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Cadenza Records kick starts it's 10th year in the game with 'Hunter', a release that balances the warm and cinematic productions of Martin Patino's original mixes, with the dark and powerful remix by young upstart, Julien Bracht. With previous releases and remixes on labels such as Freerange, Suara, Trapez and Rotary Cocktail, Patino is carving out an expansive and eclectic deep house sound, and his talents are perfectly captured on this release. 'Your Lips, Underwater' is a track that's been bubbling under for many months, a percussive and melodic groove wrapped together with heavy analogue bass and teasing jazzy keys. Title track 'Hunter', featuring the vocals of Astrid Hald, is a powerful, brooding production. The house groove develops perfectly, with the melancholic vocal back dropped by the dramatic and haunting pianos and strings, evoking shades of Massive Attack production values. 'Hunter' is a stunning and very original piece. Cadenza's newest signing, Julien Bracht, supplies a remix of 'Hunter', offering up an all-together different shade to the original. Aptly titled the 'Darkmix', Bracht gets busy deconstructing and reconstructing, taking just mangled snippets of the vocal with swathes of rumbling, aquatic bass washing over the reverb soaked, drum heavy routine. Deadly!

* Vinyl LP includes MP3 download for all tracks on the CD version *
C.K. Mann made his name as a virtuous guitar player in Ghana when he played with Moses Kweku Oppong in the Kakaikus Guitar Band in the early 60s. He then became the leader of the band Ocean's Strings until 1966. In 1968, he enjoyed a hit with the single 'Edina Benya'.
Mann was known for blending authentic African music with European influences. He was inspired by Latin American music and created a style all of his own. He became known as the 'King of Highlife' in Ghana in the 70's, when he released the record 'Nimpa Rebre' featuring vocals from Pat Thomas and Kofi Yankwon.
Funky Highlife came out of the Essiebons label run by Dick Essilfe Bondzie. According to Dick, this album could have been a massive hit in Ghana but the vinyl factories ran out of stock because of Ghana's economic downturn, so the demand for the record could not be met. The album is a fusion of highlife and soul. The best-known track 'Asafo beesuon' is a multi-layered, drum heavy, funk medley and is over 13 minutes long.

Der am härtesten arbeitende Belgier dürfte wohl Olivier Grégoire aka KOLOMBO sein: ein Mann mit mehr Releases im Gepäck als so mancher Hund Haare, langjähriger Mitstreiter in der Welt der elektronischen Tanzmusik und ein Meister aller Klassen, ob Platten auflegen, Studios
verkabeln, Partys anleiern oder ein Label gründen. Diese massive Erfahrung ist es auch, die seine besten Tracks trägt, so etwa auf DON'T BE SHY, Kolombos neuer 12" via Kompakt.

Highly recommended! "Unity" is the first single taken from Third Side's forthcoming album "Unified Fields", that will be released on Restoration Records in September 2012. Third Side is the project of The Analogue Cops and Panorama Bar resident Steffi; their collaborations, which have been released exclusively on Restoration, have been of the most interesting jams of the last years.
The original "Unity", a fat overshadowing deep techno track, written and produced only with machines and recorded on tape, comes with 3 massive analogue remixes.

Sect Records' recent compilation It's All For You showcased the exceptionally high standard of the label's roster as well as introducing some talent to the world, and this, the first 12" sampler from the album, selects three of the compilation's finest tracks for vinyl treatment. Victor Martinez takes over the A-Side with "Dav To Dub", combining heavily delayed chords filtered to breaking point, while a massive kick drum propels everything along, and a jazzy piano melody adds some subtle ambience. On the flip, D'Knox's "I'm Sorry (remix)", is a sparse number contrasting soothing chords with micro-loops which contain the spectre of disco, with a rapid rhythmic flutter and chittering melody at its core, while Fanon Flowers closes with "Invisible Life", a murky production filled with chords that ripple like sheet metal over a flurry of 909 rimshots.

Sophomore EP from Big Strick with 3 massive tracks.

Born to Die" follows Lana's first single "Video Games" which began its life online in July accompanied by a video created by Lana. Since then "Video Games" has amassed over 8 million hits and on release has hit i-tunes #1 position in 9 countries including the UK, Australia, Holland and France and is currently #1 in Germany. Also a massive critical smash, it has recently been hailed as the #2 track of the year by Q Magazine, with Q Magazine also awarding her the "Best New Thing" award at the Q Awards.
"Born to Die" is a suitably noir follow up to "Video Games" and is coming with an incredible video conceived by Lana and Directed by Woodkid. A Remix EP will also be released, including mixes from Damon Albarn, Woodkid and Clams Casino.
"Born to Die" the album is a collection of tracks about which Lana says "The songs I've written are an homage to true love and a tribute to living life on the wild side." Album tracks include "Million Dollar Man", "Off to The Races", "Blue Jeans" and "Carmen".

We welcome David Jach (Deich Records, Kol Mojito, Mangue Records) - DJ
and Promoter from Dresden, Germany on Cometomusic. After delivering a hot remix for Raumakustik´s 'Glaub Mir Doch' David presents a great melodic and charming Original with two massive remixes - a straight one by Minimal Lounge (Damm Records, Rennbahn, 040 Recordings) and a house remix by Timo Jahns (9Volt, Freundchen, Klang Gymnastik)

Played & supported by Butch, Sascha Braemer, Hanne & Lore,
NTFO, Andreas Henneberg, Marco Fender, Oscar, Alexi Delano,
Paco Osuna and many more.

A side 'Timeship' is backed up with anthemic 'Chamber of Secrets' a track that will only be released on Vinyl. Getting massive support from the likes of N-Type, Rinse FM & the rest of the dubstep elite.

Integral Records delivers yet another massive ground breaking high quality release.

Originally the Fairmont project was initiated with Jacob Fairley together with Traum resulting in two 12's (Mansfield and Palace Pier EP) and a full length album called "Paper Stars" in 2001.Fairmont later released two 12's and an album on Border Community in 2007/2008.So Traum is happy to see Fairmont's comeback with 4 brand new unreleased tracks.
massive support from laurent garnier, timo maas, flrorian meindl, max cooper, deepchild, john digweed and many moore

Destination PUB ! Let's drink a good beer, while listening this fat hard Bass to open the chakras !

Loud sound thankx to a massive pre-mastering a an excellent cut. A bit original, to avoid the style to become boring...

A slammin' jumpstyle production based on the all time CHICAGO classic 'Hard to say I'm sorry.... contains the original vocals, brought in a massive jumpstyle arrangement so this is a guaranteed floorfiller!!

big support by grant nelson, john digweed, seamus haji, didier sinclair, nic fanciulli andmany more - massive