Andrew Bayer feat. Alison May ‘Immortal Lover’ is the first single from the hotly anticipated ‘In My Last Life’ LP - the follow-up to 2013’s critically acclaimed electronica LP ‘If It Were You, We’d Never Leave’.
With shuffling rhythms that owe more to hip hop producer Timbaland than Tiesto, ‘Immortal Lover’ whispers of stalking ex-lovers from the beyond the grave through Alison May’s haunting vocals. A beautiful but twisted indie-electronica epic with a dash of trip hop darkness.
TOUR DATES:
Sep 29 Hong Kong, AsiaWorld-Expo (ABGT300)
Oct 06 Orlando, Gilt
Oct 13 Minneapolis, Rev Ultra Lounge
Oct 20 Chicago, Sound Bar
Nov 09 Washington D.C., Soundcheck
Nov 10 Austin, Vulcan
Nov 23 Houston, Spire
Nov 24 Dallas, Lizard Lounge
Nov 30 Denver, Church Nightclub
Dec 01 Phoenix, Monarch Theatre
Dec 06 San Francisco, 1015 Folsom
Dec 07 Los Angeles, Exchange
Dec 08 Calgary, The Palace
Dec 13 Seattle, Foundation
Dec 14 Vancouver, Celebrities
Dec 15 Portland, 45 East
Video Credits:
Director of Photography: Vadim Stein
Video Producer: Andrey Stanko
Video Editor: Sergii Malov
Dancers: Anna Gerus & Peter Naku, Ukrainian Dance Theatre
Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[item value="10"]Andrew Bayer feat. Alison May - Immortal Lover [/item]
[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]To say that I'm totally in love with Andrew Bayer sound it will be understatement cause simply this artist deserves more than the praise he currently gets. His music and DJ sets are memorable experiences that put a stamp in your heart and become part of your music DNA instantly. Immortal Lover is not a club track bur rather instead is a beautiful chilling track perfect for those Ibiza sunsets or even as final track when the sun rises in your favourite club in Mediterranean. Superb lyrics and vocal delivery by Alison May upon the electronic beats, warm melodies, luscious atmosphere and ambient cinematic atmospheres. Classy as hell this is not to be missed and hopefully club mixes will make it even stronger and we hope to come out soon. For now lets play on repeat mode the brilliant video. #PureGold Love IT[/content]
Noah Neiman, Jay Bombay & Laci Kay's 'Long Way Home' saw one of Enhanced's best-loved names teaming up with two new faces to the label in a brilliantly uplifting Summer gem, laced with feel-good melodic chords and Noah's trademark bouncing energy. Bringing 'Long Way Home' back to the forefront, two new Remixes bring 'Long Way Home's addictive sound back...
Opening with a collaboration that forms one of the most intriguing team-ups we've seen on the label, Noah Neiman doubles up with renowned bass producer Culture Code in a flexing, bass-heavy Rework that couples Noah's melodic side with Culture Code's rough and ready edge.
Accompanying Noah Neiman & Culture Code's remix, Swedish prodigy LoaX delivers one of his rolling, layered Remixes full of the young Swede's infectious energy and dance-floor ready panache.
'Long Way Home' returns with two exceptional Remixes from some of the label's most talented artists.
Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]Noah Neiman x Jay Bombay feat. Laci Kay with Long Way Home delivered one of the biggies for Enhanced. Now the remix package comes to extend its pop appeal. LoaX Remix transforms the original into a mainstage friendly uplifting big room house banger with thumping drums, punchy basslines, euphoric synthy hooks, electro influences and excellent rhythm to keep us jumping. Noah Neiman vs. Culture Code Remix is a wonderful slice of electronic bass music with trapical sounds to add that summer relaxing carefree afternoon cocktail beach bar vibe. If you add on top the superb vocals by Laci Kay the result is absolutely gorgeous that clubs and radio stations will love in the next months! #ThisisHIT Love It [/content]
Air, Brian Eno, Lanterns on the Lake, Helen Keen, The Clangers, Krysco, Marc Riley and many more join the line-up
Taking place 22-24 July at Jodrell Bank, the Cheshire observatory at the cutting edge of humanity’s quest for knowledge, bluedot is a brand new three-day festival of discovery that promises to fuse a complex mix of artists, speakers, scientists and performers into an event unlike any on earth.
Recently announced are French electronica/space rock pioneers Air. Supporting Jean-Michel Jarre on Saturday night, Air’s signature cinematic, psychedelic sound architecture is the perfect scene-setter for the day’s finale.
Also joining Saturday’s bill is The Warehouse Project’s infamous resident selector Krysco while on the other end of the DJ spectrum BBC Radio 6 Music’s Marc Riley will be warming up the main stage with his trademark eclectic set.
