Mars Volta – Frances The Mute (full album)
Mars Volta has always been an huge inspiration. You won’t hear that in our sound, because we are simply not able to play instruments like this, haha. It’s one of the bands you always admire, but will never ever reach their genius. The best album is ‘Frances the Mute’. It’s impossible to choose one song because you can’t split this concept album in songs. You need to listen to it from the beginning to the end.
Mount Kimbie – Carbonated
This song has always been an influence because of it’s organic, airy atmosphere.
The production is just perfect and makes you feel like having a fresh open-air shower on a hot summer’s day
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John Frusciante – 23 Go To The End
One of our favourite artists with one of his best songs. Andy bought all John has released on vinyl. We admire his way of making really honest music.
Pantha du Prince – Saturn Strobe
Clearly a huge influence. We saw him sevweral times. And it always has been a bliss.
SebastiAn – Walkman
This is one classic track we began to DJ around 2006. At this time we brought a Computer + Monitor to every gig. We made the mixes with mouse and keyboard. Funny times with funny music!
Siva – Songs We Forgot To Sing
One of our favorite bands we discovered as a support band of Portugal.The man. After that night, we were convinced that they were the actual highlight and we never forgot them. After splitting up they made their comeback this year and we are looking forward to their new stuff.
John Roberts – Glass Eights (full album)
One of our true heroes, his own style and aesthetics in sound are quite unique. We were quite lucky to play on the same floor one time in Vienna’s Pratersauna which was legendary at this time.
Acid Pauli – Breaking The Claves
We watched him playing the warmup at Munich’s Rote Sonne when we were still very young on a regular basis. We admired him because he was also the “beats guy” at The Notwist, what is still one of our favorite bands. He was also one of the first DJs and producers from Europe who was influenced by South American music and we never lost track of him when he started to play slower and more organic. The development of his style went in line with our DJ-sets and as a result he is still very present in our sets. This trancy, trippy older tune was one of the first vinyl records played by us back in the days.
Sigur Rós – Untitled 8
We almost never missed a concert of this band near us, until this point, this track has always been the very last track in their concerts. The way Jonsi, the lead singer, plays his guitar and the fact that they are singing in an own language is very innovative while addressing to very classic sound aesthetics at the same time. Music that makes you cry, at least almost.
Nils Frahm – Says
The way he uses his hardware and how he creates these mighty soundscapes is something that might only the artist himself knows. But nevertheless, he is the perfect example for using your equipment in the right way.
Oberst & Buchner – Emilix (Freeride Millenium)
The next Freeride Millennium release finds the label link with Pauls Boutique for a remix package of the original Emile EP, which is out now on vinyl and still doing the business. Those inducted to add their own spin are Rolbac from Beirut, 959er & F.I.E.L.D.Y from Munich, and Eluize and La Fraicheur from Berlin. The package comes with a fine cover designed by Daniel Rajcsanyi.
Up first is Rolbac, someone deeply routed in the underground scene in Beirut, organising and hosting his own events there. His musical output comes on Kindisch, Einmusika and Fantome De Nuit, and here his fresh version of ‘Embrace’ is a trippy and deep electro cut with punchy drums and scatted hits. Spangled bass brings the wonkiness and makes it a perfect tune to freak out late night crowds.
La Fraicheur has lived and played all over Europe and is someone who serves up deep and emotional techno. As well as marathon sets at places like Berlin’s Wilde Renate, she had a
residency with the legendary Underground Resistance in Detroit this summer, and is also part of the Female:Pressure network. Her unique take on ‘Greg’ is a hard hitting techno track offset by curious piano keys and frazzled synths. It’s wrought with energy and twists and pulls you in many different directions.
Eluize is a Berlin artist well known to locals in-the-know for her sets at cult places like about://blank and her own label Night Tide a place for deep house, techno and acid with a moody twist. She superbly reworks ‘Emile’ into an acrobatic deep house cut with a stepping bassline. Thunderous claps add scale to this heads down and atmospheric classic.
Finally, 959er is a DJ institution and key part of the Wannda family that is deeply routed in the cultural scene of Munich, as well as being involved with the Wannda Musik label. Here linking with F.I.E.L.D.Y, they brilliantly flip ‘Greg’ into a loose limbed, funky cosmic groove with fluid bass and splashing hits that really make you cut loose.
Out Now… Oberst & Buchner – Emilix (Freeride Millenium) FM007/PM010.6
