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PLAYRJC 126EP
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RELEASE DATE: 7/11/2025
Dennis Busch definitely entertains a distinct and twisted vision. The German artist, graphic designer, and musician showcases on his website a striking display of nihilistic collage art, absurdist sculpture, abstracted photographs, and a hand-printed clothing line. There's little creative work around nowadays which is uncomfortable. This artist has no desire to please. His aesthetics are unsettling. And therefore relevant. From an apple with rotten teeth to a black-and-white photograph of a policeman doing battle with a giant pink penis painted over the image, Busch's provocative iconography is at once awkward, edgy, aggressive, sexy, silly, and sometimes even a little sentimental. Like his art, Busch does not ask simple questions or offer easy answers. His enigmatic gothic air is matched by his amusing, albeit perplexing, interpretations of their meaning. A self-taught artist with no formal training, Busch was born in Amstelveen, Netherlands, moved at the age of five to Bremen, Germany, where he lived most of his life, and relocated three years ago to the idyllic town of Ottersberg. Busch's unconventional approach to creating art takes him beyond the boundaries of content, narrative, message, or medium. By fusing and confusing function and form, Busch's aesthetic missives offer themselves to almost any form of interpretation. Their insistently meaningless appearance, their daft and disposable nature, changes depending on the viewer's perspective. There is a sense of equality between images that conflates the great with the inadequate, making us question Busch's intentions altogether.
"I came upon Dennis Busch at a music and art fair in Köln. Known at that time as James Din A4, his music was incredible. It was here that I first witnessed his complete power of expression. We then met, and I discovered his visual artwork, which was fantastic as well. Coincidentally, he had been a longtime fan of my design label, Airbag Craftworks, so we were thrilled to finally collaborate. He has continually created beautiful limited-edition print designs for us. Delivering amazing work time and time again, it soon became obvious that we had to create a book for him to showcase his distinctive way of seeing. In his art, I recognize unbound strength within shocking sweetness. He touches a very special spot in my heart with his unrelenting positive attitude, humility, and resolve. In sampling and examining the hidden and forbidden, he celebrates the beautiful innocence of human failure and hope in perfect synchronicity. This book is dedicated to friendship, patience, and curiosity." --Paul David Rollmann
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PLAYRJC 111LP
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In the heart of Offenbach, where the city's pulse synchronizes with the beat of the night, stands the illustrious Robert Johnson Club. For a quarter of a century, it has stood as a bastion of sonic exploration, a sanctuary for those who seek solace in the rhythm, and a beacon of inspiration for the global electronic music community. As it proudly raises its glass to toast 25 years of unrivaled musical excellence, the echoes of countless memories reverberate through its storied halls. To honor this landmark anniversary, Live at Robert Johnson presents a kinda like masters blueprint of sound: Tell Me Something Good - 25 Years of Famous When Dead! This compilation, aptly named after the club's mantra, serves not only as a celebration of its rich history but also as a testament to the enduring legacy of the artists who have graced its stage. Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, each track on the compilation is a sonic journey unto itself -- a symphony of beats and melodies that weave together to tell the story of Robert Johnson's evolution over the past quarter-century. From the pulsating rhythms of underground techno to the ethereal melodies of deep house, the compilation encapsulates the club's eclectic spirit and unwavering commitment to pushing the boundaries of electronic music. But beyond the music lies something deeper -- an intangible energy that permeates every aspect of Robert Johnson's existence. It's the sense of camaraderie that binds together the club's patrons and artists alike, the shared experience of losing oneself in the music, and the profound sense of belonging that transcends language and culture. Here's to 25 years of passion, of creativity, and of "something good" that will echo through the ages for generations to come. Featuring New Hook, Innere Tueren / Map.ache, Curses, Mano Le Tough, Skelesys, Rebolledo, Moderna / Theus Mago, Massimiliano Pagliara, Man Power, DJ Oyster, Lydia Eisenblätter, Alinka, DC Salas, Llewellyn, Benjamin Fröhlich, Peter Invasion / Gregor Habicht, Kalexis, Adana Twins, Jence, Oskar Offermann, Robert Dietz, Cromby, Odopt, Kadosh, Tony Y Not & Common Occupation, Ali Schwarz, Current Location, HCL, Irakli, RKJVK, Ludwig A.F., Shubostar, and Jennifer Touch.
