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ARTIST: THE ANALOG SESSION
TITLE: BLACK GROUND
LABEL: HOT ELEPHANT
CAT. NO: HEM1511
FORMAT: CD / DIGITAL 
RELEASED: 11 MAY 2015

Italian electronic pioneers, Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky deliver their second album as The Analog Session. 'Black Ground' is a journey into electronic music, from the early 70s to modern techno, performed only with vintage analogue synths.

Wires, cables, knobs, keyboards: they are still a vital part of The Analog Session’s improvised world. But as opposed to 2013’s ‘April’ album, ‘Black Ground’ is more dance orientated in its vision. Although most of the tracks originate from improvisation, there’s more editing work on their individual parts so that they sound more structured and danceable than usual.

Initially conceived as a video project (currently with over 320,000 hits on Youtube), The Analog Session then became an album project and finally a live performance. For Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky it’s not about being nostalgic for an era they represented but is more a progression and improvisation in the present music scene currently dominated by computers. Like the vintage analog gear the pair use, the Analog Session is a living, breathing entity. On the one hand capable of organic brilliance and on the other, breaking down at a moment’s notice.

The new album tracks range from electro-disco to techno, opening up to melody and chord arrangements throughout. ‘My Dream’ for instance is an introspective theme that is developed through different arrangements, alternating with an almost electro-house rhythm. ‘Lonely Dancers’ is made up by a sequence of synth notes whose sound transforms and becomes the backbone of a track that could be perhaps be seen as ‘minimal-electro’ whilst ‘We Are Here’ has a style that's more difficult to define. As in ‘My Dream’, here too a dream-like theme disrupts the minimal atmosphere that provides the tracks structure.

‘Space Circle’ is built on an harmonic progression of four chords, repeated throughout the track whilst undergoing continuous variations - inversions and substitutions - where the tone-colour of the analog synths fully capture the alternating soundscape. ‘Shure I Like’ injects an element of 80s synth pop with its infectious melody providing a link to the duo’s long-estbalished past but ‘Wild Electrons’ takes us further into future-space as the duo explore the sound potential of the latest (polyphonic) synth assembled by Ludus Pinsky.

Finally ‘Black Ground’, the title track, brings us back to planet Earth where the analog sound reveals its concrete, earthly nature. The CD also includes two previously digital only remixes: ‘Ascension’ (Late Night Rmx) and ‘Effai’ (Late Night Rmx).

Tracklist

1. My Dream
2. Wild Electrons
3. Space Circle
4. Black Ground (Club Mix)
5. Lonely Dancers
6. We Are Here
7. Shure I Like
8. Black Ground (Original)

The Analog Session - Lonely Dancers (cut)

The Analog Session - Black Ground (club Mix) cut

The Analog Session - Space Circle (cut)

The Analog Session - Wild Electrons (cut)

The Analog Session - My Dream (cut)

Stream the Cocoon compilation, 'Sven Vath in the Mix: Sound of the Twelfth Season'

'Sven Vath in the Mix: Sound of the Twelfth Season'

Songs covered by our awesome Friend we met in Madagascar, known only as KIKO :)  Enjoy, peace and love!

Kiko Cover 4 (Xavier Rudd- Follow The Sun)

1 - I love my house (127 bpm)
One more TB303 based track. Something between
Acid-house and Deep-house.
The original recording dates back to 1995. The bass line
has been recently remade using the real TB303, because
at that time Robotnick used to play mostly digital gear.
2 - Submarine (130 bpm)
It's a kind of Ambient Break-beat. It was originally
composed for a soundtrack in the early 90s. Robotnick
had no9thing but the midi file. All the sounds were
produced last year.
3 - Disco Acha (128 bpm)
This track is quite recent as it dates back to 2008. It
represents Robotnick's renewed interest in Disco music.
Philadelphia strings give "disco flavour" to an electro-bass
groove. The title means nothing . It's a kind of " exercise in
style" but may turn useful for clubs.
4 - Minore Terzo (Electric Prince rmx) 128 bpm
Producers Lia Organa and Electric Prince met in 2006 in
a recording studio. Their passion for music and their
similar influences and style brought them together to
create the project Lia Organa & Electric Prince (LOEP).
Since then they have been producing music together.
Labels: Music Control, Advanced Synergy, Goog,
Guilhotina, super6 records, electrico records ,Keep On
Techno, TechHead, Amigos, Capital Techno, Phunkation
Contact Info
Websitehttp://myspace.com/loep
http://www.facebook.com/LiaOrganaElectricPrince/info
5 - TB Maniac (Tulioxi MiniManiac rmx) 124 bpm
6 - TB Maniac (Tulioxi rmx) 120 bpm
Mattia Pea Tuliozi (Madame Wish/Tulioxi) is a producer
and artist
Born in Florence (Italy)
At present he's involved in several projects like
Clearound, Global kan
kan,Tuda Mama and his solo project as Tulioxi
He released tracks for TotalWipes, Minus Habens,
Insectorama,
Grogg, Stirsound, Manual Music, Labella, Multivitamins,
Minimal kidz


Alexander robotnick - I love my house

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Buy/Stream: https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/VortexSD

Here is ‘Vortex’....so when Michael Mayer listened to the demo, he tripped and banged his head on a cupboard. When he woke up he said...

