Browse by Label: CARAVAN (UK)

Artist:	OCTOBER
Title:	Three Drops/Homo Sapiens
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CVAN 001EP

"From the same stables that have brought you the uber-cool Tectonic dubstep label as well as techno wunderkind Emptyset comes Caravan Recordings. Set up by Bristol-based October aka Julian Smith, Caravan is intended to be a vehicle for his own productions as well as various other new artists who fit his remit of deep, organic techno. Three Drops/Homo Sapiens, the first release, is the epitome of quality within the aforementioned remit -- featuring three tracks which combine dancefloor sensibility, organic percussion, Detroit vibes and European production techniques to create wonderful, memorable and usable tracks. With further tracks and remixes from October, Peter Kruder, TG (Four:Twenty) and (emptyset), Caravan will be diverting even more attention to the ever-growing Bristol music scene."

Artist:	EMPTYSET
Title:	Doxa EP
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CVAN 003EP

"The third release from fledgling minimal tech imprint Caravan outta Bristol brings us two wicked floor burners from Emptyset. Many of you will know these guys from the two 12"s on Future Days that absolutely blew our nuts with the meanest blend of Sleeparchive-styled minimalism and dubstep shaped subs that just creams it on any system. The Doxa EP separates the styles over two sides, with 'Endoxa' functioning as a wicked minimal techno track similar to Marcel Dettman's first EP for MDR, with a shifted groove reduction hinging on a grinding bass driven rhythm while 'Episteme' really turns on the sub pressure with some sick tones and shapes really driving the track into abyssal techno territory. Fans of Dettmann, Sleeparchive, October, XDB and all your other favorite reduction technicians will be all over this beauty. Mean." --Boomkat

Artist:	OCTOBER
Title:	Raw
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CVAN 004EP

"'Raw' is a restrained anthem with an infectious melodic hook, simple yet perfectly crafted, gentle but firm. Perspectiv Recordings' label boss Ripperton joins Agnès on the buttons for a superb remix, taking the original ideas and rolling the vibe out for an epic workout. Following on from the massive success of the first 3 Caravan singles, label boss and key artist October returns to wax for further ventures in deep mindfulness. So far the label's been received with open arms by many of techno's key artists, including: Steve Bug, Laurent Garnier, Peter Kruder, Mark Henning, Thomas Schumacher, Slam, 3 Channels, Trickski, Jeff Samuel, Claude VonStroke, Tobias Freund, Mary-Anne Hobbs, Tim Green, Sascha Funke, Kiki, Alex Fitsh, Miss Kitten, Eurokai., Ripperton, etc. The list goes on!"

Artist:	OCTOBER
Title:	Caravan: Recession Vol. 1
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CVAN 001CD

Compiled by October aka Julian Raymond Smith in Bristol, this selection expresses the collective desire from a body of international artists, working in partnership with his Caravan label, to simply create a "music of this time." Presented together as Recession Vol.1, this continuous mix of material from the imprint offers up a template of electronic music both as a vision and aesthetic in permanent flux. A musical form stepping into the future, while constantly indebted to the labors and commitments of its past -- a retroactive narrative that pushes at the edges of possibility and a movement that seems a strangely apt soundtrack to this turbulent yet inspiring era of transition. Make no mistake, this is serious dancefloor business. Opening track, October's "Smorgisbored" sets the tone for this peculiar and unique strain of tech-house; unexpected sounds paired with strangely quirky hooks which define the output of Caravan Recordings. The label's signature is a fresh approach to dance music, with slick, clean productions which incorporate a range of unusual traits and cheeky production techniques. Recession Vol.1 includes some of the label's highlights from the past 12 months, available here on CD for the first time, such as the floor-killing TG track "Rene" and October's "Control Room Interior," along with cuts from (emptyset), Jilt Van Moorst and also features the digital exclusive remix of Etalon's "Uniqueness" by Mathew Leutwyler. Recession Vol.1 documents the first wave of Caravan's releases, and in turn, offers the listener an utterly alluring mix of organic, deep techno.

Artist:	EMPTYSET
Title:	Emptyset
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CVAN 002CD

This is the debut full-length release by Bristol, UK production duo, Emptyset. An empty set is an empty box or an empty bag. It's not the same as nothingness. Aesthetically, it implies structure without content; absolute potential without manifestation. This works as a template for listening to the record: it sounds like dance music with the guts ripped out; the vengeful ghost of a techno future generated entirely from noise and sine waves. There are no melodic lines on which to hitch a free ride; your attention is required at all times to safeguard against total disorientation. Emptyset is a Brutalist structure, a foreign universe born out of a void, becoming sentient and condemned to await demolition. You need not have studied Jung or harbor any particular psycho-geographical leanings to recognize that a drawn-out process of smashing a city's urban heart to pieces might influence its art. With the extensive reconstruction of its city center, at one point the biggest building site in Europe, Bristol has been a site of dereliction and mass demolition for the last decade. This upheaval, which has seen tons of girders, beams and aggregates destroyed, is just another episode in the city's tradition of lo-frequency exploration. Mass slavery, bass culture, tape hiss in the lo-fi bedsit tradition, Georgian splendor bombed to smithereens in WWII; all these dehumanized visions subsequently informed everything from the building of an extensive network of underground slave tunnels to the creation of tower block living rooms; lo-frequencies shook the earth and noise filled the air. Bass is the tool, the machine-head used to explore cracks, find spaces, open them up and fill them with noise. As a direct consequence, Bristol is the only city that could produce this album. With its dialogues in play between techno, dubstep, drone and avant-garde electronics, the environment of grassroots cultural cooperation serves to destabilize the boundaries between the grammars of individual genres.

