Browse by Artist: VAZ, ANDY

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	People Inside/Outside
Label:	PERSISTENCEBIT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	VAZBIT 007EP

"Just like Andy Vaz's previous EP the First Aid Course on Persistencebit, the People Inside/Outside EP also showcases a more expansive and dance-based sound from Andy Vaz, in contrast to the self-imposed minimalistic style that runs throughout the 'Sound_Variation' series. The down-tempo 4/4 A-side track is as deep as it can get, slow building up, authentic deep house with original '90s-sounding phantom chords, raw bass lines, and various hi-hat patterns that nicely offsets the regulated pulse of the bass drum. Vaz adds layer upon layer to make the piece dense and intricate without ever sacrificing its fundamental propulsiveness. The track almost refers to Moodymann's soulful house tunes, yet totally in Vaz's own handwriting that cannot be imitated. The B-side features a dark, linear minimal techno track, also slowly building up into a more driving forward moving piece towards the end, while B2 is a funky Chicago house-influenced melodic track, making this EP an overall diverse and interesting release."

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Live in Detroit
Label:	PERSISTENCEBIT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	VAZBIT 008CD

"Recorded at one of the most 'on' clubs in Detroit right now, 'Club Oslo,' Andy Vaz continues his highly recommended Live in... series with a great tour de force through recent and future electronic music that simply had to be pressed up. 70 minutes of great versatile sounds of now that yet have to be labeled. Based on a solid eruptive minimal foundation, Vaz is able to inspire with unexpected 'Frikkel Electro,' Classic Detroit deep-house, technified jazz and crystalline techno. Superb for warming up to endless nights out or simply put it in your local club's CD decoder at 2pm and let it work."

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Repetitive Moments Last Forever
Label:	PERSISTENCEBIT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	VAZBIT 009CD

"CD version of the long-awaited full-length album Repetitive Moments Last Forever by Andy Vaz, the man behind Background Records, A Touch of Class, and the 'Soundvariation' series. Repetitive Moments Last Forever downplays minimal click-house (even though there are references to it) and the free jazz-influenced experiments of the 'Soundvariation' series for a unique and fresh house style that favors soulfulness and strong, almost old-school grooves over technical perfection. Vaz cultivates a swinging, perpetually shape-shifting future-techno that reveals traces of hip-hop, broken beat, house, acid, throughout the album's eight pieces. As his first love is and always has been the deeper, traditional sound of house music (the fundamental reference for genres like clicks & cuts, minimal house, microsound, and others), it doesn't surprise that the new album's focus is house, specifically a deep and soulful version of it. What results is a very personal, multi-faceted collection of jacking grooves that pays tribute to the electronic sounds of Vaz's past."

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Lost & Recovered Data
Label:	PERSISTENCEBIT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	VAZBIT 010EP

"Andy Vaz returns with his latest 12" showing the undeniable connection between 'minimal techno' and 'deep house,' sneaking in with a deep, impressive, almost old-school sounding, groove. The 3 tracks follow the demands of the club-situation as well as being unique in Vaz's typical sound signature, yet heading towards a new direction. The tracks are not even slightly clicks and cuts flavored, not even that fragmented, really, just killer deep house music, with a dark edge to it. 'Dark Changing Patterns' on the A-side is a long, slow build-up, slightly dark in its overall mood, refreshing house-tune, perfectly arranged to make the piece dense, rhythmic and interesting. Full of ideas, all perfectly jammed together into a long, floating mix which gives you a lot of choices and lots of different ideas to experience. Side B features two tracks, which are melodic, strong grooving DJ-friendly house tracks with a more optimistic feel which definitely demonstrate Vaz's strong connection to the early house-music movement. The EP is entitled Lost & Recovered Data EP, as during the process of finishing the project, the tracks were partially lost during a hard-drive crash and had to be recovered and re-edited."

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Remixes
Label:	PERSISTENCEBIT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	VAZBIT 011EP

"The Andy Vaz First Aid Course EP remixes are without a doubt a must-have survival pack. His first EP on Italian Persistencebit records, remixed by four of the biggest global talents in the four to the floor game. Jan Jelinek, Detroit's Anthony Shake Shakir, Krikor and Mapstation (aka Stefan Schneider/To Rococo Rot). All mixes relay different contexts and approaches, creating a unique 12". Andy Vaz's original elements of deep house are reinterpreted as serious dancefloor hits. Jan Jelinek (as Farben), delivers a minimal house version of 'Places And People Change' that swings and flows like there's no tomorrow, while Mapstation steps it up a notch in a more old school techno manner. On side B, Krikor delivers a dark, sinister, bomb shelter mix, in a pumping, analog-sounding, noisy cut-up style that he is so well known for. A superb mix that will initially twist up the floor and blow the speakers in the true sense of the meaning. Last but not least, Detroit's legend and one of the originators of the initial wave of Detroit techno Anthony Shake Shakir, takes it back to the good old days, delivering an authentic Detroit techno ain't-never-going-out-of-style mix of pure madness. Rearranging Vaz's original melodies spicing up in tempo with harmonies so sweet and timeless that sends you on a wild cruise through history."

