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The Complete Witness Protection Program

WPP001

Let Me Be The One

Davin Varda - Let Me Be The One

Music Has No Meaning Now (2020 Lockdown Version)

Davin Varda - Music Has No Meaning Now (2020 Lockdown Version)

WPP002

Witness Protection Program

Troels Yuri - Witness Protection Program

En Makom Leomanut (Feat. Olugbenga Adelekan)

Troels Yuri - En Makom Leomanut (Feat. Olugbenga Adelekan)

WPP003

Davin Varda - Midnight Therapy Session

Davin Varda - Lasha Lava Bah (Ft Talis)

Re Edits Chapter 001

Davin Varda - Netze Leharim

Davin Varda - Gigi's No Man's Land

This is the second release by Troels Yuri on the WPP label. 
He still prefers the nights to be cold and lonely while secretly yearning for a touch of human warmth.


Floating Over a Golden Opportunity mixes chopped up electric guitars with agogo bells, shimmering synths with floaty siren voices, a monotonous bassline with a slightly crooked disco beat. And when you think you got it figured out, it pulls another trick from its sleeve,


Away From Naples is an exercise in suspension, with a sound palette that unintentionally borrows from The Orb, Tangerine Dream, Trevor Horn and minimal techno.

WPP004

Troels Yuri - Away From Naples

Troels Yuri - Floating Over a Golden Opportunity

Jump Light, Go Thru the Night is a result of an alien accidentally mixing a 70's yacht rock tune with an 80's synth pop number at an early 00's Shoreditch club.

WPP005

Davin Varda - Jump Light, Go Thru The Night

Re Edits Chapter 002

Like the previous chapter, these are more than plain re edits. The original tracks were decontextualised and repurposed to give them a new meaning and a new breath of life.

1. Dub Yourself to my Help is built from small slices that were chopped from a classic 80's proto-house tune. These slices are big enough to retain the essence of the original, but small enough to give them a new identity. On top of that, Davin Varda added a new bass line, a bunch of spacey synth textures and percussive elements, to create a whole new beast.

2. Rhythm is a Constant Beat was conceived when Troels Yuri accidentally played a random 12" at the wrong speed. Loops were quickly sliced, synths and bass guitars added, drum machines programmed, and this forgotten dutch gem was given a new lease of life, re-tooled for a new generation of DJs.

3. Davin Varda always dreamt of doing a re-edit using the separate tracks of an original track. Backflash Re-Imagined is his first attempt at doing just that, taking only the elements he likes from this well known UK-Disco monster. 
However, if you are looking for a sinister twist, wait 4 and a half minutes and see what happens if you try to leave the club in the middle of a party and experience a gruesome flashback.

Re-Edits Chapter 002

Davin Varda - Dub Yourself to my Help

Davin Varda - Backflash Re-imagined

This is the first release by Chuck Nolad on the WPP label. 
There will only be one more.

Chuck Nolad is not necessarily a person. He is a half-baked notion about the elusiveness of time. An off the cuff remark on the ebb and flow of past partnerships. A poor excuse to revisit unfulfilled achievements from the past. 

Sixindamornin is an out of time house-not-house track. It's chuggy and funky in equal amounts. It's simultaneously euphoric and unsettling. It's honestly utterly unique and irresistible.

WPP007

Chuck Nolad - Sixindamornin

Ride the Rhythm is a slow, chuggy monster, that evokes sounds from the 80's and the 90's while keeping away from nostalgia for the sake of nostalgia. It's also a beautiful slice of music that will get people moving on the dancefloor.

WPP008

Davin Varda - Ride the Rhythm

This is Troels Yuri's 4th release on the WPP label. 
There may be more in the future.

Nafarkor is somewhat of a detour for us, as it doesn't rely on a steady 4X4 beat, and features a deep and throaty vocal sample. 

Walter, Paul & Penelope, as you might have guessed, are not real people. The track finds Troels Yuri in a meditative mood, and once you think the track has run its course, a weird synth solo comes out of nowhere and propels this piece of music to another dimension.

WPP009

Troels Yuri - Walter, Paul, Penelope

Troels Yuri - Nafarkor

August 2022.
Witness Protection Program.
Press Release.

Cat#: WPP010

Artist: Chuck Nolad

A. Pleasure Treasure [00:07:04]
B. The Thing [00:06:35]

Released: December 2022
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WPP stands for Witness Protection Program, a space for artists to bathe in anonymity. To release music that they wouldn’t be able to release otherwise. It’s an evolving entity, Wildly Painting Pictures.

This is the second and final release by Chuck Nolad on the WPP label. 

Chuck Nolad is not necessarily a person. He is a half-baked notion about the elusiveness of time. An off the cuff remark on the ebb and flow of past partnerships. A poor excuse to revisit unfulfilled achievements from the past. 

1. In a parallel world, Pleasure Treasure is a classic, seminal dance tune. A blend of classic house and motoric disco, with a soulful sample that sounds true, new and gay.

2. The thing concludes this short series of singles by Chuck Nolad for WPP, with the same signature sound that combines disco, cheeky samples, trippy sounds, exaggerated Hi Hats and drums that don't quite do what you expect them to. Thank you.

WPP010

Chuck Nolad - The Thing

Chuck Nolad - Pleasure Treasure

Love. So often we get drawn into it, and sometimes we get drowned by it. And sometimes, late at night in the studio, it seems like a good idea for a song.
 
The original version of Drawn into Your Love by Davin Varda is a piece of mechano-boogie-proto-house, with subtle drips of melancholia showing through the muscular synths.

The remix by Troels Yuri is a tough space disco odyssey soaking in whirling, ever evolving arpeggios, that transform the track into dancefloor bliss.

