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Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve. In the world of electronic dance music, Âme stand apart. Since 2003, the duo of Frank Wiedemann and Kristian Beyer have cut a singular path through techno, house, minimal, ambient, and more with their anthemic singles and mixes. But 2018 reveals their finest achievement yet, their second full-length album Dream House. It both sounds unmistakably like Âme and unlike anything you've ever heard from the duo, an evocative home listening journey enacted after 15 years spent crafting dancefloor weapons. Features Matthew Herbert, Gudrun Gut, Planningtorock, Jens Kuross (ex-drummer for RyX), and Roedelius.
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IV 009CD
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In the world of electronic dance music, Âme stand apart. Since 2003, the duo of Frank Wiedemann and Kristian Beyer have cut a singular path through techno, house, minimal, ambient, and more with their anthemic singles and mixes. But 2018 reveals their finest achievement yet, their second full-length album Dream House. It both sounds unmistakably like Âme and unlike anything you've ever heard from the duo, an evocative home listening journey enacted after 15 years spent crafting dancefloor weapons. Features Matthew Herbert, Gudrun Gut, Planningtorock, Jens Kuross (ex-drummer for RyX), and Roedelius.
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IV 008CD
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Few new techno artists of the past years gained as much momentum as Recondite. His atmospheric, driving, bleak tracks are techno to the core. But they are much more. They are not techno about techno, music reprocessing other music, but music about emotion and experiences. In dealing with themes like longing, nostalgia, romanticism and the general uncertainty of being human, the productions of the thoughtful Bavarian introduce a new range of issues and emotions. His music is widely available through many releases on renowned labels such as Ghostly, Hotflush and Dystopian, but it never reveals its mystery. It is charming, yet serious, it is beautiful but dark. It is the soundtrack for a perfect night out, and it reveals a profound insight into the abyss of the human experience. With Iffy, his third album, Recondite tries to introduce a wider audience to his basic interest: the feelings and emotions that are hidden in the dark. Recondite does not present the arrangements and structures on a silver platter, but leaves room for interpretation. He is not interested in getting blurry or arbitrarily tough. Managing to put his moods in a nutshell, he does not need words or voices to allow people to relate to his unique personal experience. The dog's indecisive expression on Iffy's front cover is the major key emotion, leading through the whole record. It is driven by conflicting moods, and despite all commitment, the outcome always remains open. But there is existential gravity in its core, which makes Iffy more accessible than Recondite's previous works and therefore delivers his idea in yet another, different robe. Innervisions is a perfect fit, as the musical ideas and harmonic desires of the label are nicely in tune with the Bavarian producer's output and personality. CD comes in an extraordinary sleevepack.
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IV 034EP
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It has taken quite some time for Marcus Worgull to deliver his third EP for Innervisions. We won't blah blah about the music. You better just listen to it. But there is one piece of decisive information that shouldn't be withheld from those who never read the credits: "Long Way" has additional instruments, beats and even vocals (!) by Mr. Prins Thomas.
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IV 032EP
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The next release on Innervisions comes from icy Finland, home of Säkhö and so much other great music. Mr. Rantanen aka Lil' Tony is not only a close friend of the Innervisions label, but also an artist they really like. A good way to start 2011.
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IV 031EP
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2 days in Karlsruhe - ½ Château Flight - ½ Âme - 2 accents circonflexes - 1 Roland Jupiter-6 - 1 Roland MC-202 - 1 Roland TB-303 - 1 Roland TR-808 - 1 Yamaha YC-45D - 1 pseudonym - 2 new tracks - I:Cube and Frank Wiedemann are Tête.
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IV 030EP
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In 2009, Innervisions introduced Culoe De Song for the first time outside of his home country South Africa with The Bright Forest. The new EP features Busi Mhlongo, an award-winning South African singer who sadly passed away in early 2010. Innervisions is proud to present the next big release by this young producer. Welcome back, Culoe. As usual from Innervisions, housed in a slick diecut sleeve with stunning artwork inside.
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IV 029EP
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Two remixes of Sudanese musician Emmanuel Jal by Henrik Schwarz and Olof Dreijer (The Knife), originally compiled for the Sudan 365 -- a beat for peace campaign. In this campaign, several organizations across the globe have come together to promote international awareness for the referendum in January 2011 in which the people of south Sudan will vote to decide whether they wish to remain part of a united Sudan or whether they want to become an independent country.
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IV 028EP
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After exploring technoid territories, Âme are back with a deep house EP. It is very much infiltrated with a Duchamp-esque way of approaching artistic objects: ready-made, self-referencing and perpetuating. So musically, perpetuum mobile (ital. "Moto perpetua" by Niccolò Paganini) elements push forward into mesmerizing loops. The future is nearer than in most contemporary deep house releases. Typically amazing Innervisions die-cut sleeve.