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Florence-based DJ and producer Ricardo Baez, known for his Tropical Animal party series, presents Tutto Passa -- an album that blends deep house, disco, and Balearic influences into a vibrant sonic journey. The release features Johannes Albert's electrifying remix of "La Isla De Margarita." The four-track vinyl edition distills the album's essence with standout selections: "Tears of Joy," "My Thursday Night," "Arroz Con Leche," and the Johannes Albert remix, offering a perfect balance of melody and rhythm.
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"Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often characterized by a repetitive four on the floor beat." Well, that's what Wikipedia says about "techno" -- but can Laura BCR's music simply be called "techno"? The French DJ and On Board Music label founder who took her name from the much-loved and now closed, Berlin record store, Bass Cadet Records, started to produce her very own music in 2020. Music which could easily fit in her transportive, deep techno and dubby ambient DJ sets. Sets that have brought her to some of Europe's finest venues. After her releases on SoHaSo, Semantica, Paloma, RDV Music, Technologia Organica, or Sublunar we're happy to present to you her latest work for Live At Robert Johnson: Human Behavior. The four tracks all share a deepness which is typical for a lot of her productions so far. This is repetitive music, yes -- but also very atmospheric music. Whether it's the helicopter sound in first track "Farewell" which Laura put on top of layers of whirring synths sounds or the swelling and decaying sounds of "Long Wait". Sounds which swallow you deep into their core and make you forget about the here and now. Yes, Laura's music is hypnotizing -- and it has a certain psychedelic quality attached to it as well. This aspect of her music can be heard quite good in "Post Dynamic" with its electronic blowing wind sounds galore. Or in "Human Behavior", the title track of Laura BCR's LARJ debut. Yet Laura never forgets the importance (and the power) of the bass drum and its four on the floor beat. A beat that is the heartbeat of techno. And a beat that defines Laura BCR as well. Now all hail the bass drum and all hail Laura BCR! Launea features on "Human Behavior".
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Superfantastic release! Live At Robert Johnson is a natural home for Superpitcher, and this two-tracker shows his sense of belonging. "Lush Life" featuring vocals by Fantastic Twins was inspired by Corsican polyphony, an epiphany after a church concert though as ever with Superpitcher, simplicity is multi-layered: the track itself could be a trip back to the golden (rave) days of deep electronic US house à la François K, dubby yet peacefully driving the ecstasy home. No religious gospel euphoria though, the lyrics are a pagan hymn to Eventide presets. You can't take the geek out of the schatzi. "Diario" stretches its ten minutes in a misleading laidback groove: Sueno Latino languid clichés are blown away by a smoothly unforgiving acid line. This is a trip, not a journey, a trip dedicated to the young raver in all of us and to a friend too soon departed. As Pasolini said in the poem of the same name: "That's why I've never abandoned happiness, that's why in the anxiety of my sins I've never been touched by real remorse. Equal, always equal, to the inexpressible at the very source of what I am." In other words, kids, keep faith out there.
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Any moment can crash your emotional state of mind. You are looking for help. You can't find it with-inside of you. A Diamond shines twice a day. The night can be day and vice versa. Everyone loves you, no doubt. Your friends love you too. Do you love yourself? A zebra is not a unicorn but is still unique. Who are you to tell us we can't do it? Euphoric Spirits. Women are strong and full of love and positive energy. This life is a gift and you should genuinely use it. Read a book. Internet TV connects your brain to something not valid; remember that. Everyone still loves you. You are beautiful. Come to hidden spheres and find your inner voice. Shock, projection, ideals, sorrow, disaster, fundamental, weak, strong, more, less. Everyone loves you. Follow to the planet of our inner fears, and you'll do magic. It will become another planet. Together forever. Everyone loves you. Includes stunning Pépé Bradock remix.
