International musicians unite under a South American name in the metropolis of Berlin. Atmospheric dub soundscapes with pop appeal: Max Loderbauer, Pier Bucci and Argenis Brito are Maluco. There is no direct translation for their name. It’s slang for something like ‘crazy’, perhaps we could call them The Mad Men. Maluco are sure to delight listeners with this summer-fresh production released on Karaoke Kalk - three reputed personalities bringing together their various influences in electronic melodies.
Maluco certainly serve up a catchy audio treat. Tracks like “Dreamer” carry you away to warm summer nights on the Mediteranean and whether you are driven into instrumental intoxication (“Evandro”) or seduced by Argenis’ highly accented yet excellent vocals (“Passport”), Maluco make you feel comfortable. Flowing rhythms and melodies unite various musical periods; “River” is a cover of the Brian Eno and John Cale song, good old-fashioned Reggae is evident in “Sam” and there are Country music influences hiding within “Doped”. All in all it’s the softer sounds that take the foreground and stimulate your sensitive synapses.
Argenis Brito was born in Venezuela and is the singer of “Senor Coconut”, who perform classic pop and rock songs in Mambo and Cha Cha Cha interpretations. Brito recently made his Minimal-Techno-House ambitions clear with “Micro Mundo” released on Cadenza. One day he met the producer Pier Bucci from Chile, who scored an international hit with “Hay Consuelo”. He is also deemed to be a hot live-act; a bit rebellious and popular for his minimal mixture of Techno and House. Together they formed “Mambotur” and have released two albums: “Atina Latino” (2002) and “Al Frente” (2005), which bring Latin and electronic music together.
The third member of the band, Max Loderbauer, will also be familiar to those who pay attention through his countless, multi-faceted projects. He is a creative part of “Chica And The Folder” with Paula Schopf and works with Tom Thiel as “Attraktion Sun Electric”. He formed NSI with Tobias Freund (Odd Machine) with two records; “Max Binski” (2005) and “Clara Ghavami Extended” (2006) already out on Cadenza and a LP recently released on Finnish label Sähkö. In 2008, Max went on a club tour, playing various gigs right across Europe with the Finnish producer and musician Vladislav Delay and Moritz von Oswald (Palais Schaumburg, Basic Channel). A release this year is planned under the name “Moritz von Oswald Trio”. A world premiere of sound, image and vision will be celebrated in Mannheim on
the 1st of April. Ricardo Villalobos, Moritz von Oswald and Max Loderbauer have set the classic silent film, “Berlin – The Symphony of the Metropolis”, to music, especially for “Time Warp –Internationale Festival für Jetztmusik und Medienkunst“.
But let’s look forward to this new background music. These three dignitaries of electronic music have composed an acoustic experience that is drenched in sunshine. Loderbauer, Bucci and Brito make your wanderlust grow and day to day worries disappear. Maluco - soothing summer sounds in an rush of electronics.

Karaoke Kalk has become a synonyme for electronic experiments and exceptional music from Cologne. It's with this second compilation at the latest that you realise the intriguing and spectacular mixture of artists and detail-oriented producers the label has brought forth. "Kalk Seeds 2" presents the listener with small and mighty (re-)discoveries  by well-known performers such as Donna Regina or Wechsel Garland, artists that have accompanied the originally Cologne label right from its beginnings. A nice alternative to electro's or rock's trivial showing-off. Each and every track convinces by individual compositions, skewed beats, cheerful sound-systems and brain-fusing text passages. The two Leichtmetall girls Marion Dimbath and Nicola Schüpferling lead us - slightly apathetic but happy - the way to true "Paradies". There's something maniac about the two natives of Munich not only visually...but in a good way. Despite their fling with the surreal they know all about life and harmonise on a sisterly level, musically as well as vocal-wise. With folksy trombones and glockenspiel they beam themselves right into the hearts of the listeners. Wistfully they sing of forbidden apples, flowers and birds.

Karaoke Kalk, that in the meantime has moved his headquarters to Berlin, stands for sound washings out of the common and artists who never sound superficial or pretentious. Sensual melodica-sounds from Japan’s Takeo Toyama. Full of charming accents Maluco’s languorous “Kokain”, a song originally by rock musician Boris Bukowski. The voice of the South American singer and producer Argenis Brito lends a charts-style extremeness to the cover version that makes it sound very happy and definitely worth a heavy rotation in the radio. Also aspiring the top of the pops is electronic’s favourite pop-indie Roman who’s always defied classification anyway. On “Kalk Seeds 2” he presents himself unusually loud and almost partygenic. His “Gridwalk” could become a real enrichment of 2008’s dancefloor and eventually his very own nische.

Whereas Jörg Follert aka Wechsel Garland continues to take care of the tender moments in life. Again and again he succeeds in radiating a well sense of being even when times are at their bitterest. Already in 1998 Jörg blessed not only Karaoke Kalk but many plagued souls with his album “Wunder”. “Wunder” became Wechsel Garland under the name of which another two records were released on the same label: “Liberation Von History” (2002) and “Easy” (February 2006). On this collection seduction comes under the name of “Tiny Stars”, warm piano sounds and bell chimes that go by all too fast. The biggest surprise on “Kalk Seeds 2” are Dakota Suite whose album “The End Of Trying” will be released on Karaoke Kalk in autumn this year. “Underpowered” is a title to be taken literally, an excursion to a broken heart. The Leeds-based indie band has a reputation for melancholic sounds. The guitar, usually wailing in the foreground, presents itself melodic here together with a piano and chary beats of the brushes. And then it’s finishing time: Le Rok’s “Feierabend” features inconsistent beats but solid harmony. Just perfect to put your feet up and have another round of “Kalk Seeds 2” - a felicitous compilation just in time to help you through the silly season!

Karaoke Kalk's head Thorsten Lütz first met young Austrian Richard Eigner back in 2006. That was in Melbourne during the Red Bull Music Academy. They got along with each other instantly and stayed in touch. So much the more Thorsten's looking forward to the release of the experimental musician on his very own label in february 2009. Eigner's »Golden Solitude« is a collaboration with pianist and fellow countryman Roman Gerold. Eigner and Gerold had already worked together on the music for the dance performance »Urgent Appetite« by Canadian choreographer Laura Kappel.

