Techno
AGARIC "Surfacing"
The first Kontra-Musik release is an Agaric three-tracker. The a-side will and has already proved to be the perfect dance floor track while the b-side shows a deeper and more serious side of the label. With its funky base line and humoristic build up-break, Subaquatic Mechanic brings new life in to the myth of Atlantis. Playing Games on the other hand, is techno for the David Lynch generation. The atmosphere is so dense you can feel it. The finishing track, High Voltage Monkey, brings it all down before it wraps it all up to a complete product. -Kontra..
MOKIRA "Skaka hund skaka"
Cruel dark and claustrophobic, techno without the bangin´.There is real functional techno inside but the most on this one is the MOKIRA dark softiness.....
TYLER FRIEDMAN "Revolve"
On the debut track Revolve dramatic layers of melodic and harmonic “noize” rise and fall in and out of a very dynamic composition. Sound textures flies and vibrates over advanced minimal rhythmical structures and sub bass before vanishing to give room for something new. This is techno that takes the listener away from linear composition; this is techno with strong will to move the genre in new directions and break away from the club norm. Or as Tyler chooses to describe it: - An initial attempt at a slight turn of the wheel, without straying too far from home...On the b-side label mates Jonsson & Alter transforms Tyler´s take on dancemusic into a dreamy hallucination. For over eleven minutes Jonsson & Alter extracts bass sounds and gliding tonal textures of the originals and takes us on a deep and very trippy journey into Taxi Driver territory. Suitable the remix is called Tylers´s Dream. And we just love it. -Kontra..
FRAK "Prisma"
The
Kontra-Musik white label series is back with more dirty techno experiments
from Frak. ..
Anton Zap & Luke Hess
"Our Music is a Secret Order (Remixed)"
Kontra-Musik
km009
km009
(12")
(Techno)
2009100.00 SEK
Anton Zap & Luke Hess "Our Music is a Secret Order (Remixed)"
First out is the grandson of Moscow - Anton Zap, with a remix of the track Half. In the hands of Anton, the original is present but with a major Zap stamp on it. Bent and quirky sounds, warm harmonies and baseline are edited into great house music. It is not often a remix out stands the original, but this time it might be the case.On the b-side Luke Hess gives his blessing to the dub track Midwest_N. As the name implies we are going for a deep techno ride to Detroit. With scientific perfectionism, Hess approaches the dance floor, mixing warm sound-scapes and dub-cords with driving melodies, cymbals and claps. The result is once again elegantly produced mind transforming dance music. -Kontra..
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JASON FINE
"Our Music is a Secret Order (Part One)"
Kontra-Musik
km008.1
km008.1
(12" EP)
(Techno)
2008100.00 SEK
JASON FINE "Our Music is a Secret Order (Part One)"
Our Music is a Secret Order. But we are not rich powerful men in suits planning how to get even richer. Nor are we dressing in capes performing occult or religious sermonize. We are no elite trying to separate ourselves from others. No, we are ordinary down to earth people. What unites us is that we live and breathe music. It is our passion and our drive. And it has been like that since we discovered that music must be an expression of the human soul. -Kontra..
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JASON FINE
"Our Music is a Secret Order (Part Two)"
Kontra-Musik
km008.2
km008.2
(12" EP)
(Techno)
2008100.00 SEK
JASON FINE "Our Music is a Secret Order (Part Two)"
Or as Jason Fine puts it: “In my opinion, making deep music is not possible without a strong internal connection between the user and their feelings. Ultimately the end product is a reflection of what the user was feeling while making the piece. I think it's important to listen to your creative flow and respect it -- I don't try to make music when I’m not feeling it, because guaranteed nothing but shit is going to come of it. It all boils down to what I’m feeling at that particular moment in time when I create a piece. With these words we welcome you to the first full length album release on the Kontra-Musik imprint - “Our Music is a Secret Order” (Louis Armstrong, 1954). Producer is greatly talented newcomer Jason Fine, who released his superb debut EP on Omar-S´ FXHE label last year. The twelve pieces of minimal Detroit sounds you are about to hear, were sent to us as one package. We were blown away and there was nothing else to do but surrender to its quality and sign them all. Now ..
