Sketchbook is a new label founded and run by Los Angeles based house and techno producers Android Cartel. The label focuses on releasing DJ Tools / Remix Parts for the ever growing world of digital DJing and production.

The concept for the label is based on giving artists an outlet to put to use the tracks they may have started and scrapped for whatever creative reason. Many times these scrapped pieces of work have amazing parts which can be revived and utilized as DJ Tools or remix parts.

The label will release a track and its subsiquent parts for special live tooling purposes. In the future, look out for remix contests and tools from your favorite artists.

As the first Italian DJ to tour the world, he’s put his homeland on the global techno map. As the first DJ to mix live on the eminent BBC music show Top Of The Pops, he’s helped bring techno to the widest audience possible. As the man behind Meganite – one of Ibiza’s most successful and longest running nights – he has recruited some of the world’s most respected underground DJs as residents; Adam Beyer, Marco Carola and Chris Liebing.

This journey to legendary status began over 25 years, 700 releases and 7 million unit sales ago when he became the first Italian finalist in the world DMC championships in 1988. Galvanising this success the following year with a win on a live broadcast Italian DJ competition called The Walky Cup, his national crown as a premiership DJ was realised... And the world beckoned.

A string of sonic successes, dancefloor dominance and industry victories followed; early chart appearances as R.A.F and co- writing for myriad European house acts during the early 90s led him to become a partner Media Records, while his reptilian trilogy in 1998 elevated him to a global level; ‘Lizard’, ‘Iguana’ and ‘Komodo (Save A Soul)’ fused trance with techno on such a level they became hymns for the biblical superclub explosion during the last few years of the 20th century and charted in many countries. From this point onwards, the world could no longer ignore the dance music and techno phenomenon. And Mauro was driving from the front. As one of the most in-demand artists across the globe, he barely left DJ Mag’s illustrious Top 100 DJ list throughout the first decade of the 21st century.

Constantly searching for innovative developments – both musically and technically – Mauro expressed an early vision that is now common place within electronic music: his ability to bring the underground to the masses, to fuse melody, hooks and harmony with industrial strength drum dynamics, his innate understanding of widescreen DJ selections that cover the whole spectrum created a reputation that positioned him in all corners of techno.

This focus and attitude meant that as a DJ he’s been invited to perform the broadest possible range of peaktime sets from Berlin’s famed Love Parade to Turin Winter Olympics via Timewarp, Tomorrowland, MTV Festival, Awakenings, Sensation, Mayday, Ultra Music Festival, Space Miami, Ibiza and thousands more. As an artist this gave him the freedom to flex from major remixes of top tier acts like Freddie Mercury and The Pet Shop Boys while delivering extensive albums that explore every side of techno with daring experimentation with tracks such as ‘Baguette’, ‘Contaminato’, ‘Hong Kong’, ‘The Riff’ and ‘Asteroids’.

As well as his journeyman DJ sets and full spectrum productions, this vision is also evident in his two brands. Both established in the early 2000s and still going strong to date, his Meganite events and Alchemy label are both melting pots for evolution and development. Meganite at Privilege is one of Ibiza’s most infamous techno parties and has since gone on to take over clubs and arenas across Europe and the US while Alchemy has delivered cuts from the likes of Adam Beyer, Chris Liebing, Joseph Capriati, Paco Osuna, Popof, Sasha Carassi, The Advent, Steve Rachmad, Nicole Moudaber and many more. Not just a label, Alchemy has also given the world a successful festival in Mauro’s motherland Turin in 2010 and is the home to his hugely popular podcast series that is syndicated across the world and listened to by audiences of millions. 

Raw. Analogue Techno. Techno flavored Techno. Roland 16-step focused live jammed beats. Guitar pedals, verb tanks, gates, modular patch cables, white noise, urban samples...all mixed to a techno/house grove with attention given to subtle modulations on nearly all parts of the track.
The artistic freedom to settle in, carve out the groove, paint the aesthetic, proceed with artistic integrity and intention, and liberate the music already inside. My hope is only to connect with the people looking for honest, uncompromising art, and inspire them again to see the future as we once did in the past in early Chicago and Detroit. The world is on a temporary detour in terms of commercialized techno and laptop DJ pandemonium. Vinyl...the only phuture vision worth holding on to...the last analogy to Detroit. Computers were never the future...they were always just a 2d facsimile of it. The future was only ever captured in the raw art, the rave innocence, of the modulation of machines, sample pads, and turntables. Peace, Love, Unity and Respect...all while dancing, trusting, dreaming of the future while jacking a bass bin at 5am. It was only ever about the music moving your body.  Miles, Mills, Mayday, Atkins, Voorn, Roy Davis Jr., Principle...those are the gentlemen on my mind tonight, as the music finds its way out of the liberated machines.  If you want to see for yourself just how we rock the machines, here you go:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz-Ybf2cTD4
AKA: 
Highsage
Acid Trace
Shagghie

Labels: 
NightTripper [NT001] Oct '14
Detroit Underground [DU018] Dec '11
Brainwave Labs Recordings [BWLR001] Dec '11, [JAKISBACK EP1 and EP2] TBD
UK Ruff  [Acid Armada UKR001] (http://ukruff.bandcamp.com/album/acid-armada)
AC Records [AC04]
Napalm Enema Records (NER0074]
Truth Underground Records
1, 5, 9, 13 Music
Incense Records
Tekfunk Records