»Golden Solitude« ranges between cheerful dance tunes and highbrow audible music. Very playful, but yet respectful, Ritornell are exploring the aesthetical achievements of the 20th century and experiment casually with bits and pieces from pop culture. With lots of flair they mix acoustical elements with electronic sounds and create an album that, even after repeated listening, preserves its shimmering on the edge between pop and avant-garde. As to the technical polish of this fresh emulsion of sounds, the duo was assisted by Patrick Pulsinger. Eigner & Gerold's subtle tracks were employed in numerous movies. Thus, amongst others, the Canadian director Bruce LaBruce used the composition »Concrete Leaves« for his melancholic zombie flick »Otto; Or, Up With Dead People«.

Richard Eigner, born in Linz in 1983, works mainly as a composer and sound-artist, but he has also contributed as a drummer to various productions, such as Patrick Wolf's album »Magic Position«. In 2005 he won the Elektronikland award for experimental electronic music. Besides quite a few other musical projects he is managing his own label, Wald Entertainment.
Roman Gerold, an awardee himself and born the same year as Eigner, has been working as a pianist for various jazz bands in Austria between 1996 and 2003. In 2002 he began studying multimedia-art in Salzburg and changed to German philology in 2006. He's composing his music freelance for theatre and film.

Live Ritornell showcase their material as a electro-acoustic trio together with Gerhard Daurer. They focus on improvisation with a very reduced instrumental set up.
While Gerhard Daurer maxes out the possibilities of his specially devised gamepad-granular-synthesizer, Roman Gerold is adding subtle melodies and vivid drones as well as processing the live-inputs of the acoustic instruments.
Richard Eigner again provides the electronic improvisations with fine acoustic rhythms and textures, playing his ride-cymbal with the use of diverse utensils such as bass bows, sizzle-chains or a toilet brush.

»Golden Solitude« provides the listener with a modern and extremely human sound experience that unites passion and irony.

Liverpool is the home town of Chris Hooson, Singer/Songwriter for Dakota Suite. The band is an extremely personal guitar project that deals with tragedies in Chris’s life and the constant up and down in the success of his favourite team FC Everton. One things for certain, we’re not talking about happy music here. The track titles on the album "Alone With Everybody" (1996), "The Way I‘m Sick" (2002) or "Waiting For The Dawn To Crawl Through And Take Away Your Life" (2007) already point out some of this sensitive man’s feelings. The fool for football sticks to the motto of his club „Nil satis nisi optimum“, which means something like „Only the best is good enough“. He sometimes speaks about an event in his life that helped him to bring his soul out into the daylight a bit more and, above all, to be able to write about it. Then there was the time when several people around him died resulting in the fact that some of his songs are more intended for funerals.

Deeply sad melodies and melancholy pain are also the main emotions on the new record “The End Of Trying”, which is coming out in winter on Karaoke Kalk. But we're not talking about sadness in the form of self-pity. For sure the englishman who live in Leeds, succeeds time and time again to send unstable people plummeting into the abyss. But they never really lose it completely and stay hanging on happily with all their strength to the little masterpieces.

With "The End Of Trying" Hooson focuses on understated sounds like the flowing piano chords and a flexible cello arrangement. The songs tell purely instrumentally of worry and pain. While writing the individual piano pieces Chris felt very lost and saw his life flash before his eyes. Without singing, without guitar and without the otherwise touching voice of the Everton supporters, each track contains its own unique feeling. David Buxton, Colin Dunkley and Chris take turns on the piano. The Liverpudlian Hooson grew up in the Netherlands which becomes clear when one looks closely at the title of song Nr. 11 ("Een Langzaam Lekkende Wond").

David Darling wonderfully accentuates Hooson's harmonic sadness with his stylish string instrument. Chris was already crazy about the American cellist as a teenager and bought his first David Darling record at the age of fourteen. Darling usually feels at home in the areas of Jazz and classical. But improvised music is also a large part of his work, which had a big effect on the record "The End Of Trying". He started playing cello in 1951 at the age of ten and went on to study the instrument classically at Indiana University. After having been employed by several orchestras he started to concentrate more on his own compositions in the 80s. He made soundtracks for Wim Wenders ("Until The End Of The World" and "In weiter ferne, so nah") and has also worked together with Peter, Paul and Mary, Bobby McFerrin and Pierre Favre. In 2002 Darling was nominated for a Grammy Award for his album "Cello Blue". And further releases appeared on ECM Records, a very unconventional Label from Munich, which since 1969 has signed some of the most outstanding artists in the field of Jazz and improvised music.

Together Dakota Suite and the guest cellist Darling form a striking ensemble which by no means only have depressing moments - their music is very soothing too. The recordings were made in various houses in Leeds and at Darling's home in Goshen Connecticut. Chris realized a life long dream recording the album with his all time favorite cellist. He doesn't usually find life so great. He only gets the strength to survive from collaborations like this, a healthy portion of cynicism which he otherwise channels into his lyrics and above all, through his peaceful and sentimental sound experiences. Despite wild mood swings Dakota Suite are touring through Europe at the end of october to present their wordless, but none the less meaningful "The End Of Trying", to live audiences.

"Too Many Trees In The Forest"

Classical music and Jazz meet buzzing Electronica. Takeo Toyama was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1965. His classical influence is owed to his mother who would listen to Beethoven and Chopin at any given opportunity. Coming from
a Rock/ Pop background rather (Takeo was singing and playing in various punk-, soul- and rockbands) the learned pianist soon discovered the world of pure instrumental sounds. His first remixes were for the well-known japanese producer and label boss Nobukazo Takemura. 1998 saw the release of Toyama’s first solo album „Ground Piano“ (Current Label), for which he recorderd almost all the instruments himself.

Discordant harmonies and fast changing beats are the trademark of Takeo’s sound variations. Right now what he’s becoming more and more known for throughout Europe are his digital compositions for analogue instruments.
Electronic transformation and fancy feats were the characteristics of Toyama's first release, "Hello 88", on Karaoke Kalk (2003). The album had already been released on Japan Overseas (a label which unfortunately doesn't exist anymore) in 2001. An extra track, "Lithium", was added to the Karaoke Kalk re-release. The album received overwhelmingly good feedback both in Japan and Europe. The highlight of the album are the vocal parts that remind very much on the Beach Boys and prove Takeo's great affinity for pop music. After recording five full-length albums he has now started to arrange tracks for various artists, TV shows and animations. He is also in great demand as a composer for modern dance choreographies.

The licensed "Hello 88" was followed by several other releases on Karaoke Kalk, e.g. "Der Meteor", an exclusive track for the first Kalk Seeds compilation (2005) and "Bobbin" on Kalk Seeds 2 (2008), a track that can be heard on his most recent longplayer "Etudes", too. 2005 Takeo went on tour together with several other Karaoke Kalk artists, playing 16 shows in 8 different countries. Furthermore he contributed in the Remix album "Versions of The Prepared Piano" (2007) which collects various interpretations of tracks from the album "The Prepared Piano" by Hauschka.
Toyama chose the track "Kein Wort" and transformed it into his own version "Kotoba Naku".

