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RAPH DUMAS - Coblism

About the album

Raph Dumas brings the two strands of his musical heritage together with this innovative album entitled Coblism. On the one hand there is the traditional music of Catalunya, the music of his heritage, which is in his blood. On the other, there is modern electronic music, to which he has dedicated his life as a DJ and producer. Coblism is the meeting of both, an album that swells with the tradition and pride of the cobla (the traditional Catalan band), but also works on the modern dancefloor. It is Raph’s personal reading of the cobla sound, from the perspective of a modern DJ.

Unlike the Primaveras project, solely a ‘live’ affair, where Raph put together his own cobla and recorded them, this is a studio affair. This album features samples from 1950s vinyl recordings of different coblas’, studio sessions with the Primaveras and Sardanas (traditional dances, where the music is provided by a cobla) that Raph has written himself. This traditional music is combined with the type of beats and grooves you would expect to find on an album of electronic music. Coblism is therefore a unique beast, celebrating both two centuries of traditional Catalan music and modern electronic music culture. On the face of it, this may seem like a strange meeting of cultures and ideas. However, it is not, because the basic role of both the cobla and the modern DJ or electronic music producer is the same: they wish to make you dance. Raph believes there are parallels between the sardana and breakdancing, as both are street dances. He envisages live performances of the album to feature break dancing and traditional sardanas.

The album features Oscar Dalmau, who speaks on the Outro Lliure. Dalmau is a famous TV and Radio presenter in Catalunya. He also DJs as Phil Musical and has made a number of Catalonian pop compilations. Raph’s daughter, Lou, also features on this track. Another guest, celebrated French musician, Pascal Comelade, has supplied the painting on the cover. Comelade is better known for his musical exploits than his paintings, having worked with the likes of PJ Harvey and Robert Wyatt. He has an extensive discography and released his first album in the mid 1970s. However, his artwork should not be underestimated, as this striking album cover shows.

About Raph Dumas

During the last 15 years, Raph Dumas has done it all. He counts record shop owner, label manager, DJ, stage performer and producer as his occupation. He has been a professional record spinner for over a decade and a half. His dedication behind the decks has given him the opportunity to spin records all over mainland Europe and beyond.

Raph Dumas made the logical step to become a producer and set up the Enjoy and Lace imprints, which were the first independent dance music labels in the Catalunya. More recently, he has recorded with famous musician Pascal Comelade and co-produced Renaud Papillon Paravel’s third album. Dumas started The Primaveras project to celebrate the music of his grandfather and his Catalonian heritage. On record, they released the acclaimed Ode To Tanguy Jo album in 2009 on Enjoy Recordings and two sought after 7 inch singles. The group’s music was taken to heart in Catalunya, where it can be heard on radio. Dumas put together an orchestra named La Cobla Mil.Lenaria, who have played at festivals such as Transmusicales in Rennes.

Despite involvement in other musical spheres, Raph Dumas has never neglected DJing or club culture. In 2009, he put out Multi-Electronics and A Rare Toy on Lace Recordings. In 2010 he released The Greatest Funk Of Your Life, which reflects his ability to give you an orgasmic experience on the dancefloor. Coblism is therefore the next logical step for Raph Dumas, combining elements of both his musical past and present.

Coblism track by track

Simple beats, cobla crescendos and diminuendos and wobbly synths feature on Nacions (01). Biomimétisme (02) is a battle between breakbeats and strings. The bass and long instrumental lines loom large on Smoking Cobla (03). A hypnotising melody characterises La Principal d’En Valenti (04). Breaks de la Réal (05) is an exciting percussive number, which features layer upon layer of musical goodness. The brass finds its voice on Mentre Muntanyes (06), albeit in a slightly twisted way. Bernardi (07) is a gorgeous number that features recordings of nature, touching keys and regimented cobla instrumentation. It is hard not to be moved by the cobla melody on Al Zurich (08), which is backed by understanding beats. A fat bassline and woozy grooves dominate Abelles Borratxes (09). Keys and traditional instrumentation of the cobla dance together in perfect harmony on Ball de Nit (10). Lou sings L’Estaca (a Catalonian revolutionary anthem) and Oscar Dalmau speaks out against the music industry on Outro Lliure (11), which brings the album to a close.

