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FTS 083EP
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Crane A.K. have intelligently developed their style on Tripower, with genius remixes by Tom Clark and Orlando/Nobel. The most talented newcomers on the Force Tracks label, they have compiled a cool and groovy minimal record. Crane A.K.'s unique way of arranging tracks surprises with spherical and extremely danceable sequences that step away from conventional minimalist monotony. Force Tracks calls this new groundbreaking style "affected." All four tracks are dancefloor fillers.
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FTS 080CD
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The Karneval der Verpeilten is Berlin's techno-infused, open-air demonstration on World Peace Day, and this is its first representative compilation. Since 1999 on September's first Sunday, this carnival makes its annual rounds through various parks in Berlin, engaging and astonishing all with their colorful and rich presentation of the most dance-ready and liberating modern sounds available. This compilation attempts to embody the spirit of this techno bacchanalia with a selection of musicians that have been participating to make the "party" what it is today: Acid Pauli, Autotune, Brian Cares, Donna K., Gianni Vitello, Girls United, Bonaparte, Hello Trouble, Jake "The Rapper" Basker, The Local Perverts, Lexy, Metope, Namosh and K Chico, Philip Bader, Philipp Quehenberger + Ddkern, Captain Comatose, Ricoloop, K_Chico+Namosh, Pilocka Krach, Raz Ohara, Sven Dose, The Dose, plus surprises that represent the music at the Karneval from the last eight years. Let their actions talk. Dance for world peace!
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FTS 077EP
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This is Berlin-based live act Autotune, with their 24h A Day EP. With multi-layered sounds connected by vocal parts and light ringing bells, "Down Under" and "Catch Me" have an easy going minimal groove. The title "24h A Day" is the motto of the record, and this track will have you dancing the whole day through.
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FTS 074CD
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Drei Farben House is a pop-house project by Hamburg-based producer Michael Siegle. Following his 12" release on Force Tracks, with a stunning Unai remix, Michael Siegle is ready to take off. His first album Any Kind of Feeling continues the Force Tracks series of first class albums: digital disco for pop lovers. Not unlike Swedish producer Unai, this album conveys the desire for sensation and emotion in music. Siegle strips house down to its basic elements. The stuttering synth-disco groove picks up the extraordinary moments of late disco sound. And Siegle adds the key elements of pop music, drastic harmonies and bittersweet melodies combined with jumbled-sounding guitar riffs. Siegle's voice is a perfect supplement to the music, a very neutral voice -- dry and distinct. With only a few pure elements, Siegle creates the atmosphere of a very melancholic autumn night. It's the imagination of resignation, but also a yearning for something, which cannot be articulated. An album of full-blooded melodrama.
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This is the debut full-length release from Finland's Star You Star Me, the electronic dance music band for the 21st century. Jani Lehto had been playing around with computers and synths his whole life when the deep house boom of the mid-'90s struck his home town of Turku. His house collective DSE reached for that warm New York sound, but with Star You Star Me, a new path was chosen. Tatu Metsätähti has already gained worldwide reputation in underground electro circles with his band Mr Velcro Fastener and Mesak solo project. His synth programming skills and musical ideas and visions double the creative potential of the duo. In late 2001, Tatu and Jani started swapping their unfinished tracks: if Jani had an idea for a track he gave it to Tatu, and then Tatu would continue the process, or vice versa. The first tracks were called "Disco Dancer," "Antidis," and "Loveletter," and two out of three were later released on Slip 'n' Slide Blue and Moodmusic Records, to impressive reviews. The sound of SYSM is a combination of minimal house grooves and emotional, high fidelity electronic soundscapes. It's easy to recognize a Star You track -- fat retro disco drums beating on top of the most crisp and wide synth sounds, ever. Their vision of sound is coupled with the concept that music should always be momentous and not just entertaining -- music should make people cry or laugh and give reasons to survive through the reality of day-to-day living. Star You Star Me is a return to the coolest disco sound re-energized for today's clubs, living rooms, media players and iPods. Includes a guest vocal appearance by Erlend Øye.
