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Artist:
TO ROCOCO ROT
Title:
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
KY 001CD
"In 1996 Robert and Ronald Lippok (also member of Tarwater) and Stefan Schneider (also bassplayer of Kreidler) founded just for a one and off session and recording the project To Rococo Rot. It was no coincidence that To Rococo Rot´s first release was on vinyl. During the self-titled exhibition at Berlin-Mitte´s Weißer Elefant gallery, Robert Lippok used three record players that were rotated by electric drills -- computer-driven, of course. Casually danceable, practical and objective electronic dub, interspersed with house elements. To Rococo Rot was the first and most influential German so-called postrock band."
Artist:
TARWATER
Title:
Rabbit Moon
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
KY 005CD
1997 album of self-generated remixes, with different track listing than the US variant release
Rabbit Moon Revisited
that came out on Capstack Records in early '98. Beautifully looping structures & atmosphere from the To Rococo Rot-associated duo of Ronald Lippok (drums, vocals, electronics) & Bernd Jestram (guitar, bass, programming).
Artist:
SCHWERMUT FOREST
Title:
Sort Of
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
KY 017CD
2nd album by this German group with associations to the Kollaps/Hausmusik/Payola scene. "Schwermut Forest are tired of siley being associated with 'introverted strangeness'. The minimalisitc attitude which has lent the band such a fine name, has been put to the files. Now, Schwermut Forest build up a sound which could fit into any radio format. Turn on the car hifi, you're on the way from Munich to Berlin, it snows, and there it is: a 3 minute version of Workshop's best tracks. File under: post-rock."
Artist:
LAUB
Title:
Unter Anderen Bedingungen Als Liebe
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
KY 019CD
"Laub's 2nd longplayer on Kitty-Yo. With the first CD
Kopflastig
, Laub has been compared to a.o. Lamb, Quarks and Björk, and at the same time to the very German 'Berlin 80's'. The remix 12" in '98 then added new influences: drum'n bass style, Laub went dancefloor. Now Laub have found a way to balance on the thin line in between. No distortion on the vocals any longer, harmonies and beats can be found in the... songs (no tracks). One can see a similar evolution to their labelmates Tarwater: the sinister sound of the music does no longer exclude the overwhelming pop-appeal. For this record, the band first took their new drummer Sebastian (also part of Kante) in. DJ Bleed added his voice on answering machine and Stefan Betke aka Pole took an advisory part on the production. Laub are amongst the frontriders of the 'new German wave' coming up once again these days. File under: Electronic Listening/ Trip Hop." Limited stock.
Artist:
KANTE
Title:
Zweilicht
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.50
Catalog #:
KY 034CD
"Kante now present a studio album with truly timeless quality. Accompanied by a 14-person string orchestra and horns, Kante enrich the classical band set-up by adding computer and electronics and open a unviersal field that goes from blues, African music, jazz and modern classic up to very minimal electronic.
Zweilicht"
oversteps the boundaries of post- and indierock by far. Looking for references you could think of Marc Hollis/Talk Talk, Robert Wyatt, Alice Coltrane, Bob Dylan or Steve Reich."
Artist:
KANTE
Title:
Zweilicht
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
KY 034LP
Double LP version. "Kante now present a studio album with truly timeless quality. Accompanied by a 14-person string orchestra and horns, Kante enrich the classical band set-up by adding computer and electronics and open a unviersal field that goes from blues, African music, jazz and modern classic up to very minimal electronic.
Zweilicht"
oversteps the boundaries of post- and indierock by far. Looking for references you could think of Marc Hollis/Talk Talk, Robert Wyatt, Alice Coltrane, Bob Dylan or Steve Reich."
Artist:
PEACHES
Title:
Set It Off
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$6.50
Catalog #:
KY 051CD
"Here comes the very first single from Peaches, yes that's right! The Lovertits EP, which was vinyl-only, and then the duet Red Leather with Gonzales, could never really be counted as HER singles. So why do a single NOW? Because audience and artists wouldn't stop asking about her, wanting to hear from her, work with her... And so comes, that on this single some of the finest remixers around are being featured. Starting off with Tobi Neumann, who was basically responsible for Chicks On Speed's DJ Charts No.1 hit 'Kaltes Klares Wasser', then followed by DJ Assault, famous (or infamous?) boss of the growing worldwide miami bass scene, and then everybody's darling: 21 year old Kid 606, who previously remixed for a.o. Depeche Mode, Super Furry Animals, Foetus and Ruby."
