Artist: Delkt Title: Alignement Label: Trapez Cat. #: Trapez 239 Release Date: 10. September 2021 Tracklist: 1. Golden Teacher 2. Sunshine 3. Les Marches Du Paradis
Fresh Techno from Montreal by Delkt!
The Delkt project is first of all a friendship story between Fares (Sed Aria) and Stéphane (Karpenter). Stéphane has collected experience from the world of progressive music. He is a live performer at heart. Fares is a DJ by profession. He was resident at Radio Rtci (Tunisia) for 3 years and had his residency at Club Oasis in Hammamet for 3 years. In 2009 Sed Aria decided to emigrate to Canada for his studies and there he started to focus on music production. He signed under his name Fares at Haiti Groove rec and was remixed by DJ Pierre himself. His music was also played by Pan Pot in videos. Sed Aria can also draw on raves he organized in Montréal but which he stopped to dedicate himself on producing techno. Sed Aria regards his Delkt project with Karpenter as somethings new for him as it integrates progressive and melodic aspects.
“Golden Teacher“
Their EP kicks off with “Golden Teacher” a rough gem of a techno track that pulls in chords and delays to create a vortex of sounds. All done with a strong human touch and a good feel for time and space structures.
“Sunshine“
“Sunshine” relies on heavy drums and a continuation of the beat but has traces of simplistic melodies and effects join to create two teutonic plates in constant motion. This area of tension is the key to the excitement this track generates.
“Les Marches Du Paradis“
The last track of the EP “Les Marches Du Paradis” has a great groove understanding and takes to the spirit of 90ies techno, raw and very instinktive. The track has an almost live feel to it… in the way that the elements are pushed into the track with force and dedication. Sed Aria and Karpenter know how to work the club for sure!
Artist: CORMAC (US) Title: Moonshine Label: Whoyostro Cat. #: WHO288 Format: Digital Release Date: 27th August 2021 Tracklist: 01 Drift 02 Do You Want Me 03 Moonshine 04 Sunshine
Whoyostro welcomes back CORMAC (US) to the label this August as he prepares to deliver four immersive deep-tech cuts.
Songwriter, producer and artist CORMAC (US) hails from Phoenix and has risen through the ranks with a distinctive minimal sound on labels like Rawsome, Distance, Music Is 4 Lovers and more. He recently topped the Beatport Minimal chart with his ‘Blue’ EP on Distance Music, further cementing his position as ‘one to watch’. He now returns to Whoyostro to deliver his latest four-track EP, ‘Moonshine’.
‘Drift’ combines soulful vocal snippets with dubby chords and skipping hats, whilst ‘Do You Want Me’ takes listeners on a deep and immersive journey as a luscious blend of organic percussion, scintillating synths, and atmospheric pads blend effortlessly. ‘Moonshine’ provides another stripped-back, late-night anthem that focuses on further alluring vocal work, seductive drum programming and energetic beats. The package is rounded out with the excellent ‘Sunshine’, another exquisite addition of soothing sonics, illuminating pads and hazy melodies to round out this impressive offering in style.
Artists: Dustin Zahn Title: Hand Over Control Label: Blueprint Cat. #: BP061 Format: Digital / Vinyl Release Date: (digital) 3 September / (vinyl) date TBC Tracklist: A1. Hand Over Control A2. Rising Tides B1. Studio 5/4 B2. Wet Hot Heat
Dustin Zahn makes his Blueprint Records debut in September as James Ruskin’s label continues to celebrate 25 years at the forefront of Techno.
Since 1998, Dustin Zahn’s work has put his career on a steady ascent. Along the way, he has gained years of experience and unrivalled musical diversity as both a producer and performer, earning him respect among techno and house legends, purists, and contemporary DJs. He performs regularly around the world and his DJ sets are much like his releases. “I like it dark enough for the boys, but groovy enough for the girls” says Zahn. With a preference for marathon sets and his laid-back approach to life and music, he seamlessly traverses through various genres to create a unique, hypnotic vibe. As a producer, his releases on labels such as Drumcode, Rekids, and CLR have brought him international success. And his remixes for the likes of Adam Beyer, Chris Liebing, Green Velvet, Dubfire, Nic Fancuilli, Mark Broom, Joel Mull and more have helped catapult him into the collections of DJs everywhere.
