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KOM 507EP
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$19.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 8/21/2026
Klaus Kotai, a Viennese who had made Berlin his home, found a receptive audience in Cologne as early as the mid-'90s with his records on Elektro Music Department. Then came the 2000s, an exciting era for club music, rich in innovation and characterized above all by the burgeoning genres of minimal and electro clash. In 2002, Kotai's Sucker DJ was released, featuring the brilliant remix by Marcin "Highfish" Kozlowski, on WMF Records. A true hit that struck a perfect balance between both worlds and was played across genres by virtually every DJ. Exactly 20 years after the last re-release on Elektro Music Department, it's now time for Sucker DJ to make a comeback.
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LFRMX 011EP
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Revisiting another classic for this issue of Len Faki's edits, he chooses Kotai's 2002 track "BA3 Breathing", a standout cut for its ringing vocals and ominous bass line rumbles. With the original clocking in at the 10-minute mark already, Faki's tribute mix is not much shorter, but manages to fill the spaces between beats with lots of fresh details, lifting the song's energy to a new level, while retaining the soft but sexy vibe of Kotai's composition. The Hardspace Tool version puts its focus on busty beats and percussive prowess, staking its claim as contender for bossiest bass line of the night.
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WMF 008CD
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"Kotai, better known as member of the legendary Elektro Music Department, decided to release his album, where the EP 'Sucker DJ' is taken from, on WMF Rec because of the clubby concept it´s based on but as well because of comparable label histories and a personal affinity to WMF. The label Elektro Music Department evolved from the cult club Elektro in Berlin and is run by former club owners and now 'just' artists, namely very well-known DJ Mo, video artist Daniel Pflumm, internationally famous for his logo art and responsible for both the visual appearance of EMD and WMFrec -- and musician and artist Klaus Kotai. Every track of the 9 exclusive pieces on this release has a special meaning for the whole curriculum. And the whole is indeed something with a strange, intense character: knitted by small intervals of pure background noises a quilt of straight sounds and deep vocals is enfolded that densifies to certain song structures and concrete tracks. It's art but it´s physical. It's dance but it's philosophical. It's abstract but colorful. It's dark, dense, dirty and pure joy. The higher art of techno so to speak -- and to any club customer's satisfaction."
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