Artist:
SAVVY, TAYLOR
Title:
Ladies & Gentleman
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.50
Catalog #:
KY 056CD
"First album by a young and very promising artist, first album for Kitty-Yo in a new and wonderful year! What a great start! Welcome Taylor Savvy, Ladies and Gentlemen! Taylor Savvy is a world traveller per excellence, moved from Canada to Berlin just as his fellow expatriates Peaches and Gonzales and spent much of his inspirational time in Indonesia, Hungary and in the US. While studying classical bass and bonebreakingly disciplining himself to virtuousity, he discovered his love for the great musical heritage our ancestors have given us in blues and soul music. And now presents his own interpretation and part in this history. Warm and tender, joyful and funky. Every song an anthem for love and celebration."
Artist:
GONZALES
Title:
Presidential Suite
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.50
Catalog #:
KY 058CD
"Chilly Gonzales proudly presents his third album, the Baroque meets Broadway
Presidential Suite
. His first album on Kitty-Yo
Gonzales Uber Alles
was one of the most critically acclaimed album releases of 2000 and the second one
The Entertainist
brought him the respect of the hip hop people. Collaborations and tours with Peaches gave them together the (in)famous name of Bonnie & Clyde of Prankster Rap for a while. When we last heard from Gonzo, he was running for the presidency of the Berlin underground... This, then, is the victory party, an acceptance speech packed with Groucho-esque raps. There are self-help anthems, sarcastic love song, and odes to the popularity contest. Of course, the melodies are sad and catchy, most notably on three instrumentals reminiscent of 'Gonzales Uber Alles'. Collaborators on
Presidential Suite
include (again) Peaches, on the soul-pop duet 'The Joy of Thinking', Taylor Savvy and Max Turner, and Austrian crooner Louie Austen."
Artist:
TARWATER
Title:
Dwellers On The Threshold
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
KY 065LP
LP version. Same pressing as licensed to Mute for the UK/USA, but slightly cheaper.
Artist:
TARWATER
Title:
Animals, Suns & Atoms
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
KY 029LP
LP version.
Artist:
OHARA, RAZ
Title:
The Last Legend
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
KY 1042CD
This is a midprice reissue of Raz Ohara's (aka
Patrick Rasmussen
) 2001 second album,
The Last Legend
. Raz Ohara has often been described as coming across as a mixture of
Prince
and
Nick Drake
. Raz Ohara's music is a funky parade of confidently groovy numbers that soars through the air, propelled forward by hip hop beats, electronic ambience, and impeccable production... kind of like a European
Beck
. It's all there, classic pop hooks, R&B balladry, downtempo sensuality, reggae spiciness, hip hop flow, dance music energy and indie cleverness. This album was produced quietly for 6 months in
Markus Waibel
's Berlin studio. Almost all tracks are pure vocal and guitar music, with hidden samples and overdubs here and there -- timeless, minimal acoustic songs. Revealing. Emotional. Simple and close. You also can find adaptations of
Michael Jackson
's "Liberian Girl" and
Fugees
' "Ready Or Not" on this album. Ace Krautpop!
Artist:
RECHENZENTRUM
Title:
The John Peel Session
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
KY 1047CD
This is the 2005 repress of Berlin electronic audio/video crew Rechenzentrum's 2001 album
The John Peel Session
originally released by Kitty-Yo, their second full length. As announced many previous times this one features their BBC/John Peel Session, on air only some months before the album was released. Enhanced with studio tracks, this made the record into a true full length release. Looking back with endless activities, the debut release on Kitty-Yo and numerous short releases, it becomes clear that Rechenzentrum gained attention because of their immense diversity and their stressed importance on the visual as integral components of their finished work. Releases on such labels as Kitty-Yo and Shitkatapult only cemented their rep as an across-the-platform electro act. For the studio recordings on this record, Rechenzentrum have been joined by
Christian Conrad
, film-music composer and sound designer who helped them to create filmic music of varied motions and emotions without repeating clichés. After working with wonderful studio musicians, cellists and pianists, the work elaborated into a controlled contradiction between longed-for perfection and well-chosen roughness. For the Peel Session, Rechenzentrum tried to aurally re-create the images that accompany them on tour (shown at live gigs on video and added to some parts of this enhanced CD) through their own force, with their own meanings. Inspired and melancholic, the artists attempted to create modern feelings that haven't been named yet. As simple as it might sound, this is "electronic music" at its best.
