Music

The Cosmic Lounge presents Techno Music: ‘Hacker’ by Anthony Rother.

“Anthony Rother is an electronic music composer, producer and label owner living in Frankfurt, Germany. He is one of the artists responsible for the turn-of-the-millennium revival of the electro genre, which was originally introduced in the late 1970’s by the German band Kraftwerk, who have had a major influence on Rother’s music.
Rother’s electro sound (”Sex With the Machines”, “Simulationszeitalter”, “Hacker”) is characterized by repetitive machine-like beats, robotic, vocoder-driven vocals, melancholy, futuristic mood and lyrics that often deal with the consequences of technological progress, the relationship between humans and machines, and the role of computers in society.
In addition to electro, Rother also composes dark ambient music (”Elixir of Life”, “Art Is a Technology”). He owns and operates the record label PSI49NET, though he has also worked with many other record labels throughout his career.”

http://www.last.fm/music/Anthony+Rother

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The Cosmic Lounge presents Deep House Music: ‘Lay Of The Land’ by Plej.

“”Deep and Funky with smooth mellow beats over perfect lyrics and it’s totaly addictive!”

These are the few keywords to describe Electronic Music From The Swedish West Coast by Plej. Although entire album is great, specially “Blue” and “You” are just fantastic tracks and already in my all time favorites list.Like one of their fans said on their myspace page;
“How can you find so much warmth without sun?”

Paul Sullivan of BBC reviewed this amazing album immaculately:
The name Plej was originally created for the record label of Swedish siblings Arvid and Ertik Niklasson. But as their studio antics progressed, they decided that making music was more fun than selling it – and adopted the name as a production moniker. The hazy, black and white images of forests and mountains that adorn the cover of their debut LP Electronic Music From The Swedish Leftcoast seem to somehow suit the wobbly, wistful semantics of their nom-de-disque, hinting simultaneously at the dreamily organic contents that lie within.

Plej’s previous output hasn’t been abundant but it has been frighteningly consistent. Anyone who has laid ears on their Shimmer and Sky series EPs or their recent “You” track will know already their penchant for creating naturally unfurling deep house which occasionally dips into more experimental micro-house territory – a style they endearingly refer to it as small house.

For those that haven’t yet been seduced by the duo’s velvety caresses, this album is as good a place as any to get acquainted. Opening cut “Lay Of The Land” immediately offers an example of how they like to infuse their studio beats with a sense of outdoorsy lushness, glazing their 4-4 chugs with delicate layers of coruscating synths and not a little magical moonlight.

The LP unwinds in a similarly rustic manner. The smudged, glacial “Blue”, the trumpet-enhanced “Seasons” (the first single from the LP), the insouciant harmonies on “Song”, the shimmering disco tendrils of “Jabo’s Night Out” and the soft-as-snowflake funk of “Shimmer”, all conjure up unashamed feelings of well-being and optimism and make for a thoroughly addictive record.

“Soulset” and “A Jabo Thought” provide the obligatory downtempo moments, but really this LP is about moving club sounds into arenas of experimentation and sexiness. Lying somewhere between the whispered grooves of Herbert, the quirkiness of Isolee and the lush depth of Naked Music, it’s the sound of deep house getting its kit off and running joyously through the hills.”

http://www.last.fm/music/Plej

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The Cosmic Lounge presents Nu-Jazz Music: ‘Let Me Be’ by Miguel Migs feat. Fred Ross.

“Miguel Migs (real name Michael Steward, also known by the pseudonym Petalpusher) is a Deep House Disc jockey and producer from San Francisco, California.

Migs began his music career at 18 years old, as a lead guitarist and songwriter for a Santa Cruz local band called Zion Sounds. The band split up in the mid-1990s, however Zion Sounds african and jamaican style is said to have been a major influence in Migs personal career. After the band dissolved, Miguel Migs went on to explore electronic music production.

Miguel has produced over 100 remixes to date, including remixes for a number of mainstream artists. Such artists include Britney Spears, Macy Gray and Lionel Richie. Migs has been associated with a variety of record labels, most notably Naked Music Recordings.

