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DEDGE 035EP
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Renato Ratier one of the most important names in Brazilian and South American electronic scene, found inspiration in the middle of the Atacama Desert in Chile during a trip to a gig in that country. The vibe and atmosphere of this unique place is present here. While working on his new album, Ratier offers a precious and pulsating track, with a striking square bassline and a hypnotic line of chords and synths. Ratier invited two of the most important DJs and Brazilian producers to bring their remixes: Ney Faustini and A.84.
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DEDGE 022EP
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Remixes of tracks from Renato Ratier's 2013 Soul Machine EP. Andre Lodemann transforms "Soul Machine" into a growling slow-burner with icy hi-hats and a growing bassline that eventually consumes the whole track and a funky riff joins it. Kyodai's remix of "Soul Machine" is a more direct and energetic tech house cut for the peak-time on the dancefloor. Ney Faustini's remix of "Old Factory" is laced with swirling pads and silvery percussive lines as well as an angelic synth sound and plenty of soul-elevating drums. Its elegant and well balanced and will mark a high point in anyone's set.
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DEDGE 019LP
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After the success of the first volume of remixes comes this, a second album full of great reinterpretations of Renato Ratier's fantastic debut album Black Belt (DEDGE 012CD/LP). The album showcased the D-Edge owner, resident and label boss' great range of production prowess. It touched on house, disco, techno and everything in between and now gets reworked by a carefully handpicked selection of guests. Brazilian heroes like Anderson Noise turn up to tackle "Fetisshu," Chicago house heiress Kate Simko also appears with her version of "Kozaboa" and tech house stalwarts Tiefschwarz lend their vision to "3 Bulls." Elsewhere, the likes of Visionquest's Laura Jones, Dutch man Boris Werner, Visionquest member Ryan Crosson and Trouw resident Nuno Dos Santos all get called upon to turn in their own remixes. The result is a fantastic album that breathes plenty of new life into the originals and shows that the label and Renato himself have their finger on the pulse when it comes to international acts with a really unique production voice.
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DEDGE 014LP
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D-Edge Records are proud to present Black Belt: The Remixes Vol. I. Following on from that well-received debut album (DEDGE 012CD/LP) from Brazilian DJ, producer, club and label boss Renato Ratier, it makes perfect sense that the label arm of the foremost Brazilian club enlisted a load of talents to re-version the tracks for different dancefloors. To remix his first album, Renato invited some special artists to join forces with the Black Belt project, including the likes of Sascha Dive, Secret Cinema, One Records boss Adam Shelton, Shaded, top tech house titans and Visionquest associates Cesare vs. Disorder, house veteran and Pooled Music boss Ian Pooley, deep house don and spiritual leader Osunlade, Velkro and L_cio, and Yoruba Soul. This is a stunning meeting of different backgrounds and approaches to electronic music that breathes plenty of new life into an already excellent album, taking the originals and skewing them in new directions. Black Belt is now also an internationally touring club night run by D-Edge, featuring the best DJs from the worlds of house, techno and disco, so keep your eyes peeled for more information on that.
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DEDGE 012LP
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Gatefold double LP version.
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DEDGE 012CD
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D-Edge Records are proud to present Black Belt, the debut album from Brazilian DJ, producer, club, and D-Edge Records label boss, Renato Ratier. After emerging with some already impressive EPs, the time has now come for a full artistic statement that spans 17 tracks of slo-mo electronics, deep house ambiance, and tripped-out, disco-inflected grooves. Rather than this being a collection of dancefloor tracks, it's more a carefully programmed journey that takes you up and down through many different moods and grooves, but all of them united by Ratier's analog textures, unfamiliar hooks and futuristic melodies. Opening with the found sound recordings and muffled ambiance of "Love Me Tokyo," the album goes through the funky licks of "Jamaicanese," the well-sampled "Midnight Sun" and freewheeling deep house and ethereal melodies of "Teatime." The latter half of the album points more towards the dancefloor with the title-track's knotted bass line, the deep and spaced-out house hypnosis of "Fetisshu," and plenty more besides. It's a stunning debut from one of Brazil's most important figures.
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