Boys Noize - The Remixes 2004-2011

Alex Ridha aka Boys Noize has been a true pioneer and electro stalwart for over a decade. From DJing for the likes of DJ Hell and Felix Da Housecat at the age of 16, his career has seen him move to the top of the game. Constantly releasing forward thinking electro and techno, this skyrocket career culminated in him setting up Boysnoize Records in 2005, giving him complete artistic freedom. His highly regarded albums ‘Oi Oi Oi’ and ‘Power’ showcased his genre-spanning talents and impressed fans and peers alike. Through the course of all this, Boys Noize has racked up an impressive number of remixes and he decided to compile the best of these into a generous 2CD package. ‘Boys Noize - The Remixes 2004-2011′ shows Ridha’s electro stylings applied to the best and brightest in the industry. Spanning over 6 years of work, this album showcases Boys Noize’s ability to rework source material into his own unique and inspiring compositions. From the stunning beauty of his remix of Feist’s ‘My Moon My Man’ to the emotive synth work on Daft Punk’s recent ‘End of Line’, Alex’s touch never fails to impress. When we say ‘the best and the brightest’, we truly mean it; from critically acclaimed legends like David Lynch to the cooler than cool N*E*R*D, this release truly has ‘a lot’ for everyone. Be ‘Happy Up Here” with Röyksopp and curious on the remixes Boys Noize did for Depeche Mode, Snoop Dogg, Marilyn Manson, The Chemical Brothers, Editors, Justice and many more. 24 tracks on 2CDs will ‘remix” your mind ‘cause no one knows better than Boys Noize how to transform hits like ‘Everyday I Love You Less And Less’ (Kaiser Chiefs) into a new style and presenting a massive range on electro styles over the last 8 years. ‘Boys Noize - The Remixes 2004-2011′ …a shredded, delicious, sparkling, cream of the crop remix experience par excellence OUT NOV.28th 2011.

Sven Väth In The Mix "The Sound Of The 12th Season"

With the Cocoon Heroes, Sven Väth´s techno tribe entered a new stage in its never ending metamorphosis. Fuelled by the communicative energies of the social networks of the internet the Cocoon is opening up, declaring ravers and performing artists, dancers and helpers part of the Cocoon as well. Within the concept of the Cocoon, this is something entirely new: As the nineties, techno´s groundbreaking decade, came to an end, Sven Väth realized a fundamentally new path had to be persued. Calling longtime fellow travellers and new acquaintances together to form a Cocoon: a remote safety zone and a exciting playing ground, a highly productive agency and a weird tribe of electronic music freaks and party animals. With the Cocoon club, Väth and his companions created a new type of club which fused sound and space into one immersive experience. Having realized that the daily life in the big cities compromises partying without limits, they set up a second home each summer at Club Amesia on the Mediterreanian island of Ibiza. The “Sounds of the Season”-Series is an aural photo album and an a compressed culmination at the same time. The love for electronic music is the driving force of all Cocoon´s endevours. Yet they closely watch what is going on outside their Cocoon. Exited about the chatter about musicans and night life going on services like Facebook or Twitter, the concept of the Cocoon heroes was created. Serving as an arena for gossip and discussion, there is even a Facebook app to create the most unlikely avatars, desolving the border between performer and listener. In the first part of “The sound of the 12th season”, Väth melds the crowd into an orgiastic techno feast. Being bold in its outcome, the beginning is quite subtle. Efdemins and Kozes surprisingly slow grooves lure the dancers into their unique electronic sounds. With their demanding beats and heavy basslines, Dense & Pika set a different, energizing tone. Suprsingly quick Väth reaches a first peak with Boys Noize´s „Adonis“ - an unlikely encounter of a 80s-Chicago-House-bassline and a seductive arabesque melody. But Väth doesn´t give it all away just now. With the elegant techno soul of Justin Vandevolgers he lets the crowd take a deep breath. Then, when you don´t expect it at all, Todd Terjes accoustic space disco sets in. Terjes Tracks is as an unexpected exposition of the hammering bass and nasty acid sounds of Mark E´s “Belvide Beats” as well. Entering with unexpected force, the gates are open now. The contradicting forces of the dancefloor are finally in sync. Only Väth´s longtime favorites Chateau Flight manage to bring this orgiastic mess back on a managable level. With their stripped down funk, they create a perfect stage for the electronic fusion jazz of Aufgang. The final sequence of the first mix is a journey into melodic electronic sounds: Gary Beck takes us into a clowd of allien strings. Benoit Sergio´s processed voice sounds like Indiepop from a parallel world. Acquiesence´s cloudy soundscapes let us dive into an ocean of pure electronic grace. With tracks by Steffi, Gerd and Anthony Collins, the House grooves of the second mix set an entirely different mood. It is a set for those moments when the party goes on for hours or even days, when the dancers are completely lost in the elyptic electronic sounds. Move D puts us into a deep trance driving our ever moving bodies into accoustic territories yet to be discovered. A tiny vocal sample is endlessly repeated until the human voice is stripped bare of all humanity. Osunlades shockingly beautiful voice is enriched by Ame´s multilayered House sound which encounters Alli Borèm rough “Scotch Your Mind”. Borèm funnily mocks senseless afterhour conversations bare of any sense. Maceo Plex sets a driving disco groove which desolves into Roman Flügels subtle, analytical approach to classical Chicago house. With tracks by Philip Bader, Matt John and Re.You the grooves and voices disssolve into those poetic moments when everything but the music is forgotten. The groove, like life, never ends. But this mix has to. And it does, with Mark E.´s longing synth-pop. There are many Cocoon Heroes, but there is only one Sven Väth. With his unique curiosity and courage, he gives us a chance to surrender to the music completely. Finally we realize that the beauty and the beast are two faces of the some creature. It is always the electronic trip that you was hoping for. But it never comes the way you expected it to.

