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Playlist avril

No Hook

The Road

Kicks, snares, hihats: Machinedrum
Bass: Arp Odyssey
Chords: Roland JP4 and U-He Diva
More hihats, booms and efx: Cwejman S1 mk2
Long leads 2nd half: also Cwejman S1 mk2 (w Valhalla Vintageverb)

TODD TERJE - Q

Yet another free download from us just to say thanks for everyones support so far this year!

House music with feeling!

Bookings: kal@theunderground.eu

Little Dragon - Ritual Union (Him_Self_Her Remix) *Free Download*

HNNY - Gymnastics (12'' - LT041, Side B1) (Snippet)

A. Kattflickan

La Fleur - Kattflickan is taken from PPR004: La Fleur - Feline EP.

Release date 9th of December 2013 on Power Plant Records.

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Beatport

PPR004: La Fleur - Kattflickan (snippet)

RÜFÜS - Take Me (Miguel Campbell Remix) - Out Now on Sony Music!

RÜFÜS - Take Me (Miguel Campbell Remix)

Part 3 of my 'For Club Play Only' out now on @turborecordings
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Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1nMYGyv

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For Club Play Only Vol. 3

Slow Dance

A peak-time summery rendition of SLS' Organ track reworked by myself and Decimal for Material Series. Available now. We hope you like it!

Samuel L Session - The Organ Track (Dustin Zahn & Decimal Remix)

Tronic release number 181st features the Swedish maestro Samuel L Session on an outstanding 3 track EP. First track on the release Muted Strat is a deep slab, flawless Dub techno chords action and rhythmic drums to form a powerful trip, the second and original track of the pack The House That Jack Built is a big track, old-school vibe, playful bass and a jackin vocal to compliment the production while the third and Dub mix of The House That Jack Built is as its says the Dub representation of the original, vocal less, and instrumental. A sound overall release!

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Samuel L Session - The House That Jack Built (Original Mix)

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Samuel L Session - Bassblaster

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Samuel L Session - Bassblaster (Part 2)

Dear Turbo fan,

The truth is I cant write this one-sheet.

I have no weed, and am working on my own album, trapped in DFA studios in NYC trying to hit notes I didn't know existed. Writing turbo one-sheets requires the exact, and delicate proportion of: time, freedom, space, hash and desire. Right now these are all in short supply, so I'll leave it to Von Party to hit you with things like song titles, artist names and other useless facts.

Tiga


         O man... tough act to follow. We all know Tiga is the undisputed onesheet king so I'll try to take it easy on the jokes and tell you a bit about Popof and the A&R process here at Turbo.

About 20 demo tracks get sent to me every day. Some are ok... most are incredibly sad... I've tried to come up with a system, make rules for myself based on territory like 'always listen to Belgians' or 'ignore Americans'... but really there's no substitute for just taking the time and actually listening. No matter how bad the name or horrid the myspace profile, you never know where you'll find the next Proxy... or the next Tiga!!! haahhahahaa

September '007: I get an email from 'Kaotik System', Popof's manager, with 6 tracks. My intuition tells me it'll be trance and it'll be wack. Demo senders out there, take note: 6 is too many songs to send! This ain't folk music and you're not telling a story... almost every time the more demos in an email, the worse they are. The only exception is when someone sends you their first track ever and asks for 'producin assiste'. Anyway... the first 3 were so-so... I gave them each about 5 seconds and thought 'meh'. The fourth one 'Bitchy Groove' sounded pretty dope, but partly because of the name, partly because of the first three being not that great, and partly because I was in 8 ichats and also on the phone, I did what any good A&R person would do: I replied telling him how 'cool' the music was but that our 'schedule' was 'crazy busy' and to please send me any new stuff.

Then I just sat back and waited for a bomb to hatch... 4 months later... BAMM!!   They sent The Chomper EP.

I was ecstatic... sometimes records come along that fit in so perfectly to your set that they magically transform the same tracks  you were bored of the week before... that's what The Chomper was for me... alchemy... a new core sound had been crystallized... hyper-minimal-monkey-acid... like a HI-NRG Shonky... but on Turbo... YES!!!
That incredible feeling lasted until I went back and listened to 'Bitchy Groove' again and felt like a complete idiot for not signing it. I listened to the others and it was almost as bad. But in the end it landed us my favorite Popof EP yet... and I LOVE his others.

Trust me, you'll ALL love this EP. It just fits... somewhere in between minimal scarf vibes and full-on fire trance....  yet still accessible to nurave blogfucks!
To wrap it up…

Popof is French (AGAIN!!)