Artist:
RECHENZENTRUM
Title:
The John Peel Session
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$16.50
Catalog #:
KY 1047LP
Double LP version.
Artist:
RHYTHM KING AND HER FRIENDS
Title:
I Am Disco
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
KY 4082CD
"The first album of Rhythm King And Her Friends.. Linda Wölfel, Pauline Boudry und Sara John founded the band in 2000. They developed their own special music style and complex texts, which shows that they pay a lot of attention on the traps and contradictions of society. Queer electronica, marvelous pop melodies with corners and edges, combine sampled rhythms and a playful use of different instruments and singing (in several languages, English, French and Bulgarian). Rhythm King and her Friends have something else in their mind. Instruments such as samplers, drumcomputers, guitar, bass and xylophone are used, in order to make music, embodied in the field of queer and gender politics. 'I know I need some vacation from my boyish closet'. Meanings are transported by the means of quotations, an appropriate performance and a free, but stylish handling of popsong-structures. The attitude and general atmosphere of Rhythm King and her Friends reminds one of casual but non-conformist bands like Liliput, The Slits, Au Pair, Peaches and Stereo Total. With Le Tigre, they share the creativity that is fused within queer and gender discourse. With Luscious Jackson they share the easiness of working with different styles."
Artist:
RHYTHM KING AND HER FRIENDS
Title:
I Am Disco
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$16.50
Catalog #:
KY 4082LP
Double LP version.
Artist:
TENOR, JIMI
Title:
Beyond the Stars
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
KY 4084CD
"Jimi Tenor´s first Album release on Kitty-Yo
Higher Planes
(KY03066CD/LP+7") has already been perceived as Genre spanning masterpiece. Together with the Finnish Big Band Umo, Jimi Tenor had send us on a trip to the past, Jazz, Psychedelic, Rock and Funk had been purified for the present and the future.
Beyond the Stars
is smoother, but still stimulating for comparisons, Zappa, Soundtracks of the 70ies, Softpornos, Spike Jones, Sun Ra and many more. But it is less a tribute to the past, more a personal evaluation of significant sounds, that were combined to a homogene, soulful and happy album Jimi was inspired by the singing of birds, little waves of finish lakes and especially by the singing and drumming of the Barcelona Buddhist community that is based next to Jimi´ s apartment. and probably by one or two glasses of Caxa. Percusion has taken over an important role. For the recordings of
Beyond the Stars
Jimi went to the studios together with the luminaries of Afrobeat Rhythm Taxi in Berlin. On board was Nicholas Addo Nettey, who had performed with such legends as Fela Kuti und Ogene Kologbo (Fela's Guitarist). Rhythm Taxi are the spearhead of the Berlin Afrobeat and Reggea scene. Previously also know as Kantata, Saraba, Roots Anabo, Dzen Bii with a history of performances with Fela Kuti, Ras Donovan and George Darko the Star of the so called Burger Highlife. They all play in other formations such as Vitamin x , Afrika Mma or Famaja. Again Chris Dawkins is setting directions with his Wah Wah Guitar, and Jay Kortehisto and Jukka Eskola are taking care one more time of the brass and big band parts. And of course Nicole Willis joins for some sweet background vocal parts. At the end you start comparing again, because there is so much happening beyond the stars, that you cannot explain otherwise, and you cannot deny the cosmic references to Sun Ra. Jimi revitalized a way of arranging an producing formally known from big band arrangements. It sound as fresh as if time has stood still and you wish it did."
Artist:
TENOR, JIMI
Title:
Beyond the Stars
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$16.50
Catalog #:
KY 4084LP
Double LP version.
