Motorcitysoul’s album coming soon, single out now

Wednesday (Sep 24th) saw the release of Motorcitysoul‘s new single on Simple Records. It’s a cross-atlantic collaboration of the Hamburg based production duo with a talented LA vocalist, Ovasoul7, who’s gained the well deserved acclaim after appearing on Deetron‘s I Cling last year.

The track is called Change You and it’s a very rhythmic and energetic deep house production topped with Ovasoul7′s mellow vocals mixed well into the music thanks to a lot of reverbs and echoes. Shur-I-Kan’s remix is more concentrated around the middle section and although the instrumentation is more busy and complex than the original, the remix creates less tension and a more relaxed atmosphere. It seems more like a dub version as Tom decided to use only little portions of the vocal.

Motorcitysoul – Change You – [Simple Records]

 

1. Original

2. Shur-I-Kan Remix

Audio samples from Simple Records

 

Change You is the first single from MCS’s forthcoming album Technique, which is due to be released on Oct 13th. It will be a second studio album for Matthias and Christian, the first one entitled Did You Expect That? came out in 2004 on a German label INFRACom!. Apart from Change You, the album will feature two other productions released earlier as singles on another label run by Will Soul, Aus Music. Lucky for those, who have already bought Kazan and/or Space Kätzle, their versions on the album will differ from the original productions. Two other cuts from the album (Solar and Hatohay) are planned to be released in November this year with remixes from Move D and Manuel Tur & DPlay.

Motorcitysoul – Technique – [Simple Records]

1. The Start feat. Ernesto
2. Deliver Me feat. Ernesto
3. Space Kätzle
4. Solar (Album Version)
5. Change You feat. Ovasoul 7
6. Kazan (707 Edit)
7. The City
8. Hermelin
9. Hatohay
10. Movement & Motion feat. Marlene Johnson
11. XYZ 

To listen to the album please visit Simple Records.

Hökarängen Space Program EP by Cloud

If the first part of the title looks to you like a name from the IKEA brochure, you’re on the right track. But don’t worry, I’m not going to write about furniture… 

Cloud is the nickname of Alexander Berg, a talented producer coming from Gothenberg in Sweden. From the beginning of his career (at least according to Dicogs) he is releasing his work on a british label called Exceptional. Around February they’ve release a 2-tracked EP called Hökarängen Space Program, which has been brought to my attention by Crowdpleaser, who’s put together a nice mix featuring one of the tracks (Sakta) from this EP.

So what’s on the release? The above mentioned Sakta, which is fantastic minimal techy track, which is a combination of some punchy staccato synth played over some nicely laid pads. The productions sounds raw but not dirty and definitely makes you head shake. The Grid is a lot softer around the edges with a touch of a vocal sample plucked lead and some great sounding Asian instrument in the break. Both tracks are highly addictive so get your wallet ready. Enough non-sense now, listen to the previews.

Cloud - Hökarängen Space Program EP – [Exceptional Records]

 

1. Sakta

2. The Grid

 

Samples provided by Beatport

Milton Jackson launches Dark Energy Recordings

If you’re (like me) a big fan of Milton Jackson‘s music, you’ll be thrilled to learn that the Glasgow based producer started his own label.

The new imprint was set up for “releasing some serious bizness dark energetic stuff” as the artist writes on his  blog. I wonder if this is just for his own productions or does he plan on releasing other people’s music also.

The first release came out yesterday and it’s an EP called the same as the label: Dark Energy. It features 3 tracks: Never Be Wrong, Never Be Right and a beats edit of the latter. Judging from the reactions coming from people like Laurent Garnier, Satoshi Tomiie or Jay Tripwire, the debut release is a success. Never Be Wrong seems to be the favorite of many and I can’t blame them. The dubby chords are very very cathy. Never Be Right is a more laid-back kind of thing, but still offers a lot of energy. The Beats Edit seems like a great DJ tool featuring some interesting drums and vox samples. Listen for yourself.