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CADENZA 121EP
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The marvelous Chilean blooded Llovizna, produced by the talented Felipe Venegas and Francisco Allendes was originally released in 2009 on Cadenza. The label celebrates the 10th anniversary of its publication with a crisp remix by the mighty Luciano and a rework hot off the press by its original writers. Furthermore, there will be another heavyweight remixer, a big surprise and an appreciated comeback: Loco Dice needs no introduction, and his remix of this Cadenza classic will leave you speechless. A magnificent bond of the original Latin vibes and astonishing peak-time sound manipulation with a relentless pace. "Llovizna" is a track with an indissoluble bound with Cadenza's South America roots, a bound perpetually fortified by the origin of many of the artists involved with the label, and by the choice to host amazing massive events in Chile and in the rest of the continent. A funky bass line and full-bodied reverberating jazz drums make out Luciano's bubbly and shiny remix. The cutting-edge climactic sequencing of its synthesizers and the seasoned use of percussive breaks and fills exalt the emotional interlude of the folkloric female Latin chant, just before a fully-fledged dancefloor-oriented restart. The rework delivered by Felipe and Francisco starts off banging with a resolved bass drum, rattling shakers and fierce hi-hats. Subtle melodies slowly raise from its minimalistic framework revealing in advance all the sweetness of its Andean singing. A majestic rework, which resonates far beyond from a DJ tool aftertaste.
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CADENZA 120EP
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Shimza, one of South-Africa's shining talents, makes his return to Cadenza with Eminence. The vibrating drums and persistent arpeggios of "Eminence" make for a captivating peak-time anthem. "Dancefloor Keeper", the slick trance-inspired stabs and permeating bassline expose its ominous nature. Shimza expresses his creative flare with "Kunye"; a hypnotic cut that blends the spirit of futuristic synth wave with the soul of African tribalism. "Warrant For Arrest" is a charged number, driven by a snappy compressed kick drum and chiming sequences. "MSC" is a euphoric gem that flows with expressive phrases and evolving synth pads. Features Kususa.
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CADENZA 118LP
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Luciano has arranged Sequentia, a special series of four releases as part of the 2018 celebrations for the fifteen years anniversary of his own Cadenza Records, launched here with Sequentia Vol. 1 to begin the festivities. Each episode is coming out in a different season of the year; the present one, dedicated to the summertime and contains five enchanting tracks with an exquisite sound. This series is just one of the astonishing surprises that Luciano has set aside for the birthday of his beloved label. The show begins with "The Amazing Lilou", a crispy ariose tune with elaborated percussions and calypso-flavored synthesizers. "Hiding Hearts" is a Latin prelude with pleasant guitars and restful melodies, flowing with joy and peace. "Nabusima" is another Caribbean spell, with carefully mixed drums and elevating harmonies. "Magik Mechanics" explores complex broken beats and electronic textures, drawing a colored narration in between a fairy tale and a sci-fi movie. Finally, "Tirana del Oriente", as disclosed by the title, is a trip into the ardent magic of the Orient. Sequentia Vol. 1 is a collection of five long, summery compositions to accompany our hot pleasing days from the dawn 'til dusk, holding our hands during a never-ending daydream. Gatefold sleeve.
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CADENZA 117EP
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Argentinian veteran Jorge Savoretti's debut on Cadenza is a crisp breeze of graceful music for dancing. Bouncing shuffle "Bou Gei" starts with a driving bassline, lively cymbals, sparkling band-passed chords, summing-up Jorge's dedication to nightclubs and nightlife. On "Ruth", suspicious pads lurk behind a funky swinging rhythm spruced up by a continuous surfacing of snare rolls and giggly stabs. "Sensu Dub" explores without hesitation darker textures and resonances, leaving no concessions to leave the dancefloor. "U-Fonk #04.01" dives into sweating hotblooded late-time hours, with a hypnotizing deep-toned coil, soaked of greasy riffs and gloomy fumes.