Drawn into Your Love

Davin Varda - Drawn Into Your Love

Witness Protection Program Part 2 is a chugging dark disco track with a sinister bassline, a drifting synth pad and a weird sample that gets chopped into little indecipherable pieces.

WPP013

Troels Yuri - Witness Protection Program 2

WPP stands for Witness Protection Program, a space for artists to bathe in anonymity. To release music that they wouldn’t be able to release otherwise. It’s an evolving entity, Welding Parts Perfectly.

WPP011

Davin Varda is back from his winter hibernation, delivering his awkward take on music for spring time.

The Curse of July was created during a punishing July heatwave, feeling that the only way to break free from the unbearable heat is by escaping to a breezy musical universe of dubby bass lines, balearic house pianos and euphoric synth stabs.

Be There Next to You is a failed attempt at creating an Ibiza summer anthem. But sometimes, by failing at doing a certain thing, you inadvertently achieve something else entirely. And honestly, the world doesn't need yet another Ibiza summer anthem. Right?

The Curse of July / Be There Next to You

Davin Varda - Be There Next to You

Davin Varda - The Curse of July

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Laust - Higher (Higher Energy Remix By Davin Varda & Roy Shpilman)

Drawn Into Your Love 

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In some way, Munich-based duo Doe Bed comes full circle with their first vinyl release “Sweaters / On the Beach”. The 7” single is released by Rheinschallplatten, the supremely eclectic imprint run by brothers Markus and Thomas Rhein. Thomas runs a record store in Cologne (Parallel Schallplatten), Markus used to do so in Munich (Resonanz). Long before Doe Bed met, Niklas went to Thomas for record shopping, Kaline to Markus. 
Many records and years later, when the first Doe Bed tape had just come out, they met Markus at the Puch Festival and handed him a copy of “Doubt”. Markus’ reply: “Cool, thanks. But I’ll be honest in my feedback!”This episode is one of the five or so instances of Doe Bed dabbling in “marketing”. 

Five years later, all four got together to further solidify this Cologne-Munich-axis - that had seen so many records, instruments, music recommendations and song ideas go back and forth - with the release of this two-track single. 
“Sweaters” is a new Doe Bed original, starting out with Kaline wanting to try making Lofi-Yacht-Rock and Niklas taking a wrong turn with the boat somewhere. 
“On the Beach” is a cover of the original by The Paragons, off of the eponymous LP that is one of the finest Rocksteady full lengths around. Here it turns from a sunny beach tune to the saddest drinking song. 

The digital release comes with a remix by Davin Varda of the Witness Protection Program label that completely undoes the sweater, adds some glitter to the yarn and sends it straight to the dancefloor.

Sweaters

DOE BED - Sweaters (Untying The Sweater Remix By Davin Varda)

We *are* living in the future. In fact, this text could've been written by an AI text generator, and you would probably not notic it, if it wasn't for the odd typo.

This track was conceived out of need to fantasize a utopian vision of the future, as the current version of the here and now can be rather depressing and discouraging. 

Davin Varda approached Middle Sky Boom, a fellow traveler, to collaborate on this track. He gladly accepted, and nailed the vocals in one sweet session. 

This release includes two more versions of the song. The extended dubby version by Troles Yuri is a more minimalistic alternative to the song, subtracting elements and stretching the pounding beat into a full club experience.

The Middle Sky Boom version is a remix of a remix, sending the track spinning around the earth in an abandoned spaceship full of chirping computers going in and out of sync.

Living In The Future

Davin Varda & Middle Sky Boom - Living In The Future (Vocal Version)

Artist: @witnessprotectionprogram
Track:  U Am I Are
Label: https://soundcloud.com/witnessprotectionprogram
Format: Digital, EP
Release date:29/9/23
YouTube: https://youtu.be/aNF6wYBA3cY

U Am I Are is based around a massive bass line that glides effortlessly upwards and downwards through most of the track and four words/syllables that try to blur the lines that separate us on the dancefloor. The result is a hypnotic and exhilarating journey that invites you to lose yourself in the rhythm.
a hanging from Another Porch is a classic WPP chugger. It blends together a fierce industrial beat with dubby bass lines and sweet and optimistic synth parts that shimmer and sparkle. The track creates a dynamic tension between the harsh and the gentle, the dark and the light, the rough and the smooth.

U Am I Are / Hanging From Another Porch

PREMIERE | Witness Protection Program - U Am I Are [Witness Protection Program] 2023

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Davin Varda and Buscadora join forces for their debut release, "All the Weather People". This track spawned from a small slice of funkiness, lifted from a well-known 70s Jazz-Fusion act. As it evolves, it's clear that this is not just another re-edit - like a rocket being launched into space, the music starts on the ground, ascends gradually and increases its velocity until it breaks out of the stratosphere.

The track's name was also a guiding clue to another hidden connection - the shamanic techno of Andrew Weatherall. This slow-burning track pulsates with a spiritual chug, drawing inspiration from Weatherall's legacy. Recognising this, Varda and Buscadora decided to release "All the Weather People" ahead of the fourth anniversary of AW's passing - February 17th - honouring his impact on their music and life.

All proceeds from this release will be donated to Standing Together, a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice.

https://www.standing-together.org/en

The Label

WPP stands for Witness Protection Program, a space for artists to bathe in anonymity. To release music that they wouldn’t be able to release otherwise. It’s an evolving entity, a Weather People Plethora.

all the Weather People

Davin Varda & Buscadora - all the Weather PeoPle

Witness Protection Program, WPP, is a space for artists to bathe in anonymity. To release music that they wouldn’t be able to release otherwise. It’s an evolving entity and a Work in Perpetual Progress.

https://witnessprotectionprogram.bandcamp.com

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