Thomas Brinkmann releases the first of a series of releases on Third Ear. The quality and originality of these tracks reminds of just how good a producer Thomas Brinkmann is. Techno it is, but nobody sounds like this. This, the first release is the Guy Martin ep, inspired by the British motorcycle racer and raconteur, Guy Martin. Brinkmann is himself a keen motorcycle rider and racer.

Mastered by Stefan Betke @ Scape Mastering, Berlin.
Artist: Thomas Brinkmann
Title: Guy Martin EP
Label: Third Ear Recordings
Cat No,: 3EEP-2013_08
Release date: July 26th 2013
Distribution: Clone (vinyl worldwide) Finetunes (digital worldwide)

In Yer Third Ear 2013 Coniston Slate

A1 Third Ear Recordings THOMAS BRINKMANN TT

Following his debut Third Ear release, the Shonky ep in 2018, Third Ear follow up with 8 more Shonky dance floor bombs. Shonky has a signature hypnotic, hard grooving sound, characterised by punishing beats laced with detailed polyrhythms and elusive motifs. On The Run is Shonky's debut album.

On The Run

Electrica

1 Electrica

20-track compilation of 2013 Third Ear Recordings' releases. 2 tracks from each release.

Third Ear Recordings K HAND Out Yo Mind

It's all in the title. Party Music. I Like To Talk is a hard groove with a weird, and wired, vocal sample. Whose wasted? The guy speaking or you listening? Keep It Down is another kicking groove. What's the girl mean? Her words are clear enough. Is she talking to me? Moonlight has a lighter touch with an off beat skanking feel. We're feeling nice. Don't Give Up is a transition track taking things up close to peak time. Denite works these grooves with aplomb.

Mastered by Stefan Betke @ Scape Mastering, Berlin.
Artist: Denite
Title: Party Music
Label: Third Ear Recordings
Cat No,: 3EEP-2014_01
Release date: 17th Jan 2014
Distribution: Clone (vinyl worldwide) Finetunes (digital worldwide)

Party Music EP

A1 Third Ear Recordings DENITE - I Love To Talk



El Prevost's and D. Ham's warped Allez Ally from El Prevost's Ash ep on Third Ear gets the Apollonia remix treatment from Dan Ghenacia and Shonky. Allez Ally is the opening track on Apollonia's Fabric 70 mix. Dan Ghenacia and Shonky have given the track a new groove and set up D.Ham's wonderful flow to reach many more dance floors with two hard and funky remixes. El Prevost adds a dub version.. that's a Jamaican dub version, not simply the track without D.Ham over it. Rinsed. Plus the original mix to wrap things up.

Artist: El Prevost, D.Ham (remixers: Dan Ghenacia, Shonky)
Title: Allez Ally remixes
Label: Third Ear Recordings
Catalogue Number: 3EEP-2014_02
Release date: 28/01/14 vinyl and digital
Distributed by: Clone - vinyl (worldwide) Finetunes - digital (worldwide)


Allez Ally Remixes

B1 Third Ear Recordings EL PREVOST Feat D HAM Allez Ally Shonky Remix


El Prevost's and D. Ham's warped Allez Ally from El Prevost's Ash ep on Third Ear gets the Apollonia remix treatment from Dan Ghenacia and Shonky. Allez Ally is the opening track on Apollonia's Fabric 70 mix. Dan Ghenacia and Shonky have given the track a new groove and set up D.Ham's wonderful flow to reach many more dance floors with two hard and funky remixes. El Prevost adds a dub version.. that's a Jamaican dub version, not simply the track without D.Ham over it. Rinsed. Plus the original mix to wrap things up.

