As 2019 comes to an end the Torture the Artist team sat down together to compile the end of the year chart that represents, of course, a personal preferences and what the site and its members musically stand for. So here’s the top50 of 2019 heavilly discussed and carefully chosen.
Stakes is High is Torture the Artist’s monthly Spotify playlist with music appreciated, favored or causing some buzz in and around world wide dance floors at the moment.
The first part of Torture the Artist's 5th anniversary compilation 'fivefourtwentytwenty' comes with tracks/ edits from Ditian, Avidus, Imperiéux and Ivory which are summed up under the code 'eleventwotwentytwenty', meaning 11 days until 2020.
Torture the Artist celebrates its 5th anniversary with the release of 'fivefourtwentytwentyone', a compilation compiled and mixed by the webzine-founder himself, Holger Breuer.
Hamburg trio RSS Disco is set to release 'Lunar Fling' on their very own label Mireia Records. Besides the orginal track it's Northern Germany-rooted producer Aera who adds his flavor to the orginal take.
Berliners Foreign Guest and Wewerka are next on Sasse's Moodmusic label and contribute the four tracker 'Phasonator'.
He’s a resident at Robert Johnson, a ‘tuff city kid’ and a ‘brontosauru’s when it comes to studio work. After releasing his album ‘Power’ on Gerd Janson’s Running Back label last year ‘You Know‘ on Permanent Vacation is the first EP or proper original material from Philip Lauer since.
He remained the talk of the town even when he released no single solo EP in 2019 but collaborations and remixes on TAU, Innervisions, MoBlack or Frau Blau only. Hence Valencia-based artist Santiago Garcia can look back at quite successful year as he managed to place his rare music on some of the scene's most... Continue Reading →
It's without a doubt that Dave DK has put his stamp on the electronic music scene even though he keeps his musical output quite low, therefore high when it comes to quality.
Whether under his real last name 'Lauer', together with Gerd Janson as Tuff City Kids or with Fabrizio Mammarella under their Black Spuma moniker Philipp Lauer, probably has more successful projects than other labels have potential artists to release music from.
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