Artist:	MAIOVVI, ANTONI
Title:	The Thorns Of Love
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CVAN 003CD

This is the third album by Berlin's Anton Maiof aka Antoni Maiovvi. The Thorns Of Love is an ode to a broken heart that embraces Italian drama and euphoric fear. His music exists somewhere between Patrick Cowley's Hi-NRG epics, Arthur Russell's melancholic beauty and John Carpenter's traumatizing soundtracks. Antoni Maiovvi is the name by which Anton Maiof unleashes his bastard offspring of disco and psychotronic horror, and here with The Thorns Of Love he has produced a deeply personal symphony to love lost and the sanctifying power of the dancefloor. Antoni Maiovvi is a nefarious creature of the night, a figure of twilight opulence and the love child of Evelyn Thomas and Lucio Fulci conceived in the lurid backrooms of the Boccaccio Club. The sweatbox is in his DNA, throbbing analog circuitry courses through his flesh like rivers of blood and where his heart once lived there is now only yearning for the alchemical marriage of sex, death and technology. From Naples to Frankfurt, he has stalked the dancefloors of Europe, planning this moment -- and at last, in this compendium of unbridled fist-clenchers, his time has come. Now he will stop at nothing to bring his arpeggiated talisman down onto the souls of men, squeezing out that last breath of humanity in a pulsing, Dantean dance-macabre. The Thorns Of Love takes a unique, muscular and cerebral approach to electronic dance music, bringing together the Italo love explosion, spine-tingling Euro-horror and the melancholic proto-techno musings of early Model 500 and "Sharevari." Maiovvi takes the helm of this noir-tinged Trojan horse, carving out a dancefloor machine with commanding synth-work, operatic drums and mind-bending atmospherics. As the album climaxes and the smoke pours across a crowded room, he steps out from the shadows and delivers his final eulogy to 20th century hedonism, preaching with the unhinged vocals of a coked-up Brian Ferry. Love may be the drug, but for Maiovvi, death can be the only future.

Artist:	TG
Title:	Feign EP
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CVAN 006EP

2008 release. Caravan presents their 6th release with TG's Feign EP. "Rene" is a journey of epic proportions that starts out circling the Earth's orbit before slowly burning through the Van Allen Belt into our planet's cooling atmosphere, where we find the solace of TG's groove and voice. Bearing a great vocal hook, an unstoppable 4/4 groove and an arsenal of cool, squelchy melodies and sounds, "Rene" is a great jam that avoids all the trademark tech-house pitfalls. Also includes a remix of "Feign" by Markus Guentner.

Artist:	ETALON
Title:	Common EP
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CVAN 007EP

2008 release. Etalon have been producing and DJing across a number of genres with various productions on labels such as Global Underground, EMI, Players Paradise and more. Working almost-tangible melodies together with an irrepressible groove, "Uniqueness" provides a full body and mind workout. On the flip is an unusual re-work from label boss October. With his attempts at original sonic design and experimentation, this is his most uncommon work to date. Stiffen your neuro-synapses, open up your frontal lobe, and enjoy.

Artist:	VAN MOORST, JILT
Title:	Sublimination EP
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CVAN 009EP

Jilt Van Moorst presents two cuts for Caravan. "Sublimination Ritual" is a quirky tech-bomb complete with submerged oscillator tones, phat-ass, low-end bass-stabs and super-tight polyrhythms. A new dimension of arranged sounds, all forged together by Jilt finding digital juju ghosts inside his Doepfer Modular synth and analog drum modules. "Pecker" is a harder, darker, faster 4/4 trip -- an intricately-crafted piece of reduced warehouse techno with ever-evolving, flying, steppers polyrhythms -- fans of Sleeparchive and early Plastikman won't be disappointed.

Artist:	MAIOVVI, ANTONI
Title:	The Thorns Of Love
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	CVAN 012LP

2LP version. This is the third album by Berlin's Anton Maiof aka Antoni Maiovvi. The Thorns Of Love is an ode to a broken heart that embraces Italian drama and euphoric fear. His music exists somewhere between Patrick Cowley's Hi-NRG epics, Arthur Russell's melancholic beauty and John Carpenter's traumatizing soundtracks. Antoni Maiovvi is the name by which Anton Maiof unleashes his bastard offspring of disco and psychotronic horror, and here with The Thorns Of Love he has produced a deeply personal symphony to love lost and the sanctifying power of the dancefloor. Antoni Maiovvi is a nefarious creature of the night, a figure of twilight opulence and the love child of Evelyn Thomas and Lucio Fulci conceived in the lurid backrooms of the Boccaccio Club. The sweatbox is in his DNA, throbbing analog circuitry courses through his flesh like rivers of blood and where his heart once lived there is now only yearning for the alchemical marriage of sex, death and technology. From Naples to Frankfurt, he has stalked the dancefloors of Europe, planning this moment -- and at last, in this compendium of unbridled fist-clenchers, his time has come. Now he will stop at nothing to bring his arpeggiated talisman down onto the souls of men, squeezing out that last breath of humanity in a pulsing, Dantean dance-macabre. The Thorns Of Love takes a unique, muscular and cerebral approach to electronic dance music, bringing together the Italo love explosion, spine-tingling Euro-horror and the melancholic proto-techno musings of early Model 500 and "Sharevari." Maiovvi takes the helm of this noir-tinged Trojan horse, carving out a dancefloor machine with commanding synth-work, operatic drums and mind-bending atmospherics. As the album climaxes and the smoke pours across a crowded room, he steps out from the shadows and delivers his final eulogy to 20th century hedonism, preaching with the unhinged vocals of a coked-up Brian Ferry. Love may be the drug, but for Maiovvi, death can be the only future.

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Artist:	ANONYMOUS
Title:	Oops
Label:	CARAVAN (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	CVAN 013EP