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Yannick Baudino ‘Are You Sure EP’

Artist: Yannick Baudino
Title: Are You Sure EP
Remixer: OXIA, Bizen Lopez
Label: Diversions Music
Cat. #: DVM011
Format: Digital
Release Date: 5th June 2020 (Beatport & Spotify) / 19th June 2020 (All Stores)
Tracklist:

Are You Sure
Are You Sure (OXIA Dub Mix)
Are You Sure (Bizen Lopez Remix)
Data Project

French artist Yannick Baudino joins up with Diversions Music to release four vibrant house cuts entitled ‘Are You Sure’ EP including remixes from label boss OXIA and Bizen Lopez.

Yannick Baudino is very active in the Grenoble music scene and is the co-founder of Interface record store, which became a label that went onto sign the likes OXIA, The Hacker, Kiko and more. Yannick is a former member of the Human Body project with Stephane Deschezeaux who released records of labels such as Goodlife and Bigelow. Since going solo and working under his own name, he has signed EPs on Saved Records, Plastik Galaxy in addition to contributions on Audiojack’s Gruuv imprint. ‘Are You Sure’ EP sees Yannick sign to OXIA and Nicolas Masseyeff’s Diversions Music imprint following the likes of Ohmme, Miguel Lobo, Artslaves, Lewis Jimenez and the label bosses themselves.

‘Are You Sure’ kicks things off with shimmering grooves fused with thumping bass stabs and graceful pad swells before OXIA lays down soaring synths, infectious rolling energy and blooming atmospherics throughout in his ‘dub mix’.

Palma de Mallorca born producer Bizen Lopez has releases on labels like Stereo Productions, Moan, Deeperfect… Delivers a bumping remix featuring slick percussion, hypnotic soundscapes and reverberating 303s. ‘Data Project’ rounds off the pack with an effervescent roller as acid-soaked synths pulsate with the rattling high hats and bumping subbass harmoniously.

Illan Nicciani ‘Târnava Mica EP’

Artist: Illan Nicciani
Title: Târnava Mica EP
Label: Hermine Records
Cat. #: HERMR063
Release Date: 06/2020
Tracklist
1) Illan Nicciani – Târnava Mica
2) Illan Nicciani – Toate Cele
3) Illan Nicciani – Curtea De Arges
4) Illan Nicciani – Gura Lunii

French DJ Illan Nicciani introduces his new EP signed on our Label. It includes 4 tracks between micro and club minimal style, it’s break and underground. «Târnava Mica» makes no secret of it, the strong & hypnotic tune is perfect for the dancefloor. For the rest, we let you listen!

Woo York ‘Echoes From Beyond EP’

Artist: Woo York
Title: Echoes From Beyond EP
Label: Afterlife Recordings
Cat. #: AL038
Format: 12″ vinyl, digital
Release Date: May 15th, 2020

Woo York follow up their ‘Chasing The Dream’ album with an EP of timeless, acid compositions.

‘Echoes From Beyond’ houses four of the Ukrainian duo’s signature productions. The infectious melody of the title track opens the release in show-stopping style before ‘Dancing With Sirens’ and ‘Minimalism’ take you deeper with triplet pulses, dense basslines and a cosmic atmosphere. ‘Epilogue’ is an eyes-closed epic to end the release on a high.

Audiojack ‘Are We Here’

Artist: Audiojack
Title: Are We Here
Label: 8Bit
Cat. #: 8BIT158
Release Date: 08.06.2020
Tracklist:
A. Audiojack – Are We Here
B. Audiojack – Higher

It’s a huge pleasure for Nick Curly & Gorge to welcome longtime friends Audiojack to their label. In fact a dream came true as for a long time discussions took place to find a way to release a single from their favorite british house duo. Now they are here.

Re.You ‘Maison (LP)’

Artist: Re.You
Title: Maison (LP)
Label: Connected
Cat. #: Connected054
Release Date: May 29th 2020

After more than a decade at the forefront of underground electronic music, Re.You puts all his vast experience into a long-awaited debut album on Connected, breathing new life into house music. ‘Maison’ is a bold artistic statement across nine tracks featuring guests and label bosses Stereo MCs, plus Florian Busse & Ahmad, Elli and Oluhle & Aaaron.

German artist Re.You is Marius Maier, a producer who runs his own Younion label and continues to innovate with his edgy house and tech fuelled productions. As well as on releasing Connected, he has seen his music issued on Moon Harbour, Kompakt and Mobilee and manages to transcend fashions and scenes with his unique sound. After many years in Berlin, he moved to Paris, and found himself full of new ideas, inspired by the city and its creative energy.

