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HENRIK SCHWARZ

First recorded live in Tokyo, Manchester, Berlin, Chicago, Montreal and many other places from around the globe. Then sequenced in Berlin to an one-off mix. Each track has its very own energy appropriate to the vibes of the club where it was recorded and actually reborn as they often contain sp...

BOOKA SHADE

Arno Kammermeier and Walter Merziger aren’t DJs. They insist on making that clear. They’re Booka Shade. They’re one of Germany’s most famous dance music exports of today and besides part of the Get Physical executive suite. Now they’ve done their first DJ-mix ever. Since the DJ-Kicks series isn...

LOUDERBACH

Louderbach’s ‘Enemy Love’ remix session part two offers an interesting lineup of artists who have reworked four tracks of Troy Pierce’s dark album. Starting with Magda who has remixed ‘Reflected’: she turns the sluggish, Electro-alike track into a more rumbling stomper with a lush bassdrum and...

ANDY VAZ

Andy Vaz offers another gem on his still young imprint Yore, that is – so far –truly not to be missed. The A-side offers an over eight-minute journey that breezily moves through episodes of locomotive swing and jazzy Technofunk. The chords seem to grind, the drums pound dirty and dusty and the...

QUIO

Quio’s a berlin-based MC and singer, maybe a little filthy, somehow charming and sounding naughty and sweet at the same time. She combines sophistication, versatility, devil-may-care behaviour and possibly some daredevil-alike attitude. And that’s exactly how her latest album is. Some Garage or...

LITTLE DRAGON

And again it’s music from Sweden that impresses; not excessivley melancholic or spaced-out as we’re used to regarding most of swedish music. This time it’s a lovely entity that basically brings Electronica approach together with R’n’B: complex but gentle and wonderfully discreet. Little Dragon...

SUPERMAYER

Praised as a super album, produced by Kompakt’s most loved super DJs called Supermayer who have created supersoul music and who are by the way portrayed as superheroes who save the world from grief, frustration and terror in a comic strip by illustrator Kat Menachik (which is included in the ga...

UUSITALO

The artist known as Vladislav Delay or Luomo continues to search for his rhythmic roots under his Uusitalo alias. The result is abstract dance music, the Finn’s very own House approach. It seems no accident to name the album after his late-father’s well-known theatre play. Thereby ‘Karhunainen’...

PAN-POT

Some tend to call it Trance what many mean by ‘minimal’. That’s not incorrect. Pan Pot generate music that unfurls an hypnotic ambience through wide soundscapes and with hooklines that mill irresistibly into your brain. Music that makes you drift off into another sphere. During the 90ies that s...

LOUIE AUSTEN

It was just a matter of time until Rat Pack style would enter the contemporary electronic dance music scene. Actually no surprise. Almost anything goes already for years, both good and bad. When Austen, ‘the entertainer from another generation’, met Mario Neugebauer and Patrick Pulsinger from C...