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CADENZA 116EP
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Fausto Messina is a veteran DJ and producer from Treviso, a small town on the plain between the Gulf of Venice and the Alps. Pica Pica is Fausto's debut EP on Cadenza. In the track "Pica Pica", a recurrent evocative voluminous chord is convoyed by a classy powerful kick drum and an organic symphony of fluffy percussions and metallic bonks. The extremely intense vibrant rhythms of "Idiophono" contrast with the gentle reverberating harmonies of an ensemble of struck idiophones. The smooth magnetic flux of "Planets Ballet" concludes with steamy synthesizers and bubbly bleeps.
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CADENZA 115EP
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Shimza (Ashley Raphala) is one of South Africa's brightest young talents. "Congo Congo" is a dark ride over abysmal tom-tom drums, lively percussions, and a gloomy bass lead, ignited dramatically by wide synthetic stabs and chords. In the "Dub Mix", the drums and percussion become lighter. "Secret Melodies" starts with an obscure bass line, but the intense twist of fractioned rolls and arpeggios bring an ascending piano progression that quickly blooms into an uplifting symphony. "Selector" keeps the gaze on the dancefloor: hand clapping and a cloud of low frequencies bumps unexpectedly drag its hypnotic harmonies into a breath-taking drop.
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CADENZA 114EP
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Swiss-based, Jamaican producer Ezikiel returns to Cadenza for his another outing, this time dropping the Tales Of Roots EP. "Tales Of Roots" is a 15-minute opus, which unravels slowly but surely, working from a soft, yet persistent bassline and a hypnotic rhythm. Samples of tribal singers add a distinct human element, entrancing you with their organic vibrations. "Makha Poetry" is a more experimental workout with a variety of warped and twisted effects spluttering and wobbling away at its foundation. The jaunty yet slightly eerie low-end gives this track a naughty allure.
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CADENZA 113EP
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Colombian producer Pablo Cahn presents a long, attractive, dancefloor tune with an overwhelming bass line and a deluge of vocal grains that shape fills and breakdowns all over the track. As the journey goes further, a complex twist of harmonies and resonances arises. Paco Osuna's remix recaps all the rhythmic elements and shrinks the vocal drizzle, intertwining the relentless bassline and stinging hi-hats before a magnificent outbreak of the dense original chords.
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CADENZA 112EP
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Cadenza's head honcho Luciano teams with house music legend David Morales for Esperanza. David and Luciano composed the track together but they each refined their own mix. Luciano's "Flow Latino Mix" is a long, tribal, ground-moving crescendo with a sub-frequency dense kick and sparkling Nuyorican-flavored percussion. Hand drums ride a magnetic bass provoking a state of hyper-amnesia slowly reaching a climax of celestial chords. David Morales's "Red Zone Mix" is a lengthy dramatic ascension with a darker feeling. Stretched textures are the background of a constellation of scattered percussion, over which fast paced hi-hats subliminally introduce evocative strings and arpeggios.
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CADENZA 111EP
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Originally released in 2014 (BASAEC 002EP), Cadenza call upon a brace of remixers to provide fresh interpretations of Luciano's "The Great Amael": a lo-fi bubbling groove with dusted Hammond organs, live percussion cuts and oceanic atmospherics. Matthew Dear, AKA Audion, melts stuttering sine waves and bulging tones over concrete beats, tweaking in the original organ riff while adding additional vocal on his remix. Phil Moffa and Seth Troxler's "LSOS LOVE/GOD" remix sees the duo steer through breathy vocal cuts and propelling bass, stripping the remix back before leaping back into hyperspace with some adventurous and dubbed out vibes.
