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BWR 002LP
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Over the last decade Andre Lodemann, a regular in the world-wide underground dance-scene has released on many prolific labels, including Freerange, Room With A View, DFTD, and Innervisions. Come 2018 Lodemann is now releases his album The Deeper You Go on his own label Best Works Records. He started working on it in 2012, taking his time for his emotional artistic approach with a lot of attention to detail. The album successfully walks the imaginary spectrum of deep house, tech house, and techno also taking dives into other waters. Where his previous long-player Fragments (BWRLP 001CD, 2012) was a compilation of past works, The Deeper You Go is his first artist album containing everything a listener would want to hear both in a club and at home. You can feel that the tracks where created out of the same mold. There's a mood, a common thread and a story through the works. The album is dark in a subtle way and yet has that positive vibe and aggressiveness to it. The Deeper You Go is mostly instrumental with two features by the British singer and songwriter Huw Costin, bandleader of Torn Sail. Lodemann's sound is deep, warm but aggressive at the same time. It explores the less chartered end of the soundscape. His songs generally feel like a narrative. It builds and grows as the song progresses and climax past the halfway rewarding you for your time invested. At the climax the tracks sometimes morph into what feels like a whole new song. This is his signature sound. The album starts with "The Deeper You Go" and "Emptiness" -- these two opening tracks follow the Lodemann formula to the tee. They are perfect as opening and introductory tracks as they set a deep mood for the rest of the album. Moving onward "Metamorphosis", a hard but soulful techno track that shatters the stereotype of what techno should sound like, crossing genre-borders. With the track "Lost In Your Eyes" he goes in a different direction using an aboriginal sounding horn, accompanied by a bassline, both together create an uplifting but also scary mood. "Birth" was released in 2017 and it feels raw and reminiscent of his earlier works. The collaborations with Huw Costin of Torn Sail complement Andre Lodemann style of production: In "Treasure" the two artists find perfect balance where the beat builds in between and around the vocals. "Misty Road" is a flowing bass-heavy ambient track that perfectly closes the album. The Deeper You Go is Andre Lodemann's artistic vision of modern electronic music using all possible means to create emotional sound sculptures.
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BWR 020EP
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Best Works Records label-owner André Lodemann is back with Birth, enlisting Swiss duo Adriatique and new-comer producer Fabian Dikof for remixes. "Birth" creates contrasts using African-drumming inspired styles paired with techy-beat programming. Starting more on a minimal tip the track works its self up to high-tension climaxing with an emotional break keeping the deeper moments intact. Adriatique create a faster more club-orientated version paring the more hooky parts of the original with beat-synth elements giving the track a more tribal feel. Fabian Dikof's remix works more on the melodic hook but also creates a warm bass-laden soundscape.
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BWR 015EP
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Best Works Records returns with three remixes of "Going to the Core (feat. Nathalie Claude)" by Andre Lodemann, originally released on Lodemann's 2012 Fragments album (BWRLP 001CD). With his deep style, Dave DK's remix supports the dancefloor in a very elegant way. The UK/South Africa production team Sahin Meyer Zamalek brings a dark and melancholic twist to Nathalie Claude's vocals, while Charles Webster's remix shows a strong South African influence.
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DES 115EP
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Dessous Recordings team up with one of Berlin's most talented and thoughtful producers, Andre Lodemann, for this sublime three-tracker. "Imagine" is head music for the dancefloor -- deep house with true feeling. "Eyes Wide Open" also contains a wealth of melody, welded expertly to a groove that works the soul as much as the body. Alix Alvarez's reinterpretation maintains the gorgeous melodies but adds a little of that NY house bump to the groove.
