No longer an up-and-comer, the Eagles & Butterflies of today is fully established in the electronic music scene. With close ties to the underground’s biggest players, the DJ and producer has surely just begun his longstanding career.
Creating music with a partner who lives in a different city, labels as second families, and the best places in Berlin, these are just a few of the topics we discuss with Mathias Schober, co-owner of the label, Lossless.
Simple Symmetry’s ‘Voodo Your Ex’ has a mesmerizing effect that coaxes a dance from all who listens. The Russian brothers’ most recent track was released on Disco Halal, a German record label that combines Middle Eastern and European sounds, both of which can be readily heard on this production.
Echoing melodies coupled with eerie and distorted vocals, Gardens of God makes one feel as if they were in the hollow of some alternate, dark world. Out on Fayer records as of March 13th, the Lithuanian producer successfully catches the essence of the indie original, and blends it with his electronic roots.
It‘s 2:30pm when Patlac opens the entrance door to a studio complex in Hamburg to welcome us for the interview. With a smile on his face he offers some coffee before sitting down in his fully equipped studio. The artist, who has been a scene‘s constant for nearly a decade now, is seating himself next to his computer as we start chatting.
Tel-Aviv duo Red Axes’s remix of Joakim’s ‘Samurai’ is a nice reminder that winter is almost over. With a faster tempo and rich house chords, this song is bound to get feet moving on the dance floor during the upcoming warmer months.
Co-owner of AZZUR, and label manager for OFF Recordings, Melokolektiv has an impressive resume. With records released on Crosstown Rebels, Get Physical and Kindish, the DJ and producer is destined to take 2017 by storm.
Here’s the latest top10 of unreleased tracks brought to you by Torture the Artist to give you an overview which tunes you shall look out for within the next weeks and months.
MYNY, deriving from the word ‘mini’, started his career as a HipHop-DJ and producer in the 90s before turning his back on the genre – at least when it came to DJ’ing and later on to his own productions. Still his musical past has always played a role in his life, as his latest productions come in with a lush baselines, usually a trademark in HipHop music, but MYNY using it to create his own House music sound.
Benjamin Fröhlich is not new to the electronic music scene even though his first EP, ‘Rude Movements‘, was just released last year. But as co-founder of Munich based record label, Permanent Vacation, launched in 2006 with Tom Bioly, and owner of former record store, ‘Play Records’, the Bavarian has spent more than a decade spreading his passion for Disco influenced electronic music.
