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VA 076EP
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Joonam is here. The new project from fellow NY friends Elon Admony and Nima Khalilian is landing its breaks and techno laden debut EP on Vakant. On remix duties, the label welcome OCB from Casa Voyager.
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VA 075EP
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CYRK, the Belgian-German duo of Sammy Goossens and Pascal Hetzel, is giving its debut release on Vakant with three fast-paced, no-holds-barred electro jams, topped off with a remix by French producer Voiski. "Superior Things", the eponymous title track, kicks off the EP with driving funk and acid lead synths, followed by "Heatwave", another futuristic high-tech-funker. "Chappers Said So" is a sublime homage to classic Detroit electro, and before this is Voiski's remix of the track, an immersive and trance-inducing techno re-work for you to get lost in.
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VA 074EP
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Forever cursed with "deep-" and "tech-house" labels by the press due to decisions taken ten years ago, before he had any idea how this industry worked, Avatism returns mildly angrier than ever before with Ate-Up, an EP the producer actually started writing during an MDMA-induced lucid dream after Vakant label boss Alex Knoblauch spiked his drinks in 2011. To give his poor soul some credibility, we've enlisted AQXDM (Aquarian & Deapmash, fresh from their storming debut on Bedouin Records) and the mysterious Maenad Veyl (Veyl, Pinkman, Death & Leisure) on remix duties.
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VA 072EP
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Cesare Vs Disorder, one half of Azimute and Serialism label head, returns to Vakant. The remix by Perlon artist Spacetravel is a vinyl-only track.
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VA 071EP
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Tolga Fidan returns to Vakant. Vinyl-only remix by Convextion.
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VA 070EP
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The Romanian trio Premiesku return with a driving four track EP. This EP features catchy melodies, vivid emotion and driving, floor-focused percussion, which consists of three original tracks as well as the ever-dependable Varhat stepping up on remix duties. Premiesku. which consists of Livio & Roby and George G, are a Romanian joint alias that have been releasing and performing together for over nine years. Their widespread influence on the flourishing underground scene is no secret, their innovative live performances, and constant flow of cutting edge productions remain one of their nation's leading lights in the field.
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VA 069EP
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After a three-year hiatus from his Avatism moniker, Thomas Feriero, one half of CW/A and owner of Parachute records, returns with an EP for his home label Vakant. A rough yet refined release, unassuming in its effort, Thomas channels both his previous solo work and his CW/A project into a tightly wound package with four solid cuts. Various influences converge yet a straight line is etched for all to follow. These are up-front, hard-working tracks. Body music with an undercurrent of breakbeat.
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VA 067EP
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Vakant presents a very special release from an unknown group of creative entities. Three cuts of tribal space techno weaponry aimed at the dancefloor. Vakant have received a message from entities lost in between the stars, in the vacuum of interstellar space. The transmission was encrypted in an ancient code translated here into frequencies understandable to earthlings. A psychic telegram has been sent, activating the body and the mind, divided into aggregations of codes that form three tracks of straight, in-your-face, high-octane fueled, acidic tribal techno, riding on solid bass lines, trippy synths, shiny percussions and abstract ambiences.
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VA 066EP
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Expectedly powerful three tracker from the Belgian Sons of Tiki. Mystery Shapes Of The Third Movement shows them slowly shifting their sound to a little more subtle but yet driving direction.
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VA 064EP
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State-of-the-art techno from Nico Purman. The Argentinean's vision of contemporary club music has always been located somewhere between techno and electro. His Pattern Recognition EP turns out to be Nico's most uncompromising work since his early releases on Vakant and scores with three bold and infectious tracks for the club.
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VA 065EP
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Romanian house business at its best. Livio & Roby return to Vakant with this four-tracker after their previous excursion as Premiesku (VA 057EP, 2014). Gotta love them either way! Includes download code.
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VA 062EP
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Belgian duo Sons of Tiki bring the heat to the dancefloor with Apologies for Being Lost, featuring remixes by Malin Genie and Dorian Paic.
