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[1337-023] 0x7f – As The World Burns We Watch TV.. EP


The year starts off with a new release straight from the 31337 management! Label head Stefan Klaas aka 0x7f presents his EP ‘As The World Burns We Watch TV’, a classy selection of tracks filled with ambience and mixed with a bit of tech-house and dub. 0x7f doesn’t follow any standards or trends and has a distinct feel for deep melodic tunes with lots of clicks and field recordings wrapped into complex minimalistic sound structures. 

While the title shows a critical view on parts of todays society, the EP doesn’t reflect negative thoughts and simply invites the listener to let the mind wander and thoughts flow. Along the 3 original tracks there are 3 fabulous remixes by Akiko Kiyama, Ditch and Sil from the Easy Changes duo. Akiko delivers a wonderfully unique remix of

‘Surface’ that brings in some fresh elements and turns the track around into a new and interestingly mysterious direction. A well structured flow with lots of true minimalism, carefully chosen patterns and straight to the point. Ditch presents a very creative, dark interpretation of ‘Virtualized’, filled with samples that leave some kind of industrial impression. A pounding beat that slowly comes out of the shadows, surrounded by a field of percussions and well selected cuts. Sil pushed the boundaries and made a remix aimed at the dancefloor. Well arranged and cut up percussions emerging between twisted samples and melodic bits and pieces that turn the original track upside down and inside out. Of course with the typical Easy Changes style.

[1337-022] Pheek – Mr. Steger’s Space Capsule EP


After working with Pheek for so long, we are more than happy to finally publish a release by our dear friend Jean-Patrice Rémillard! The EP is a wonderful mix of spaced out minimal techno, dub and ambient, creatively arranged with a complex minimalistic structure. Step into Mr. Steger‘s Space Capsule and prepare to escape planet earth with our astronauts Pheek, Hubble and Marc Neyen. Captain Pheek sets course to explore the unknown and you are invited to follow our artists into new imaginary worlds full of playful ambience and lovely repetitive beats.

Put on your spacesuit and get yourself ready for a wild ride that starts with the first track called ‚Making Organic Mechanic‘, an abstract and trippy voyage for your mind. Beware of organic elements turning into mechanic pads while we travel through deep space.

Enjoy the view, we‘ll be landing with the next track on a distinct planet soon. Once arrived you notice, that it‘s almost as if you could hear the solar winds, when you walk with Pheek through a lost world on the hunt for the unknown. Suddenly you hear a melody, where is it coming from? Turns out Pheek and Hubble brought their secret project EEBB to be launched into the orbit and its emitting sound waves. Watch the probe go into space while Hubble records the biosphere. Spheric noises surround you while following the team back into the spaceship.

All systems running, Hubble sets the coordinates for the trip back to earth. It almost seems like the engine is forming a pounding beat while we lift off. Now it‘s Mr. Neyen‘s turn to keep you entertained on the flight with an amazingly beautiful remix until we safely enter our own atmosphere. Want to be part of the next mission? Get yourself a copy of this wonderful EP and save yourself a place in Mr. Steger‘s Space Capsule!

Melodiami + 31337records present Someone Else at Levee Club, April 9th


Berlin, March 29th, 2011

The event ‘Melodiami‘ stands for a musical collective with the approach to present a conclusive concept on and next to the dancefloor. Therefor it took not only to spot the right location, which was definitely found at the Levee (the Ex Bang Bang Club) here in Berlin, but also to support artists and well known producers.

That’s why it’s a pleasure for us to present to you the American producer Someone Else. As his love for minimal techno solidified by 1998, Sean teamed up with Jay Haze and Bjoern Hartmann, and together they launched the ‘Tuning Spork’ label. While making dance music with field recordings became more and more his shtick, Sean grew close to Kate Iwanowicz (a.k.a. Miskate) and Sylvain Takerkart (a.k.a. Fusiphorm), and together they launched the ‘Foundsound’ and ‘Unfoundsound’ record labels. To this day, both labels continue to gain increasingly more recognition while offering a unique facet to the modern-day minimal scene.

Over recent years, Sean’s production skills have been garnering respect among internationally renowned DJs and labels alike, as reflected by his massive discography of releases and remixes for labels like ‘Musik Krause’, ‘Tuning Spork’, ‘Foundsound’, ‘Mo’s Ferry’, ‘Microcosm’, ‘Nummer’, ‘Kickboxer’, ‘Sender’, ‘Alphahouse’, ‘Roman-Photo’, ‘Level Non-Zero’, ‘Mule Musiq’, ‘Hello? Repeat’, ‘Revolver’, ’31337records’ and many others. This was accompanied by extensive world touring, and he was voted as one of the best live acts of 2006 in Groove Magazine. Sean continues to spin and play live all around North America, South America, Europe, Japan, Russia and elsewhere — including Fabric in London, Yellow in Tokyo, Rex Club in Paris and Panorama Bar in Berlin.