Takeo Toyama's songs sound very cheerful as if they were made for some sort of amusing sunday afternoon cartoon.
But despite their gay whistles the compositions drift into saturnine realms too sometimes, awaking the evil monster in a classic silent movie. His new release, "Etudes", presents itself very dynamic and with an extraordinary spectrum of sounds: piano, melodica, strings, accordion. This album too has been previously released on Japan Overseas (2003). TaKeo has always used a great number of instruments for his little willful orchestra. The catchy melodies are flattering the ears but for short, before explosive and melancholic thunderstorms pierce the mind. Recurring structures don't materialize. Takeo tells us his little stories in a kind of blue and very authentic manner, browsing all the different worlds of international sound-design.

First of all: Gebirge sounds quite different from everything we know by Guido Möbius. His first two albums klisten (Klangkrieg) and dishoek (Dekoder) featured melodies on a collision course with sounds, styles and idiosyncracies, melancholy and humour. Everything was interwoven, multi-layered and contrasting. But despite their complexity and their finesse neither of the two records sounds severe or academic, instead they delight with genial and intelligent instrumental music.

Whereas these two predecessors operate to a great extent without any beats or basses, Guido Möbius makes full use of the latter on Gebirge. Here they are: straight bassdrums, sub-basses and handclaps. Also present: all kinds of machinery noises serving as snaredrum-surrogates, clanking metal, spluttering cables and funk-guitars. Furthermore: brass sections that sound as if the inmates of a tuberculosis sanatorium had reluctantly reached for their trumpets.
It is out of these elements that Guido Möbius constructs rough, creaking tracks who despite their strangeness promt the swinging of your hips any time. After all Gebirge was greatly inspired by Möbius’ live sets who fervently dovetail funk with experiment, noise and techno.

And yet Gebirge holds another surprise: Vocals. Möbius has won 4-track-virtuoso Andreas Gogol aka go:gol (a-Musik) as a lead singer for his new album. go:gol, a multi-instrumentalist himself with a preference for grotesque sound constructions, employs a multitude of onomatopoeic, imaginary tongues on Gebirge. Which at times sounds as if James Brown’s body had received Kurt Schwitters’ soul. Both go:gol’s fake english and his Dada-funk are a great amusement.

And yet also with his third album Guido Möbius has remained true to himself in many respects. For example in the matter of subtleness: if Möbius sends one of his tracks on its journey you’ll never know where that journey might end. And it’s enormous fun to follow its musical mutations. The Berlin musician masters the art of subtly slipping us radical sounds and keeping a track in its flow even with the hardest breaks.

Like this an industrial-groove mutates into a main-floor-rave and eventually into a beatboxing-solo. Meditative slash krauty guitar-string-hammering turns out to be the priming for a tight beat. Which again runs into playfully filtered organ grooves which again sound the bell for technorock and polyphonic brass arrangements. But whoever may think he’s got it sussed out now is wrong. Because even surprise stays out at a certain point of our journey through the mountains of Gebirge. All of a sudden there’s a song who’s just that, a song, with verse, bridge and chorus.

Guido Möbius is one of those musicians you can positively recognize by their sound. At that it doesn’t matter whatever musical stops Möbius is pulling out or what instruments or stylistics he’s applying. His wit, his sobriety, his wealth of ideas and his very own musical dialect attest his authorship.

Möbius is running the music publishing company and PR-agency Autpilot. He is sporadically releasing one-instrument-singles on his own label emphase

Cobra Killer are Gina V. DOrio and Annika Line Trost. Both have played in bands in
the former West Berlin since the age of 12/13. They formed Cobra Killer in January
1998, touring through Europe and revolutionising the then boring electronic music
scene with their raucous show. In 2002 they took Australia and New Zealand by
storm supporting PEACHES on various shows including the Big Day Out Festival.
Shortly afterwards, they were also support act for SONIC YOUTH who were very
impressed by the Cobra movement. Recently they have wowed capacity crowds
supporting big names such as MARILYN MANSON and JON SPENCER, who also
guests on two tracks on the new album.
Uppers & Downers, their 5th full length studio album, sees Cobra Killer on form and
sounding as defiant and unpredicatable as ever. Recorded in part at
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN’s “Andere Baustelle” studio in Berlin, and featuring
appearances by such very special guests as J. MASCIS and THURSTON MOORE, the
record is a roller coaster ride that sees the band pushing the limits and again going
way beyond expectations to deliver an album thats sure to please their many fans,
especially when they take to the road to present the songs in their unmistakeably
energetic live show.

An album as good as James Figurine’s Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake (monika49) deserves to be celebrated with not just one but two remix 12”s. A Kompakt triple-bill of DJ KOZE and SUPERPITCHER/ Tobias Thomas complete the James Figurine techno pop club-sandwich.

Forgive Your Friends is the first remix 12”s taken from the JAMES FIGURINE album Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake (monika 49). This single features remixes by THE FIELD, JOHN TEJADA and DAVID FIGURINE.

THE GIRL SUITE EP by spoken word artist Myra Davies, with music by Gudrun Gut,
is four tracks pertaining to the shared culture of girls and women. No frothy pop
clichés of Girls made to love who just wanna have fun. These beats are for girls
struggling to find their way in a dangerous world.
The EP is a taster for the forthcoming Myra Davies album “Cities & Girls”
(moabit17) and is available as an online release at all quality download portals in
August 2008.
MY FRIEND SHERRY Looks back to the early 60s. Pigtails and pop, and no legal
abortion; a true story about how it was then and just might be again, this track is a
playful and powerful response to the campaign to limit womens' right to legal
abortions.
The DRILL REMIX puts an industrial spin on the notion that every girl should own
an electric drill. This remix is exclusively available on THE GIRL SUITE EP.
LOVE (DEMO) is an up-tempo sequenced track about love and that way it has of
morphing into its opposite. This “demo” track is also exclusive to the EP.
The VALKYRIE are loud and horsey girls. The VALKYRIE are living the dream with
their own horses and rebellion too. Davies' poem on the bond between girls and
horses is embedded in Gut 's lively remix of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie.
(Credit: Original orchestral score by Richard Wagner, performed by The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Ewe Mund, Conductor. Rights through AB Classical, Göteborg, Sweden.)
Myra Davies (Canada) and Gudrun Gut (Berlin) have been weaving words and
music since 1991 when they began MIASMA . THE GIRL SUITE EP is the first
collaboration release since MIASMA 3 (2002) and it mixes beats with attitude.

