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VR 008EP
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The third and final remix package for Mathias Kaden's highly-acclaimed album Studio 10 (VA 004CD/VA 030LP), featuring two reworks by Onur Özer and DeWalta. Özer's "Hâre Remix" is a massive, bass-driven rework for Kaden's "Chazz," taking the track to a deeper, more jazzy level. David Koch aka DeWalta takes on "Ikenga," maintaining the acidic vibe of the original and adding his very own dancefloor funk.
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VR 007EP
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Here's a set of splendid remixes for Mathias Kaden's highly-acclaimed album Studio 10 (VA 004CD/VA 030LP). The A-side sees a remix by Luna City Express and Matthias Tanzmann, who reworked the 36-second disco interlude "Roots" to a full-length house hitter. On the B-side, Studio 10 collaborator Florian Schirmacher and his Wareika project rework "State Of Stasis" (featuring vocals from Gjaezon). Schirmacher manages to turn this Detroit-influenced tune into something crazy from outer space. So get with it.
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VR 006EP
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Late in 2009, Mathias Kaden's debut album Studio 10 (VA 004CD/LP) was released, garnering positive feedback from the scene's most important DJs. Vakant follows up with a series of remixes for this very important album. DJ Koze lays into the album's dub track "Kawaba," featuring the voice of singer Tomomi Ukumori. Deeply-pitched vocals and Koze's very own groove give this remix a very special appeal. AFFKT delivers a peak-time tech-house remix of "Mascleta" that is already causing a storm.
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VR 005EP
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Once again, renowned artists have come out in full force, reworking selected tracks off Onur Özer's Kasmir album for Vakant's remix-only Vakant R. Isolée takes Onur's otherwise chilling "Innervoice" and reinterprets it into a thick, warm blanket of reassuring bounce. Flipping the record inverts dimensions of time and space. Abyssfully-deep legend Baby Ford takes the already ethereal "Aida" and turns it into the soundtrack for finding the God particle.
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VR 004EP
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Friends of Onur Özer address the light and dark on Kasmir Remixes. Loco Dice takes Onur's instrument-laden "Eclipse" and turns it into popping, state-of-the-art tech house with Onur's depth and Loco Dice's spontaneous flow. Jens Zimmermann makes a twilight adventure even more spacey. Sitting somewhere between Cologne's Studio 1, post intergalactic colonization, and 7th Silk Road somewhere around Uzbekistan, his 15-minute "Wüstenmond" (Desert Moon) remix is its own reality.
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VR 002EP
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"On the second release from its remix imprint VR, Berlin's Vakant label comes with the goods, turning out what might be its most far-out release to date -- and at the same time, its most punishingly effective. Going head to head, Glasgow's Alex Smoke and Paris' Tolga Fidan tackle each other's tracks, twisting up knotty rhythms and gauzy electro-acoustic sounds into a battered syntax that expresses one thing: move. This is the real freaky-deeky, and the season's dancefloors will never again be the same."
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VR 001EP
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"P. Diddy may have, ahem, 'invented the remix,' but now Berlin's Vakant label is turning the concept on its head -- using the remix to (re)-invent the label itself. Vakant R is the newest addition to the imprint's crowded house; alongside the parent label and audio-visual offshoot Vakant X, Vakant R rounds out the minimalist trinity with a stunning debut release featuring Mathias Kaden and Onur Özer going head-to-head in a no-holds-barred battle of the remixes."
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