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out now: Hawkinson – KLAF [Mueller Records]

Artist:
Hawkinson

Title:
KLAF

Label:
Mueller Records

Cat#:
MULLER2075

Release Date:
30th November 2011

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist CD:
01.
Introduction

02.
Tiefdruck

03.
Incident

04.
Ghostly Reality

05.
Wipe The Slate Clean

06.
Session
(2011)

07.
Experience

08.
History

09.
Distance

10.
Sie

11.
Persuasion

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
Introduction

A2.
Tiefdruck

B1.
Persuasion

B2.
History

Press Info:
Müller Records, the Berlin-based label, has a long and proud tradition of high-quality releases. It also has a strong track record in sniffing out up-and-coming talent – acts like Berliner Falk Romstedt, alias Hawkinson. His EPs and remixes – check his former eps and remixes on muller records – had already shown that he was equally at home creating techno with a driving groove as he was knocking out strong and detailed synth melodies. Now his first LP is being released on Müller Records.

“KLAF”, put succinctly, is an album that picks up the style of Hawkinson’s previous singles and runs with it. (OR: that expands on the style of Hawkinson’s previous singles.) It’s a story written by the dance floor, for the dance floor. Hawkinson is processing the experiences and emotions he’s had over the past few years both as consumer and DJ and really shows us where his roots lie – in techno! The influence of Detroit is all over this record and can be heard straight away, with strings, melodies and soulful surfaces drawing you in immediately. Added to that are the big fat pumping grooves, deep bass lines, chords and distinctly clattering hi-hats and percussions that are at the heart of Hawkinson’s sound. (OR: that define Hawkinson’s sound.)He doesn’t try to transcend other genre pigeonholes and is happy instead to showcase his own highly personal spectrum of sounds. Listeners to these 11 tracks can expect to take a trip into a wonderful sound universe, full of power and, more importantly, soul, which is transported directly to the dance floor.

Snippets:

Videos:
“Ghostly Reality”

“Introduction”

Videos created by the29nov films.

Related Release:
“KLAF (Remixes)” on Mueller Records

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Buy Vinyl:
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Juno
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more soon

Buy Download:
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Booking:
Hawkinson

Websites:
Hawkinson
Mueller Records

out now: Purity UK – Sliding Into Chaos [self-released]

Artist:
Purity aka Purity UK

Title:
Sliding Into Chaos

Label:
self-released

Cat#:
none

Release Date:
October 2011

Format:
digital

Tracklist:
01)
Dream Thing

02)
Adrenalin V1
(2011 Remix)

03)
In Your Mind

04)
Sliding Into Chaos

05)
Tactile

06)
When You Call

07)
Not In This World

08)
Bullets for Words
(Remix 2011)

09)
Switch It Off Again

10)
Sparkle In The Dust

11)
Release

12)
Game Over

13)
Adrenalin V1
(Original Mix)

14)
Bullets for Words
(Remix 2011 Instrumental)

Info:
Purity are London drum n’ bass duo Jill Stark and Florence Briggs who write, produce and programme their tracks with an agenda to create their own original and distractive sound that is Purity. The result is a mix of song based and instrumental tracks, energetic, melodic, pounding and unique. Though inspired and influenced by a range of musical tastes, its their love of drum and bass, dub step, rock and electronica that defines their tracks.

Their new album ‘Sliding into Chaos’ is out online through itunes, Amazon, CD baby and all other online distributors.

Purity originally started in 1997. Jill wrote and produced the first album and put the then 3 piece band together. The third member of the band was Icy Lazare on bass/keyboards.
They were the first band in the world to be signed to a record label from having their songs/tracks heard on-line. Several US record companies got in touch with Purity followed by UK labels. Purity’s sound was very much ahead of the time, comprising of song based drum n bass tracks with guitar, bass as well as instrumental tracks. Purity signed to Tommyboy Records New York producing and playing live to around half a million European audiences as support to Depeche Mode gaining rave reviews. The tracks can be heard on the album from 1997 ‘Bullets for Words’ which came out on Tommyboy Records. ‘Adrenalin’ v1 was the theme tune to the wrestling series WCW Nitro and found on the computer game. Jill also remixed Garbage “I think I’m paranoid’.

Purity’s new album will be available as download soon and features a 2011 remix of Adreanlin along with a re-mastered version of the original.

Listen:

Free Downloads:
here on www.novafuture-blog.com

Buy:

unfortunately it is not longer available…

… amazon.com.au is the only place where we found it ….

… but you can download three tracks for free here

Websites:
Purity

out now: Quake – Device Overload [Coincidence Records]

Artist:
Quake

Title:
Device Overload

Label:
Coincidence Records

Cat#:
CSF045

Release Date:
14th December 2011 (vinyl)
22th December 2011 (digital)

Format:
12″ & digital

Tracklist:
01)
Device Overload

02)
Device Overload
(Marcel Fengler Remix)

03)
TX81Z

04)
Condor

Press Info:
Quake is best described in one simple word: analogue. Hardware freaks to the core, this belgium based enigmatic duo makes their tracks with as little use of software as possible.

It’s only fitting that this release will be available on a limited run of 300 copies, pressed on white vinyl, and mastered to perfection by mister Cass Irvine at Wired London. His credentials include mastering the likes of Carl Craig’s Planet E to Swedish House Mafia, Dennis Ferrer or Minstry Of Sound, to name just a few.

