Download the first six chapters of Jay Haze’s new Sci-Fi audio book (40 min, 320kbps mp3, 91 mb)

Booka Shade’s third album promises to take a more song based approach, mingling orchestras, voices and acoustic instruments with electronic textures. The Sun & The Neon Light drops in May.

The Sun… arrives in the middle of a 150-date, twenty-month tour for the Get Physical duo, and features a number of tracks heard out on the road, including a reworked version of set staple ‘Karma Car’. Elsewhere it promises to be a varied package. There are two tracks which feature live orchestras (‘Outskirts’ and the title track), four vocal cuts (including ‘Control Me’ and ‘Solo City’), a Latin track (‘Comacabana’) and even a country-tinged cut (‘Dusty Boots’).

Clubby tracks include ‘Redemption’, ‘Charlotte’ (billed as “euphoric electro-disco”) and ‘Psychameleon’, which is a Booka Shade schaffel track. But perhaps the most unusual cut on the album will be ‘You Don’t Know What You Mean To Me (J’s Lullaby)’, a song written by Walter for his newborn son. The breathing sound in the track is sampled from the accordion seen in the video of Samim’s club smash ‘Heater’. After the video shoot, apparently no one cared enough about accordions to take the instrument home, so Arno and Walter snatched it up and put it to good use.

Tracklist

01 Outskirts
02 Duke
03 Dusty Boots
04 Control Me
05 Solo City
06 Redemption
07 Charlotte
08 The Sun & The Neon Light
09 Sweet Lies
10 Karma Car (Album Version)
11 Psychameleon
12 Planetary
13 Comacabana
14 You Don’t Know What You Mean To Me (J’s Lullaby)

Source: RA

Mobilee boss Anja Schneider takes time out from a brutal DJ schedule to release a debut album.

Variously spotted in Japan, South America and the US recently, Anja Schneider has finally found the time to put together a debut album. Co-produced with Paul Brtschitsch, with whom she collaborated on the single ‘Loop de Mer’/'Belize’, Beyond the Valley is billed as inky, supple cuts with a dark pastoral feel.

Anja explains the meaning of the album’s title: “It’s the place where your parents told you not to go play as a child. Why? Because anything could happen. It’s dangerous and anarchic. All the creatures that have been chased out of the village have gone there to hide.” Sounds a bit like clubland then.

Watch out for also Anja and Mobilee and the WMC this month.

Tracklist

01 Safari
02 Mole
03 Maki
04 Beyond The Valley
05 Gimlet
06 Cascabel
07 Belize
08 Get Away
09 Little Red Riding Hood
10 Fish At Night

’Beyond The Valley’ by Anja Schneider will be released on Mobilee in May, 2008.

source: RA

The Detroit-based producer, remixer, dj, record label owner Carl Craig releases double CD mix called “Sessions” at the end of this month. The two discs will feature classic Carl Craig tunes and remixes.

CD 1
1. Directions “Busted Trees (Carl Craig ‘Sessions’ Remix)”
2. Junior Boys “Like a Child “Carl Craig Remix)”
3. Rhythm & Sound “Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix)”
4. Chez Damier “Help Myself (Reconstructed by Carl Craig)”
5. Paperclip People “Throw (Unreleased Version)”
6. Beanfield “Tides (Carl Craig ‘Sessions’ Remix)”
7. Paperclip People “Clear and Present”
8. Theo Parrish “Falling Up (Carl Craig Remix”
9. Paperclip People “Oscillator (Original Version)”
10. Cesaria Evora “Angola (Original Remix)”
11. Francesco Tristano “The Melody (Carl Craig Remix)”
12. Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom “Revelee (Carl Craig ‘Sessions’ Remix)”

CD 2
1. 69 “Rushed (Original Version)”
2. 69 “Psychobeat (Previously Unreleased)”
3. Xpress2 “Kill 100 (Carl Craig ‘Sessions’ Remix)”
4. Tres Demented “Demented (Or Just Crazy) (Original Version)”
5. Faze Action “In the Trees (Unreleased Carl Craig Remix)”
6. Tres Demented “Brainfreeze (Carl Craig ‘Sessions’ Remix)”
7. Carl Craig “Futurelovetheme (Carl Craig ‘Sessions’ Remix)”
8. Carl Craig “Sandstorms (Original Version)”
9. Innerzone Orchestra “Bug in the Bass Bin (Carl Craig ‘Sessions’ Remix)”

Check http://www.planet-e.net/ for more info about this releases and get a free mp3 as well.

Beatport is offering 16 tracks for free download.

“To reward all Beatport’s users, we have selected four of the hottest tracks from each of the past four years and made them available for free download.”

The majority of the tracks offered are progressive-house and electro-house. But there is one M-nus release (Marc Houle - Techno Vocals).

Direct Link to the release

“On the A-side, Stockholm’s Adam Beyer (Drumcode) brings his fierce rhythmic detail to the track, replacing the funky sway of the original with gridlocked percussive elements. Upon hearing this dark, driving reinterpretation, Michal felt nearly outdone. On the B-side, the UK’s Inxec (Contexterrior) returns after his recent Flip Beat EP to add his signature sexiness. Here, acoustic-sounding bass and vibraphones blend into stealthy, overpowering synth attacks, providing a peak-time workout that will fill the room with funk. The download version of this release includes both these remixes plus an edit from Michal himself, which he describes as “a very reduced affair… a tool version with more attention to mixability and rhythm, rather than the pomp of the original.”

Adam Beyer Remix Preview

Inxec Remix Preview

12″ Released on 8th January 2008

Digital release:10th February 2008

source: www.wordandsound.de

first it was buenos aires. then it was marseille. this time, unfoundsound adds a third chapter to the “location series” with melbourne macropus ep – a compilation of artists hailing from melbourne, australia. the idea transpired while sean o’neal (a.k.a. someone else) was touring around australia in june/july 2007. sean quickly discovered that australia – particularly melbourne – has an intelligent and thriving underground techno scene that is deeply on the rise. and because the melbourne scene is tight-knit and intimate, the city’s dope output of minimal goodness seems to be fairly unknown in other parts of the world. but much of melbourne’s bomb-ass techno certainly deserves worldwide awareness. thus, unfoundsound presents six tracks of druggy, groovy, head-numbing chooons courtesy of markojux, stuart mckeown, lance harrison, paul agius and craig mcwhinney. yeah, y’all! aussie folk in da house!

Tracklisting:

01. paul agius - 3 steamed dim sims
02. stuart mckeown - booze bus
03. markojux - monotreme
04. lance harrison - vegemite on toast
05. markojux & stuart mckeown - uluroo
06. craig mcwhinney - gold rush

Full Tracks Download HERE