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Way Back When
Label:	PERSISTENCEBIT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	VAZBIT 012EP

"The new EP presents a slightly different Vaz persona than the one heard on the EPs and the full-length Repetitive Moments Last Forever. Whereas those releases showcase a mercurial, future-groove style, the latest material invokes the classic sounds of Detroit techno and Chicago house while also directing its gaze firmly towards tomorrow. That's nowhere more evident than on the A side's 'Day Light Saving' where a glimmering keyboard pattern's sunny vibe sets the stage for an old-school stomp to gradually emerge from the shadows. Over the course of its seven minutes, the tune shifts from classic techno to a free-flowing mode closer in spirit to Vaz's current approach. Also representative of that current style, the B side's propulsive shape-shifter 'Walking Up My Own Alley' gathers steam as reverberant chiming chords twist into oblique configurations, the path ahead illuminated by hand-claps and a buoyant pulse. At disc's close, Vaz mixes the jazz-funk strut of the house-flavored 'Way Back When' into an infectiously swinging groover before battering it into shape with an incessant stream of syncopated percussive accents."

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Endings & Beginnings
Label:	PERSISTENCEBIT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	VAZBIT 013EP

"Certainly the title of Vaz's latest Persistencebit 12" suggests the close of one chapter and the start of another -- the end of the experimental edged Sound Variation series and the start of bringing back the old school feel, which here is closest referred to as house -- Vaz's undeniable first true love. But regardless of one's titular interpretation, these tracks are undeniably three of Vaz's freshest and most rocking ones to date. 'Endings & Beginnings (Your Mix)' kicks off the set with a boisterous, Motown-inflected bass line and swishing hi-hats that rapidly settle into a driving funk groove. Vaz builds tension by recycling a circular melody until it becomes a hypnotic mantra and by dropping out the groove at key moments and then building it back up again even more forcefully. Equally relentless, 'Two in One Solution' casts its propulsive gaze upon Chicago and Detroit house styles, with Vaz again exploiting drop-outs and sweetening the groove with creamy synth streams during the tune's eight-minute bounce. The B-side's entirely devoted to a ten-minute rendering of 'Endings & Beginnings (My Mix)' that's slightly slower and a little looser than the original but equally funky."

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Live In Tokyo
Label:	SOUND_VARIATION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	SOUND 001CD

"Live in Tokyo contains 13 tracks incl. Many unreleased new & exclusive tracks and new live versions of tracks, which already appeared on the Sound_Variation vinyl Series 1-1 - 6-6. Andy Vaz Sound_Variation is based on the use of the same sounds, re-used throughout his tracks, which are featured on this entire live CD, by giving each track another musical approach by pushing each instrument in a different compositional direction by re-arrangement, tone-shifting and adding changing effects in order to bring forth a maximum result within the process of limitation. This CD was recorded live @ Ism/Tokyo on September 22.2002 and was not re-edited, but kept 100% (except that it has been mastered for an better optimized sound) as spontaneously recorded in order to keep an authentic feeling and spirit alive. All mistakes & nonsense keeps it human and real."

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Humanization
Label:	YORE RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	YORE 004EP

"Naturally, the material's deep fusion of house and techno is given the lush production treatment we've come to expect from Vaz but the EP is also, without question, his most dancefloor-oriented release with all three tracks exuding a laser-sharp club focus. Another distinguishing feature is that the material locates a perfect middle ground between exuberant extroversion and carefully calibrated restraint. Of course, Vaz is no stranger to the world of minimal techno -- in his Background releases, he's been pushing the sound for years -- but his sound is rendered even more irresistible when wedded to Yore's sleek Detroit-edged vibe. Setting the EP's tone with an infectious, eight-minute journey, the A-side's 'Humanized' breezily moves through episodes of locomotive swing and jazzy technofunk. Having been tested live over the last three months, the flip side's 'You Got?' regularly incites 'hands-in-the-air' results when played during club dates. While a female singer repeatedly chants the mantra-like title, a disco-house strut grows around it, powered by classic '70s bass lines and horns; the tune's as funky as it gets, and oozes serious hit potential. Shifting stylistic gears, the aforementioned deep house cut 'One For Charley' becomes even more alluring when Berlin's Tilman Ehrhorn lays enticing sax melodies over Rhodes keys and a classic swinging groove. Much like the inaugurating Yore releases by Rick Wade and .xtrak (Todd Sines), Vaz's Humanization EP feels both old-school and contemporary, and represents a bold new stage in his ongoing musical evolution."

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Different Times
Label:	YORE RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	YORE 012EP

On this strictly limited release, Andy Vaz teams up with Detroit's Alton Miller, revisiting his deep house cuts from his previous Different Times EP, here in extended vocal versions, with Miller singing layers on the hook. "Bygone Times" gets a choice reprise that intensifies into a steamy deep house treatment with Miller's multi-layered vocals. The bass-thrusting groove of "Hurry, Hurry" also gets another workout with Miller boosting the cut with his soulful croon. Vaz's music has never sounded more energized.