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IV 027EP
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This is the fourth volume in Innervisions' Secret Weapons series. Paul Virilio once wrote that Indians refused to take a train. They said they would lose their soul, because the soul can't keep up with the speed of the train. Secret Weapons Vol. 4 should be your opportunity to let the train pass by and rather listen to its contributions by Larry Heard, Âme, Boddhi Satva, Boomclap Bachelors, Musaria, Tuff City Kids and Dixon.
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IV 026EP
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As a result of 2009's "A Critical Mass" tour, Innervisions release two tracks recreated from the recorded live material. The A-side is based on the former Henrik Schwarz hit, "Chicago." This new, eerie, bleepy techno version has a touch of early M-Plant production and was recorded during the Flow Festival in Helsinki in August 2009. "Berlin-Karlsruhe Express" is an aquatic Drexciyan house inferno by Henrik Schwarz/Âme/Dixon, and was the highlight of every live show.
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IV 025EP
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After the release of their album Black Ships, Tokyo Black Star return to Innervisions with this great 12". "Caballero" is a tune from the album with a brand-new mix-down by Andreas Schorpp and Âme. This turns it into a powerful dancefloor weapon for the Space Lab Night at the sadly gone Club Yellow in Tokyo. Radio Slave delivers a fantastic remix that adds an exotic, more cosmic-sounding touch to the repetitive and hypnotic patterns he is known for.
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IV 024EP
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Innervisions offer three nice edits from DJ Dixon, taken from his Temporary Secretary mix. He was lucky to get all single parts from the original tracks, and with his scientific approach, he recreated each track completely in a different way. So what is an edit and what is a remix? To form your own opinion on this topic, you better check this record out. Featuring work by Junior Boys, Ewan Pearson, Precious System, Ben Klock, Code 718, and Henrik Schwarz.
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IV 023EP
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The Machine is Radioslave's new moniker under which he will release his next album in early 2010 on his Rekids label. "Fuse" is a pre-released track from this album in two remixes, one by Âme, one by Dixon. Comes in a die cut jacket with inner sleeve.
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IV 003CD
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This is the debut full-length release by Tokyo Black Star. Black Ships is led by a team of production warriors: world-traveling French DJ Alex From Tokyo is based between Tokyo and New York, armed with his high-grade receptor antennae, and his partner, Isao Kumano, operates from his studio-base in Tokyo as a multi-talented, high-profile engineer and sound producer specializing in all musical aspects from mixing to mastering. As Tokyo Black Star, their ship has advanced through the galaxy, meeting fellow travellers along the way. Their encounter with Dixon influenced the start of his label Innervisions, their love of art led them to NYC-based, rising Japanese new generation painter Tomokazu Matsuyama, who produced this album's beautiful artwork, and their need for the word cast the voice of poet Rich Medina as album storyteller, lending his distinctive, deep voice to one of the characters in this story. Black Ships is not only Tokyo Black Star's nonfiction travel diary, it is also the supreme tale of traveling through the world of imagination -- an ultimate, brilliantly-executed electronic dance music novel within the modern, club-oriented electronic dance music genre. This is neat, ultra-modern slickness that encompasses electro-beat, tribal rhythms, jazz squawks, nervous disco, and so much more. The journey of the imagination begins with the exalted feeling of departure, sometimes steady, but also sometimes facing navigation trouble. There are climaxes, denouements, and voyages within voyages. This is the sound of distant ports, of pirates surfing waves of static, and space stations humming along on some far away galaxy.
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IV 022EP
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Every Âme 12" is, as always, the result of a work-in-progress. "Setsa" fuses prepared piano from John Cage with some classic house roots, while "Ensor" is the steamroller which comes out of some dark basement techno club in the early '90s. Sadly, The Sound Factory is already gone.
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IV 021EP
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Sometimes tracks appear from somewhere you would never expect. With a little help from their friends at the Red Bull Music Academy, this great demo from this young producer from Durban found its way to Innervisions. The label has heard a lot of great productions from South Africa in recent years, but this one was so special, they immediately had to sign it. Epic African house with a strange touch you have definitely never heard before. "This is an unbelievably great Afro-house 12" with syncopated rhythms on African drums. The artist is Culoe De Song, an 18 year old South African DJ from Durban. Comes in a die cut jacket with full color inner sleeve. All-around beautiful." -- Facebook.