Bluedot is thrilled to present a brand new artwork by the iconic Brian Eno, designed specifically for Jodrell Bank. It is a unique projection piece displayed across the magnificent Lovell Telescope which for the duration of the festival will be in the zenith position. This position points the telescope directly upwards tracking the cosmos as it drifts overhead. Jodrell Bank astronomers including Associate Director Tim O’Brien will use the telescope to gathering data during the festival.
Following critical acclaim for last year’s third album, Beings, Newcastle's Lanterns On The Lake have teamed up with renowned Royal Northern Sinfonia in a unique collaboration. The performance on the main stage at Jodrell Bank will see the band play material from their three critically acclaimed albums accompanied by the world renowned orchestra.
Performing on the Orbit Stage, Be play One is a unique, mesmerising live collaboration between an artist, a scientist, half of Spiritualized and 40,000 real life bees. Inspired by the plight of the honeybee it was described by The Guardian as a brilliant 'transcendental drone symphony between man and bee’.
Elsewhere on the Cosmic Culture programme is the Contact Stage, home to a stellar bill of science and space-related authors and presenters, all bringing their experiences to Bluedot. First Light is a unique celebration of the brilliant sci-fi author Alan Garner, whose numerous awards include the Hans Christian Andersen award (the Nobel prize for children’s literature) and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Alan Garner has been inspired by Jodrell Bank throughout his career. Hosted by Erica Wagner, editor of First Light, a new anthology celebrating Garner’s work. We’re delighted to confirm Alan Garner will be making an extremely rare appearance at Bluedot, to sign books.
Andrew Smith, author of the brilliant international bestseller Moondust: in Search of Men Who Fell to Earth, will be talking about his experience of tracking down every astronaut who walked on moon between 1969 and 1972, and how if effected them. Andrew will also be talking about meeting the people who have signed up for a one-way ticket to Mars, as part of the Mars One project.
Appearing at the Science Garden, Urban Astronaut is a bold new direction in physical theatre providing a glimpse of a future that might be...where problems surrounding air pollution have grown to a crisis point, is there any way back? Combining stunning design and a unique travelling flying machine with simple storytelling and a moving dance performance that appeals to all ages, Urban Astronaut searches for a solution to the environmental disaster that is present in our near future.
The Cosmic Culture line-up also includes Hello Moon Can you Hear Me? a unique audio-visual exploration of the universe featuring signals from spacecraft at the dawn of the space age, the death throes of an exploding star and the sounds which flooded through the universe after the Big Bang.
Music producers Jim Spencer and David Tolan have worked with astrophysicist Tim O’Brien to remix sounds from space creating a unique record released on the O Genesis label. The title “Hello Moon” echoes the recording of a voice bounced off the Moon made more than 50 years ago right here at Jodrell Bank.
Bluedot is also proud to announce a specially curated, science-flavoured comedy bill. It includes Helen Keen and her award-winning It Is Rocket Science stand-up show, Helen Arney & Steve Mould from Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Dr. Steve Cross’ clever chaotic cabaret Science Showoff, James Veitch’s hilarious Dot Con show that charts his correspondence with a host email scammers and con artists, live & interactive comedy game show Wifi Wars (remember to bring a charged smartphone!) and Foxdog Studios surreal and interactive show described by Timeout as “ridiculously good fun and mightily impressive”. Robin Ince, Tiernan Douieb and Adam Kay will also be performing their side-splitting solo shows.
Families will also be well catered for at bluedot with a fun-filled line-up of contemporary and classic entertainment. Whistling hello at Jodrell Bank this summer is BAFTA award winning TV show Clangers. Launching on the BBC last year, 47 years after their first appearance, Clangers immediately became the UK’s no1 children’s programme. Kid and big kids alike will be treated to swanee whistles, storytelling, guest appearances and a few surprises…
Gourmets can also expect to find out-of-this-world food at the Restaurant at The End of The Universe. One of the galaxy’s most respected and acclaimed chefs and restaurateurs - Aiden Byrne - has created a stratospheric seven-course menu especially for the event, which takes diners on a space odyssey, navigating an entire cosmos of experimental tastes, for a truly off-world dining experience. Inspired by intergalactic travel and exploration, the chef has taken his cues from astronomy, the cosmos and futurism, with rehydrated and freeze-dried meals normally found on manned missions being replaced by gourmet courses that celebrate space exploration and science. Tickets are strictly limited to 400, are on sale now and expected to sell out fast.
Said bluedot organizer Ben Robinson: “The programme just gets better from a line-up of incredible live artists and DJs to gourmet restaurants to some of the UK’s best comedy talent. Bluedot is shaping up to be a very special event indeed and we still have much, much more to announce across the board including the full science, tech, film and gaming programme. It is quite literally a festival like no-other on the planet.”
Bluedot is supported by the UK Space Agency and the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), Europe’s largest interdisciplinary science meeting taking place for the first time in Manchester 23-27 July 2016.
For those wishing to enjoy the three-day festival, a diverse mix of culinary options will be on offer along with standard and luxury camping options.