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Different Times/You Got Remixes
Label:	YORE RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	YORE 016EP

Four Yore artists tackle Andy Vaz's originals on Different Times/You Got Remixes. Trus'me gives "Bygone Times" an acid-house makeover, Lerosa works up a trippy lather with a weave of vocal loops and a stepping dance pulse on his version of "Hurry, Hurry," while Rick Wade roars in with his customary slamming beats to wholly recast Vaz's original. .Xtrak twists "You Got" into cubistic shape and is clearly the wildest of the four.

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Shadow City
Label:	YORE RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	YORE 021EP

The Yore captain Andy Vaz presents 3 different funky house grooves. "The 'Y' Theme" gets deeply moving with a funky house pulse before the addition of speaking voices and a storming, acid-y end. "Shadow City" opts for a deeper vibe, but that's traded in for a slinkier attack that grows more ferocious. "Mumbai Dweller" focuses on the bottom end, specifically a strutting tribal-house funk groove that's dragged down deep by a throbbing bass. This is raw house at its best.

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Straight Vacationing
Label:	YORE RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	YORE 028CD

Andy Vaz's Straight Vacationing is his first full-length artist album since the 2006 release of Repetitive Moments Last Forever. This album registers as less a straight-up collection of dancefloor burners and more of a variety pack that mixes club tracks and full-fledged house songs. Listeners hungry for just ordinary 4/4 throw-downs will not entirely get their share of those, but they'll also get a whole lot more on this dynamic and well-rounded set of eight album tracks. Straight Vacationing dives into house in all its rich variety: from deep melodic, early Chicago-influenced acid house, jacking-Jedi mind tricks to disco-type grooves and last but not least excursions into Bizzaro World, with an almost psychedelic experimental-edged sound. The album perks up the moment the first track, "Detroit In Me," appears and when its acidy bass line percolates so determinedly alongside a female vocal motif, Vaz polishes the track's Detroit surfaces to a mirror-like sheen. It sounds a little bit similar to what Maceo Parker might sound like soloing over a funky Detroit-styled bass. Saxophonist Andreas Pasternack spreads his creamy playing all over "Stubnitz" and in so doing, bolsters the album's already soulful character. The album's poppiest moment arrives on "Just Another Round," whose hooks Vaz powers with a lead bass line and sweetens with a chirping female vocal. The funky-as-hell bass playing and the music's cold sweat, not to mention the honk of Pasternack's sax, might remind listeners of a certain age of the J.B.'s, James Brown's '70s band. On the experimental tip there's "Fukuoka Liquid," a bubbly, acid-techno shape-shifter featuring a hammering groove overlaid with synth smears, and "Worlds Collide," an exercise in jacking acid-house -- old school all the way. The album features occasional guest players contributing to the house-driven sun-showers. As a bonus, the album offers free additional digital remixes from Yore all-stars such as: Patrice Scott, Rick Wade, Alton Miller, Memory Foundation, Ibex, Kez YM and Orlando B.

Artist:	VAZ, ANDY
Title:	Straight Vacationing
Label:	YORE RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	YORE 028LP

Gatefold 2LP version. Andy Vaz's Straight Vacationing is his first full-length artist album since the 2006 release of Repetitive Moments Last Forever. This album registers as less a straight-up collection of dancefloor burners and more of a variety pack that mixes club tracks and full-fledged house songs. Listeners hungry for just ordinary 4/4 throw-downs will not entirely get their share of those, but they'll also get a whole lot more on this dynamic and well-rounded set of eight album tracks. Straight Vacationing dives into house in all its rich variety: from deep melodic, early Chicago-influenced acid house, jacking-Jedi mind tricks to disco-type grooves and last but not least excursions into Bizzaro World, with an almost psychedelic experimental-edged sound. The album perks up the moment the first track, "Detroit In Me," appears and when its acidy bass line percolates so determinedly alongside a female vocal motif, Vaz polishes the track's Detroit surfaces to a mirror-like sheen. It sounds a little bit similar to what Maceo Parker might sound like soloing over a funky Detroit-styled bass. Saxophonist Andreas Pasternack spreads his creamy playing all over "Stubnitz" and in so doing, bolsters the album's already soulful character. The album's poppiest moment arrives on "Just Another Round," whose hooks Vaz powers with a lead bass line and sweetens with a chirping female vocal. The funky-as-hell bass playing and the music's cold sweat, not to mention the honk of Pasternack's sax, might remind listeners of a certain age of the J.B.'s, James Brown's '70s band. On the experimental tip there's "Fukuoka Liquid," a bubbly, acid-techno shape-shifter featuring a hammering groove overlaid with synth smears, and "Worlds Collide," an exercise in jacking acid-house -- old school all the way. The album features occasional guest players contributing to the house-driven sun-showers. As a bonus, the album offers free additional digital remixes from Yore all-stars such as: Patrice Scott, Rick Wade, Alton Miller, Memory Foundation, Ibex, Kez YM and Orlando B.

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