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PRS 037EP
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Touane (aka Marco Tonni) drops a single for the sunny season. The Birds EP features music he played during 2007 at his live shows across the globe, uniting the improvised freedom of his live performances and his love for sharp, detailed studio productions with a whole new freshness.
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PRS 038EP
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Bologna-based Andrea Sartori (aka Deepalso) presents his debut 12" release after the critically acclaimed full-length Il Tagliacode. Sartori finds new possibilities in the mechanisms of electronic music, dressing up his grooves with elegant piano riffs and golden saxophone notes while acid synth lines run like high tech sport shoes. Phonosutura is a dancefloor suite sure to get noticed in the club.
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PRS 035EP
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Persona label boss Stewart Walker returns with his first 12" release since his well-received album Concentricity. The powerful A-side "The Stiff Materialist" kicks off the release with at least a thousand sounds and a clearly defined dynamic narrative, shifting between unique peaks and plateaus. On this release he continues to navigate the correct balance between power and detail in high, medium and low intensities.
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PRS 036EP
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The Tropic of Cancer was produced by three names familiar to Persona Records. Marco Tonni (aka Touane), Donato Scaramuzzi (aka DJ Dozzy) and Manuel Fogliata (aka Grand Theft Audio) came together in Berlin to work together in the studio as The Thrillers. Here's a chance to check out what they did over the summer.
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PRS 033EP
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Italy's Manuel Fogliata (Nuel), Alessandro Aresta (Alexander Stone) and Marco Tonni (Touane) are the brains behind Grand Theft Audio, a mind-blowing mixture of deep house and electronic dance music. "Keep Moving" is driven by a sexy bass that could be used to test subwoofers. "Our Band" sounds like rock, with a drum kit and a bass line that could have come directly from a monster cabinet. The subtle production behind these tracks will be the highlight of every party.
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PRS 031EP
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After a hugely successful return to techno with Stewart Walker's album Concentricity, Persona lets loose its beloved friends and family to sharpen their sampling knives to pare the original recordings down to three servings of musical sashimi. Jeff Samuel's version of "We Welcome Utopia!!!" is a chewy rendering, in track of its ambience, rhythms and basslines. Marco Tonni takes his favorite morsels from "Fragile Chemistry" and loops them into a propulsive, mechanical eighth-note stepper. Robag Wruhme takes the super-driving force of "Fernbank 1991" and submarines its rhythms into a most luscious slice of heavenly floatation.
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PRS 032EP
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Christian Dittmann is from Santiago, Chile and he delivers some peak-hour stormers for your techno after-party. With plenty of steady kicks, hi-hats and an even bass line, this is also a nice, subtle headphone record. Much more than background music, this is music for parties of mischievous indulgence where new ideas are formed out of closed-eye imagery and inspiration.
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PRS 030EP
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Even if Malto, or malt, is what makes our favorite drink so special, this record is not about beer. Touane used this name to suggest the cumulative organic reactions which render greater complexity. The layering, month after month, show after show, of the elements of these three extremely deep tracks. Suitable for peak time performance as well as at the most intimate afterhours party, Malto's two sides represent what makes Marco's music special: dirty funk meets brilliant sound effects, building up tracks with the unique dynamics and chord sequences that will make you want to listen again once the party is over.
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PRS 028LP
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Double LP version. Commemorating Walker's 10th year of making records and performing, Concentricity contains 10 all-new tracks of detailed electronic dance music representing the many facets of his musical personality, some of which we've heard before and some which are completely new. Downtempo, techno, ambient... he's been there and left his mark in every area with recordings on such legendary labels such as Minus, Tresor, and Mille Plateaux. Not content with the "flatness" of so many contemporary tracks, the orchestration grew more baroque, with a rebirth of structure and dynamics. More highs and more lows, and a broader timbral palette. Mixing the personal touch and the propulsive rhythm, this is the future of future-music, and this is what Persona Records brings you.
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PRS 026EP
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Reynold (Sam Rouanet) made his first Persona appearance with the album My Favorite Film. Sam now presents a 3-track vinyl which further illustrates the Persona style of emotional dance music which embraces the heart and stimulates the dancer. La Cité d'en Haut was inspired by the L'Incal series of graphic novels by Moebius (Jean Gireau) and Alejandro Jodorowsky. In those books we are introduced to a dystopian underworld filled with thieves, mercenaries and the like -- familiar territory for techno music.
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PRS 027EP
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Druid Hills is the great foreshadowing of Stewart Walker's new album. A1: "Fernbank 1991" has gotta be the hittin'est dancefloor track Stewart has dropped in recent history. Big kicks, big snares, and then at the climax, a smear of hi-hat mosquitoes and echoing synthesizers collide with the windshield of the bass lead. "Foreshadowing" is like sitting in the dark and listening to an old woman tell a ghost story. Whispering in your ear, and then the sound of scissors. Immersive reverse pianos. The last track sounds like a real mute-unmute track, but there's a soul to be found in its Kraftwerkian rigidity. Or maybe in the melody which drizzles like rain on a sunny day.