Artist: El Prevost, D.Ham (remixers: Dan Ghenacia, Shonky)
Title: Allez Ally remixes
Label: Third Ear Recordings
Catalogue Number: 3EEP-2014_02
Release date: 28/01/14 vinyl and digital
Distributed by: Clone - vinyl (worldwide) Finetunes - digital (worldwide)


A1 Third Ear Recordings EL PREVOST Feat D HAM Allez Ally Dan Ghenacia Remix

Sinethemba Mahlangu is from Zola, Soweto, South Africa. Third Ear received some demos from him in 2019 and since then have mentored him and encouraged his talent. The Unorthodox Flow EP is his first release. We are proud and excited to now share his music with the world. The EP shows a prodigious talent creating a original form of music. His choice of tempos demonstrates a fearless approach, while his sounds and arrangements show a knowledge and understanding of house and classic soul and jazz, with an experimental edge.

Juno Records review: UK label Third Ear has always operated at the fringes. It works with artists who have a little something extra, a different twist on the tried and tested sounds, making them more than just another record.
This time it is Sinethemba Mahlangu proving that point with a deep house EP drenched in Afro influences and a sublime sense of spirituality. 'Worn Out Black Hoodie' has you immediately gazing off into the cosmos, 'Melancholia' is subtly late-night jazz house and 'Unorthodox Flows' is a dreamy beatdown. The fresh rhythms and absorbing ambient designs continue on two more tracks that make this an exquisite EP.

Unorthodox Flows ep

Worn Out Black Hoodie

1 Worn Out Black Hoodie

Thomas Brinkmann creates a new moniker for his latest project to push technical limitations and challenge perceptions; classic Brinkmann agendas. Mele is Italian for Apples, and with Mele Boy, Thomas Brinkmann uses Apple Loops and Apple Logic Pro as the foundation of this music, invoking what he terms Apple Incest, apropos the controversy surrounding Serge Gainsbourg and the song Lemon Incest. What he has produced here for the Seduction ep is simply brilliant music regardless of the machines used or the sounds he works with, reinforcing the axiom that it's the artist not the tools that establishes the greatness of the work.. Those who are prejudiced against such ubiquitous tools may not be swayed. But Brinkmann is not attempting to change opinions, instead he is asking us to challenge our perceptions and the fact that we have prejudices at all... through some brilliant music for the body and the soul.

Mastered by Stefan Betke @ Scape Mastering, Berlin.
Artist: Mele Boy
Title: Seduction EP
Label: Third Ear Recordings
Cat No,: 3EEP-2023_02
Release date: Jul 21st 2023

original sticker photography - Thomas Brinkmann
digital mele boy & manipulation - @aabstrkt

The Seduction EP

Bramley

Mike Agent X Clark returns to Third Ear with four new tracks. His first release for the label in six years, after the River People Edits reworking of the great Weather Report track. This ep, four originals, is very much a Detroit Beatdown vibe. The quality and variety which is typical of many Detroit releases is very evident here. Is it house? Is it techno? Is it disco? These genre-defining labels don't really come into the minds of many Detroit producers when making tracks, the music they create often seamlessly blends many genres. What is recognisably Detroit is the weight and the swing of these releases; they do not mess around, and Mike Clark is a master of this.

Artist: Mike Clark
Title: Activate EP
Label: Third Ear Recordings
Cat No,: 3EEP-2023_01
Release date: 27 October 2023
Mastered by Stefan Betke @ Scape Mastering, Berlin.
Mixed by Hernan Santiago
FORMATS: VINYL AND DIGITAL

Activate ep

Activate

Going Off The Wall

Going off the Wall

It's Coming For Ya!

It's coming for ya!

Mr Mitchell

This EP is 6 unreleased tracks in the Thomas Brinkmann celebrated Max Ernst series of 12", all with female names, released with names ordered alphabetically. Starting with. 1. Anna Beate, the series ran for 12 releases over the 2 years from 1998 to 2000. 2. Clara Doris 3. Erika Frauke 4. Gisela Heidi 5. Inge Jutta 6. Karin Lotte 7. Monika Nikola 8. Olga Petra 9. Susie Trixi 10. Ulla Vera 11. Wanda Xenia 12. Yvette Zara, followed. There was never an ep with Q and R. Number 9 is Susie and Trixie. The tapes were lost. But have come to light nearly 25 years later. So now, here is Q/R; Quila 1-3 and Romy 1-3. What we have here are the original tracks as intended for release, with some minor editing and rearranging for release now. The original series was very successful. The first 3 12", released at the same time were a sensation on release. Suddenly, Thomas Brinkmann was the name to check. Today, these Quila/Romy tracks may well have the same impact as the other tracks in the series had when they were released. There is still nothing that sounds like this music. It seems to be an example of a perfect melding of soul and machine. 25 five years later... a annniversary of sorts, offered up by the machines.