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CADENZA 110EP
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Philippe Quenum returns to Cadenza with Solitaire. Solitaire finds Quenum in fine form; on the lead track, dubby FX and bass shaking shots roll out over an urgent disco beat, muted brass and technoid stabs fire from all directions as the tension building pads flourish. Shadowy forces are at play on "Mystic"; discordant sounds echo and bellow over reverberating percussion and a dense back beat that fire into life with shuffling hi-hats. Wrapping up this welcome return to the label is "Mystery"; whipping snares and industrial clangs rumble over the urgent drums for more hypnotizing dancefloor work from Philippe.
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CADALMA 001EP
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Project ALMA is a collaboration between Luciano's Cadenza Records label and the ALMA Sounds, bridging Luciano's love for music and ALMA astronomer Antonio Hales's love of the universe. The ALMA observatory is an astronomical interferometer of radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Luciano, alongside Felipe Venegas and Diego Errázuriz, have produced this release using sounds collected from the ALMA resource library. Luciano takes us on a trip to Orion, Venegas goes deeper with a truly spatial piece and Errázuriz opts for a beat-less excursion that marries soft and atmospheric piano to the planetary tones.
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CADENZA 109EP
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Swiss DJ & producer, Mirko Loko presents remixes for 2015's Comet Plan (CADENZA 016CD/CADENZA 102LP). Sebastian Mullaert plumps for a solo remix of "Venus" of epic proportions, split into two versions; "Phaze One" and "Phaze Two". An organic trip through the cosmos, Mullaert tweaks and teases over two seductively trippy versions, showing us a master class in minimal electronics. Brett Johnson tackles "U Special" featuring JAW with a very tasty remix and instrumental version. Soulful, spacey and groovy in equal doses, Brett delivers the goods in abundance on these mixes.
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CADENZA 108EP
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German producer Sebastian Fiegen rolls out his debut solo release for Luciano's Cadenza with a trio of excellent house cuts. "Dopeman" opens the EP with a rolling Chi-town house-style groove, a simple yet effective filtered vocal loop, and sustained strings. Fiegen keeps up the pace with the drum-led house grooves of "Anando" as the vocal refrain cuts in and out and the bassline and woody percussion maintain the bouncing vibes. "TH01" brings more of the feel-good factor with its use of the looped samples and lazy, hypnotizing drums.
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CADENZA 107EP
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Spanish DJ and producer Eduardo de la Calle presents the refined techno of Anima Animus, following stellar releases on Cadenza, Mule Musiq, Hivern Discs, Be as One, and Nonplus. Drawing inspiration from Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung's concept of the anima and animus, "Anima Animus" marries arpeggiated synths and melodic chords with a soft kick and tantalizing hats for a slick piece of reflective techno alive with melody and groove. On "North Pole," subaquatic bass and searing, melancholic strings play out over a steady, mechanical beat, recalling the Detroit masters as well as the European new wave sounds that influenced them.
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CADENZA 106EP
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Swiss producers Rare Movement and Disco Channel debut with Numbers. After cutting their teeth on the DJ circuit for many years and playing alongside artists including Seth Troxler, Ricardo Villalobos, Jamie Jones, and Luciano, they've crafted a pair of tracks that would fit perfectly in those performers' DJ sets. "Rare 007" combines tension-building synths, a wandering bassline, and a solid drum groove for a most useful club tool. "Rare 011" digs deeper with cinematic strings over a sparse, bass-heavy kick drum. Vocal flashes and micro-percussion fly in and out as the track's melodic elements blossom. Mastered by Ricardo Villalobos.
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CADENZA 105EP
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Luciano's "7direction(s)" held pole position in his 2015 sets, ending his momentous off-Sónar show at the Poble Espanyol and becoming a staple at his weekly Vagabundos residency at Space Ibiza. Brooding pads and spikey synths linger over a spacious drum pattern, live drum fills, and claps bouncing off the bass pulses as wandering keys usher in the unmistakable vocals of JAW aka Jonathan Illel (dOP). With his remix, New York house royalty Dennis Ferrer (Nite Grooves, Defected, Ibadan, Objektivity) sprinkles the track with his own inimitable style. Matthew Herbert (Accidental) joins the party with a head-scrambling "One Direction Dub" mix.
