P&M Album on Sasse's Mood Music - Same Monkeys Different Zoo

Nils Penner and John Muder produced their first 4-Track Demo CD in August 2007.
Produced in the Suol Studios in East-Berlin for fun rather than with a full-blown business plan, Sasse signed 2 tracks of this demo for his Moodmusic imprint.
„Are You Lost“ became Penner+Muders first vinyl 12“ release. It got great reactions from the dj community and the Bside „Millenium Falcon“ was picked by electro-maestro Oliver Huntemann himself for his Mix Compilation „Play 02! Live at Rex / Paris“.
At this time John and Nils made the decision to only play Live sets so the duo could concentrate fully on their own
sound, rather than taking a line at the end of the ever-growing dj list.
The first gig became quite a kick-off. It happened at a Moodmusic showcase at the well-known Panorama Bar in Berlin
late summer 2008 and the feedback was none less than stellar. One good thing lead to another and gigs happened at
Watergate, Berlin and Baalsaal, Hamburg with more planned for the spring/summer 2010.
Release-wise the guys kept it slow and focussed on quality than quantity. Working from two cities (Hamburg and Berlin)
with rather short studio-time it almost took one year before the second EP „No Nose Knows“ hit the stores. Meanwhile
the duo has also remixed for Moodmusic, Oliver Koletzki´s XXX label and Suol.
Their current single, entitled „Another EP“, is in the pipe on the new imprint Wazi Wazi, which is already gaining support
and respect from the critics like De-Bug Magazine.
Wazi Wazi is Nils personal label side-project (with Sasse) besides workin with John and handling a graphic design
business he is living on. Johns passion is music based and he is working nonstop with his partner in crime Chi-Thien
Nguyen aka Chopstick and their successfull new homebase „Suol“.
Pretty much right after the release of „Are You Lost“ Sasse asked the guys if they were up for a full-length album on
Moodmusic and guess what: they were. Working on the album happened over the last two years, pending between
Hamburg and Berlin, and came to an end by the end of 2009. „Same Monkeys Different Zoo“ is scheduled for June
2010.
The first single taken from the album, entitled „Speak Your Mind“, was produced together with Roman Fritz from
Plasmik. Remixes will come from japanese Pokerflat artist Ryo Murakami and Get Physical signing Siopis.
At this point Nils and John are really looking forward to the Album release and to play some hot and dirty Album-Tour
Live gigs.

Trentemoller Album Charts Europe Top 100s, New Single out July 19th

Anders Trentemoller´s brand new Album, which is currently much hyped and beloved
not only here at Was Towers, Charts Germany, Benelux, Denmark, Switzerland ´s official Top 100 Charts
as New entry with High Positions this week.
I you have not checked it out yet , do so, it´s getting time as the limited Edition (link) is already
nearly sold out while the regular Edition is on sale everywhere now (link).
Hot off the press is news about the second Single Cut Out  which will be  "Even though you´re with another girl" and is released july 19 in a 7 inch (link) and 12inch (link) version.
Remixes by the likes of Pantha Du Prince, Kollektiv Turmstrasse and Mikael Simpson, so, expect some great music there, too.

Mo's Ferry's Vinyl Only Open Air

ROTTLEBEN - BARBAROSSAHÖHLE - 9. & 10. 7. 2010

Mo's Ferry presents their second Vinyl Only open air festival. All participating DJs will play vinyl only (no CDs or digital devices!), all live acts will play "LIVE" - no laptops allowed!

Please find all info, full line-up and more to this special event on their homepage http://www.ilovevinyl.de/

Mount Kimbie's Full Length Debut on Scuba's hot flush!

 

Adding a percussive and experimental edge to the current class of post-dubstep pioneers, Mount Kimbie, the duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos - are set to release their highly anticipated debut album ‘Crooks & Lovers’ on Scuba's Hotflush label in July.

Mount Kimbie’s first two EPs -  ‘Maybes’ and ‘Sketch On Glass’ - seemed like explorations of spaces so private that all within earshot were instantly turned into voyeurs. The experience was less like listening to music and more like eavesdropping on the machinations of a lone mind – albeit a lone mind surrounded by and retreating from millions of other minds.

Difficult to categorise, the lush EPs caused a commotion when released last year with ‘Sketch On Glass’ recently undergoing reworks from the likes of Faulty DL, SCB  (Scuba’s darker techno alias) and their sometime collaborator James Blake. With their own remixes (Foals and The xx) becoming hot property, Mount Kimbie have been a core part of the growing scene in London often associated with labels like Hyperdub and Hessle Audio.

