Aril Brikha's Art Of Vengeance

Swedish producer Aril Brikha, born 1976 in Iran, migrated to Stockholm at age 3. There he disco¬vered his passion for electronic music in his early teens.  Influenced by Depeche Mode, Front 242 and Jean Michel Jarre, and later by Robert Hood and Under¬ground Resistance, he started using a sequencer at the age of 16 to compose his own music - wi¬thout knowing which musical trend he‘d kick off with that in europe: Friends told him his music was Detroit Techno.Still, his sound didn‘t match the taste of swedish labels at that time, so Aril sent off his demo‘s to his favorite labels in the States. He got in touch with three independent labels, among those Der¬rick May‘s Transmat. His release „Art Of Vengeance EP“ (featuring „Groove La Chord“) was then relea¬sed in 1998 on its sister label Fragile.

Now a new star of Deep Techno, Aril Brikha went on tour with his live show playing all over the world, including the Detroit Electronic Music festival and clubs like Fabric, Air, and Yellow, and hasn‘t stop doing so ever since.  As one of the most innovative producers from Eu­rope, he went on to release the clubhit EP „Winter“ on Kompakt, more releases on Pokerflat followed. In summer 2007 his long awaited Album follow-up was released by Peacefrog - a classic Detroit Techno / House longplayer, with elements from his previous productions.  „Deeparture In Time - Revisited“ will be released in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of his 1999/2000 released Album on Transmat. This also kicks off his own label „Art Of Vengeance“. Next to the remastered originals of Deeparture In Time, the release features a 2nd CD with 10 previous­ly unreleased tracks that were created between 1995 and 1999. All of them take us on a time travel to the 90ies, with a sound still prevalent in modern productions, as pure as can be.
This one‘s for the lovers of the early Detroit Tech­no with that unique Aril Brikha twist, and all those who‘d like to discover it: One Chord To Rule Them All.

Desolate LP a Fauxpas!?

Is it allowed to give yourself a present for your birthday? Yes, if you propose to share. And what is to be shared here, is the fifth release by the Hamburg based record label Fauxpas Musik. Just in time for their first anniversary they publish Desolates debut album “The Invisible Insurrection". In January 2009 his first EP has been released and now the time has come for his first LP, of course this imprint is pressed on vinyl. The dark but dynamic sounds of Burial and the spheric spacy atmosphere of Boards of Canada seem to be basic inspiration for Desolate. “The Invisible Insurrection” will be available in a limited 180g vinyl edition plus a bonus cd. Vinyl tastes better.

Boys Noize on Acid!

Boys Noize has compiled 12 modern acid jams done by BNR artists and homies like Feadz, Joakim & Krikor and Brodinski tributing 20 years of Acid.

How to make a classic Acid track ?
First you need a Roland-Tb 303 Bassline which - back in 1982 - was made for musicians to replace the actual bass or guitar.
It's manual is the most annoying thing to read because it teaches you classic music lessons, no wonder that the idea of the Roland TB 303 been a real instrument have failed and noone wanted to buy the it.
In the midle of the 80's Dj Pierre, member of Phuture produced a 12min track "Acid Trax" with just a drumachine and the 303, a total new sound created for the clubs. Shortly after a few more producers put that "useless" thing together with a drummachine like the Roland Tr 808 or 909, programmed a bassline pattern and recorded live sessions, abusing it s incredible filters:
Acid-House was born. A new genre was born.

Because the Roland Tb 303 got so expensive, you can find diverse clones of that wonderful machine and since 1 year you can even make Acid sounds with your phone - Boys Noize presents a compilation full of new, modern acid, made in all kinds of ways.
Some, well most, of the producers on this compilation have used the classic Roland303, some used a 303 clone, a 303 plug-in and some even rocked the 303 iphone app.
Some of the producers on this compilation spent their time with all kinds of analog gear and mixers to have the original "warm" sound they love and some others just use a fucking laptop.
can you hear the difference ? well, i can :).. but do you really ?
And why release new Acid tracks when you can find the best ones made 10-20 years ago ?
Because this is some fresh Acid you havent heared before, produced by incredible young talents that know everything about the Acid-life, producers that take this genre to another level, into the future.