In 1998 Miguel co-founded the deep house record label Transport Recordings, along with fellow DJ MFR and Naked Music label director Bruno Ybarra. According to a 2004 article by Stephen Thanabalan in DJ Magazine, Migs was credited for his soul-driven vibes and hailed as one of the pioneers of the nascent house and chill-out revival scene alongside Dimitri from Paris and Bob Sinclair as a result of his early foray into Deep House in the late 1990s and early 2000s, releasing several highly sought after singles and remixes under the Petalpusher pseudonym. Most recently, in 2005, he founded Salted Music, a record label under Om Records.

Miguel Migs stands at the forefront of electronic musics soulful realm. Whether tackling his original productions or remixes, he achieves an organic-soulful sound by combining the best of both the electronic music world and live instrumentation.

For many years, Miguels productions have been included on countless compilations and his records have slid into the crates of top DJs across the globe. His music has also landed on numerous TV Shows, including Six Feet Under, Sex in the City, and MTVs Road Rules and Real World.

Contrary to many of his club-centric DJ/producer peers, Miguel is not always concerned with the potential dance floor appeal of his soulful tracks. Its music you can enjoy and listen to at home, in the club, or anywhere. Not necessarily just to rock the dance floor. explains the Northern California native, who grew up with a true love of reggae, soul, classic rock, jazz, hip-hop and just about everything else.

His impressive discography includes more than 100 original productions and remixes on seminal independent labels such as Salted Music, Naked Music, Astralwerks, Yoshitoshi, NRK, Black Vinyl, Large, Chez, Transport Recordings, Om Records, Defected Records and many others. His recordings have consistently made waves in the underground circuit and have landed on DJ hype charts internationally. He is highly regarded when it comes to remixes, having worked with major label artists such as Macy Gray, Lionel Ritchie and Britney Spears. Miguel additionally has released numerous mix CD compilations on labels including Defected, Naked Music, Southport Weekender and NRK.

Never one to sit still, Migs started his own label Salted Music in 2004. Having been associated with an extensive number of labels throughout his career, he came to realize a desire to have his own base, a vehicle for building his own catalogue of quality material. Salted Music is a foundation for Migs to choose and release music that inspires him, as well as release his own productions and compilations.

As a producer, Miguel realizes a strong connection between his electronic music productions and live musical background. He writes his own lyrics and plays his own instruments, be it guitar, bass, percussion or keyboard.

As a DJ, Miguel was recognized and nominated for best DJ in the 2004 House Music Awards held in London. Migs maintains the same approach to his sets as to his productions, combining a variety of influences and styles fused together. The result is funky, deep, soulful, bumping house music. I like to mix it up and keep it moving smoothly, taking the dance floor through a very spontaneous mix into the realms of quality, deep house music depending on the mood in the room, says Migs. But, whether its vocal, tracky, dubby, moody, percussive or broken beat, the sound always remains soulful and funky.”

http://www.last.fm/music/Miguel+Migs

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Singer: Kylie Minogue
Album: Body Language
Track # : 9
Label : Capitol Records, Parlophone / EMI Music
Year : 2003

Lyrics:

Flowers grow, They’re everywhere you go, I feel, I feel, Rainbow sky,
Whenever you are by, I feel, I feel, I feel for you, I can go on and on and
on and on, I feel, I feel, I feel, You know I feel for you, Stars appear,
The moment you are near, I feel, I feel, Every second of the day, You know I
just can’t stay away, Baby when you’re next to me, That’s the way I like to
feel, Colour shine, A sunbeam through my mind.

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Singer: Kylie Minogue
Album: Body Language
Track # : 5
Label : Capitol Records, Parlophone / EMI Music
Year : 2003

Lyrics:

Check out this groove are you walking on air, Going into a new dimension
yeah, So put your vibes on my beat and we’ll lay it down like that, Slap the
high hat in, put the fairlight on the track, And we can get, Crazy like
that, Feel it like that, Move it like that, Drop it like that, Rocking the
track, I’m looking for that new sensation, Woohoo!!, I think we’re onto
something, Your taste it mirrors mine, So hot and in the moment, Lets beat
this demo right, Or I might just lose it, When we make sweet music, No
feather bed, no exotic affair, yeah, Got samples and scratches lets do it
right here, ’cause every heart beat babe is the sound track to your life,
And every mad effect must be sent to get me high.

