Browse by Artist: ANANDA, GABRIEL

Artist:	ANANDA, GABRIEL
Title:	Tai Nasha No Karosha
Label:	KARMAROUGE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	KR 010CD

"Like no one else Gabriel Ananda has proved during the past year that sturdy and rocking techno does not need to consist of sample structures lacking any melodic qualities. Because this, what is coming out of the boxes fresh and untouched, is the reversion to Detroitish values -- the pairing of great emotional gestures and the uninevitable might of the 4 to the floor. Like cast in liquid chrome, jacked by melodic pads, dirty metropolitan bass lines are roaring through the space hall and wrap the desolately pumping beats in a silverish cloud of muggy memories. Huge bass monsters are galloping on frenetical bouncing grooves through the sweating arch of Gabriel Anandas' sound aesthetics, continuously swarmed round by an immense number of circling percussion instruments. Now and then foggy synthie clouds are waving above a rusty industrial sky and conjure spontaneously a few fluffy and summery thoughts until they're gobbled by the blurry grimace of the horizon. Deliciously balanced with dreamy dub techno tunes like 'Radiodust,' where sound snippets are trickling through the speaker-membranes like sand out of a desert grave. The seesawing techhouse-stomper-like 'Hoolahoop' seems to be abounded by grinning, skipping goblins. Tai nasha no karosha merges to an extremely melodic and acrobatic sound sculpture that is native in the huge, dirty and colorful metropoles as well as in your home."

Artist:	ANANDA, GABRIEL
Title:	Glücksmelodie Remix Contest EP
Label:	KARMAROUGE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	KR 022EP

"A1: Stuttgart-based producer Flekk presents his personal 'Glücksmelodie,' a funny and ridiculous tune that has similarities to older Mosquito releases. A weird techno track with electroclash approaches and numerous harmony changes. A2: Stefan Tretau's remix doesn't deny its closeness to the original even if it is less ravishing. This remix is characterized by psychedelic and spheric elements and a Detroitish bassline. A3: The third track comes from Netherland producer Hardmoon. This remix is a dreamful ambient master piece that finally diffluences more and more. We never dreamed that the 'Glücksmelodie' could sound so mellow and dreamy. B1: 'Sommerkräusel of Fortune' is Da-Roh's personal 'Glücksmelodie' interpretation, a summerly robed Detroit alike techno tune well touched by charming melancholy. The track is characterized by a minimal sound architecture, builds itself up, then drops into a break and finally builds itself up again. B2: Ümit Han's 'GlückIm Unglück' remix is a modern minimal techno tune that focus on functionality with a pinch of aggressiveness. A track that is delightfully frisky and outstanding, fragmented, and that coquettes from time to time with some Oriental samples."

Artist:	ANANDA, GABRIEL
Title:	Bambusbeats
Label:	KARMAROUGE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	KR 024CD

"On Bambusbeats, Gabriel Ananda presents us a reverse side of his extraordinary skills. Away from his well known melodic tracks, now his music dips into the artificiality and abstractness of electronic soundscapes, nevertheless it is emotional and in the flesh. Acoustic African-based drum and percussion elements are the basic essentials of the album theme and leave the tracks sounding newer. Gabriel Ananda puts his focus on rhythm and acoustic drums which now carry his emotions across the music and look straight to the dancefloor. Above all, Gabriel Ananda often switches between two themes inside of one track which attracts attention as a characteristic feature of the album.This, what is coming out of the boxes fresh and untouched, is pure groove and definitely a tribute to Detroitish values -- the pairing of great emotional gestures and the inevitable might of the dance floor. 'Offbeat' is the showcase track of the album and comes along in a light-hearted and lively mood and is reminiscent of a summerlike walkaway in the greenwood. 'Bambus' is a reduced tune with a house-y approach and subtle diversification, well touched with a pinch of monotony that lets oneself loose on the dancefloor. 'Egge' is a more aggressive post-Detroit track driven by a lush bassline and pricking synthie sounds which seem to drill themselves into the listener's brain. In some ways, this groovy shaking tune sounds a little bit wishy-washy. 'Sweet Decay' is the positive primetime tune. The opening comes along in a very easy-going mood, builds itself up, suddenly moves into gear by screeching and schizophrenic synthies, then drops into a break and finally accelerates and grooves like hell. Hands up! The album soul and psyche is the track 'Trommelstunde.' An outstanding production that forcefully deals with a bassdrum, a hi-hat, a snare and a bassline. This is straight Detroit, driven by acoustic drums."

