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KARMA 035LP
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Double-12" vinyl version of Axel Bartsch's debut full-length, Kiss, previously released on CD by Karmarouge. After a few 12" releases on Kompakt, Sportclub and Spielzeug, Axel Bartsch made the final decision to name his album Kiss because of his passion for music... because music is like kissing -- highly emotional and sensual, as the feeling of approaching lips. These are melodic and energetic tracks that space out into ambience against minimalist hooks, classic techno, dub, and vocal experimentation, dipping into the abstractness of familial and emotional electronic soundscapes. Kiss celebrates the glorious pressure and tension felt in the body when the dancer is animated by a grooving techno current -- moving, throbbing, and finally being released in hisses and pops, like being kissed by music.
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KARMA 035CD
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Berlin's Axel Bartsch releases his debut full-length for Karmarouge, Kiss. After a few 12" releases on Kompakt, Sportclub and Spielzeug, Axel Bartsch has been searching for a suitable record label and Karmarouge gave him the opportunity to do it his way. Bartsch made the final decision to name his album Kiss because of his passion for music... because music is like kissing -- highly emotional and sensual, as the feeling of approaching lips. These are melodic and energetic tracks that space out into ambience, dipping into the abstractness of familial and emotional electronic soundscapes. Kiss celebrates the glorious pressure and tension felt in the body when the dancer is animated by a grooving techno current -- moving, throbbing, and finally being released in hisses and pops, like being kissed by music.
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KARMA 033EP
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At 17 years-old, Alexander Roland releases his second 12" on Karmarouge. "Balungan" is ethnic, driven, and minimal, with many roots and elements coming from gamelan music. "Nada Irama" feels like a river cruise through a tropical rainforest accompanied by a delicate minimal melody. The clever use of dubby vocals, hypnotizing liquid sounds and the groove conjure up a mystical temper that smoothly trips you out. Balungan is a breath of psychedelic spirit that floats to distant worlds.
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KARMA 034CD
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The Vegetable Orchestra are from Vienna and they use musical instruments made out of vegetables: using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetable sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens. The music represents an isomorphism of electronic music and the structure of the sounds produced by the vegetables. The concept of this remix project is the interpretation and reconstruction of electronic music with organic means by using the original vegetable sounds and samples. Karmarouge Records has invited well-respected international artists such as Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Gabriel Ananda, Frank Martiniq, Oliver Hacke, Märtini Brös, Anja Schneider, Basteroid and Sian to take part and create their individual vegetable sound interpretation. Armed with vegetable samples, a sequencer and a hand-held blender, it's up to them to show the world how to brew a large portion of minimal techno out of ginger, leek and onions, how to buzz the pumpkin bass and cook a delicate celery soup. Listen to the vegetables!
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KARMA 030LP
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Double 12" compilation on Gabriel Ananda's Karmarouge label. "Exclusive productions on this doublepack by A1. Max Cavalerra - 'Tension Release' A2. Franklin de Costa - 'Gavanor' B1. Oeler - '2 Angels for Oeler' C1. Maik Loewen - 'Monks' C2. Paul Brtschitsch & Gabriel Ananda - 'Morning Glory' D1. Daniel Mehlhart - 'Rauschfrei' D2. Sian - 'Goblins & Emus'"
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KARMA 029EP
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"Daniel Mehlhart is back on Karmarouge with his second 12" called Kamasutra. The same-named title track on the A-side is an Indian-flavored tune about sensuous and sensual pleasure, spirituality and love. The cheerful and smooth-running track delights with diversified arrangements and instrumentation. A simple, offbeat bass line adds a deep groove and some jazzy elements are clearly audible in the central part. Delightful, frisky and affectionately produced, Daniel Mehlhart succeeded to cock the ravages of time a snook by focusing on a special kind of eroticism. 'Dunkelkammer' on the flip side comes along in a sinister robe. A scary murmur is surrounded by percussive and loop-based elements. It's a functional track with a pushing bass line and whose monotone develops a hypnotic effect, a simple muting of the kickdrum yields lots of fun and works very well on the dancefloor."
