Browse by Label: DIAL (GERMANY)

Artist:	VA
Title:	Dial 00 EP
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 000EP

2000 release, limited stock. New imprint from Hamburg's electronic scene. A three-artist compilation of "abstract minimal," featuring: Lawrence (member of unnamed Ladomat 2000 group), Pawel (aka Turner, also a Ladomat recording artist) and Carsten Jost. "Fresh 4 tracker working disparate sonic piecemeal wisely; your standard fare reverse-feed/(ne)gated kicks, well-wise if not rhythmically confusing/useless disco loops, a Smiths loop run through the Filterbank?, etc... There's even a nice one on here based around the timbres of the stock consumer-grade (as if to imply the existence of a 'pro-line') Casio keyboard arpeggiator that drifts rather pleasantly into BOC land, even with it's quarterly placement reminder. Quite enjoyable..." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	PANTHA DU PRINCE
Title:	Diamond Daze
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 005CD

The first Pantha Du Price album from 2004, repressed. "...Now: Pantha Du Prince track to track layer for layer the parts of a vanishing youth reveal themselves. In a white studio behind the railways next to sweating rock bands and speeding trains divided only by white cloths. A person dreaming in grinds and fragments of images, sounds, noises, frenzy and feelings. He is passing himself. In former times Kassel: everything was wave and the beginning of techno -- British independent music on his mind. Away to Hamburg: guitars and discourses, lights of another way: Saekho, Clear, Warp, Mego, Frankfurt and techno from Cologne -- electronic music as the salvation. Techno is everything: catharsis in the studio ecstasy in the club and new social structures Tobin - Dial - Reis. In Hamburg there is a new model of autonomous structures far from Ladomat and the pressure to play guitar. Pantha Du Prince is moving within those new but still fragile ways. The own position is forming itself more and more. Within the work of a year it becomes clear and the dust of coal crystalises itself into diamonds that might burst soon. Diamond Daze is tracing new lines, branching them and loosing itself in woody landscapes and fog and leads to pleasurable places in rising sunlight from the cave of catharsis diamond daze is triggering romances like lightning in the shimmering of the night. The presence is torn apart in the lake of melancholy. Wounded textures and cryptic pop unfold their mystery in a pumping crystalline mobile of sound. It is from Hamburg or anywhere shivering noise-pop-drones, pulsing patterns of bassdrum-bass, filigreed clicks, bursting diamonds for a romantic mind. In the heart walls of guitar and the beat keeps you dancing and the mind flies over roaring snowy mountains enchanted and pushed on, in love and avoided everything but the boy: Hendrik Weber, who is known as Glühen4, Panthel, and as part of Gaze and Duma as well as bassist of the band Stella, presents his debut 2LP, CD on Dial as Pantha Du Prince."

Artist:	SOLLMANN, PHILLIP
Title:	Something Is Missing
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 008CD

"This is a short introduction to the artist Phillip Sollmann, who just finished his first conceptual album Something Is Missing for Dial-Records Hamburg. In times of relatively random digital number crunching this is a portion of drones dry as a desert, static as a lake, soft as the wind and close as a whisper. Produced during the last two years, this piece of work is the result of a thinking on theory of sound in space. While studying computer music at a Viennese university, Phillip Sollmann got less and less interested in the possibilities of real-time processing with it's glitches and grains -- and started to re-explore the work of people like La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine, C.M. Von Hausswolff, Yoko Ono or Phil Niblock, to name a few -- not to forget This Heat's influence. Listening closely will make you hear the artist raise his voice ('Room Five') on a specially intonated version of Jane's 'It's a Fine Day' (originally on Cherry Records, 1983). Also known as Efdemin for producing Detroit influenced slow and noisy minimal techno (which was released on Dial Rec and his own imprint Tobin), Phillip Sollmann concentrated more and more on ideas of sound related to space -- which lead to his idea of static music presented in two site specific installations, one in Vienna in 2004 and another one in 'Die Blaue Kugel' Hamburg, 2005. All pieces on Something Is Missing were done in a graphical programming environment and will be performed live in 2006, presenting his cyclical & shimmering tones to the audience."

