House - Tech - Part 1

Spartaque & Andrea Bertolini - Blue Lights

It’s a family affair!! 
What you are holding in your hands is the first part of a new series on Connaisseur called “Alex Flitsch meets…” where label head Alex Flitsch teams up with various friends from the label family and its surroundings.

The inspiration for the first part was several trips to Barcelona, where Alex and the Audiofly boys, Ant and Luca spent time working on their music vision whilst enjoying a laugh and delicious food. The result is Alex first release since ages and will definitely bring the newly minted Cocoon Club-resident to another level of attention.

The two tracks are state of the art house and combine Alex long lasting DJ experience with the extraordinary studio skills of Audiofly. 
Long Way To Go is a peaktime-orientated monster of a house track. The idea was to reinterpret classic filter house sounds into modern form. 
Conversation is a real gem with its deep dubby groove and the strongly nineties influenced sound aesthetic. 
The release will be completed with a wonderful remix treatment for Long Way To Go by Romanian newcomer Ali Nasser. 

More cooperations with other well-known friends and members of the Connaisseur family are in pipeline, so better watch out!


The Barcelona Session

A Alex Flitsch meets Audiofly - Long Way To Go (extract)

SVÄVA
Bente Hout (vocals and bass), Michelle Hindriks (guitar), Olivier Copini (guitar) and Jelmer Terwal (drums)

All songs composed and arranged by Sväva
Lyrics by Bente Hout

PRODUCED AND MIXED BY
Ico Balt and Marcel Caron (Snoet & Smoel)
Johan Kooi (Greenland Studio)

MASTERED BY
Darius van Helfteren (Amsterdam Mastering)

ARTWORK BY
Stefan Sloot (Studio Captain)

SYNTHS BY
Thies Rademaker, Ico Balt and Johan Kooi

Pre-productions of ‘Flown’ and ‘Blue Moon’
Co-drum engineering of ‘Halcyon Days’
Chico Ricardo

THANK YOU
Special thanks to Ico Balt, Marcel Caron, Johan Kooi and Chico Ricardo, for your effort, time and patience.

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Halcyon Days

Poldoore - Nothing Left To Say (Akshin Alizadeh Remix)

Blue Foundation - Sweep

A quiet dive into emotion and energy — two tracks connected by a single whisper.

vøired & tsvetana mir, 2025

whisper

scars

“Psytrance Rebirth: The Reminiscence Era (2025)” is a full-length journey through two decades of electronic inspiration, reborn in a modern psytrance framework.  
Each track transforms classic emotional energies into deep rolling basslines, cosmic atmospheres and hypnotic rhythmic drive.  
The album blends nostalgia with futuristic power — shimmering leads, high-frequency details, tribal touches and vocal textures that elevate the entire experience.  

Designed as a continuous flow from early-2000s trance spirit to contemporary festival psy energy, this collection moves through light, memory and intensity.  
A tribute to the evolution of sound, and a celebration of the timeless frequencies that shaped an entire generation of electronic music.


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Love Stimulation  Vocal

[trigger warning - accident/police/death]

v - lyrics - v

right before we crashed out

I learned the truth

and ever since then

stuck on a loop 

never-ending crash out

you knocked it loose

I can't remember how 

stuck on a loop

I can't remember how

I can't remember how

I can't remember how

I can't remember how

remember now


I can't remember now

how the story began

I just know its cold now

and all the warmth in all the land

still wouldn't be enough to

resurrect what we had

and though we're dead now

I can still feel your hand

I can still feel your hand

I can still feel your hand


and though we're dead n-n-n-

and though we're dead now

and though we're dead n-n-n-n-n-n-n-now

and though we're dead now

I can still feel your hand


right before we crashed o-o-o-o-o-o-o-

I learned the truth

o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-owe

and ever since then

never-ending crash out

you knocked it loose

I can't remember how

I can't remember how

I can't remember how

and though we're dead now

I can still feel your hand

I just know its cold now

stuck on a loop

stuck on a loop

and all the warmth in all the land

still wouldn't be enough to

resurrect what we had

and though

I can still feel your hand

feel your hand

feel your hand

your hand

and though we're dead now

I can still feel your hand

I can still feel your hand

xx

crash.loop

Boogie Belgique - Once Have I

Cave Canem

Martin Eyerer - Cave Canem (Robert Babicz aka Rob Acid Remix)

Eskimonde - A Decade Of Eskimo Recordings

Yes Maam (All Nite Long) (Trentemøller Remix)

First single from Bloodgroup third album to be released in November 2012 (Iceland) and February (Europe)

Produced and Recorded by Bloodgroup
Strings by Ólafur Arnalds
Recorded in Sild/E7 Reykjavik

Fall

Radiohead - Codex (We Plants Are Happy Plants Remix)

Songs from the critically acclaimed album Heavy FLowers

Solar

Last Days Original Mix - Carlo Lio - The Junkies

Bonobo ft. Grey Reverend - First Fires (Jelly Ingram 2nd Fire Version)

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Before FRANCO FORTE saw daylight, he was already moving in another dimension: music. His first connection to the world wasn’t a cry, but the steady, pulsing heartbeat of a disco bassline, echoing through the warmth of his mother’s womb. Curtis Mayfield, Donna Summer, Chic – not lullabies, but early awakenings. His early mentors were not teachers, but magicians: Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Theo Parrish.
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In 2003, he stepped into the nightlife. Vienna became his playground, the legendary Leopold his laboratory. From 2004 to 2010, he shaped genre-bending nights – one vinyl at a time. Disco never died. House never stopped. They danced on in his hands.
But FRANCO FORTE is no retro romantic. His sound is not nostalgia – it’s an act of devotion: to groove, to guitar, to raw basslines, to ecstatic house and sparkling disco in all its shades – playful, gritty, smooth, explosive. He quotes funk with a wink, lets guitar riffs float like thoughts, and grounds it all with a bassline that says more than words.
Clubs like Volksgarten, Pratersauna, and Flex became moments in time. PMK, Rauch, Postgarage – cities became stories. He doesn’t just DJ – he carves space out of sound.
Since 2010, he’s been the beating heart of ImPulsTanz, Austria’s most celebrated international festival for dance and performance. A DJ among dancers, a dancer among DJs – a storyteller without a mic, using decks instead of words.
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Blue Foundation - Sweep

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