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KARMA 028EP
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"The A-side track 'Return 2 Zero' Pascal FEOS builds up a deep and engaging groove step-by-step. At the same time a pushing bassline peels itself filigree out of the groove, leads the track and lets you take a ride on a melody of the spheres to distant worlds. The floating surfaces conjure a marvelous range above the beatrack, that in spite of resounding deephouse harmonies and a deep lush bass line never loses contact to the minimalism. Accompanied by trance alike synthie sounds and Pascal's characteristic crunchy sounds and basic essentials, the track moves towards his climax. The flipside track 'Pump' opens promising with an unyielding beat, accompanied by reserved melodies, kindly accented sequences on acid, a dominant bassline, smacking percussion grooves and perfectly accentuated minimal breaks. A track with a rough seeming character, celebrating with an astounding ease the unbending power and hardness of the primetime, a track which simply wants pull the last bead of perspiration from the sweating and twitching bodies on the dancefloor. From the essence of minimalistic sound..."
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KARMA 027EP
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"Gabriel Ananda presents us with 'Stream Of Consciousness' and 'Shake Ready,' two euphoric grooving tracks that are characterized by compact and at the same moment delicious balanced rhythms which spread themselves onto your body straightforwardly and which work on the dancefloor with an astounding ease. Two tracks that keep you away from holding your feet still, a record that simply makes fun! The A-side track 'Stream Of Consciousness' comes along in a sunny spellbound robe. Wishful-sounding melodies boxed in disarming clarity and elegance round a grooving bassline and oppressive beat. It's a track that is composed of various long rhythmic elements which easily manage to engage with each other and reveal its well-balanced character. For Gabriel Ananda, 'Stream Of Consciousness' means thinking in music and refers to the semi-constant internal monologue that he has with himself at a conscious or or semi-conscious level. It's a statement about his present state of mind."
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KARMA 026EP
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"The Luck'n'Love EP by Munich-based producer and DJ Max Cavalerra comes along in Karmarouge's typical warmness, with lots of energy in rhythm and in an emotional sunny, spellbound robe. Picturesque sounding melodies are moving in bewitching clarity and danceable elegance among minimalist harmonies and playful techno rhythms. Three tracks, each a unicum with distinctive temper and recognition value. Three tracks filled with heart's blood and emotions that stand in times of great love as well as in times of huge desperation -- solid as a rock. Max Cavalerra has produced with his Luck'n'Love EP a record that evolves a unique style of sound, influenced and inspired by techno, jazz, classical music and ambient. A very special sound which one unfortunately often does not get to hear. A breath of trance is also part of the game, but without becoming easy to see through and sublimates this harmonical techno interpretation to a extremely positive and remarkable sound sculpture that is native in the huge and colorful metropoles as well as on the dancefloors."
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KARMA 025EP
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"Daniel Mehlhart takes us with his impulsive groove on his trip into the darkness of the night, he introduces us to his personal labyrinth of sounds and styles and finally presents us a glance into the bright light of the beginning day. The A-side track 'Am Anfang War Es Minimal' follows the concept of minimalism and evolves towards a warm and smooth grooving deep techno track. A lovely piece of music that touches the heart, shakes the rump and carries loving gleams of hope into people's heart and onto the club's dance floors. 'Am Anfang War Es Minimal' is straight and playful but nevertheless oblique produced and amazes with a relaxing attitude. The phenomenal and beautiful B-side track 'Der Tonkopfreiniger' is music for the emotional moments in life and let each Karmarouge fan heart strike higher. A melodic minimal techno track that is able to creep under your skin due to its delightfulness, flavored and enchanted by Daniel's personal touch."