Artist:	PANTHA DU PRINCE
Title:	This Bliss
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 009CD

This is DJ, producer, composer and furniture maker Hendrik Weber's (aka Pantha Du Prince) second full-length release on Dial. Weber has always explored new worlds of sound under pseudonyms such as Panthel, Gluhen4 or as bassist of Hamburg-based group, Stella. 2006 was a fine, fine year for Pantha du Prince -- his remixes for Depeche Mode and Phantom/Ghost plus the 12" single Lichten/Walden were all met with the highest acclaim and critique. The follow-up to all this, This Bliss is an album that aspires to push all boundaries from the heart of house and techno music. It was produced here and there, on trips visiting friends. On trains, planes and automobiles while travelling between Hamburg, Berlin, New York and an old Parisian monastery. From Terry Riley to Wim Mertens, Robert Skempton to the mighty ski jumper Steiner, Pantha Du Prince takes inspiration from a varied and wondrous spectrum of composers and artists. Even the imagery that fills the CD booklet is taken from Paul Virilio's book, Bunker Archeology -- though this album has nothing to do with a bunker. Pantha Du Prince invites invasions and emissions as a source of inspiration to motivate the interpretation of his music. Before concluding that Pantha Du Prince is taking us down a road of obscurity -- immediately refrain from such thoughts. This Bliss is one of the most harmonious and blissful audio journeys in dance music arguably heard in the past half decade. The clear origins and destinations his music take you to and from are ever present (see Detroit, Moodymann, minimal and acid) but the true thread that seems to hermetically hold This Bliss album together is a mood of exquisite melancholy that is inherent to each track.

Artist:	EFDEMIN
Title:	Efdemin
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 010CD

This is Berlin-based Phillip Sollmann's debut full-length release as Efdemin, for Dial Records. This self-titled debut gives a summary of past, present and future tendencies. After "Bergwein" became kind of a 2006 summer anthem (high chart positions in Groove, De-Bug, Spex and also German dance charts), he won over a lot of new fans. After moving to Berlin, Efdemin soon got his DJ residency at the legendary Panoramabar, while also playing regular sets with his Pigon-mate RNDM at the Cityfox in Zürich. His remixes and tracks for other labels beside Dial (Liebe*Detail, Curle, Pokerflat, Ladomat, District of Corruption) made their way into record bags of DJs like Laurent Garnier and Steve Bug. As 2006 was already a creative and successful year including some friendly features in the dance press -- Efdemin is working to make 2007 even more successful. The ten tracks on the album vary from experimental minimalism to deep house to straight techno and go further on to after-hour-inspired loop tracks -- although they form a unique and intense unit.

Artist:	DOMINIQUE
Title:	More Love Now
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 011CD

This is the third release from Dominique, the Berlin-Kreuzberg based group, started around 1999. From the beginning, Dominique has been structured more as a loose collective than as a band, each member already an artist, writer, filmmaker and/or musician in their own right. Building on the success of their first album Speak To Me and the more or less "live" sequel The Same You, their third album More Love Now, is their most ambitious, elaborate and best offering to date. It was written and recorded over a period of two years by the band's current six members plus various guests; Thomas Goldhahn recorded and helped to arrange the strings, and if Dominique's collaborative ethos accounts for the music diversity of the album, it is Richard Davis' production that lends their combined efforts its sparkle and epic grandeur. Though still recognizably a Dominique album, this time each song is given its own distinct and complex sound, creating separate spaces for their evocative lyrics to do their work. In the mind's eye, images follow the precisely-blended lyrics and harmonies. Chimes, harmonica, chords on an acoustic guitar and a changing snare-drum sound accompany soft-spoken word and rich singing. There is even a band choir on "Air," as well as euphoric group singing on "You Know Now." Dominique's music is about contours, even when as in the mildly psychedelic "Goldchain," isolated background sounds flutter out of the arrangements like surprise visitors, migrating birds, or travellers. Throughout the album, the group insists on More Love Now, knowing all the while that it requires as much care as possible.

