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SOF 007EP
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KiNK's first release on Sofia Records this year lives up to its title and its creator's reputation. The relentless energy, love of musical adventure and undamped enthusiasm of a KiNK live set can be found here in all its glory. "Wake Up" is not only an instruction and a hidden compliment to Laurent Garnier, it's also evidence of the Bulgarians uncanny ability to deliver steamrollers with various twists and turns, while hitting the peak effortlessly. "Beep Beep" adds a certain element of mania to the menu. For the lack of a better description, please imagine Mr. Oizo and Steve Poindexter making a record together. Not for the faint at heart. That can be said for the rest of the EP as well. Featuring Redeye, "Room To Jack" is on the same level of "Beep Beep". Traditional topics of Chicago house get a bench test on a speed farm. Dancing to "Scrambler" one would probably need the same room to jack. Swapping the Windy City with British raving fields, KiNK and Raredub deliver a take on the early sound of UK that might miss breakbeats, but manage to re-use all the other ingredients to a hair: fine-tuned and updated. Quotation without modern misinterpretation. Hyper and epic at the same time. And always remember the future!
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SOFIA 002EP
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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. Based on the incantations of KiNK and guests like Red Eye, Kei, and Sofia's guiding spirit, DJ Valentine, you get a mix of free-flowing techno, bass bumpers, rave-y IDM tropes and pitch-wheel house or four smart bombs, if you will. Graced with technical prowess and creative powers, this is once more proof that the man cannot set a foot wrong. Remember the future! Sofia was founded by Strahil Velchev and Konstantin Petrov. Sofia is not only the physical location where this music was made, the city where they met and developed as artists, but also a paradox that is reflected in the art and music that comes from the place. Beautiful and ugly at the same time, clean and dirty, brutal as well as romantic, it's a place where aesthetically seemingly incompatible styles come together in a twisted, yet unifying form. The photographs for the sleeves are made by influential local selector DJ Valentine, effortlessly capturing the local reality.
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RB 081EP
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With unmistakably titled Piano Power EP, the Bulgarian hit factory KiNK does what it does best: infectious melodies, moving bass, and gnarly acid lines as well as the ill beats around. "To Love U" is a freestyle jam with regular collaborator, vocalist Rachel Row. "I Remember" on the other hand, is presented here as a "303 Mix" that loses the classic house sample of the first version, in favor of the squelchy sound that DJ Pierre invented. "Raw" is the kind of happy-go-lucky piano-bazooka that invokes the spirit of Baltimore's production outfit Basement Boys in todays' pagan parties.
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CORMIX 058CD
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On the occasion of the 19th year of Cocoon's residency on Ibiza, the location may have changed from Amnesia to Pacha, but the enthusiasm for perhaps the most enduring party on the Mediterranean island is guaranteed to continue. Actually, only the sun, sea and wind are more reliable! The celebrated live sets of Bulgaria's livewire Strahil Velchev aka KiNK have been a vital ingredient for the ecstatic nights over the years. With unprecedented regularity, the man from Sofia has been voted best live act by readers of Groove magazine for the last three years, and in 2017 he was also crowned best electronic music producer. As KiNK, together with Sven Väth, he now celebrates one of the most popular evenings of this year's season as well, and what could be more logical than to repurpose the famed Cocoon Ibiza Mix series into another live document of the event? No sooner said than done, here the Bulgarian offers a 70-minute cross-section of his skills. Well-known tracks, especially from Playground (RB 010CD/LP, 2017) meet exclusive, unreleased material in a spontaneous tour de force through the history of electronic dance music. There are distinctive nods to Chicago and Detroit, jazzy organs spiraling into string-drenched skies ("The Russian"), insatiable acid excursions ("Five") and heavy-duty discoid workouts ("Use The Rhythm", "Perth") as KiNK's irresistible nature strikes repeatedly at the heart of the dance floor. The message as always is "gute Laune!" (good vibes), if one is allowed to borrow that sacred phrase for just a moment.
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RBKINKRMX 001EP
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Running Back presents the first of two volumes of remixes of KiNK's work, featuring Dusky and Radio Slave.
