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:	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.

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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