BPC314 CAMEA - THE HALLWAY EP
Release Date Digital JULY 27TH, 2015 
Release Date Vinyl AUGUST 7TH, 2015
ON BPITCH CONTROL

After a busy Spring with the launch of her Neverwhere Radio show, new tracks on Get Physical and mixing their latest Full Body Workout compilation, CAMEA sets the stage for summer with her next Bpitch Control installment. This will be CAMEA‘s third solo release on Ellen Allien’s imprint, following up her highly acclaimed ‘City Watch Over Me’ and ‘Neverwhere’ singles, as well as a vinyl only remix project featuring Deadbeat, Locked Groove and Lee Jones. Now the Seattle-born artist and Berlin resident contributes a great three-track collection for her new single titled, ’The Hallway’, out in vinyl and digital format.
In this selection, CAMEA continues to lay the foundation for her experimental combination of deep house and tech- no with a collection of three mind-bending pieces. The A side track, Wormhole, is a peak time techno space burner for the main stage, while the B-side goes deeper with two kaleidoscopic tech house tunes. The titled track, ‚The Hallway’, is a psychotropic and funky descent, layered with trippy vocals and spaced-out melodies, all connected by an irresistibly towering peak. Finally, ‘Orchestra of Dreams’ concludes her release with a harmonious and passionate dance ballad, rippling it’s way in and out of FM synthesis and orchestral harmonies for an eerie and elegant piece. CAMEA’s sound and ideas speak loudly on this release, sharing with us another part of her journey and adding ano- ther essential piece to her discography and the Bpitch archive.

XLR8R Premiere: Camea - The Hallway (BPC314 )

For our next release we are treated with a diverse 4-track EP by Ghettofaust. After his first appearance on the label last month we are excited to announce his 'End Of The Earth' EP. A diverse yet synth-driven EP showcasing the diversity Ghettofaust is capable of. Starting off we have 'Zugzwang', a mellow dub-infused groovy house track. Following is the title track 'End Of The Earth'. Spooky pads, classic house stabs & a solid warm bassline, the perfect recipe for a proper house record. Diving deeper into the EP we are greeted by the synth-infused techno track 'Mea Culpa'. A bit reminiscent of older Vince Watson productions, the tune layers a lot of different elements together creating an atmospheric & melodic rhythmic record, the true definer of Ghettofaust's style & abilities. Rounding off the EP we stay in the techno area with 'Feierabend'. Proper grooves, dubby stabs and a latin guitar to give the track an unusual twist. 'End Of The Earth' is out on all major platforms on the 29th of August.

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Ghettofaust - Feierabend

Saturno y San Andrés

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Aaaaah! This tune is so damn sexy, it makes me wanna lose my skirt!
I’ve had it on repeat for a while, and it only gets better and better.
I am absolutely in love with the vocals which are beautifully mixed with an acid house groove that’s gonna keep me up for nights in a row for sure.            
                    
After last year’s 'Want Some' EP and January’s ‘Femur Loveseat’ track, the https://soundcloud.com/my-favorite-robot-records bosses are back on their own label with another standout release featuring the remix I’m premiering today by https://soundcloud.com/theofficialjorihulkkonen.
                
Jori has released numerous LPs and EPs on My Favorite Robot and his synth heavy, artful style suits the original perfectly. 

Release date - 13/04/18

Text by @KikiToao

Pink Horror

PREMIERE - My Favorite Robot - Pink Horror (Jori Hulkkonen) (My Favorite Robot)

Man Power - Valhalla

This one goes out to all you soggy DJs out there. The selectors and entertainers whose slot is not in sync with mother nature’s winning hand. You look out over a sea of anoraks and subdued faces and wonder if the sun will ever shine again. You look at your beer and wish it was a warm cup of tea. You look down at your coat and realise you’ll never pack your winter wardrobe away for the summer…  

These instances are hard, if not impossible, to imagine as this year’s unlikely heatwave continues to dazzle and frazzle us. But we all know that those rainy day moments do exist. We’ve all played them in the past. We’ve all got many more in the future. And now Darkroom Dubs have the perfect soundtrack for them: Skinnerbox – ‘Music For Sad & Rainy Open Airs’. 