Despite his busy release schedule, he still finds time to own and operate Enemy Records, founded in 2004, which focuses on the same late-night hypnotic techno that you’ll often find in his DJ sets. Much like his ‘Hand Over Control’ EP for Blueprint which features four new tracks of deep dance floor techno, available from 3rd September.
The newest album from yvat in collaboration with dov meraki , entitled Pandemic, traces anxiety, crisis fatigue and feelings of lose and missing out of the past year and invite to rediscover the pleasures of listening to music as an act of self-care and increased quality of living.
It will obsess you with its haunting melodic lines, touchy voices and sensitive lyrics. For this particular album, the statement is ”music on, while the world is off”.
Yvat is an artist of electronic music, sound designer and producer with an impressive body of works of more than 50 albums released over the past years. He brings the perspective of an sound engineer in well crafted compositions, by pursuing the quality of original sound, accurate mathematics of lines and beautiful spatiality and dynamics. Dov Meraki, is a gifted young jazz singer with a playful, crystal clear, yet sensual voice.
It has been a devastating 18 months for the hospitality sector. Hundreds of venues have closed. Thousands of live events and festivals have been cancelled. Artists and creatives have had nowhere to perform. Because of this, leading craft beer specialists Pistonhead are throwing their considerable weight and support behind grassroots venues and the reopening on July 19th by giving away 70,000 free cans of Pistonhead Kustom Lager via an online application HERE.
Musicians have not had a platform on which to perform and the knock on effect has hit everyone from crew to sound and lighting engineers, security personnel, bar staff and other casual employees who rely on the hospitality sector for their income. It has been brutal but a little help is on the way from Pistonhead.
“The UK’s grassroots music venues have been amongst the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Many have shut forever, plenty have struggled to just survive long enough to be able to reopen. The Pistonhead Foundation campaign will go some way towards helping struggling venues get back on their feet which in turn will provide a wealth of much needed opportunities for musicians up and down the country desperate to get back to doing what they do best.”Michael Kill – Night Times Industries Association (NTIA)
Help comes from The Pistonhead Foundation which launched in early 2019 and is dedicated to helping up and coming musicians, artists and independent venues in an increasingly difficult environment. So far the Foundation has hosted fundraising events for independent music venues, record labels and artists and continues to offer artists unique spaces to showcase their work.
This latest project will see The Pistonhead Foundation give away 70,000 free cans of beer with a resale value in excess of £300k to grassroots venues to help get cash in the tills, punters at the bar and musicians back performing. Venues can apply for an allocation of this stock through The Pistonhead Foundation HERE.
For the last decade, Pistonhead has been crafted by specialist brewmasters at the awesome Brutal Brewing workshop in Sweden. Their beers include a dark, full-bodied brew, those double dry-hopped with tropical fruit and citrus flavours and pilsner style lagers as well as light and unfiltered brews, all at very affordable prices. Pistonhead is a brew made by people who are incredibly serious and hugely passionate about what they do and about all forms of creativity, individuality and rock ‘n’ roll attitudes. For this reason, they are standing by their creative brethren with this bold new initiative.
Venues can apply for an allocation of this stock from July 19th onwards through The Pistonhead Foundation HERE.
Artist: Fabe Title: Out Of A Change (LP) Label: Salty Nuts Cat. #: SN012 Format: Vinyl (3x 12” Releas Release Date: 6th August / 3rd September / 1st October 2021
Salty Nuts boss Fabe delivers his latest album ‘Out Of A Change’, a three-part project set to feature on the imprint across three 12” drops throughout late-summer and Autumn.
Having established himself as one of house and minimal’s most consistent and exciting names, Salty Nuts founder Fabe continues to showcase his talents as a multifaceted artist at the forefront of the scene. A regular across FUSE and INFUSE, with stand-out appearances on Cocoon, Up The Stuss, and Eastenderz to name a few, the Mannheim DJ, producer, and label boss continues to develop his unique and inimitable sound while showcasing his innate talent within both the studio and the booth. Having dropped his 2020 LP ‘Four Point Island’ on FUSE, late-Summer welcomes a long-awaited return to his own label Salty Nuts as he reveals his latest LP ‘Out Of A Change’ – a thirteen track project created across the past twelve months showcasing all nuances of his rich and diverse sound, set to drop in three parts on the bubbling imprint. The trio of releases will also be accompanied by three limited t-shirt drops, with each shirt offering an exclusive track via QR code in addition to the album’s thirteen core tracks.
