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Black Label #6 – Asia is making impact on Compost
Release number six on Compost’s still young imprint, Black Label, brings you two new talents from Asia. To be exact: India and Japan.
The latest instalment of the Black Label series starts with "Kholi Number". "Kholi" is Hindi and describes a room used for a special Indian dance, the so-called "Murja". "Murja" is a narrative form of dancing, which itself is wide spread throughout Asia. Whether you dance narrative or just for fun, "Kholi Number" is truly a track that is made for dancing. Murja, literally translated, means "rhythmic footwork". And that’s what your feet will do, when your ears tell them to move to this jazzy, oriental monster track. "Kholi Number" is a track that relies heavily on trippy sounds and reminds of the glory days, when MoWax and TripHop still were fresh.
Nikhil Ghia or Brahmasonic has a degree in liberal arts from the Ohio Wesley as well as a master degree in Business from the Bryant College, but was born and raised in India. Under the name Brahmasonic he has recently finished his first album, which is an extraordinary fusion between Indian Classical music, Jazz and modern electronic sounds. "Kholi Number" is his frist comercial release.
On the flipside comes "Water Samba" is trippy experience somewhere between Jazz and Hip Hop. It begins with a clumsy Samba beat and ends with a phat sub bass. Techjazz at its best! Definitely a ride to enjoy. Keisuke was born in 1976 in Iwata, Japan not far from Osaka. His mother was a piano teacher so he had contact with music from very early days on. In the early 1990’s Keisuke became infected with Hip Hop which led to his own Hip Hop crew. Ku-Ru-Ma-Ra-I-O-N soon became somewhat like local heroes in the Osaka area. Keisuke was doing the beats, his brother and friends rapped. Soon Keisuke also became interested in Abstract Hip Hop and electronic music.and while his crew did cease to exist in 2000, Keisuke was still doing abstract, electronic tracks. In 2002 he finally moved to Tokyo to intensify his musical output.
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Black Label #5 – When Hip House originators get Flowerz from Hamburg
"What drugs did I take, when doing this...? Or was it three litres of Space-Chai...ah nevermind"
Michael Sauer (Electric Mojo / Fellmann & Louise) who is resident DJ at the Mojo Club Hamburg, one of the most respected clubs in Europe, and Matt Flores (Combination Rec. / Metrosoul, Düsseldorf) do share a lot of things. The both love young girlfriends, rumbustious jokes and tight beats. But it’s not only their love for women and music they share, they share also the latest Compost Black Label #5.
The A-Side for example is a track by Michael Sauer and Matt Flores and remixed and twisted again by Matt Flores. Those two guys know how to share."All Tonight" is a nice piano driven house stomper. Featuring an irresistable bassline and a catchy hookline, this beauty will drag you to the floor. Resistance is futile!
The AA-side is brotherly shared as well. But this time Michael Sauer runs dry as Matt Flores teams up with a true legend of house music: Tyree Cooper. No other than the man from Chicago, who is one of the pioneers of Acid House, the Tyree Cooper who invented by solo effort Hip House. An interesting combination, the inventor of Hip House meets one of Germany’s busiest Drum’n’Bass producers. The result is a phat Chicago house track with a slight Acid touch, "Close Life Off".
Marginalia: Rainer Trüby and Peter Kruder already told us that both tracks kick ass!
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Swiss Pocket Electro Beats
The fourth release on Compost's Black Label Vinyl series features two of the hottest producers from Switzerland. Cheese and chocolate are one thing – now it's time for some precise electronic click-clacks, like a swiss clock....
The first track "Solaris" (Pascal Hahn & Minus 8 Rmx) comes from the international known DJ, producer and Remixer Robert Jan Meyer aka Minus 8. He has already released many well received 12 " and albums on labels like Inflammable, Higher Ground, Stereo Deluxe and of course Compost Records and published about 20 Compilations like "Science Fiction Jazz 1-8", "Batucada 1+2" and "Sound Of Summer" (with Stéphane Pompougnac).
