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Especial welcomes Kim Ann Foxman to debut on the label with an ode to the power of the moon. The sample heavy, acid vocal cuts no slack and shows Foxman confidently developing as a producer and is backed with a stellar set of remixes from Roza Terenzi, Dawl &
The German techno DJ & artist David Löhlein is back with the Sion EP for the Bulgarian techno label Mekanika Recordings.
With his nothing short of outstanding Force EP on Compost Records, prodigious Laolu pushes his boundaries even further and provides us with a refreshing and yet poignant travel through his vision of afro inspired house music.
Gerd Janson remixes Eagles & Butterflies’s Can’t Stop track. Out now via Art Imitating Life.
Life And Death label boss DJ Tennis released a remix of Mr. Tophat’s Time Lapse in the end of February. Hear the dreamy atmospherics of the producer’s glistening, pop-infused edit now.
ANOTR – Don’t Mind Ya Weight EP is the latest release on No Art.
One of electronic music’s most exciting producers, Ejeca, releases the vibrant ‘90s house inspired Ekstac. “I wanted to make a house/trance crossover track, ‘Trouse’ music.
Theus Mago – the man, the myth, the legend from Mexico City. Leaving behind his characteristic synthwave / dark disco sound, the Duro label cofounder delivers a new experience where modular synths and Amazonian rhythms blend seamlessly with a type of laidback psychedelic techno music.
KiNK returns with the second release on the still puerile label Sofia. The second of many to come, Nagore features four tracks again that are incentive, innovative and ingenious at the same time.
A brooding dance floor tool with mechanical drum sequencing, stabbing arrangements and unexpected U-turns. Italian tastemaker Fango lands on Prins Thomas’
Roman Flügel’s debut on Running Back under his given name (Roman IV doesn’t count) is a wonderful confirmation of his outstanding position in the past, present and future of electronic music.
A core member of the Oberbaumbrücke family delivers a sleek label debut. As the club’s technician, Joris Biesmans (aka Biesmans) has been an invaluable fixture at Watergate for the last five years.
Matthias Tanzmann is back working with Black Circle following the success of their Awakening track on the Moon Harbour boss’s latest album, Round And Round.
Stripped Down kick off 2020 with a fresh new single from label boss Claudio Ricci that comes with a wealth of remixes from Kollektiv Turmstrasse and Jepe.
Habischman is back on Knee Deep in Sound with Visions, a masterfully cinematic new EP featuring three cosmic and escapist tracks of melodic techno.
The first Four To The Floor of the new decade is on the horizon. FTTF Edition 17 starts with the track Rotweinfleck by Diynamic founder Solomun and its a dramatic dancefloor play.
Kompakt welcomes one of their local Cologne heroes, Jonathan Kaspar. They’ve appreciated him from afar for some time now thanks to his releases on Crosstown Rebels, Pets Recordings, Ouie and of course our own KX imprint.
Your Ghost was one of the standout cuts from Chrissy’s surging, rave-tastic 2019 album Resillience. Here the revivalist, turn-of-the-90s style piano house vocal number gets the remix treatment via Needwant.
Ding dong! Round two of remixes from Benjamin Fröhlich’s Amiata album is ready. A great bunch of personal favourites, friends and heroes enter the ring and deliver the goods:
Four years after his standout Truesoul debut, Cristoph returns with a trio of peak-time weapons. Cristoph’s last contribution to Truesoul, Genesis / Exodus, was a masterstroke of deft dancefloor dynamics, imbued with the right balance of polished low-end groove, licks of melody and pin-sharp drums that epitomised his high production standards.
Global pioneer Dubfire lands on Crosstown Rebels for the first time this February, also featuring the legendary Carl Craig and the enchanting vocals of Kate Elsworth, they combine to create the captivating Lotus.