“The album’s title is ‘Out Of A Change’, as all the musical processes I worked on during the pandemic were only possible because my life changed a lot. There was finally a chance to reflect, which would not have been possible without a break from traveling and playing shows. I had the opportunity to grow musically, and there was no pressure to create music that had to work in a club environment, so it was easy to work freely and follow the feeling I had every day when I woke up.
In the end, it was the feeling of envisaging a positive vibe in hard times like now, preparing people for better times, giving them the energy to believe, and helping them out of this struggle we’ve all had to go through. It’s an album that will let people smile and dance at any moment of life. That’s what I feel when I listen to it.” – Fabe
Part 1 welcomes a bundle of bright, skipping productions perfect for late summer evenings and sun-soaked early hours as the Mannheim favourite quickly sets his stall. Welcoming the bubbling stabs and rolling bass of opener ‘161’, the four-track offering showcases a medley of infectious grooves throughout ‘No End In Sight’, hazy, winding melodies with ‘All You’, and classy house-tinged sonics via ‘Right Now & Always’.
Part 2 sees a rise in energy levels, with the German revealing four more cuts packed to the brim with quality. ‘Light Pink Bubblegum’ is a trademark Fabe cut combining up-tempo drum grooves alongside slinking basslines and resonant chords, while ‘Get Out To Paint’ and ‘From Top To Bottom’ both employ chunky bass and lush pads effortlessly. Title cut ‘Out Of Change’ once again showcases the ‘Fabe sound’ perfectly to close the B-side, fusing introspective melodies and heady drums with deep-lying, dancefloor-driven undertones.
Closing out the series, Part 3 showcases five silky cuts perfect for the club and beyond, easing into slightly darker, moodier moments while still interjecting flashes of brightness and radiance. ‘Who You’ welcomes a funk-fuelled lead track, while ‘Good Days Predominate’ and ‘Take Another Sound’ layer vocal iterations with slick, hypnotic melodies and sharp drum licks. ‘Doors Open’ fuses garage two-step patterns with sweeping hazy synths, before closing the show via the piano-led, jazz-laden, yet glitchy and off-kilter arrangements of final track ‘Back Of The Clouds’.
An LP packed with flavour and vigour, ‘Out Of A Change’ may welcome the German’s most complete musical project to date, showcasing yet another must-have drop from an artist who continues to shine as one of the scene’s finest.
TRACKLIST
Part 1 – 6th August 2021 1) 161 2) No End In Sight 3) All You 4) Right Now & Always
Part 2 – 3rd September 2021 1) Light Pink Bubblegum 2) Get Out To Paint 3) From Top To Bottom 4) Out Of A Change
Part 3 – 1st October 2021 1) Who You 2) Good Days Predominate 3) Take Another Sound 4) Doors Open 5) Back Of The Clouds
We welcome back our good friend Karotte with his first release on Break New Soil in over a decade! „XTC“ is pure Karotte dancefloor fire – weird, powerful and beautiful! On remix duties, we are psyched to have our good friend Jeroen Verhej aka Secret Cinema, who really needs no introduction to techno heads around the planet, and he delivered exactly what we’ve been hoping for: A relentless big-room Techno rework – boom! The second original track by Karotte is called „Drive“, and it’s on the deeper side of things, yet not less intriguing at all. Welcome back home, Peter!
Domenica 25 luglio per Deitz, il 23enne artista toscano che ha vinto l’edizione 2020 del MINI Meets Music Contest, è senz’altro una data da segnare sul calendario. Infatti ha fatto ascoltare la sua musica esibendosi sullo stage galleggiante di Radio 105 al MINI presents Water World Music Festival, evento che ha preso vita sul mare, a Cala dei Sardi (SS), con artisti di livello assoluto come Coez e Bob Sinclar e ovviamente Salmo, il padrone di casa.
Prima di scatenarsi sulle barche con l’energia di Salmo, le 2.000 persone presenti sulle tante barche hanno potuto godersi anche il sound sofisticato di Deitz, da sempre sospeso tra pop ed elettronica. Questa esibizione è come la ciliegina sulla torta di una carriera in decisa crescita, visto che qualche settimana fa è uscito il suo EP “Court Song, One Time”, prodotto e pubblicato grazie alla vittoria al contest.