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FTS 075EP
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Satoshi Fumi is one of the most exciting house producers from Japan. During the mid-1990s, he grew interested in the Detroit, Chicago and New York house movements, and absorbed the different sounds of electronic music throughout that period, helping him to shape, develop and influence his own unique style. Satoshi's production skills have matured enough today, allowing him the freedom to create, and as a DJ, to mix a variety of dance music styles together such as techno, house, click and acid. For Satoshi, the opportunity of his lifetime as a producer arrived in 2002 when DC duo Deep Dish picked up his track "Protlex" and released it on their Yoshitoshi Recordings.
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FTS 072EP
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Drei Farben House is a pop-house project by Hamburg-based producer Michael Siegle. Not unlike Swedish producer Unai, Siegle strips house down to its basic elements -- the groove picks up the extraordinary moments of disco, and then Siegle adds key moments of pop music, harmonies and sweet melodies. His voice is a perfect supplement to the music, dry and distinct. Unai celebrates one track with his swirling remix attitude.
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FTS 071EP
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Semilla is the first release on Force Tracks from South America. Santiago-based DJs and producers Aldo Cadiz and Miguel Tutera started working in the field of electronics ten years ago, and this is the result. The high density of sounds in these tracks is underlined by clickin' grooves and effects that give the music a smooth and hard driving flow. The magic of the vocals invites you on a nice trip. Miguel Tutera, who just released an EP with Someone Else, programmed a perfect remix.
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FTS 069EP
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Premature Wig is a new house project by Kenneth James Gibson ([a]pendics.shuffle, Eight Frozen Modules). With the singer Lisa Fabian he programmed two funky house tracks with bouncing beats and a couple of quirling effects. Dancing on Gibson's tracks is like surfing on waves or surfing on a surface which changes its smoothness in seconds. The tracks breathe minimal soul mixed with a specific Californian flair. Remixes are done by Mikael Stavöstrand and Igor O. Vlasov, who delivers a moving acid mix.
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FTS 068EP
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Crystal Fake is Frederik Östling from Uppsala. He has been releasing electronic music since 1996 in different constellations and started this year on Disco Inc. with his first single. His sexy techhouse style is absolutely fresh and intense. After Morgan Page heard Crystal Fake's new maxi he spontaneously wanted to remix his tracks. Recently Morgan Page has garnered support from a wide range of top level DJs including Sasha, Pete Tong, Deep Dish, Roger Sanchez and many more. The two remixes he programmed for Crystal Fake are deep and banging housetracks for metropolitan club floors.
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FTS 067EP
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Berlin-based a.Nov and Knigge were the first artists on Force Tracks five years ago. After various maxis and one album on Force Tracks, and one maxi on Pokerflat they return with a pretaster for their forthcoming album. From electroid house with a heavy bassline to clicky-glitchy house and at least one Detroit-influenced track, Crane A.K. is always a nice example of the heterogenity of modern house. The main track is remixed by Mathias Schaffhäuser, who also released his first album on Force Tracks. His remix is a dry and dark stomper.
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It's been a long three years since Force Tracks released Volume 2 of the critically-acclaimed Digital Disco compilation. A reinvention of house music, Digital Disco brings together a combination of sophisticated depth, soul, lyrical narrative, and of course the uplifting energy that disco characterized back to the dance floor. The label group Force Inc, Mille Plateaux & Force Tracks is well known for its stylishness -- whether it's Clicks & Cuts or Digital Disco, all compilations document the music in its postmodern periods. There were always three aspects, which have been important for compilations: to build up a flow of tracks in a series, to show the serial aspect of one track, and to open the mix for other mixes. Digital Disco 3 is mixed by one of Sweden's finest producers, who has just released his new masterpiece A Love Moderne on Force Tracks. Erik Möller aka Unai collected tracks from electrohouse to minimal house and put them together with intensity and smoothness. There are bona fide club-hits such as Ame's "Rej" or Tejada's "Voyager," and the stunning Unai remixes of Trentemöller and Martinez. Erik Möller transforms tracks with a perfect mix. Features mostly exclusive tracks from: Premature Wig, Morgan Page, Voltique, Jussi Pekka, Soultek, 3 Farben House, Crystal Fake, Ame, Unai, Martinez, Trentemöller, Crane Ak, Soultek and Igor O. Vlasov.
