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CVAN 014EP
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"That Placid Track" has been in the hands of some lucky individuals for some time now, making its way across dancefloors from Berlin to New York, Bristol to Tokyo. Disco references are heavy throughout with a great use of strings licks, a slo-down vocal sample and a classic cowbell, keeping everything nicely in check. On remix duties is Ewan Pearson who has also pulled in the skills of his man Sasse Lindblad to assist with the mix.
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CVAN 012LP
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2LP version. This is the third album by Berlin's Anton Maiof aka Antoni Maiovvi. The Thorns Of Love is an ode to a broken heart that embraces Italian drama and euphoric fear. His music exists somewhere between Patrick Cowley's Hi-NRG epics, Arthur Russell's melancholic beauty and John Carpenter's traumatizing soundtracks. Antoni Maiovvi is the name by which Anton Maiof unleashes his bastard offspring of disco and psychotronic horror, and here with The Thorns Of Love he has produced a deeply personal symphony to love lost and the sanctifying power of the dancefloor. Antoni Maiovvi is a nefarious creature of the night, a figure of twilight opulence and the love child of Evelyn Thomas and Lucio Fulci conceived in the lurid backrooms of the Boccaccio Club. The sweatbox is in his DNA, throbbing analog circuitry courses through his flesh like rivers of blood and where his heart once lived there is now only yearning for the alchemical marriage of sex, death and technology. From Naples to Frankfurt, he has stalked the dancefloors of Europe, planning this moment -- and at last, in this compendium of unbridled fist-clenchers, his time has come. Now he will stop at nothing to bring his arpeggiated talisman down onto the souls of men, squeezing out that last breath of humanity in a pulsing, Dantean dance-macabre. The Thorns Of Love takes a unique, muscular and cerebral approach to electronic dance music, bringing together the Italo love explosion, spine-tingling Euro-horror and the melancholic proto-techno musings of early Model 500 and "Sharevari." Maiovvi takes the helm of this noir-tinged Trojan horse, carving out a dancefloor machine with commanding synth-work, operatic drums and mind-bending atmospherics. As the album climaxes and the smoke pours across a crowded room, he steps out from the shadows and delivers his final eulogy to 20th century hedonism, preaching with the unhinged vocals of a coked-up Brian Ferry. Love may be the drug, but for Maiovvi, death can be the only future.
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CVAN 003CD
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This is the third album by Berlin's Anton Maiof aka Antoni Maiovvi. The Thorns Of Love is an ode to a broken heart that embraces Italian drama and euphoric fear. His music exists somewhere between Patrick Cowley's Hi-NRG epics, Arthur Russell's melancholic beauty and John Carpenter's traumatizing soundtracks. Antoni Maiovvi is the name by which Anton Maiof unleashes his bastard offspring of disco and psychotronic horror, and here with The Thorns Of Love he has produced a deeply personal symphony to love lost and the sanctifying power of the dancefloor. Antoni Maiovvi is a nefarious creature of the night, a figure of twilight opulence and the love child of Evelyn Thomas and Lucio Fulci conceived in the lurid backrooms of the Boccaccio Club. The sweatbox is in his DNA, throbbing analog circuitry courses through his flesh like rivers of blood and where his heart once lived there is now only yearning for the alchemical marriage of sex, death and technology. From Naples to Frankfurt, he has stalked the dancefloors of Europe, planning this moment -- and at last, in this compendium of unbridled fist-clenchers, his time has come. Now he will stop at nothing to bring his arpeggiated talisman down onto the souls of men, squeezing out that last breath of humanity in a pulsing, Dantean dance-macabre. The Thorns Of Love takes a unique, muscular and cerebral approach to electronic dance music, bringing together the Italo love explosion, spine-tingling Euro-horror and the melancholic proto-techno musings of early Model 500 and "Sharevari." Maiovvi takes the helm of this noir-tinged Trojan horse, carving out a dancefloor machine with commanding synth-work, operatic drums and mind-bending atmospherics. As the album climaxes and the smoke pours across a crowded room, he steps out from the shadows and delivers his final eulogy to 20th century hedonism, preaching with the unhinged vocals of a coked-up Brian Ferry. Love may be the drug, but for Maiovvi, death can be the only future.