As such, most of this new album was written in the French capital. He was there for just six months but as Marius says ”it was a truly inspiring place and time, so I thought I would give the album a French name. ‘Maison’ means home. That’s what I feel now I’m back in my German hometown Ulm after 10 years of Berlin and a short stay in Paris. I feel now is a good time to release my debut album on Connected, a platform on which I always felt at home.”

Things get off to a dramatic start with the lurching bass and broken kicks of ‘When I’m Lost’ featuring the emotive vocals of Elli. It sets a serious mood that continues on ‘We Want To Go’, a sparse and expansive track with found sounds, creeping chords and a sense of late-night menace. ‘Relocate’ feat. Stereo Mc’s is another broken beat that could come from the streets of London and is complete with spoken word vocals, then ‘Freedom’ offers a high-speed house cut with cosmic arps and driving claps.

The excellent ‘In The Dark’ switches up the vibe again, this time with unbalanced bass and crisp percussion taking you deep into the night, while ‘Inyani’ feat. Oluhle & Aaaron gets you in an afro-tinged trance thanks to the vocal chants and suspensory, spiritual chords that cast a real spell. ‘Soft’ rolls beautifully deep with distant bird sounds, then ‘If You’ feat. Elli picks up with a slick and slippery tech groove full of mystery and intrigue and the journey is complete with the emotionally stirring trap style house of ‘Strings Of Joy’ feat. Florian Busse & Ahmad.

Maison is an adventurous culmination of many years of artistic endeavour that brings plenty of fresh and exciting new perspectives to house music.

Tracklist:

1. When I’m Lost feat.Elli
2. We Want To Go
3. Relocate feat.Stereo Mc’s
4. Freedom
5. In The Dark
6. Inyani feat.Oluhle & Aaaron
7. Soft
8. If You feat.Elli
9. Strings Of Joy feat. Florian Busse & Ahmad

Florian Schneider deceased

The Kraftwerk cofounder died this week at the age of 73. Following some main mike stone of his great life and career.

Here, we look back on 11 essential records from the catalogue of his pioneering band.Florian Schneider was born in occupied Germany just two years after the end of World War II. With Kraftwerk, the band he cofounded, he would come to define everything hopeful about postwar-Europe: technological advancement, prosperity, open borders and freedom of movement. By bringing synthesizers into the mainstream and inspiring the originators of techno, hip-hop and electro, Kraftwerk has had a profound impact on 20th century music.

Schneider started out playing the flute in an early version of Kraftwerk (after one album as Organisation) that created earthy, pulsating jams. Though the flute was beloved to Schneider, after the group’s first three albums (which have never been officially reissued), he discovered the potential of synthesizers on “Autobahn,” the group’s first hit, and never looked back.

“Autobahn” proved you could have a hit song made with just synthesizers. From there, the group made several albums of inspired electronic pop, with themes that touched on the Cold War, travel, robots, emerging technology and the encroaching loneliness of the modern world. And they did it with style, creating rhythms and melodies that reverberated far beyond Germany.

Schneider left Kraftwerk in 2008. (The band hasn’t put out any new music in his absence.) From their early longhair hippie jams to the suave, suited man-machines they became, Schneider was a member of a group that helped define the way we see synthesizers, computers and electronic music as a whole.

Nodo & Mule ‘Amistad EP’

Artist: Nodo & Mule
Title: Amistad EP
Label: Loot Recordings
Cat. #: LOOTREC027
Release Date: 29th May 2020
Tracklist:
01 Amistad
02 Ambar
03 Ambar (Viktop Remix)
04 Azahar
05 Azahar (Lucefora Into The Wild Remix)

Argentina’s Nodo & Mule (ARG) make their debut on Loot Recordings with three wonderfully deep tracks backed with remixes from Viktop and Lucefora.

Nodo & Mule (ARG) are relative newcomers to the scene, bringing their fresh take on emotive house music from the streets of Argentina to the world, via imprints like Oleeva, Canopy Sounds and Magician on Duty. Now they join forces with the always impressive Loot Recordings for an EP that is set to cement their position on the international stage.

Title cut ‘Amistad’ is an elegant offering of deep, summertime house, a slow burner backed by the rhythm of crisp drums and bottomless low end. A dreamy, hazy piano drifts throughout the track, immersing the listener with delicate notes and warm chords.

