14.11.2006 von mk.

“Soft Hand Feel”, a CD+DVD album, is a culmination of the varied works Kinder Atom have recorded over the past few years, from electropop and jazzy deep house to dub and ambient downtempo. The title track is a warped ten minutes of phased trance-inducing tribal rhythms and includes guest ‘overseas’ chanting by Rapoon (Robin Story). The stand-out vocal track on the album, “Bring the Herbs”, is a groovy ambient dub song, featuring the sweet sounds of Jamaican reggae music star, Musical Sniper.
The DVD features seven different music videos by various Toronto film directors. These video interpretations of Kinder Atom’s music, embrace nature-inspired, layered, abstract imagery and colours. The DVD-ROM portion of the disc has mp3 portable/iPod ready files of the whole album and exclusive bonus remixes, including two additional versions of “Bring the Herbs” and the “Eagle Sprouts” 12″ nuwavediskomix.

The nice+smooth catalogue ranges in style from ambient and down tempo to drum’n'bass and jazzy house music and far beyond. All the music of Kinder Atom and the nice+smooth label is available for download at emusic.com, beatport.com, playittonight.com, karmadownload.com, itunes.com, rhapsody.com, napster.com, hrfq.com, and anywhere fine mp3s are sold.

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14.11.2006 von mk.

2nd release of Perfect.Toys brandnew Ultrafunk series features their new signing Vienna based TELEMARK. ‘Sanctified’ features the powerful vocals of Big John Whitfield, one of the most well known soul singers in Vienna’s Clubland. The track is a broken tek-funk monster with an ultra-throbbing bassline. ‘I Can’t Live Without U’ deeply explores the beginning of chicago disco combined with a classy polyrhythmic drum feeling while ‘Limelight’ is a mutant tech-house tune with a killer bassline reminiscent of 80ies synthies.

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14.11.2006 von mk.

A little warm up from Gecko Turner’s new album on Lovemonk ‘Chandalismo Ilustrado’, featuring a rather neat set of remixes from Bugz In The Attic’s Seiji. The album is a diverse selection of D’Angelo style grooves, played with considerably more charm than you’d expect from a former London Underground busker, but this package takes the man from Madrid to the dancefloor via West London.
The chirpy, cheeky original glides with a West African guitar sound and handclaps egging the backing vox on, with Gecko’s spoken word accompaniment just the icing on the cake, and everything with some Cuban nuances…
Seiji’s pair of Vox remixes take the guitar and horn to the floor, adding a Bugz style distorted bass and a more urgent flavour. The Dub Vox mix, on the other hand, is deep and a bit techy - maybe even a little bit evil…One of the best remixes Seiji has done in a long time?

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14.11.2006 von mk.

GOGO Music head Ralf GUM comes up with this truley smooth outing entitled “Warrior”, showcasing one of the absolutely finest jazz vocalists Beate S. Lech. The delicious mixes of the song are a first taste of Ralf’s upcoming album and secure his high profile among the elite circle of the most influential House producers. For more than 15 years in the scene Ralf remains cool underground and delivers once again a very fresh release with lots of personality. The “House Mix” produced together with long term studio-partner CrisP is an infectious blend of delicious elements merge into another just perfectly and building the right soundbed for Beate.
Beate S. Lech, also known as the lead voice of Beady Belle, has build up the reputation as one the most innovative jazz singers in today’s scene. After having released 3 albums she’s to date nominated for the Norwegian “Grammy”, Spellemannprisen 2006. She’s one of the favorite artists of India Arie or the jazz star Jamie Cullum. Together with him she toured together in the autumn/winter 2005 and played with great success over 150 concerts in over 90 cities in over 20 countries. On “Warrior” Beate shows once again her amazing song-writting skills and delivers an heavenly performance, standing aside of the many cheesy songs out there.
Remixes are provided by SUGAR BEAT who deliver a very cool broken beat reconstruction. This is surely one for the headz. The trio is steadily carving out their niche with very significant works. This time based on a unique afro-latin-funk rhythm, the whole mix has an irresistable funky feel. The second remix is contributed by RAW ARTISTIC SOUL, who lately has been in high demand thanks to his outstanding single releases “Zaab”, “Miami Theme” and “Oya O”. Phil delivers a deep straight to the floor dub, which makes the dancefloors sizzle.

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14.11.2006 von mk.

As Dizzy Bee held the peak-position with their Funk-Rock track “Masterslammer” of the net-parade of the radio station SWR 3, “Das Ding” for weeks and weeks, they called the attention to the guys from Duptribe. After several visits of the Dizzy Bee concerts they agreed on a musical cooperation. Hence, a remix-CD is released with the 4 top songs of the band isochronal to the CD-EP “Duptribe - Dizzy Bee powdered”. The traveller beat of Sasa and Felix is unmistakably brought out and merges the Funk with the typical Duptribe Sound.

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