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STRIKE 153LP
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Berlin-based label Shitkatapult presents its 153rd release, following its October 2014 150th release, and continues to deliver the finest electronic music for and by people from another star (special music for special people) with an album that looks just as much back on tradition as it does toward the future. Lighthouse is Berlin-based Hamburg exile Lars Fenin's fifth album, a very sensual contemplation of the dancefloor as a stop along his journey through the wonderful depths of the dub world. After his previous releases, which lived somewhere between songs, dub, and electronica, he presents another true dub techno album. The "lighthouse" theme of the title and the amazing cover by Italian artist Petulia Mattioli shines a clear, simple light through bass waves and dub riffs. Lighthouse is available as a DJ-friendly double vinyl with a download code for the digital tracks.
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STRIKE 143CD
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Another visionary dub-techno album from Berliner producer Fenin. He has been a Shitkatapult artist since the label's existence, always experimenting with musical soundscapes, echoes, and beats. A journey through 10 years of producing was to be found on his last release Maxis and Mixes (STRIKE 117CD), containing classics like "Done" and club hit "None of Them." With his new album Heartware, he opens a new musical chapter of his work, which is dub/techno influenced and evolves from there. Lars Fenin manages to create tracks like the album opener "Es Gibt Schlimmeres" which works with a massive bass line without any hi-hats, bass-drums or clicks. Chords and echoes are moving around the bass line, filling it with soul. The beats come in with "Picking Up" and takes the album through a jungle of sounds. Highlights are also the Afro-beat track "Windsurf" or the hit "Receiver," that Lars produced with the singer Poly, both timelessly beautiful and totally Fenin. On Heartware, it's the sound design and mix that makes the album so special, often rather developing towards an ambient-mood, rather than a dancefloor mood. The various style can also be heard in club tracks like "Tones and Droves," "Silent Trail," and "Restless." Towards the end of Heartware we find proper dub again: "Downhill" begins groovy and dubby and loses itself in the end in echoes and dissolving beat structures, overlaying each other, slowly fading away into open spaces. "Same Pictures" comes up from there with the wonderful voice of Wyanna Friedrich sung over atonal chords, disco sounds, broken beats and a crystal-clear chorus. Is this pop music after all?
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STRIKE 144EP
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Fenin's album release Heartware inspired Shitkatapult to release this 12" with remixes of two of the album tracks. "Es Gibt Schlimmeres" grooves without any drum beat in the original version, whereas the Map.Ache remix comes along as a deep house track of the finest kind. "Receiver" appears in the original version as well as with Poly's wonderful vocals, carried by a warm soul beat. This jewel is remixed by Seattle/Detroit house producer Osborne and develops into a grooving jack beat. On green vinyl.
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STRIKE 117CD
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Some people call it the renaissance of dub techno -- the deep, the twisted and the reverberant are returning to the dancefloor. Lars Fenin, born in Hamburg and living in Berlin, has been known for that kind of sound for more than ten years already, releasing ingenious stuff on Shitkatapult, Hör Zu, Echocord/Colour, Meteosound and his own label called Dock. Mixes & Maxis is a roundhouse kick of his current work: nine magical dub techno tracks, some of which have already been published on 12"s, but are now available on CD for the first time. Besides blueprint tracks like the brilliant "Done" or "Driven," and more current releases like "Romeo Kalimba" (great Echocord split maxi with "Deadbeat") as well as Fenin's dubstep hit "Seems Like," there are quite a few new treasures to be found here. "Adeto," for example, an incredibly deep ambient track, creating a musical ocean of black and dark blue waves. Just like the extremely funky "Division El Norte" and "Sound And Power" featuring renowned vocalist Gorbi, all tracks stand for quality and a certain groove as well as a natural connection between electronic music, techno and dub. The album's magical moment is an old friend in a new suit: "None Of Them," Fenin's evergreen also featuring Gorbi, has been remixed by Robag Wruhme. When he was still a part of Wighnomy Brothers, Robag had played "None Of Them" over and over again and had placed the track at the top of his DJ charts, so of course he was thrilled to remix the track. And what a remix it turned out to be -- a killer on the dancefloor and still a soulful techno track. The album in general is characterized by a certain timelessness, a constancy of music beyond the borders of electronic, dub or techno. It's depth and soul turning sound into music instead of a fleeting moment of hype. It is the renaissance of longevity, of the soul of music, which drives us all.
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STRIKE 116EP
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"None Of Them" by Lars Fenin is an outstanding track originally from his 2005 album Grounded, and it assembles the best of two music worlds: reggae and techno. The songwriting by Fenin combined with the voice of Gorbi will give you goosebumps. Here now, we have the 12" featuring "None Of Them" in a floor killer remix by Robag Wruhme, featured on Fenin's Mixes & Maxis CD (STRIKE 117CD), and a dub remix version, exclusive to this release, on the flip side.