There are three tracks... all A-side material... one is called 'Chiken Flavour'... note we NEVER correct artists' spelling... that's how much we respect their creativity.

Incredibly, he's been putting out records since '96, staying beneath the radar cruising at the speed of trance... and now all of a sudden in a few short months he's topped techno charts and made it into the playlists of a wide range of superstar DJ's from minimalists like Villalobos & Luciano, ex-trance DJ's Sasha and Tiga, and even, believe-it-or-not, THE top dog himself: Tiësto.

Love from freezing cold Montreal,

Thomas Von Party


The Chomper EP

Popof - Chiken Flavour

Turbo 50
Tiga & Zyntherius
Sunglasses at Night Remixes

In Tiga’s Words:

Luck is everything, and it only takes an instant for your life to become your dreams. The fact that my life was changed, altered, and ultimately bettered by covering an MOR Canadian rockers 80's pop tune is a quirk of destiny that gives me faith in the magical comedy that we call existence. This is the short story of how the shit went down.

It was the winter of my discontent. I was supposed to travel to India with my family for Christmas 2000, but was unable to go for personal reasons. Upset but determined to make the most of the situation I invited Jori Hulkkonen to DJ with me at my club (SONA) for a NYE party. Jori had done a
mixCD for Turbo and we had cultivated a fine friendship based on ridicule, shared 80's obsessions and ridicule. I had a small home studio that was gathering dust and producing nothing more than frustration; and I threw out the idea (I think I did, although maybe he did) of "making some tracks". I didn't know what I was talking about.  My own creative career had followed a typical early 90's trajectory: houseclubs-ectasy-techno-rave-DJ-travel-raver-promoter-radio-recordstore-nightclub impresario etc... all successful ventures that, at the turn of the
millennium, had led me to a position of relative affluence and respect. But the elusive jewel in the crown was production; and this block  was slowly destroying me. Then came the J-fool.

My memory is bad. In school it was perfect, but it's been eroded by a potent cocktail of reefer, airports, timezones, sleeplessness, computers and time. Now, my memory is not to be trusted. I'll try my best: i think the show went ok. Jori probably played a few records I loved, and a lot that iI hated. It was very cold. New Years Day came, I think he was sleeping at my place. I had an MPC, a Nord Modular. an 808 and a JUNO, and a puppy named Uma. Recently, at a small record store in Calgary of all places, I had bought a copy of 'Sweet Dreams' by Miss Kittin & The Hacker. I thought it was incredible. It's hard to imagine now, but at the time the idea of covering a pop song in a techno style seemed interesting. This is before the world went crazy and eclectic. So we decided to try a cover.

I don't remember details of the day. I had no intention of "singing" but I couldn't really do anything else, so that became my job. I also had to walk Uma, make tea, take phone calls, make jokes. Jori did most of the work. We tried a criminally poor cover of "When Doves Cry" which thankfully is lost
to all mankind. We did a version of "Small Town Boy" with falsetto singing so bad that if you could distill the sound into a liquid it would be the pure essense of "embarrassing". We did a midi-file based cover of New Years Day, which I still love, that came out on an old Turbo comp. And then (I think it was last) we did Sunglasses At Night. Corey Hart was a Montrealer, it seemed fitting. Our lack of sample memory in the MPC combined with my hesitancy to sing complex notes (or ANY notes for that matter) is what resulted in the "genius" of eliminating the bridge and pre-chorus. I remember Jori thought it was amazing. I didn't really like it. Score one for Zyntherius.

I remember going to my record store , DNA, which was just on the corner and playing it: the first of hundreds of "listen to my new track" sessions..... my first taste of the cold sweat of public testing, and the sheer horror of hearing MY voice on speakers. I hated it.

A few months before that day in studio i had done a mixCD called Mixed Emotions, which is still one of the best things I have ever done: it featured an "electro-funk" cd and my face on the cover. Both attracted the attention of DJ Hell in Munich, who of course at the time was a hero of mine. I had a contact thru licensing a song from them, so I think I sent him the sunglasses demo. He fell in love as well. I still didn't like it.

The rest of the story is like a montage in a movie, albeit a small film, Hell came to montreal, burned dubplates, played 6 times at Love Parade,  SAN got huge in germany, , ended up selling a quarter million, doing TOTP,  and being one of the big "electro" anthems of the period. I got to ride my own
coatails  all the way to where i am now. All my dreams came true, including the one about being voted #41 on the DJ top 100 list.