Artist: Thomas Brinkmann
Title: Max Ernst 25th Anniversary EP
Label: Third Ear Recordings/Max Ernst
CatNumber: 3EEP-2013_04
Release Date: 24 November 2023
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Cut by Stefan Betke @ Scape Mastering Berlin

MAX ERNST 25

Romy 1

ROMY 1

Quila 3

QUILA 3

Quila 2

QUILA 2

Quila 1

QUILA 1

Coast Spotting, from Wbeeza's Bagwag ep, is a relentlessly building peak-time transition track taking the dancefloor up. A classic. One of Wbeeza's most highly regarded productions.

Fill My Head With Music ♯1

Coast Spotting

WBEEZA Coast Spotting

Consensual is a stunninbg track, by Recast, also known as Fluxion. What we get is a long workout. Consensual is a blissed-out track. The experience of years of precision crafting dubby tech soundscapes  as Fluxion is brought to this track, which is grooving House/Techno executed in the melodic but quirky manner of Isolee or Luomo. And like both these producers, RECAST demonstrates his class with the quality of his sound, his frequencies and his attention to detail, subverting the traditional House and Balearic template.

Consensual

RECAST Consensual

Orlando Voorn on Third Ear. The four deeply satisfying jams that comprise his I Understand That You Don't Understand ep showing a masters deft touch and control of rhythm and sound.

Strange Fruit

ORLANDO VOORN Strange Fruit

Mask is a trippy, distortion-drenched groover from Detroit's MGUN from his Some Tracks ep on Third Ear.

Mask

MGUN Mask

Jason Hogan's High-Grade For Plain-Ass from his Age Of Scrap LP for Third Ear is a psychedelic, woozy, hip-hopper demonstrating his unique talent for blending genres seemlessly to create immediately identifiable, astounding music.

High-Grade For Plain-Ass

JASON HOGANS High-Grade For Plain-Ass

GED is Daniel Petry. The Dry River ep is kaleidoscopic Techno, breaks, electro and bass, colliding in this mesmerising ep. Disappear is the track DJs went for.

Disappear

GED Disappear

Filippo Blasi Foglietti is another Third Ear find well worth checking. The John Nixon Memorial EP is trippy and dark, deep and grooving. Apollo was caned by Peter Van Heusen.

Apollo

FILIPPO BLASI FOGLIETTI Apollo

Keep It Down is from Denite's Party Music ep on Third Ear. We defy you to remain in your seat when this track is pumping.

Keep It Down

DENITE Keep It Down

November is from Demetrio Giannice's Slow ep, the follow up to his astounding Talk ep for Third Ear. The Slow ep is 4 deep cuts that will continue to build the Zurich-based producer's reputation.

November

DEMETRIO GIANNICE November

The gorgeous blissed-out opening title track to Benjamin Brunn's first album for Third Ear, A Sun Life. It's all in the title.