Ever dedicated to club culture, monika enterprise never fails to supply the finest remixes around. From Turner’s classic techno pop re(h)mix of Quarks or those early Contriva EPs all the way to the last years In Pieces with Pole and Burger/Voigt mixes of Gudrun Gut and lets not forget Ricardo Villalobos’ remix of Chica & The Folder; monika’s remix 12”s are a treat for any DJ and music lover. Now as a prelude to the new Barbara Morgenstern album, BM (monika64), monika brings you 3 remixes of her politically charged hit Come To Berlin including mixes by Telefon Tel Aviv, The Rice Twins and Chloé as well as an exclusive single edit.

Swedish duo The Rice Twins aka Jesper Engström & Valdemar Gezelius are, along with The Field, part of the new generation of Skandinavian artists on the Kompakt label. There mix lifts off slowly with Barbara Morgenstern’s vocoder distorted voice and swooping melodious synth strings, gradually building up to a hypnotic crescendo. This remix continues the Cologne - Berlin connection and the musical friendship between Kompakt and monika. After all Superpitcher’s remix of Contriva is still an all time favorite.
Telefon Tel Aviv are Charles Cooper and Joshua Eustis. They are on Chicago’s Hefty Records and have previously had remixes on Ghostly International, Peacefrog Records and Shitkatapult. Of all the Come To Berlin mixes Telefon Tel Aviv retain most of the original song structure, yet they still manipulate the song into a highly danceable track making it fully club compatible.
French DJ Chloé has previously remixed the likes of Booka Shade and Junior Boys, and her treatment of Morgenstern’s single is a minimal cut perfect for the dancefloor. She samples the piano and vocals to great effect giving the song a fresh edge. And this terrific 12” ends with an exclusive single mix of the original song Come To Berlin just to remind you what an excellent song this is.

Come To Berlin is without question the poppiest song on Barbara Morgesntern’s 5th album BM. This powerful ballad is a tounge-in-cheek tribute to capital city Berlin and an anthem for tourists at the same time. Morgenstern’s music which has previously been remixed by the likes of Ellen Alien, Lawrence, Tarwater and DNTEL, lends itself impeccably to being remixed, rich and deep in complexity as it is. These 3 fabulous new remixes by The Rice Twins, Telefon Tel Aviv and Chloé make this an exceptional 12” fully in keeping with monika’s tradition for high quality remixes.

Canadian spoken word artist Myra Davies is back with her new album CITIES & GIRLS, a fresh collection of witty stories. As with their MIASMA trilogy, Davies’ stories have been set to music by Gudrun Gut, whose own solo album I Put A Records On came out last year, as well as Beate Bartel and the team of Danielle de Picciotto / Alexander Hacke - who provide the musical accompaniment on two tracks. Berlin Electronica is the warp in which Davies weaves reportage on global life in the early 21st century.
Cities and Girls are prevalent themes. "The city is our social heart and creative core" Davies says. That sounds odd coming from an artist who lives in The Rocky Mountains. "I see cities with fresh eyes," she says. "Look around. This is a great time for cities." And Girls? "I was a girl once myself. It's fun but not easy. Wherever I am, I tend to notice how girls are handling the challenge. My friend Sherry is a dead girl. She began haunting me in San Diego when I was first exposed to the new anti-abortion campaign." There are several dead people walking in this album. "It's good karma to give some air time to the past and gone."

The stories in the GIRLS & CITIES cd range widely in time and space. For the composers, the challenge was to find musical ideas that support specific story settings and also ground the track in the album as a whole.

The latest chapter in the 4 Women No Cry story is as musically varied as you could hope for.
Volume 3 again proves that there can be unity in diversity and where music is concerned, this is
perhaps the utmost virtue. Lucrecia, Manekinekod, Julia Holter and Liz Christine combine
symbiotically to make 4 Women No Cry Vol. 3 a remarkable quartet of international artists, each with
their own personal take on electronic music and point of view in the fast changing modern musical
landscape.

The info to Barbara Morgenstern’s previous album, The Grass Is Always Greener (monika48),
still refered to her as an „electro-pop icon“. This tag, with which she has been associated since
the early days of the Berlin living room scene, no longer really fits. The lightness that was so
characteristic of her last album has given way to new depths. What was minimal before is now far
more complex, even weighty.

The many counterpoints to the, in the main, friendly piano arpeggios; the lovely string
arrangements by Julia Kent, cellist for Anthony and the Johnsons; the unexpected changes and
turns; the new versatility – all this makes BM the most unusual and perhaps most important
album that Barbara Morgenstern has presented yet.

In Pieces is another excellent addition to monikas impressive collection of remix 12s and the perfect accompaniment to Gudrun Gut’s magnificent solo album I Put A Record On.
Move Me which originally came out to great acclaim as a 7 inch on easugar jukebox now gets a well deserved twelve inch release with remixes by Burger/Voigt, Ocean Club member Pole lends his hand to Cry Easy and Dntel provides an astonishing remix of “The Wheel”.

Monika In Polen is Gudrun Gut’s contribution to monikas 10th aniversary compilation
“Monika Bärchen: Songs for Bruno, Knut & Tom”. Her new release, Apples, Pears &
Deer in Poland, includes an exclusive Thomas Fehlmann remix of this cracking track
plus 2 brand new G. Gut compositions which are also only to be found on this EP.

Gut’s impressive solo album I put a record on (monika55) came out in 2007 and
contained many references to traditional styles such as blues and boogie. „Monika in
Polen“ continues this use of old-school samples - this time she’s drawn on
Volksmusik and polka, making it a true monika-style number. Besides his
collaborations with Gudrun Gut on the oceanclub, Thomas Fehlmann is famed as a
“floating” member of The Orb as well for his work as a solo producer. For this EP he’s
woven his shuffle magic on the already very danceable tune making it a prime cut for
the crooked dancefloor. And Gudrun’s Deer artwork stood 3 meters tall as her
contribution to the recent Transgression exhibition in Berlin.
On top of Fehlmann’s Deer mix, this EP contains 2 exclusive new Gudrun Gut
recordings. Apples & Pears begins with the sound of a car out on the highway and
develops into a downbeat industrial groove. While Harz4Schleife tells the story of
roaming through the countryside in the summertime. An instumental dub of Apples &
Pears rounds off the EP.
All these tracks are available exclusively on this online EP release. Following her
acclaimed 7”s on Earsugar, Move Me and Pleasuretrain, Apples, Pears & Deer In
Poland is a fine new EP from monika enterprise label founder Gudrun Gut whose
other recent productions include Myra Davies’ Cities & Girls. And you can catch
Gudrun’s live show on the road in Australia, New Zealand, USA and Europe in spring
2009.