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Let's go back to Italy with the dynamic duo Marvin & Guy aka Alessandro Parlatore and Marcello Giordani. On their first release for Live At Robert Johnson they team up with another dynamic duo: Hard Ton -- and you guessed right, they're Italian too. So, what else to expect than some real cool contemporary Italo Disco just in time for summer? "Save Me" comes in two different mixes: The "Disco Mix" and the "Club Mix" -- both featuring the marvelous falsetto voice of Hard Ton's singer Max -- himself quite a passionate singer in the field of heavy metal -- and disco -- yes, you heard right. But fear not, the heavy metal part isn't audible at all. We're talking Hi-NRG sounds galore and of course D.I.S.C.O. -- the Munich style disco of someone like Giorgio Moroder doing his thing with Donna Summer or Harvey Fuqua's and Patrick Cowley's work with LGBT legend Sylvester -- yes, the "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" Sylvester. Not a bad company to get name-dropped, right? Especially the "Disco Mix" of "Save Me" features many of those typical sounds of said producers and is a beautiful tribute to the golden disco era. The slightly darker "Club Mix" does a great job too by pulling all dancers straight onto the floor with its drum machine generated bass drum and its euphoric claps. Marvin & Guy's solo track, the aptly named "Supported By Your Favourite DJ" will surely be supported by everyone of our favorite DJs: It's a happy and positive track which definitely will not fail as a secret weapon in everybody's DJ bag. Now let's get saved by Marvin & Guy -- and let's support the Italian scene -- it's mighty real!
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Brussel's beat smith DC Salas is back on the block -- the Robert Johnson block that is! His third release for Live at Robert Johnson is also his 20th official release so far -- so there are two things to celebrate spread over Diego Cortez Salas's powerful four-tracks EP called Voces. Let's start with the title track: "Voces" is a call to alarm right from the beginning with its stabbing synth bass line and sirens. Add a couple of drumbreaks and a heavy beat -- et voilà: You have the first of four tunes to jump up and down to. Et oui, Salas surely knows how to build tension in a track -- even in a voiceless track named "Voces". Next up is "The Lights" -- and oh boy does Salas turn them on! These are quite trippy lights with a sound that could easily come from a twisted didgeridoo -- the beat of "The Lights" is (of course) groovy as f*** -- excuse the French. So, turn on "The Lights"! B-side opener "Metallic Glow" does just that: The track glows in bright metallic from the first second and features plenty of crazy sounds to do a crazy dance. Just listen to the groove. For "Safe Pace" Diego pulls out beautiful percussive elements and the 303 thus surfing on a not-so-safe pace to be honest: The last track of Voces is as fast and demanding as all the others. DC Salas again managed to build four really solid stompers here to set any dancefloor on fire -- without using any voice or vocal -- these are really serious sounds you all should listen and dance to. Now.
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The increasingly vital Jorkes makes a big step up to the acclaimed Live at Robert Johnson label with her standout Sweet Dreams EP. Jorkes is the co-founder of the unique Freeride Millenium label which is a hotbed for queer dance music. German-born but Austria based, she has an influential residency at Radio 80000 alongside ParisBöhm and is a resident at Stuttgart's Romantica where she plays a thrilling mix of disco, house, techno, and everything in between. She is someone who always serves to highlight the importance of the dance floor as a place of sexual and cultural liberation and this new EP is another innovative statement that comes as she rides a wave of high-profile radio, DJ and media support for recent outings on her own label. Opener "You Will Be Mine" is a song about obsessing after an unattainable stranger on the dance floor who disappears into the night. It's a silky disco house sound with chords that sing and a floating bassline that lifts you off your feet. The melodic motifs bring charm and cosmic energy and the whole track has a lush, musical feel. The equally excellent "Robot Lover" muses on human detachment in this technological era of internet porn, dating apps and screen obsessions and how a robotic lover might be a better fit than a real life partner. It is another elastic and disco-tinged rhythm, with elegant chords and dancing keys over a suspensory bassline. Intimate vocal whispers bring tenderness to this timeless track. On the flip side, "Sweet Dreams" layers up infectious claps and tinny percussion over an irresistible deep house groove. It's a widescreen, symphonic sound that brings very real but subtle joy and closer "CDEvaLo" is the name of a crossdressing male-to-female and sex-worker friend of Jorkes. It is a comment on the number of young people who arrived in Athens over the years to do cross-dressing sex work after being kicked out by their Orthodox Christian homes. The track flips the script with a more playful disco sound, characterful vocoder vocals and glossy synths over a jacked house beat.