Release info

artist/project RAPH DUMAS

title Coblism

cat.nr MAD009 (Marendadisc/Discmedi)

credits

written, produced and performed by Raphaël Dumas.
(11) performed by Oscar Dalmau & Lou Dumas
with some samples from The Primaveras, Cobla Mil.lenaria
Mastering by Luis Mazoni
published by Melmax Music
artwork by Pascal Comelade / graphic design by Graphic66
All rights reserved. A Marendadisc / Discmedi production

distribution

Discmedi - http://discmedi.com/ - atencionalcliente@discmedi.com

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Sobre l’àlbum

Raph Dumas presenta juntes les dues vessants de la seva herència musical en aquest àlbum innovador titulat Coblism. D’una banda la música tradicional de Catalunya, la música que ha heretat, i que és dins la seva sang. De l’altra la música electrònica, a la que s’ha dedicat tota la vida com a DJ i productor. Coblism és el punt de trobada d’ambdues, un àlbum que sintonitza amb la tradició i l’orgull de la cobla, però que també funciona a les pistes de ball modernes. És la lectura personal del Raph del so de la cobla, des de la perspectiva d’un DJ modern.

A diferència del projecte Primaveras, un projecte exclusivament de directe, on en Raph va reunir la seva propia cobla i la va enregistrar, aquest és un projecte d’estudi. Aquest àlbum presenta mostres de vinils del 1950 amb gravacions de diferents cobles, sessions d’estudi amb els Primaveras, y sardanes que ha escrit el propi Raph. La música tradicional es combina amb el tipus de beats i grooves que es poden trobar en un àlbum de música electrònica. Coblism és per tant una espècie única, que celebra a la vegada dues centúries de música tradicional catalana y la cultura de la música electrònica moderna. A primer cop d’ull pot semblar una estranya trobada de cultures i idees. No obstant no ho és, perquè el paper bàsic tant de la cobla com del DJ modern o del productor de músicas electrònica és el mateix: Desitgen fer-te ballar. En Raph creu que hi ha paral.lelismes entre la sardana i el breakdance, ja que ambdós són balls de carrer. Ell s’imagina interpretacions en directe de l’àlbum on es presenten juntsa el breakdance i les sardanes tradicionals.

L’àlbum presenta a Oscar Dalmau, que parla al tema Outro Lliure. Dalmau és un famós presentador de Ràdio i Televisío a Catalunya. També ha fet de DJ a Phil Musical i ha fet diversos recopilatoris de pop català. La germana d’en Raph, Lou, també apareix en el mateix tall. Un altre convidat, l’aclamat músic nordcatalà Pascal Comelade, ha proporcionat el quadre de la coberta. Comelade és més conegut pels seus èxits musicals que per les seves pintures, i ha col.laborat amb artistes com PJ Harvey i Robert Wyatt. Té una extensa discografia i va editar el seu primer àlbum a meitat dels 70. Per altra banda les seves obres d’art no es poden subestimar, tal com demostra la impactant coberta de l’àlbum.

Sobre Raph Dumas

Durant els darrers 15 anys, Raph Dumas ha fet de tot. Ha estat propietari d’una botiga de discos, director d’un segell discogràfic, DJ, intèrpret als escenaris i productor musical. Ha estat DJ profesional durant una dècada i mitja. Aquesta dedicació als plats li ha proporcionat l’oportunitat de punxar discos a la majoria dels principals països europeus i molts d’altres.

Raph Dumas va fer el lògic pas per convertir-se en productor y llançar els segells Enjoy i Lace, que van ser els primers segells independents de música dance a la Catalunya Nord. Més recentment ha gravat i mesclat amb el famós músic Pascal Comelade i ha coproduit el tercer disc de Renaud Papillon Paravel. Dumas va posar en marxa el projecte Primaveras per homenatjar la música del seu avi y la seva herència catalana. Discogràficament, va editat l’aclamat àlbum Ode to Tanguy Jo l’any 2009 amb Enjoy Recordings, en format CD & LP. La música del grup ha arribat al cor de catalunya on es pot escoltar a la ràdio. Aiximateix, Dumas ha reunit una orquestra anomenada la Cobla Mil.lenària, que ha actuat a festivals tan prestigiosos com el Transmusicales de Rennes.

Malgrat la seva implicasció en altres esferes musicals, Raph dumas mai no ha deixat de banda la seva feina com a DJ i la cultura de club. El 2009 va editar Multi-Electronics i A Rare Toy amb Lace Recordings. El 2010 va publicar The Greatest Funk Of Your Life, que reflexa la seva habilitat per proporcionar una experiència orgàsmica a la pista de ball. Coblism es per tant la segúent passa lògica de Raph Dumas, que combina elements tant del seu passat musical com del seu present.