A hommage to Gentle Giant

deeper you cannot bow

This brand new record from Dominik Eulberg is all about our senses and the feeling they trigger
off. The record is centred around the idea of hiking and realising that after some hours, longings
pop up which you were never aware that existed, ending in a feeling that you have arrived and
finally feel at home.
The a-side track “Aurora” is a dubby rhythm track with a fantastic build up in dynamic. House
influences are strong and capture a deep intense vibe.
Though the beat structure seems heavy at the beginning, the progression of the track reveals a
kind of light and good mood which Dominik describes in his own words as “a track which
transports the atmosphere of dawn, early morning hours, fresh, floating, with a maiden touch.”
The track consists of different stages which reflect the interaction with nature at that hour.
The b-side “Sansula (oder der letzte Grund)” is a homage and a play with words referring to
the masterpiece of Alfred Andersch “Sansibar oder der letzte Grund”. The track is to a high
degree made out of sounds that create a 3 dimensional sound... nature sounds... and through
that creates an organic and deep atmosphere. “Sansula (oder der letzte Grund)” like the a-side
is a track with a housy edge to it.
Sampling Gabriel Ananda swinging his golf club or the closing of the trunk of his car, elements
like these are all included in the tracks.
The photo on the cover of the full sleeve realizes the perfect idea of nature for Dominik.

Here comes the long awaited second part of the collaboration between Dominik Eulberg and
Gabriel Ananda. The first part „Kirschplunder & Jasmin Tee bei Gabriel“ was recorded at
Gabriel Ananda´s studio in Cologne. The follow up „Eucalypse Now!” was recorded at
Dominik Eulberg´s studio „Ton“ in the Westerwald and carries all the influences Dominik takes
in there.
The first 12” ever with both of them teaming up on Traum was the „Harzer Roller” 12“ (Traum
V70) in 2006. So now 3 years later you can witness two long epic and enthusiastic mixes on
vinyl and an alternative mix on the digital side, which is more reduced and late night.
The title track “Eucalypse Now!“ is a cool almost Latin flavoured groove track with cool synth
stabs. An epic groover which has the finest up and downs... changes perspectives within it's 10
minute journey... always offering new dynamic impulses and changes in the harmonies...
highlighting peaks of powerful chubbiness
“Bill Kilgore” on the flipside is a cool, static, monotone, post trance, epic track which slowly
builds up to a 10 minute hypnotic tracker!
In addition we also bring you a late night digital bonus dub mix by Dominik Eulberg.
All tracks were mastered by Emanuel Geller of Salz mastering in Cologne who has mastered
all of Dominik´s tracks in the past.

Traum is proud to welcome the new “wunderkind” from the UK, Max Cooper.
Max is a great UK DJ who is also involved in mathematical modelling research on the evolution of
networks of genes at University College London, a sci-art project combining evolutionary and music
production algorithms. Max Cooper has many lives and he is a true wizard in his category. Born
originally in Belfast he has been resident at the Rumour as well as playing his 9th year at clubnight
“Firefly”. Max can be heard regularly Djing in The Key - London, Stealth – Nottingham and The
Cross – London. He was quickly recognised by the media, receiving the label of Mixmag ‘future
hero’.
Max has joined Traum with a 5 tracker involving top English producer Kanio for a remix of the a-side
track “Harmonisch Serie” as well as including another English artist, Ito, remixing his track
“Compact Yourself“ on the digital side.
Max Cooper´s innovative programming positions him music-wise alongside artists such as Dominik
Eulberg, Minilogue and Extrawelt. His epic structure has a unique narrative character to it which
distinguishes him from others and sometimes dares to become almost soundtrack like, full of
ambience. Maybe this is best expressed by his B2 track “i” , which you can hear digitally in an even
longer version.
His debut on Traum is a unique sound sensation of incredible details and big sound layouts, as if
made for Traum. Melodic and gentle but at the same time energetic and full of colours with a sci fi
edge to it!
Max has also remixed Extrawelt´s “Im Garten Von Eben” released December the 22nd 2008 as
well as being involved in several coming projects on Traum.

Drowning pianos...urgent sounding basslines?
Extrawelt have written 3 brand new tracks for Traum.
Starting with “Mit Liese Auf Der Wiese“, this Chicago house injected track has a classy touch, with electric pianos modulating, keeping a nice balance between techno and electro.
Step by step a tension is built up with this track carrying a slight note of menace .
We really think the seemingly effortlessness and the analogue feeling make this a bit of a classic.

“Clap's Cally“ is a nightcrawler... Feels like an endless drive in a car at midnight. Detroit Techno, electronica and ambient all go together well and create an unbeatable mystic atmosphere. Dubby delays and electro beat break downs... what could it mean to you? You will have to listen.
“Was Ubrig Bleibt” has a bit of a dub step feeling to it as well as a stronger electronic edge, this track is adding a third perspective to the record and is already supported by Dominik Eulberg who will remix if for a Remix record on Traum.

The classical techno track „Mit Liese Auf Der Wiese“ and the electronic track „Was Übrig Bleibt“ from Extrawelt´s recent Traum release „Deine Beine“ has been remixed by a new league of Traum artist as well as the core artists Dominik Eulberg and Max Cooper!

Dominik Eulberg´s remix evokes Aphex Twin noise cascades and break beats with his „Das Es“ remix of „Was Übrig Bleibt“. Starting with an along intro without kick drum the track builds up an atmospheric aura of psychedelica. Plunging into techno it progresses by incorporating a synthline from the original plus a variation of the bassline used by Extrawelt. The track stays simple and does not work with too many stunts but instead has a nice hypnotic flow going that makes it a cool tool for DJ´s.

Max Cooper uses his own voice coming from a far distance in his „Melt“ remix of „Mit Liese Auf Der Wiese“. All lush, blurred and like heaven and counteracted by a heavy bassline. When the kick drum kicks in it is all up to the DJ´s with dubby ingredients making it a really atmospheric pop induced track!

The second remix of „Mit Liese Auf Der Wiese“ comes by the young Mexican artists Mig Dfoe. He turns Extrawelt´s „Was Übrig Bleibt“ into a melancholic epic with sad organ sounds coming in waves creating a world full of sound and colour.