His Djing already took him to four continents and he moved the crowd on festivals like Amsterdam Dance Valley, Roskilde Euphoria and Montreux Jazz. On this remix from "Solaris" he worked together with the Zurich-based DJ Pascal Hahn, one of the co-founders of one of the most successful club-nights on Mondays in Europe, the "Cool Monday" (average of 1'500 visitors). Pascal Hahn published compilations on Universal and Muve and is accounted in Zurich as a DJ icon.
The B-Side contains the first releases of Cyril Boehler''s new project Zwicker. His last project Tweak was responsible for clubhits like "Fathorn" (Straight Ahead Recordings) or remixes for Klein Records, Compost's Minus 8 and Stephan Eicher from Grauzone. He also and worked on productions with Tony Allen (drummer of Fela Kuti), Freeform Arkestra and Seelenluft.
"Made Up" features the beautiful voice of Seelenluft-singer Olivera Stanimirov and some rockin' sounds which already define a high standard for Zwicker...You should also check out his release "Bearfunk" on Stevie Koteys Disco Label.
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Layin' low...Lopazz goes Compost
The third release on Compost's Black Label series features the Heidelberg based multi-talented Stefan Eichinger aka Lopazz, head of Multimedia-label hd800achtspur. Besides creating several soundtracks for movies he had releases on Freundinnen, Get Physical Music, Trevor Jackson's label Output and Cocoon Recordings. Now he is playing all over Europe and also working on his first album.
To sum it up in a few words: This guy is hot. His tracks got mixed and remixed by biggies like Sven Vaeth, Tiefschwarz, Luciano, Ricardo Villalobos, Captain Comatose and many others and his great remix for PRODUCT.01 "HEART OV GLASS " (Compost) already won our hearts. Just listen and enjoy this truly beautiful record with handcrafted Dance, Jazz, Electro and Soul.
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Ups we did it again...
The second release of Compost’s new club-orientated mini-series “Black Label” shifts gears up even darker. Coming equipped with 2 exclusive tracks from PC-Punker Martin Peter (Angora Steel) this 12inch simply rocks.
After the release of his great album “Enough Of This?!” on Angora Steel and his works on Antipop and DJ Linus label Exun he didn’t rest on his laurels but remembered his roots in the Munich elektro- und techno-szene, as he is Resident in Munich’s hottest tech-house club Registratur.
The A-Side track “Bad Day with JJ” can best be described as a bad-ass tech-house burner bearing some wicked rhythms, crazy basslines and dark vocals leaving the listener in an abulic state, dancing between this and the next dimension.
The B-Side abandons the save haven of vocal-land and sails on the rough waters of pure electronic. Encountering strange (sound) waves and (bass-)creatures this journey sure will be weird.
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Compost goes wild...
The first release on Compost‘s new 12inch platform for club tunes, DJ tools and experimental grooves really starts things with a bang. With Trickski "Hormony" and Julius Kammerl "Erlangen Sued" it features two tracks designed to move any dancefloor.
Trickski’s mad tech-jazz excursion has already been played in the recent sets of Top-DJ’s like Jazzanova, Rainer Trüby and Peter Kruder, creating quite a buzz within the electric community.
Famous for their foxy and new mixes and crazy, never-ending parties the Berlin-based DJ-team Daniel Becker (Compost/Helsinki) and Yannick Labbé (Cabinet/Compost) once again presents a groovy and innovative track which easily meets up with the high expectations coming with their reputation. By the way, Berlin-based Trickski are among the selectors of the second V.A. "I Like It" Vol 2 compilation (out summer 2005) and they have another top tune coming out on Sonar Kollektive late summer. We also look forward to the release of a Trickski remix for Alex Attias presents Mustang on his soon released 12inch “10,000 Leagues Deeper”.