Artist:
SEX IN DALLAS
Title:
Around The War
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
KY 4086CD
"Sex In Dallas (Adrienne Walter, Jean Marc & Mohini Gesiweiller) are French born electro slackers, they have replaced guitars by samples, a 4 track recorder by a laptop, and instead of staying in bed all day, they stay up all day and night to hang out in bars and clubs not to miss any input. The last years they have sucked up a lot of input, that is now outpouring on their longplayer
Around War
. It could be the soundtrack of your life. Founded 2003 in Paris and driven by the idea to make a different sound compared to Daft Punk, Air, Phoenix and typical french house music that made french electronic music so popular. Following their highly recommend (John Peel, Laurent Garnier, Trevor Jackson, Andrew Weatherall, Miss Kittin & Mark Moore just to name a few) 12"'s 'Everybody Deserves To Be Fucked' (KY04092MS) and 'Berlin Rocks 1 +2' (KY04083+85MS) with Remixes by The Hacker, French Fragz, Tomcat in Tokyo, Stewart Walker, The Architect, Sammy Dee, Whignomy Brothers here is the debut full length album. It creates an unexpected darkness, but not frightening rather embracing like a Nick Drake song. Adrienne, Jean Marc, and Mohini combine Punk, House, Hip Hop, Detroit Techno and turn it into a dark but groovy electronic longplayer. They were and are Influenced by New Order, Aphex Twin, Grandmaster Flash, Sex Pistols, Juan Atkins, John Carpenter, Giorgio Moroder, Outkast."
Artist:
SEX IN DALLAS
Title:
Around The War
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$16.50
Catalog #:
KY 4086LP
Double LP version.
Artist:
VA
Title:
Team Kitty-Yo
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
2CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
KY 4093CD
"Kitty Yo's 10th birthday compilation -- 2 x CD for the price of one! Background: 10 long years are one good reason to celebrate. Time to look ahead and think of what we've done so far. Team Kitty-Yo, a crowd of people who has achieved to ever evolve and reconsider itself, to establish new artist and make them longterm friends. Part one of the
Team Kitty-Yo
Double CD is unique statement and collection of yet unreleased material by new and well known artist of Kitty-Yo. It's a thrilling outlook on the near future of the label. Exclusive tracks by Tarwater, Rechenzentrum, Raz Ohara, Taylor Savvy, Sex In Dallas, Rhythmking And Her Friends and Maximilian Hecker gather with new input by Kitty-Yo freshmen Jay Haze, Richard Davis und Spyritual to create am amazing experience for your ears. Jay Haze, Richard Davis und Spyritual will release their new records on Kitty-Yo throughout the first half of 2005. Furthermore let's get excited about a new astonishing track from the new Maximilian Hecker album
Lady Sleep
. Part two of
Team Kitty-Yo
is a free bonus CD to thank those who have supported the label the last decade. It's full of unreleased, vinyl only and simply forgotten tracks from various artist and reviews the variety and timeless sounds of Kitty-Yo. It features Tarwater, Peaches & Gonzales, Kante, Louie Austen, Rhythmking And Her Friends, Sex In Dallas, Torococo Rot, Raz Ohara, Rechenzentrum und Preed. So grasp this beauty and turn it up!"
Artist:
VA
Title:
Team Kitty-Yo
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$16.50
Catalog #:
KY 4093LP
Double LP version.
Artist:
HAZE, JAY
Title:
Love For a Strange World
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
KY 5095CD
This is the first vocal album by Philly-based techno-minimalist and producer Jay Haze (aka
The Architect
,
The Dub Surgeon
).
Love For a Strange World
contains some non club-oriented heavy and dark tracks melded with vocals by
De:xter
. Haze finds himself at a musical crossroads between reduction in the vein of
Villalobos
,
Wruhme
and
Richie Hawtin
, and the digital funk of sympathetically insane buddies like
Vogel
or
Lidell
. The cut "Can't Feel Anything" celebrates Jay's mastery in the art of reduction and displays with force how to build a powerful track without having a punchy kick drum ruining your speakers. For Haze, this release is a personal statement in an electronic music format, which conveys in its atmospheric tracks, the rotting condition of our world and the sickness of mankind.
Artist:
HAZE, JAY
Title:
Love For a Strange World
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
3LP
Price:
$18.50
Catalog #:
KY 5095LP
Triple vinyl LP.
Artist:
HECKER, MAXIMILIAN
Title:
Lady Sleep
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
KY 5096CD
"Maximilian Hecker's first album
Infinite Love Songs
came out 2001 and gained the yet 23 years old from Berlin a huge fanbase. Great commendation by international the press followed:
'one of the most ravishing, honest, tear drenched pop-albums of the year.'
(Musikexpress)
'...the future of pop. Some luck you might never achieve but nevertheless see sparkling through for three minutes.
(Taz) Maximilian Hecker kept all promises he gave on
Infinite Love Songs.