Artist:	STEN
Title:	The Essence
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 012CD

Lawrence aka Sten aka Peter M. Kersten presents his second full-length album for the Dial label, taking us on a deep journey from Hamburg via Berlin and Detroit City to reach the stars. Two decades of inspiration from house music and techno has brought him to The Essence. Kersten launched the Dial label in 2000 together with his flat mate and DJ friend Carsten Jost. After his Lawrence releases on Ghostly International, Cocoon, Mule Electronics, Kompakt and Sender, it is the Sten moniker which reduces Kersten's musicality to the magic moments on a minimal dancefloor. His deep and functional Detroitish minimal techno has been the DJ's choice from the first 12" to Sten's album Leaving the Frantic, released in 2004 on Dial. Kersten has toured around the world, inviting the dancing people on a deep journey into Lawrence/Sten-sound, hitting the floors in Russia, the United States, South America, all over Europe and even Japan, where he released a compilation in 2006 of his best tracks, remixes and some exclusive new tunes.

Artist:	NAUJOKS, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Christian Naujoks
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 013CD

This is Germany's Christian Naujoks' self-titled debut album for the Dial label. A composer of contemporary music, a singer/songwriter, an electronic music producer, a pop musician or maybe a conceptual sound artist -- either way you name it, you won't entirely grasp this artist. Starting off with a set of precisely-composed post-minimal pieces for piano and marimbas, flute and strings carefully recorded on analogue tape at Tobias Levin's Electric Avenue Studio, the album leads surprisingly and tenderly through a wide horizon of sonic impressions. From the indeterminate chamber music of "Two Epilogues" and the intimate vocals on the breathless revision of New Order's "Leave Me Alone," (re-titled "Off The Rose") to the subtle sound sculpturing of "Light Over The Ranges," which sounds like a neon-tinged sunrise, to the a cappella croon/Gregorian chant of "Bar 27," this release refuses to be defined, determined, or dissected. Despite all the disparity of this release, everything is in its right place, like the broken shards that assemble to create a cathedral's stained-glass window. Other surprises include a simply unheard-of 12-tone R'n'B piece "Bloom," in which Webern, Can and Prince seem to collide to form a blutopian party, as well as a concluding, fuzzed-out, half-coherent tribute to Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." Can't wait for the future? Join the mean-time radio hour with your host Christian Naujoks. Contemplative, serious meditations that give your head room to breathe while ascending into pure bliss consciousness.

Artist:	NAUJOKS, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Christian Naujoks
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 013LP

LP version. This is Germany's Christian Naujoks' self-titled debut album for the Dial label. A composer of contemporary music, a singer/songwriter, an electronic music producer, a pop musician or maybe a conceptual sound artist -- either way you name it, you won't entirely grasp this artist. Starting off with a set of precisely-composed post-minimal pieces for piano and marimbas, flute and strings carefully recorded on analogue tape at Tobias Levin's Electric Avenue Studio, the album leads surprisingly and tenderly through a wide horizon of sonic impressions. From the indeterminate chamber music of "Two Epilogues" and the intimate vocals on the breathless revision of New Order's "Leave Me Alone," (re-titled "Off The Rose") to the subtle sound sculpturing of "Light Over The Ranges," which sounds like a neon-tinged sunrise, to the a cappella croon/Gregorian chant of "Bar 27," this release refuses to be defined, determined, or dissected. Despite all the disparity of this release, everything is in its right place, like the broken shards that assemble to create a cathedral's stained-glass window. Other surprises include a simply unheard-of 12-tone R'n'B piece "Bloom," in which Webern, Can and Prince seem to collide to form a blutopian party, as well as a concluding, fuzzed-out, half-coherent tribute to Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." Can't wait for the future? Join the mean-time radio hour with your host Christian Naujoks. Contemplative, serious meditations that give your head room to breathe while ascending into pure bliss consciousness.

Artist:	PHANTOM/GHOST
Title:	Thrown Out Of Drama School
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 014CD