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Live At Robert Johnson presents the new Holographic Witness EP by Niall Mannion aka Mano le Tough. Please enjoy four very special tracks made by experienced Irishman Mannion near beautiful Lake Zurich. Four tracks to jump into like Zurich folks jump into the Limmat to get carried away. Now here's your chance to get carried away too! Let's start with the hypnotic grooves of "Holographic Witness" with its subtle handclaps and percussions turning this bass-line driven monster to further heights -- a bass-line quite reminiscent of that special Miami sound made famous by the Murk guys back in the early '90s. Add some Balearic guitar riffings and wait until that mighty bass drum comes back in after 6 minutes and you'll find yourself dreaming on a dancefloor in heaven. Niall continues with more pounding drum sounds in next tune "Kakooja". Stabbing synths sounds dominate this track while Niall manages to create another dreamy vibe again for this monotonous (in a very positive way that is) work of art -- a dreamy vibe which can be found on any of Niall's tracks. This leads you directly to "Last Floating Figh, Liufe Floating" where Mr. Mannion floats into much quieter shores. It's a very meditative affair which makes you want to listen to it over and over again once the tune comes to an end. On "Weather Master", this EP's last track, Niall masters the art of trippy sounds for a fourth time building another dreamy hypnotic groove that is just beautiful. Maybe too beautiful for this world. Fans of Mano Le Tough who does not seem so tough at all considering his first offering for Live At Robert Johnson.
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Are you still here? Or are you still there? Berlin-based/Italian warehouse-rave warrior, Younger Than Me, and Italo-American romantic goth-wave prince, Curses are there. They're there where it's at! It was the bond of bold friendship that brought these guys together -- and of course a shared history of subgenre juxtaposition and meshing. Both grew up on punk, rap, and of course the early days of techno. Still There is their first EP together and thus of course their first for Live At Robert Johnson. It's a venture into the euphoric, psychedelic power of early trance and breaks mixed with the attitude and energy of EBM and electro. Starting with the moody slow beats of the title tune "Still There", Y2C takes you on a journey to a faraway chill-out room in some dark yet warm and cozy cellar. Or is this place to be found in synth heaven? It could well be if you listen to those dreamy melodies. Melodies as beguiling as the song of the sirens that seduced good old Ulysses. Y2C pick up on that dreamy vibe but throw in that slight and subtle trance-factor, taking up speed with "Romantic Squat", dragging you into their very own romantic squat. Next up is "Love Your Enemy" -- oh yes, shouldn't we all? Icey claps with lots of reverb and a bass line draw you onto the dry ice flooded aluminum floor and there's no way back -- especially when that strange break with that crazy sound makes you stop for a second and think, why did I stop dancing? Get back on the floor y'all! The last track "Mairei" is indeed some kind of a lollapalooza ride, a very special ride. And no, it does not lull you to sleep because the beat created by Y2C here is a demanding one, a special which gets you going all over its eight and a half minutes. It's sheer bliss, you gotta believe it. This is not a one-off novelty EP, it's a kinetic collaboration. Y2C is a force of nature, a force of rave/wave energy, with many more to come, a force to reckon with.
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Live At Robert Johnson welcomes Barış Karademir, Istanbul's edit master, DJ, and musician. If you're a person that likes to get up late, Barış's first track "Noon" is the one for you. It sort of sets the mood for the whole EP with a groove that is deep and hypnotic and above all psychedelic. There's tremolo en masse plus these in and out fading voices that suck you into Mr. K's world -- all kept together by this steady forward marching Barış beat. Pleasure, joy, and happiness -- all in on groove -- and not only effective at noon. "La Dame Noir"'s most prominent feature is a mean bass line -- plus more of those otherworldly sounds that Barış manages to pull out of his magician's hat while creating a superb shuffling riddim for all you dancers to shuffle along to, throwing in that oh so subtle triangle now and then. With the last track "Valhalla", Barış enters the mythological place of Asgard, where Valhalla, Odin's hall of the slain can be found in his Glaðsheimr castle. That kinda sounds a bit archaic and dark but don't be afraid: where there is shadow there is also light -- light which can be heard in the first opening lines, lines that do sound a bit like played by our favorite shoegazer band My Bloody Valentine. To get to "Valhalla", Barış accelerates the tempo by a couple of beats, yet throws in all trademark ingredients to cook up a tune for peak time dancing in Valhalla -- erm -- in the club.
