POWER: NEW BOYS NOIZE ALBUM

In September one of the brightest future’s in electronic music presents his new album. Alex Ridha aka BOYS NOIZE is, along peers Erol Alkan and Justice, part of a new mongrel breed of techno/electronica artist with a maverick bent and solid vision, beaming a myriad of influences from the past through a prism to create something fresh, new and exciting. Founding his own imprint Boysnoize Records (BNR) in 2005 he achieved to establish his very own sound. Alex released the first Boys Noize album “Oi Oi Oi” in 2007 on BNR which featured febrile club favourites like “& Down"and “Lava Lava” and also more soulful techno tracks like “Shine Shine” or what many regard as one of his finest works, his remix of FEIST’s “My Moon, My Man". Official remixes for the likes of DEPECHE MODE, SNOOP DOGG, JUSTICE, LATE OF THE PIER, his latest work for ROYKSOPP, highly regarded DJ mix compilations (Bugged Out! / I Love Techno) as well as productions for BLACK EYED PEAS and canadian genius GONZALES proved how versatile he could be. Now BOYS NOIZE presents his second longplayer. Instead of following the commercial path after the unexpected success of “OI OI OI", BOYS NOIZE passed on any big name featuring, the great pop approach or feeding trends. Keeping it real, “POWER” starts where “Oi Oi Oi” has ended and shows the freshest of electronica and techno music.

Oliver Koletzki's second album on Stil Vor Talent

Oliver Koletzki’s highly anticipated second album is an electronic album of the finest proportions. The Berlin-based techno and house producer and DJ Oliver Koletzki has fully committed himself to his roots for this album. They can be traced back to pop music of the 80ies and 90ies, while his productions still manage to transport the fresh energy of today’s electronic music productions. „Großstadtmärchen“ is a perfect example for a producer’s album: Oliver Koletzki has created a musically compact long player while working together with many different singers. Both established artists like Mieze Katz from the German electro-pop outfit MIA., the hot German pop-rock-singer Axel Bosse, critically acclaimed indie band Kate Mosh as well as newcomers such as Fran, Pyur and Juli Holz have contributed to the album. The result are ten songs that easily fluctuate between catchy pop tracks, modern house grooves and 80ies synthesizer pop yet still maintaining a very own Koletzkieske sound dynamic.

“Großstadtmärchen”, which translates as “The tale of the big city” starts off with “THIS IS LEISURE”. Famous pop singer Mieze Katz has put down her sexy voice on a guitar-based song pattern that functions as an ideal introduction into the craziness of the big city tales. After hearing this, the listener is directly fully drawn into this world when hearing Juli Holz’s softly whispering voice singing about the dilemmas of love in the big city on “ZUCKERWATTE” (Single release date: 7.9.09). This is a very fine electro-pop tune. Coming up next Oliver Koletzki and Axel Bosse board an underground train that takes them around the Berlin U-Bahn system and back. Axel Bosse, who has had a massive success with his song “3 Millionen” adds his melancholic voice to this groovy pop anthem and sings about the poetic magic of public transport, while we hear the sounds of the trains on top. Of course, Oliver Koletzki has added some purely instrumental tracks on his album, too: “KUSSKOMPATIBEL” and “WARSCHAUER STRASSE” are a journey back to Oliver’s first years in Berlin and his love for house music. “KLEINES ZWISCHENSPIEL” also celebrates the energetic sound of electronic music. Then there is another great shine of bright light with the pop track “HYPNOTIZED” that is already making airwaves on German radio. It features the newcomer singer Fran that turns this track into a wonderful electronic love story. In her beautiful crystal clear voice Fran tells the story of those moments during the night that decide where it’s going to end: a song about love, passion and the energy between male and female, a catchy pop anthem about the first dance, the first kiss and that special moment when the night turns into day. Oliver has equipped this song with a wonderful piano melody and a very smooth and poppy electronic beat. Actually it sounds like Fran and Oliver have never been doing anything else than produce wonderfully fresh pop songs together.

The tale of the city carries on with a very appealing mixture of indie rock and electronic music. “HEADSHAPED BOX” encapsulates what Indietronic sounds like in the year 2009: symphonic, melodic and simply unique. On “THESE HABITS” the just seventeen-year-old singer Pyur makes her debut. This down-beat triphop-groove is a wonderful hit for the late summer. Last up is a bonus track: Oliver Koletzki remixes “NIMM MICH MIT” by the electronic boy-band Die Raketen.

