Spread the seed! Kitty-Yo has been spreading their message and music around the globe since 1993. "We love music, with emotions and the energy of an unmistakable mind, we don't care about the genre. We care about soul." The label has released more than 120 records -- everything from rock, postrock, pop, electro, minimal techno, hip-hop, dance, folk and jazz. Working with such diverse artists as Peaches, Gonzales, Tarwater, Rechenzentrum, Raz Ohara, Maximilian Hecker, Jahcoozi, Chikinki, Louie Austen, Richard Davis, The Tape, Jimi Tenor and Codec & Flexor provide the artistic energy to continue the daily hard work of an independent record label. Machos meet queers, rappers meet crooners, laptops meet guitars. You never know what comes next!
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[deleted] This is the second full-length release from Cologne-based techno duo Sven Zalac and Matthias Freund. Codec & Flexor have been ranked among the absolute outsiders and infant terribles of the dark electronic/new wave-pop underground for a long time now. Killermachine is replete with tech-y beats, dirty guitar riffs crowned with spherical vocals and superior hooks. With this second album they take a more pop-like line, though strictly continuing their merging of indie rock and dark techno/electro. Highlights among others are tracks like "I'll Be Gone," harkening to mainstream references such as Depeche Mode and Northern Lite, amongst others. "Surface Of Sorrow," dedicated to the deceased Christian Morgenstern, impresses with black, atmospheric pattern.
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[deleted] 2005 saw the birth of a small new club-oriented sub-label for Kitty-Yo, called Kitty-Cuts. Having released a small stable of 12"s so far in 2005, including works from artists such as Chikinki, Richard Davis and Sex in Dallas with Biladoll, 2006 promises even more dancefloor killers. In preparation for this, the idea arose to look more closely at the manifold remix output of the last year and to release it on CD -- hence Cuts & Pieces, introducing rare cuts and remixes of some brilliant new Kitty-Yo signings. Gold Chains & Sue Cie meet Phon.O, Chikinki are cut by Litwinenko, electro-breaker Jahcoozi meets singer/songwriter melodies by Raz Ohara and the new wunderkind Ed Laliq produces Human League-style for Richard Davis. Also features Rhythm King and her Friends, Codec & Flexor, Sex in Dallas (feat. Biladoll), Modeselektor and Man Like Me. Cuts & Pieces features vinyl-only material, now on CD for the very first time. This compilation was mixed by Harry Axt under the supervision of Jan Driver who has already produced remixes for Laurent Garnier, Faithless, Whirlpool, Lucid and 2raumwohung.
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[deleted] This is the debut album from Finnish boy/girl duo Juha Tuukkanen and Terhi Koivisto. Both met in Helsinki and gathered together their experiences, influences and musical ideas to produce an album of chilly, contemplative Northern electronics, and soul-jazz grooves. The boy discovered making electronic music at the age of twelve, always collaborating and networking with the Northern electronic scene and releasing various records throughout Europe. The girl is from a small Kokkola town who was awakened to the existence of music while listening to her mum play and sing tender songs to her in the long winter nights. When Juha and Terhi finally decided to work together the idea of a rather organic music started to develop and Spyritual was given a human voice. Soon these sessions started to bear fruit and after years of thinking, writing, recording and producing, a quiet, beautiful and intense album was born. Wall of Soul presents a timeless diversity of moods and styles merged by brilliant acoustic jazz, sweet electronics and an amazing voice. Spyritual combines the modern-day lushness of Notwist with Norwegian jazz like Sidsel Endersen, plus added pop appeal. The album contains 14 tracks, all capturing the enthusiasm for pensive emotional states and moments, a natural result of Juha and Terhi's composition process. The production involved various friends and professional musicians playing their instruments as well as horn arrangements by Mikko Pettinen and Antti Hynninen. Simply beautiful.
