaus Studio Sessions" will be released in May 2012.
12inch of I Human available at your local record store...remixes to come in June...

I Human feat. Paul Randolph

Ta-ku - Higher (Flume Remix) [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Yes I was

Part of Epic Disco Vol. 2 (Rollerboys Recordings) September 2012

I Was On

This was supposed to be a clean edit of a Les McCann & Eddie Harris track but I had too much fun and started remixing it instead. Ableton Live's timestretch didn't work too good on this one, though.
  
        File not available for download anymore as I'm not really into the idea of being sued. What's your opinion on this? Should I care or are these tracks viewed as tributes rather than copyright infringements?
        
        Please! If you play this at a club, party, beach or whatever, please email me a picture or just let me know if people liked it.
    
    ...oh, and if you're an idiot, please don't comment.

MAU vs Les McCann - Go On and Cry (MAU's Discofied Rework)

Waldemar Schwartz - La Taza De Oro

Played this one at our NYE shows and got a bunch of people asking what it was so here it is :)

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Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (At Dawn We Rage Fest Edit)

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Just for a laugh, although did get Radio 1 play on Rob da Banks show...

The Beatles - A Day In The Life (unknown mix)

My official remix for @Disclosuremusic "You & Me"

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Disclosure - You & Me (Flume Remix)

With a live show unlike anything else out there, your Two Man House Band has claimed their very own spot in today’s Dance Music.