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RBKINKRMX 002EP
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Running Back presents the second of two volumes of remixes of KiNK's work, featuring Matthew Herbert and Josh Wink.
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RB 010LP
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Triple LP version. Say what you wanna say, but you have to give Strahil Velchev this: the man's a powerhouse. Recording and playing live under the KiNK alias, he went on to become one of finest purveyors of funk in techno and house. What it is, by definition, ain't exactly clear. And that is the beauty of it. KiNK's music is unifying in the best possible way. Channeling the spirit and feeling of a time where it didn't really matter who the faces behind the music were, KiNK plays with the elements of genres and sub-genres as if the future of it all is still wide-open. At the same time it could be accused of retro-fetishism, as much as the Pope himself is infallible. The pure need to recreate moments, feelings, and experience -- rather than carbon copies of existing designs -- was what started KiNK's production work. Hailing from Bulgaria, it was nearly impossible to get your hands on all the records and music that fed into a system of raves, clubs, and record shops that seemed far away from Sofia, and financially it might as well have meant another galaxy. Wanting to DJ without having access to the tracks that spun the carousel meant that you had to create them yourselves. So, here we go with a private bootlegger gone public mastermind and one of the loudest voices in house, techno, and beyond. From KiNK's early productions with Neville Watson to his smash-hit for Ovum, a cerebral album for Macro Recordings (MACROM 038CD/LP, 2014), tons of remixes and tracks and his mind-bending live act, Playground seems to take all that into a blender. Simultaneously a sound-summary, the harvest of a field of ideas, and the exhibition of an artist in his prime, it also works as a sort of KiNK dictionary: avant-garde soundscapes stand next to boisterous bangers, classic club tracks and peak time emotions find their idiosyncratic and contemplative counterparts -- all of it coming down like a torrent in a drought.
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RB 010CD
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Say what you wanna say, but you have to give Strahil Velchev this: the man's a powerhouse. Recording and playing live under the KiNK alias, he went on to become one of finest purveyors of funk in techno and house. What it is, by definition, ain't exactly clear. And that is the beauty of it. KiNK's music is unifying in the best possible way. Channeling the spirit and feeling of a time where it didn't really matter who the faces behind the music were, KiNK plays with the elements of genres and sub-genres as if the future of it all is still wide-open. At the same time it could be accused of retro-fetishism, as much as the Pope himself is infallible. The pure need to recreate moments, feelings, and experience -- rather than carbon copies of existing designs -- was what started KiNK's production work. Hailing from Bulgaria, it was nearly impossible to get your hands on all the records and music that fed into a system of raves, clubs, and record shops that seemed far away from Sofia, and financially it might as well have meant another galaxy. Wanting to DJ without having access to the tracks that spun the carousel meant that you had to create them yourselves. So, here we go with a private bootlegger gone public mastermind and one of the loudest voices in house, techno, and beyond. From KiNK's early productions with Neville Watson to his smash-hit for Ovum, a cerebral album for Macro Recordings (MACROM 038CD/LP, 2014), tons of remixes and tracks and his mind-bending live act, Playground seems to take all that into a blender. Simultaneously a sound-summary, the harvest of a field of ideas, and the exhibition of an artist in his prime, it also works as a sort of KiNK dictionary: avant-garde soundscapes stand next to boisterous bangers, classic club tracks and peak time emotions find their idiosyncratic and contemplative counterparts -- all of it coming down like a torrent in a drought.
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RB 068EP
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Toot toot, beep beep, out of the way! KiNK's taster for his forthcoming album on Running Back is here. "Perth" is a prime-example of the Bulgarian producer's unstoppable good times ware. Taken from "Playground", the three versions here are dripping with grease. Split between the original, a chord mix and a beat version, it's all you ever wanted from a single. Perfect house music for techno DJs and techno music for disco DJs.