Another great artist we invited is Sven Laux, who’s career started in 1998 by creating music using simple computer programs and his first keyboard. In 1999-2000, electronic music became his style of choice and since his passion for sampling and looping tracks constantly grew he began to create his own special sound.

He has released and remixed on several labels like ‘Archipel’, ‘SpontanMusik’, ‘Multi Vitamins’, ‘Tropic’, ‘Mischievous Musique’ and ‘Leporelo’ just to mention a few. His current album on ‘Microcosm Music’ gained huge international respect and another album is going to follow soon on 31337records. In 2008 he started a new project, called ‘Offtopic’. Under this moniker he presents a very special non-dancefloor oriented sound, created by nothing more but pure improvisation.

Additional musical excesses are being provided by Jama from the Bar 25 family, Marc Pick and Coco who are an inherent part of the Berlin Dance culture with their ‘Betriebsfeier’, and many more.

Line-Up:

Someone Else (31337records, Foundsound / Berlin)
Sven Laux (31337records, Archipel, Microcosm / Berlin)
Subjunk (31337records / Berlin)
Jama (Bar25 / Berlin)
Coco (Betriebsfeier, Kreis.Studio / Berlin)
Marc Pick (Kammerflimmern, Kreis.Studio / Berlin)
Paul Primus (Melodiami, Kreis.Studio / Berlin)
Fabian Drews (Melodiami, Shovania / Berlin)

Ditch

Ditch, aka Shinichiro Kono, is a Japanese producer who currently resides in Sendai, Japan. He’s been djing minimal house/techno at various clubs since 2001, but it wasn’t until 2005 that he began producing his own tracks that are aimed not only for the dancefloor but also for alternative listening environments. One of his great musical abilities is that he can go in several musical directions with retaining his strong character and this is a remarkable achievement for someone who has been making music for such a short time. This point has helped him to earn the respect of numerous labels over the world, such as ‘Minibar’, ‘Safari Electronique’, ‘Microcosm’, ‘Goosehound’, ‘Kalimari’, ‘Op.disc’ and of course ’31337′.

Dualism°°

‘Dualism°°’ are Kwamina and Gab from Zurich. Thanks to their graphic design/art ballet and theater background the aesthetics plays an essential part in their life. On a daily base they have to look at the things from every angle as they are used to expose and deal with visual forms & shapes & colours as well as movements & motions. At the moment however, all is about music. With their delicate flair for future sound-trends, the innovative and versatile swiss-duo developes and creates since 2005 their very own definition of the ‘so-called‘ minimal techno. Their debut release on Pheek’s label Archipel ‘Dualism°° – Speech Defect EP., 2006’ showed their skills in impressive way.

In 2008 they attract attention with the ‘A Fool’s Tale EP.‘ on Jeff Milligan’s cultlabel ‘Revolver Canada’. Today, their sound appears minimally as twisted, queer-melodic deep and wicked techno with much love to the detail. Their sound surprises with unconventional rhythm-structures and many-layered sound-design. their distinctive style and preference for idiosyncratically and broken sounds as well as the clever use of vocal-snippets is always present on their productions and performances. As performing live pa, there is no compromise on their set. Always improvising one will never hear the same music twice. haunting melodies meet deep beats and luring atmospheres in order to create a unique blend of powerful dynamics.

There’s a bunch of interesting 12inch records coming up in the near future with remixes from Mo’s Ferrys head ‘Dapayk’ – Alphahouse crack ‘Butane’. In January 2009 the duo started their own label ‘Numbolic records’ with releases from ‘Phase‘ – ‘Suedmilch‘ – ‘Lump‘ – ‘Hidenobu Ito‘ – ‘Sebastian Herre’ – ‘Dualism°°‘ and many others. In July 2009 it was time to start a 2nd label ‘Numbolic unlimited‘ (vinyl 12’’). They’ll will work together with well established musicians like ‘Franco Cinelli‘ – ‘Lineas de Nazca’ – ‘Alejandro Vivanco‘ – ‘Cesare vs. Disorder’ – ‘Butane‘ a.o.

Hubble

In early 2007 Giuseppe Marchegiano began to produce under the pseudonym of Hubble, shortly after the release of his first vinyl on Moulton label, he began to gather support from the underground and techno scene in Berlin and on international level. His productions and tracks are considered precious rarities as they are only printed on limited edition series, in fact he likes to consider his works as tools to be played by close friends not necessairly intended to be officially released. Hubble’s ‘long hypnotic journeys’ as they call them are available only to a lucky few. Hubble, with his floating Techno sound and Pyschedelic atmospheres has fronted a number of parties in Berlin.