“Siamo davvero contenti per Deitz. MINI Meets Music Contest sarà uno dei punti di forza della nuova edizione di Meet Music, che prende vita il 7 e l’8 settembre 2021. Anche quest’anno il contest sarà completamente gratuito. Chi vorrà partecipare dovrà rispondere a cinque domande che porremo durante il Meet Music “, spiega Luca Guerrieri, l’organizzatore di un evento ormai consolidato. “Meet Music nasce per mettere in contatto artisti e professionisti di generazioni diverse, mentre il Contest ha l’obiettivo di far vivere al vincitore, anzi ai vincitori, visto che nel 2021 saranno più di uno, vere esperienze da professionisti. Grazie al supporto di MINI Italia, tutto questo è già realtà”.
Per il 2021 MINI Meets Music Contest infatti cerca due talenti, un producer e una songwriter, che abbiano tra i 18 e i 25 anni. I vincitori realizzeranno una produzione discografica che verrà pubblicata da una delle label coinvolte nel progetto.
Chi si candida come producer non deve necessariamente essere anche dj, le ragazze possono proporre musica strumentale oppure canzoni. Ciò che davvero conta, per i producer, è la capacità di trasformare una semplice idea in una produzione musicale vera e propria. Le ragazze che si candidano come songwriter, invece, saranno selezionate per la qualità delle loro composizioni. Per il resto, massima libertà: la manifestazione è come sempre aperta ad ogni genere musicale, né ci sono limitazioni per quanto riguarda la lingua.
Stefan Weise gets released for the second time on the newborn label Métier, his ‘Paradrum’ release features three tracks that detach from the style proposed in ‘The Times’. There the sound is totally infused into dub techno, the large sounding kickdrum and synth chord recall to the style fundamentals, a less is more approach that allows to the all instruments used to breath and find their own space in the sound spectrum.
Forty cities, hundreds of parties, and countless smiles beneath sunny skies and vibrant surroundings—this is the legacy of the All Day I Dream movement. For ten years, the Lee Burridge-run record label and roving events brand has captured the hearts of thousands across the globe, enamored by the infectious energy, distinct production, and top curation of each event. And after a long period of isolation, summer welcomes Dreamers to gather once again. All Day I Dream’s world tour sets off in late June, hosting twelve shows in eight locales with more to be announced.
All Day I Dream reprises its residencies on the idyllic shores of Mykonos and Ibiza, where Lee Burridge and his label compatriots will take over clubs Scorpios and Cova Santa for multiple sessions of seaside festivities. In mid-July, the brand returns to Bloomendaal for a showcase at Woodstock ‘69—its first since 2018. Rounding out its European ventures, All Day I Dream will be received at its London home of Studio 338 for an unforgettable dance amidst the urban skyline.
Heading West, All Day I Dream commences its USA journey at its birthplace in Brooklyn for a homecoming bacchanale at the Brooklyn Mirage. Longtime fans in Los Angeles and San Francisco eagerly await their dose of house music heaven at All Day I Dream’s iconic bases of Gin Ling Way and Golden Gate Park. After making its lauded debut in Denver, Colorado, All Day I Dream can at last touch back down in the mile high city at Levitt Pavilion, an open-air venue suited perfectly for the brand’s whimsical aesthetic. Chicago will also get its own takeover in August.
Though the world shut down over a year ago, Lee Burridge and All Day I Dream never abandoned their mission to foster deep connections and joy amongst their followers. Sunday All Day I Stream sessions with a revolving cast of labelmates and an illustrious residency at Sirius XM allowed the community to gather weekly on the digital plane. The label has also witnessed one of its most robust release schedules to date with Tim Green, Lost Desert, Gorje Hewek, Fulltone, Amonita, and others outputting ethereal slices of deep house each month. To mark All Day I Dream’s tenth birthday, Lee Burridge also released his first-ever solo EP on the imprint.
Now it is time for Dreamers to reconnect physically on their favorite dancefloor to swap stories of resilience, hear new label releases live for the first time, and move freely under wide open skies. Join All Day I Dream for what’s set to be one of its most memorable summers yet; and as Lee said himself “it will be that little bit better if you are there.”
All Day I Dream 2021 Word Tour Dates
July 11 – Bloomendaal, NL July 18 – Brooklyn, NY July 22 – Mykonos, GR July 29 – Ibiza, ES August 1 – London, UK August 5 – Mykonos, GR August 7 – San Francisco, CA August 12 – Ibiza, ES August 15 – Denver, CO August 19 – Mykonos, GR August 21 – Chicago, IL August 26 – Ibiza, ES September 4 – Los Angeles, CA September 9 – Mykonos, GR September 23 – Ibiza, ES October 7 – Ibiza, ES
