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KLANG 138EP
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UK DJs Lee Pattison and Grayson Shipley aka Deepgroove & Jamie Anderson want to party with you. Ghost Train is the perfect soundtrack for those who like it dirty, loud and wild. Even if the crowd tries hard to resist, this record's intransigent sound will turn them into a mad dancefloor-mob. Without any warnings, a straight punch in the face.
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KLANG 137EP
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Adore was the first big success of the Maus & Stolle duo. This track was first released in 1997 as the 12th release by Klang Elektronik and since then, it is considered one of the definite blueprints between dub, techno and house. Over ten years and 125 releases later, Klang decided to release the original version again along with a brand new remix by Reboot which catches the breaths of the original perfectly, but with an even more epic atmosphere.
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KLANG 142EP
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Sami Liuiski aka Kleep's last record for Klang Elektronik Don't Push Me/ Zoo received some enthusiastic feedback: Luke Solomon said "Zoo is so up my street, it's ridiculous." Oliver Ho stated "My kind of thing. Nice and dirty!" "Formula One" picks up where "Zoo" left off, with a reduced number of sounds, while "Muppet Ride" is maximized for one hell of a good party.
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KLANG 136EP
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Sami Liuski (alias Kleep) has released tracks on Cocoon, Get Physical and DFA Records. But this stuff sounds so different and crazy, that the man from frosty Lapland had to get a new alter ego for his releases on Klang Elektronik: Kleep. Sami takes Kleep as a platform for dance music with minimal bass lines, twisted melodies, acid-impregnated percussion, heavy kick-drums and vocals, which are totally not of this world. Kleep will blast your head.
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KLANG 133EP
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Alter Ego's "Gary" is a massive tune with a menacing drone-bass and some winking wavepunk. Remixer Tiga takes "Gary" back to the early '90s, slows it down to 120 bpm, and adds a sweet and moody atmosphere of smooth Italo-disco. "Gary" goes POP for the B-side with Product 01's catchy electro-pop mash-up. Vocalist Rochelle Vincente Von K asks "Gary" to visit her private "Boys Club" where both tracks were put together into one new wave/new rave hit.
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KLANG 135EP
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Nerk and Dirk Leyers, Modeselektor, Deepgroove and Jamie Anderson remix tracks off Alter Ego's Why Not?!. Nerk and Dirk give the sub-bass inferno "Fuckingham Palace" even MORE bass, while Modeselektor carry the principle of "comic techno" to the absolute extreme. Deepgroove and Jamie Anderson turn down the stomping beat of the original "Queen Anne's Revenge" a little bit, but it's still incredibly edgy.
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KLANG 134EP
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DJs and producers Lee Pattison and Grayson Shipley aka Deepgroove together with buddy Jamie Anderson tinker around with their own tracks, in a playful affirmation of postmodern house music. "Killer" pushes away every other track you could play. This 12" is not suitable for the peak-time, it IS the peak-time. Killer will most certainly lead to heavy release parties with these guys all over the world.
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KLANG 127EP
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DJ Koze and Supermayer remix Alter Ego's hit, "Jolly Joker." DJ Koze switches the track completely and tames the wild-galloping original with something you could call an Afrobeat bridle. Supermayer are a lot more careful, saving the essential sounds and the spirit of the original. And instead of using striking effects, Supermayer prefer to push the track in their discobeat mix slowly and subtly to the limit.
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KLANG 017CD
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2007's Why Not?! saw Alter Ego sky-rocket and chart into the stratosphere, and now Why Next?! features some of the most prominent names in techno tackling some of their favorite songs off the album. On Why Not?!, Jörn-Elling Wuttke and Roman Flügel confronted the nervous turmoil of the dancefloor in this era of NuRave and squiggly sounds with a treatment of techno that is humorous and extreme, with rave-reeling, sound exploration and roaring laughter. On this remix album, we see Why Not?! through the eyes of outstanding producers, ranging from Joakim to Deepgroove & Jamie Anderson, from Carl Craig to Supermayer. These are tracks that no one would have expected -- with corny jokes and sound research, grotesque gags and mind-expanding wobble merging closely. Carl Craig feeds his sampler with glittering glamrock chunk, unsettling his usual elegant sound cosmos. Tim Deluxe's ultra-tight groove elaborates on the exuberance of "Why Not?!" with even less restraint. Nerk & Dirk Leyers make short work of the original "Fuckingham Palace," smartly rendering the bass line into swarms of bass lines. Deepgroove & Jamie Anderson's remix lulls the listener into an illusion of security before it is hoovercrafted away. DJ Koze delivers an Afrobeat version of "Jolly Joker," Joakim makes the groove and bass stabs of "Why Not?!" sound more mechanic and angular and cartoon-like. Modeselektor changes "Fuckingham Palace" into a dubstep track, adding the pot-bellied humor of ragga (or is it gabba?) to this otherwise gloomy genre. Supermayer extract a very special left-field moment, Adam Sky transforms pure mania into pure pop music, Alter Ego themselves expose more glam-rock moments with a "Boys Club" version of "Gary," with vocals from Product 01 and the bonus track turns emo timbres into bleep.