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VA 061EP
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"It's not a simple thing to write about your own tunes... I wanted to make a few tunes that reminded me about those lost feelings of the '90s, when electronic music was made not only for the clubs but also for the soul and the mind... 'Vortex' and 'Unreason,' one I would say more spaced-out and heavy-orientated, the other almost resembling those electronica times when I really enjoyed flying with my brain and my emotions... Romanian rising star Cristi Cons and Italian talent Fango... both delivered unique, stellar interpretations and I am happy to present the project to the world."
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VA 058EP
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"After months in the studio drinking nothing but amaretto and working on new music, our new live experiment (now simply called CW/A) was ready. Conducting the Method is nothing other than a sample of what this new project is about: a collection of three excerpts taken from this year's performances. To round things off, we invited over our friends Dead Heat for a reinterpretation of one of our tracks. We can state with confidence that we are excited these tracks are no longer confined to our club and festival performances and can't wait for everyone to hear them." --Clockwork & Avatism
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VA 057EP
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"The three cuts that we selected for this EP we feel are a journey of experimentation and a culmination of unexpected sounds and feelings. The main basis of these tracks was born onstage during our live performances and they have now been reworked and molded into a record. We feel that this brings an interesting element to the EP that yes, it is recorded and set, but you are not quite sure where the next sound or feeling will come from. A hi-hat? A kick? It is pure 'organized randomness'... Much love, Livio, Roby & George (aka Premiesku)" Remixes by Sons Of Tiki and Avatism.
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VA 056EP
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Quantum Entanglement delves into the misty past. Their cover of Fast Eddie's "Acid Thunder" features Mentrix, who totally gets the kind of New York sluttiness of the original, and brings it right up to date, "Need You" is an entanglement of two very unlikely BFFs. John Lee Hooker and Joey Beltram, featuring Fink. This isn't really a cover, it's more like the offspring of many things, times, and moments. It's as if the grandchild of John Lee Hooker's track dated the nephew of Joey Beltram's track and lived in Neukölln.
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VA 055EP
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"I (drumroll) proudly present the final five reinterpretations from some talented friends. It's an honor for me to have Francesco's techno, David's modular madness, Jake's synth-work and Martin's melodies all in one package, but being both fan and friend of everyone on board, I'd be blatantly biased in describing this record's contents. So, since it's 2014, why don't we switch banalities, skip the 'description' and let the music do the talking -- (ugh, did I really just write that?)" Featuring: Clockwork C/W, Lake People, Federico Rizzo, and DeWalta.
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VA 054LP
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2LP version. "For over 12 months Thomas Feriero aka Avatism has been staying at home and working on his album. He moved to Berlin to work on it and now sadly he is moving back to Milan. Adamant is a glimpse into how a city shapes a life and how intrinsically life then shapes music. It's less than two years since his first gig, yet in that time he's managed to craft killer EPs on Vakant and Dumb-Unit, collaborate with Clockwork and Mind Against (who both make appearances on the album) play diverse shows including Sónar by Night, and generally had a really good run at it all. While many would be content simply continuing on this already exciting path, Thomas decided that Adamant was a chance to explore other forms of writing, production and collaboration, and imposed strict conditions so that this album would evolve differently than his earlier works. 'I imposed mandates on myself while making it: the tracks (the music, at least) had to be written in a day. 'Written,' not mixed, arranged or produced, simply written, and even though I was convinced the album was going into a different/wrong direction approximately 292,829 times while making it, I decided to follow through on all the musical parts that I developed in these one-day cycles.' This is an album that exudes a depth and immediacy, the restrictions and exile only strengthening Thomas' depth and detailing. The uncertainty, the melancholy, the general studio stink now neatly wrapped into a glittering whole that we're pretty confident the world will enjoy." --Jeremy P. Caulfield
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VA 053EP
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"Between my studio in Berlin, Fin Greenall's (Fink, Sideshow) studio in Brighton, and various studios, hotels and airports around the world, [this] project has finally taken the shape of Quantum Entanglement. Two separate worlds linked by friendship and a feeling that goes back to those early days of ambient, dub, chess, and incense, now made possible by the Internet. Files, old tracks, samples, and words are flying back and forth, eventually forming two versions of a song. "Heads" and "Tails." Question and response. Move and counter-move. The game has begun." --Lee Jones (Hefner, MyMy)
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VA 052EP
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Introducing the first of Avatism's Adamant (VA 006CD) remix packages. Since the whole project was, generally-speaking, "a personal affair," and a lot of the album was not necessarily "club-ready" (does that even make sense?), Avatism invited their friends onboard to do the dirty deeds and rework the sounds into something normal people can dance to. Features work from Mind Against, Lake People, Alex Smoke, and Sons Of Tiki.
