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Artist:	SHANTEL
Title:	Bucovina Club
Label:	ESSAY RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AY 001CD

Bucovina Club is a 2003 release, distributed in the US for the first time. Stefan Hantel, aka Shantel from Frankfurt/Main has firmly established himself as an all-around electronica producer with his previous albums Higher Than The Funk (K7!) and Great Delay. With Bucovina Club, Shantel presents sounds from Eastern Europe -- the brass bands of Macedonia and the gypsy swing of the Wallachei -- to the Frankfurt dancefloor. The tracklist features artists such as Goran Bregovic, Taraf De Haidouks, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Kocani Orkestar, and Boban Markovic Orkestar, established names in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, some of whom have actually played the now-defunct Bucovina Club.

Artist:	SHANTEL
Title:	Bucovina Vol. 2 EP
Label:	ESSAY RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	AY 005EP

We've cut the waiting time for the next Bucovina Club anthology. The Bucovina Vol. 2 EP opens a window on the work of Shantel, the mastermind behind the Bucovina Club. Track 1: Shantel Feat. Mahala Rai Banda: 'Bucogeasca Dub' - The Kings of Mahala (Mahala = Gypsy district) got together with Shantel to produce their first CD (currently at number 3 in the world music charts). In the summer of 2004 Shantel and the Mahala Rai Banda wowed critics and audiences all over Europe with the Electric Gypsyland Tour. Here's a taste of Bucogeasca Dub that heats up the dancefloor to fever pitch. Track 2: Jewish Monkey's Feat. Boom Pam: Koshernostra Mix. This is a new version of the legendary dancefloor burner Bucovina by the Tel Aviv Jewish Monkeys and Boom Pam, remixed by Shantel. All we re going to say about the Jewish Monkeys right now is: watch this space. You'll be hearing a lot more from them soon, as well as from Boom Pam, who have just cut their first CD in the studio with Shantel and whose gigs have already taken Berlin, Frankfurt and Cologne by storm. Track 3: Balkan Beat Box: Bulgarian Chicks. So who wouldn't want to get to know these Chicks and the white-hot Balkan Beat Box? The New York project by Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat combines the organic with the electronic, and couples sexy vocals with a beat that has set dancefloors vibrating from Jerusalem to every Bucovina Club in Europe. At the Transmusicales Festival in Rennes this number was on constant play from six in the morning, to the roar of an ecstatic crowd."

Artist:	SHANTEL
Title:	Bucovina Club Vol. 2
Label:	ESSAY RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AY 006CD

The follow-up to the critically-acclaimed debut album Bucovina Club. This dynamite collection curated by the renowned German DJ/producer Shantel (Stefan Hantel) sees him forsaking his old trip-hop stylings for the manic music of the Balkans. Serving as a sort of imaginary soundtrack to Frankfurt's amazing, vodka-fueled, gypsy-rave all-nighter club, the now-defunct Bucovina, Shantel's eclectic mix of clubsounds, future funk, Roma ballads, Balkan brass and freestyle electronica are now legendary across the dancefloors of Europe. Digital teams up with analog, beat embraces melody, tango goes lyrical -- and it ain't over til the samovar sings. Shantel's former life as a producer of downtempo and electronica has taught him to fly in the face of convention by treating local Eastern European and Balkan music in the same way as hiphop and all kinds of club music, making them just as much an integral part of today's youth and pop culture. There's nothing clichéd about this new wave of music -- and not a bobble-hatted world music purist in sight. On Bucovina Club Vol. 2, five of the fifteen tracks are exclusive original recordings and five are exclusive mixes. Shantel's own tracks feature stars of the gypsy and Balkan music scene: Boban Markoviç and his son Marko, Jony Iliev, Vesna Petkovic, and the all-star line-up Bucovina Club Orkestar. The exclusive remixes feature Mahala Raï Banda, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Sandy Lopic Orkestar and French-Romanian actress Rona Hartner (of Tony Gatlif's movie Gadjo Dilo). The other tracks present a host of famous artists and some newcomers such as: Dr. Nelle Karajlic, Balkan Beat Box, Slonovski Bal and Goran Bregovic. Bucovina Club Vol. 2 is pure naked euphoria, placing a direct and visceral punch that really gets people moving. The parties take up where the ecstatic raves of the house and techno generation left off.

Artist:	SHANTEL
Title:	Disko Partizani Remixes
Label:	ESSAY RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	AY 010EP

Shantel's "Disko Partizani" is a worldwide anthem of the Balkan pop movement. The video has over 1 million clicks on YouTube and MySpace, and is in heavy club rotation in France, Italy, Austria, Greece, Turkey and the Netherlands. Featuring exclusive and strictly limited remixes by Yamaha vs. Electrico, Marcus Darius and Tricky Cris, and Dublex Inc.. "Disko Partizani" is a place where electro, house, freestyle, hip-hop and dub-heads shake hands, drink vodka and rock out.

Artist:	SHANTEL
Title:	Planet Paprika
Label:	ESSAY RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	AY 023LP

After more than 250 internationally-acclaimed and celebrated live shows throughout 2008 -- from Glastonbury to Roskilde, from Southside to the Hurricane Festival, from east coast to west coast -- renowned German DJ/producer Stefan Hantel aka Shantel and his band of gypsies, the Bucovina Club Orkestar present Planet Paprika -- a chronicle of their slow takeover of the planet via international musical mind-melding. Gathering a host of awards and chart positions along the way, culminating in platinum status in Turkey, Shantel has perfected a Byzantine flurry of brass sounds, disco, Balkan beats and belly-dancing -- a music without frontiers -- a cultural temporary autonomous zone where integration isn't something to be debated at length, but where it actually becomes reality. Planet Paprika has its own set of values: the pursuit of genuinely European pop music where north meets south and east meets west, and they are all equal in the mind of the musician. Limited edition of 1,500 copies worldwide, pressed on 180 gram vinyl. LP jacket printed on 350 gram cardboard, with an insert featuring a high quality photo print.

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