Marc O’Sullivan

Mark O’Sullivan has been releasing quality music since the mid to late 90’s encompassing many styles. He name first came to prominance with the appearances of a few 10 inch singles and 2 albums (Ian Hendricks Disco and Silverdale) under the name THE MIGHTY QUARK. Essentially a project with its roots firmly in Dub, its appeal caught the attention of LEFTFIELD who asked Mark to remix their “Chant Of A Poorman” single. Around the same time came an offshoot project called BACUZZI where Mark did collaborations with various people such as Andy Bell (Ride) and Idha (Creation Recordings).

After a series of releases on the legendary SVEK label Mark had some international success as part of the DK7 project where he co-wrote and co-produced the “DISARM ” album for Trevor Jacksons legendary OUTPUT RECORDINGS. The massive Dancefloor hit “THE DIFFERENCE” was followed by 2 other UK top 20 Dance singles and top billings on major European festivals such as ROSKILDE, PUKKLEPOP, MYSTERY LANDS etc…

Mark hooked up with JOHN DAHLBACK to do a series of releases for PICKADOLL, AUDIOMATIQUE, MORRIS AUDIO under the name MARK & JOHN.

In 2009 Mark released his “FRAGMENTS FROM A LONG COUNTRY” album on the Nice & Nasty label to rave reviews, a very personal album that was described as a “VERY INSPIRED AND ACCOMPLISHED PIECE OF WORK” by RESIDENT ADVISOR.

Mark finished off 2009 with 3 brillinat releases the mighty EXODUS on Coyus ATYPICAL FARM label, RELAPSE on top UK label PROCESS REC and the PAPER AND STONE ep on German label DELIKAT.

Mark O Sullivan is the Artist In Residence in MUK youth centre in Stockholm where the studio is a place of Play, Development and Inspiration .The track MUK1 began as a tutorial for Patrik Hellberg but developed into a sublime slice of atmospheric dub techno that ended up released on Lace Recordings.

more info

http://www.myspace.com/markdk7

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mark+O%27Sullivan#t=Credits_All&q=&p=1

Ricardo Avalon

GENESE

Tout commence par une rencontre entre Nico et SoukA. Le premier était guitariste d’un groupe de rock alternatif et compose des morceaux Techno-Detroit sous le nom d’Uninvited Partners, tandis que le second scribouille depuis 12 ans des cahiers de chansons, se morfondant sur la mort du rap français.

Fin 2007, au détour d’une partie de poker, Nico compose 3 morceaux aux allures rock sur fond de construction électro sur lesquels SoukA pose ses textes alambiqués de son timbre slam multifacettes. L’expérience de cette musique hybride les séduit et ils décident de pousser plus en avant l’aventure en composant d’autres morceaux. Ils sont très vite rejoints par Haussmann, batteur de l’ancien groupe rock de Nico, qui a pour mission d’insuffler de la vie dans ces rythmes à la puissance électronique.

Ricardo Avalon est né, avec pour objectif de créer une musique en perpétuelle évolution, entre rap, électro et rock, riche de sa musicalité et de ses textes pour assouvir leur besoin de renouveau de la chanson française, désormais trop souvent réduite à une guitare et une voix…

L’alchimie entre les personnages aidant, leur 3 univers vont se mêler pour laisser libre cour a leur créativité durant 2 ans d’écriture et d’enregistrement pour finaliser l’album « mille et une vies », recueil de fables urbaines où chaque chanson est l’occasion de découvrir une nouvelle facette du groupe.

Bienvenue dans cet Univers

LES AGENTS DU GROUPE

SoukA

Mission :

Portevoix de la faction

Background :

SoukA compose ses premiers textes d’influence rap au milieu des années 90. Il enregistre à cette époque quelques-uns de ses plus fameux titres (format MP1 :radiocassette). Hélas, ces merveilles de révolte adolescente sortiront difficilement des murs de sa chambre, malgré le soutien sans faille de ses posters. Il poursuit donc ses études et se retrouve miraculeusement détenteur d’un diplôme d’ingénieur en Agro-Santé.

Fort de cette réussite sociale, il travaille 3 ans en communication et comprend vite que les réponses à ses aspirations poétiques ne se trouvent pas dans le déguisement du working boy. Dès lors, il s’engouffre dans le projet Ricardo Avalon et s’y consacre à plein temps.

Ses univers d’influence vont du rap 90’s (Solaar, IAM, TTC) à la chanson française (Brel, Thiéfaine ou Gainsbourg) en passant par la littérature anglaise (Nick Hornby, Martin Amis) ou française (Boris Vian, l’artiste ingénieur par excellence, ou encore Beigbeder). Fasciné par la théorie de l’évolution, l’adulescence (ou déliquescence de l’adulte) et l’irrationnelle complexité des relations humaines, il en fait les thèmes de prédilections de ses chansons.

