chill out

Berlin

Hamburg

38ème Leçon : Le Sexting

sunday sunset #5

pure chill

"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

Moby with Damien Jurado 'Almost Home' (Moby's House of Koi remix) 

Taken from his 11th studio album Innocents, out now through Little Idiot, listen here: http://innocents.moby.com

A few years ago, Moby (born Richard Melville Hall) decided that it was time for a change so he packed up and moved from his beloved New York to sunny LA. This fresh, new outlook permeates his 11th studio album, Innocents. One day, as the story goes, he was riding around town listening to “Morning Becomes Eclectic” on local radio station KCRW, and he heard a Damien Jurado song come on the air — and the rest is history. 

“Originally, ‘Almost Home’ was a fully finished song,” recalls Moby. “But I love Damien’s approach to melody and lyrics so I gave it to him as an instrumental. What he did was much better than anything I’d come up with.”

Almost Home (Moby's House Of Koi Remix)

Purchase "Montana" on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/montana-single/id799641047

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": http://shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
CD/LP/DIGITAL

artwork by:
ISO50

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

WEB - www.tychomusic.com 
TWITTER - www.twitter.com/iso50 
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YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/user/iso50 
INSTAGRAM - @iso50

Montana

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

Free Download

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

Melody Gardot...what else can I say that I adore her voice and the beautiful original song. So I made my own version to play it at the clubs. Hope you like it. Credits go to the original artist. Feel free to leave some comments!

Dont rip it from Soundcloud. Its not worth it. I uploaded it in bad quality.
And don't ask for a download link - there will be no download!

For booking requests, just contact: booking@freundchen.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/timo.jahns.official


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Melody Gardot - Our Love Is Easy (Timo Jahns Secret Edit)

June The Mixes

June

Listen

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!

www.sonarkollektiv.com

Caught Up

iTunes

A1 - Stee Downes - Caught Up

Freidrehen hier in einer Akustik Session mit Tim 
und Christoph. 

Diese und andere Akustikversionen gibts auf der 
Stadtrandlichter Premium Ausgabe. 
Könnt ihr hier vorbestellen: http://j.mp/clueso-srl-premium 

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.


www.sonarkollektiv.com | https://soundcloud.com/danielgrau | http://www.discogs.com/artist/1670836-Daniel-Grau | https://www.facebook.com/themagicsoundofdanielgrau


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

iTunes: http://geni.us/AlexBarckRemixed
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)

Our contribution to the 10 years Systematic Compilation! Release date is October 6th 2014!!!

Listen Full Track

Namito & Solmaz Lou - Greetings To The Sun PREVIEW (OUT OCT 6TH!)

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

E1. - The Most Beautiful Divorce Ever

B2. - See You When You Get There

http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/gold-artist-bondax

Bondax have been spearheading the sun-drenched, r'n'b-infused house sound for two years now.

First appearing on our radar two years ago with the woozy and instantly likeable 'All Inside' and sprightly 'Just Us', it's no surprise they've reached the world tour status they've been enjoying this year. The Lancaster boys - George Townsend and Adam Kaye - have spearheaded a contemporary house sound alongside the likes of Disclosure, firing out an alarming amount of dancefloor movers or straight up chillers, with 'Gold', Baby I Got That', 'Wet Summer' and latest single 'All I See' among the crisp and swinging tracks responsible for their rocketing success. Then there's remixes of Chromeo, Duke Dumont and Rudimental and a jam-filled set in the corner of our office.

Pre-order 'Bondax & Friends: The Mix Album': https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/bondax-friends-the-mix-album/id932924971

Full Gold feature

Premiere: Bondax 'Something Good' feat Speelburg

out now digitally:
Itunes: http://smarturl.it/caribouc2itunes
Beatport: http://smarturl.it/caribouc2beatport
Bleep: http://smarturl.it/caribouc2bleep

Available on 12" very soon

Remix and Extras by Carl Craig for Planet E Comm. Inc Detroit.
Engineered by Carl Craig at Beast Labs.

Photograph by Jason Evans.