The Munich-based DJ Julius Kammerl already earned a lot of respect with his Mettke (Beanfield) & Kammerl project or together with Benjamin Fröhlich (Play Records) and their Balestra Beats Crew.
After his exclusive track on "Future Sounds Of Jazz" Vol. 9 his second track “Erlangen Süd” confirms his talent as a producer. When working for the Frauenhofer Institute in Erlangen he spent his spare time building his own synthesisers and developing new sounds. With this track he succeeds again in combining different styles and his very own sounds into a new aspect of club-music. A tricky mad one by the way, which will move any feet within acoustic range.
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Quotes on Compost Black Label #06
"Great record! Love both sides"
Rob Da Bank (Sunday Best / Blue Room (Radio1 / UK))
"I NEED THESE!! How wicked is this release ... Asian flavours, broken samba bizznizz - magic!"
Paul Gamblin (DJ & Presenter of the Black & Blue Radio Show / Australia)
"Brahmasonic "Kholi Number" is a great cinematic jive. The unique Indian overtones keep the jazz breaks cool enough for a sound opium shuffle. Really love this. A great addition to any tastemakers record box. Will be dropping this one all summer. Keisuke Suzuki "Water Samba" Ah yes. This is definitely a future classic for sure. Lovely trippy keys over a sweet bossa beat, sends you into outer space. Once the heavy bottom end drops it's the bizz nizz. Fantastic vibe."
James Browning (FutureClassic / Australia)
"love these two...great similar sound to each other, but very unique...amazing. 9/10"
Domu (Neroli / Archive / Sonar Kollektiv)
"I've been hammering it to death. Both tracks have been played on my Basic Soul show"
Simon Harrison (Basic-Soul / UK)
"Really into the Kholi & Samba tune. Will definitely be rocking it in my DJ sets and on radio."
Rob Luis (Tru Thoughts / UK)
"Very nice bit of cinematic techno. I prefer the short but sweet breaky feel of Brahmasonic, but Keisuke Suzuki is good, too, especially when the rude bass tone drops."
Andrew Jervis (Ubiquity / USA)
"Super!"
Robin (Pulver Records) & Rino (Dublex / Germany)
"i'm feeling both these tracks and will play out on my radio shows and out and about in London."
PADDY (Universal Vibes / UK)
"These two tunes are excellent - very different and original. It's about time that someone made some good Asian-jazz-tech music! Definite playlist material for the Futureboogie Show on VibeFM."
Steve Nickolls (futureboogie.com)
"coole nummern - besonders die Kholi Number!"
Julius Kammerl (Compost / NYC, USA)
Quotes on Compost Black Label #05
"Really like "all tonight". Great swinging beats and love that little hint of piano to is this how Ten City would sound if they came out of Germany?"
Prins Thomas (Major Swellings / Full Pupp / Eskimo Records)
"Man that's a killer 12, really strong and perfect for my Housier sets !"
Chris Duckenfield (SWAG, UK)
"Ridiculous! This is too Good! Very creative indeed House Music...5/5"
Luke McKeehan (Nordic Trax)
"Cool, Tyree : ) that's a big hero of mine."
John Tejada
"Wicked - chunky chords remind me of that nice old school Chicago vibe."
Gamall (Backspin Promotions, NYC)
"I love the Matt Flores mix"
Simon Harrison (www.basic-soul.co.uk)
"This sets us up nicely for NYE! Bring it on I say - what a great tune!!"
Paul Gamblin (DJ & Presenter of the Black & Blue Radio Show, Australia)
"Wonderfull old-skool vocal house ! Reminds me of the good old days back in
the end-80ies!"
Tom Wax (Phuture Wax.Network)
"Ok great tunes . Both kind of funky and dancefloor friendly. My choice would go first to Flowerz , but listening a few times to Tyree Cooper I find myself going back in time when Hip House was ..er..well...HIP, and I like that a lot . So for me its all good and funky, thats all I need!!"
