June 25, 2008
New Tejada Album! Where? On Palette right here!
Surely John Tejada fans (including us!) have been waiting for this, but also those of you who only occasionly stumble across his tunes or other Palette releases, should drop into this 10-track ride through the spectrums the Tejada universe of minimalistic clubmusic. You can feel so many influences on this, that you catch yourself drifting into dancing thoughts.
This is John’s eleventh (11th!!) album and it is yet another prove of what he’s not capable of: bad tunes! Definetly an extract of the Tejada studio where you can feel the pulse in the synths.
A really highclass guest appearances which should be pointed out is to find on the fifth track of the 50th release on his imprint by now, called “Desire”. This one is featuring the beautiful voice of Nicolette, who we know from various releases from the 90s and of course the brilliant stuff together with people like Massive Attack or Plaid. A beautiful piece of music here with such a catchy but yet not uncheesy pop appeal giving you the goose bumps you love to get.
All other tracks around this one are surely also not to be missed, since accustic visits to parts which just need to be transferred to the club can be made and the journey is always worth it.
All in all this is digital, elegantly varying micromusic with so many places to go: Where?
It’s all one flow, but with so many tweaking corners to take a look at.
June 11, 2008
From the Beehive of Smallville
Some people say that the first Smallville album is overwhelming. Wow, that’s a pretty high standard call! You know what? They seem to be right. Just let yourself drop into it and you will probably understand what they mean. From the pretty beehive of Smallville another piece of brillance simply swarms up your soul with so much warmth and held back beauty which enfolds in full apparentness as you approach. Created by the long time electronic pioneer David Moufang (better known as Move D) together with Benjamin Brunn the ‘Songs From The Beehive’ are spreading the soulful buzz of deepness.
For the two label owners, Julius Steinhoff and Pete Kersten (known for his releases as Lawrence or Sten on diverse high quality labels of the deep) it seems to be a real pleasure to have their long time honoured collegues on their own imprint. Move D & Benjamin Brunn open up a little door to their world. Experience what is coming out of this one: Starting oh so slowly, picking you up from your subconsciousness and leading you to unexpected places (you’ll find quite a few of those here!), where you just want to rest a little, feel and melt with the ambience and rhythm and you’ll find yourself moving through yourself. Anywhere you like, either at home, the club, the sky or right next to what- or whoever you love, this is the perfect sound for the getaway!
May 27, 2008
Deep dive Armandillos: Giles, Martin and Sascha are the perfect Pair!
Folks, Dessous delivers my record of the
week.
Two Armadillos are
Giles Smith and Martin Dawson. Meeting at London’s Phonica records where Martin was
working at the time led to this this blossoming partnership and friendship.
Giles is one of London’s most in demand DJs (also
playing in many of Europe’s hotspots) and has a
deep knowledge of House and Techno. He is also co-resident and promoter of the
legendary secretsundaze summer parties.
After their nice debut an dessous
with tunnel of light last year the London based guys deliver a true house beauty
with “Hamlin”.
Man of the moment
Sascha Dive (Deep Vibes records, Drumpoet) remixes Hamlin and delivers a
stripped down housebeater, right up every House connaisseur´s alley.
Recommendation of the week. Peter Armster
May 13, 2008
Wordandsound Welcomes: Simply Cassy !
With a very warm welcome we proudly present Cassy Britton´s own label "Cassy" for worldwide Distribution. Ultrasympathetic Cassy has since long been one of our favourite Berlin Dj´s and Producers, her approach to music is passionate and open minded, playful and nevertheless very straight forward, full of diversion and inspiration very often missed these days. Cassy was born in England and raised in Austria by a Caribbean father and an Austrian mother.
After a few attempts at university inVienna and a Drama Training London
she finally decided to fully concentrate on music.
She moved to Berlin in 2003 and after a while gained her reputation as a House and Minimal Dj.
She has become a resident dj at Panoramabar and has also mixed the very first Panoramabar compilation.
She has collaborated with artists as Dj Elin aka Autorepeat, Dave the
Hustler, Steve Bug, Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Mathew Jonson and
recently Swayzak.
Cassy has released her second EP on Perlon in September 2007.
Afterwards sho started her own label ‘Cassy’, to concentrate on releasing her own music, ‘Cassy 2’ the second release for her label is now getting close to being available here. And Vinyl folks watch out - "Cassy" is only available on 12" Wax - no digital release planned.
April 18, 2008
Where Robert is, is Voorn!
"Dark Flower" Audiomatique´s Brand New release by Robert Babicz, remixed by man of the moment Joris Voorn is currently getting all the credits. Presswise either De:Bug and Raveline give "Full Points" while some DJ´s we usually found good enough to count on, rate this extremely high. Laurent Garnier, Tobi Neumann and Layo & Bushwacka in example! "People Just love it, they go crazy all the time" says Steve Bug hot on the heels of his recent Japan Tour. "In Sapporo someone was crying!" Well, but not himself too sleep Folks! And so, before we´re really going through the motions even more lets close with a very nice review from "nitestylez" that we found says the final word about this record : Dark Flower“ , which is probably his best and most fly release on this label so far, delivers a powerful, uplifting rework that’ll explode on dancefloors and lifts every crowds hands up high in the air with a nice mixture of (Neo)Trance and `troitish sounds. Well done.
April 10, 2008
Ole,Ola, Here's for: OLENE KADAR...!
He´s not Ole von Hamburg, nor from Kandahar, this colourful young person above is OLENE KADAR! And in respective of his new release there´s non much like him. OLENE KADAR "VAKBEKWAAM" (MOS FERRY - MFP035) - it´s all pretty hard to pronounce for our ordinary global oriented spelling practice, where its Peter,Paul,Rick&Nick most of the Day, i give you that.BUT, so is his music and my BET, you will get used to both soon. Firstly a bit hard to digest around the edges the record shows its real strenght after the second listen. Track A "Button" is an exceptionally well plastered tricky track that is in depth if you know what i mean. A stunning, rocking piece of minimal retro modernism, a piece of skribble that you could hang in any design museum and you would have to absolutely freak out dancin to while watching at it! You already get it - IT´s way different. And way good! B1 Vakbekwamm and B2 Hondered Dollar Bill is taking no shorts either. More direct , rocking and pocking the one, More dark motoric the Other OLENE makes us fully "Wave em like we just don´t care". He´s good the guy - And good to go... and by the Way , Henk van Zwool is his actual Name. Keep that in Mind for long and Buy that first one for now!