SoukA fait de ses cordes vocales un instrument de musique, traité comme tel dans son interprétation des morceaux ; il joue ses textes comme un acteur, recherchant le ton et la diction juste, propre à chacun de ses personnages, avec toujours en ligne de mire la volonté de transmettre l’émotion du moment…

Nico

Mission :

Orchestration des opérations

Background :

Nico grandit au Brésil et rentre en France à l’âge de 13 ans. Enlever ses tongs et son short constitue pour lui un vrai choc culturel dont il ne se remettra qu’en enfilant une paire de santiags et un foulard à tête de mort. Il cofonde le groupe Akinésie et en devient compositeur / guitariste solo, afin d’exprimer son malaise qui n’a d’égal que la longueur de ses cheveux. Suite à la séparation du groupe et après avoir mûrement réfléchit son choix entre un avenir d’électro-technicien ou d’électro-compositeur, il forme le groupe Uninvited Partners et se consacre uniquement à la musique. Il sort ses titres sous les labels Enjoy Records, Lace Records, Deeplay Soultec et Rachdingue Records, et écume les soirées dans toute l’Europe.

Autodidacte de la musique, il la veut instinctive et visionnaire, et va chercher son inspiration chez les maîtres du genre, Ennio Morricone, The Doors, Gainsbourg, Steve Reich, Underground Resistance ou dans le cinéma (Blade Runner, Stanley Kubrick…)

Il intègre et adapte les codes musicaux de ces différents genres pour en prendre l’essence et façonner une musique qui vit avec son temps, loin des ritournelles nostalgiques de la musique du siècle dernier. Il a finalement créé son propre style en utilisant l’essence de la musique acoustique pour la construire de manière électronique.

Haussmann

Mission :

Baguette armée de la faction

Background :

Haussmann est fils de charron, et connaît une enfance à la dure en Ile de France. Ses seuls moments d’évasion sont la musique et son chat empaillé, avec lequel il joue le soir, au grenier. Pour gagner sa liberté, il décide de se joindre à un groupe de rock alternatif avec Nico, dont la salle de répétition n’est pas sans lui rappeler avec nostalgie les heures passées dans la pénombre du grenier de son enfance. Possédant de bonne disposition pour la musique et surtout son univers (sexe, alcool & rock’n’roll), il se lance dans une très brève carrière de guitariste solo qui s’éteint après 3 répétitions magistrales… La batterie apparaît comme plus apte à canaliser son débordement d’énergie et son sens du rythme le hisse rapidement dans le top 10 des batteurs de Fontenay le Fleury.

Malheureusement le groupe périclite au bout de 6 ans et laisse Haussmann, assis sur son tom basse, au bord de la départementale 11.

Après des études de droit, sa passion pour l’histoire et son besoin d’action le poussent à entamer une carrière militaire mais le manque d’action qui caractérise l’armée française à cette époque l’incite à déserter, il décide alors de se recycler dans le négoce.

Loin d’avoir abandonné la batterie, il accepte en 2008 de se joindre à SoukA et Nico et devient dans la foulée co-fondateur de Ricardo Avalon. Armé de théories « Brelesques », Haussmann a fait de l’envie le maître mot de son langage. Ainsi, animé par cette source d’épanouissement sans limite, son jeu, sans fioritures, transpire de sincérité. Aimant les fresques « façon » Lelouch il conçoit sa musique comme l’une d’entre elles, c’est-à-dire enrichie par tous les sentiments qui parcourent la vie d’un Homme. De ceux qui, un jour nous font dire, j’ai grandi.

Serval

Mission :

Soutien logistique des opérations

Background :

Serval est depuis toujours passionné de musique électronique. Dès l’âge de 16 ans, il se porte acquéreur d’un Macintosh Classic II (de dernière génération… 5 ans plus tôt) qui lui ouvre les portes d’un monde numérique en lettres vertes sur fond noir. Il se lance dans la composition de morceaux électro mais est rapidement bloqué par les capacités techniques de sa machine, qui gère laborieusement plus de 4 sons à la fois. Armée d’un soundsystem flambant neuf, il se lance alors dans une carrière de disco-mobile, avec pour défi de transformer garages en dance floors. Ce déballage technologique lui permet de recréer une ambiance apocalyptique, faisant disparaître les foules dans un foisonnement de laser stroboscopique et autre nuage de fumée opaque. Le public de l’époque, peu habitué à ce déferlement d’effets visuels et sonores, est vite pris de cours par ces nouvelles technologies et Serval se retrouve impliqué dans plusieurs cas de crise d’épilepsie. Sa carrière de perturbateur de soirée est alors mise en suspend et il n’y reviendra que quelques années plus tard en montant le duo Uninvited Partners, aficionados du soulèvement de foule par propagation rythmique, diffusant leur message partout en Europe et toujours en activité dans les bacs.