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It's dark in the forest. Especially in the "northwest". You have to adjust all your senses. But once you have, the forest will take you in his arms. The forest will protect you. Just like Daniel Herrmann's first album for Live At Robert Johnson will protect you. Herrmann is far from being unknown in the world of music -- let alone in the art or photography world. In the music field, he is probably much more known under his Flug 8 moniker where he released five albums on Disko B, Doxa Records, Ransom Note, and Acid Pauli's Smaul Recordings. Under his given name, Daniel Herrmann's relationship with LARJ's label boss Ata Macias goes way back. As an artist and photographer Herrmann was the only one allowed to take pictures inside Ata's Robert Johnson club, thus creating an iconic series of pictures of clubbers and club life in general. Herrmann's pictures of the partying punters themselves were presented as wallpaper all over Robert Johnson back in 2002. With Enroute Herrmann enters new territory: It is his most ambient work up to today. And yes, it is a piece of work created during the lockdown. Herrmann's studio is situated in the outskirts of Frankfurt, near the forest -- a quite remote place already in-between the Taunus Mountain range. Imagine life during the lockdown in such a place -- this is where Herrmann set up his former basement studio in the large living room with a variety of instruments besides a cozy fireplace spending warm light and warmth. A warmth that despite its seemingly rather "cold" atmosphere can be heard all over Enroute. Once you soak in the sounds (or get soaked into the sounds) of the first tracks like album opener "northwest", "Fly By Wire", or the eleven-minute "Dark Trace" you might feel this warmth too. A cold warmth you could say, yet a warmth that only modular systems and synthesizers can create. There is a change of mood with "Intercontinental" -- literally as it seems that Herrmann indeed is on an intercontinental journey here despite the strolls and long walks in silence through the Taunus Forest. This is also the place where Herrmann took many photographs of the forest and its trees, including the picture on the cover: this spooky yet fragile high seat in the mist in front of those trees. Yet darkness alone is not dominating this album. Even during these dark days, there was a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. And it shows in the beauty of "Bouncing Rays". Enroute is done all alone and in total isolation. But it also invites the listener to be a part of this lonely world.
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Get that summer feeling by having a delicious lemonade fizz... Frank Music label head honcho Johannes Albert comes to the rescue with four splendid recipes. Start right away with "Lemonade Fizz" where Johannes manages to put the ingredients needed for refreshment just in the right balance: Glasses clink while the bass drum pays a slight homage to Manchester's all-time heroes New Order and dancers are driven straight to the floor again by that menacing yet subtle siren. Listening to "Dorschd" aka thirst feels exactly like the title suggests: You're on the floor, dancing, sweating and desperately yearning for a drink. You want more and you can't stop drinking as soon as you've put that glass to your mouth -- yet this yearning feeling stays with you while getting back on the floor. "Wimbledon" is pure enthusiasm. Johannes dominates the game like no one else. It's fast and cheery building up to a rousing climax: Game, set and match. After such highs it feels just right to join Johannes for "Laurenzi Blues", the melancholic wistful closing track of this beautiful four-track EP -- Johannes Albert's first for Live At Robert Johnson -- but hopefully not his last. Now let's have another drink.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Felice! Working the fields of Italo disco, rave, and house, Turnland co-chief Felice delivers the goods with a smashing tune entitled "Infinite Suburbia" which indeed can easily be tagged with the "Italo" moniker -- a very modern and up-to-date, state of the art Italo take that is. The tune is a stomping tour de force (or more likely a Giro d'Italia?) with razor sharp piano stabs and DJ City sweetening the former instrumental track by adding marvelous icy cold yet laid-back vocals -- a collaboration which came into being during the 2020 Covid summer. Of course we put the instrumental on the EP as well -- for those of you who want to sing yourself -- "Leaving Trails" leaves you with some great trails of dancefloor magic. The atmosphere is slightly darker here, but Felice keeps up the positive and uplifting spirit by speeding up the tempo a tiny bit and gracing this tune with that shuffling hi-hat for that extra groove. Last but not least, man of the hour Lauer puts his magic hands on the title track with a couple of acid bleeps and lots of atmospheric and dreamy sounds keeping only tiny vocal snippets that pop up occasionally thus creating real infinite moments of joy -- welcome to Infinite Suburbia.