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IV 019EP
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This is the first EP from Tokyo Black Star's upcoming full-length. Inspired by Yellow Magic Orchestra, the Japanese electronic music pioneers. The B-side is a housey Loco Dice remix of "Game Over," similar to his remix of Dennis Ferrer's "Son Of Raw."
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IV 017EP
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This is an EP by Henrik Schwarz/Âme/Dixon. A huge slab of organic, textured vinyl from an amazing collaboration.
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IV 002CD
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Innervisions releases its first CD -- a compilation of exclusively commissioned and beautiful music inspired by the sound of silence. On a trip to Japan, the label's founders came up with an idea for an ambient project that evokes the Tokyo streets -- lots of cars, lots of people, yet a calm stillness and a quiet that can only come from the inner impulse to mute the noise. Muting The Noise is also inspired by The Pearl from ambient originator, Brian Eno and by the work of avant-garde minimalist, Harold Budd. In the beginning of the 1990s, it was quite normal to have an ambient floor at an average techno house party. This culture got lost in the new millennium and became simply a quaint memory. Eschewing their regular 12" dancefloor-pointed direction, Innervisions label-heads Âme and Dixon gathered friends and artists to contribute to this project, such as Japan-based Tokyo Black Star, Koss, and Terre Thaemlitz, as well as German electronic composer and pioneer Klaus Schulze. Muting The Noise is hopefully only the first in an Innervisions series that will usher in the ambient revival, quietly. Other artists include: Mark Pritchard & David Brinkworth, Karma, Henrik Schwarz, I:Cube, and Stefan Goldmann. Housed in a high-quality debossed linen 60-page softbound book containing nothing at all. Perhaps so you can take notes on the nothingness? As the label-heads describe in XLR8R: "... we muted all the noise! In addition, we successfully managed to hide the CD and make it as hard as possible for people to get it out. You should see the faces of the people who open that package!"
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IV 016EP
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"Laurent Garnier delivers his first dancefloor 12" release in five years, Back To My Roots EP, released on Âme and Dixon's Berlin house imprint, Innervisions. This release represents a truly inspirational night that saw Laurent Garnier's welcome return to the club that represents Berlin's electronic music scene to perfection -- Panorama Bar. It's 5a.m., and Garnier, five hours since his set began, is supposed to finish and let Dixon take over. But, the intensity and energy asks him to play on. So he does, for another three hours of magic. 'During that time I played the demo mix of the "Back To My Roots" track, which I'd made that week. Dixon jumped on me to ask what it was. He said that he loved the sound of it and asked me what I wanted to do with it, mentioning that he would really like to release it on Innervisions. I went back home on the Monday and worked straight away on another track, which I named "Panoramix" (a tribute to that night at Panorama). I sent a very rough demo to Dixon via download and received a text five minutes later saying that he wanted it. It happened really fast without me having any plans at all.' - Laurent Garnier. Closely guarded within the Innervisions and Garnier camp, Back To My Roots EP, goes well beyond the hype that it is naturally receiving. An excellent pairing brings one of the most highly revered electronic artists in the world, together with one of the most highly revered house music labels in the world. It works. 'When Laurent played "Back To My Roots" at Panorama, I immediately had the feeling that I was listening to a classic. It's a very unique, timeless production. Not hip, not modern, not old school. It is also a 12 minutes journey that is worth to play for that long. We are very happy that Laurent told me straight away in the club that he would be cool with releasing this EP on our label.'"
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IV 015EP
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"'A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.' (Desmond Tutu). Originally this track appears on Amampondo's forthcoming album Vibrations From The Motherland on Nanny Tango. Here we have two longer and more club-friendly versions of that track. Version one is a live recording of Henrik. The other is a much more stripped-down version by Dixon."
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IV 013EP
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"After two years this is finally the new EP by Marcus Worgull. We always knew it was worth waiting that long for him to come up with this 2 tracks. For this release he is teaming up with Mr. White for the title song. 'Spellbound' is a big instrumental that gets a surprising vocal addition by Mr. White in the main version. Mr. White should be well known for his stunning release 'The Sun Can't Compare' on Larry Heard's Alleviated label. This track easily became the most played house track of the last 12 month and was compiled for several compilations from artists like Sebo K, Ewan Pearson, Ellen Allien and Dixon."
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IV 012EP
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"This EP is reflecting the different cultural influences of Alex from Tokyo. Being French, growing up in Tokyo and living in New York leads one to this diverse music. The title track 'Still Sequence' is remixed by Âme and Dixon and is focused on the killer groove of the original."
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IV 011EP
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"Âme returns with two new tracks. Two tracks that move away from that clean sound has been penetrating us for the last two years in nearly every production. Bring back the raw -- like Kerri Chandler said last year already. So here u go: Wildpitch I think I luv u!"
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