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PRS 023EP
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In anticipation of the forthcoming My Favorite Film album by Reynold, Persona presents some compelling remixes by DJ Donato Dozzy and Stewart Walker. Donato's "Over There" has an ambient intro, and as the intensity of the track builds, you realize this is that rare jewel of a track which floats love, intimacy and a feather touch over live 909 kicks and toms. Stewart Walker's mix of "Persian Indigo" builds on the original mood while nudging the emotions into a happier and more carefree shape. Atmospheric piano chords, Brian Eno's pads, and Reynold's guitar-work will make you jump for joy.
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PRS 022EP
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Touane's Spree Baptism is a tribute to the town which adopted him, and a tribute to the epic beauty of dawn breaking over the Spree, the river which flows through Berlin, where the music never stops and the DJ doesn't want to leave the console. "Spree Baptism" expresses this feeling with a slow minimal rhythm blended with powerful waves. A slow but danceable cadence, where music breaks through and fills the space with melody and melancholia. "Fahrrad Control" follows with a faster marching cadence, hyperbolic climaxes, psychedelic effects, and a sense of suspense. "Ikea Dog Parking" has acid elements and dry percussion that opens into chords and spacey atmospheres. The melody on "Drops" is constantly revisited and reinterpreted, letting the dramatic effect rise and explode with a new spin. Touane follows Persona's credo of spreading music that won't fade after the night is over.
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PRS 021CD
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American techno-minimalist, producer and Persona Records label-head Stewart Walker returns with his first full length mix CD. It's been just over a year since Persona Records transplanted its home base from Boston to Berlin, Germany. In that time the Persona sound has developed through its interaction with the "Berlin sound." Persona has consistently tried to ride the path between these hedonistic and sober approaches. In light of this transition, the label thought it wise to represent Persona's progress as a continuous mix, which allows music lovers to judge for themselves how the label and the artists themselves have changed. Includes music from Stewart Walker, Touane, Gregory Shiff and Gustavo Lamas.
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PRS 020EP
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American techno-minimalist and producer Stewart Walker presents three new Persona melodies. "After This I'll Never Sleep" comes in deep and moving with seamonster funk -- his first official "acid track" recorded with the aid of a Devilfish-modified TB-303. Also add musique concréte, kick drum aesthetic, muted trumpet and foghorns with a fat kickdrum and broken shuffle percussion. The next track is driving, with flashes of synthesizer and resonant bass slurps. Finally, "Crabgrass vs. Monkeygrass" reflects the new Walker sound: delicate shininess and light. Pleasure and happiness. Maybe it's the yearning for the first green shoots of grass at the Volkspark.
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PRS 019EP
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Italian import to Berlin Marco Tonni (aka Touane) presents us with his most floor-friendly production to date. Written during his short tenure as a bloody-handed carpenter, Zimmerman Lieder captures the continuation of Marco's progress from pale-skinned basement wizard of Rimini, to pale-skinned nightclub Nosferatu of Berlin, passing out white labels to unsuspecting DJs. Filled to the brim with deep bass, dark, minimal murk, textured house and crazy dancefloor experiments.
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PRS 018EP
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American techno-minimalist and producer Stewart Walker eschews the black hole of minimalism and firmly wears his heart on his sleeve on Spend The Day Frozen. The first track compresses four kickdrums and six snares, heavy metal guitar samples, and adds screaming crowd noise on top of it all. The second track is mellow and dubby, with strummed guitar chords and Stewart's first recorded vocals for a techno track. The last has a fat bassline and can certainly rock a freaky dancefloor. Locate it somewhere between the Brighton-sound and Patsy Cline.
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PRS 011CD
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"After years of trying to reconcile the separate experiences of the 'listening techno' he has released on Persona and Force Inc. and the pounding 4/4 jack-trax of his world-renowned live performances Stewart Walker has finally managed to merge both worlds to his satisfaction. Live Extracts is the result of taking the exclusive and never before released sounds from his live show and re-orchestrating them with the full control offered by a home studio."
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PRS 009
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"As fall transitions to winter, and the thermometer drops, the body is forced to adapt to the now harsh environment. Inspired by heightened sensory awareness, this music is infused with the compelling nature of northern climates. It leaves no doubt as to the inevitability of change, motion, and unending cycles."
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PRS 005
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"Troy Geary, also known as DJ Slip, has been a techno misfit for the last 7 years. In that time he has released music in the past with dance techno superpowers such as Communique (US), Drop Bass (US), Missile (UK), Kanzleramt (DE), and Music Man (BE). In addition to this busy release schedule, he has managed his own labels: Creation Rebel and Do Something. Always creative, his music pushes boundaries like they don't exist or he's never heard of 'em."
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