“Großstadtmärchen”: This title is chosen for a reason. The story behind Oliver Koletzki is also a magical tale of believing in yourself. Since he is 12 years old, Oliver makes music, by himself or in bands: it is the love for the energy of soundwaves that makes him work hard on himself. In 2005 Oliver Koletzki celebrates the big breakthrough by releasing his hit “Mückenschwarm” on the label of techno grand daddy Sven Väth Cocoon Records. It becomes not only the biggest tune of the year, but also the best selling single on Cocoon Records ever. With this success in mind, Oliver directly realises his dream of starting his own label to promote newcomers. Stil vor Talent also becomes the platform for the release of his first album “Get Wasted” in 2007. One year later, Oliver proves his intuition for pop music when he signs the track “3 Tage Wach” by Lützenkirchen. He makes a low-budget-video for the track that gets an astronomically large half a million views on YouTube within the first three weeks. At least from here it is obvious: Oliver Koletzki is not your average techno producer. His productions and his sense for orginal music also have a deep rooting within pop culture. Thus “Großstadtmärchen” is the logical consequence from two decades of intense musical production: here comes a mature, yet still playful pop album that manages to combine many different influences into one harmonious oeuvre. It shows just how close the dancefloor and pop music really always were, and still are.

For the release of the album Oliver Koletzki will also present it live with a five-piece-band. In the tradition of 60ies pop musicians the band calls upon the name of “The Koletzkis”. There will be a bass player, a drummer, Oliver Koletzki on the piano and the laptop as well Pyur and Juli Holz for the singing parts. With this outfit Oliver comes back to his roots as a bandleader and he is already very excited as well as extensively rehearsing this live show. After all, pop music can work great an album, but it’s the live performance that it’s all about!

Welcome to Format:B's brandnew imprint: Formatik!

The label Formatik was founded by Jakob Hildenbrand und Franziskus Sell alias Format:B. The goal was to create a platform that could represent the genre mix that is Format : B, properly. Fotmatik's objective is also to release music that targets the dance floor whilst staying modern and funky.
Franziskus (Formatik)" We won't be sticking to a certain genre with this label, our main criteria's will be a good groove and originality. It won't matter if the artist is a new face or someone that is already well established. We think it will be exciting to release our taste in music on vinyl and then to see how things progress. In order to maintain the quality of the label we will be releasing a maximum of 5 vinyl's per year, and for the more experimental side of things there are also plans for a digital division. we are proud to say that Hamburg's wordandsound will be our distributor. The mastering will be done at Dubplates Mastering in Berlin.
We have secured the artists Hugo, Daniel Steinberg and of course Format : B for our upcoming first releases due in September and December 2009.
There are further release planned for 2010 with other artists and demos are welcome!

Format B @ Hive(playing Track „Redux“ from the upcoming FMK001) Please visit youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTof1Tciqa8&feature=channel_page

PATRICK COWLEY + JORGE SOCARRAS: CATHOLIC

Lost for 30 years - The revolutionary album by one of dance music’s most influential producers finally sees the day of light! Containing an incredible array of synth-driven innovation, electonic music’s history books will be rewritten. “Catholic’s” range from minimalistic proto-techno to synth-driven post-punk still sounds as fresh as it is unique.

Patrick Cowley (1950-1982) remains one of Disco’s most influential artists and a key producer of the genre. With seminal hits like “Do You Wanna Funk”, “Menergy” and “Megatron Man”, his work for Disco superstar Sylvester and of course his million-selling remix of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love”, he created the soundtrack for a whole generation. Artists like Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys and New Order cite him as a major influence.  With a whole new global Disco afficionado scene, now playing his records every weekend accross the world’s clubs, this release is about to hit the streets right on time.
 
It’s nothing less then a “once in a lifetime” sensation that Macro announces the release of a full unreleased Cowley album, written and performed in collaboration with Indoor Life vocalist Jorge Socarras. No re-issue, no material scrapped by the artists – but a work Cowley took 5 years to perfect! The original release got delayed for 3 decades due to Cowley’s tragic death due to AIDS in 1982.
 
Recorded between 1976 and 1979, “Catholic” is a genre-bending concept album with a range from minimalistic proto-techno to synth-driven post-punk – pre-dating LCD Soundsystem and The Rapture by almost 30 years. It was in fact so way ahead of anything known at the time that it wouldn’t sound retro if it was recorded just now. It shows a much broader range than any Cowley or Socarras material available and gives a totally new perspective to one of the most inspiring eras in music history.

The album will hit the stores for Patrick Cowley’s birthday on October 19th, 2009.

For additional information please visit: http://www.myspace.com/cowleysocarras