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STRIKE 091CD
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This is the second full-length release from Berlin's Lars Fenin for the Shitkatapult label. From his start in the late-'90s up until now, Fenin has crafted a unique dub techno trademark sound. However, Been Through steps out of the dub techno circus to involve much more. Rhythm-wise, you can recognize that the dubstep era influenced the Berlin producer: 4-to-the-floor beats have been replaced by strong broken patterns that evoke a dancefloor feeling but with their subtle breaks and moves, develop into a unique approach to electronic dancehall. Fenin is also accompanied by fantastic guests -- Gorbi, a Berlin-based singer from Ghana, lends his unique voice to four tracks on this record. Far away from being a wanna-be Jamaican reggae toaster, Gorbi showcases a real African singer spirit in his work. If you are looking for the original reggae tip of Been Through, you might prefer Jamaican toaster Scorcha with whom Fenin created "Complain," which is a first-class digital riddim. To make it a classic Fenin album, you can also still taste the dub techno beat on tracks like "Miles and More" and the first single track "Breakin." "Breakin" is a little machine -- it merges the dub techno and dubstep fever with a taste of electronic pop. Abstract fun and deep grooves. To complete the album, there are three ambient tracks: the heavenly "So Weit So Gut," "Years Ago" and the opener track, "Dub Eraldo," which was made together with Eraldo Bernocchi, an Italian avant garde jazz guitarist and electronic producer who has worked with people such as Thomas Fehlmann and Bill Laswell.
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STRIKE 090EP
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Breakin'/A Try Mixes showcases all of Fenin's class and quality seen from a remixer's perspective. "Breakin'" is a dancefloor piece with a popcorn melody line upon a grooving funk techno beat. The remix version by Der Dritte Raum is a fat production. "A Try" features Gorbi on vocals and is remixed by Daniel Meteo & Max Loderbauer/Tom Thiel aka Sun Electric. Meteo's house remix is pure deep funk, while Sun Electric produce an arty ragga track with splattered vocals.
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ECHO 020EP
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"We are proud to announce another ep by the dubmaster Lars Fenin from Berlin. This is the third EP by Fenin on Echocord. Again Fenin presents a unique sound for Echocord, ranging between tracks for the dancefloor, to more relaxed dubby grooves, perfect for the Echocord-universe. He has been producing electronic music since 1999, and so far releasing on labels like Shitkatapult, Meteosound & Mitek."
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ECHO 015EP
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"The second EP by Fenin on Echocord. Lars Fenin, based in Berlin has been producing music since 1999. He has released on lables like Shitkatapult, Meteosound and Mitek. Latest release has been his first album Grounded on Shitkatapult. This release is the most 4-to-the-floor record on Echocord so far, but with the typical deep and dubby Echocord atmosphere as we know it. Two party-guaranteed tracks, one track almost dubby breakbeat, and one sweet track for the afterhour."
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STRIKE 058CD
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A technoid album for the dub and reggae freaks. This is the long-awaited debut album from Berlin-based Lars Fenin, the man who symbiotically fuses techno and dub for Shitkatapult. After founding his own reggae band in Berlin called Tribal Notes, he quickly became familiarized and directly involved with the early burgeoning electronic music from Berlin's expanding club and music scene. His first 12" titled Herr Pitzelberger appeared in 2000 on Shitkatapult, and since then he has been at the core of the label. He followed with releases on Echochord, Meteosound, and Textone. Fenin's productions have little to do with what is generally understood to be dub-techno or techno dub: rather than minimal techno tracks overloaded with effects, Fenin crafts old school, grounded productions that emerge from studio handiwork involving classic overdub techniques created live on a mixing board. The term "dub" thus derives from a much earlier incarnation and understanding of reggae. On Grounded, the musical spectrum is set pretty wide from technoid pieces like the deep "South" to the old school dub piece "Interlude"all the way to pure reggae songs like "No C.I.A." or "Thrill." The strength of the album is located where techno, dub, and reggae are brought closer together successfully.
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STRIKE 058LP
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ECHO 013EP
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"Echocord is proud to announce a new act in the Echocord-camp. This is the first release by Fenin on Echocord. Lars Fenin, based in Berlin, has been producing warm minimal dub tracks since 1999. This release is the most available record for the dancefloor released on Echocord so far, but still with a warm dubby feeling. Fenin has also released on labels like Shitkatapult, Meteosound and Textone."
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METEO 012EP
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"Driven by dub: the small dope Berlin dub label Meteosound yet continues it´s vinyl series with another release of Shitkatapult´s dub expert Lars Fenin. This 6 tracks of state-of-the-art-dub-music opens a wide range of musical styles: uptempo floor stuff ('3 Snares'), rootical electronic dub ('Half a Song', 'Warning'), shuffle mid tempo techhouse ('Shake') and Lars Fenin's first cooperation with reggae singer Gorbi (on 'No C.I.A.'). Following meteo 007 -- Fenin´s Driven EP -- Sustain EP is presenting a second step towards a deeper cooperation between techno floors and listening dubs and still handles the Meteo idea of modern popclub music, facing a very simple statement: driven by dub -- sustaining the idea."
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STRIKE 019EP
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"Blinding new artist on Shitkatapult. Berlin-based Fenin delivers 5 essential minimal cuts ranging between Italic-sounding housier tunes & more energetic feverish high class techtrax. Sublime but kickin´."
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