Unlike his statement 'There's No Place To Hide' on the first record, 'Rose' appears to be a perfect place fulfilled with beauty. However, to the end of it both angry and epic guitar outbursts together with clusters of a mechanical piano tear open the big, bad wound, a mirror to the narcissicst in us all. (Spex) Just like the first two records it's the big elegiac moment that the 27 year old Maximilian Hecker hands to us. However
Lady Sleep
is way more concentrated, certain and self-confident than the past releases. The longing doesn't tear Hecker down anymore, it turns out to be some sort of heartbreaking friendship. It's ever present and sheltering on his quest for a moment that dissolves the burden off our existence and finally divides the body from the ghost.
Lady Sleep
has been produced with Guy Sternberg at Lowswing Studios, Berlin and with it's instrumentation it clearly sets focus on
Infinite Love Songs
. Less abundant, more space to the essential.
'The central topic of the album is the longing for a disembodied state, symbolized by the longing for symbiosis, love, death, anaesthesia, bliss and lunacy.'
(Maximilian Hecker) Hecker's third longplayer isn't any less emotional than
Infinite Love Songs
or
Rose
, just simply more relaxed and clasped by retention. It presents eleven puristic songs which pour a comforting clarity and pleasant embrace. Intimacy on a higher level."
Artist:
HECKER, MAXIMILIAN
Title:
Lady Sleep
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$16.50
Catalog #:
KY 5096LP
Double LP version.
Artist:
RHYTHM KING AND HER FRIENDS
Title:
I Am Disco Remixed
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$8.50
Catalog #:
KY 5097EP
Remixes by ADA and MIA. "After the remixes of 'Get Paid' by Ladytron, Robots In Disguise/ I Am X and Sugar (Buffalo Daughter) have already given a great impulse on the dancefloors of the clubs, we finally provide you with the blinding title track of the album
I Am Disco
. Still all remixes of the album are strictly female biz and so we are proud and happy to present remixers from the top of our wishlist. ADA from Areal Records whose debut album
Blondie
(www.areal-records.de) was one of the consensus-albums of the year 2004 turns the original into an oscillating, moving sound landscape. She lets snares dance nice and hectically before the sounds merge together and make the dancefloor move. M.I.A. runs the label 'Substatic' together with Falko Brocksieper. Besides that she is also DJ and producer and her album
Schwarzweiss
appeared in all the playlists of 2004. She chases the original until it starts to rave and hides it before it finally faces the ultimate ravesignal. Rhythm King and Her Friends themselves say: let's go 'Discontent' and dress 'I Am Disco' into some nervous electronica with a shot of acid.
Artist:
DAVIS, RICHARD
Title:
Details
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
KY 5098CD
Berlin-based Englishman Richard Davis' highly-anticipated third full-length release. Davis' second album
Safety
(Punkt) was a critically-lauded masterpiece of house music which managed to elegantly create a blueprint for unifying club music specially crafted for home-listening. Remixed by artists such as Swayzak, The Amalgamation of Soundz, and Further, Davis has built himself a reputation as a complex arranger and skilled vocalist, fusing pop elements with deep soul, low groove and electronic glitch with classic song structures to create vibrant house records of seamless perfection. Swayzak invited him as guest singer for their 2004 album
Loops from the Bergerie
and released the Richard Davis 4-track EP
Bring Me Closer
on their own label, 240 Volt -- four tracks with unique vocals, outstanding funky basslines and melodies to melt the glaciers. That same year, Davis was affiliated with software company Native Instruments as a sound-designer. As a result,
Details
is spotless in its sound-editing and dancefloor flow.
Artist:
DAVIS, RICHARD
Title:
Details
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$16.50
Catalog #:
KY 5098LP
Double LP version.
Artist:
JAHCOOZI
Title:
Pure Breed Mongrel
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$16.50
Catalog #:
KY 5108LP
Double LP version. Berlin-based Jahcoozi is comprised of
Sasha Perera
(London),
Oren Gerlitz
(Tel Aviv), and
Robot Koch
(Berlin), and this is their debut album for Kitty-Yo. Despite singer Perera's background as a London-born Sri Lankan, the
M.I.A.
references stop here. A sometimes-gritty, sometimes slick mash up of blip-hop, ragga-tech, R'n'B-fused punk and click-pop illectronica, this is much more than what misinformed people might call grime. A
Shakespeare's Sister
/
Neptunes
collab?!! Instead, it's just three youngsters from different musical and cultural backgrounds who met in the electronic music cosmos of Berlin to indulge in an uninhibited mix of genres. At the beginning, Jahcoozi were just into making freaky beats and messing about with vocals. There was less text and less structure. The band then started to experiment with pop; more songs and less IDM glitch for the sake of it. This development can be seen on
Pure Breed Mongrel
, which contains tracks made between 2002 and 2005. It is hard to define and impossible to pigeonhole the sound of Jahcoozi. Maybe a bit like the (Brit-Sri Lankan-Israeli-West German) avant/glitch-pop trio Jahcoozi themselves.