I still marvel at how easily it could’ve NOT happened: My dog stepping on the power switch a little earlier, or Jori getting tired, or the phone ringing at the wrong time. And I cant help but wonder how different my life would have been. While I was never a huge fan of the record I will say that
it was a very pure creative effort, in its own way a real punk track: two friends making something without any label or plans or scene......and crucially without any expectations. To spend 90 minutes on that, in a vacuum, and to then feel your entire life altered by the results.... that
is the magic of pop culture, and testimony to the awesome transformative power of ....... the Roland Juno-60.

Love from Montreal, and love to Jori Z and a special shout out to Hell and Josef.

In Zyntherius’ words:

When I was a child I dreamt about being a god.
When I grew up I realized I could become one.
In 2000 I noticed that the post for the god of synthesizers was not taken. I didn't even have to apply for the job. No real god would have to do that. I just declared myself as ZYNTHERIUS - the god of synthesizers.
Nowadays I'm feeling much better, but occasionally I still get the urge.
Which is why you should be aware of the wrath of Z and respect the holy Oscillators.


Sunclasses at Night Remixes

Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night (d.i.m. Remix)

"If GOA was cool and filled with French people, and psy-trance never happened....Sweetlight would RULE the beaches"

The first time I heard the name Sweetlight was when I was Djing with Ivan Smagghe and he played this insane trance-rave-bomb and I got acid flashbacks from 94 and ran up to the booth and asked what is that and he said (as if I was the last guy on the planet to find out)....."it's called ABUSATOR". The 2manydjs did an edit, and over the next year, that Sweetlight record was an anthem that we all played EVERYWHERE, one of those records that never let's you down, one of those tracks that makes your job as a DJ very easy. So good it makes you lazy.

Then last year at Sonar, I went to hear them play live, and right before their set I met them, and met Julien and he gave me a CD with some new stuff on it. By ACCIDENT, he gave me a CDR with all his personal stuff as well....and I fell madly in love with one of those songs.....and now after a worldwide legal battle, hundreds of emails, a million rocked parties and a few broken hearts, I am very proud to present "Le Grand Sommeil"

I don't know so much about him, but French people tell me Etienne Daho is a big deal.....and this track is a rave-trance-poptravaganze featuring a big chunk of a famous Daho song. Now I know a lot of you don't like trance or pop or French people....BUT trust me...this is magic. I have been playing it last in my sets all year and it is pure modern trance romance......it is the future and the past all rolled up into one.

And then, just when you are reduced to tears of joy on the dance floor....the b-side brings a gorgeous guitar driven late night New Order lite love-jam to ease you down gently

I liked this record so much, I re-launched my label for it.

Love

Tiga


Le Grand Sommeil

Etienne Daho - Le Grand Sommeil (Sweetlight Remix)

Crockett's Theme / Ocean Drive

FPU - Ocean Drive (Tiga's White Linen Vox)

Dreaming Remixes

ADNY - Dreaming (Jesper Dahlback Remix)

TURBO 096
CLOUDS
NUMBERS
 
Big support from Boys Noize, Fake Blood, Tiga, Proxy and Annie Mac.
 
This is speaker-shredding kid-music that keeps your aging dignity intact. Somehow Clouds manage an air of restraint and class even as they demolish you with idiot-friendly bass grindings.
 
We can guarantee that all three of these tracks have been tried & tested on the mega-stages of Planet Turbo to devastating effect.
 
This Scottish duo are Turbo's youngest ever signing, and we can expect big things from them now that they've graduated high school and quit working at McDonald's to live the dream and pursue music
full-time.

Clouds - Fibre

Samuel L Session - Can You Relate (Joris Voorn Flooding The Market With Remixes) - Soma (112 kbps)

Miguel Campbell-Something Special (Mike Filipe afro mix) MORE DOWNLOADS

Imany - You Will Never Know ( Мiguel Campbell & Matt Hughes Remix)(DJ mOnKaTa Extended Mix)

TURBO 129 - CLOUDS - CONSCIOUSNESS

Following a meteoric rise that has seen them attain Top 10 Beatport sales and a fanbase ranging from superstar DJs to genuine immortals like Martin Gore, Scottish prodigies Clouds return with their boldest statement yet, placing them firmly at the forefront of the new wave of UK techno.

