Slice Records is an Underground Electronic Music Record Label based in Australia and Canada.
Established 2011.

Bookings : heleen@chasingthehihat.nl / Remix requests and Promopack : daniel@cthrec.com

Anton Kuertz or Daniel van Drunen in real life, is an Amsterdam based producer and house music entrepreneur being the CEO of the rapidly expanding event company/booking agency and soon to be operating record label Chasing the Hihat. He started his artistic career as an exclusive techno live act linked to a techno event concept, but at some point felt attracted to a different style of music and dialed down the BPM knob to a grooving 115-120 kicks a minute. The sound can be explained within the deep house spectrum but entails a certain roughness around the edges to avoid being compared too much to the rising hype of the melodic house movement. 

People who have seen the show however, know that everything stated above is just half the experience. alongside him on stage you will find his musical muse and vocalist Esther Milberg and his oldest friend and the CFO of their company Coen Gülcher, on the electronic accordion. This combination of back stroking vocals and a rarely seen wonderfully built electronic instrument in a live setting is something you won't come across very often in the clubbing scene.

With gigs at local festivals like Amsterdam Open Air, Float Festival, STRAF_WERK Festival and Mystic Garden festival as well as multiple bookings in Berlin at Arena Club, Chalet and Fiese Remise, this young live act, that only started doing public gigs in the beginning of 2013 is on a streak  towards international attention…

Bookings (UK/Rest of World):  phaelehmusic@gmail.com
Bookings (North America) : lauren.banks@subdotmission.com
General Contact: phaelehmusic@gmail.com
I don't read messages on here. Please contact me via email or my facebook page.

I am neither afraid of showing my emotions nor to include them in my music - Stimming

Few people bring a truly original sound to house music. At a relatively young age, Hamburgs Martin Stimming did just that, demonstrating a sophisticated yet accessible sound that is beyond his years.

Two years after hooking up with Solomuns Diynamic Music, his 2008 breakthrough hit Una Pena made the electronic world sit up and take notice, and before long acclaimed labels like Freerange, liebe*detail, Buzzin´ Fly, Green and Poker Flat were snapping up his work. 2009 saw him release his immaculate debut album Reflections to great acclaim, cementing his reputation as one of the most exciting new producers of his generation. 

His second album, Liquorice, eschews the normal kick-clap/snare template by and large to explore more interesting and progressive territories, but always with that trademark magpie-like sense of texture, emotion and discovery. 

His productions are filled with a multitude of his own unique, charismatic field recordings, and he never uses the same sample more than once. 

2010 saw him pick up an award for Best Newcomer at the Ibiza DJ Awards, following on from his live show (Stimming does not DJ) stunning the crowds at the islands legendary Pacha, and the finest danceries around the world Πfrom Berlins Panoramabar to Sao Paulo´s D-Edge, Brussels Fuse, London´s fabric and Paris Rex, and plenty more beyond. 

Remixes for the likes of Sascha Funke, Claude VonStroke, Deadmau5, Stephan Bodzin and Tom Novy to name but a few have further spread his influence amongst the discerning house and tech community, and cemented his reputation as one of the scene´s most exceptional producers.

Clearly, Martin Stimming is a precious talent indeed. But then again, not everyone loves liquorice...

Cjei-if, Producer, Dj And Head Of A Couple Of Producing Collaborations, has been busy in the studio laying down the foundation for his new sound.

After a long period in the music industry, Cjei-if's urge to start creating music again became so overwhelming that he decided to immerse himself in the studio and return to the music that he loves so much, he locked himself up and created an entire arsenal of deep, housy and techy productions and he combined talents to set the dance floor on fire!

Cjei-if's earlier music has been played by DJs in clubs worldwide. He has shared his passion and talents as a DJ and producer with house music enthusiasts across the globe. Cjei-if held residencies at the Chicago Social, Sugar Factory, Cuebar, Ruigoord, Club NL and more in Amsterdam.

Cjei-if has love affair with music since childhood and have individually made massive strides in and out of Amsterdam over the years.
Now he is embarking on a new, exciting journey and setting the stage for a new period in Dance Music!!

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Bookings Inquiries: 
kayleigh@earth-agency.com

Moschino Youts EP:
http://smarturl.it/NINE001

FLOORPAN "THE MASTER'S PLAN" (CLASSIC MUSIC):
https://cmc.lnk.to/cmcd141d

Before I got into this music I wanted to be an originator ; I wanted to be original".
Founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with ‘Mad’ Mike Banks & Jeff Mills, his seminal works on Jeff Mill's Axis and his very own M-Plant imprint paved the way for a wave of stripped-down dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno's path throughout the late Nineties.
Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. 

"Growing up in Detroit, I grew up with Motown in the house - a lot of Motown and Philadelphia soul, artists like Marvin Gaye of course and Curtis Mayfield. I remember Isaac Hayes, the soundtrack from ‘Shaft’ had come out. My father was a jazz musician; he played piano, trumpet and drums. My mother was in an R’n’B group.
We listened to a lot of Motown - in fact, my grandfather’s first cousin is Berry Gordy.
"I was influenced by my father - I wanted to play trumpet like he did."
Robert's father tragically died when he was just 6. The photo of Robert siting down holding a trumpet is his fathers.
"I had to beg my grandmother to let me borrow the trumpet to take a picture with it"

In the early 90's he began to concentrate on his own production 'Vision EP', the 'Riot EP' and X-102 were big stepping-stones for him as they were the first releases he worked 100% on his own. The X-101 to X-102, were Waveform Transmission projects with Mills for Tresor. He slowly progressed to work more and more on his own, but collaberated on some of the first Axis releases with label owner Jeff Mills as H&M (Hood & Mills) with ‘Tranquilizer EP’ and ‘Drama’.

He soon decided it was time for him to start his own label to focus on what was in his soul musically. M-Plant started in ’94. I had developed this “grey area” sound - what I mean by that is that in Detroit, even when the sun is out, there’s something in the atmosphere. I don’t know if its pollution or whatever, but the sky has that grey haze over it. It’s got to be something from the industrial factories there. I’d never really heard a sound like that before and it came from a Roland Juno - it was a chord sound that really went along with my depiction of what Detroit was at that time. A lot of buildings were abandoned and there was a lot of lifelessness in the city, especially downtown. The M-Plant, in minimalism, kind of reflected that. I remember thinking of Detroit like a museum. You know, like a work of art standing still, suspended in time. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity going on.

Releasing singles such as "Internal Empire,", “The Protein Valve” "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts", "The Pace", more recently "Range", "Alpha" and that isn't even touching his other monikers Floorplan, Monobox, The Vision, etc.
"M-Plant is what I've always wanted to hear: the basic stripped down, raw sound. Just drums, basslines and funky grooves and only what's essential. Only what is essential to make people move. I started to look at it as a science, the art of making people move their butts, speaking to their heart, mind and soul. “It's a heart-felt rhythmic techno sound. M-Plant is just M. minimal. “

Although his desire to remain underground has been replaced by an urge to reach a wider audience, mainly via his housier, disco, gospel moniker Floorplan with his daughter Lyric Hood,   Hood remains fiercely critical of artistic and economic movements destructive to inner-city communities and has combined his musical enterprises with outreach and social activist ends.

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