Browse by Artist: FIDAN, TOLGA

Artist:	FIDAN, TOLGA
Title:	Ballads
Label:	CADENZA (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	CADENZA 057EP

Having released a series of striking records on Vakant, Tolga Fidan's music flows seamlessly into Cadenza's vanguard club sound. "Slipt It" has a yearning string melody and multi-layered grooves that crackle like firewood. "Rhythm vs. Me" sets limbs in motion with a mixture of '70s funk weirdness and the simplicity of contemporary electronics. With "Bass Ass," he switches into a more forthright mode of communication with pulsating bass, a spacious tom and a cool organ hook line.

Artist:	FIDAN, TOLGA
Title:	Sexually Responsive
Label:	FREAK N' CHIC (FRANCE)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	FNC 048EP

This is the debut Freak n'Chic release from Tolga Fidan, who concocts an electrically-charged couple of dancefloor tracks. "Nised" flirts with warm and feminine outcries, bubbling with a bottomless sound, and constantly transforming into a new arrangement. "Downer n°5" touches further on this light and graceful approach, while experimenting with more eclectic rhythmic design, taking the listener on a journey across vast continents, through a series of times and places.

Artist:	FIDAN, TOLGA
Title:	Double Edge Sword EP
Label:	PRIVATE GOLD (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PG 004EP

Executive chef Tolga Fidan provides the freshest ingredients to make these three entreés. Firstly, "Double Edge Sword (Original Mix)" does what Tolga does best: tease your psychedelic taste-buds. A meaty, umami-flavored '80s electro-funk bass line anchors some wonderful call-and-response vocals. Secondly, Sammy Dee provides a reductionist exploration of sharp and concise textures, sounds and flavors. Jin Choi offers hints of citrus, acidic berries, chili and the occasional full-on root vegetable texture -- all together, not unlike a funky-ass sorbet. On brown-colored vinyl.

Artist:	FIDAN, TOLGA
Title:	Now I'm Weak EP
Label:	VAKANT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	VA 009EP

"Pop a Dramamine, slap a patch behind your ear, and grab ahold of the railing, because Tolga Fidan's debut EP Now I'm Weak lurches like a dinghy on the high seas. (Might as well throw on a slicker, too, because you're gonna get wet.) You haven't heard a synth swell as seasick as the one on 'Abstract Prologues' since Motiivi:Tuntematon's sinking tanker of a track, '1939.' But as woozily as this 12" rolls, it never loses its grip on the floor: all three tracks are solidly grounded in the blunt, toe-stubbing funk that's become a trademark of Berlin's Vakant label, home to mega-talents of minimal like Alex Smoke, Mathias Kaden, Onur Özer, and Robag Wruhme."

Artist:	FIDAN, TOLGA
Title:	Gaijin
Label:	VAKANT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	VA 033EP

Tolga Fidan brings 2 full sides of the most expansive mind and body-moving music you'll find outside of a gypsy circle on Jupiter. If techno has a jazz-fusion subgenre, "Gaijin" is it, making Tolga Chick Corea with a strobe light. "Gaijin" goes to space while sporting an afro and a 15-piece avant-garde jazz band. "Drunk Rotations" applies an icy piano. A horn section appears, along with a modular synth and Theremin; however, you never lose the jack on this cosmic dancefloor.

Artist:	FIDAN, TOLGA
Title:	We're Strangers Now
Label:	VAKANT (GERMANY)
Format:	2x12"
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	VA 037LP

"I'm listening to these six tracks again to try to make an approximation of why and how I have done this EP. Okay so, the opening track is in a way the end of an era and the last one the opening of a fresher one. And the rest fills in the gaps in between those two moments, I guess. I hate conceptual things, anyways. Includes collaborations with Jaw (dOP), my brother Atilla, who is also responsible for the artwork, and Jonny Cruz." --Tolga Fidan

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