Two tracks tailored for the greyest of outdoor shows. Moody, pensive and vitally atmospheric; both ‘Cold Neck’ and ‘Wet Shoes’ counter and complement any damp DJ set consummately. The former is a lavish, eight-minute saga that ripples with analog weight and shines with sudden cosmic blasts. The sinewy latter extends the trip closer to nine minutes with a wriggling weave of acid and bass before smacking us hard with vibrant solar sensation in the epic breakdown. No matter how treacherous the conditions you play this in are, the sun will always rise.

Cold neck, wet shoes, warm heart: The weather might be an unpredictable beast, but these tracks most certainly guarantee temperate reactions. And let’s face it; this is Skinnerbox and Darkroom Dubs… These guarantee joy regardless of what weather mother nature throws at us. Enjoy!

Mastered by Conor Dalton at Glowcast Audio.
Art by Dave Beazley.
https://www.darkroomdubs.com

Played & supported by Ame, Kollektiv Turmstrasee, John Digweed, Nick Warren, Domenic (Sub Club), Toto Chiavetta, Audiofly, Luke Brancaccio, Eagles & Butterflies,  Baikal, Yotto, Rüede Hagelstein, Chris Fortier, JOBE, James Zabiela, Curses, Kolsch, Bog, Tiefschwarz, Fairmont, Tsugi Magazine, Data Transmission, Decoded, Ibiza Global Radio & many more...

Music For Sad & Rainy Open Airs

Skinnerbox - Wet Shoes (Clip)

Begrüsst einen neuen Namen im Artist-Inventar von Freude am Tanzen!
Die vierköpfige Band Pentatones veröffentlichte im Februar 2012 ihr Album The Devil’s Hand auf Lebensfreude Records. Eine unbedingte Empfehlung zu dessen Erwerb und Genuss sei hiermit vernehmlich ausgesprochen. Die Live-Qualitäten der Pentatones sind ebenso ein ganz spezieller Leckerbissen bezüglich Verausgabung für Geist und Körper. Der besonders Dancefloor-kompatible Song „Determiner“ bekommt nun, zusätzlich veredelt durch zwei formidable Remixe von Taron-Trekka sowie Mathias Kaden & Daniel Stefanik, besondere Aufmerksamkeit in der Clubwelt. 

”Greetings from a new name in the artist inventory from Freude am Tanzen!
The four-person band Pentatones released in February 2012 their album The Devil’s Hand on Lebensfreude Records. We highly recommend that you immediately acquire and savour such excellence. The live characteristics of the Pentatones are just as much a tender morsel for the body as for the spirit. The special dance floor-compatible song “Determiner”,
which has also been solidly remixed from Taron-Trekka as well as Mathias Kaden & Daniel Stefanik, takes care to get a little love from the club landscape.


Determiner - EP

Determiner (Taron-Trekka RMX)

Pentatones - Determiner (Taron-Trekka RMX)

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Third Gathering of The Sisters & Brothers Series includes 6 tracks made in England, Germany, Italy and Iceland - carefully curated by Sexy Lazer and Kasper Bjørke. 

‘Take #3’, the opener stems from the one of a kind UK producer Matt Karmil. Excellent production that has Matt’s amazing signature raw quality sound in every corner. The track fits in every party at any hour and warms your body and soul. We welcome Matt’s debut on Sisters & Brothers. 

Modular Project strikes again after their last fantastic EP on Sisters & Brothers. ‘Bottom’ is a floating dreamy cosmic track that travels to the moon and back. It’s a funky techno track with a real bass line, emotional synths and a distorted vocoder that bring the listeners on a trippy 80’s journey. A true analog product from Italy.