D’électro en électron, Serval travaille en parallèle au Commissariat d’Energie Atomique afin de pouvoir mener à bien ses propres expériences sur la mutation des ondes sonores par irradiation (thèse en cours d’écriture).

Ses influences musicales englobent la vague transe des années 90 et des groupes phares psychédéliques tel qu’Underground Resistance ou Dead Can Dance.

Fort de ses expériences scéniques et de sa maîtrise des effets, il intègre Ricardo Avalon en 2010 afin d’assurer la gestion de la partie électronique Live du groupe.

INFO + VIDEO

“Silence 2.0″ from Ricardo Avalon on Vimeo :

Silence 2.0 - Ricardo Avalon from Ricardo Avalon on Vimeo.

En duplex du studio :

http://www.dailymotion.com/ricardoavalon

Yota

Yota is born in Stockholm, Sweden. Although her father was a performing singer and music had a great influence in her early life, Yota decided to go for arts school instead. As her first passion in life was art, running an art gallery with some friends along with studying arts was a natural choice for her.

Later on by chance, her best friend connected her with a music producer, she then decided to give music and singing a try and started working with dancemusic in the late 90’s for various electronic projects. Music took over more and more of her time. Later on she got in touch with Anders Mörén (Misty Music) and Håkan Lidbo (Container Publishing) around 2001.

After a signed publishing deal with Misty Music and with the first track “Let me be” with Martin Venetjoki which was released on Mouthful Music (a Chicago based recording label) things started rolling for real. Working with Zoo Brazil/Laid was her first strong release with a certain kind of high quality house music and she decided she would continue to focus on music in this genre.

As a talented melody and lyrics writer she was asked to work for Universal and some other majors.
In 2007 she moved to France and since then she has been working mostly with french producers. Her latest releases have been on many respected labels (see. Discography).
Yota already worked & collaborated with: Lifelike, Alan Braxe, Zoo Brazil, Håkan Lidbo, John Dahlbäck, Stonebridge, DJ DLG and Redroche, just to name a few of them.

Yota’s selected discography:

Lifelike feat. Yota / Silicon Love / Computer Science
Lifelike/Yota/Namebrand / Love Emulator / Computer Science
Hakan Lidbo feat. Yota / Love To Me / Enjoy Recordings
Lifelike feat. Yota / Sunset / Vulture
Eddie Silverton feat. Yota / Lost Faces / Deeplay Music
Eddie Silverton feat. Yota / Don’t Tell Me / Deeplay Music
Zoo Brazil feat. Yota / Never Gonna Find a Love / Manifesto-Universal
Zoo Brazil feat. Yota / Make You Mine / Junior Boy’s Own
John Dahlback feat. Yota / The Call / Pickadoll
John Dahlback feat. Yota / Track for Adults’ (EP “I slide”)/ Pickadoll
Laid feat Yota / Me / Skint-Loaded Records
John Dahlback feat. Yota / Get Over It (Album ‘At The Gun Show’) / Pickadoll
Savant Garde / Trigger Happy / Definitive Recordings
DLG & Redroche feat. Yota / Let You Go / Kontor Records
Stonebridge feat. Yota / Music Takes Me / In 2 Music
Sunblock feat. Yota / I’ll Be Ready (album) / Universal
Martin Venetjoki feat. Yota / Let Me Be / Mouthful Music Chicago

DJ Gomor

Analog warfare & acid funky freak… This is DJ Gomor, Nice kalendar, Seq9, Aerosoul Also called Schoffmann Anthony.

The Story began a long time ago… His father was one of the first juke box Wurlitzer dealer and his mother a true fan of Motown, Gainsbourg or “messe pour le temps present” composed by Pierre Henry for Maurice Béjart. The apple never falls very far from the tree!
It is at the age of 12 that Gomor begun djing while picking in the family vinyl collection! This is how Coldcut’s first 45″ ended up in his hands before to be placed in his red colored penny slot-in record player. Further on - and still very young - Anthony was able to make his own musical choices and got into Acid House, New Beat, Chicago Trax, Detroit Techno… up to Fnac Records starring Garnier and Shazz!