Full weekend camping and day tickets are now on sale. Weekend tickets start from £129 and day tickets start from £35. The full bluedot programme will be announced in the coming weeks. More information can be found at: www.discoverthebluedot.com
Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre
The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre welcomes around 160,000 visitors each year, including 21,000 school pupils on educational visits. It showcases the research work of the University’s Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics to a wide audience and aims to inspire the next generation of scientists & engineers. Celebrating its seventieth anniversary this year, the Observatory is famous for its research in radio astronomy and of course the Lovell Telescope, which dominates the site. The world’s largest telescope when it was completed in 1957, it is now more powerful than ever and has become an icon of science & engineering.
EuroScience Open Forum
In July 2016 the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) will come to the UK for the first time; to Manchester, the historical Cottonopolis of the industrial revolution and home of wonder material Graphene. ESOF is Europe’s largest interdisciplinary science meeting, attracting over 4,500 leading researchers, thinkers, innovators, policy makers, journalists and educators from over 90 countries. Over the course of five days (23-27) participants from across the scientific community will discuss and discover modern advancements in science and debate the direction that research is taking in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. ESOF is a major event as part of Manchester’s tenure of European City of Science throughout 2016.
It is the perfect summer cocktail of electro, chill-wave, French Touch and Soulful vocals: Mome is the latest hit-producer from the south of France, who has currently captured the international audiences and iTunes charts with the track "Aloha" which in his home country is already a massive hit. The track features the Australian Merryn Jeann on vocal duties.
As a surfer spends Jérémy Souillart aka Mome is waiting on the shores of oceans for good waves. For the incredibly catchy track "Aloha" Mome turned his own van into a mobile music studio during his stay in Australia where he travelled down under. He moved from a surf spot to the next, he met in Byron Bay also the singer Merryn Jeann who became the vocal guest on the hit single Aloha.
In recent months Mome has already beaten massive waves around the globe with "Aloha": The video for the single, recorded at Vevo over 4,554,947 million views, and has appeared in France in all charts including Hit - Top-3 in the airplay charts and # 6 on iTunes, and No. 2 in the French Shazam charts. With over 20 million streams worldwide, the track has the iTunes Electro charts even conquered in more than 30 other countries - including in Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, in Chile and Argentina, where "Aloha" even occupied the chart peak.
Currently back in Europe, Mome in his music combines such diverse influences as the guitar bands of his youth, French house, electro and even jazz together.
Lyrics :
Soul lover, which way have you moved?
It’s been while since our bodies grooved.
Cosmic love, gave you something gold,
so you wrap it all up and take it
suddenly it’s all real
suddenly it’s all you feel
You’re free now, somehow.
you’re free now, you’re all you have to give.
The unknown now x 4
The things you’ve found
you feel an little younger
and you begin to wonder
what is it you want to love x 3
suddenly it’s all real
suddenly it’s all you feel
You’re free now, somehow.
suddenly it’s all real
suddenly it’s all you feel
You’re free now
You’re all you have and you have it all.
The unknown now x 4
Unknown (repeated)
You release. You give your self a way
to the rhythms of the world adored by the sun’s rays
What’s left to do, but to feel it all
You’re alive now to die as dust, nothing less as something more.
The unknown now x 4"
Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]Mome is definitely making huge waves of interest with his fantastic production Aloha. The original is the perfect combination of tropical exotic sensibilities with trap/electro stryle summery sunkissed grooves while on top the fantastic singer performs so passionately and with so much soul and depth the captivating vocals that give you goosebumps instantly.The track is playful and inventive as it manages to be unique and very stylish indeed. The Geek x Vrv remix is deep, relaxing, smooth trap with dubstep influences and the result is very danceable and highly infectious. There are no vocals as the only voices used are the sampled parts that play the role of a melody in the song and seems to be the latest trend in this music style of tracks. It would be great to add some remixes for the dancefloors. #PureGold Love IT[/content]
The story goes like this: Before overfishing was a thing, The Bearded Man used to love going out fishing on a tiny boat late at night. If you know anything about The Bearded Man, you'll know that it was never about actually catching a fish. In fact, it was so much not about actually catching a fish that one day he found he had made himself a little friend. A tiny fish kept swimming around his rickety paddleboat. Eventually the two got to talking, and they started trading stories. Our hero would talk about climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the fish would talk about swimming the Mariana Trench. The two became fast friends. They shared philosophy, party stories, and talked about what it was that they liked about the moon reflecting on the surface of the water so much. One day, The Bearded Man said: "You know what little fish? You and me were meant to be. In and out, you're a beautiful sole." And then he spent the next several years of his life apologizing for that TERRIBLE pun. (He's truly sorry.)
Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]The Bearded Man takes you by the hand and introduce you to the brilliant chill out electronic pop beauty You and Me by Jyra featuring the captivating Hannah Young voice with a performance that stands out from start to finish. Warm piano chords, smooth relaxing trap like grooves, cinematic vintage strings and lyrics that go beyond the usual and the obvious. #PureGold Love It[/content]
Croquet Club announces ‘Love Exposure’ mini-album coming this summer on Anjunadeep. First three singles ‘Careless Love’, ‘You Left Me’ and ’Summer' available now as instant grat downloads on iTunes, and to stream on all platforms.
Jeremy Villecourt holding the vinyl format of his EP
Frenchman Jeremy Villecourt aka Croquet Club has become an Anjunadeep fan favourite over the past two years with his unique brand of delicate downtempo electronica. With support from international tastemakers like Zane Lowe, Jason Bentley and Rob Da Bank under his belt, and coverage from The Line Of Best Fit, Mixmag and Indie Shuffle, Croquet Club now returns with his most expansive project to date – ‘Love Exposure’.
Following in the footsteps of legendary French acts like Air, Sebastian Tellier and Etienne De Crecy (who featured Croquet Club’s ‘Jacuzzi’ in his latest BBC Essential Mix), the six track mini-album sees Jeremy showcase his quirky style in true gallic fashion.
The blissful beatlessness of ‘Andante’ ushers us into Villecourt’s musical world, before his own vocals appear in the soulful ‘Careless Love’. ‘Summer’ is a joyous slice of dancefloor fun, melodic basslines bouncing beneath wistful vocals.
‘Go Slow’ will be familiar to Anjunadeep regulars after it’s appearance on the iTunes #1 Dance album ‘Anjunadeep 07’ recently – an intricate fusion of soft piano and rolling groove. Jeremy’s vocals take centre stage in 'Eternité' where his breathy lyrics, sung in French, loop hypnotically above bubbling atmospherics, before ‘You Left Me’ ends things on a beautifully contemplative note.
Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"] Croquet Club presents the truly beautiful Love Exposure EP that consists of 6 great tracks that will please your ears and elevate your senses. First of all is the chill out Andante that consists of beautiful synthy layers and cool little piano melody, distorted vocal snippets and sensual female vocals. Its fantastic intro that creates brilliant atmosphere and sets the scenery for the rest of the tracks. Careless Love is a funky electronic number with French disco basslines, mesmerising whispering vocals, cinematic strings and slow lazy calming groove that carry you away to Careless Love moments with soulful Motown music touch. Summer is the upbeat feel good moment of the EP with very eurodance 90's groove while on top percussion melodies and great vocals that cast a spell on you and stay somewhere in your heart for ever. This is the perfect mood changer that can give you that extra adrenaline rush you may need in a bad moody day. Go Slow comes next with very experimental intro that plays around with the Go Slow vocal sample, break beats and abstract melancholic piano chords. The beat is slow and smooth with percussion melodies on top and sound design that adds the 3 dimensional feel as you experience so many different layers of sounds at once. Its an overwhelming refreshing sonic wave for sure. Eternité continues on that romantic nostalgic sound with great piano rhythms and French vocals that add that special unique taste to the package. Lastly You Left Me is based upon a slowing moving little breakbeat groove while on top a very vintage sounding cinematic piano melody travel your mind to black and white photos of your family album while on top are added some pitched vocal samples.This is definitely the soundtrack for the summer. #PureGold Love It[/content]
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of 'Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld' The Orb will be performing a special one-off headline show in London at Electric Brixton with the original family.
The Orb featuring: Alex Paterson, Thomas Fehlmann, Youth, Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy, Andy Falconer, Hugh Vickers, Tom Green, David Herman, Paul Cook (Sex Pistols).
On Friday 29th July, psychedelic electronic titans The Orb will perform their seminal debut album ‘Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld’ in full for the first time ever, to mark its 25th anniversary.
For this very special sliver jubilee gig, Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann will be joined on stage at Electric Brixton by the original cast of collaborators who helped create the magic on this influential, era-defining milestone, plus a special punk icon whose music heavily influenced The Orb.
Paul Cook of Sex Pistols fame will guest on drums and fellow punk legend, Youth, ex-Killing Joke, and original Orb member and ‘Little Fluffy Clouds’ co-writer will join on bass.
Psychedelic-electronic-prog heroes Steve Hillage and partner Miquette Giraudy of Gong & System 7 co-wrote ‘Supernova’ and ‘Backside Of The Moon’, and will also bring their mythical shamanistic magic to this special show.
If all that wasn’t coup enough fellow ‘Ultraworld’ contributors Andy Falconer, Tom Green and Hugh Vickers will also guest, whilst original Orb lighting wizard David Herman will transform Electric Brixton into a vintage fractal technical wonderland.
Amidst the late 80s fervor of acid house The Orb explored their own meandering tangent, drawing on hip hop sample culture, krautrock, kosmische, ambience and a wealth of unusual and unlikely sound sources. In doing so they pioneered a more horizontally-inclined alternative to the jacking trax emanating from discerning nightclubs’ main rooms.