Artist:	ANANDA, GABRIEL
Title:	Stream of Consciousness
Label:	KARMAROUGE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	KR 027EP

"Gabriel Ananda presents us with 'Stream Of Consciousness' and 'Shake Ready,' two euphoric grooving tracks that are characterized by compact and at the same moment delicious balanced rhythms which spread themselves onto your body straightforwardly and which work on the dancefloor with an astounding ease. Two tracks that keep you away from holding your feet still, a record that simply makes fun! The A-side track 'Stream Of Consciousness' comes along in a sunny spellbound robe. Wishful-sounding melodies boxed in disarming clarity and elegance round a grooving bassline and oppressive beat. It's a track that is composed of various long rhythmic elements which easily manage to engage with each other and reveal its well-balanced character. For Gabriel Ananda, 'Stream Of Consciousness' means thinking in music and refers to the semi-constant internal monologue that he has with himself at a conscious or or semi-conscious level. It's a statement about his present state of mind."

Artist:	ANANDA, GABRIEL
Title:	Miracel Whop
Label:	PLATZHIRSCH SCHALLPLATTEN (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	PLATZ 008EP

"Gabriel affords us after 1.5 years with Miracel Whop -- two tracks with euphoria factor 163000 + one bonus track. 'Miracel Whop' is a bubbled warm track, who jumps cheerfully with wooden earthy sounds in order to merge with the dramaturgic breaks. 'Doppelwhipper' was brought in live by Gabriel and that can you hear very clearly. The track lives from his pressure and the spontaneity. This track grants the dancefloor only rarely a break."

Artist:	ANANDA, GABRIEL
Title:	Doppelwhipper RMX
Label:	PLATZHIRSCH SCHALLPLATTEN (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	PLATZ 012EP

Remixes by Rocco Branco & Tobias Becker, Jason Emsley and Supermayer (Michael Mayer + Superpitcher). "One year after the big hit of 2006 'Doppelwhipper' (best track 2006 in the readers' poll of Groove Magazine) come the remixes. Rocco Branco, aka Dominik Eulberg, made together with the chief of Platzhirsch Tobias Becker a technoid, varied interpretation with nice heights. The Californian Jason Emsley works with this theme in a very dry and cool way. The team Michael Mayer and Superpitcher alias Supermayer have their own point of view, in a positive way."

Artist:	ANANDA, GABRIEL
Title:	Süssholz Remixes
Label:	TREIBSTOFF (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	TREIB 052EP

"Honor to whom honor is due: Gabriel Ananda's 'Suesshol,' after heavy rotation, has been reshaped and by no one else than Falko Brocksieper and Robert Babicz aka Rob Acid. So, two wishes have come true all at once. While legendary Babicz creates a damned great, stomping smasher out of the already dancefloor-filling original version that will make every raver's heart completely crazy, Sub Statics's Falco Brocksieper combines the sound patterns with loads of esprit and the result is an irresistible quantized klonk'n'rappel burner, and its maximum rhythm structure will lure even the hottest party people out of every corner. Well the good old spirit is back and Treibstoff has got it under contract."

Artist:	ANANDA, GABRIEL
Title:	Ananda's Bassmaschinchen Part 1
Label:	TREIBSTOFF (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	TREIB 059EP

"The Cologne tradition-label Treibstoff brings the new project from Gabriel Ananda. With 'Bassmaschinchen' he launches a series, on which he will exclusively focus only rhythm and bass. He thinks about almost lost ways to seduce the audience, by leaving big synth-hooks and fantastic elation. This one is all about pure deepness, ultra deep bass and hypnotic grooves, Gabriel brings to the top with his freshly bought 909."

Artist:	ANANDA, GABRIEL
Title:	Bassmaschinchen Pt. 2
Label:	TREIBSTOFF (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	TREIB 067EP

"Gabriel Ananda is probably one of the last real heroes of Techno music. No one else manages to ingeniously mix the precision of state-of-the art production standards with the purest and most classic dance-floor tunes. And the result: hottest and most rocking sounds. Now he comes up with part two of his 'Bassmaschinchen' (little bass machines) on Treibstoff. And it is far from using up leftovers. Part two even exceeds the well-known, straight and pushing beat'n bass patterns thanks to its wonderful, Detroitishly shimmering rave arpeggio. And in the middle of the psycho-social warfare of today's dance-floors, it won't miss the target. Gabriel Ananda's faders are always on the fast track. Moreover, he simply doesn't care about minimal music's dos and don'ts. But he doesn't miss the rush with all its rave signals that make the world a better party place."

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