A Sun Life

BENJAMIN BRUNN A Sun Life

All the tracks on Alex Burkat's latest release, the ep 285 Kent are references to, homages to, and an elegy for various NY clubs and clubbing experiences. Alex Burkat, resident of Brooklyn NYC, lands on (in?) Third Ear with an ep that further develops the sound he has been imagining since he was inspired to write Shower Scene, his to-date, most well-known track. Shower Scene, which was subsequently released on the Mr Saturday Night label, was conceived while returning from a Mr Saturday Night party. Clearly, the clubbing experience, in particular in New York is still an inspiration to Alex Burkat's music. 285 Kent was a well-known DIY warehouse venue that hosted Punk, House and Techno parties in Brooklyn that closed only recently in January 2014. Sullivan Rom in the West Village of NY is a well-known House party venue. The BQE is the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. The track evokes for Alex, people speeding to and/or from NY parties. House Of Yes, the name of another famous DIY New York venue that closed in the Summer of 2013 was where Mister Saturday Night threw their Saturday night parties. All four tracks are distinctive. Alex Burkat has his sound now. It may not be the only sound he ever creates, and given his propensity for evocation his catalogue will probably be prodigious and varied. For now, he is honing in on his subject; the rapidly evolving club scene based around Brooklyn in New York. There is soul in these tracks and a refreshing lack of artifice. For all the wide-eyed imagination and wide-screen soundscapes (huge bass and shimmering sonics out on the perimeters), there is no sentimentality; just a forward-looking gaze that takes in the past and the future with clarity and honesty.

House Of yes

ALEX BURKAT House Of Yes

Brendon Moeller returns to Third Ear after some years, following up his lauded Jazz Junk Safari trilogy of eps with 4 peak time bombs. All 4 tracks blow up the dance floor.

Brendon Moeller, known for his sound design, has taken his sonics to extremes on all four tracks, pushing, twisting and teasing frequencies to the limit. The bass on all tracks is phenomenal.

It's just as well that a master engineer like Pole has mastered these tracks, maxing out the sound yet protecting the sound systems that these bombs will be played on. Super fun. 

Cat No: 3EEP-2015_08
Artist: Brendon Moeller
Title: The Return
Label: Third Ear Recordings
Release Date: 15th January 2016

The Return

Complete Disregard

Brendon Moeller - Complete Disregard - Third Ear Recordings

DJ T-1000 drops 4 classic hard-edged cuts of pure Detroit Techno on Third Ear. Born and raised in Detroit and based in Berlin DJ T-1000 is DJ T-1000, owner of Detroit labels Generator and Pure Sonik, and a gifted Techno DJ. Also an accomplished graphic illustrator, known globally for his iconic artwork for Djax-Up-Beats, +8 Records, Transmat, Astralwerks and many other electronic music labels, including Third Ear. Alan did the artwork for The Defenders Of The Deep House World ep curated by Mike Huckaby, and he has done the artwork for his Third Ear ep also.

The Polymath ep

Liquid Metal (Acid Version)

1 DJ T-1000 - Liquid Metal (Acid Version) - Third Ear Recordings

Ozel AB follows up releases on Lobster Theremin and Workshop with this highly accomplished genre-busting ep for Third Ear. Ozel AB approached Third Ear with a selection of tracks for us to consider, which he thought would suit the label. He was not wrong.

Infinity ep

White Bear

Ozel AB - White Bear(digital_only)

Science Of Sleep

Ozel AB - Science Of Sleep

Shonky has over the years developed a signature hypnotic hard grooving sound, characterised by punishing beats laced through with detailed polyrhythms and elusive motifs. Sexy and playful, seriously jacking. The result is dance grooves that punch and tickle every surface and joint in the body. It sounds effortless, but it's far from it. Shonky crafts his tracks to deliver a prefect groove every time.

Shonky ep

Papi Chulo

Ledge Rover

Casa Nostra

Shonky has over the years developed a signature hypnotic hard grooving sound, characterised by punishing beats laced through with detailed polyrhythms and elusive motifs. Sexy and playful, seriously jacking. The result is dance grooves that punch and tickle every surface and joint in the body. It sounds effortless, but it's far from it. Shonky crafts his tracks to deliver a prefect groove every time

Cookie Monster

Norken lands on Third Ear with a true Techno Soul record (Eddie Fowlkes would approve). Gorgeous bass lines. Wonderfully crisp drums. Lush emotive pads and strings. Destined to be regarded as one of his best records.

Eternal Influences

Arp Galaxy

1 Norken - Arp Galaxy

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