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JONSSON/ALTER "Olidan"
There has been a lot of talk about a Nordic house sound lately. When Jonsson/Alter enters the arena, they nail it. Spot on. It all started with some old synthesizers and the will to play. Jonsson and Alter met in Gothenburg, Sweden, years ago. In 2010 they found themselves being neighbors in Berlin, Neue Köln. One day Jonsson went over to Alter, checking out some abandoned synthesizers Alter found in the streets. A jam session started that has not yet ended." -Kontra..
Marcel Dettmann / Scuba "Kontra-Musik-Mixes"
First out is the track Playing Games, originally produced by Agaric. In the hands of Marcel Dettmann Playing Games is turned into something completely new. Starting off with a pounding Maurizio-inspired bass line, tiny and delicate changes suck the listener into a void of sound. Without disturbing the monotony, Dettmann elegantly moves this remix towards late night techno salvation.On the b-side the track Kontrafunk, produced by Tobias von Hofsten, is being reworked by dubstep producer Scuba. This is a remix that seeks inspiration in the concept of “kontra”, as in the meaning of two against each other standing entities. A melody structure, that brings the thought to Goldie's Timeless, is backed up by hard hitting drum programming and distorted bass. In this fusion of opposite forces, plus and minus, soft and hard, the out come is true Kontrafunk. -Kontra ..
MARCEL DETTMANN "Kontra-Mokira-Mixes"
Two mind-blowing techno pieces from Marcel Dettmann (Ostgut Ton, MDR) is next on Kontra-Musik Records. With parts, samples and inspiration from Swedish experimental dub/drone act Mokira (Type, Raster Noton, Mille Plateaux), Dettmann delivers two brand new tracks for the label. -Kontra..
DANIEL ANDREASSON "Insular EP"
A bit faster than Daniels releases on Tabernakel.But... Still great techno wild style!..
ONE "Have a heart"
In 1999 he went to Detroit for the first time. The goal was to attend the DEMF (Detroit Electronic Music Festival) and experience the music that he loved on location. He visited the Submerge building and spent valuable time with people like Mad Mike and Ron Murphy. On his return to Stockholm and Sweden, Tobias musical path was clearer than ever. Funk was now more important to Hofsten than beating out hard kicks, and classics like “I Love My 808” and “Swinger” was the result. Tobias later became ONE, and set out to be the messenger of machine funk he is today. -Kontra..
JASON FINE "Future Thought (Part Two)"
Amplitude modulation gives you an energetic techno track without losing in melody and funk. Broken home is warm electro brings thought to Claro Intelecto masterpiece Peace of Mind. But Future Thought also contains several deeper house excursions. Take the track Cream, so unique, so heavy and so warm at the same time. Not to mention Butterscotch – spacey and floating, releasing all tension in body and mind. Before the end, Jason leaves us with Many to many, a positive house track melting away in pads and sweet harmony. -Kontra..
JASON FINE "Future Thought (Part One)"
The dance music producer today can, to categorize, be divided into two types. First we have the producer, and this is the majority - who skillfully manipulate sound to satisfy dance floors and clubs. Then there is the musician - a person who transforms human thought and emotion into music. This is the category that best describes Jason. What comes out of his studio is always something very personal and special. The sounds are old school but the outcome is so much Jason’s own, that if feels very fresh and new. On Future Thought, the follow up the much acclaimed album, Our Music is a Secret Order – released on Kontra-Musik in 2008, Jason once again sets his mind to spin, this time towards the future, and out comes electronic music full of human presence. Or as Jason Fine puts it: “I am constantly thinking about the future, future of technology, humanity and the earth. So this series of tracks is an auditory representation of my future thought.” -Kontra..
Kondens & Norman Nodge "First Cut EP"
Kondens is a collaboration between Swedish electronic music veterans Andreas Tilliander (Mille Plateaux/Force Inc, Raster-Noton and Repeatle) and Stefan Thor aka Folie (Mitek). The sound is a hybrid of techy dubstep with a twist and banging dub-influenced techno. Pure peak time bliss without losing the love for dub and tape delays. The vinyl debut, First Cut EP, includes a stunning deep techno remix signed Norman Nodge. -Kontra ..
JASON FINE "Colors"
All though more moody than previous releases, Jason Fine continues to play around with layered melodies and harmony mixed with raw and funky drum programming. The EP opens with the track Orange, a beautiful monotone organ based techno track, revealing hard times. Violet continues in the same vein. Blue melodies play around over minor organ chords and heavy kick drum. On the inner tracks Blue and Red Jason with confidence moves into the electro territory, still keeping emotion and atmosphere up front. Even though the concept behind this EP is the full color spectrum, the mood is all over blue. -Kontra..