Alex Attias (Mustang / Beatless / Visions Records / Compost / Ubiquity)
"These joints are rocking, big tunes in my box, both sides deliver the payoff, 9/10"
Alan Brown (Soul Seduction, Vienna)
"Schön zu sehen das da noch so viel Spirit vorhanden ist in "klassische" Deep House!!! Habe schon eure letzten releases zu Tode gespielt (minus 8 & lopazz) und jetzt der nächste Killer!!! Besonders die a Seite / Flowerz..."
Kiki (Bpitch Control, Berlin)
"B - seite ist super ! Fetter House Tune"
Rainer Klang (Klein Records)
"Cooles Ding. Flowerz ist der absolute Knaller! Old school Chicago in the house..."
Robin (Pulver Records)
Quotes on Compost Black Label #04
Support by King Britt, Ben Watt, DJ Hell, Makossa, FM4 Airplay, Morpheus, Gerd (4Lux), Josh Wink, DJ, Doctor H (Greece), Kikko Solaris (Radio SIS), Ali Tillett, Nico De Ceglia, Pedo Knopp, Zimpala.
Nr. 5 in Spex Charts
"So mancher Burner der letzten Wochen dagegen fällt ganz unvermittelt aus dem zuletzt ja doch wieder sehr blauen Himmel. Was der Zürcher DJ Pascal Hahn in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Komponisten des Originals, Robert Jan Meyer, aus MINUS 8 und dessen "Solaris" (Compost Black Label/Groove Attack) gemacht hat, da freut sich jeder DJ (wie man in München wahrscheinlich sagt) "narrisch". Zutaten hat der Track, die sind nicht komplizierter als jedes gewöhnliche Tellergericht, aber dann: die dramaturgische, goldrichtige Zubereitung, die Garung à point, der Akkord ein Gedicht ... und der Siedepunkt glänzt schließlich durch einen Anti-Klimax paar excellence. Kurzum: ein Hit, aber toll."
Tobias Thomas (Data Pop)
"Strong as hell ... full support"
Laurent Garnier
"Solaris" is tasty and deep and possibly has the breakdown of the year!
Rainer Trüby
"Genius. Seriously. It's really nice shit, and i'd love to have it!"
James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem / DFA)
"Cool."
Tiga
"The minus 8 mix is superplus"
M.A.N.D.Y.
"Very cool indeed"
Meat Katie
"Der Minus 8 Track ist ziehmlich geil. Feines Brettchen. Girls like it ;-)))"
Toni Rios
"Fett. Solaris und Dub von Made Up"
Phonique
"Excellent track,like it alot 9/10"
Smokin J
"Super Platte...Solaris und der Dub cut von Made Up, beide cool...."
Martin Landsky
"Minus 8 rocks"
David Duriez
"Oh yes, that's definitely my style!!"
Chris Coco
"Toller track von minus 8…"
Moguai
"minus8 track is supafeiner e-house, funkt und knartzt !! werd ich droppen. die anderen trax von zwicker der dub is ganz gut"
Scheibosan
"I like “solaris” pascal hahn & minus 8 rmx. cool groove!"
DJ Fex
stehe total auf den dub. original ist auch sehr sexy. funky shit!
Huntemann
"I love that big fuzzy bass vibe on Solaris, and the breakdown sounds large! Also the Zwicker tune sounds great on a slightly more chilled tip. Lovely vocal as well..."
Mike Monday
"This record is what I'm searching for...Energy/Relax!!!"
Tony H (Italy)
"Klingt sehr gut!"
Kiki
"Sounds good!"
DJ Friction
"Die Minus 8 ist sehr geil"
Ian Pooley
"That is one cool record that should appeal to a really wide selection of djs from electro to deep house. Lovely music"
Paulette
"Jo der Minus 8 Remix ist ein guter Kracher mit ausgereiftem Arrangement..."
Dominik Eulberg
"I will definitely play Solaris. And the Made up (dub) is also cool."
