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AREAL 087EP
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John Tejada and Arian Leviste are back on Areal after their much celebrated release Reactance (AREAL 077EP, 2015). These guys have been working for 25 years together, meeting up weekly in the studio to try new things. They say that it is their longest and most special collaboration. They use mainly hardware with an old school mindset that comes more from the early '80s NYC hip hop culture than anything else. Early pioneers misusing gear and making the best of their limitations. Hysteresis is strongly functional for the club.
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AREAL 082EP
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Following years producing and DJing as Hrdvsion since the early 2000s, Nathan Jonson presents Towards the Sun under his given name. At what point does this world become too complex for its creator to be all-knowing and all-powerful? To create an ever-changing world there needs to be an ever-expanding complexity. We are changing therefore we can never be the same. Within this infinite expansion a complexity that has always been is now revealed.
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AREAL 077EP
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On a hot summer day, I suddenly got up to return my friend's basketball, after not returning it for more than ten years. I don't know why I had to do it. I was flooded with memories. One was especially blurry, the one where I pick up that basketball. I was alone in my friend's garage, the repetitive sound of filtered kickdrums coming from inside the house. The garage door was open. I try to put the ball back in the cardboard box as the garage door closes. Darkness. A voice whispers: "I smell your sound I eat your colors."
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AREAL 073EP
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Areal presents a 12" from Fairmont. "People of Dysnomia, come out of your cute little houses with your hands up high in the sky!" That's when the Dysnomians start running, unable to accept the unavoidable. "How many percent on the cannon?" he yells. "Sir, 100 percent Sir!" The Captain does not over-think. "Fire!" And as the laser cannon fires, the crew suddenly realizes the Dysnomians are not as stupid as they thought they were. Instead of firing frightening laser-fire next to their homes to make them obey the mighty pirate and give up all their gold and adamanthium, the ship itself gets fired away backwards into the endless emptiness of the Haumea nebula.
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AREAL 071EP
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As the spirits of Metope's country-themed album Black Beauty (AREAL 008CD/066LP) ride towards the blood-red sunset of the Sierra Berlina, suddenly, a horn-blowing cavalry arrives. Starring remix outlaws Louie Fresco, Joerg Burger, Sid Le Rock and crazy cowgirl Ada.
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AREAL 069EP
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Betsy just stood there with her mouth wide open. Those two guys were fencing each other up and down the stairway. They took 20 steps, back to back, then they turned around, smoothly from the hip, firing magazines at each other. Then ten steps and then five, both were still standing. They beat each other to a pulp until the blood came out and then until no blood came out and still none of them hit the ground.
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AREAL 068EP
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For the first two remixes of her album Meine zarten Pfoten (PAMPA 005CD/LP), and to add a certain "familiar smell," Ada pops by at Areal with none other than DJ Koze and Superpitcher, who come up with remixes that couldn't be more different or more wonderful.
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AREAL 067EP
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Areal Records presents a 12" by Von Spar with a remix from none other than techno legend John Tejada. With "Jon Voight," the Hamburg-based artists have created another epic masterpiece in line with their earlier electronic tracks with great emotions and melodies you will never forget. Tejada's remix has already proven immensely effective on the dancefloor.
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AREAL 066LP
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Double LP version with free CD. Black Beauty is the second album from Metope for his co-founded Areal Records label. Much like its precursor, Kobol (AREAL 005CD), the album swoons between techno, minimal and house timbres as well as poignantly-colored melodies. Nestled amidst eerie dance moments such as "No Self-Control," "Deep Sheep" and "Alive," however, are these woozy, country-kissed ballads like "So Cutoff" and the riff-led "Rough Romance" that ply Black Beauty with blues and soul. Married with Metope's warped and wonky electronic vision -- epitomized by the album's serene slo-mo conclusion, "Blood River" -- Black Beauty is a blissfully tender listen, while providing left-field DJs with plenty of weird and wonderful floor fodder to play with. The album features guest appearances from Areal artists Sid LeRock (aka Pan/Tone), Undo and Stiggsen as well as electro-blues guitarist and singer K_Chico.
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AREAL 008CD
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Black Beauty is the second album from Metope for his co-founded Areal Records label. Much like its precursor, Kobol (AREAL 005CD), the album swoons between techno, minimal and house timbres as well as poignantly-colored melodies. Nestled amidst eerie dance moments such as "No Self-Control," "Deep Sheep" and "Alive," however, are these woozy, country-kissed ballads like "So Cutoff" and the riff-led "Rough Romance" that ply Black Beauty with blues and soul. Married with Metope's warped and wonky electronic vision -- epitomized by the album's serene slo-mo conclusion, "Blood River" -- Black Beauty is a blissfully tender listen, while providing left-field DJs with plenty of weird and wonderful floor fodder to play with. The album features guest appearances from Areal artists Sid LeRock (aka Pan/Tone), Undo and Stiggsen as well as electro-blues guitarist and singer K_Chico.
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AREAL 007CD
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Areal has gathered all its friends and fellows to celebrate its glorious past. Each of them had received the same message with the following content: enclosed, you will find samples taken from more than 200 tracks released on Areal between 001 (Basteroid/Automatique) and 057 (Metope/Betawolf). No rules. And their words have obviously fallen on open ears: the called have poured onto us supreme grandeurs of music whereby each of them individually tackled the historic collection of Areal sound files. You can literally feel the fun they had quoting the label's history and the loads of positive energy. So, the label would now like to proudly present: A 100 Years Of Areal -- a wonderful collection of homages to Areal's old and new friends, such as: Schleppstigg, Hrdvsion, Undo, The Cheapers, Pan/Tone, Pascal FEOS and Frank Leicher, Andreas Henneberg, Fairmont, Metope, Basteroid and Falko Brocksieper.