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[deleted] Berlin-based Jahcoozi is comprised of Sasha Perera (London), Oren Gerlitz (Tel Aviv), and Robot Koch (Berlin), and this is their debut album for Kitty-Yo. Despite singer Perera's background as a London-born Sri Lankan, the M.I.A. references stop here. A sometimes-gritty, sometimes slick mash up of blip-hop, ragga-tech, R'n'B-fused punk and click-pop illectronica, this is much more than what misinformed people might call grime. A Shakespeare's Sister/Neptunes collab?!! Instead, it's just three youngsters from different musical and cultural backgrounds who met in the electronic music cosmos of Berlin to indulge in an uninhibited mix of genres. At the beginning, Jahcoozi were just into making freaky beats and messing about with vocals. There was less text and less structure. The band then started to experiment with pop; more songs and less IDM glitch for the sake of it. This development can be seen on Pure Breed Mongrel, which contains tracks made between 2002 and 2005. It is hard to define and impossible to pigeonhole the sound of Jahcoozi. Maybe a bit like the (Brit-Sri Lankan-Israeli-West German) avant/glitch-pop trio Jahcoozi themselves. Pure Breed Mongrel is a mish-mash of genres but despite this immense style crossover, Jahcoozi have managed to create their very own sound and house it within a homogenic album which is full of surprises. A pure breed of mongrel. Mongrel music, made by mongrel people for a mongrel society.
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[deleted] Remixes by ADA and MIA. "After the remixes of 'Get Paid' by Ladytron, Robots In Disguise/ I Am X and Sugar (Buffalo Daughter) have already given a great impulse on the dancefloors of the clubs, we finally provide you with the blinding title track of the album I Am Disco. Still all remixes of the album are strictly female biz and so we are proud and happy to present remixers from the top of our wishlist. ADA from Areal Records whose debut album Blondie (www.areal-records.de) was one of the consensus-albums of the year 2004 turns the original into an oscillating, moving sound landscape. She lets snares dance nice and hectically before the sounds merge together and make the dancefloor move. M.I.A. runs the label 'Substatic' together with Falko Brocksieper. Besides that she is also DJ and producer and her album Schwarzweiss appeared in all the playlists of 2004. She chases the original until it starts to rave and hides it before it finally faces the ultimate ravesignal. Rhythm King and Her Friends themselves say: let's go 'Discontent' and dress 'I Am Disco' into some nervous electronica with a shot of acid.
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[deleted] This is the first vocal album by Philly-based techno-minimalist and producer Jay Haze (aka The Architect, The Dub Surgeon). Love For a Strange World contains some non club-oriented heavy and dark tracks melded with vocals by De:xter. Haze finds himself at a musical crossroads between reduction in the vein of Villalobos, Wruhme and Richie Hawtin, and the digital funk of sympathetically insane buddies like Vogel or Lidell. The cut "Can't Feel Anything" celebrates Jay's mastery in the art of reduction and displays with force how to build a powerful track without having a punchy kick drum ruining your speakers. For Haze, this release is a personal statement in an electronic music format, which conveys in its atmospheric tracks, the rotting condition of our world and the sickness of mankind.
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[deleted] "Kitty Yo's 10th birthday compilation -- 2 x CD for the price of one! Background: 10 long years are one good reason to celebrate. Time to look ahead and think of what we've done so far. Team Kitty-Yo, a crowd of people who has achieved to ever evolve and reconsider itself, to establish new artist and make them longterm friends. Part one of the Team Kitty-Yo Double CD is unique statement and collection of yet unreleased material by new and well known artist of Kitty-Yo. It's a thrilling outlook on the near future of the label. Exclusive tracks by Tarwater, Rechenzentrum, Raz Ohara, Taylor Savvy, Sex In Dallas, Rhythmking And Her Friends and Maximilian Hecker gather with new input by Kitty-Yo freshmen Jay Haze, Richard Davis und Spyritual to create am amazing experience for your ears. Jay Haze, Richard Davis und Spyritual will release their new records on Kitty-Yo throughout the first half of 2005. Furthermore let's get excited about a new astonishing track from the new Maximilian Hecker album Lady Sleep. Part two of Team Kitty-Yo is a free bonus CD to thank those who have supported the label the last decade. It's full of unreleased, vinyl only and simply forgotten tracks from various artist and reviews the variety and timeless sounds of Kitty-Yo. It features Tarwater, Peaches & Gonzales, Kante, Louie Austen, Rhythmking And Her Friends, Sex In Dallas, Torococo Rot, Raz Ohara, Rechenzentrum und Preed. So grasp this beauty and turn it up!"