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FTS 066EP
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"Igor O. Vlasov from Moscow presents his fantastic debut on reborn Forcetracks, but it's also his next step to the world wide audio scene. Forcetracks was getting unremarkable for a while, but now it's time to get back to the floor. This E.P. contains three tracks with smooth and dubby atmospheres of the latest house sound. It's swinging and quirling along the click house sound, which was founded by forcetracks years ago. It's a sweet and nice becoming of forces, it's a sound that transfixes the audience. The EP is completed by a remix of Premature Wig aka Ken Gibson, aka apendics shuffle from LA., which sounds like Vlasov has given him his inspiration through a morph field."
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"It's been a year since Force Tracks launched the critically acclaimed Digital Disco compilation series. A reinvention of house music, Digital Disco brings together a combination of sophisticated depth, soul, lyrical narrative, and of course the uplifting energy that disco characterized back to the dance floor. Now, the series returns in full splendor featuring 13 tracks from a line of the label's past, present, and future members. Digital Disco 2 manages to sound both retro and futuristic, while remaining brilliantly inventive and danceable." Artists: Dub Taylor & Vital, Luomo, Akufen, D;exter, Adjuster, Ian Pooley, Moonbootica, Playgroup.
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2003 release. "Unai is the one-man-effort of Swedish producer Erik Möller. Since the mid-nineties he's been spreading his unique form of Dub-House/Disco on labels like Naked Music, Raum Musik, Sub Static, Punkt Music, Holistic, Eloge, and Facets. I Like Your Style is a magnificent journey in bringing classic deep Dub House, '80's influenced Disco and groovy, futuristic House together. Few producers have been able to capture what Unai succeeds in arousing -- proving that he"s got a finger firmly on the pulse of a new generation of dance music. Brace yourself for a shining example of Force Tracks finest links between the label's past and future."
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"Dexter St. James's achievements read as a veritable who's who in the history of border-breaking Swedish House music. Produced and co-written by guru's Håkan Lidbo, Martin Venetjoki, Adjuster, this project delivers with House-fuelled influences from Buddha Bar to Bass-Beat, New York to New Delhi, Acapulco to Alabama -- all encapsulated with liberal doses of spiritual and club-tastic vocals by Dexter. You may recall Dexter as the frontman behind the Billboard chart topping act Sound Factory -- responsible for the dance anthems '2 The Rhythm', 'Come Take Control', and 'Deeper Yet'. With 'Things Have Changed' Dexter St. James's impeccable soulful vocals integrate with the uplifting production of Håkan Lidbo's trademark Synth-Pop House. Force Tracks newcomer Adjuster digs into deeper territory with the quintessential house crooner of the season. Definitely a departure from what you've come to expect from Force Tracks, Dexter brings on our new era of a Digital Disco fuelled frenzy for the masses."
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"The Moscow invasion continues. Rising star Yura Moorush makes his Force Tracks debut with some of the sexiest house the label has seen. You've probably seen his name thanks to an EP on Trapez but this is anything but minimal. Deep dancefloor dopeness, 'Next Round' sways on the techy side that keeps the bump rolling with solid bassline bottoms to make this gem hopping."
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"Berlin duo, Crane A.K. returns back to the Force Tracks imprint with 3 new tracks to redesign their past and further the future. Female vocal driven 'Supermarket' is reminiscent of the current electro flavored house tracks but resonates the touch of classiness and depth of house that Force Tracks strives for. Pop appeal strikes on all the tracks though. B-Sides 'Morgenrot' and 'Fatter' tune up in fresh formula towards techy driven minimal house, bring through a soothing and completely refreshing EP that will be sure to please old and new fans alike."
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AKA Niederflur. "Cologne's Hannes Wenner and Christopher Klos make their Force Tracks debut under the guise of Misc. Over the past months, their releases on Richie Hawtin's m-nus label have helped elevate these talented two producers to the forefront of techno based sound design. With Easy Forms, these four tracks take a different turn to their prior releases and explore the deep sensibilities of groove filled techno and house. Their clear precise usage of sound sources rings through out the EP, elevating rhythms and catchy hooks lay through in solid standard. Quality control at it's finest, Easy Forms is one diverse ride of an EP."
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