“There's something about Rex The Dog that keeps my mind wandering back to the times when it all began for me. It was the early 80s, when young Michael first got exposed to the magic world of dance music. As much as these early sonic impressions (Stock, Aitken & Waterman, Italo Disco, Trevor Horn etc) still resonate in both Rex The Dog's and my current musical output, there's another aspect to those early days that sometimes tends to be forgotten.

Do you remember the first time you saw coloured lights blinking, a blasting smoke machine and lasers cutting through the room? I was so fascinated by that first experience that I started spending all my spare time and pocket money on music and lights. My first self-made piece of disco equipment was a shoe box containing three speakers (ripped from old TVs and radios) and three LEDs that actually flashed to the beat of the sound. An achievement that made me proud as hell. Looking at Rex The Dog's self- made modular gear always opens a vortex of childhood memories.

Disco music and flashing lights... it just never gets old. “

Buy/Stream

Rex The Dog - Vortex

1) April
2) Distant Voices
3) Amigos
4) Strange Fruits
5) E Fai
6) Ascension
7) New Mandarins
8) Little Grudge

Digital release by Hot Elephant Music
November 30 2012
www.robotnick.it/the_analog_session.htm 

The Analog Session - New allbum special mix

A single vocal clip inspired an entire track! :)


Erphun - Lie To Me (Original Mix)_CLIP 192 - DFR

Sun Electric - O'Locco (RadioLand)

Another new track, which has been causing some damage on my tours! 
Enjoy!

Erphun - Absentee Landlord (Original Mix)_CLIP 192 - DFR

Alura

Serniga

Shortly after the release of "April" The Analog Session is
ready for another go with 2 remixed tracks from its latest
album.
In "Effai(Late Night RMX)" and "Ascension (Late Night
RMX)"Alexander Robotnick & Ludus Pinsky re-interpret in
Tech-house style the material recorded in the
improvisation sessions that led to the making of the
album. The result is a powerful groove, minimal but
extremely warm because it's analog and made more
pouncing to hit the dance-floor.
This new release by The Analog Session is another step
into the artists' exploration of analogue electronics of the
70s and early 80s proving that analogue sounds indeed
better not only in "space music" but also in contemporary
techno-house.
Playlist
01 - Effai(Late Night RMX)
02 - Ascension (Late Night RMX)


The Analog Session : Effai - Ascension (late night rmx) cuts

THE ANALOG SESSION REMIXES 1 release date : May 6, 2013 - Digital

Shortly after the release of "April" The Analog Session is  ready for another go with 2 remixed tracks from its latest album.
In "Effai(Late Night RMX)" and "Ascension (Late Night RMX)"Alexander Robotnick & Ludus Pinsky re-interpret in  Tech-house style the material recorded  in the improvisation sessions that led to the making of the album .  The result is a powerful groove,  minimal but extremely  warm  because it's analog  and made more pouncing to hit the dance-floor.
This new release by The Analog Session is another step into the artists' exploration of analog electronics of the 70s and early 80s prooving that  analog sounds  indeed better not only in  "space music" but also  in contemporary techno-house.

Playlist
01 - Effai(Late Night RMX)
02 - Ascension (Late Night RMX)

LINKS:
http://www.hot-elephant.com/the_analog_session.htm
http://soundcloud.com/the-analog-session/the-analog-session-effai 
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC903B6DE0A15873D
http://www.robotnick.it/the_analog_session.htm
http://www.luduslab.it/ludus/ 

The Analog Session : Effai (late night rmx)

Release preview - The Analog Session REMIXES 2
Hot Elephant Music

The Analog Session - N5 From Outer Space (summer rmx)

Release preview - The Analog Session - REMIXES2
Hot Elephant Music

The Analog Session - Funfare (summer rmx)

The Analog Session is a music project conceived in February 2009 by Maurizio Dami (aka Alexander Robotnick) and Lapo Lombardi aka Ludus Pinsky. More info at The Analog Session official website
Initially only a video project, it then became also an album and finally a live performance. 
It is electronic music played on vintage instruments , mostly improvised in the 70s style but with a strong hint to modern techno-music. The first video-clips made by the two artists in 2009 have had more than 100.000 views on Youtube with consistently enthustiastic feedback. 
Since long electronic music concerts (with the exception of academic or experimental ones) essentially consist of a couple of artists, usually DJs, fiddling on their laptops  rhythmically nodding their heads along the duration of the so-called “concert”. There may be a vocalist sometimes but not necessarily.
We don't know whether such a situation may be called “live” but anyway to us a concert is something different. As we are talking about electronic music, obviously most of the music played is “sequenced”. This however does not prevent the artist from interacting with it by physically playing different parts and improvising. 
The Analog Session's natural vocation is the live performance and it was indeed conceived as live improvisation of electronic music.