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CADENZA 104EP
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Italian producers Enrico Gasperini aka gAs and Lino Pugliese's split 12" opens with gAs's "Rack Attack," on which woody hits and scattering hi-hats groove alongside gentle keys and a stuttering synth riff, and his undeniably funky "Agogo," which features incessant spongy stabs and frenzied percussion. Pugliese's "Banging On Your Door" (following 2014 releases on Memento Records and Cadenza Lab) has a percussive swing not too dissimilar from The Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" alongside low-frequency synth sweeps and distant vocals. "Aniwama" fuses melodious piano and clanging ride cymbals with low-end sonics, perfect as both a mood-setting piece and a peak time genre-shifter.
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CADENZA 103EP
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Following a three-year hiatus from Cadenza after their 2012 Hole in the Middle EP (CADENZA 073EP), Felipe Valenzuela and Dani Casarano return for a third release on Luciano's imprint, continuing the label's rich musical history of electronic dance music fit for all purposes. "Instinct," a versatile slice of intricate house music, delivers a bubbling groove supported by a groovy bass melody, crunching claps, and shimmering rides. "Impulse" sees the pair venture into more avant-garde territory, with lo-fi electronics, discordant piano notes, offbeat string arrangements, and shimmering synths. Perfect headphone electronics with stacks of detail and fresh touches.
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CADENZA 101EP
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Mirko Loko follows his 2015 album Comet Plan (CADENZA 016CD/102LP) with Kolor in a return to Cadenza after his 2009 debut Seventynine (CADENZA 038EP). Mirko is obviously indebted to the techno music of the Motor City, and these classic Detroit tropes are certainly used in the building blocks of the original mix of "Kolor," sprinkled with a dusting of xylophones, bells, and chimes. For his remix, Planet E founder and legendary Detroit producer Carl Craig keeps the 4/4 framework of the original mix and strips back the percussion somewhat, working with elastic synths, flanged percs, and a heavy low end.
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CADENZA 102LP
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CADENZA 100EP
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Cadenza's 100th release comes, aptly, from label boss Luciano. Reviving his Lucien-n-Luciano moniker for the occasion, he delivers "Grace of an Art," a Herculean piece of rubbery tech-funk, with intricate sound design over its steady and assured mechanical beat. On "Rickson Trephala," a flexible bassline wraps itself around a minimal, energetic beat, chock-full of abstract sounds and glitches. Bonus CD includes the grandiose 60-minute "Timeless Song for Lovers of the Morning Enlightenment," echoing the ideas of sound experimentalists such as Global Communication, but very much with Luciano's stamp, filled with sad pianos and wandering percussion and soaked in dubby reverb.
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CADENZA 016CD
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Swiss DJ and producer Mirko Loko presents the follow-up to Seventynine, his 2009 debut, catapulting us into the techno and electronica galaxy with Comet Plan. "Un voyage entre toute mes influences," Mirko Loko shares, breaking into his mother tongue to describe the essence of his sophomore long-player, which he conceived in Berlin and later birthed in his hometown of Lausanne after a two-year gestation period. Literally translated as "to travel between my influences," it's a fitting summation of an artist whose work has respectfully mined early inspiration from Detroit and Chicago, drawing on artists who laid the foundations of the emotion-filled productions he has become known for. Loko also sees his connection with Luciano's Cadenza Music -- a relationship that's been in existence since day one, and that has seen the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Thomas Melchoir, Pedro, and Rahdoo come together to form one of the most innovative crews in dance music -- as leaving an indelible imprint on his musical DNA. It's Loko's strong sense of musical identity that is at the core of Comet Plan, a work that's equally informed by the artist's spiritual connection with the Motor City as his halcyon Cadenza roots. And one thing's for sure: he knows how to captivate. Take "Venus," whose trickles of melody and syncopated drum rhythms increase in intensity with each bar toward an eerie crescendo. Then there's "U Special," which builds the kind of subtle party vibes you could imagine Luciano dropping to create one of those moments on a heaving, blissed-out dancefloor. On the CD version, "Kolor," the album's early single (also remixed by Carl Craig as part of an excellent EP package), is sprinkled with a dusting of xylophones, chimes, and other bells as the melody is driven forward for a heady trip across the electronic galaxy. "Timeline" sees Mirko enlist visionary pianist and electronic composer Francesco Tristano for an absorbing piano house jam session with a difference before handing the collaborative baton to dOP vocalist Jaw and taking us down a murky, slightly menacing house path with "Danger." For the CD finale, the melody-soaked futurism of "Coelum Piuzis" pours wave after wave out of the speakers -- se termine le voyage. CD includes five exclusive tracks: "Lea," "Flash," "Kolor (Original Mix)," "Radio Vini," and "Coelum Piuzis."