‘Austrian Hairlines’ is by Sexy Lazer & Kaktus Einarsson. It comes with a thrilling intro that turns into broken beats, acid and quirky melodies. Born 33.000 feet up in the air and brought down to earth to be raised up. Grew and grew and became this sharp and tense but yet playful electric character. Robotic and sharp as the sharpest Austrian hairlines. 

Technobeton & Friedtower presents ‘Tal im Berg’. This greatly structured and disturbed track made in Stuttgart is in your face. ‘Tal im Berg’ is about not doing it right. “We had a lot of instruments, progressions and effects in the arrangement (which is the ‘Berg’ (mountain) - it sounded right. So then we killed two drum tracks, several melodies, we discovered the TAL bassline, and what then happened became Tal im Berg. When we play it loud, people maybe feel the presence of empty soundspaces and fill them automatically with ecstatic shouts and dance moves.”

Far up in the north the Icelandic techno duo Bypass wrote a composition named Blómavasi (flower vase) years back as teenagers. Not knowing what they had made the demo got lost. By request of a friend they revisited the demo and decided to bring it to life. Imagine what Bypass can do if this acid bomb is the demo that got lost... Sounding great like the cold north. 

‘I Belong’ by Andi is also coming from Iceland and closes the package with a very elegant and well made electronica track that leaves you longing for more. A true talent to watch out for! ”In the track the classic mantra “I belong to you” is repeated several times over throughout the song, treated as if it were a sample from another source than my own voice, although heavily processed. This is basically just me talking to myself, for the purpose of belonging more fully to others. The track sprang from a feeling of loneliness causing me to expand unnecessary boundaries of belonging.” This is Andi’s second appearing on S&B. 

We hope you like it as much as we do. 
With love : The Mansisters

Sisters & Brothers - Third Gathering

Austrian Hairlines

Sexy Lazer & Kaktus Einarsson - Austrian Hairlines

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/total_20

Two decades. Twenty years. Twenty compilations. Over 400 tracks. Over two days of total playing time and countless coloured dots. If someone would have told us in 1999, when we put together TOTAL 1 that this would turn into one of the longest standing compilation series in techno world we would have laughed out loud. But here we are – in the year 2020 which will probably go down in history as the most difficult period ever for club culture. But we won’t stop doing what we’re doing. Music is our oxygen. We’ll dance together soon again.

The TOTAL series has always been like KOMPAKT’s yearbook and to say it with the late Frank Sinatra: It was a very good year. Our family of artists delivered a strong heterogeneous mix of uplifting sounds, from the lush reveries of ROBAG WRUHME and SOELA to the stark primetime bangers of MARC ROMBOY or ANNA & KITTIN and everything in between. Notable new entries to our crew are the Londoner KIWI with his wonderfully careless “Hello Echo” that picks up the camp disco vibes Justus Köhncke made a staple in our repertoire. Amsterdam’s DAVID DOUGLAS delivers an appetizer for a full course meal. His quirky pop approach sits comfortably between fellow dutchmen WEVAL’s abstract beats and AGENTS OF TIME’s opulent Italo Disco. YOTAM AVNI blends Detroit techno with new age jazz that reminisces the sound of ECM artists like Jan Garbarek or John Surman. The man with the hat, KÖLSCH also picks up jazzier notes in his very own big room style. Youngblood JONATHAN KASPAR appears twice, fortifying his status as one of the hottest beat smiths of our hometown Cologne. TOTAL wouldn’t be TOTAL without our permanent staff present in full force. As per tradition, KOMPAKT’s founding fathers, VOIGT & VOIGT, JÜRGEN PAAPE, JÖRG BURGER, MICHAEL MAYER as well as our Berlin outpost SASCHA FUNKE all deliver exclusive gems that also feature on Total 20’s double vinyl edition.

May TOTAL 20 become your trustworthy companion in these uncertain times.

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