Overall, the EP is a different approach to techno that seems to be coming at the right time as the pure, droning berlin techno seems to be at that crossroad where it needs to reinvent itself. We hope that this is exactly what you might be looking for.

The title track Device Overload is brutally minimalistic and simple, letting the hardware rip through whatever the amount of randomness it could handle. Plenty of distortion, electronic static and a genral detroit’ish feel give it just that typical unsettling sound.

The second track is a remix by our biggest hero of all time: Marcel Fengler. Berghain resident, an established techno producer and creator of the most recent Berghain mix cd and his own imprint. His remix is a massive shuffled techno drone that builds on the spooky strings from the original but takes it to a more pumping edge. Tested and approved on the KozzMozz dancefloor.

TX81Z is the b-side opener and takes everything a bit deeper for the techno opening sets. Once again the amount of variation is stunning considering this was all done with hardware during a major jamming session.

Condor is last but not least: a truely pumping techno monster that stands on the shoulders of detroit giants. It takes several times to take in just how much is happening in this track.

Listen:

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Websites:
Quake
Marcel Fengler
Coincidence Records

out now: A.Mochi – Black Phantom EP [Figure]

Artist:
A.Mochi

Title:
Black Phantom EP

Label:
Figure

Cat#:
FIGURE38

Release Date:
18th January 2012

Format:
vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
01)
Black Reigns

02)
Stray

03)
Phantom

Info:
Our Japanese master of the dark arts returns, with his next single following the excellent ‘C2M’ earlier this year. A.Mochi is a maverick in the techno world, pushing harder and darker with his super-defined trademark rolling bass.

The A Side shows Mochi at his most focused, with ‘Black Reigns’. A driving, devilishly monotonous techno pump is interspersed with snappy snare fills as a wave of sound fills the spectrum. Highintensity builds follow as the thunderous moment in peak time techno takes its course.

Mochi takes us into more cerebral zones with ‘Stray’ – snaking percussion leading our minds to a deeper place as his casually deadly bassline works the sub-aural zones.

Finally ‘Phantom’ looks back at A.Mochi’s more twisted past, as a heavily syncopated monster appears amidst the smoke of the dancefloor. Static hiss, crisp metallic rides and lusty energy drive this percussive killer.

Listen:

Buy:
Hardwax (vinyl)
Juno (vinyl)
decks.de (vinyl)
deejay.de (vinyl)
web-records.com (vinyl)
technique.co.jp (vinyl)
jetsetrecords.net (vinyl)
Beatport (digital)
more soon

Websites:
A.Mochi
A.Mochi @ Facebook
Figure

out now: VCMG – EP 1 / Spock [Mute]

Artist:
VCMG

Title:
EP 1 / Spock

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
MUTE475

Release Date:
30th November 2011 (digital on Beatport)
12th December 2011 (digital all stores)
19th December 2011 (vinyl)

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1)
Spock
(Album version)

A2)
Spock
(Edit Select Remix)

B1)
Spock
(Regis Remix)

B2)
Spock
(XOQ Remix)

Tracklist Digital:
01)
Spock
(Album version)

02)
Spock
(Edit Select Remix)

03)
Spock
(Regis Remix)

04)
Spock
(DVS1 Voyage Home Remix)

05)
Spock
(XOQ Remix)

Press Info:
After 30 years working on their respective ongoing music projects, Vince Clarke (Erasure / Yazoo / Depeche Mode) and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode) come together for the first time since 1981 as VCMG to release a brand new album preceded by a series of EPs.

VCMG is the fruit of initially tentative discussion and subsequent enthused collaboration where Vince and Martin, both influential as pioneers in electronic music, get to exercise their lifelong love of the genre as the techno inspired VCMG.

As Vince explains: “I’ve been getting into and listening to a lot of minimal dance music and I got really intrigued by all the sounds… I realised I needed a collaborator… so it occurred to me to talk to Martin.”

Says Gore: “Out of the blue I got an e-mail from Vince just saying, ‘I’m interested in making a techno album. Are you interested in collaborating?’ This was maybe a year ago. He said, ‘No pressure, no deadlines,’ so I said, ‘OK’.”

The writing and recording of the album was done in a typically unique way with the pair working alone in their respective studios, communicating only via email, exchanging files until the album was ready. It was in May 2011 that the pair met for the first time to discuss the project when they both performed at Short Circuit presents Mute festival in London.

The album (title to be announced soon) was produced by Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore and mixed by the influential Californian electronic artist Überzone / Q and will be released in the spring of 2012.

The first release is an EP entitled Spock. EP1 / SPOCK will feature remixes from Edit-Select, aka Tony Scott, the UK DJ / producer and founder of EditSelect Records whose previous remix credits include Speedy J, Death In Vegas and Gary Beck; Regis, British techno musician Karl O’Connor (member of the Sandwell District collective and co-founder of Downwards Records); DVS1, Brooklyn based producer Zak Khutoretsky; plus XOQ, the alter ego of Überzone / Q, who mixed the VCMG album.

EP1/SPOCK will be available initially as a global exclusive on Beatport on 30 November, and then on all DSPs from 12 December with the 12” release following on 19 December 2011.

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