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CADENZA 099EP
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Eduardo de la Calle presents The Methodical Machines EP, his third in a string for Luciano's Cadenza, following Precursors EP (CADENZA 087EP) and The Motorglider EP (CADENZA 092EP). Across two 12"s, de la Calle showcases his minimal and soulful grooves. The sci-fi vibes of "Gajapati" build over brooding and spongy production, while "The Namuci's Mystery" is soaked with pitch-bending synths and rasping, acidic stabs. Jazz influences appear on "Concierto de Aranjuez," with freestyle keys and wandering waveforms floating over a popping beat, while "The Demigod's Control" comes to life with stuttering electronics and rising pads, filled with emotion and soul.
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CADENZA 098LP
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Double LP version. Ernesto Ferreyra's 2010 debut album for Cadenza, the intricate and balanced El Paraiso De Las Tortugas (CADENZA 007CD/056LP), was something of a landmark release, not only for the Argentinean DJ and producer, but also for the minimal electronic dance scene, taking the micro-techno genre out of the clubs and into a full-length listening experience. Four years on, and Ernesto has certainly lost none of the magic and spark that made his debut album a "keeper." On Some Kind of Sign we find the producer seriously in his element, with his production aesthetics at his peak, brimming with ideas, melodies, killer hooks and wonderfully playful percussion across the 11 tracks. Aiming to go somewhat deeper and darker than his debut album, on Some Kind of Sign Ernesto endeavors to go beyond the obvious and easily-clichéd elements of an electronic LP, capturing the world within the spaces, using otherworldly modulars and field recordings to take the listener to the outer reaches of the album's very heart and soul. This is an album full of elastic beats and liquid electronics, every track built around highly inventive drum programming and micro-samples. Album opener, "Still Waiting" sets the tone with bustling, yet understated, percussion, the soaring strings unfurling at the end of each phrase. It's an album filled with color; "Cristal Clear" feels like a Middle Eastern travelogue, the track awash with an almost street scene-like ambience, the purposeful percussion really transporting the listener to another space and time. "Astral" chugs along at almost a skanking pace, the shakers and drum fills keeping it a dancefloor piece while the modular synths bend and worm around the kicks. On tracks like "Underwater Lies," the synths rain down onto a dubbed-out & sultry female vocal, while the propelling electro beat and huge sub-bass carve out a most enjoyable aural (subaquatic) ride. Ferreyra really shows what he is capable of in the deep melancholy of "The Friend I've Lost," the saddest of pianos riffs grips your heart and gives it a good tight crush, douses you in reverb and pins you up against epic, taut strings -- releasing you after its two short minutes to get back to the dance on "Hide No More." The album closes on "Beluga Dance," a riotous and infectious space ride, and a fitting end to an album that most certainly finds Ferreyra stepping up another level with his highly-accomplished and polished original dance music, designed not only for the feet but for the head as well, the true hallmarks of great electronic music.
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