‘Ambar’ centers on a medley of gentle piano chords and a striking vocal, wrapped with organic, lush drum patterns. The original is complimented by a remix from Viktop (Den- ver by way of Miami, Do Not Sit on the Furniture resident) who delivers an intense reworking of the original, giving the vocal a more ethereal effect and incorporating the piano riffs and chords to make this a standout reinterpretation.

Last of the original cuts is the mysterious ‘Azahar’ featuring a mesmerizing arrangement of tribal percussion and tinkling pianos which offers up a melancholic soundtrack for desert sunrises and island sunsets. Fellow Argentinian Lucefora turns in his “Into The Wild” remix, a gorgeous version that maintains the groove of the original combined with playful melodies and euphoric vocals that hit all the right emotions.

This is another winning release from the Loot Recordings stable and their latest international signing.

Dachshund ‘Slow Deep Breath EP’

Artist: Dachshund
Title: Slow Deep Breath EP
Label: Gruuv
Cat. #: GRU105
Format: Digital
Release Date: 22nd May 2020
Tracklist
1. Slow Deep Breath
2. Alive
3. Meanwhile

Dachshund returns to Audiojack’s Gruuv imprint this May as he delivers his ‘Slow Deep Breath’ EP.

DJ, producer and label boss Dachshund is an artist renowned for his exceptional production talent, releasing material via the likes of Nick Curly’s 8bit, Joris Voorn’s Rejected and his own Clapper Records. Having released his Major Shift’ EP on Audiojack’s dancefloor-focused Gruuv imprint in late-October last year, the multi-faceted Swiss artist now makes a welcome return to close May as he delivers three groove-led cuts in the form of his ‘Slow Deep Breath’ EP.

Title cut ‘Slow Deep Breath’ opens with shattered synths and rolling drums atop of a heavy, evolving bassline, before the eclectic ‘Alive’ enters with skipping hats, sharp snares and pulsating melodies to reveal an elevating track ready to take dancers to emotional heights. To close, the hypnotic ‘Meanwhile’ combines electric stabs with slick-drum work, topped off with distorted vocal samples alongside incredible lead lines and fluttering low-end frequencies to seal this impressive EP together in slick fashion.

Dan Mckie feat. King Hitz ‘Dance’

Artists: Dan Mckie, King Hitz
Title: Dance
Label: 1980 Recordings
Cat: 80REC229
Format: Digital
Release Date: 8th May 2020
Tracklist:
Dance (Original mix)
Dance (Dub mix)
Dance (Radio edit)

Dan McKie is a man in form right now and continues his hot-streak with a new single on 1980 Recordings that comes with a featuring spot for King Hitz.
‘Dance’ is a low-slung and late night cut of moody deep techno encapsulated with an afro-house vibe. The prickly drums are enough to get you moving and the vocals add a touch of welcomed darkness. It’s filled with sporadic and flittering laser synths, giving a textured and layered trippy feel to the overall track aura. It makes for another fine entry to Dan McKie’s growing discography.

More info:
Dan Mckie Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/danmckie1980
1980 Recordings Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/1980recordings

Words by Jamie Ferguson

Júlio Cruz & Momo Arigato ‘CGN to LE’

Artist: Júlio Cruz & Momo Arigato

Title: CGN to LE

Label: Petra Digital/Vinyl Recordings
Cat. #: PTR026

Release Date: 03.06.2020 Vinyl / 19.06.2020 Digital
Tracklisting

A1: Júlio Cruz – Chercher La Nuit (Original Mix)

A2: Júlio Cruz – Dancing Love Affair (Original Mix)

B1: Momo Arigato – Mario’s Rhythm (Original Mix)

B2: Momo Arigato – Don’t Believe (Original Mix)

German talents Júlio Cruz and Momo Arigato join forces for a superb new deep house release for Istanbul based imprint Petra, with each artist taking care of two originals each.

Cologne native’s Júlio Cruz makes tracks that are close to the dance floor with a chill vibe that really makes a mark. His opener Chercher La Nuit is a bubbling house cut with a warm and fat bassline. Lush chords bring light and emotion and carry you away. Dancing Love Affair has a big heart with soulful chords and disco tinged beats getting you moving.

Leipzig’s Momo Arigato’s tracks represent the pure side of house music with sampled elements brings them alive and have come on labels like Friend in Need and Bigbait before now Mario’s Rhythm is a raw, DIY groove with rough edged kicks and blasts of bass that are smoothed out with lush chords and experimental modulated sounds. Don’t Believe is a dreamy track with cloudy pads and lumpy beats that are perfectly atmospheric and authentic. This then is a truly killer EP.