BENJAMIN SYRA
"Avfyra fyra yra syra"
Sorgenfri Productions
sfri010
sfri010
(12" EP)
(Techno)
2012100.00 SEK
100.00 SEK
POWDER "Afrorgan"
-BACK IN STOCK-Contains both Beautiful stuff & experimental beats.Very nice follow up from the last one on Born Free. ..
TYLER FRIEDMAN "A Night in the Woods"
The second of two EPs from talented Californian newcomer, Tyler Friedman, has now arrived. A Night in the Woods EP offers another cinematic techno cut from Tyler, this time with a bomb remix from label mate Rivet on the b-side. -Kontra..
MIGHTY THOR "Tralfamadore"
Uptempo Sci-Fi techno from Mighty Thor ( Drumcode / Hundarna fran soder ) & droning remix from Florian Kupfer ( L.I.E.S.) on the flipside. -BF..
COMPILATION "tRenoLLtRe"
Great techno comp. Side A (Klorex 55 & Egyptian Eyeliner) Normal tempo experimental techno... Side B (Towlie & Empfänger) a bit faster and harder.....
SEXAZOID "Up 'n' Coming"
-BACK IN STOCK- Very good & experimental dance.The wind from the mid 90´s Chicago in sound.Suppacool!!! ..
DJ DOGG & FURIOUS FRANK
"Space Call/Flamen Galah"
Butter Sessions Records
bsr009
bsr009
(12" EP)
(Techno)
2016110.00 SEK
DJ DOGG & FURIOUS FRANK "Space Call/Flamen Galah"
Nice Techno & House. Remix by Fett burger etc.....
110.00 SEK
COMPILATION
"Butter Sessions Vol 5 (Sounds From The Suburbs) "
Butter Sessions Records
bsr005
bsr005
(12" EP)
(Techno)
2015120.00 SEK
COMPILATION "Butter Sessions Vol 5 (Sounds From The Suburbs) "
Australian techno experiments recorded between 2014-2015.True AU underground! ..
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DAN WHITE "Off Bluff"
Classic vibe techno, cool Detroit feelings...and UK Break Beat - Djungle!Vocal samples that take you back some 20 years or so...However, this is a great techno ep packed in full color cover. ..
WOODY McBRIDE "When Good Times Turn Sour"
4 vintage acid trax...Recorded in Minneapolis - USA.Instrumentation: Roland TB303 (several), TR909 ..
STREETWALKER "Future Fusion"
Chicago duo Streetwalker, comprised of molecular biologist Beau Wanzer (Mutant Beat Dance/L.I.E.S) and electronic music aesthete Elon Katz (White Car/Hippos in Tanks), wrote their debut album ‘Future Fusion’ over the course of two years. Through endless experimentation and analog improvisation, they have constructed an entirely new sound showcasing vibrant hand-played synthesizer, vulnerable vocals, and serpentine drum lines. Streetwalker’s distinct song structures are characterized as much by restraint, timing, and subtle shift as by the cyclic abandon of the loop. Having recorded the entire album over one humid weekend in the Chicago studio, Minbal, the duo’s recording process mirrored this tension. Much like a rock record, each track was recorded entirely live to 1 inch tape - no overdubs, no MIDI programming - and then painstakingly mixed with digital precision during the six months that followed.In line with this principle of handcrafted reconfiguration, artwork for the LP was pro..
BROKEN ENGLISH CLUB "Scars"
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Cititrax is proud to present a 4 song EP by Broken English Club. After the strong reception of the Violence & Divinity split with Silent Servant as well as his solo EP for Jealous God, here Oliver Ho (also known for his Raudive alias) continues in a similar vein, delivering sparse vocals and shards of live instrumentation over heavy, stuttering beats and bleak synths. The tracks on this EP are rich and darkly atmospheric, pulsating loudly through a smog filled dance floor. A subversive spin on dance music, the blank-stared, pin-point-focused electronics and layers of noise betray no/wave and post punk influences, dragging together industrial experimentation and pitch-black techno. Artwork designed by Veronica Vasicka and sourced from the archives of Silent Servant, the Broken English Scars EP features a one of a kind vinyl pressing of white inside clear – limited to 999 copies and housed in a matte printed sleeve. -MW..