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AREAL 063EP
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Another obtuse dancefloor tool from Germany's Schleppstigg. Within the context of spirals, elements from the levels take on different meaning and significance. These ancient sources of knowledge, combined with scientific and genetic theory, can provide valuable tools that can help us broaden our perspective.
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AREAL 061EP
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The skies are lowering some more. Existence is twitching here and there. Rain reflects Berlin's icy glow: a frisky spirit on the tip of your nose. We dance with him for quite some time. No missing a beat for a heart that goes on. Flamboyant whispers strike a chord back home. You come to me, I'm not alone, in the sound of a song we know no wrong. Remixes by Benjamin Brunn & Move D and Kalabrese.
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AREAL 060EP
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They appeared just before sunrise. No one had ever seen this kind of creature ever before: red flashing, and bright, shining alien butterflies attracted by the windmills. People stopped and got out of their cars to watch this spectacle. The flying creatures were constantly creating new, kaleidoscope-like formations, and slowly, and very softly at first, they started singing. And although nobody really understood their behavior, everybody understood their wistful and hopeful song. Remix by Pan/Tone.
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AREAL 059EP
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"Welcome to the mobile matrix. I am H.E.L.L., your automated telephonetics assistant. Connecting to hypothalamus. Press 1 to erase, 2 for positive stimulation, or 3, if you would like to talk directly to one of our sales assistants who will be right with you in your flat in only five minutes. "Peep." "Hello." "Hello. I've composed a song for you. Here it is." Includes remixes by Ryan Davis and Basteroid.
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AREAL 058EP
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We all knew very well that we had reached a point of no return. There was no need to talk about it. All four of us were sitting there, facing each other, sad, yet full of confidence. "Go to hell! No one will ever touch my board again! In the future, I will solder it myself, and the way I want it to! Robotica, here we come!!!"
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AREAL 057EP
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Metope with a deep and playful but slightly weird piece of original house music.
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AREAL 056EP
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The wipers are fighting hard against the heavy cloudburst. On the horizon, rising like neon-pink claviluxes, are Big Band evergreens. But what's behind that field over there? That must be the source of this eerie glow. So finally, I stop the car. There is music on the radio while I'm fighting my way through the thicket. All of a sudden, the rain stops. What's going on? The light starts flickering and seems to be everywhere, now.
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AREAL 055EP
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"I'm in this labyrinth again. Corridors, tunnels, etc., leading towards any possible and impossible directions. It's like an Escher picture.
"Music... it sounds like music. It's somehow threatening, but at the same time, I'd love to go there. Please, Doctor, may I go to the music?"
"No, you must resist, be strong!"
"Too late. I'm already on my way to the music. I simply cannot resist.
Doctor?
I can hardly hear you anymore. Doctoooor?!"
"Mr. Fairley?.... Mr. Fairley?..........Mr. Fairleeeeeey?!!!"
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AREAL 054EP
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Lino was staring at her. This was his last chance to save the memory of what would soon be floating forever in the digital ocean. No longer physical, yet still retrievable for everyone. The first human being decomposed into megabits, locked in forever at the other side of the monitor, yet free as never before. She was disappearing in front of his eyes and gradually turning into a percentage value. 89%, 90%, 91%, and from the speakers, you could hear "Goodbye Lino."
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AREAL 053EP
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In the future, mp3s, CDs, cassettes and ordinary record players will be completely irrelevant. From now on, all the DJ needs is a 69 BUX. Just fill up to 11.5 liters of liquid vinyl into the Vinylator - Internet on - Select track - Press the button. As soon as the record has been finished and cooled down, the techno-MKX-arm will put it on automatically. You do not need any additional player. 3-phase, variable control: Warm-up, Party, Go Home.
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AREAL 052EP
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Berlin act Freedarich & Stiggsen drop two infectiously melodic monsters. "Candide" is a popping track with shiny synth vacillations, and gently climbing, staccato melodies. "Lago" takes things even further down the tech-house tunnel -- simple beats match clicks and melodic, chiming percolations for an understated, classy groove.
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AREAL 050EP
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Areal presents the third various artists release on the label in the spirit of the drawing by Idris Geog Said, Rabimmel Rabammel. "Rabum Bum Bum" is the original version (a German children's song for St. Martin's Day on which children walk in processions with self-made lanterns in the evening). DJ Koze walks around with his lantern, lighting his lantern in return, with Ada and Basteroid.
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AREAL 051EP
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I found myself surrounded by at least two million ducks forming a circle around me. And they did not look very friendly at all. Suddenly, their leader came forward. "Quaaaaaak Quaaak!!!!!" I could have closed the studio window. They are getting ready to attack me. I get the shopping trolley token out of my pocket that Jake Fairley gave to me. He said it would protect me if I get into trouble. A flash of lighting. Feathers everywhere. Smoke.
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AREAL 049EP
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Berlin's Alexander Gerlach aka Lexy and co-producer Jan Driver present their elusive tracks on Areal. Here comes highly-styled mystic techno with an insect-like touch. Sounds like ear-deafening buzzing from exhilarated little animals.
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