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BWRLP 001CD
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This is the debut full-length album from Berlin-based DJ/producer André Lodemann. This 2CD encompasses both his creative work with original material and with remixes done for other artists. It is not a typical album, but a showcase of the incredible creative output from an artist determined to create emotional music off the beaten-track, avoiding typical building blocks and tacky software gimmicks. Lodemann has been a DJ for more than 20 years. Citing his greatest influences as Masters At Work, Mateo and Matos, Kerri Chandler and François Kevorkian, Lodemann's musical vision is to create atmosphere, arouse emotion and touch people musically. In 2001, Andre started to produce music, and over the last decade he has released 12"s and remixes on labels including Moods N Grooves, Simple Records, Room With A View, Z Records, Freerange and Buzzinfly, amongst others. His tunes "Where Are You Now?" and "The Light" became hugely popular with the worldwide underground DJ circuit. Other highlights include: remixes for Tracey Thorn, Omar and Akabu. Much of this material is presented here. The first CD of Fragments includes material released on several different labels, such as Freerange, Room With A View and his own imprint, Best Works Records. The album also contains the new Lodemann tracks "Going To The Core," featuring singer Nathalie Claude and "Unknown Desire." The second CD of Fragments features remixes, including a selection of remixes that Lodemann produced for different artists. Besides the ones mentioned above, the CD contains fresh remixes for Charles Webster's project January Tuesday, Spirit Catcher and the South African house superstars, Liquideep. Last but not least, Lodemann has reworked his remix for Omar with new vocals recorded by Omar for a new listening experience. Other artists remixed include: Prommer & Barck (feat. Lois Longerling), Vakula, Phonique (feat. Ian Whitelaw), Mario & Vidis, Joey Negro presents Akabu, Tracey Thorn and Alton Miller (feat. Stephane Vera & Angelique).
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BWR 001A-EP
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This is the second vinyl teaser for André Lodemann's album Fragments (BWRLP 001CD). This EP selection features two brand-new original tracks "Going To The Core" (feat. Nathalie Claude) and "Unknown Desire" as well as vinyl-first "Don't Panic." While "Going To The Core," a spoken-word track, starts off with a focused sample-groove that then unleashes unknown emotional depths, the epic slow-burner "Unknown Desire" takes a different path, pairing funky groove with a melancholic touch. "Don't Panic" clearly has a jazzy feeling to it, avoiding clichés.
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BWR 001B-EP
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This is the first vinyl teaser for the André Lodemann album, Fragments, which contains both original material and remixes produced by Lodemann. This EP selection features brand-new remixes for the South African house group Liquideep and January Tuesday. Lodemann's edit for L'usine's "Two Dots" was originally done for private use and has now found its way onto a release. Lodemann's Mes remix was somewhat overlooked and now receives proper support here.
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BWR 007EP
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Andre Lodemann returns to his own label with his 4th release."The Light" brings back Lodemann's typical dramatic production style, always feeding the listener with intense moments, working to and away from the house-groove. Lodemann has incorporated those typical house-DJ techniques of mixing directly into his production-style. The tune has an overall analog feeling combining discoid sample stabs and piano e-bass. "Subtle Stimulation" brings back a more linear feeling with earthy, wholesome drums and a heavy bass line.
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SIMPLE 832EP
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"André's first release for Simple Records Wanna Feel is all about the resonant, hypnotic bass line that steadily opens out to reveal more layers of harmony. Little sounds and licks of melody dance around the bass while strings and stabs build the hook into one big crescendo. Brooks' melancholic strings cleverly cut up the bass line and an eerie soundscape pushes the vibe of the original into a darker, more sinister techno place. This is the lights out, heads down, touch me in the dark kind of groove that we love! Finally 'Move' is an absorbing and patient deep house gem. Plunging into a backdrop of prodded keys that subtly shift in shape and tone, a central synth melody climbs to euphoric climax before retiring back to waves of throbbing bass and rolling percussive loops. Midlands lad Brooks burst onto the music scene with his debut album You, Me & Us for Mantis Recordings back in 2002. Within weeks he was fighting off offers to remix everyone from The Human League to Scissor Sisters, and Andy packed a flightcase to DJ his way across the seedier corners of Northern Europe."
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