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KARMA 023EP
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"The master of simplicity is back on with his second release on Karmarouge. The story behind the title goes like this. Saint Patrick was a Christian missionary and is regarded as the patron saint of Ireland. He banished the snakes from Ireland and some Irish people say that human snakes replaced them. Sian asks himself if we might need a new modern Saint Patrick? The A-side track 'Stegosaurus' is a creepy, slow builder and melodic track, somewhat like a placid dinosaur. 'Merman' on the B-side is a more melancholic, angelic theme with hidden melodic patterns and messages. Born in Dublin Ireland, raised gypsy-style in southern Spain, Sian, aka Graham Goodwin has worked in music since the age of 17. Now 28, he has produced and released electronic music consistently and has worked with diverse artists during this period. His productions are arty, unique and childlike simple, he works with sounds as blocks of bright color and makes music for both the club and mind simultaneously. Sian believes that electronic music is more than just an interesting theory, it shapes lives and his DJ sets are well known for sweat, eclecticism and positive energy."
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KARMA 022EP
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"A1: Stuttgart-based producer Flekk presents his personal 'Glücksmelodie,' a funny and ridiculous tune that has similarities to older Mosquito releases. A weird techno track with electroclash approaches and numerous harmony changes. A2: Stefan Tretau's remix doesn't deny its closeness to the original even if it is less ravishing. This remix is characterized by psychedelic and spheric elements and a Detroitish bassline. A3: The third track comes from Netherland producer Hardmoon. This remix is a dreamful ambient master piece that finally diffluences more and more. We never dreamed that the 'Glücksmelodie' could sound so mellow and dreamy. B1: 'Sommerkräusel of Fortune' is Da-Roh's personal 'Glücksmelodie' interpretation, a summerly robed Detroit alike techno tune well touched by charming melancholy. The track is characterized by a minimal sound architecture, builds itself up, then drops into a break and finally builds itself up again. B2: Ümit Han's 'GlückIm Unglück' remix is a modern minimal techno tune that focus on functionality with a pinch of aggressiveness. A track that is delightfully frisky and outstanding, fragmented, and that coquettes from time to time with some Oriental samples."
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KARMA 010CD
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"Like no one else Gabriel Ananda has proved during the past year that sturdy and rocking techno does not need to consist of sample structures lacking any melodic qualities. Because this, what is coming out of the boxes fresh and untouched, is the reversion to Detroitish values -- the pairing of great emotional gestures and the uninevitable might of the 4 to the floor. Like cast in liquid chrome, jacked by melodic pads, dirty metropolitan bass lines are roaring through the space hall and wrap the desolately pumping beats in a silverish cloud of muggy memories. Huge bass monsters are galloping on frenetical bouncing grooves through the sweating arch of Gabriel Anandas' sound aesthetics, continuously swarmed round by an immense number of circling percussion instruments. Now and then foggy synthie clouds are waving above a rusty industrial sky and conjure spontaneously a few fluffy and summery thoughts until they're gobbled by the blurry grimace of the horizon. Deliciously balanced with dreamy dub techno tunes like 'Radiodust,' where sound snippets are trickling through the speaker-membranes like sand out of a desert grave. The seesawing techhouse-stomper-like 'Hoolahoop' seems to be abounded by grinning, skipping goblins. Tai nasha no karosha merges to an extremely melodic and acrobatic sound sculpture that is native in the huge, dirty and colorful metropoles as well as in your home."
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KARMA 014EP
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Remixes of the Vegetable Orchestra from Vienna, this time by Villalobos and Luciano! From the Automate album. Extended minimal tracks, as good as any Cadenza release. "For a crowning conclusion of this funny but outstanding remix series it's now up to Luciano and Ricardo Villalobos to buzz the pumpkin bass and cook a delicate celery soup. In his 'Ciboulette Mix' Luciano composes one of his dreamful and dodgy grooving soundscapes and crafts a vegetable universe out of the various tomato-cucumber-fennel-frezzels. Completely different on the other hand the 'Atavismus Mix' by Ricardo Villalobos. The chewing smack which adheres to this 17-minute epic sublimes a passionate vegetarian. In a lustful and soulful way Ricardo Villalobos fragments and squelchs, mashes and penetrates the whole range of the vegetable garden."
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