Collaborators:
Katy Rokit
Jesse Somfrey
Acid Warriorz
Hand Made Acid
Exillion
Raiz Droid
Steve Kuehl
DyLABs
Siesta Submarina
Daniel Troberg
ColdFuture
Mouse the Beatbasta
Keckclip

Please take a listen to my Plastikman / rhawtin remix of Ask Yourself
highsage.bandcamp.com
flavors.me/highsage
Elektron-Users (www.elektron-users.com): highsage
Gearslutz: highsage
twitter: highsage

https://linktr.ee/stevemccready1989
Having gone under various alias’s over the past decade Steve has finally settled under his original title.  Hailing from Donegal in Ireland, the name of the game is house music in all its forms.    
As a live artist he has showcased his talents at home and afar for events such as Celtronic, Jika Jika, Shine and also Huddle. He has also had the pleasure of sharing the stage with artists such as Simian Mobile Disco, Bicep and Kolsch to name a few. 
Steve has also received support from Radio 1 from the likes of B traits and Annie Nightingale.   
With tracks already out on labels such as Dogmatik Records and Hungarian Hotwax and also both a single and EP due this year on London imprint Release/Sustain Records he is definitely one to keep an eye on in the near future!

There are few individuals within the underground dance music industry able to match Chris Fortier for both influence and achievement over the last two decades. With a mandate predicated upon the deceptively simple notion of "constant musical evolution", the founder and owner of the globally renowned Fade Records, is not constrained by boundaries, reflected in both the music he plays and creates.

An extensive list of achievements is testament to such elevated ideals, perhaps best showcased by the iconic 2005 "Balance 007" compilation; a groundbreaking CD at the vanguard of a fresh, innovative and underground sound movement, that history would later record as an aural blueprint for the worldwide dance music explosion that followed in the subsequent decade and beyond. A further eight commercially released mix albums would also contain the Chris Fortier DNA.

As a production artist, Fortier's portfolio of skills have been crafted and honed through an intimate 20-year knowledge of clubs across the globe's dance-floor capitals – from Tokyo, Melbourne, Mexico City to Budapest and Buenos Aires to residencies at the legendary AAHZ in Orlando in the early 90’s through to New York's Twilo and London's The Cross. Always in demand and prolific in output, a continually rising 400 plus Beatport production credits tell only half of an impressive story. Fortier's remix of Delerium's "Silence", was the first and original remix and sold in excess of one million copies worldwide; while work for John Digweed's Bedrock imprint further cemented an ever-growing reputation alongside the full-length album, "As Long As The Moment Exists" and its follow-up remix album on behemoth Australian imprint, EQ.

Never one to rest on his proverbial laurels, Chris' productions have seen him take on the mantle of highly regarded modern producer with releases spanning the underground sound including most recently on Bedrock, Selador, Balance, Mooseeka, Tulipa, Maya, Manual, Ground Factory, Maktub, Mindwarp and his own imprint Fade. His remixes and collaborations since 2009 tell their own tale, as Chris remains as integral, relevant and at the leading edge in the Underground as ever. With an innate and immaculate sense of what makes the industry tick, built upon longstanding personal experience, Fortier's musical evolution shows no sign of extinction.

A DJ since the early 1990s playing sounds which span house, tribal and techno - a mix of forward-thinking music with a nod towards classic New York and Detroit sounds. Through the 90s Rob's sets at events and residencies were synonymous with big-room and tribal house sound and he's been a champion of these sounds for almost 30 years.

He's performed at events, clubs and festivals throughout Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as in Australasia, and has been the head of marketing since 2019 for AUM Festival - one of the largest independent festivals in New Zealand.

Productions for TWISTED Records (Celeda/Danny Tenaglia), Ready Mix Records, and Pure Substance. Compilations mixed for Ready Mix Records and Sony BMG.

Longtime support DJ for Global Underground/Renaissance brand tours down-under, DJing alongside Carl Craig, Deep Dish, Steve Lawler, Sasha, Danny Howells, Nick Warren, Pete Heller, Satoshi Tomiie, Sander Kleinenberg, and also alongside Stacey Pullen, DJ Pierre, Mood II Swing, Terry Francis, Derrick Carter, Phil Asher (RIP) among many.

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK

Inyan is a term, coined by the Lakote-mythology, the spiritual world of North and South Dakotas native americans. Inyan (rock) was the first out of the greater gods, he existed already at the beginning of time and he is the father of the earth goddess, the mother of all life. As you see, Mario Neh, the founder of the Inyan-imprint, is a club-musician, whos world isnt functioning by the rules of paragatism or by cold logic. Inyan gains it's innovative capacity from a deep belief, that everything is part of a big ensemble. This also concerns the music produced by this fresh record label, which is made for one reason : to touch the hearts of everybody who listenes to it. Inyan-productions have to take its listeners by teir hands and to kidnap them to a world, that hasn't got to do anything with the dullness of everyday life. Inyan is bound to this maxim and it's also a manifesto of the label's headhoncho Mario Neha. Of course: Inyan is a creative cornucopia for electronic music and electronic music can be soulless and cold. But Inyan proves that this hasn't got to be by releasing heart-warming, emotional and euphoric music. Mario Neha, signed by the Berlin-based imprint Upon.You, fulfills with his new homebase a musical dream and procures a play field, on which he gives space to his overwhelming creativity and where he can give like-minded club-musicians a platform, on which they can do their own thing. Inyan is a appeal for more spirituality in a club-world, that is too functional and dominated by figures. And it's a birthplace to a whole lotta music, that moves people.

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