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Claude Vonstroke – Big N Round (Maetrik Remix)

What started as a fake name and small booking at a friends birthday party has spiraled into an international DJ career for Claude VonStroke (aka Barclay Crenshaw.) One night in San Francisco after a long night of partying, Barclay and his friends began to make up fake European DJ names. Just kidding around, Barclay came up with Claude VonStroke. It ended up sticking after someone at the party booked him to DJ and used the new moniker on the flyer.
Raised in the suburbs Detroit, Barclay Crenshaw fell in love with the beat by listening to popular broadcasts of the Electrifying Mojos Midnight Funk Association on local radio. At age 16, after mastering the small 4-track recorder used at his high school, Barclay and good friend Jamie Osborne looked through the phone book and visited Juan Atkins fledgling Metroplex recordings. They tried unsuccessfully to convince Atkins to hire them as sound engineers and music producers. Little did they know, Mr. Atkins would soon go on to become the godfather of techno.

After University in New York and a 4 diversion in Hollywood working as an assistant on a series of big budget feature films, Barclay moved back to Detroit and re-discovered his passion for electronic music. He was initially inspired by listening to drum n bass mix tapes from the UK. He built a massive live rig of synthesizers and samplers and played live at local Poor Boy underground warehouse parties until he lost all of his music in an electrical outage.

One year later, Barclay re-located to San Francisco and decided to merge his passion for music and film by releasing Intellect, a six hour DVD package, self-directed and produced, covering the worldwide electronic music scene and including interviews with over 35 top producers and legendary DJs such as Derrick May, Swayzak, Derrick Carter, Dubfire, and Theo Parrish. The main goal of the Intellect project was to make an informative DVD that could help DJs advance their careers in electronic music. The result was Crenshaw taking lessons from his own DVD by starting a record label called dirtybird and a production career under the name Claude VonStroke.
Since 2005, dirtybird has carved out a niche as a premiere American tech funk label and has released over 20 EPs. Claude VonStrokes very first record, Deep Throat, was a major hit of 2005. The success of the single was followed up by Whos Afraid of Detroit?, another international hit championed by Richie Hawtin who called it the best track of 2006 in DJ magazine. Soon after that Claude released his full-length debut album, Beware of the Bird to outstanding reviews, further establishing him as an original talent in the underground. Since then, he has recorded over 25 remixes for a range of commercial and underground artists from Indy rock group The Rapture to Detroit techno legend Kevin Saunderson.
In an effort to give something back to the community Claude unveiled a deeper techno label called mothership in 2007. A large percentage of the labels proceeds go to a music school for children in Claudes hometown of Detroit, Michigan. This label features a more euro flavor featuring groups like Catz n Dogz, Italoboyz Maetrik and Voodeux.
Claude has also headlined almost every major club, festival and basement after-party in the world from Fabric to Panorama Bar to DEdge. The outdoor dirtybird parties in San Franciscos scenic Golden Gate Park have also become a legendary summer destination point for both locals and international travelers. A VonStroke DJ set is based on meticulous track selection and outrageous risk taking. He always takes time to find the special ass-wiggling cuts that keep the dance-floor percolating.
In 2009, Claude is very excited to be mixing Fabric 46. He will also return to the studio and release his 2nd artist album.

source : http://dirtybirdrecords.com/claude-vonstroke#more-98

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The Cosmic Lounge presents Nu-Jazz Music: ‘Follow Me’ by Tiefschwarz.

“Tiefschwarz are a German electro house group formed by two brothers, Ali Schwarz and Basti Schwarz in 1996.

They performed deep house DJ sets in some of the biggest clubs in Germany and Switzerland as well as in major foreign cities and became increasingly popular in the house scene.

Full bio
Tiefschwarz was formed in 1996 by two brothers – Ali and Basti Schwarz – who have been successful DJs for over a decade. Peter Hoff, who runs the Benztown studios in Stuttgart, completes the Tiefschwarz production team. Ali and Basti came up with the name for their project after a DJ gig. Tiefschwarz, which is German for ‘deep black’, is a mixture of their last name, Schwarz, and their love for deep house.