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Former Rhein-Main homie and Robert Johnson resident Robert Dietz finally has its debut release on Live At Robert Johnson at Catalogue No. 069, which (as you may know) is the local area code of both Frankfurt and Offenbach am Main -- where the Robert Johnson Club still holds strong. Being a seasoned DJ and producer, Robert Dietz surely sets the controls to a four-track vinyl, with pleasing electroid-technoid sonic textures and subtle acid figures, throughout this EP. With its playful and uplifting vibe, "Kirby" might just be inspired by the jump'n'run character by the same name, who may be easily imagined along that happy Acid bassline bubbling amidst synth-pads and electroid beats. "Honey Stash" relies on a 303-esque hook bolted on a solid four-to-the-floor kick drum, which soon evolves into an acid-trancey flair, thanks to some kind of mangled reverb introduced at the end of the first third. By adding a vocal sample and steady-handed work on the filter section, this track provides extra energy for the next levels to come. "Swallowing Tubes" has that soft yet driving electro aesthetic, pads, and arpeggio, reminiscent of morning hours in decades' past. "WAW" completes this EP with a melancholic vibe on a straight beat, haunting vowel-pads, and lots of sonic space in-between its harmonic elements.
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"The first collaborative release between Roman Flügel and Daniel Avery arrives on Live at Robert Johnson, under the guise of Noun. Initially recorded some years ago across just two days at Flügel's former Frankfurt studio, both tracks represent a meeting point between the sensibilities of two of the best-loved producers in contemporary electronic music. Patient, even minimal psychedelia shares space with the driving club music that defines both Avery and Flügel's individual DJ sets, as well as a number of occasional back-to-back performances, where the music of Noun has since been reliably reached-for and re-contextualized ever since. Indeed, it speaks for the confidence and craft in this debut collaboration that Noun begins with 'Meeting Of The Minds', a textural delight that finds the Anglo-Germanic pair at their unremittingly trippiest. An analog, unwavering transmission, as if pirated from Avery's celebrated frequencies, is wrapped around minimal drum percussion, guaranteed to equally appeal to fans of the more experimental, reduced moments in Flügel's back catalog. Tense as the mood may seem, in these offbeat sonic corners, lay pockets of intrigue and moments of bliss. On 'Team Silent', the impact is more immediate. As the seams between individual influences melt away, Flügel and Avery roll out something tougher and more direct; a blossoming, somewhat dystopian drive-by-night of softly soaring synths, ecstatic feedback, and tough drums. Somehow both understated and anthemic, this is a true late-night jam courtesy of two masters of club culture. Years later, and what a difference two days makes." --John Thorp
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Much like its associated club, Live At Robert Johnson not only features seasoned veterans, but likewise emerging talents and those already paving their way with quality productions. Victor Shan's production style tells much about his ongoing collaborations with one of bespoke veterans, Gerd Janson, providing countless remixes and edits as a tag team on labels such as Running Back and Permanent Vacation. Taking their inspirations from a sonic array of UK synth pop, Balearic beats, and Italo disco, Victor Shan's LARJ debut four-track EP reveres nights spent at the Robert Johnson club: from the dancefloor to the studio. Lush detuned synths, deep basslines sometimes lingering down below, and upfront beats -- they all catch the vibe of a wooden dancefloor to be found at Nordring 131 in Offenbach.
