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DESOLAT 009LP
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Loco Dice has unveiled his darkly eclectic album, Love Letters, a 15-track embodiment of his diverse production range. Featuring "We're Alive", the most highly anticipated record of his recent sets. Dice's third studio album after 7 Dunham Place (DESOLAT 001CD, 2009) and Underground Sound Suicide (DESOLAT USS-BOX, 2016) sees him reflecting on his musical influences and connections to Düsseldorf and beyond. The album is packed with the producer's typically forceful tones, which blur the lines between house and techno. Utilizing the bristling sounds and smooth drum beats, Dice's Love Letters serves as an aural embodiment of the tones which make his sound so unique. Throughout, Dice uses his own vocals more frequently than on previous albums, which makes the production both trippier and more personal, representing past and present. Addressing his listeners via special sleeve inside the 3x12" vinyl album edition, Dice writes: "The music on Love Letters is filled with the positive energy and love that I have received around the world. Every piece on this album is like a mini letter. A Love Letter." With a trio of collaborations on the album, Dice drafts in Serious Klein on "Selflove", William Djoko on "Out Of Reach", and Eddie Fowlkes on "D Town Playaz". As someone who is deeply influenced by genres like soul and funk, Dice invited German-based artist Serious Klein -- who's work he has been following for the past while, to his Daddyscrib studio and a perfect blend was formed that was not only basted on their mutual African roots. When "Out Of Reach" began to take shape, it was clear for Dice that only the Amsterdam's finest -- William Djoko, could provide the final shape he envisaged on the release. The third feature on the album comes from Detroit godfather Eddie Fowlkes on the appropriately named "D Town Playaz", which features both of the artists' vocals and serves as a teaser for the things to come. Gatefold cover.
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DESOLAT 060EP
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Desolat label boss Loco Dice kicks off 2018 in fine style with a single that sees him reflect on his roots and his connection to Dusseldorf, Detroit, and beyond. The bristling "Roots" is a forceful track that blurs the lines between house and techno. It has twitchy synths bringing the energy to hurried drums as smooth chords add soul. The claps are coarse and edgy, whilst Dice's own dark vocals bring a brooding atmosphere and the whole thing is a synapse firing rave-up that cannot fail to detonate any dancefloor. An instrumental is also included for even more visceral thrills.
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8LP BOX
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DESOLAT USS-BOX
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Loco Dice presents Underground Sound Suicide. It follows up 2008's landmark 7 Dunham Place and proved once again that the Düsseldorf based artist is in a class of one. The Ultra Music released LP featured collaborations with artists like Just Blaze, Pulshar, Neneh Cherry, Miss Kittin, JAW, Chris Liebing and Giggs amongst others and showcased Dice's versatility with influences from techno to hip hop and beyond. Underpinning it all the album retained Loco Dice's chunky, bass driven feel and has made its way into many top DJ sets ever since. Now Desolat boss Loco Dice is releasing an exclusive boxset of the album on vinyl, including a host of new remixes and limited edition items. The reason this project is happening is because Desolat is a label that still prizes the physical format and inherent value of vinyl. As such, the whole thing, entitled the Underground Sound Suicide Box, is to be pressed to vinyl for a full physical release that will allow the exquisite sound design and rich detail to really shine. The fine original cuts are being pressed across four 12" records, and on top of that, four separate remix EPs will also be included featuring classy reworks of the material by established names from the worlds of house and techno including Nightmares On Wax, Henrik Schwarz, Kenny Dope Gonzalez, Kerri Chandler, Martin Buttrich, Robert Hood and Timo Maas among others. On top of this, there is a custom made diamond shape metal USB stick containing all the material and bonus tracks along with four music videos to "Get Comfy", "Keep it Low", "Party Angels" and "Sending This One Out". The set also ships with a custom designed slipmat. All in all this exclusive material is packed in a handmade box. This collection is a must own piece for wax lovers and fans of Loco Dice, but also for fans of contemporary, club owning house and techno. Also featuring remixes by: Jimmy Edgar, Frizzo, ROD, Just Be's On The Keys, and Bambounou.
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DESOLAT 025LP
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Double 12" vinyl version, featuring 8 tracks from the mix CD. Includes digital download.