In 1990 Ali opened the “on-u” club in Stuttgart, which became a pioneer of the German club scene. Three years later came the “red dog” club, which quickly became known throughout the world as a top address for deep house. Here, resident DJs Ali and Basti played alongside the likes of DJ greats such as Tony Humphries, Master At Work, Frankie Feliciano, Mike Dunn, Mousse T, Matthew Herbert, Lary Heard, Chris Coco, Matthias Heilbronn and many others.

Besides their work as resident DJs, Ali and Basti have been travelling together throughout Europe and overseas since 1995. They’ve played at countless major events and the most popular clubs in both Germany and Switzerland (Zürich, Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Basle, etc.) as well as in major foreign cities, such as Miami (W.M.C.), New York, Washington, Melbourne, Sydney, Prague, Sarajevo, Amsterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Rimini, Stockholm, London, Leeds, Sheffield, Ibiza, etc.

After six years of DJing and promoting, the two brothers began producing their own tracks. They co-founded the “continuemusics” label in 1996, on which their first single, “24 seven,” with remixes by Boris Dlugosh and Michi Lange, was released along with four other tracks.

In 1998, Tiefschwarz signed a record deal with edel/benztown records. This proved to be a turning point in their career. Their first release, “music,” featuring Joy Denalane of the hip-hop formation Freundeskreis, was not only a hit in Germany (9 weeks at No. 1 on the MTV Germany Dance Charts and No. 1 on Germany’s Club Charts), but proved to be very successful in the UK as well. “music” was licensed to the famous “wave music” label in N.Y.C. run by François Kevokian and was remixed by Matthias Heilbronn.

Tiefschwarz have remixed around 30 tracks for artists such as Ultra Naté, Byron Stingily, Jam & Spoon, Jennifer Paige, Randy Crawford, Master At Work, Earth Wind and Fire, Shakatak, Mousse T., AWA band, Whirlpool prod., Sabrina Johnson and Sharon Philips.

The name Tiefschwarz stands high alongside other legendary German acts such as Boris Dlugosch, Mousse T., Knee Deep, Ian Pooley, Dixon, Jazzanova, Rainer Trüby, Ata and Vincenzo. As DJs, Tiefschwarz have gained a great reputation on the international house scene.

Their debut album, “ral 9005″, is a skilled and smooth voyage through their daringly diverse cosmos of musical experience. As varied as their influences may be, Tiefschwarz never fail to integrate their own, undeniably unique sound. “ral 9005″ covers the spectrum — from the playful excursions into Nu Jazz (mars, fusion I, fusion II) and the soul-filled deep house and garage tracks (there is, you, never, city-sounds, music) to 80s beats (springtime), down beat electro (follow me), soundtrack-style pop (bye bye baby) and kicking club music (no more trouble, acid soul, sky diving). This is all polished off by an intricate and powerful production.

Their second album Eat Books includes the well known track Damage featuring Everything But The Girl vocalist Tracey Thorn.”

http://www.last.fm/music/Tiefschwarz

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Boing Boing presents a music video from the N.A.S.A project: “Spacious Thoughts,” featuring Tom Waits & Kool Keith, directed by Fluorescent Hill. More on “the making of”, and interview with artists: http://tinyurl.com/yh39eww

[ CREDITS ]

N.A.S.A. Project
online: myspace.com/nasa

Tom Waits:
online: tomwaits.com

Kool Keith:
online: koolkeith.co.uk

Record Label
Anti- records and Spectrophonic Sound

Director
Fluorescent Hill
online: fluorescenthill.com

Production Company
Fluorescent Hill

Executive Producer
Fluorescent Hill

Post Production
Fluorescent Hill

Creative Director
Fluorescent Hill

Design
Fluorescent Hill

Animation
Mark Lomond, Johanne Ste-Marie, Jacques Khouri

Modeler/Rigger
Jacques Khouri

SqueakEClean Productions Creative Director
Syd Garon

SqueakEClean Productions Executive Producer
Susan Applegate

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