This is the fourth full-length by Germany's Thies Mynther and Dirk von Lowtzow aka Phantom/Ghost. On Thrown Out Of Drama School, the duo travel light through a cheerfully upbeat world full of amicable malcontents, dallying dream-dancers and carefree loafers. Yet despite this terrestrial cast and the cutback instrumentation of the songs -- (prepared) piano and vocals -- Thrown Out Of Drama School is an exceedingly festive affair, real red-letter day music. Their common passion for the made-up, the thrown-together and the weird and wonderful has paved the way for Phantom/Ghost for the last ten years, and now they have arrived at a point where a dalliance with artificiality, mannerisms, exalted quotations and theatrical poses can be observed in its purest form: on the stage, in drama school, behind and in front of the velvet curtain. Even though Thrown Out Of Drama School is no "real" high-school musical, it loosely follows the concept of a musical -- a small and fantastical concert with nine compositions, albeit with a few rough edges. Even before the curtain rises, a timid waltz resounds. The introduction to "The Charge Of A Light Brigade" is a squint copy of an English march, with all the military rigour removed. "Thrown Out Of Drama School" is uptempo and bawdy -- a frolicsome ode to the art of willful dallying. Mynther's piano is caught up in close complicity with the vocals; at times as demonstratively docile and innocent as a "do-re-mi" finger exercise, only to wander off in the next moment, making a complete farce of its function as an accompanying instrument. Alongside these made-for-the-stage musical numbers, there are also songs that work on a visual level and conjure up film-like narratives. They transport the listener to far-flung regions, to Morocco, Miami, or even further, to surreal dream-worlds. One example is the musical scoring of the literary text "The Process" (after Brion Gysin) that tells of a hallucinatory trip across the Sahara. Sometimes the piano shimmers dully from the background, and then it resembles a laryngitic string ensemble, rasping and vibrating. This duet with the Berlin artist Michaela Meise (who also sings on several other songs) perfects the desert magic. Thrown Out Of Drama School pushes us into a theatre of the absurd, where you aren't sure if you're a member of the audience, or one of the players. Applause, the curtain falls.

Artist:	PHANTOM/GHOST
Title:	Thrown Out Of Drama School
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 014LP

LP version. This is the fourth full-length by Germany's Thies Mynther and Dirk von Lowtzow aka Phantom/Ghost. On Thrown Out Of Drama School, the duo travel light through a cheerfully upbeat world full of amicable malcontents, dallying dream-dancers and carefree loafers. Yet despite this terrestrial cast and the cutback instrumentation of the songs -- (prepared) piano and vocals -- Thrown Out Of Drama School is an exceedingly festive affair, real red-letter day music. Their common passion for the made-up, the thrown-together and the weird and wonderful has paved the way for Phantom/Ghost for the last ten years, and now they have arrived at a point where a dalliance with artificiality, mannerisms, exalted quotations and theatrical poses can be observed in its purest form: on the stage, in drama school, behind and in front of the velvet curtain. Even though Thrown Out Of Drama School is no "real" high-school musical, it loosely follows the concept of a musical -- a small and fantastical concert with nine compositions, albeit with a few rough edges. Even before the curtain rises, a timid waltz resounds. The introduction to "The Charge Of A Light Brigade" is a squint copy of an English march, with all the military rigour removed. "Thrown Out Of Drama School" is uptempo and bawdy -- a frolicsome ode to the art of willful dallying. Mynther's piano is caught up in close complicity with the vocals; at times as demonstratively docile and innocent as a "do-re-mi" finger exercise, only to wander off in the next moment, making a complete farce of its function as an accompanying instrument. Alongside these made-for-the-stage musical numbers, there are also songs that work on a visual level and conjure up film-like narratives. They transport the listener to far-flung regions, to Morocco, Miami, or even further, to surreal dream-worlds. One example is the musical scoring of the literary text "The Process" (after Brion Gysin) that tells of a hallucinatory trip across the Sahara. Sometimes the piano shimmers dully from the background, and then it resembles a laryngitic string ensemble, rasping and vibrating. This duet with the Berlin artist Michaela Meise (who also sings on several other songs) perfects the desert magic. Thrown Out Of Drama School pushes us into a theatre of the absurd, where you aren't sure if you're a member of the audience, or one of the players. Applause, the curtain falls.

Artist:	PAWEL
Title:	Pawel
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 015CD

Almost 10 years after Paul Kominek aka Turner co-founded the Dial label, he now releases his long-awaited first album as Pawel. This debut comes out covered with silver typography on a white sleeve -- minimal and glittering -- just like Pawel's music. After first touching the techno music scene in Detroit-influenced Frankfurt, he moved to the melancholic, deep city of Hamburg. From here, Pawel started several trips around the world -- mainly South America and Asia. All of these locations melt together into the typical sound of Pawel. Tracks such as "Coke" and "Crillon" are deeply inspired by almost two decades of Detroit's Planet E-era, followed by new artists like Patrice Scott and Omar S. The Warp-alike "Muscles" features a touch of Plaid's elegance, but subtle deepness connects it to other lowlights like "Alvin" and "Wasting My Time." Pawel is sweet, lovely and reinvented.