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DGTL 001EP
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Bulgarian hardware wizard KiNK kicks off the new imprint DGTL Records. KiNK has worked with DGTL for quite some time, including 2016's audiovisual installation "Transmission Tower", where the first track "Neutrino" was born. The melodic "Neutrino" kicks off with syncopating bassline. Its interconnecting layers organically jump over and under each other. KiNK on the B-sider "Dynamo": "I loaded my favorite element from 'Neutrino' in my computer and I tweaked the sound through various weird devices in my studio, till it sounded like a completely new track." Includes a few endless loops, exclusive to the 12". Cover art by Tim Buiting.
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MNSW 004EP
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2017 repress. Chorus is a full multi-pack from KiNK and features hometown collaborator KEi. KiNK, aka Strahil Velchev, is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. KiNK is his house set while Cyrillic is his techno project. KiNK was named Resident Advisor's #1 Live Act in 2015.
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RB 054EP
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The music Strahil Velchev aka KiNK creates for the 12" format is as playful and fanciful as it is functional and precise. His first outing for Running Back is no exception. Inspired by the hardware of the same name, his Cloud Generator EP makes the most use of that. Computer nerd symphonies and cyberpunk melodies for clubs, roofless raves and virtual racing games. Wilhelm Reich and William Gibson would enjoy this.
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PETS 048EP
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Bulgarian live specialist and techno innovator KiNK is known for his releases on labels including Ovum and Macro, who released his 2014 full-length Under Destruction (MACROM 038CD/LP). "Fantasia" is a brooding and slow burning track with a synth line that goes from rubbery to acidic. Around it, patient percussion, deep, warm kicks, and breathy female vocals add a sense of sexual tension before KiNK's trademark colorful synth freakiness finally takes over. Truncate's remix is more urgent and techno-leaning, with paranoid, siren-like hooks, scurrying basslines, and lots of ravey warehouse intent. B-side features ten locked grooves.
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MACROM 038CD
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Lenin said: "Communism is Soviet power + electrification of the whole country." Hardly did Lenin suspect what an inspired take on these words could do: post-Socialist techno. A child of '80s late Socialism, KiNK grew up on the home computers Bulgaria's IT scientists had created by backwards-engineering Western technology. Fueled by nuclear energy on the edge of disaster, a whole generation of kids was trained to hack. Dance music gradually dripping in through early dial-up internet connections, the acoustic fingerprints of distant parties put Eastern producers from KiNK to Nina Kraviz to Vakula under a spell. Yet KiNK spent years of backwards-engineering the sounds of Detroit, Chicago and early Warp. Tweaking whatever software was available, he learned all the sideways possibilities of hacking into the sonics of analog classics with the beauty of digital degradation: alias noise, bit crush, noisy FFT grains -- his one-of-a-kind results have electrified dancefloors all over the world ever since. Now, all the elements of KiNK's live sets have been bundled like a laser beam on his debut album: Under Destruction was manufactured in the concrete tower blocks of Sofia. The album's core has been recorded in dozens of analog jam sessions -- capturing the moment of a sparking imagination just like KiNK's live sets, but then transformed in deep data penetration. The rough and the refined unite in disturbing balance -- from distorted tenderness up to club bangers such as "Sintezator" and "Melodia." A beauty in decay, just like Sofia's concrete slab housings -- synths rising from the ashes. This album tells the story of KiNK's sound -- the one that sparks the love everywhere he visits.
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LDS 018EP
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KiNK's heavyweight "Detunator" from 2011 gets three re-workings, courtesy of Mathias Kaden, Adam Port and La Force, who all add their own unique touches of genius to the package. Kaden sits in his pro-remixer chair and creates a soaring, melodic and soulful interpretation in his "909 the Drumqueen Remix." Pumping and full of energy, it's a prime-time moment for the positive dancefloors.
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BRK 001EP
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Sergej and Pytzek from Croatia's well-known club Sirup have started a label called Burek. The first release is from Strahil Velchev aka KiNK. Leko/Yako finds KiNK trying to step away from common club-oriented production and present himself in a totally different light. "Yako," especially, is a dance mutant somewhere between speed garage, house, rave and dubstep that rips the dancefloor apart. Includes a remix by Pytzek & Homeboy and a dub version by Duckbeats.
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