Following a limited number of prototype 12”s from early pre-Orb incarnations, ‘Ultraworld’ was The Orb’s first fully-formed double album realization of the sonic sculpture they’d been finessing, amidst a punk-schooled period of fertile, no-rules creativity.
The album was a critical and chart smash that soundtracked a generation. It still sounds amazing today and its influence on subsequent decades of dance music is immeasurable.
This gig follows Ultraworld’s recent Record Store Day deluxe reissue, which was remastered at Abbey Road Studios and spread over 4-discs of 180-gram audiophile vinyl.
It's all in the name. Blending solid rhythms with rich textures and tonal embellishments, Rudy offers the musical embodiment of the variables of life. And with the tune now calling Subjekt Recordings its home, 'Transformation' might just change the way in which we perceive experimental music. Don't forget to check out the rock-solid renditions of Kris David and Martin Roth while you're at it.
Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]Subjekt recordings returns with another outstanding classy eclectic underground deep house production by Rudy called Transformation. The strong original is supported by two additional remixes making this a very lucrative package. The original mix is a dark moody haunting deep house groover with great drums programming, deep brooding basslines, spacey effects and cinematic strings along with subliminal synthy chords at the background and electronic melodies in the breakdown. The result is cinematic with that mysterious sparkling edge of Subjekt recordings. Martin Roth follows the path of the original by going even more deeper by acquiring minimal arrangement and electro like greedy bassline that allow the spacey sounds, electronic synths and Blade Runner atmosphere to come at the forefront and cast a spell on the listener. Hypnotic, escapist, exciting and very eclectic sounds that actually have trancy infusions as well. Lastly Kris David adds his tribalish grooves, deep haunting pulsating basslines and the various cool synthy spacey sounds to deliver a very danceable smooth and floating production that will give you an out of this world sonic adventure. #PureGold Love it [/content]
Three incredible magical singles with classy music videos taken from the latest extra special album by Schiller called "Future"
SCHILLER // „Once Upon A Time"
SCHILLER // „The Future I + II” // with Kéta
SCHILLER // „Paradise" // with Arlissa
Tracklist - Future
Disk: 1
1. Willkommen
2. The Future I
3. The Future II - Kéta
4. The Future III
5. Rubinrot
6. Sweet Symphony (My Heart Beats Again) - Solomon, Sheppard
7. Paradise - Arlissa
8. Schwerelos
9. Zwischen Gestern und Morgen
10. Something There - Szabo, Maggie
11. Once Upon A Time I
12. Once Upon A Time II
13. I Breathe - Scabbia, Cristina
14. Jupitermond
15. Once Upon A Time - Reprise
16. Looking Out For You (Against The Tide) - Hewitt, E.
Disk: 2
1. Die Reise Geht Weiter
2. Not In Love - Arlissa
3. Little Earthquakes - Solomon, Sheppard
4. Little Earthquakes - Reprise
5. The Wait Is Over - Kéta
6. Turquoise
7. Wellenreiter
8. Mirai
9. Es ist voller Sterne
10. Only Love - Hewitt, E.
11. Save Me A Day - Haber, Samu
12. Die Nacht gehört uns
13. Forget - Kéta
14. For You - Salter, Tawgs
15. Future - Reprise
Disk: 3
1. Exposition - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin / 2013
2. Mitternacht - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin / 2013
3. Desert Empire - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin / 2013
4. Oasis - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin / 2013
5. Denn wer Liebt - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin / 2013
6. Ruhe - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin / 2013
7. Ultramarin - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin / 2013
8. Sonnenuhr - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin / 2013
9. Berlin - Moskau
10. Atemlos - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin / 2013
11. Swan Lake - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin / 2013
12. Das Glockenspiel - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin / 2013
Disk: 4
1. The Future - Pt. 1+2 [Music Video]
2. The Wait Is Over [Music Video]
3. Featurette [Music Video]
4. Opus: Exposition - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin [Music Video]
5. Desert Empire - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin [Music Video]
6. Reverie - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin [Music Video]
7. Oasis - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin [Music Video]
8. Ultramarin - Live aus der Philharmonie, Berlin [Music Video]
9. Berlin - Moskau
10. Desert Empire - Live aus dem Colosseum, Essen [Music Video)
11. Ruhe - Live aus dem Colosseum, Essen [Music Video]
12. Ultramarin - Live aus dem Colosseum, Essen [Music Video]
13. Berlin - Moskau
14. Swan Lake - Live aus dem Colosseum, Essen [Music Video]
15. Das Glockenspiel - Live aus dem Colosseum, Essen [Music Video]
16. Opus: Reprise - Live aus dem Colosseum, Essen [Music Video]
17. Lichtermeer - Live aus der O2 World Berlin [Music Video]
18. Schiller - Live aus der O2 World Berlin [Music Video]
19. Berlin - Moskau
20. Einklang - Live aus der O2 World Berlin [Music Video]
Schiller Live - ARENA TOUR
27.09.16 Dresden
28.09.16 Rostock
29.09.16 Hamburg
30.09.16 Hannover
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Following on from the unparalleled success of Vol. 1., Jean-Michel Jarre’s second and final part to his ground-breaking ‘Electronica’ series, ‘Vol. 2: The Heart of Noise’, is out now and available for all.