Artist:	PAWEL
Title:	Pawel
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 015LP

2LP version. Almost 10 years after Paul Kominek aka Turner co-founded the Dial label, he now releases his long-awaited first album as Pawel. This debut comes out covered with silver typography on a white sleeve -- minimal and glittering -- just like Pawel's music. After first touching the techno music scene in Detroit-influenced Frankfurt, he moved to the melancholic, deep city of Hamburg. From here, Pawel started several trips around the world -- mainly South America and Asia. All of these locations melt together into the typical sound of Pawel. Tracks such as "Coke" and "Crillon" are deeply inspired by almost two decades of Detroit's Planet E-era, followed by new artists like Patrice Scott and Omar S. Tracklist: A1. Panamerican, A2. Alvin; B1. Coke, B2. Crillon; C1. Laredo, C2. Kramnik; D1. Dawn

Artist:	EFDEMIN
Title:	Kleine Wirrniss EP
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 018EP

"After the ultra deep Dial10, Efdemin aka Phillip Sollmann is back on Dial-rec. The tracks, which are mostly arranged live, have this typical exciting flow again... delicious sounds to be discovered. The logo side starts very low with a loop finding splitter of sound to get up slowly into a minimalistic deep tech track, a 'Post Script Blues' for the shiny floor. 'Colonia' is a surprisingly straight shuffle tune built in Vienna to be loved in Cologne and the world. With 'Isobel,' Efdemin creates a storytelling ambient track so nice and deep as if the spirit of Philip Glass and Brian Eno has fused with the heart of the young composer called Phillip Sollmann."

Artist:	PAWEL
Title:	Grab It
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 020EP

"Pawel Kominek also known as Turner, plays the guitar for his new album out on Ladomat next year. The deep and melancholic Turner pieces will fit one of the best indietronic longplayer so far. But the guitar player needs club music to survive, we all know that. So Pawel constructs his second EP on Dial (Watch Dial - Pawel - Into Pieces). The main track 'Grab it' is a funky house stomper reminding of some freaks outta UK. Firstly released on this year's politronics compilation, vocals by Turner himself, this is what we call an earworm. Three offbeat tracks will fit the next two step party and revolute the hole UK scene. No, the tracks are just too sweet to sweat."

Artist:	KARIMANI, DENIS
Title:	War es Nicht
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 022EP

"Denis Karimani should be well known to the sound searching raver for a long time. He already released a few 12"s on Areal, Trapez, Dekathlon etc. Under his alter ego 'Remute', and his live gigs are unforgettable. Playing in his techno boy groups Error Error and Einmusik the more poptrancy way, he firstly appears under his real name Denis Karimani on Dial records, the Hamburg/Berlin based label of Carsten Jost & Lawrence. The title track 'War es Nicht' starts with an ultra deep melody loop, slowly rising to an unbelievable explosion of euphory. On the b-side Denis Karimani speaks the same colourful language of techno music from the beyond, deep and kicking."

Artist:	PANTHA DU PRINCE
Title:	Butterfly Girl
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 023EP

"'Butterfly Girl' is one of the brightest shining jewels on Pantha du Prince's album Diamond Daze (Dial 2004). As remixers he invites his friends Efdemin and Sten aka Lawrence. Efdemin makes classical minimal grooving, with soulful sounds that make it deep on the floor. With Stens remix the 'Butterfly Girl' enters the Detroit-linked pumping zone related to his releases on Sender and Dial and on the latest Cocoon compilation as well. A bonus version of Pantha du Prince himself analyzes the basic ingredients of the original track and follows his genius sound research as Gluhen 4 (Dial CD in 2002)."