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KLANG 132EP
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First there is a jolty-beat, which is pretty unusual for an Alter Ego track, but then the whole room trembles under the evil-grumbling bass. When the synths raise up and the fire of "Gary" builds to its peak, Alter Ego have won. When played loud, "Gary" is pure rock n' roll! Carl Craig owns the remix, and the synths dominate. Sweat, spilled beer, arms raised... this is what rock n' roll looks like on the dancefloor.
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KLANG 131EP
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Dirk Leyers presents his first record for Klang Elektronik. "Azul" is an impulsive track, with an anxious, meandering bass line and bright synthesizer sounds, while the beat unerringly gallops directly towards dancer's heaven. On the B-side, Dirk calms down a little bit and begrudges us with a conveniently laid-back, almost ambient piece of music called "Azur" before he relieves us with the spheric, whispering "Alma."
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KLANG 016CD
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This is the second volume in the Diamanten Und Raketen (Diamonds And Rockets) compilation series from Klang Elektronik presenting classics, current hits and a preview of what the label holds store. This time around, the label's founders Ata, Heiko MSO, J.E. Wuttke and Roman Flügel picked what they liked best in techno, based on the label's ideology that techno is not just pure science, it is heart and soul music. No boring trance, no smash-hit techno, just freedom of expression through good-hearted dance beats. This attitude is what inspired the releases on Klang that are still a style-guide to this very day. Just think of the first records by, for example, a certain Jan Jelinek as Farben or a real hit like Alter Ego's "Rocker." Not to mention minimal or all the other releases that made their way into the record shops as vinyl releases on Klang Elektronik. Techno has since branched out even more and many people regard it as just one of many types of music. Nobody expects anything new from this genre anymore, but if anything, it should at least be pioneering. Diamanten Und Raketen II fulfills this just as little as 99.9% of all the other types of music do -- and it's not a chronologically compiled summary of the last ten catalog numbers, either. It's neither a DJ mix nor a TV-advertised hit compilation. There is no central theme, apart from the fact that there is none. This series is more of a reflection of someone's personal taste, four individuals' heart and soul who have created a neverending building site for themselves, meanwhile comprising close to 130 12" singles and 16 CDs, robbing their senses only to give them back the very same day and everyday after. Artists include: Anthony Shake Shakir, Phage & Daniel Dreier, Bored & Lazy, Alex Cortex, Dan Curtin, Raudive, SUM aka Carl Finlow and D'Julz, Siro, Eight Miles High, Misc., Carsten Jost, Dryer, The Sun God and Alter Ego.
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This is the Alter Ego hit mix Part II. Tim Deluxe remixes "Why Not?!" into a phat, crowd-pleasing peak time slam. The B-side is a little more subtle with slowly rising hysteria rather than insanity on every frequency. In between this one breathes the spirit of the old Decoding The Hacker Myth days, before a killer bass line reminds you that this is a dance record.
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KLANG 128EP
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Laven & MSO, the two producers from Frankfurt, put so much pop appeal into the vocal mix of "Reach" (feat. Malte) that colleagues like Fischerspooner should prepare themselves: the whole gorgeous ten minutes of this track have enough power to atomize every nightclub into dust. On the flip is a killer old school acid instrumental.
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KLANG 125EP
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Britain's finest, Oliver Ho aka Raudive delivers with Good Boy Bad Boy/Enter. Even if the vocal sample in the track claims the opposite, "Good Boy Bad Boy," with its evil creaking beat, sends you on a trip you'll never forget. "Enter" is a catchy melody, a drifting beat, a short voice sample and a second peaktime-burner for the dancers at the club.
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It's been three years since Alter Ego's last album, Transphormer, so Roman Flügel and Jörn Elling Wuttke unleash more of their madness upon the world. Why Not?! may not be the Alter Ego album you've been expecting. Picking up where Transphormer left off, it's frontloaded with all the ballsy Alter Ego hallmarks you've come to expect: buzzing squalls of synthesizer, leads that cut like a blowtorch, and rhythms that pack a rock 'n' roll punch to house and techno's jacking package. It's raw, dirty and just barely restrained. But Why Not?! is something else: it's funny. Maybe even a little bit goofy. This is techno, but it's not of the stonefaced, screwfaced variety. It's good, clean fun -- well, except when it's dirty, which is most of the time, given Alter Ego's affection for ragged waveforms and distortion-crusted drums. Most of all, it's dizzying, which might have something to do with the fact that virtually every track is slathered in grand, sweeping sounds with their portamento settings tuned to Roller Coaster. Listening to the album feels a little like racing down a playground slide that's been hooked up to a moderate electric current, and landing in a pile of mud. It's safe to say that NEVER before has classic house, techno and ragga/dubstep been combined in such a way. This record is destined to cause a stir amongst the current wave of French party crashers. Alter Ego have never been the most reverent of acts -- just consider the name of their early incarnation, Acid Jesus -- and on Why Not?!, from the titles to their tunes, their irreverence hits a restless new high, without ever sacrificing the all-powerful groove.