Ricardo Tobar´s „Was Übrig Bleibt“ remix is energetic and digitally distorted with stop and go rhythms which he is famous for. His remix is again an experiment in sound and movement... Enjoy!

Applescal from Amsterdam creates with his remix of „Mit Liese Auf Der Wiese“ again a genuine "band like" aura. Not unlike Border Community acts, he uses feedbacks, distortion and a hell lot of passion to create a big time techno tune with a lot of indie feeling.

Deep electronic textures & music / contemporary thoughts // dalaki = (electronica + (dub / detroit) x deep tech ± (glitch ÷ jazz) / (ambient x experimental) ± art /////
dalaki#01 will be released as limited edition collectors box. The dalaki 01 collectors box comes in a black paper-coated box including the eight-track audio cd in a slick super jewel box, two dalaki buttons, a 16 page photo-booklet, two photo-cards useable as postcards plus a 13 pieces stickerset and a logo cardboard stencil. And yes – there are rumours about a download link for a secret track...

Deep electronic textures & music / contemporary thoughts // dalaki = (electronica + (dub / detroit) x deep tech ± (glitch ÷ jazz) / (ambient x experimental) ± art

dalaki 02 'VA - Remote Thoughts' is available as mp3 release, as CD and limited edition collectors box. (150 handnumbered copies)
The dalaki 02 limited edition box contains a 16 page booklet with artworks by JS and Ziul, a separate cardboard folder including the CD, one package of a very special green tea from the backcountry of taiwan ( ... try to infuse it using telekinesis ), 3d glasses and a creditcard-size magnifier to read the booklet properly. The limited edition comes in a natural cardboard box with red strap.

Deep electronic textures & music / contemporary thoughts // dalaki = (electronica + (dub / detroit) x deep tech ± (glitch ÷ jazz) / (ambient x experimental) ± art

Three years passed between Barbara Morgenstern’s acclaimed album Nichts Muss The
Grass is always greener, an album which shows she has come a long way. Her Goethe Institut sponsored
world tour and many recent collaborations with, among others, Robert Lippok and Bill Wells have
cleary been an inspiration for this album. Morgenstern’s music has gained a bold maturity. Her
unmistakeable voice and warm piano style make for an unique sound. This album is the
perfection of minimal elegance.

This is a release we are really, really proud to present you with! Quite a few people all over the
world fell in love with the unmistakeably stirring sounds and lyrics of Jimmy Tamborello
(Figurine, Dntel, The Postal Service). Hardly surprising: He’s simply the best in combining
youthful sensitivities with ageless beauty. His new album MISTAKE MISTAKE MISTAKE
MISTAKE doesn’t miss an inch of this beauty and originality, even though it has its origins on a
German Autobahn...;-)

To celebrate 10 years in the business and 60 releases Berlin label Monika Enterprise
brings you a special birthday compilation. Rather than going for the obvious „best of“
approach, as ever Monika offers something a little more interesting in the form of a
compilation comprising all exclusive tracks.

„Like psychedelic goth folk legend COMUS playing songs they found in COCO ROSIE’s
burned down kids bedroom.”
Hartmut Lippstueck

Two years on from her acclaimed debut album, Baden-Baden, Michaela Melián now
returns with a wonderful new long player, Los Angeles. When Michaela Melián is not
working on her multi-media art, participating in exhibitions or playing bass in,
probably the best German band ever, FSK, she is also busy composing and
producing her own solo recordings.
The mood on Los Angeles is noticably more subdued to that of Baden-Baden - its
slow building beats made it a crossover hit and even won over many fans in the DJ
community. L.A. on the other hand, is almost completely devoid of said beats,
there is a mere sprinkling of electronics, and yet it has no less of an impact. The
focus may be on drones and slowly shifting ambient soundscapes, but this is
powerful music that will touch you deep within.

A composition by Roland M. Dill using pieces of Trapez combing it with single channels, creating something on its own, quite unique.

We're happy that we have been part of a very lively and international techno scene with Trapez for almost a decade.
So now with the vinyl 100 out we celebrate this accomplishment with exclusive, unreleased material and lots of curiosities on Trapez and Trapez ltd. Out on CD with 11 tracks as well as on two separate 12“ with a selection of 3 tracks each.
The fist record „Trapez 100 pt1“ features tracks by Gabriel Ananda, Roland M. Dill and a Five Green Circle remix by Salz.

We somehow always cross paths with Gabriel Ananda. He has been with Trapez from the start with his „Schaukeldrehen“ (Trapez 017) release and has been a great artist to work with since. Gabriel is a unique character, anachronistic to the bone, uncompromising when it comes to modern sound design which he gives a shit about. Still living in Cologne, he can rock a bird out of the birds nest with his dirty basslines. His Trapez 100 track „Afu 3“ has dynamic changes young producers would die for.

The duo Salz also from Cologne consist out of Emanuel Geller and Axel Erbstosser. Two of our closest friends since the early days of techno. They have been busy producing dub music for 7 years now and Donal Tierney's "Verse 2the Chorus" was one of their greatest favourites on Trapez ltd. So here you get finest dub house with producers tricks that will put a smile on your face.

Our hottest newcomer Roland M. Dill get's more funky from day to day after his "die hard" "Turboencabulator" which made everyone on the dance floor go wild. Whit his Trapez 100 contribution "1st Century Fox" he comes along with a super funky piece of techno that could establish him alongside John Tejada.

From the 100th release onwards, Trapez will feature a brand new look.

Following his “Turboencabulator” release this new 12” by Cologne based artist Roland M. Dill is a funky piece of shit with two bass heavy groovers that create grooves you will fall for.
“Taurine on Sunday” is a jumping jack track, a happy go merry super dooper late night groover that Charly Parker would love to do improvisations on. We can see this track going strong with house and Techno DJs.

On the flipside “Candy Mountain” is powered by a funky tight rhythm with accelerating tight beats, more in your face... although it holds deep hypnotic and subtle moments creating a complex cool techno track.

The first digital bonus track “Black Coffee” is a track with a caffeine rush... pure groove!

The second digital bonus track features a remix by Egberg. He is one of the new promising artist from the Netherlands who has already recorded on Michel De Hey's EC records and Clone records.
With his remix for Roland M. Dill´s „Taurine on Sunday“ he has again shown immense skill in composing emotional music as you cannot pin him down to one style. The way he has incorporated original sequences from Mr Dill is just fantastic and puts the track in a whole different musical environment, more sweet and clubby.