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VA 006CD
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"For over 12 months Thomas Feriero aka Avatism has been staying at home and working on his album. He moved to Berlin to work on it and now sadly he is moving back to Milan. So what did this year entail, exactly? Well for some of us not much. We got to see him in his studio comfy pants a couple of times (he wears slippers), we heard his studio woes, ate pasta with him, drank beers and of course, got to hear his album at every juncture. While this self-imposed exile may have been a little worrisome, the result is fortunately spectacular. Adamant is a glimpse into how a city shapes a life and how intrinsically life then shapes music. It's less than two years since his first gig, yet in that time he's managed to craft killer EPs on Vakant and Dumb-Unit, collaborate with Clockwork and Mind Against (who both make appearances on the album) play diverse shows including Sónar by Night, and generally had a really good run at it all. While many would be content simply continuing on this already exciting path, Thomas decided that Adamant was a chance to explore other forms of writing, production and collaboration, and imposed strict conditions so that this album would evolve differently than his earlier works. 'I imposed mandates on myself while making it: the tracks (the music, at least) had to be written in a day. 'Written,' not mixed, arranged or produced, simply written, and even though I was convinced the album was going into a different/wrong direction approximately 292,829 times while making it, I decided to follow through on all the musical parts that I developed in these one-day cycles.' This is an album that exudes a depth and immediacy, the restrictions and exile only strengthening Thomas' depth and detailing. The uncertainty, the melancholy, the general studio stink now neatly wrapped into a glittering whole that we're pretty confident the world will enjoy." -- Jeremy P. Caulfield
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VA 051EP
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The Thinkers EP was heavily inspired by essays about metaphysics. Metaphysics looks at the things behind ('meta') the physical appearance and its relationship to the non-physical. The story of philosophy and metaphysics seemed to me like emancipation from the 'perfect being' and over centuries, it seemed to evolve into the 'real,' more incarnated and away from 'belief' or religion. I simply wanted to express my interest in these non-direct musical things, from which I get a lot inspiration for writing music." --DeWalta
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VA 049EP
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Vakant presents a 12" by Sons Of Tiki. "Seven Changes" came after reading an article of Rudolph Steiner, a teacher of anthroposophy. "Moon Waltz" started out by messing around with several jazz samples, without having a real intension of making a track with it. The name "Moon Waltz" explains the atmosphere that surrounds the track, giving it a moody, alienated feeling at some points. Remix by Mathias Kaden.
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VA 047EP
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Nico Purman returns to Vakant with his most technoid record since his 2009 Euphrasia EP. "The Bubble" reveals the direction Nico is taking with this EP -- contemporary techno with a classic touch and the distinctive twist that is characteristically Purman's. "Blow My Mind" slackens the pace a little bit and makes room for more trippy yet groovy moments on the floor later in the morning. Mind-bending.
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VA 046EP
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"This record Flivvers Vol. 2 is the second volume in a story of the end of one love, one life, and the beginning of a new love and new life even greater than I had known before. It is a story of total life transformation and risk-taking. Each song gives you more detail into the events that transcribe my life into vinyl. You may not know my name, you may not know my face, but if you know my music you know my life." --Anonym
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