Aldrin (Zouk Singapor)
“I'm very impressed. Standout cuts for me to play out is Solaris“
Jamie Odell / Jimpster
"I am really digging the Dub of Made Up. This is a nice mellow breakbeat.
Loving it. I will def rock this funky joint."
JonH (Fort Knox)
"That Minus 8 tune is wicked!
Moose
"I like the Solaris track and can use the Zwicker for warmup sets."
Chris Fortier
"Ah, die Solaris – die such ich ja schon wie blöd. Hab die aufm Hessentag gehört. Absoluter Knaller."
Einmusik
"Like it"
Andre Schwarz (DJ Propaganda)
"Phatt stuff! Send me this peace of dope!
Martin Eyerer
"Simple and playable... made up – (dub) is my favorite.."
Savas Pascalidis
"The original of the Zwicker-track is great, and the dub-mix is excellent. Really cool swampy disco feel.
Tomas Andersson
"Cooles Teil..."
Peter Kruder
"That is wicked, electro with a detroit influence
Mike McKenna (Tokyo)
GREAT....I love and will definetly play the minus 8. definitely a bomb on the floor..great production..a bit ravy...its my cup of tea"
DJ Naughty
"Ja, ist cool die Nummer!"
Boris Dlugosch
"I love the Made Up - Dub Cut very much but the Solaris (Minus 8 remix) will kills everybody & me first !!!!!!
Cosy Mozzy
"The minus 8 is actually great stuff!"
David Guetta
"Will definitely review for IDJ. Good single, really good."
Bill Brewster
"The Minus 8 track is great"
The Hacker
"Yes that Minus 8 build up and drop is awesome"
Coburn
"Great minus 8 remix and the dub from zwicker track is also dope. Will play chart n support both for sure"
Mugwump (Hi-Phen)
"I like it .... Especially “MADE UP”. Fantastic vibe.
Q Burns Abstract Message
"I like it a lot!
Morpheus
"Excellent. love that one"
Hernan Cattaneo
"Solaris is huge, sweet and strong, not easy to make it but they did it. “Made Up” dub cut has a very good atmosphere , good work ! “Made up” is sexy ! naughty boy ! ! !
Tom Pooks
Quotes on Compost Black Label #03
Support by Tim Sweeney (played in Radioshow Beats In Space), Morpheus,
DJ Doctor H (Greece), Kikko Solaris (Radio SIS), Nico De Ceglia, Tim Sweeney (played in Radioshow Beats In Space), Morpheus, DJ Doctor H (Greece), Kikko Solaris (Radio SIS), Nico De Ceglia.
"10,000 Leagues Deeper Remixes, the Lopazz "Child Of Dance," and that Elbee
Bad track. I was really into all of these. I actually had to rerecord my
radio show for this thursday, and I ended the show with the Lopazz track"
Tim Sweeney (Beats In Space / NYC)
Quotes on Compost Black Label #01:
"Rough and ready to rumble. The Sound of Trickski out of Berlin. Just a few ingredients is all you need they teach. Cook it medium and its well done. Kinda new sound takin' everything not sooo serious and this is how it goes. Flipside sees Julius Kammerl working it more deep but still rocking as well. Cool release. In the box."
Michael Rütten / Soulsearching - The Compost Radio Show
"Old school Detroit vibes with a fresh twist. Looking forward to more from these guys."
Ennio Styles
"Hormony brings my hormons to the max!"
Rainer Trüby
"I like very much Julius Kammerl "Erlangen Süd", I play it quiet often in
my sets. Also Martin Peter "Bad Day with JJ". It s a very nice track and I play it
quiet often, too."
DJ Chloé
"Amazing Deep Electro Stuff"
Franck Bombard
“Perfect soundz here! I like this new side of Compost as it reminds me Voom:Voom & Consorts few years ago!”
DJ BNX – ZIMPALA / France
"Love both sides ..."
Laurent Garnier
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