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CVAN 009EP
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Jilt Van Moorst presents two cuts for Caravan. "Sublimination Ritual" is a quirky tech-bomb complete with submerged oscillator tones, phat-ass, low-end bass-stabs and super-tight polyrhythms. A new dimension of arranged sounds, all forged together by Jilt finding digital juju ghosts inside his Doepfer Modular synth and analog drum modules. "Pecker" is a harder, darker, faster 4/4 trip -- an intricately-crafted piece of reduced warehouse techno with ever-evolving, flying, steppers polyrhythms -- fans of Sleeparchive and early Plastikman won't be disappointed.
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CVAN 007EP
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2008 release. Etalon have been producing and DJing across a number of genres with various productions on labels such as Global Underground, EMI, Players Paradise and more. Working almost-tangible melodies together with an irrepressible groove, "Uniqueness" provides a full body and mind workout. On the flip is an unusual re-work from label boss October. With his attempts at original sonic design and experimentation, this is his most uncommon work to date. Stiffen your neuro-synapses, open up your frontal lobe, and enjoy.
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CVAN 001CD
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Compiled by October aka Julian Raymond Smith in Bristol, this selection expresses the collective desire from a body of international artists, working in partnership with his Caravan label, to simply create a "music of this time." Presented together as Recession Vol.1, this continuous mix of material from the imprint offers up a template of electronic music both as a vision and aesthetic in permanent flux. A musical form stepping into the future, while constantly indebted to the labors and commitments of its past -- a retroactive narrative that pushes at the edges of possibility and a movement that seems a strangely apt soundtrack to this turbulent yet inspiring era of transition. Make no mistake, this is serious dancefloor business. Opening track, October's "Smorgisbored" sets the tone for this peculiar and unique strain of tech-house; unexpected sounds paired with strangely quirky hooks which define the output of Caravan Recordings. The label's signature is a fresh approach to dance music, with slick, clean productions which incorporate a range of unusual traits and cheeky production techniques. Recession Vol.1 includes some of the label's highlights from the past 12 months, available here on CD for the first time, such as the floor-killing TG track "Rene" and October's "Control Room Interior," along with cuts from (emptyset), Jilt Van Moorst and also features the digital exclusive remix of Etalon's "Uniqueness" by Mathew Leutwyler. Recession Vol.1 documents the first wave of Caravan's releases, and in turn, offers the listener an utterly alluring mix of organic, deep techno.
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CVAN 005EP
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2008 release. Back for another outing, Caravan label-boss October takes the vibe of his previous releases and twists them further leftfield. It's out there with the finest: "Houston" (we have a problem) is one for all the audio astronauts. "Listen, Move, Dance" is more of a straight-forward dancefloor affair -- sleek and sexy, but deep and intelligent. Already hammered by DJs in the know.
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CVAN 008EP
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This is a stunning, limited October missive, drawn from the well-received Caravan: Recession Vol. 1 mix CD. Already making waves throughout the dubstep and techno communities, these tunes make the nifty stealth connection between well-conceived and executed warehouse moves and the grime-y realities of low-end pressure in evidence here.
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CVAN 006EP
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2008 release. Caravan presents their 6th release with TG's Feign EP. "Rene" is a journey of epic proportions that starts out circling the Earth's orbit before slowly burning through the Van Allen Belt into our planet's cooling atmosphere, where we find the solace of TG's groove and voice. Bearing a great vocal hook, an unstoppable 4/4 groove and an arsenal of cool, squelchy melodies and sounds, "Rene" is a great jam that avoids all the trademark tech-house pitfalls. Also includes a remix of "Feign" by Markus Guentner.
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CVAN 004EP
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"'Raw' is a restrained anthem with an infectious melodic hook, simple yet perfectly crafted, gentle but firm. Perspectiv Recordings' label boss Ripperton joins Agnès on the buttons for a superb remix, taking the original ideas and rolling the vibe out for an epic workout. Following on from the massive success of the first 3 Caravan singles, label boss and key artist October returns to wax for further ventures in deep mindfulness. So far the label's been received with open arms by many of techno's key artists, including: Steve Bug, Laurent Garnier, Peter Kruder, Mark Henning, Thomas Schumacher, Slam, 3 Channels, Trickski, Jeff Samuel, Claude VonStroke, Tobias Freund, Mary-Anne Hobbs, Tim Green, Sascha Funke, Kiki, Alex Fitsh, Miss Kitten, Eurokai., Ripperton, etc. The list goes on!"
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CVAN 002EP
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"Much anticipated follow-up from the Tectonic-affiliated Caravan Recordings, the second release for the label head October, furthering the minimal techno with dubstep influences, wrecking shit from LDN to Berlin."
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