Later on, he started producing his own music while recovering vintage instruments, for instance the TB303 that belonged to a Waltz band eager to replace their bass player… Into Funk (which he started to enjoy from the belly of his mother) he used an TR808 as for drums, CZ5000 as a guitar and so on until someone told him :”Hey! This is almost like Cybotron”

A few years later he became a DJ in-demand playing in the area overing the borders of France, Switzerland and Germany where he had a chance to perform with musicians he used to dream about… Nowadays he plays mostly house and techno mixed with some old school vinyls.

At the end of 2007 he launched a record label called Natural Undergroove Resources (N.U.R records) and signed artists like Pascal Brockly, le K, Knor, Dop, Kira Neris, Dj Innerstep , Madnus & Scogil…

Many releases also came on labels such as Fluid Ounce (UK), Revolver (Canada), Neverending Records (France), Rachdingue (Spain), Criminal Beat Cartel (France/Germany) and many others… Being skilled and very productive, his remix list includes big names such as Suzanne Vega, Zed Bias or… Coldcut.

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY

Singles & EP

Dj Gomor / Cage Torazik / Fluid Ounce Records
Dj Gomor / Hair Bag / Tru Thoughts
Dj Gomor / Trottoir Flash Blotzheim / Tru Thoughts
Seq 9 / Interstellar Frequency part.2 / Tru Thoughts
Dj Gomor / D’Accord Pas d’Accords / Revolver Records
Seq 9 / Licorne / Fluid Ounce Records
Seq 9 / One of us / Tru Thoughts
Aerosoul / On a little cloud ( pornogroove edit ) / Fluid Ounce Records
Aerosoul / So boogie acid / Tru Thoughts
Nice Kalendar / Iso / Fluid Ounce Records
Goaz aka Gomor & Maz / London ( club mix ) / Criminal Beat Cartel
Dj Gomor / Black Magic Woman EP / Neverending Records
Dj Gomor / Untitled / Neopren Records
Goaz aka Gomor & Maz / Fever / Investigation Music Lovers
Dj Gomor / Col De Banyuls EP / Lace Recs

Remix and Edit

Catalepsia / I have no idea / Métis Recs
Citizen Kain & Phuture Traxx / Tan Guapa / Neverending Records
Madnus & Scogil / Tiergarten / Youppala
Jaumetic & Citizen kain / Criminal / Regular Records
Theo Moritz / The Drunken Old Man / Superhuit
Dave da Gato / Carbon / Fluid Ounce
Zed Bias / Boomerang / Sick Trumpet
Kira Neris / A Frozen Second / Faces Records
Yann Thiersen / La Valse d’Amélie / Black Label
Suzanne Vega / Tom’s Diner / Black Label
Karl Off / Solarized / Anorak Supersport
Coldcut / True Skool / Ninja Tune
Hakan Libdo feat Yota / Love To Me / Enjoy Recs
Mark O’Sullivan / Muk1 / Lace Recs

More info:

http://www.myspace.com/gomormusic

http://soundcloud.com/gomor

Brice Bertran aka Killersounds

Catalan native born in Perpignan in the mid seventies, Brice Bertran was raised in an environment of music and entertainment thanks to his father Yves Bertran who was the leader of the “Star System” pop-rock, R’N’B and soul orchestra where his mother was also involved as a vocalist.
Brice Bertran is often nicknamed “Magic Ears” also due to a very long experience in music creation:
He got his first synthesizer when we was eleven and could get started working with chords and harmonies to great effect, and later on with the help of an Atari computer and a Cubase sequencer.
Five years later, he got involved in “Scenario”, a hip hop project inspired by US acts like “The Pharcyde”, “The Roots” or “A Tribe Called Quest”, and he wrote the year after most of the instrumental material for “Suave Minds” which lead him and his two brothers Yves and Lionel to get to work in professional studios.
In 1998, Brice joined the international sound-engineer school SAE where he could perfect his recording and mixing technique. Soon after he was hired by French TV channel France 3 and worked as perch man and sound editor for several movies and shows. It is also during the same period that he started producing some house music.
In 2001 he met Raph Dumas and Manuel Perez and joined the Lace Recordings, Enjoy Recordings and Marendadisc artist roster, getting involved in several productions and also releasing the highly acclaimed “Waiting Lounge” recorded with jazz-guitar hero José Barrachina. Brice Bertran has also remixed a number of artists such as Hakan Lidbo, Martin Venetjoki, P18 or Sinclair.
Further on he recorded and produced projects like Beatmaker or Rouge A Lèvres, while working with labels like Vicky Productions, Undercover/Naïve, Ascetic Music or Deep-Hop Music. Under the Killersounds moniker, he has worked with hip hop legends such as DJ Steady, DJ Tajmahal, DJ Gero and even DJ Duke from the famous French act Assassin.
More recently, Killersounds has remixed « Enlève Tes Talons » by hip-house act Le 4Romain & Libre Penseur (True Flav Records) while Brice Bertran released on Enjoy Recordings the soulful anthem “I Wish” performed by Valérie Brochard and remixed by Physics and Pilooski.
Still contributing to many club projects like with Max Cherry and Franck Garcia, and still involved in the South French hip hop scene working with new recordings for Unité de Valeur, He is also very much into Latin vibes : Brice is currently working on a project with Brazilian singer/guitar player Osvaldo (member of Moleque De Rua).