Kyle Geiger was named in DJ Mag as the "breakthrough DJ of 2008" by Adam Beyer. The Indiana based musician belongs to the new generation of techno producers who were originally inspired by harder techno but have developed their own definition of new hard-funk techno.
Kyle Geiger has released on Drum Code, Droid Recordings, Renovatio and MB Elektronics, and licensed tracks for the legendary Music Man and Harthouse labels.
We welcome Kyle on Trapez for his first remix. The remix works with a fine balance of slightly twisted recognisable parts from "Taurine on Sunday" and a cool new beat.
Kyle likes to have techno appear simplistic which is the original idea of Trapez (regular)!!!!!

Insekten E.P. is a piece of dark and impulsive german Techno, produced by Marcus Meya who is living in Techno-Capital Berlin since his early Childhood.
During three tracks, with his sense for electronic flows, Marcus guides us through wobbly stamping baselines and foreshadowings of fragile melodies.

The digital debut release „All The Wrong Loves“ by freeminded Londoner Sebastian Russell sounds like Cosmic Sandwich with an edgy side to it.

His title track “All The Wrong Loves” is based on a motorbike like sequence counteracted by the sweet vocals of „Son Of Kick“.
The track turns dark at some points but is always lit up again by the wonderful vocal sample.

The second track “Get Over It!” is a sequencer driven New Wave - Mutant Disco track with a touch of DJ Hell. A strong neon light feel provides the track with a kind of alienation!

Zoo Brazil have written a hymn with the simple name “Tobbe”. A name much too simple for this epic trancy pearl. A track that deserves a name as long as the Sahara Desert.

“Tobbe” sways back and forth between obscure sounds, big sequences seeing the light as well as the darkness. This track has all the power to become a techno classic.
Piemont have remixed this track in their true Piemont fashion, stripping it down, fusing it with their beat and the main sequence that makes people dance on their head!

London based producer Giorgio Cadamuro aka Blind Minded has recorded a remix for the Italoboyz of their track "Body And Soul" in 2008 and released his first solo 12" „Tekatek“ both on Trapez ltd soon after.

This digital release by the wizard Blind Minded is all about the London metro and includes the best of his wild sampling he has done so far.

Although working with quite diverse samples Blind Minded manages to get an organic feel going with “Underground Life” and has the track turn towards the end into a cosmic trip!

“To the Bus” is a rocker more direct and a bit Chicago, showing that metro announcements can be sexy as hell! This tune can turn clubs upside down!

The Argentinian musician Grünbox graduated with honours from Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA, with a major in Composition and Music Production and Engineering (2000). He played and recorded with many bands, ranging from electronic/experimental, funk, hardcore, jazz, tango, rock to classical combos.
Leo has recorded for CMYK but is still a tip for insiders and Trapez artists such as Oliver Hacke, Riley Reinhold and Gabriel Ananda are already supporting him.
What you will directly notice is, that because of his background, Leo is using sounds and combining sounds tht other people are not stumbling across.
His extraordinary beat programming puts him close to Mr Alex Under and so he is in the best company on Trapez.

“Acid Guanaca” is maybe the most forward pushing accelerating track, still it has the quality mentioned and sounds at times as if sounds of bees had joined the turbulent and driving beats.

“Lyon” with its vocals reminds us at times of Underworld, it is more musical , has cool jazzy elements going and works nice with a sort of abstract “disco bassline”.
This is a real piece of music for us. A strong composition and something a bit more emotional.

Well if you think you have heard it all, listen to “Wiscacho Bombay”! This is the real cool shit!
A Carribean groove box, jazzy coolness and sounds from water and tumbling ice cubes... a big summer hit!!!!

“Tombak” is the crazy bassline track that is stricly for dance, over the top and pure mania.

Here come the remixes of Applescal´s recent artist album “A Slaves Commitment”.

This digital release features a new remix by Applescal of the track “Sjeesh”. His “Perception mix” relies on straight four to the floor beats instead of break beats he used in his album version and will interesting for those that would like to play the track in their peak time sets.

The release also holds the original version of “In the mirror” and two remixes of that track one by the English artist Max Cooper who has already remixed Extrawelt and Dominik Eulberg for us and one by Arjuna Schiks from Amsterdam, the winner of the vinylized dance competition for most talented producer award of 2008.

Traum artist Max Cooper added a indie flavour and a psychedelic twist to the original by using his disturbing voice to create a strong piece of techno.

Arjuna Schiks who has been very popular with his remixes for Deadmau5 ("All U ever want") has provided the original with a strong dance floor mark.

This album is the first one we have released after just one 12” on Traum by the artist Applescal.
This artist from the Netherlands was voted producer of the year in the Netherlands (Grote Prijs Dec 08), but more than that we were attracted by the approach of releasing a full long player by a very young talented person who has more to say than a dozen 12”s could actually carry.
So we eventually said f..ck and took on all tracks and gave it a go.
Pascal himself has chosen a track listing we could not disagree with... he combines here electronica with dance tracks with grunge... and has created tracks that sound as it they were recorded by live bands... We detect a lot of explosive juvenileness in this album, a quality which always has been so essential for albums so special.

Their heroes are not Richie Hawtin or Ricardo Villalobos but Nathan Fake and Extrawelt.
Here grunge meets melody and we might call it the second wave of indie electronics. The CD starts off with the beautiful track “The history of love”, that feels as if the world was twisted in slow motion.
“Nottingham hobbits” transports and extends a similar emotions whereas “Ugly but nasty” introduces nasty acid baselines and reminds us of his 12” track “Monster” released on Traum.
“In the mirror” has a bit more of a band approach, sounds like and The Cure or My Bloody Valentine or Red Lorry Yellow Lorry— it carries this “ghostly” atmosphere and works with chords and feedbacks .
”Music for her ears” is the ambient piece of music on the CD... a bit of a sad and a melancholic track, that connects somehow to modern electronica with piano.
“I cant stand” also works with ambience but dives into a sort of shuffle beat to rock away.
“The forms of abstract life” is a masterpiece of electronica, it seems to visualise the beauty of flowers and nature in an intimate way. The track was formerly released by the Dutch label Deep Focus and we are happy to be able to include it.
“The red dress” is a noise interlude, psychedelic, alienated and strange.
”Funk and fc” is a grinding acid track that starts quite and works with a classic build up getting frantic and noisy.
“Sjeesh” a remix of a track by the Dutch band Local Daddies. Inspired by the vocals Applescal used the vocals and bass of the original but changes everything else around it, made it a totally new track and gave it a twist which puts the track more in the region of Coldplay and Portishead.
Applescal closes the CD with ”Reeeer”. A melodic and comic like track that makes us think of a large fish swallowing everything which crosses it's way. Colourful and happy-sad, well... the holy Aphex Twin comes alive in this one.