Itunes

Your Love Will Set You Free (c2's Set U Free RMX)

PillowTalk - Soft

We feel really good to bring on the Argentine producer Nicolas Petracca to our roster here at PHW Elements, as he’s been one to watch over the past years with his quality deep progressive music. Over the past year he’s got numerous plays by legend Hernan Cattaneo, and what is a better way to get recognition than from the master himself. 

Today he bring on his original “Blast From The Past” through our deep division. With warm melodic arrangements, hypnotic grooves and warm evolving pads, he delivers another fine piece of progressive grooves to his already growing list of releases.

On remix duty, we are able to present you another fine line-up. First out the malta bound growing producer Scott Williams who once again return to the PHW Elements family. With his ever growing repertoire of sounds, he this time delivers a truly hypnotic and forward thinking production, as he bring on his full artillery of pads, melodies and grooves to build what we would like to call “a special one”. 

Next up is a debut on the label, as we have the pleasure to present the Argentine producer, known through his music on labels such as Lowbit, Clinique, Soundteller and many more, Ariel AB. With a lovely rolling bass line, efficient percussion and a truly warm melodic atmosphere, he delivers a superb act for us on his debut, we couldn’t be happier.

The 3rd rework is a welcome return from label veteran Mitaric. It’s always great to have him around us, as he delivers over and over again. With a more deep house inspired production, still the progressive way with evolving pads, warm baselines and overall tasty arrangements, he once more proves what a great producer he is.

We believe you are to have another great one here to pick and choose from!

Nicolas Petracca - @nicolaspetracca87
Scott Williams - @scottwilliams
Ariel AB - @ariel_ab
Mitaric - @mitaric

Media
www.progressivehouseworldwide.com/
www.facebook.com/progressivehouseworldwide
twitter.com/proghouseworldw

Be sure to like our new page about this show: bit.ly/phweradio

Nicolas Petracca - Blast From The Past (Ariel AB Remix)

'Europa Hymn' is the first track off of ‘MG’ - Martin Gore's new 16-track electronic instrumental album - out now on Mute. #MGxMG

BUY MG:
Digital- http://po.st/MGiTunes

MG ONLINE: 
http://www.martingore.com
http://www.facebook.com/MartinGore

‘MG’ TRACKLISTING
Pinking
Swanning
Exalt
Elk
Brink
Europa Hymn
Creeper
Spiral
Stealth
Hum
Islet
Crowly
Trysting 
Southerly
Featherlight
Blade

MG - Europa Hymn (Official Audio)

Joy Denalane - Niemand (Was Wir Nicht Tun)

for u and ur luvvd one. or just the person ur making out with tonight. or the floorboards ur laying on currently while the vhs of home alone 2: lost in new york plays on ur 13" sony tv.

DOWNLOAD:
http://www.mediafire.com/?oo1g6fz8jv9691f

WEDIDIT:
http://www.wediditcollective.com/2012/02/hapy-valentymz-days-3.html

this is a mix i recorded last year for gilles peterson's radio show. not sure how many folks got to hear it, so i wanted to give it to yall as a download. especially for this luvly Vday. this one's for laying on the ground or a nice rug or a bed with someone in it or on the train high. make smoke and play :) luv u guys with all my heart from the bottom of the soles of my shoes.

1. Nathan Johnson - Emily's Theme (Brick OST) - [Lakeshore]
sounds
2. His Name Is Alive - One Year (Four Tet Remix) - [Domino]
3. Emily Reo - On The Beach - [self released]
sounds
4. Drake - Club Paradise (RL Grime screw) - [OVO]
5. Jon Brion - Phone Call (slow) - [Hollywood]
+ found voicemail
6. Dimlite - Roo - [self released]
7. Asura - Her Tearing - [Non Projects]
8. M83 - I Guess I'm Floating - [Gooom]
9. Evenings - [I] Softly, We Go.. - [self released]
sounds
10. Little Dragon - Twice - [Peacefrog]
11. Groundislava - Culminate - [Wedidit]
sounds
12. D'Angelo - Africa - [Virgin] 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shlohmo/215424843565?ref=br_tf
https://www.twitter.com/shlohmo

https://soundcloud.com/wedidit-collective

Gilles Peterson Mix 2011

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

buy:
https://foner.bandcamp.com/album/september

September

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.