Ruede Hagelstein album on SOUVENIR

Ruede Hagelstein is best known for techno and house. Although his heart beats not only for the bass drum. His first album, Soft Pack, invites you to melancholic deceleration, which runs like a thread throughout the album. Yes, Ruede is a resident DJ at Berlin's Watergate club, but here he presents songs he would not play in the club because they are too down tempo and sentimental for sweaty dancefloor nights. In 2004 his first EP 'Sweaty Balls' appeared on Freundinnen Records, the label of his friend and Berghain-Panorama Bar Resident ND_Baumecker. Celebrated in England by the sleazy disco crowd, and licensed by Output Records. The B side, Eclectic People inspired France's electro-clash scene and landed on the Kitsune Maison Compilation. Despite different stylistic orientations, Ruede's choirboy vocal remained the unifying element. This was followed by functional techno hits on Lebensfreude Records, losing the vocals in the process. Mathew Dear grabbed 'Keep Us Away' for his Fabric mix, and Sven Väth worked Waves into his Sounds Of The 6th Season. Remixes were done for Chikinki, Louie Austen, and Elle P: & Iftah. His home base is Tiefschwarz's label, Souvenir and Upon You Records, where is recently released 'Who's Me' EP filled the favorite summer CD slots of many Djs, including DJ Koze. But Ruede Hagelstein hasn't lost any ground on the dancelfoor with his new album. Aside from the Digital, and CD release of Soft Pack, souvenir will be presenting three singles with various club remixes. A good example of the arc that spans Ruede between strobe and candlelight is the track 'Emergency' which stormed DJ charts and polls on 2010, will be presented in a down tempo edit on Soft Pack. For most of the tracks, Ruede calls in for backup, and formed a band, The Noblettes. Together with his buddy Justin Evans, he writes spherical numbers like Posteriori and Leaving The Center, reminicent of Simon & Garfunkel. The most danceable track is 'Private' featuring vocals from Aileen Mrkwitschka, although he composes also without beats, as on 'Good Night'- The Complex horns are contributed by friend of Aileen, Mieke Wenzl, who joined the band as a multi instrumentalist. The blend of these four musical personalities is Ruede Hagelstein & The Noblettes, who managed to create this timeless indie-electronica album.

Watergate 09 compiled by Tiefschwarz

A mere 9 years old, Watergate has steadfastly become one of the world's most prominent electronic music institutions. This is due in no small part to its heady combination of picturesque location - its danceoors face directly out onto the river Spree - a wall-to-wall LED light installation and its impeccable music policy, with the cream of the electronic crop passing through its doors every week. The mix CD series, now in its 9th incarnation, is a further means for the club to stamp its seal onto the scene, with many of the club’s residents and regular talents having been invited to contribute. Previous artists have included the likes of Ellen Allien, Sascha Funke and Lee Curtiss, amongst others. This time round the mighty Schwarz brothers step up, using it as a means to take stock and look back at their extensive music career. Each previous artist having brought a specic concept to their mix, Ali and Basti decided to approach it as a way of presenting the tracks that began – and continue - their long-running aair with house music. The mix takes them all the way back to their early days throwing parties in Stuttgart, at the Red Dog club which they named in honour of the legendary Chicago venue. These soulful roots which rst hooked them and got them producing, stuck with them throughout, an insistence of melody and warmth which has pervaded throughout all their productions regardless of whether it can be labeled deep house, electrohouse or minimal. This mix is just a way of demonstrating the sheer timelessness of classic production techniques and how they so readily still inuence so many of today’s releases. Neither is it just a mere greatest hits of Chicago and Detroit, a legendary anthem like Frankie Knuckles’ ‘Baby Wants To Ride’ sitting quite comfortable alongside the tense melodies of John Roberts’ house, which itself wears its Chicago inuence proudly on its sleeve. There are some real danceoor bombs, the cult classic Intellidred remix of DJ Assassin which slides eortlessly into the infectious jack of Kevin Saunderson. The anthemic MK classic Burnin’ comes in a surprising new form, courtesy of Jay Haze, and there’s plenty more vocal action on the mix with Julio Bashmore’s recent smash ‘Father Father’ and a brand new Tiefschwarz production punctuated with the ethereal voice of Mama. One of Tiefschwarz’s rst loves were the prolic house legends Masters At Work, a true personal milestone for the brothers when they were asked to remix their heroes’ smash hit ‘To Be In Love’. They’ve included one of their all-time favourites, the MAW remix of the Afro Celt Soundsystem, the world music collective on Peter Gabriel’s inuential Real World Records. This then functions to lead out the mix, the brothers deftly tracing a line through a very recent Marc Ashken track on Hot Waves and into Romanthony’s ‘Rumpshaker’ which having been released on their own rst label back in 1997, draws a neat circular close to this very personal retrospective.

trentemøller "reworked / remixed" double album