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FREU 008EP
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"What happens when two passionate mountaineering enthusiasts sit down together at the mixing desk and keyboards? The result is a wonderful, gentle album that reflects a timelessness of spirit rather than the spirit of its time! Dirt Novitzky, or to name the people behind the project, Helmut Dubnitzky (Cecille / Micro:fon) and Frank Nova aka Monoroom (Freunde Tontraeger / Bond Records) are united not only by their love of music, but also by an interest in climbing large mountains. They therefore chose appropriate titles right from the start and selected one of the most ambitious remixers: Marek Hemmann (Freude am Tanzen / Germany) is a master without equal at combining groove and feeling without descending into clichés. With warm chords, he moves listeners to ecstasy; inevitably all your nerves begin to tingle and you feel the urge to raise your arms to the sky and lose yourself entirely in the sonorous harmonies. The original mix of 'Klang Der Zikaden' ('Sound Of Cicadas') is weighty, but doesn't by any means overpower the dance floor with all-too-often used patterns, while minimalists will enjoy 'Tal Des Schweigens' ('Valley Of Silence'), richly shot through with subdrive. This album will satisfy everyone's needs!"
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FREU 007EP
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"Sound scientist Philip Flindt's hammer tune 'Or Wha' is the seventh episode in the Beyond Techno series on the Freunde Tontraeger label. It represents unconventional club music -- with no restrictions on genre, with no stigma attached. And Flindt delivers just that -- experimental, straight, strong-sounding beats. Release number 7 is no exception. With the culminant remixes by Monoroom and Nils Nilson (Ostwind Rec.), 'Or Wha' fits seamlessly into the extravagant Freunde Tontraeger repertoire. A1. 'Philip Flindt Original Mix': The top representative of 'beyond techno' is becoming increasingly international. 'Or Wha' is a four-to-the-floor tech house track of the reference class. Avant-garde, powerfully straightforward and -- as we already know from him -- great sound. The mind-blowingly atmospheric groove impressively reflects his musical versatility. Super clean." Plus remixes from Nils Nilson & Monoroom.
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FREU 005EP
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"Achter Achter is the next experimental chapter in the work going beyond techno - the domain of the Freunde Tontraeger Sound Laboratory. A renowned international team of experts is writing this part of the story: Homm & Nova (Germany) are responsible for competence in groove, Philip Flindt (Denmark) for the engineering and Polder (Netherlands) for the discipline of reduction. The objective is clearly defined: audio candy designed for the international dance floors. A1 - Homm & Nova Original Mix: 'Achter Achter' is a tech house track of the finer sort, featuring rhythm expert Markus Homm (Homm & Popoviciu) and sound designer Frank Nova (Monoroom) in creative collaboration. As expected, the result is appropriately spacy, technoid and full of funk. A room-filling work of sound driven by a wonderfully grooving bass line: a percussive sound bomb. A2 - Philip Flindt Remix: This is super clean tech house by the Danish sound scientist Flindt - magnificently technical, powerful and psychedelic. Philip Flindt delivers an excellent, danceable remix of the track by Homm & Nova, which was already massively programmed for groove. B1 - Polder Remix: The popular Amsterdam-based minimal pusher Polder, aka Lauhaus & David Labeji, transforms 'Achter Achter' into a technoid, controlled yet driven burner track. This is exactly what modern minimal should be."
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FREU 004EP
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"Fulminant sci-fi techno. Out of the simulator and into the cockpit. Stefan Lechner's first mission, entitled 'Arbeostrasse,' is an interplanetary space flight. Magnificently synthetic, soothingly heavy on the bass and laid back in the best first-class style, Captain Lechner takes his listeners on his virgin interstellar flight and steers the audio passengers confidently through mysterious space, interferences and infinite worlds. Welcome on board. 'Piranja' (Original Mix) - Stefan Lechner. Dangerous. Stefan Lechner is the rookie on the Freunde Tontraeger team. But there's nothing about 'Piranja' that hints the track is his first release -- it's an outstanding fit. The sonorous bass line is as biting as the carnivorous little fish after which the track is titled. The pads spiral upwards slowly but steadily in pitch, constantly increasing the heat in the club. He boldly juggles techno and tech house elements, creating such an explosive mixture that clubgoers are captivated in its first seconds, set on fire and only released with the last beat of the bass drum. The highly gifted Stefan Lechner goes straight to the head of the class. 'Piranja (Remix)' -- Martin Eyerer. Heavy weight. Scarcely has the power supply of the sequencer begun to cool, and the long-awaited 'Piranja' remix by Martin Eyerer is in our hands. Why the anticipation? The techno heavyweight Martin Eyerer meets FT flyweight Stefan Lechner. All in all, Martin has given FT a crazy virtuoso mix par excellence, which should be quite to the taste of connoisseurs like M_inus, Richie Hawtin, Magda or Ricardo Villalobos -- and it is 100% Eyerer."
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FREU 003EP
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"Monoroom -- the team of Stuttgart producers Frank Nova and Oliver Schleenvoigt -- continues to be hot stuff since their hit Memory Inc. Part 2 (2006) and, of course, the superb remix from Gui Boratto. After remixes for Dani Casarano and Citizen Kain, the busy boys have finally found time to concentrate on their own productions again. 'Klique Klaque' starts off as a conventionally reduced minimal track. With the clever use of a freaky noise sound, the track gradually gains space and volume. By the second break, the number reveals its potential to catch the entire club in its groove. 'Klique Klaque' (Remix) -- Solomun: The remix by the Hamburg high-flyer Solomun gets down to business with much greater explosiveness. Solomun lives up to his reputation as a secret adherent of Detroit sound. From the beginning, the remix stamps everything into the floor with a minimal but dominant deep bass groove. The breaks, which hit suddenly and score roughly, work especially well. Hamburg: 10 points."
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