Dom and Kai met whilst at Southbank University, pushed together in a student halls that was previously a mental asylum - where the ceilings were still ridiculously high to stop patients hanging themselves: “a cold, joyless, concrete building – the sort of building where you’d drop a pen and the sound would just go on and on in an echo.”

Armed with found sound snips and a siege mentality, Kai and Dom set about turning London’s ambience into rhythm, its chaos into coherence. Traces of influence remain – the hard-earned spaces of Burial and The Bug vie with the berserk melodrama of Xiu Xiu and Grouper’s sad-eyed glow, D’Angelo’s pervert soul gets cleansed in the intimacy of Phil Elvrum’s Microphones, Angelo Badalamenti’s swollen ‘Twin Peaks’ atmospheres find a cradle in Madlib’s lax lope.

The band’s sound and response to the dubstep moment is very much their own. Sceneless and untethered from etiquette and genre codes, 'Crooks & Lovers' floats through dubstep and hip-hop, jazz, techno and ambient, post-rock, UK garage and film scores to startling effect.

The 1st new Technasia album in five years!

 

Central is the first new Technasia album in five years – and sure to be one of the musical highlights of 2010. The much-anticipated LP is powerful testimony to why Technasia is one of the most respected acts in electronic music.
Taking its name from the Hong Kong metro system, ‘Central’ is an emphatic creative statement that marks a new milestone an evolving story. Technasia mainstay Charles Siegling was in no hurry to put out an album: “I wanted to give my music time to evolve artistically before making a new record.” The result of his patience is the purest Technasia album to date – a seamless interweaving of sounds, styles and moods.
Opener ‘Apologia’ bursts to life in a swirling, symphonic wash of sound that instantly assures the listener they are in good hands for the duration of the ride on the ‘Central’ line. “I deliberately avoided writing a record to reflect the current scene,” Siegling says, “I wanted to do something that would last, to simply compose music the way I want to, and to reflect my different musical tastes. After a year of hard work I’m very pleased – I have achieved everything I set out to do.”
‘Central’ views house and techno through the lens of Technasia’s experience, creating a musical experience that is both refreshing and familiar. The melodic soul of the album may surprise some, who are most familiar with Technasia’s fierce live techno sets, but it evokes a longer heritage. Fans who cherish the ‘Fuse Presents Technasia’ mix as well as the 2000 hit single ‘Force’, respectively voted one of Resident Advisors Top 50 Mix CDs and Top 50 Singles of the past decade, also will instantly recognize the signature blend of house, techno and electro – driven by an artistry that both acknowledges and pushes the boundaries of electronic music.
‘Central’ is the locus where Siegling’s roots in Chicago house, epic Detroit soundscapes and the tough beats of early UK techno meet with the sensibility of futuristic European techno – particularly the crisp, clean style coming from Berlin – and the warmth of the house revival which has swept clubland in the past two years. ‘Central’ transcends trends, evoking the history of electronic culture even as the music leads listeners into the future.
Fans and critics will be equally pleased, as ‘Central’ whisks them into a musical universe that moves from midnight cityscapes (‘Music to Watch the City Lights Late at Night’) to Balearic sunsets (‘Tu Isla’) to the bowels of a dark, effervescent club somewhere outside of Chicago (‘Aries’). It is music in constant motion, evoking both the itinerant life of an international DJ and the global reach of electronic music.
Technasia has always focused on melting the boundaries between east and west, north and south. ‘Central’ both captures and comments on the interconnectedness of 21st century life, mixing space-age electronica (‘Phoenix’) with gritty street-level techno (‘Innocuous Clouds’). As a result, the album functions on both an instant aural level and on an emotional level. It sounds different from its contemporaries because it is different: it is designed to continually get further under your skin.

However, ‘Central’ doesn’t forget that dance music rightfully belongs on the dancefloor. It also comes in a DJ-orientated dub version called: ‘Central (Remixed)’ (out in September 2010) which is sure to become a cherished tool for DJs across the house and techno spectrum. The total ‘Central’ package is a meeting of sound, emotion and visuals (the stunning artwork is drawn from photos of the Hong Kong Metro by Chinese photographer Elden Cheung) that will draw listeners back time and again. Siegling says: “I set out to make the album I’ll be remembered for.” ‘Central’ is the sound of that dream come true.