Much like its predecessor, ‘The Heart of Noise’ is teeming with some of the greatest musical talents on earth, with a mind-blowing 15 collaborators featured on the 18-track album that was masterminded by Jarre himself.
This time around, Rone, Pet Shop Boys, Primal Scream, Julia Holter, Gary Numan, Jeff Mills, Peaches, Siriusmo, Yello, The Orb, Sebastien Tellier, Hans Zimmer, Cyndi Lauper, Christophe and none other than Edward Snowden have all been handpicked by Jarre to complete his Electronica double album project. As with Vol 1., Jarre personally connected with each of his collaborators and travelled extensively to work together on the music, taking him everywhere from Moscow to see the ostracized Snowden to Los Angeles with Gary Numan.
Having started work on the two-part project almost five years ago, Jarre’s ‘Electronica’ has evolved since day one into its current format. Perhaps the biggest surprise - on an album that features rare contributions from musical legends such as Primal Scream, Peaches, Jeff Mills and The Pet Shops Boys - is the Edward Snowden-featured track, ‘Exit’. A United Nations ambassador for UNESCO, Jarre somehow added to his legend even further with one of the most surprising partnerships in recent memory, and released the official video for the track last week.
‘The Heart of Noise’ is a tribute to Luigi Russolo, Italian composer and builder of experimental musical instruments, who proposed in 1913 in his Futurist manifesto ‘Art of Noises’ a number of conclusions about how electronics and other technology would allow futurist musicians to "substitute for the limited variety of timbres that the orchestra possesses today the infinite variety of timbres in noises, reproduced with appropriate mechanisms". Russolo predicted the dawn of the synthesiser and Electronic Music.
Jarre’s illustrious career has spanned over four decades and he is considered one of the founding fathers of electronic music. Just a few of his feats include selling over 70 million albums worldwide, holding the Guinness World Record for playing to the largest attendance in history (3.5 million in Moscow) and becoming the first Western musician to be invited to perform in post-Mao China in 1981.
The release of Vol. 2 marks a historic moment in the career of Jarre, who having released his most ambitious project to date, will now set his sights on his upcoming live shows and world tour. With a unique and brand-new super production in tow, Jarre will kick things off this summer with a string of outdoor shows at Sónar in Barcelona, Melt! Festival and Bluedot at Jodrell Bank, after which he will move onto major venues across Europe like the 02 Arena in London and AccorHotels Arena in Paris as part of his Electronica World Tour. He will play further dates in Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, Austria, Switzerland and more. See all of Jarre’s official dates here.
Full Tracklisting for ‘Electronica Vol 2: The Heart of Noise’ is:
1.The Heart of Noise Pt. 1: JM Jarre & Rone
2.The Heart of Noise Pt. 2: JM Jarre
3. Brick England: JM Jarre & Pet Shop Boys
4.As One: JM Jarre & Primal Scream
5.Exit - JM Jarre & Edward Snowden
6.These Creatures: JM Jarre & Julia Holter
7.Here For You: JM Jarre & Gary Numan
8.The Architect: JM Jarre & Jeff Mills
9.What You Want: JM Jarre & Peaches
10.Circus: JM Jarre & Siriusmo
11.Why This, Why That, Why: JM Jarre & Yello
12.Switch On Leon: JM Jarre & The Orb
13.Gisele: JM Jarre & Sebastien Tellier
14. Electrees: JM Jarre & Hans Zimmer
15.Swipe To The Right: JM Jarre & Cyndi Lauper
16.Walking The Mile: JM Jarre & Christophe
17.Falling Down: JM Jarre
18.The Heart of Noise (The Origin): JM Jarre
About JEAN-MICHEL JARRE:
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE has been one of the pioneering forces throughout the electronic music scene over the last four decades, having originally made his name in the 1970s for his critically acclaimed album OXYGENE. OXYGENE was unmistakably a catalyst that set electronic music well on its way to becoming the behemoth that it is today, with JEAN-MICHEL's music and follow through albums (Equinoxe, Magnetic Fields, RendezVous, Chronology) breaking down boundaries of composing and production paving the path for what has become today the most popular genre of music of all time. With over 80 million albums sold worldwide to date, musicians and contemporary DJs often refer to JARRE's influence and innovation, not only for his music but also for his singular vision and creation of outdoor concerts experience. JEAN-MICHEL JARRE's legendary concerts have attracted Guinness Record-breaking audiences, with his live shows often, if not always, taking place in some of the most extraordinary settings worldwide. He was the first western musician ever to be invited to perform in post-Mao China, and has also played the likes of the Great Pyramids in Egypt, The Sahara Desert and The Eiffel Tower in addition to perhaps his most famous performance ever, where he played to a record 3.5 million people in Moscow. All in all, JARRE has held Guinness World Records for the largest live audiences over the continents. JEAN-MICHEL JARRE is synonymous with the legendary as he continues to break new ground with each piece of music and live performance.