http://www.myspace.com/killersoundsfr

discography, remixes & contributions

Hakan Lidbo / What Is Love / Enjoy Recordings
Brice Bertran & José Barrachina / Waiting Lounge / Marendadisc
Martin Venetjoki / Obstinat Kartell / Enjoy Recordings
Dumas & Chartron / Devoir De Vacances / Lace Recordings
Beatmaker / Besoin d’Amour / Beatmaker
Kohndo / Blind test / Ascetic Music
Max Cherry & Esteban / EP1 + EP2 / Vicky Productions
Kohndo / Microphoné Et Sans Holster / Ascetic Music
Rouge A Lèvres / Maquille-Toi ! / Deep-Hop Music
Quinze / Formaté + Madame / Animama Prod.
Rouge A Lèvres feat. Disiz Lapeste / Carte À Puce / Deep-Hop Music
P18 / Emi Alado / Tabata Tour
Rouge A Lèvres / Démaquille-Toi ! (album) / Deep-Hop Music
Le 4Romain & Libre Penseur / Enlève Tes Talons / True Flav Recordings
Brice Bertran feat. Valérie Brochard / I Wish / Enjoy Recordings

CALICO aka CHRISTIAN DJOR

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Born in the early 70’s, he discovered music in the early 80’s when hearing the sounds of Depeche Mode, Yello and Ultravox. At the tender age of 15 he landed his first dj-gig at a venue in his small home town of Vara. It was, however, when involved in a local radio station where the passion for creating mix-tapes and being a dj grew.

Through mutual friends he met DJ Mourad in the mid-90’s and together they more or less shaped The Lodge, a monthly club in the south west of Sweden. They formed Chrismour Project a few years later as an outlet for their mutual passion for the Detroit Techno sound.

One thing led to another and Calico soon met Manuel Perez who received some of his tracks, and without an official release yet Calico appeared live at the Hultsfred Festival in 1996 Sweden. This in turn led to the first release on Svek Records, “Unfinished Diary Chapter One”. More releases did follow on various Swedish labels (G-Force, Solid Beat and Facets among others), both as a solo artist and with the Chrismour Project.

While exploring other sides of the musical spectra (apart from his signature deep house style and techno) he introduced a more eclectic project, Christian Djor, and the track “After Shave” was included on a sampler Manuel’s Wrong Steps imprint. A full EP was in the works but was never fully realized.

Calico moved for two years to Seattle in the late 90’s, and got in contact with DJ Dennis (Selekta Recordings) as well as with Marcel Schooler (Khaimar). The latter helped him land two releases for two sub-labels of SFP in Miami, Deep Touch and Filtered. A taped copy of the track “Feeling You Inside” even found its way to a Tony Humphries online mix-tape before officially released on Deep Touch.

Back in Sweden at the beginning of the new millennium, Calico continued producing and had a release on Swedish label Audio Beyond in 2002 before putting music production on hold for a few years due to work and family life. He did however keep afloat during the last decade with some remix jobs (Robert Miles, Swedish industrial band Covenant, German pop band Riviera to name a few) and a digital release via Selekta Recordings in 2008.

Calico has played along artists and dj’s like Larry Heard, Cari Lekebusch, Bandulu, Alexi Delano, Donald Glaude, Olivier Le Castor, Max Reich, Samuel L Session and Fabrice Lig at venues both in Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the US.

