The second issue of Tiptop Audio Records attests to the label’s attitude towards developing a nuanced sound set to become a standard for production.
The line-up for Tiptop Records includes MATT LANGE, ANGLE, JOAO CESER, MARKUS FIX, BLACK SHAPE, DRUMCELL & LUIS FLORES, HUBOT, FLORIAN MEINDL, JOHN TEJADA, SCANNER, M.O.T., RIEMANN; the names of a scene now described as ‘Modular Techno’, which consists of a fast growing group of artists interested in expanding their compositional techniques through modular synthesizer systems.
The vinyl format is a testimony to the label’s dedication to produce music in a physical form.
It is an invitation to a territory of oscillations, and a trip of 10 (+ 2 extra digital) tracks that reconsiders the concept of sound design applied to electronic club music.

TipTop Shop

08 - Florian Meindl - Operating Temperature

Techno & Electro 
Pagoda // DSM 
Sounds of Manchester

In late 2009, Gur Milstein started building unique musical instruments in his Hollywood California lab. As the market for his creations got larger and hotter other like minded people, who are equally unconventional in their thinking about audio, joined him. Fast forward six years, and today some of the world’s finest electronic musicians synthesize their sounds and form their creations with Tiptop Audio instruments.

Tiptop Audio Records is all about the love of the synthesizer. It is the brainchild of the designers who celebrate these tracks made by artists bold enough to master this new technology. This integration between the Tiptop Synthesizer machine and man highlights the symbiotic relationship between technology wizards and the best of electronic music composers.

Fire up the PA, drop the needle on the record and push the faders up: this party is about a journey on a sea of sound waves!

Please go to soundcloud.com/florian-meindl

Alberto Restivo was born in Udine but he has been living in Palermo for 25 years.
Since he was a child, his passion for music has been a basic part of his life. Thanks to ever-increasing research, he enriched his musical culture more and more, being always mindful of evolution of techonologies and abreast of the times.
His style is a coloured mix thanks to his capacity to go through different kind of music such as house - tech-house – techno. He focuses his attention on current sonorities mixed with old school and jazz – funk – deep influences, always using an elegant groove.He has been influenced by various artists, especially when in 2007, he spent three months in Berlin for the project “Hub” realised with other djs. In that occasion, he had the opportunity to play at “Bar 23” and “Bar 25” for the showcase of the label “Synergy-networks”. And he participated in the opening of the art exibition and installation in Fassalagerhalle – Gewerbehof of Berlin with Michel Ferraro. He also played in Barcellona (Sitges) and in 2009 he released in the label Chameleon Black – various artists. Then, he realised the compilation “Villa Igiea” Known all over Europe. In 2013, he released his track “look around you” in the label “Sleep is Commercial”. In 2016 he released his track “Endless” in the label Tiptop Audio Records . More over, he takes part to many events with different artists and he plays in many clubs of the underground panorama of his island.

albertorestivo@hotmail.com



Nathan Zahef (La Forge/Cki7putt/Lune)

Pas encore pubère le jour où il s'est frotté à une platine pour la première fois, Nathan Zahef est l'incarnation parfaite du pur DJ. Des eaux houleuses d'une Techno juteuse aux remous d'une House excentrique, ce kid inarrêtable navigue sans perdre le cap, fort d'une patte reconnaissable entre mille. Explosif et généreux, le fer de lance du crew Remois La Forge n'a aucune peine à semer à la fois le fuel et les allumettes dans le club pour regarder avec un sourire en coin prendre le feu de joie.