Artist:	EFDEMIN
Title:	Bruxelles
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 024EP

"After some live concerts and DJ gigs alongside the Vienna and Swiss minimal scene and a remix for labelmate Pantha du Prince, efdemin is back with a new masterpiece. Since he is studying computer music, efdemin aka Phillip Sollmann got deeper into minimal music, from John Cage to La Monte Young. Also filled with inspiration of the post-Hawtin school, his definition of techno speaks a unique language. If you watch his own history you can see a proper change from Detroitish deep house to that special minimal sound, but you will feel the intense way efdemin falls in love with the inner sound."

Artist:	DOMINIQUE
Title:	Speak to Me
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 025EP

aka: The Lost Tracks Pt. 3. Eight track EP. "'After hours on the dancefloor, he said' ... Dominique's words and music emerge from encounters with the quiet such as: a male who finds it a bit hard to express his feelings ('Speak to Me'), secret admiration of a generous elderly and slightly hung over grande dame ('Sun Goddess'), being touched as you like to be ('Massage'), 'appreciation' of a spacious apartment that you can't afford ('Great Space'), and a magazine-absorbed stranger on the u-bahn ('Cruising Queen')."

Artist:	NIKE.BORDOM
Title:	Music For Non-Existing Dancefloors
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 027EP

"Back in the days Annette Lehmann run Hamburg's best Recordshop 'Reis', selling minimal techno and very special and hard to find issues. She fell in love with minimal electronic music listening to the first releases on Sähkö. This is maybe one of her greatest influences producing music or DJing under her alter ego Nike.Bordom (Nike after the Greek goddess). Her debut single Music For Non-Existing Dance Floors starts with a conceptual spoken word intro and stops with a midi ano epos. The four dance pieces have a unique cold warmth, deepness within. Nike.Bordom's tracks make a very special dance floor exist -- at least in or mind, when we close our eyes and keep on dancing all night."

Artist:	STEN
Title:	Take Me to the Fridge
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 028EP

"Sten is back after his releases on Sender and Dial, a few remixes for Pokerflat's Lihmacon, DK7, Pantha du Prince and some tracks taking part on compilations of Tobias Thomas, André Galuzzi and soon Josh Wink. Title track 'Take Me to the Fridge' combines classical nonsense Chicago vocals with an extra euphoric basskicking Arrangement. Quite minimal starts the B1 track, ending in a storytelling scape piece, connected to Sten's alter ego Lawrence. With a deep minimal piece this club 12" never ends."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Bergwein
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 030EP

"With the great Efdemin track from the Groove 100 compilation CD mixed by Lawrence." Long before releasing Efdemin's 'Bergwein' it seemed to be a little underground hit, featured on the groove 100 CD mixed by Lawrence and a part of the sets faves of DJs like Shinedoe, Sascha Funke, Carsten Jost and many more. A piece of minimal primetime deepness, filled with Detroit strings and the most hypnotic bassline ever. Lawrence's unserious takeout shows his unstraight infantile side -- inspired by bell'n'bass boosting Rephlex madness. Jubilee dial 30 ends up with a superlow Nico cover-version taken from the new neu CD by Michaela Meise and Sergej Jensen."

Artist:	LAWRENCE
Title:	Deep Summer Hole
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 031EP

"Lawrence is back from joining the deep summerhole. The result is a exclusive deep dancer -- for fans of the Modern Love sound, but in a typical deep Lawrence style. 'Off The Line' has been formally featured on de-bug magazine's 100th issue CD, now on vinyl in a very special long version. 'Deep Summer Hole' -- surely a step deeper -- organ chords flirting with Kerry Chandler -- but watch the bassline -- this is serious! Final track of this brilliant all-time EP is the disturbing 'Neither.'"

Artist:	PAWEL
Title:	Ceramics
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 032EP

"After his sad and beautiful Turner album Slow Abuse (Ladomat 2005) Paul Kominek aka Pawel is on a journey into deep dance again! Influences are the Amsterdam Detrotish scene (Intacto, Delsin, Rushhour) and all the real Motorcity People -- from the first generation to Vince Watson's Detroit trance and the Beatdown of Omar-S. But one main Influence is Pawel himself -- the sounddesigner, DJ and critical dancer. 'The Aesthetics of Resistence' is the essence of both dancefloor sides: the rising warm-up piece 'Ceramics' on the one hand, a smashing primetime hit 'The Aesthetics of Resistence' on the other. This will move the clubs flavoured from new Detroitish to deeply rooted."

