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Sonic Groove welcomes close friend Henning Baer to the SG artist roster. Henning is one half of the team behind one of Berlin’s most successful techno events “Grounded Theory”. He along with Milton Bradley also own the recording label K209 which has released his own solo work. Henning makes his debut on Sonic Groove with “Drop Out” EP. A stunning 4 song release that spans a wide spectrum of dark, deep, gritty, analogistic industrial techno & rhythmic noise sounds layered over 4/4 and broken beat rhythms.
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Justin Berkovi normally should not need an introduction, being involved in multiple techno-projects in the past, and still standing strong nowadays.
His track `Old Timer´ reflects his musical personality and history and is being reinterpreted by another techno-historian, Aubrey.
On the b-side newcomers Jack Dixon and Henning Baer make their introduction on Other Heights with two total different interpretations which are to become oldtimers themselves.
Mute just signed James Brooks (formerly Appliance) with his music / visual art project "Land Observations".
An album is currently being recorded and mixed in Berlin and is due for worldwide release in July/ August 2012. The recordings will include a booklet and a series of specially made drawings.
Tracklist: 01)
Bell Blocker (Silent Servant Remix)
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Beauty In The Fear (The Black Dog’s Destroyed On Purpose Mix Pt. 2)
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Beauty In The Fear (The Black Dog’s Destroyed On Purpose Mix Pt. 1)
Track 03 is digital-only.
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Luke Slater’s Planetary Assault Systems follows the release of the album ‘The Messenger’ (OSTGUTCD20/LP10) with a 12″ of remixes by Silent Servant and The Black Dog.
With his recent releases on Sandwell District and Semantica Records, LA producer John Mendez aka Silent Servant has shown that his reduced atmospheric techno has firmly taken its place on the world’s main peak time dance floors. Taking one of the most banging tracks from ‘The Messenger’ album, he transforms ‘Bell Blocker’ to a slow burning hypnotic ride by removing both the super heavy bass drum and the bells of the original and instead layering heavy atmospherics over a rolling beat and finally introducing a new synth line that injects some intense emotion.
The Black Dog and Luke Slater have been travelling alongside in the electronic music scene since both released some of their earliest productions on the legendary General Production Recordings in 1991 and 1993 respectively. Since Black Dog’s founding member Ken Downie has been joined by Martin and Richard Dust they have pursued a new sound in ambient and recently down to the floor techno that has earned them new support and respect from many of their younger contemporaries. Planetary Assault Systems’ original ‘Beauty In The Fear’ is a tense mix of dark strings and jittering snares, for the remix The Black Dog combine their brooding melodics and dance floor oriented production skills to create the perfect counterpart to the flipside of this 12", somewhere between plain scary and profoundly deep.
The release is backed by a second ambient version of the Black Dog mix that is only available on the digital format.
