Robert Babicz - The WinterMix 2013/2014

Saturday's Set #004

 



I saw Robert Babicz at ADE 2013 and he played an awesome set. At that time I was a bit wasted, so I don't know wat he played exactly, but it was very powerful. 
This is his latest promomix, like always just BABICZ inside...
His latest productions, most of them not released.....

Tracklist:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Robert Babicz – Rosegarden
07:00 ID
11:00 ID 
16:00 Robert Babicz feat. B James - Centurion
20:00 Robert Babicz – Black Lion
26:00 Robert Babicz – Venus Transit
31:00 SQL & Child - My Minds (Robert Babicz Remix)
36:00 ID
38:30 ID
43:00 Robert Babicz – Krystaline
52:00 Robert Babicz – Montag + ID Vocal
59:30 Outro

Hot Chip - I Feel Better (Max Cooper Remix)

Friday's Classic # 003





In the end of 2010 I was checking out some end of year charts by several people. This remix by Max Cooper kept coming back in many charts, so I was giving this one a listen. I never heard of Max Cooper till then. My oh my, I don't know wat happened that day, immediately I felt in love with the track. Now three years later, Max Cooper is one of my favourite artists and I still love this remix very much...
Check out the unofficial youtube video someone has made to accompany the track! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tr1LfBtRlk

Ramon Tapia - Elleonore's Dream

Techno Thursday #003





After a quick breather Ramon Tapia is back on home territory. His Say What? imprint proudly presents ‘Elleonore’s Dream’.

Influenced by the wonderful aesthetics of classic Detroit techno, ‘Elleonore’s Dream’ follows a different approach then other Tapia productions. The track’s foundation is of course Ramon’s trademark groove programming - but the soul is injected by the warm old-school synth textures. 

Booka Shade - Eve

Album of the Week #003





Fred Astaire is quoted as saying that the hardest thing about dancing is to make it look easy -- a description that perfectly sums up Eve, the fifth studio album by Berlin duo Booka Shade. In their latest work, Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier again reveal their talent for transforming the immense sound available from today's electronic production possibilities into pure, ethereal lightness. In that sense, Booka Shade and Fred Astaire aren't all that different. They don't simply dance, they prance. A few summer days in Manchester finally brought light to the end of the tunnel. Booka Shade set up house in the city's acclaimed EVE Studios, a "residential vintage recording studio" where musicians can live and work with rare, old-school recording equipment around the clock. That moment of clarity in Manchester, when everything suddenly fell into place, has now been immortalized in their new album title. And Eve remains true to the principle that has underpinned this duo's work from their first musical experiments right up to today: Booka Shade perform with four hands. That's it. Two hands on the drums and two hands on the keyboards have to do the job for every track in the studio and onstage. The only exception is when they are joined by special guests, this time including such luminaries as Fritz Helder (Azari & III), as well as Groove Armada's Andy Cato, blasting his trombone in a vast echo chamber while Fritz Kalkbrenner heralds the next departure singing the hymnal lines, "We've burned the bridges on our way." Booka Shade have a long history of building new bridges. Those bridges connect their rich past as producers with the glorious present, from Berlin's "Maifeld" to "Jesolo" on the Mediterranean and onwards to the Far East. Booka Shade are underway again and Eve is like a great voyage, an album imploring listeners to get moving, to begin dreaming, and to start prancing. Housed in a gatefold sleeve.

Release Date: 01 november 2013
Rating: 3/5

Ten Walls - Requiem

Techhouse Tuesday #003





The concept of Ten Walls is simple. A music driven project where the focus is moved away from the personality of the artist so that the music can more directly speak for itself. And that concept seems to be working well so far. After first appearing on the scene in early 2013 with its debut 'Gotham EP'  on Innervisions, Ten Walls quickly became a sensation as Gotham became a staple of DJs worldwide. One of those ubiquitous tunes that you can't escape but never seem to get enough of. Now with its second EP, Ten Walls joins Life and Death with a follow up that sits perfectly with the ever evolving yet quite distinct Life and Death sound. An EP that takes artistic experimentation and meshes it with a technical prowess that translates to music that works equally as well on the dancefloor as it does off of it. With "Ankaris", Ten Walls sets the tone with a droning soundscape over solid beats and arepeggiated synths that combine to tell the tale of a distant land, somewhere off in a far corner of the galactic federation. A journey to a faraway place but with emotions every listener can very quickly connect to... Picking up the pace slightly, "Mongol" tells the tale of nomadic tribes and ancient conflict. With a throbbing bass, haunting pads and an ethnic lead that seems to come from another era, Mongol seamlessly mixes sounds of both the past and the future to create something that stands out of time and firmly on it own. With a name like "Requiem" one might not expect the big tune that is hidden behind the understated title. But a big one it is, with an infectious lead that builds and builds as a beckoning cowbell dances around its center. Deceptively simple yet anything but, the whole of the track continues onwards and upwards taking the dancefloor along with it. A  euphoric embrace that will hold any dancefloor in its grip and is most certainly a worthy successor to Gotham -- as Ten Walls proves that its focus on the music is most certainly a fruitful one. 

Tran - Dance Avec Les Loups

Melodic Monday #003





Boris Tran was born in 1987 in North of France. He passed 10 years in Belgium where he begins to listen techno which influence himself many later.
In 2001, he moved to the south of France where he started to play music very young (Guitare/Bass/Vocal).
When he discovered techno for the first time in a night club, he found his way .
At this time, he starts his own productions with his best friends In-Dika & tEho. This track is on Inlab, the French label of David Prap & Willy Real.

Ryan Davis - Collider

Sunday's Chillout #003




Collider is the last track of the 'State Of Mind Ep' and is referring to thoughts that collide against each other. The change while finding out new possibilities and ways can sometimes be hard, irritating and cause confusion with own, older values. After people found informations they didnt knew before, they bump into people with out-dated informations which can cause conflicts as well. Thirdly, the conflict of what is right or wrong is playing a big role in our minds and causes a lot of trouble while deciding. As many different pieces of the puzzle we have to take care of, the solution will hopefully be a balance of all which is lead by the truth, responsibility and love.

This blance after the collision of the thought is mirrored in the Track collider which is with his breaky but very harmonic vibes, the soft changes and a tender melody, the perfect track to let thoughts collide and find the solution.