Pure Breed Mongrel
is a mish-mash of genres but despite this immense style crossover, Jahcoozi have managed to create their very own sound and house it within a homogenic album which is full of surprises. A pure breed of mongrel. Mongrel music, made by mongrel people for a mongrel society.
Artist:
SPYRITUAL
Title:
Wall of Soul
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
KY 5109CD
This is the debut album from Finnish boy/girl duo
Juha Tuukkanen and Terhi Koivisto
. Both met in Helsinki and gathered together their experiences, influences and musical ideas to produce an album of chilly, contemplative Northern electronics, and soul-jazz grooves. The boy discovered making electronic music at the age of twelve, always collaborating and networking with the Northern electronic scene and releasing various records throughout Europe. The girl is from a small Kokkola town who was awakened to the existence of music while listening to her mum play and sing tender songs to her in the long winter nights. When Juha and Terhi finally decided to work together the idea of a rather organic music started to develop and Spyritual was given a human voice. Soon these sessions started to bear fruit and after years of thinking, writing, recording and producing, a quiet, beautiful and intense album was born.
Wall of Soul
presents a timeless diversity of moods and styles merged by brilliant acoustic jazz, sweet electronics and an amazing voice. Spyritual combines the modern-day lushness of
Notwist
with Norwegian jazz like
Sidsel Endersen
, plus added pop appeal. The album contains 14 tracks, all capturing the enthusiasm for pensive emotional states and moments, a natural result of Juha and Terhi's composition process. The production involved various friends and professional musicians playing their instruments as well as horn arrangements by
Mikko Pettinen
and
Antti Hynninen
. Simply beautiful.
Artist:
VA
Title:
Cuts & Pieces
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
KY 6103CD
2005 saw the birth of a small new club-oriented sub-label for Kitty-Yo, called Kitty-Cuts. Having released a small stable of 12"s so far in 2005, including works from artists such as
Chikinki
,
Richard Davis
and
Sex in Dallas
with
Biladoll
, 2006 promises even more dancefloor killers. In preparation for this, the idea arose to look more closely at the manifold remix output of the last year and to release it on CD -- hence
Cuts & Pieces
, introducing rare cuts and remixes of some brilliant new Kitty-Yo signings.
Gold Chains
&
Sue Cie
meet
Phon.O
, Chikinki are cut by
Litwinenko
, electro-breaker
Jahcoozi
meets singer/songwriter melodies by
Raz Ohara
and the new wunderkind
Ed Laliq
produces
Human League
-style for
Richard Davis
. Also features
Rhythm King and her Friends
,
Codec & Flexor
, Sex in Dallas (feat. Biladoll),
Modeselektor
and
Man Like Me
.
Cuts & Pieces
features vinyl-only material, now on CD for the very first time. This compilation was mixed by
Harry Axt
under the supervision of
Jan Driver
who has already produced remixes for
Laurent Garnier
,
Faithless
,
Whirlpool
,
Lucid
and
2raumwohung
.
Artist:
CODEC & FLEXOR
Title:
Killermachine
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
KY 6111CD
This is the second full-length release from Cologne-based techno duo
Sven Zalac
and
Matthias Freund
. Codec & Flexor have been ranked among the absolute outsiders and infant terribles of the dark electronic/new wave-pop underground for a long time now.
Killermachine
is replete with tech-y beats, dirty guitar riffs crowned with spherical vocals and superior hooks. With this second album they take a more pop-like line, though strictly continuing their merging of indie rock and dark techno/electro. Highlights among others are tracks like "I'll Be Gone," harkening to mainstream references such as
Depeche Mode
and
Northern Lite
, amongst others. "Surface Of Sorrow," dedicated to the deceased
Christian Morgenstern
, impresses with black, atmospheric pattern.
Artist:
CODEC & FLEXOR
Title:
Killermachine
Label:
KITTY YO (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$16.50
Catalog #:
KY 6111LP
Double LP version.
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