Calico has recently started producing new material as well as refining and polishing up on old productions in order to release them to the world.

http://www.myspace.com/calicosweden

Discography

Calico / Unfinished Diary Chapter One / Svek
Chrismour Project / Summernight In Tunisia / Gforce
Calico / Hijo de Puta / Solid Beat
Calico / Basic Funk EP / Deep Touch
Calico / Le Freak & Do You Wanna Bump / Filtered
Calico / Laconic Elements EP / Audio Beyond
Calico / Moonlight Rhythms EP / Selekta Recordings

Co-Production

Fredrik Stark / Cheezwiz / Lace Recordings

Remixes

Covenant / Ritual Noise (Calico RMX) / Metropolis

Compilations

C. Djor / After Shave / Wrong Steps Sampler Vol. 3 / Wrong Steps
Calico / Motiv 8 / Blue Night - The House Party / UCA Records
Calico / Earth & Stone / United Efforts Vol. 3 / Facets
Chrismour Project / Art of Dancing / Gothenburg House Music / Eloge
Calico / The Accomplishment / The Golden Room Vol. 1 / Disturbance
Calico / Blue Skies / Tech House Vol. 2 / Choice Productions
Calico / Night Flight / Travel Mate / Serial Killer Vinyl

Aqua Bassino

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“Jazziest Brother”

Edinburgh born Aqua Bassino aka Jason Robertson released his first material on Laurent Garnier and Eric Morand’s cult F-Communications imprint back in 1995. It was the beginning of a fruitful relationship that spawned a number of EP releases, and two albums, namely 1998’s Beat’s N Bobs and 2006’s Rue De Paris. Over the years, Aqua Bassino has remixed the likes of Norma Jean Bell, Joseph Malik, François Dubois and more recently Charles Webster. Jason Robertson now lives in Barcelona and presents with Manuel Perez his first artist release on Lace: «Luv’Inside», following on from a remix of Alton Miller’s Everyday I Do.

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http://www.myspace.com/aquabassino

Bonnie Drasko

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“Ampurdan’s Groove Master”

Who is Bonnie Drasko?

He is a Spanish DJ and producer named Marius F, who is from Northern Catalonia. Born in 1981, Drasko has had a long love affair with music. He started his musical studies aged 8 and later discovered the joys of electronic dance music.

Aged 18, Bonnie Drasko moved to Barcelona, where he fell under the spell of the city’s club scene, inspired by sounds emanating from Detroit, Chicago and Berlin. In 2004, Drasko started DJing and making his own music, inspired by styles such as techno, house, minimal, disco and electro. In the last five years, he has DJ’d at many clubs and parties. He has released a number of his own tracks on digital labels and other platforms.

more info

http://www.myspace.com/bonniedrasco

Tunis Diaspora

“The Sliti Bros”

Tunis Diaspora is the project name uniting the 3 Sliti brothers. All 3 born and raised in the area of Ibn Khaldoun in Tunis, they are DJs and producers on their own rights. Their dedication for Detroit and Chicago sounds is a known fact. With their Tunis Diaspora Project they wanted to mix those two influences with their North African and Mediterranean roots. The result is a series of 3 tracker EP’s where they will expose their definition of deep house and techno: It is funky, raw and heavy on percussion.

Their story began in the mid-eighties when big brother Mourad got hooked by the hip-hop movement and became a skilled break-dancer, before his passion slipped into creative DJing, which lead him to open his music culture to Jazz, Soul, Funk, R’n’B and later on House, Garage and Techno, always working for the local clubs.
Further to becoming Tunisia’s electronic music pioneer, he moved in 1991 to Gothenburg, Sweden where he continued his DJ career. From there he turned to be an important figure of the Swedish club-scene, bringing over and played all over Europe and Asia, also federating worldwide audiences with his popular radio shows broadcasted on stations such as Mark fm, City fm (Sweden) , Selekta (U.S.A), Interface Pirate Radio (UK) and Mfm (Switzerland)… As an accomplished producer, Mourad has released many of his tracks for labels such as, G-Force, Eloge, Rachdingue, Soul People Music, Next Dimension Music, Selekta … and remixed artists like Hakan lidbo, Alton Miller, Manuel Perez or Pawel Kobak.

The second brother of the three - Nabil - started already mixing in 1992/1993 before migrating to Geneva, Switzerland where he also continued his career, establishing himself as one of this country most effective and creative Djs, working for clubs like : Le Pretexte , FBI , Alhambar , Fenomeno, 2eme Bureau, l´Aiglon, l´Ethno, Scandale…which naturally lead him to get into putting up together some nice tracks with his very special energetic touch.

It did not take long before the youngest - Dali - found his place behind the decks.
He followed to the letter what he was taught by his precursors and, just like them, also moved to Europe and chose Paris as a place to live and get inspired by. Before long, he hooked with the essential house players of the French and international scene and got some cool releases on labels like Soul People Music, Selekta …

Geneva, Paris and Gothenburg are a living part of their respective music production, and you can hear it in what they do, but at the end of the day they all meet at the same point if it ain´ t Detroit, it must be Chicago… with on top that unique and specific oriental vibe only them could create… It’s a family affair!

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