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HIGH 100CD
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Highgrade Records celebrates its 100th release with 12 tracks from the Highgrade Disharmonic Orchestra. The creative combo featuring both label bosses Tom Clark and Todd Bodine, alongside Philip Bader, Daniel Dreier and Dale, began over a year ago with the intention of celebrating the tenth birthday of the Berlin label. And the resulting gift: a musical experiment. The five artists have bundled their creativity together into a symphony unparalleled in the techno scene. Every performance is like a jam session: All five laptops are interconnected, so each of the artists has the opportunity to react to the others and modify each track as desired. Thus, new arrangements are created and constantly re-interpreted. Drum machines and synthesizers are also in play, to further stretch the improvisational possibilities. No wonder then, that the 100th release follows in this creative vein. The Highgrade Disharmonic Orchestra, with Multilayer, kidnaps us away into vastly different musical worlds: from deep influences and custom recorded vocals to an array of technoid sounds and effects. Then back to groovy, swinging beats reminiscent of a balmy summer evening on the beach. Therefore, the record is something of a rollercoaster ride, where we never know what might be waiting behind the next curve. Typically Highgrade.
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HIGH 096EP
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Tom Clark, Todd Bodine, Philip Bader, Dale and Daniel Dreier aka Highgrade Disharmonic Orchestra are an act that combines all their many and varied qualities. "Way Too Far" is a live recording with urban beats and pulsating flashes. "The Other Night" appears to hijack the veranda of a villa in the American South. Crisp rhythms are backed by muffled, thumping beats, a trumpet laments, a sexy sleep-talker emerges amongst gentle piano sounds. This is Southern passion under the disco ball.
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HIGH 092EP
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Todd Bodine, Tom Clark, Philip Bader, Daniel Dreier and Dale aka Highgrade Disharmonic Orchestra have bundled their musical creativity together and shown audiences at Watergate and other key locations their premium quality live performance. This unique live atmosphere now comes to you as an EP release -- three tracks that exude the groove of a sweaty night on the dancefloor, forming a coherent, highly varied and engaging work that all electronic music fans will feel in their hips.
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