Karotte’s Kitchen Vol. 1
May 31, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Labels, Releases | No Comments
German DJ and party animal Karotte releases a new mix, ‘Karotte’s Kitchen Vol. 1’ this summer. Karotte has held down residencies at clubs such as U60311 and Cocoon in Frankfurt and Harry Klein in Munich (for whom he mixed ‘Flokati House’ in 2005 with Matthias Tanzmann). He’s also the mind behind the radio ‘Karotte’s Kitchen’ on Sunshine Live in Mannheim, which adds chat and gossip to the usual beat-driven dance radio show formula. Karotte’s debut mix for Alphabet City is named after the radio show, and concentrates on a similar blend of minimal and electro.
M-Audio Announces Vista Compatibility
May 30, 2007 | Filed Under Tech Zone | No Comments
M-Audio® is proud to announce the release of Microsoft Vista drivers for many of the company’s most popular products.
M-Audio currently expects to release 32-bit Vista drivers for all of the following models during the second quarter of 2007: all FireWire products; all currently selling USB MIDI keyboards; Fast Track™ USB, Fast Track Pro, JamLab™, MobilePre™ USB, Black Box™ and Transit® USB interfaces; Conectiv™ and Xponent™ DJ interfaces; and the Revolution™ 5.1 PCI card.
Spooky - Open
May 28, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Labels, Releases | No Comments
Progressive house pioneers Spooky, aka Charlie May and Duncan Forbes, team up again for a third studio album. ‘Open‘ arrives in late June. Spooky are best known for the early nineties album ‘Gargantuan’ and its big singles ‘Little Bullet’ and ‘Schmoo’ on early progressive house label Guerilla. Since then the pair have focused on individual careers with May often credited as the brains behind many of Sasha’s productions including his biggest hit ‘Xpander’.
Adam Freeland - GU 32 Mexico
May 26, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Labels, Releases | No Comments
Breaks pioneer Adam Freeland mixes up rock, breaks, house and minimal on the latest Global Underground volume. GU 32: Mexico hits shelves in June. Freeland has been championed as a breaks DJ since the mid-nineties, especially for his genre-pioneering ‘Coastal Breaks’ volumes and nu-skool mixes ‘On Tour’ and ‘Tectonics’. But he’s also been known to mix it up. ‘Fabriclive 16′ showed he was not averse to crossing breaks with hip-hop and electro while his debut album ‘Now and Them’ brought the genre to the mainstream by flirting with rock, vocals and rap.
Theo Parrish - Sound Sculptures Vol.1
May 24, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Labels, Releases | No Comments
The Detroit soul/jazz/house producer returns with his first full length record in six years. ‘Sound Sculptures Vol. 1’ is out now. Theo Parrish makes his music hard to find – ‘Sound Signatures Vol. 1’ arrives as a pricey American import with a gatefold sleeve on 3 x 12” only. The album contains nine previously unreleased cuts, ranging from vocal tracks with live instrumentation to jazz oriented material to the rougher cut-up stuff of his early career. Listen out for the Parrish collaboration with Omar-S ‘Synthetic Flemm’, perhaps the most minimal/Detroit cut on the album.
5 Years of Get Physical
May 22, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Labels, Releases | No Comments
Latest 2CD Get Physical release features new tracks plus remixes of older label cuts by a surprising range of artists. ‘5 Years of Get Physical is out in mid-June. CD2 features new tracks by Get Physical regulars, while CD1 contains remixes and reinterpretations of Get Physical tracks from outside the electro house box including big electronic names (Matthew Herbert, Moby) pop (Sebastian Tellier, Hot Chip), underground house musicians (Henrik Schwarz, Dexter) dance punk (The Rapture) and even indie rock (Fujiya and Miyagi).