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KLANG 124LP
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Double LP version. Deluxe gatefold jacket.
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KLANG 123EP
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The title track to Alter Ego's full-length is stomping and playful at the same time, and surprises with sudden changes in the arrangement and sound, which really breathes life into it and makes you smile. It's more or less due to those highly amusing breaks -- retro-futuristic on the one hand, and very modern on the other -- that really make this tune work. This is the new style: get ready. This is the full-release two-sided version with cover art and Joakim (!K7, Versatile) remix added.
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KLANG 118EP
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This release is from the controls of Ongaku's CEO and wizard of the decks, MSO. For his new 12" on Klang Elektronik, he's teaming up with Destillat producer Michael Laven to deliver a beautiful package of repetitive music. "Looking For God" is a true statement against the electro-minimalism-opportunism -- to cite Ivan Smagghe -- that still rules all techno nations these days. The music is vivacious and positive with a touch of old school dynamics, with a killer bassline that adds even more drama to the nearly 10-minute track. The B-side finds the two revisiting the influences of the A-side, creating a live jam effect, with impressive, throbbing bass interludes.
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Alter Ego are back! And Why Not?! This strictly limited one-sided 12" is a foretaste of their upcoming album. The track, stomping and playful at the same time, surprises with sudden changes in the arrangement and sound, which really breathes life into it and makes you smile. It's more or less due to those highly amusing breaks -- retro-futuristic on the one hand, and very modern on the other -- that really make this tune work. This is the new style: get ready.
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Long time collaborators in all things sonic and fun, Rad Rice and Blak Maji[k] aka Radical Majik decided it was time to mix up some more politically-charged techno-house (listen to side B) and some mind-boggling, trippy and airy beats (listen to side A). "Dub Rider" can easily be named an anthem, as it has all the ingredients of a memorable tune. Yes, it has a certain trance touch to it and gets heavy plays by Sven Väth and a lot of other stalwarts of today's techno scene. It's a crossover that will appeal to fans of epic house music as well as minimal music makers. "Filth In The Community": fidget house anyone? Virtual politics by dancing is their game, and they hope you ignore their message.
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KLANG 121EP
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Welcome to part 3 of The Boardroom saga: again another Board & Victorville collaboration. "Chum" is comprised of a beat that won't stop, some cool screechy noises on top and you have maximum fun here. "Buffer Corruption" is the counterpart to side A's banging attitude, but is for dancing as well, of course. Way more subtle and dreamy, which is partly due to Asian-sounding strings which help create this special atmosphere.
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Johannes Heil's music already got the remix treatment on Remix R Us Pt. 1 by Thomas Schumacher & Destillat, but now it's time for Berlin's finest, Tobi Neumann and London-based Boardroom collective represented by Board & Victorville to twiddle some additional knobs. Neumann's "Swinging Remix" does swing indeed, but with reduced speed and a festival of synthesizers. Boardroom's mix has the same lightness as his predecessor and also an ease of handling the melodies. Their use of this mega bassline is just fantastic.
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KLANG 119EP
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Bored & Lazy is Steve Boardman and Pete Laz(onb)y. Lazonby, who some of you might remember from his '90s classic 12"s Sacred Cycles and Wave Speech, was headhunted by The Boardroom. This is excellent rubber band music for twisting your legs to. "It Must Mean Something" definitely means something: dance! Bored & Lazy countersunk this musical screw straight into the convolutions of our brain. "The Expert" is a track with heavy emphasis on the one and three which gives it a certain electro feel. It's more subtle and lacy (not LAZY...) than the smashing A-side track. Lovely, tricky beats.
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KLANG 115EP
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The Boardroom is a soon-to-be legendary studio run by Mr. Steve Boardman and friends, churning out crazy 'n cranky music for your ears, legs, decks, CD players and hard disks. This 12" is the first in a series of three The Boardroom Presents records that will be released on Klang Elektronik. This is your chance to become a "Disciple" as well, get a "Self Life" and play some hot stuff! You want to know more about the music? You hope this is the next big thing? Think it might be fidget house? Or midget house? Come on, stop it, who cares?
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