Fully battle-tested after a tour of duty as Tiga's top-secret DJ weapon, "Consciousness" fuses the energy and vitality of Clouds' early stadium-friendly output with the ideas, craft and skill of high-minded techno veterans. The track gets remixed by two of today's freshest UK underground dance minds. Hot off a release on Blawan and Pariah's Works the Long Nights imprint, Ireland's Sunil Sharpe hooks the original up to an acid IV before pounding your face into every square inch of the warehouse floor. Meanwhile, London's Randomer - responsible for some of our favorite records of the past year on Numbers and Hemlock - pushes the proceedings into uncharted peak-time blackout territory.

The release is rounded out by two more originals from the astonishingly young production duo. "Sonic Swamp" plumbs the depths of sparse, clanging percussion and emerging with an after-hours monster, while "Common Bounce" takes the banger back from the people and elevates it to a single serotonin-triggering brainwave. 

Clouds have arrived, even as they continue to evolve. At this point, nothing they go on to do would surprise us. 

Consciousness EP

Clouds - Sonic Swamp

TO DOWNLOAD THESE TRACKS AND FOR MORE EXCLUSIVE TURBO CONTENT, SUBSCRIBE TO TURBO AT: www.drip.fm/turbo-recordings

Tiga's Top 6 (deal with it):

1) FPU - Crockett's Theme / Seven Of Nine:

already a decade old, but these tracks still have not really been bettered when it comes to the 80's electro-techno revival of the early 00s. At the time, i was so in love with them, and they really helped Turbo grow at a critical time. Peter Benisch was a thoughtful, talented producer, and i loved all his music.

2) Martini Bros - The Biggest Fan (Blackstrobe Remix)

i remember this being one of my favorites, and a record that really marked Turbo "coming out" internationally. The original was amazing, but Blackstrobe just nailed a remix that perfectly summed up the feelings and the mood of the time. Fun, playful, vocal..... and got Ivan Smagghe on our label!!! A definitive Turbo record.

3) ZZT - Lower State of Consciousness

i tried to avoid my own records, but the fact is that this is just a ridiculously dope record: genuinely weird, undeniably powerful, and not easy to duplicate (i know, ive tried). I also like records that capture a new feeling or a new relationship, and this was the SOUND of me and Zombie Nation getting in studio for the first time. I think its one of the best we have released. yes, i am biased.

4) Panash - Jack 2 Jack (Jesper Dahlback Remix)

this is a classic Turbo formula: find an old record that you felt was underated from your personal collection, aquire the rights, and get a master like Dahlback to remix it to perfection. The early years of Turbo would never have been the same without Jesper, and this was one of the first tracks that got us global cred.

5) Moby - I Like To Move In Here (Proxy Remix)

first off, having a big international name like Moby on the label felt legit, but thats not why i chose this. I picked it cuz for many years Proxy was THE go-to guy for total nu-jack-rave mastery. Yes, "Raven" was bigger, but i always felt this remix was incredible, with a deep and unique understanding of techno-funk. still sick. always dope. he still has never been beat.

6) Clouds - Consciousness

of the techno renaissance era tracks of the past few years, this one stands out for two reasons: first, because its a truly special techno anthem, and i think arguably the best techno record we ever released. second, because it marked a continued commitment to an artist and their development: Clouds were my fave from day one, but they just got better and better, and worked closely with me and my brother......and that feels like REAL label progress.

Jack 2 jack

Panash - Jack 2 Jack (Jesper Dahlback Remix)

Turbo Recordings was founded by Tiga in Montreal back in 1998. In addition to launching his own career, the label has been integral in the success of acts like Chromeo, Gesaffelstein, Duke Dumont and most recently, ANNA & Charlotte de Witte. Core talent includes ZZT (Tiga's collaboration with Zombie Nation), Jori Hulkkonen, BETON, Clouds, Harvard Bass, Pilo, Shaded, Dimitri Veimar and a host of new young producers in genres ranging from pure techno, electro, and house to pop. The list of artists who have released music on the label is a veritable 'who's who' of top-level talent spanning a broad musical range, and this, along with a commitment to beautiful design, has earned the label respect in the industry and a cult following among fans. 

“We started out singing into plastic bags and shipping them to stores as quickly as possible. Later, we discovered that vinyl sounds way better when delivered by kayak. I learned so much the first few years…Now, as I look towards the future, I can envision music for poor people, sonic odors for the hearing impaired, even MP3s for women....Vroom, sucka!” says Tiga, the lyrical lampsman lighting the way down Dance Avenue.

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