Mayer & Boratto on tour
May 20, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Events | No Comments
Kompakt boss Michael Mayer and Brazilian signing Gui Boratto (check his new album ’Chromophobia’) are touring North America later this month. The quick jaunt kicks off in San Francisco on May 24 and includes dates in Los Angeles (alongside Dave Seaman) and a Robots party at Cielo in New York. Mayeratto are also billed for festival dates in Detroit at the Movement Festival as well as Saturday night at Mutek in Montreal, where they will be playing alongside Someone Else, Pantha du Prince and Ambivalent.
Headliners of this year’s Exit announced!
May 18, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Events | No Comments
Richie Hawtin, John Digweed, Beastie Boys and the Wu Tang Clan are confirmed to play this year’s Exit Festival, taking place at the Petrovardin Fortress in Novi Sad in Serbia from July 12 to July 15, 2007.
Hawtin and Digweed headline the dance arena as do Danish wunderkind Trentemoller, Roger Sanchez, Swedish house don Eric Prydz, Collabs 3000 aka Chris Liebing and Speedy J, Buzzin’ Fly chief Ben Watt, dancing machine Magda, Paul Woolford, Sebastien Leger and Dirtybird’s Justin Martin.
Nothing Much @ M_nus
May 18, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Labels, Releases | No Comments
Richie Hawtin’s minimal techno label is readying the release of a ‘best of’ compilation. The 2xCD set arrives as an eleven-track compilation humbly titled ‘Nothing Much’ and a bonus M_nus set titled ‘Something More’, which is mixed by Troy Pierce. The ‘best of’ CD dips into a selection of the biggest M_nus tracks, including ‘Seeing Through Shadows’, ‘Egress’, ’25 Bitches’ ‘Baby Kate’, ‘Bay of Figs’, ‘The Tunnel’ and ‘Decompression’. The CD also includes newer cuts from Matthew Dear under his False moniker, Ambivalent and Skoozbot, who hands in a remix track from the new JPLS album. The selection was made by Richie Hawtin and Clark Warner.
Daniell Bell’s 7th City is back!
May 14, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Labels, Releases | No Comments
Daniel Bell relaunches his classic minimal imprint 7th City with a series of reissues this May. The news will come as a relief to Bell fans sick of playing crazy prices for the label on eBay, and with a bit of luck the next in the series might even be the rare and expensive ‘Planet Earth/Trance Missions’ from Brother From Another Planet/DBX which kicked off the label in 1992. Bell wound up 7th City in 2002, but this year the label returns to the stores, first with reissues of tracks from John Tejada (‘Timebomb’, 2002) and Claude Young as Brother From Another Planet (‘Acid Wash Conflict’, 1993) among others.
Dennis Ferrer In The House
May 12, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Labels, Releases | No Comments
As always with the ‘In The House‘ series on Defected, the release is a triple CD affair with two discs of mix and a third disc of unmixed tracks especially chosen by the artist. On the two mix CDs Dennis Ferrer swings between deep techy rhythms, soulful house and techno, while disc three includes some of Ferrer’s all-time favourites from artists such as Grace Jones, Roy Ayers and Liquid Liquid. Ferrer has been producing music for twenty years, but 2007 looks to be his best yet. He’s known for his collaborations with Jerome Sydenham (’Sandcastles’, ‘Timbuktu’) as well as last year’s biggie ‘Son of Raw’, which found its way into the record bag of Ricardo Villalobos, Ame and Ryan Elliott.
John Dahlback - Pickadoll’s
May 10, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Labels, Releases | No Comments
The prodigious 21-year-old from Sweden has notched up over 70 releases, 40 remixes and 75+ compilation appearances in just four short years under his various alias (HUG, Huggotron, Kaliber and probably others that we’re not even aware of). Not only does JD produce, but he also DJs, and his latest offering is a label mix that blends together tracks from his own imprint Pickadoll. Many of the cuts are (no surprises here) Dahlbäck productions, but there are also offerings from Özgur Can, Sébastien Léger and Zoo Brazil. Expect house, electro and electrohouse.