Tag: Sonar Kollektiv

  • WAAN – KinK / Open – Sonar Kollektiv

    Sometimes caffeine plugs neatly into music like a life enhancement, especially in the cool of an autumn morning. Lifted from the duo’s forthcoming debut album Echo Echo it’s to Open that I turn my attention because it draws you into its world of picture forming, poignant elegance so smoothly. It is a gorgeous, sumptuous journey…

  • Feiertag Q&A

    Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Feiertag. Let’s start were music began for you and which childhood songs set you on the path to playing music and producing? I started being interested in music around my 11th birthday, when I got my first Sony hifi set. One of my first singles was “Pretty Fly” from The Offspring.…

  • Feiertag – Saccharine 374 – Sonar Kollektiv

    Celebrating the joy of everything from the simple act of being alive to the vigour’s of pure movement. Each attribute is worked and then reworked as this escapable collection of smouldering grooves, alongside heavenly soulful praise, receive their timely release from Sonar Kollektiv. Punctuated by cowbells, amid a tough shuffle of drums, it’s the whirling…

  • Hot Coins (Red Rack’em) interview.

    Your album Hot Coins ‘The Damage Is Done’ has just been released on Sonar Kollektiv. Can you tell us about how your relationship with the label happened? I have always been a big fan of both Sonar Kollektiv and Jazzanova. The label and production collective were a massive influence on me as a DJ and…

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    Pete Dafeet Family Affair Lost My Dog The third in the series of compilations from Lost My Dog’s catalogue of Deep House, and other imaginings, sees one of the label heads Pete Dafeet mix together a smooth blend of moods into one altogether very satisfying experience. As with previous editions this features old and new…

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    Amirali In Time Crosstown Rebels Even if Amirali played the opening: The Harmonious Song and then left the building you would still be stunned by the collective beauty of the notes spread across the Rhodes. Thankfully the long player continues to revolve developing its journeys through hypnosis that somehow fits the month of May perfectly…

  • Micatone interview (Sonar Kollektiv)

    Your new album: Wish I Was Here was recorded live. Can you explain that process and what advantages you feel it has lent to the final sound? Lisa: the new album sounds warmer and more mature than the ones before. We focussed more on song writing and structure than on electronic effect. We recorded Wish…

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    G.Family ‘People With Bullets EP’ Foliage Records Gorgeous four tracker from Germany’s Foliage imprint breathes fresh impetus into the matter of deep. Title track People With Bullets features the emotive voice of Nombongo whose spoken message delivers thought provoking words over cool jazzy Rhodes inflections. Manuel Tur provides the remix with classic arpeggio’s creating an electrifying…

  • Jürgen v. Knoblauch (Sonar Kollektiv/ Jazzanova) interview.

    What is the idea behind the new album Upside Down? The idea for using the methaphor „Upside Down“ is to underline that remixing is a highly creative and thus worthy way to express own musical ideas. Many of the mixes on „Upside Down“ are so different from the original, so upside down, that they are…