Artist:	PIGON
Title:	Little Albio Street
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 033EP

"Pigon is Phillip Sollmann and Oliver Kargl. Phillip Sollmann is also known as Efdemin. He studied electro acoustic recording in Vienna where he met art student Oliver Kargl, also known as DJ Rndm. Together they are involved in music production and performance, and the development of the 'Rocker' software drum machine. Most of Pigon's tracks are done live with simple edits of endless sessions with their self programmed 'Rocker' software. Influenced by Detroit techno, Pigon is always looking for the perfect simple loop with subtle variations to the single instruments. Little Albio Street (done in Vienna and Berlin) is the first release on Dial Rec. after their debut on Just recordings this year and goes deeper into the marshes of techno -- focusing on classical deepness compared with rhythmical shifting patterns. Watch out for more on Dial and Just."

Artist:	STEN
Title:	Undercover
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 036EP

Sten aka Lawrence is back with a pure view of sound. Chordish, deep and always a fine link to Detroit, these tracks are built to dance. "Undercover" comes up with a simple but heavy bassline, a Sten-ish primetime cut for the masses. Thank god for the Lawrence version! This is the real shit -- a deep bleepy tune for all you house music lovers. With a fine mixture of Lawrence's melosound and the uplifting Sten peaks, B2 moves the softly driven techno crowd. The cover artwork shows another image of the "Architecture Series," a photograph taken by the Berlin artist, Annette Kelm.

Artist:	PIGON
Title:	Promises
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 039EP

The third release by the Berlin-based duo Pigon (aka Efdemin & Rndm) takes a ride into deep house-flavored techno. Focusing on slow-evolving themes and hypnotic, stripped-down rhythms with slight changes, showing a very minimal approach to the music. Their influences range from warm, lush, Transmat-like techno soundscapes via the new deep-down Detroit movement. "Promises" was inspired by Louderbach's "Season 6," originally released on Enemy Love and contains samples from that track. Samples used with kind permission.

Artist:	STEN
Title:	Way To The Stars
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 041EP

Far is the way to the stars. Where Sun Ra started and Carl Craig continued, Sten aka Lawrence finds the way again. Leaving Hamburg travelling via Detroit City, you need just 7 minutes to reach the Universe. "Way To The Stars" is Sten's tribute to Motorcity's techno-soul, a hymn covered by 808 beats and holy strings, a hypnotic bass line between. "More Stash," a Detroitish house monster and "The Gate," a deeply broken tool, make this 12" an appetizer of things to come.

Artist:	PANTHA DU PRINCE
Title:	Behind The Stars
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 045EP

Hendrik Weber aka Pantha Du Prince is back with another paralyzing trip into the science of sound -- a melange of harmonic elements caught in weird processes, swaying you into hypnotic spheres. This is epic techno arranged with crystal-clear tones on top of pumping, deep bass. Pantha Du Prince paints with beats and sounds and creates shimmering moments of joy that set the imagination free and moves the feet. This 12" reaches up to far behind the stars.

Artist:	ROBERTS, JOHN
Title:	Mirror
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 046EP

Inspired by '80s Chicago ghetto-house and European house and techno, John Roberts creates music that is meticulous and loose, evocative and innovative. With the drive to recreate the energy and experimentation of the mix tapes and records from his past, John began working with analog synthesizers, antiquated sequencing software, and reel-to-reel tape recorders at The Art Institute of Chicago. Now based in Berlin, he spends most of his time continuing to perfect the production of his rhythmically challenging, melancholic tracks.

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Artist:	GLUHEN 4
Title:	Das Schweigen Der Sirenen
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 003CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	Hamburger Berg
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 013EP

Artist:	POLZIN, ALEXANDER
Title:	Get Used To It
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 014EP

Artist:	VA
Title:	The Lost Tracks
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 016EP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Lawrence & Friends - Winter Green
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 021EP

Artist:	JAKOENIGJA
Title:	Ebba
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DIAL 026LP

Artist:	JOST, CARSTEN
Title:	Atlantis I & II
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 035EP

Artist:	VA
Title:	You Are My Mate
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	2x12"
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 040EP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Pyramid Drift
Label:	DIAL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	DIAL 044EP