Just a year ago a new name appeared on the international techno landscape.
An artist who has a vivid past, lived the live of rockn´roll for almost 10 years, playing all the clubs in Greece and who was voted one of the best DJs in Greece... stopped from one day to the other to quit with his past and to beginn with “something” new.
His name was Mihalis Safras. He soon began buying equipment and learned quickly to produce a a “fett“ powerful electronic sound. But other than that it is his personality that struck Riley Reinhold which led to a signing of up to now five 12"s on Trapez limited.

Mihalis Safras is also called the “octopus”. There is no other man in techno business who can communicate with so many people, talk about so many different topics and still manage at the end of the day to come up with superb tracks.
Sure some people will say there is too much Mihalis Safras around referring to his remixes for
BPitch, Great Stuff etc... but the man has a heart as big as Mykonos and the speed of Pegasus.

Mihalis Safras is a true artist who travels once a year with his band shutting down all techno channels to play the instruments he learned to play... and to chill down.
The history of this album is a history of a friendship between the artist Mihalis Safras and the painstaking research for originality from Riley Reinhold, DJ and mastermind behind all selection of music on Traum and affiliated labels for over 10 years.

So now what do we get? We get a full year of what we consider is the best of what Mihalis Safras has ever released.
Why did we not release it before on EPs when it is so good? Because Mihalis knew he had enough talent to still keep pumping out grand 12"s. What we get with his album are 12 tracks, eleven of them unreleased and on top an edit of "Here Comes The Rain" which we believe was a perfect track to close the album.






The tracks all work hand in hand and cover easily 5 different genres from techno ("Ganman", "Adonis") to tribal and experimental ("Zavel") to Detroit melancholy ("Cry For The Last Dance", "Here Comes The Rain"), to fat minimal (Chopsticks), to deep (Chica Boom) to pop. Mihalis is in a true sense a musical octopus.

If you have not heard "Interafrica", tune in to this album to get a mars bar full of music by Mihalis.

Well what can we say, two tracks that could not be more different from well know Mainz/ Germany based artist Butch aka Bülent Gürler.

The a side “Destruction” is a track that so perfectly fits into the scene of German minimal house, we think it will be eaten up immediately by the DJ scene.

The flipside track “Muskatnuss” is more challenging and made for the advanced DJs. This track is weird, funky, housey and more on the side of the new school of house we get nowadays from Cecille and similar labels.
The track makes use of samples from Butch's most sought after sample libaries that include fantastic cartoon sounds he has cut up and arranged rhythmically.

Jakob Hilden is one Half of Format B and part of the project Red Robin & Jakob Hilden which was very successful on Trapez ltd.

Jakob´s new solo project involves his vocals and band skills from the past which he has fused here with the production skills he has earned from Format B productions.
What we get with the a side track “Glamouflage” is a cool and mighty organ grinder with vocals by Jakob Hilden using catchy lyrics. Less minimal and a big hit.

The b-side is called “Ground n Pound“ and moves like a rattlesnake with it’s strong driving percussion.
It`s dark synth lines makes it a soundtrack for the night and once again show that Jakob Hilden knows how to stir a track safe through the night.

This Piemont remix release sums up the two biggest hits that they have had, „Black Smoker“ and „Carbonat“ and sees them remixed by four German artists as well as Matteo Milleri.

Nils Nilson is known for his Ostwind releases and has added to the original a smooth housy deep note. Rising Chords create a laid back feeling and a cool atmosphere.

Goldfish & the Dulz renowned for their fantastic releases on Playhouse create a heavy after hour burner. Their remix is rough and untamed and works with great unorthodox musical changes . Soukie and Windish keep it deep and cool and add a bit of an edge the other remixes do not have.

Helge Kuhl´s electro house remix adds a cool bassline and wonderful melancholic melody to the original of „Black Smoker“, hinting at deep sea life and how we perceive it.

Last but not least Matteo Milleri´s remix focuses on the dark side of the “Black Smoker” original creating something more track like and DJ friendly.

The best band name in the world, deserved to be treated with good music.

After their big success with the mad track “Pipe” Kaiserdico´s new “Espandrillo” track leaves big marks on the surface of every beach in Spain. The track has a brutal and mighty production and surprises with vocals that we will never be able to translate.

The topic of the EP is footwear and we witness here that Espandrillos are the perfect footwear for raving techno tunes. Then we have the “Sandalia” track which is more techno, uptempo and rocking and less gentle than “Espandrillo”!

The third track “Descalzo” (eng. Barefoot) is more cool and funky. It has very cool loops and is just perfect since very little happens but it keeps the groove till the bitter end in perfect harmony.

The wonderfully fitting flip-flop photo used for the cover art was taken by Oliver Hacke.

Helge Kuhl´s second release “Always the same” after his first ep “Autumnbomb” is another pop pearl.
The first track “Drop Drinking“ is melancholic and at the same time euphoric. Helge´s voice again transports alienation and passion.
More than a statement about the repetition of one and the same music as we can witness today... it is at the same time picking up a feeling everyone can associate with in one way or the other. This is a great song.

“Loveisnowhere” is like life, you can read the title in two ways... and it can be either good or bad... it could mean everything stays the same, or has one just changed and perceives things differently. Helge offers pieces of a puzzle one can put together as he sings along: “It's always the same”
“Loveisnowhere” Helge says was rhythmically inspired by Morse code rhythms.

The second release on the Cologne-based techno label 200 comes from our friend Jean-Vince Luccini, who has released on well-renowned labels such as Treibstoff, Dumb Unit, Trapez, Curle, Roman Photo and Sinergy.

His Breaking Down Remix is inspired by the original track „Breaking down“ by Raphaël Sage and Yann Relatif – our favourite summer tune!

Billie Jean Vince is a dark flitting techno monster; The Circular Limit is a hypnotic groove tune.

DJ Support by Ritchie Hawtin, Agoria, DJ T., Mijk van Dijk, Butane, Chloe, Animaltek, Jack Rock, Rone, Klaus Fiehe, Electric Indigo, Pan-Pot and Tom Wax.

“Libido 200” is a deep minimal techno track with gorgeous sounds and a breathtaking string break.

“We Lost Control” is a disturbing monster track, which is filling up the air in the clubs.