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DESOLAT MIX001
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Desolat present the release of their annual sampler. This edition not only sees artists from the Desolat family turn in exclusive tracks, but also sees Loco Dice supply a mix packed with the brand-new productions from the 2x12" (DESOLAT 025LP), plus a few special extras. 2012 was another successful year for the Desolat camp, with an impressive release schedule that included DJ Sneak, Basti Grub, Aldo Cadiz, Francisco Allendes & Paola Poletto, and Shlomi Aber all putting out killer releases. As always, the annual sampler sees those artists at the core of the Desolat camp turn in exclusive tracks, and the 5th year anniversary edition delivers a selection for the landmark year. Loco Dice's "Lolopopinho" is a groovy, energetic whirlwind production that takes the listener on a head-spinning journey into the recesses of the label boss' club-oriented mind. Shlomi Aber's "Mancha" features a sublime bouncing bass line, while Yaya weighs in with a track that nods to a fantastically bright future. Horatio's "How Much 909 Can You Take?" serves up a warbling aural assault that will easily get feet stomping. Lucero en Vivo's "La France" first surfaced in 2010 when it caused a stir on Dice's Amnesia Ibiza Underground 10 mix CD -- a welcome addition to the sampler and finally getting the full release it deserves. Alexkid's ethereal "Enty" provides some moodiness to proceedings. And of course, the mainstays of the label have also turned in impressive productions. Hector's "Amorphous Mass" displays the dark depths of the Desolat vaults, while tINI turns in a warm, intricate release in "Room 305." The mix also comprises an additional seven exclusive tracks from the likes of Basti Grub, Alli Borem, Francisco Allendes, Premiesku, Benny Rodrigues and Guti. The mix highlights the consistent musical thread that runs through much of Desolat's output, and is compiled with Dice's signature sound.
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DESOLAT 028EP
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The Desolat co-founder drops an exciting collection of tracks that ooze his musical heritage and customary meticulous style. The EP kicks off with "Auxotox," which offers a chugging rhythm and a bouncy bass-line alongside a maniacal sample that is gives a haunting early-hours feel. "Detox" features an aggressive bass drum providing the foundation for a sharp vocal sample that continues to galvanize throughout the track. Not much respite in this track barring the well placed breakdown that harks back to Loco Dice's hip-hop past.
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MINUS 111EP
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This is Loco Dice's first release on M-nus since 2006, exploring an abstract and cerebral techno template. The opening 90 seconds of the A-side is all sparse atmosphere, static crackles and weird effects with just a sole note played over and over. The pulsing of a deep sine wave hints at what is to come. "Loose Hooks" is a deeply-burrowing affair with an extra-heavy kick hitting every four bars to give things an air of extra insistency.
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DESOLAT 004X-EP
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Loco Dice returns to Desolat with a one-sided, vinyl-only release. This untitled track features tribal chanting, claps, and flute sounds accompanied by a solid, throbbing, addictive beat and hand-percussion.
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DESOLAT 001CD
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Originally released in 2008, this is the debut full-length release by renowned Düsseldorf minimal DJ, producer and Desolat label-head, Loco Dice. 7 Dunham Place has been created to take the listener on a journey: an album to be treasured as a fine-textured catalog of the senses. Loco Dice, who spends much of his time shuttling between the world's main electronic music ports as an in-demand DJ, packed up his studio and relocated to New York City. There, he fomented a raw and simmering soundtrack: a nuance-packed collection of sonic interpretations of scenes, characters and moods from the most diverse and mythologized city in the world. The album specifically pays homage to their adopted home base, Brooklyn, while sketching the trajectory of a musical life uprooted and transplanted, where dream-like feelings of isolation and melancholy transmute into a sense of place and kinship. Loco Dice began a fruitful studio partnership with Martin Buttrich in 2002 leading to tracks like "Phat Dope Shit," "Menina Brasiliera," and "Seeing Through Shadows," and these productions are meticulously planned by Dice. It's a directorial, cinematic outlook, which permeates Dice's everyday life: fed by his experiences living in extreme environments like Ibiza and New York, as well as drawing on elaborate film scripts imagined as a young Loco Dice on the streets of Flingern in Düsseldorf and the Kerkennah Islands in Tunisia. It's an album that re-imagines the soul of a city, built from careful observations of urban tribes that crisscross and sometimes clash, of minute details and sensory impressions. From the two guys at the local deli who're always on the verge of fighting over football results or presidential candidates, to the tattooed lady couple who sell the morning soul food, all find their way into this cohesive collection of tracks which breathe deeply, and as they exhale, tell a story. "M Train To Brooklyn" includes the sounds of a subway train on the tracks, with a low-slung, incredibly relaxed vibe, "Esquina" is a Latin-themed piano-led track with bouncy beats, and "Tight Laces" uses sampled female voices, shakers, and analog squiggles that make the track sound absolutely propulsive, like everyday life. 7 Dunham Place is your city-commute headphones soundtrack with reduced grooves, kept infinitely personal.
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2x12"
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7DPRMX 002EP
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The Desolat label presents the second volume in a special remix series of tracks off of Loco Dice's 7 Dunham Place album. What resulted in volume 2 is a full spectrum of house and techno translations by Marcel Dettmann, Onur Özer, Marco Carola and Mike Huckaby.
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