Cubicolor have emerged as one of the most exciting acts to come through the European underground in recent times. Championed by Pete Tong as one of his artists to watch in 2015, praised by Mixmag, Spin, Clash, and DJ Mag, and supported by a host of heavyweight DJs, Cubicolor look set to break through in 2016 with their forthcoming debut album.
The striking and alternative sound developed across a string of acclaimed EPs on Anjunadeep and a remix for Howling (Âme’s Frank Wiedemann & Ry X) on Monkeytown Records has found it’s way into the sets of many an A-list DJ, including Sasha, George Fitzgerald, Dusky, Joris Voorn, Mano Le Tough, Lee Burridge, Axel Boman, Kölsch, Andhim and Guy Gerber.
On ‘Mirror Play’ featuring frequent collaborator Tim Digby-Bell on vocals, we hear Cubicolor at their adventurous best, layering haunting vocals above evocative keys and atmospheric low-end.
The duo’s previous single ‘Falling’, again in collaboration with Tim Digby-Bell, has amassed over 2.5 million Spotify plays, topped Beatport’s Electronica chart, and been featured on global specialist radio (including BBC Radio 1, BBC6Music, KCRW, SiriusXM Chill, Eins Live and Rai 2).
Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]Cubicolor are truly beloved artists with such a unique sound that you recall their music easily. Their latest track on Anjunadeep is called Mirror Play and we deal with a relaxing smooth dreamy melodic haunting track with balearic guitar riffs, piano chords, magical dreamy cinematic strings and magnificent vocals that manage to transcend you within the brilliant story that Tim sings with so much passion and devotion that can not pass unnoticed. One of the biggest summer anthems is here and screams for remixes. #PureGold Love It[/content]
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Roger Shah’s reputation in the international electronic dance music (EDM) scene spans over 20 years, having worked with and produced for some of the world’s biggest artists such as Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, Sarah McLachlan and Moya Brennan, amongst countless others.
Today we are proud to announce Roger’s newest artist album, entitled ‘Music for Meditation, Yoga & Any Other Wellbeing Moments’, set to be released on Pure Audio Blu-Ray™ and in Auro-3D®. The album, one of Roger’s three artist albums in 2015, is a world premiere as it will be the first album containing meditational music released in Auro-3D®.
The Auro-3D® mix creates an exciting three-dimensional soundscape provided by the addition of a revolutionary Height Layer that produces sound in front, above and all around the listener.
Auro-3D® is an exciting move from two-dimensional surround sound formats to three-dimensional sound and is the only sound system on the market that has both 5.1 Surround and Auro 9.1 in just one standard PCM delivery file delivering high resolution audio in each channel, making easy distribution on any system in the world possible.
‘Music for Meditation, Yoga & Any Other Wellbeing Moments’ will contain a musical atmosphere of chill and ambient vibes, customized for Auro-3D®, a listening format that delivers the most naturally immersive sound experience available today. At the request of his fans, Roger created a new musical journey through a series of unique songs composed for meditation and yoga, perfectly suited for relaxation and peace. The enhancement provided by the Auro 9.1 mix will allow listeners to immerse themselves in a world of tranquility, as intended by the name of the album title. The album will be a collection of musical pieces carefully produced to fit Roger Shah’s name and brand. The fusion of orchestral instruments, combined with warm synth pads and plucks, world music instruments and hybrid electronic sounds, all in Auro-3D®, will surely lift audiences to their highest emotions.
Roger Shah is a 20-year music industry pioneer and a five-time awarded veteran of the DJ Magazine Top 100 poll. He is known for his unique Balearic music style as one of Europe’s most productive electronic music producers and has released countless hits on top 10 chart positions across Europe.
When Roger Shah’s productions go hand in hand with the immersive power that comes from Auro-3D®, the newest album is set to soar.
Roger Shah mentioned,” I am excited by the heightened emotional experience of listening to my music in Auro-3D®. The Auro 9.1 mix truly creates an immersive feeling of sound and makes the true intention of the album come out. The meditational music I produced gets elevated perfectly from the Auro-3D® format and I can’t wait for my audience to experience meditational music on such an enhanced level.’
”Having a renowned artist such as Roger Shah releasing his album in Auro-3D®, is yet another accomplishment to be proud of,“ stated Wilfried Van Baelen, inventor of the Auro-3D® format and CEO of Auro Technologies. ”The meditational music of his newest album and Auro-3D® are the perfect match. Never before has such music been able to provide this kind of an ultimate relaxing feeling.”