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Live At Robert Johnson deploys a very true to its school release by one of Brussels finest, DC Salas. The Complicated Art of Dreaming tells a four-track tale of joyous and airy nights on the dancefloor. A few euphoric sixteenths and a few quirky acid lines, lush pads and irresistible drums -- it's all about giving you that driving and energetic feeling, with more than one genuine hands in the air floor-filler at your disposal. Things are what you expect of LARJ: Driving high quality tracks with an emotional twist, a nod to the luscious moments on the wooden dancefloor. DC Salas is thirtysomething year old Diego Cortez Salas, a skilled talent with Peruvian origins hailing from Brussels. His four-track EP The Complicated Art of Dreaming delves into classic territories, an eclectic amalgamation of his musical inspirations in 15 years of digging and DJing. A regular DJ at C11 and Kiosk Radio both in Brussels, Diego also co-runs Biologic Records with his mate Abstraxion since 2014.
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Fort Romeau returns to Live At Robert Johnson with two epic proto-house cuts on his brand new EP titled Dweller On The Threshold.
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The veteran London duo Secretsundaze debut Live At Robert Johnson with pure deep house vibes.
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PLAYRJC 055EP
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Jacques Bon, host of the Smallville record store dependence in Paris, debuts on Live At Robert Johnson with pure deep house vibes. Fractals features two tracks by the Parisian artist and two remixes by Lauer.
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PLAYRJC 054EP
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Live At Robert Johnson announce the second release of Sao Paulo-based artist Davis, titled Ordinary Sleep. Davis a key figure of Sao Paulo's strong techno and house scene, and a member of the collective behind the underground warehouse event series ODD. On this EP, Davis brings together break-beat and acid with his trance-y signature synth-wave melodies.
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PLAYRJC 053LP
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"The body never lies. Every dance is a graph of the heart. Nothing is more revealing than movement." These are the words of Martha Graham, one of the greatest American dancers and choreographers of the 20th century. Massimiliano Pagliara might as well have them tattooed on his chest, close to his heart, being an accomplished dancer, too. He has studied contemporary dance in Milan and Berlin, and went on to dedicate his life to transforming experience into movement, be it musical, physical, or spiritual. Massimilano's message is clear: Don't stand still. Take a chance at endless change, instead. Stemming from Lecce province, an area at the south-eastern-most tip of Italy, Massimilano has been based in Berlin for several years where he's been one of the main forces behind recombining the city's hardboiled techno scene with an often-overlooked sensibility for the soft and the tender. Call it underground disco passion. Massimilano's last album, With One Another (PLAYRJC 032LP, 2014), was about celebrating the joy of human encounters and in parts seemed like a big get-together with like-minded artists and friends. Following its release, Massimilano dedicated himself to intense traveling and exploring the world anew. The result of these experiences is Feel Live, Massimiliano's third full-length endeavor. It was recorded in several intimate, sometimes improvised studio settings between Los Angeles, Portland, and Massimiliano's homebase in Berlin as well as at airports and on intercontinental flights high up in the sky. Featuring vocals by Private Agenda, Peaking Lights, Kim Anh, and instrumental contributions by Fort Romeau, Tim K, and Jules Etienne, Feel Live is Massimilano's most playful and imaginative work to date. It's as emotional as sensual, as vibrant as the first ray of light after a thunderstorm has cleared the air. Is it awkward or odd to call this record jazzy? Presumptuous to pinpoint its spatial, almost orchestral qualities? Unfair on the ruling Cosmic powers to highlight its aspirations of founding a new land of Balearic Harmonia and getting down at a huge fertility rite with electro enthusiasts and house lovers? Not one bit. Feel Live is pure grandeur and elegance. It feels like an eternal movement.
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PLAYRJC 052EP
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As a Frankfurt native, Oskar Offermann has been a longtime friend of the Robert Johnson club, first as a regular guest and later as a regular DJ. After spending 15 years in exile (Berlin, where else?) and putting out music on his own (White and Rimini) as well as befriended labels (Mule Musiq, Aim and Hardworksoftdrink), the long lost son has finally come back home (Offenbach, where else?) and will debut on Live At Robert Johnson with Truth Within The Kilos, three tracks that bring together Oskar's melodic approach and the bleepy sound of Frankfurt's new school.
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