Amongst them his own partie thrown at Berghain Kantine and called ‘Forget Me Not’ which is also his debut album title released in September 2010 by Pheek and his Canadian Label Archipel. In 2009 he began his collaboration with Sleep Is Commercial, he is now one of the crew organizing really intense Techno parties in Berlin and grooving people into underground locations around Europe being his music a landmark for the psychedelic groovy sound of the label. He runs the label’s limited vinyl series called sic ltd, it began with ‘Kirks and Ghosts’ and ‘La Estrella’ out on Summer 2010, followed by ‘Focus’ and ‘Tribute02′ out in April 2011.

Hubble is also a frequent guest in some of the most important locations in Berlin such as Club der Visionaere, Watergate, Arena, Bar25, Suicide Circus. Summer 2011 will mark his debut on some important labels in the European Techno scene: Haknam with the tracks ‘Floating Souls’ and ‘Sand’ out on May 2011, Prologue with a new project called Blue and the Berliner label White. February 2011 Hubble has begun to work on his second album which will be called ‘Reverse’ and that will be released by Sleep Is Commercial.

Louer

Nicolás Alejandro Ballesteros was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1985. He began as a DJ but it didn’t take long for him to start making his own music. He has created different projects from techno to extremely experimental ambient sounds and designed several aliases: Louer, Louerlow and his band Burmas Carnival. Under the name of Louer, he produces experimental electronic and dance music. During 2010 he got signed on Nervmusic Records and Archipel and he also became the curator of RTS.fm in Buenos Aires. He visited Easy Changes’ esctudio near Moscow, played in Arma 17 whit them, DeepChord, Jens Zimmermann and Audio Werner during the Save Festival.

Some months later Nervmusic decided to invite him to play in Weekend Club Berlin along with Maayan and Easy Changes. During this trip he also visited the Minibar studio in Paris. Right now he’s still working for other upcoming releases.

Marc Neyen

Born and raised in Luxembourg, Marc got introduced to music at the age of 8 by taking trumpet lessons in a local music school. What followed was a classical music education and later on higher studies in Jazz. This environment made him become increasingly attracted by sounds of electronic nature and he started a listening journey through different types of electronic music which brought him to the dancefloor side of the spectrum. His urge towards exploration of the musical possibilities within this sub-genre led him to producing and soon he fell in love with the endless variations and discoveries this workflow provided. Since his debut release on Archipel in 2007 he has also released

on the German labels Synket and Eminor records. Currently based in Berlin, Marc is working on new productions as well as focusing on his abilities as a multi-instrumentalist.

Martin Teysera

Martin Teysera, started with electronic music in 1999, experimenting between different genres and developing a distinct sound with a base on groovy rythms, experimental sounds and super sampling! He also is a guitar player lover and rythmic instrument freaky.

In the last years, he focused on the electronic dance music project ‘Monoblock’ releasing EPs, on labels such as Archipel, Cynosure, AirDrop. Some of them have been played by well known DJs such as Richie Hawtin, Ricardo Villalobos or Mathias Kaden.

 

Pheek

First taking interest as a sound enthusiast, Montreal‘s Jean-Patrice Remillard began exploring electronic music in earnest by the early 1990s, teaching himself how to produce and manipulate sounds with software and hardware. Noticed by Hautec Recordings in 1999, the local label released the 12” ERS 1-2-3, Pheek‘s minimal techno collaboration with Mateo Murphy. By 2002 Pheek had produced two critically acclaimed full-length albums and gained a prestigious reputation for his memorable live sets at Epsilonlab events. With his music now turning heads overseas Pheek departed on his first European tour, visiting and performing in over fifteen countries.

Meanwhile, releasing with German netlabel Thinner allowed Jean-Patrice to consort with a group of peers who could provide invaluable aid and assistance. Beginning to build on an international scale, Pheek now finds himself releasing amongst his idols for such renowned labels as Richie Hawtin‘s M_nus imprint, France‘s Telegraph, Denmark‘s Tic Tac Toe or Germany‘s Contexterrior, gaining particular recognition for the unique quality and texture of his sounds. Nourished by his experiences and hoping to construct his own community of likeminded musicians, Pheek founded the Archipel netlabel in 2004.

The immediate support and praise of media and clientele allowed Archipel to quickly achieve a key goal, releasing Pheek and Jesse Somfay‘s Galapagos Excursion Joint 1 as their first vinyl in early 2006. With his little family growing fast, Archipel has now launced the Kalimari sublabel, already at two releases. With Galapagos Excursion Joint becoming a favourite of Sven Vath (it appears on his next mix CD), and Kalimari‘s Mein Tesh included on Matthew Dear‘s Fabric 17 CD, Pheek‘s labels are now firmly ensconced in the international minimal techno and tech-house scene. His live performances and recordings now in widespread demand, Pheek continues to pride himself on building, creating and developping… Art first.