Thanks to its backwards compatibility, Auro-3D® mixes of film or music are released on standard Blu-ray™ discs, and the Auro-Matic® upmixing engine allows existing collections of music and film soundtracks to be rendered in 3D sound. The Auro-3D® format is or will soon be available in many consumer applications, with mobile, automotive, and gaming versions all bringing a new immersive and true 3D sound to the market very soon.
The Auro-3D® mix was created by Chief Sound Engineer Patrick Lemmens at Galaxy Studios, Belgium. Patrick was also responsible for the Auro 9.1 mix of the award-winning ‘Lichtmond 3’ album.
‘Music for Meditation, Yoga & Any Other Wellbeing Moments’ will be released on Pure Audio BluRay™ by Black Hole Recordings in Stereo, 5.1 Surround and 9.1 Auro-3D®, all in 24bit/96kHz. The album serves as the second Auro-3D® released by Black Hole Recordings, after having set a standard with the Auro-3D® release of ‘Elements of Life’ by Tiësto
Tracklist:
1. Close Your Eyes
2. Inner Peace
3. Island Of Calm
4. Quiet Your Mind
5. Take A Deep Breath
6. Body And Mind
7. Finding Answers
8. Enlightenment
9. Serenity
10. Finding Your Own Voice
Tritonal continue their meteoric rise after a 41 city sold out North American tour and four Billboard Dance top ten singles as well as with their innovative productions, awe-inspiring live shows, radio & TV accolades and chart-topping releases, the Texan based duo open 2016 with one of their fan’s biggest talking points from 2015, the mysterious ‘ID’ played during their Tritonia Radio 100 celebration in Las Vegas + in their live sets for the last few months. One of Chad & Dave's most anticipated releases to date - 'Blackout' with the incredible voice of Steph Jones, is finally here.
'Blackout' sees Tritonal teaming up with Steph Jones' spine-tingling vocals and assembling a perfectly balanced, flexing bass-heavy Trap influenced production, whilst remaining distinctly Tritonal with impeccable melodic turns to result in an end-product which is perfectly tuned between peak-time energy and sing-a-long euphoria.
‘Blackout’, with its ground-breaking, cross-over production confirms that there are no signs of Tritonal’s rise ever slowing down as 2016 promises to hit new highs for the duo.
Dimitri Kechagias review: Tritonal is one of the most dynamic duos out of Texas, USA that have influenced a whole generation of producers with their unique very personal sound. From the trance roots to the progressive house and the dubstep Blackout one thing remains the same and that is Tritonal ability to compose magnificently emotionally touching feel good melodies. Blackout is one of their most experimental tracks with the version that has just being released be on the leftfield ambient dubstep trap Dj Snake style. Very emotional melodies, superb basslines and wonderful flow that transcends the listener easily to a world that there is Blackout. Steph Jones performance has that pop crossover touch that can support the track to gain daytime radio play and escape the confines of the specialist radio shows. Looking forward for the festival friendly remixes. 10/10 #PureGold Love It
Kicking it off superbly with its enthralling chord progressions, 'Ain't You' emerges as one of the most out-of-the-box creations on the 'Saga' album. John Dahlbäck has worked his magic to craft up a masterpiece that just can't be put into words, and it is bound to leave you speechless. Just have a listen and let it take you away.
Dimitri Kechagias review: The world of electronic music welcomes the brand new album of John Dahlback and the latest single that is released is the very unique and special Ain't You. Rather than providing another full on energetic banger John on Ain't You moves on the more electronic leftfield meets trap territory. The track has great rhythm and groove with pizzicato melodies, piano chords, pitched soulful vocal samples and summery atmosphere that makes it perfect to drop in your mainstage set and keep the bodies moving and grooving. It's the perfect track to calm the spirits for a while and mixed it with a massive banging drop for the ultimate mainstage extravaganza effect! #PureGold 10/10 Love It
With the sound of the organic human voice now at the center of his music, Pablo Nouvelle has created an extraordinary album to shape the new future with. Allowing for an almost physical sense of landscape and distant horizons to thrive, the studio magician conjures a strong feeling of space and mood through a broad palette of differently colored voices.
Dimitri Kechagias review: Armada Music invests on great electronic music talents like Pablo Nouvelle who delivers the single I Will featuring Sam Wills on vocal duties. The record is simply magical with laid back grooves, cinematic strings, vintage synths and soulful vocals with memorable lyrics that anybody can identify easily with them and will be played many times particularly late at night radio shows. Dreamy arrangement with romantic melodies and very spacious highly eclectic production values that make instantly the difference and attract the attention of any listener instantly. Music for the body, hearts and minds to connect people in amazing ways. #PureGold 10/10 Love It