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[deleted] "The first album of Rhythm King And Her Friends.. Linda Wölfel, Pauline Boudry und Sara John founded the band in 2000. They developed their own special music style and complex texts, which shows that they pay a lot of attention on the traps and contradictions of society. Queer electronica, marvelous pop melodies with corners and edges, combine sampled rhythms and a playful use of different instruments and singing (in several languages, English, French and Bulgarian). Rhythm King and her Friends have something else in their mind. Instruments such as samplers, drumcomputers, guitar, bass and xylophone are used, in order to make music, embodied in the field of queer and gender politics. 'I know I need some vacation from my boyish closet'. Meanings are transported by the means of quotations, an appropriate performance and a free, but stylish handling of popsong-structures. The attitude and general atmosphere of Rhythm King and her Friends reminds one of casual but non-conformist bands like Liliput, The Slits, Au Pair, Peaches and Stereo Total. With Le Tigre, they share the creativity that is fused within queer and gender discourse. With Luscious Jackson they share the easiness of working with different styles."
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"Here comes the very first single from Peaches, yes that's right! The Lovertits EP, which was vinyl-only, and then the duet Red Leather with Gonzales, could never really be counted as HER singles. So why do a single NOW? Because audience and artists wouldn't stop asking about her, wanting to hear from her, work with her... And so comes, that on this single some of the finest remixers around are being featured. Starting off with Tobi Neumann, who was basically responsible for Chicks On Speed's DJ Charts No.1 hit 'Kaltes Klares Wasser', then followed by DJ Assault, famous (or infamous?) boss of the growing worldwide miami bass scene, and then everybody's darling: 21 year old Kid 606, who previously remixed for a.o. Depeche Mode, Super Furry Animals, Foetus and Ruby."
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"Kante now present a studio album with truly timeless quality. Accompanied by a 14-person string orchestra and horns, Kante enrich the classical band set-up by adding computer and electronics and open a unviersal field that goes from blues, African music, jazz and modern classic up to very minimal electronic. Zweilicht" oversteps the boundaries of post- and indierock by far. Looking for references you could think of Marc Hollis/Talk Talk, Robert Wyatt, Alice Coltrane, Bob Dylan or Steve Reich."
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"Laub's 2nd longplayer on Kitty-Yo. With the first CD Kopflastig, Laub has been compared to a.o. Lamb, Quarks and Björk, and at the same time to the very German 'Berlin 80's'. The remix 12" in '98 then added new influences: drum'n bass style, Laub went dancefloor. Now Laub have found a way to balance on the thin line in between. No distortion on the vocals any longer, harmonies and beats can be found in the... songs (no tracks). One can see a similar evolution to their labelmates Tarwater: the sinister sound of the music does no longer exclude the overwhelming pop-appeal. For this record, the band first took their new drummer Sebastian (also part of Kante) in. DJ Bleed added his voice on answering machine and Stefan Betke aka Pole took an advisory part on the production. Laub are amongst the frontriders of the 'new German wave' coming up once again these days. File under: Electronic Listening/ Trip Hop." Limited stock.
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2nd album by this German group with associations to the Kollaps/Hausmusik/Payola scene. "Schwermut Forest are tired of siley being associated with 'introverted strangeness'. The minimalisitc attitude which has lent the band such a fine name, has been put to the files. Now, Schwermut Forest build up a sound which could fit into any radio format. Turn on the car hifi, you're on the way from Munich to Berlin, it snows, and there it is: a 3 minute version of Workshop's best tracks. File under: post-rock."
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