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Brendon Moeller prepares to release new LP

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The Frequency Of Love; Next Exit; Guilty Pleasures, these are just some of the tunes you’ll be able to hear on Brendon Moeller’s new LP entitled Storming Heaven set to hit the shops in November. Moeller is perhaps more popularly known as Echologist.

According to news on electronic news website, Resident Advisor, the album “reflects ideas from composers that inspire the musician. Moeller, it added “has attempted to personalize and interpret these influences, creating something that is idiosyncratic and nostalgic.”

The last full length album that Echologist released was Subterranean, back in 2011. He has also released other works under his own name Brendon Moeller, an LP entitled Works, in 2012 on the Electric Deluxe label.

Subterranean was released on Moeller’s Steadfast label however Storming Heaven will be released on the Prologue label. Prologue is also responsible for Mechanics of Joy an Echologist EP released this year.

Other tracks on the album include Tricks OfThe Shade, Storming Heaven, Even If And Especially When, Deep Fried, Lost, Down The Rabbit Hole, and Stepping Out.

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Nic Fanciulli’s summer highlight

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Nic Fanciulli (read here other news) that DJ/producer/label owner of renown has had quite a summer. From playing a six hour back to back session with Carl Cox, a birthday party with Digweed, and organising his own festival he has barely had time to sit down.

Fanciulli spent a good deal of time in Ibiza this summer playing in the clubs and the 100th release for the album Saved is not far off.

The Social Festival in Mote Park, Maidstone this year will feature the likes of Earth, Wind, & Fire as well as Sister Sledge. The festival takes place this weekend.

And according to Fanciulli that session with Carl Cox was not only one his favourite moments but also, Cox’s.

“He’s (Cox) put it in his top five favourite moments of his whole Ibiza career. We recorded the whole thing and put it out and the feedback has been amazing,” says Fanciulli.

Fanciulli is one of the biggest Britishelectronic music producers in the last 10 years and with aGrammy nomination under his belt, Fanciulli has places to go.

The producer has worked with the likes of Underworld, Kylie Minogue, U.N.K.L.E, Loco Dice, Josh Wink, and Tracey Thorn and released on labels such as Rejected and Souvenir.

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Ibiza no longer the place to party

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Ibiza (read here other news) is known as the party place but these days the Spanish isle is becoming highly commercialised and over-developed. The thought is that what is happening there is untenable.

The island which sits in the Mediterranean off the coast of Valencia, Spain has seen a high influx of British tourists that has caused some damage to island’s image.

The fix to that problem was to make the island more expensive which hasn’t done much to address the real issues. High end after parties have been banned on the island but the bad behavior still permeates Ibiza.

While it’s marketed as a big spring break destination the crowds which flock there are not the “good” behaving types.

Tour packages, VIP’s, and the very rich make Ibiza their stomping ground. The new look Ibiza is not sitting well. It’s becoming a haven for the spoilt, the rich, the prostituting, and drug dealers.

Two girls have been the latest to be sent to jail for smuggling cocaine from Peru into the fair isle.

The pair call Ibiza home and claim that they were forced by an armed Spanish gang to do the dirty deed.

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The next big thing from Belgium

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Ultrasone (read her other news) could be Belgium’s next big thing. The DJ duo of Igor Vicente and Vernon Bara are long established on the club scene after making their first studio recording in 2011 with the track “Don’t FeelThis Way” turning them into household names at least in the dance music community. The tune came out in Visionquest 2011.

Their follow up album Breathe N Pop became even hotter and it’s now what they’re most known for. They’ve since had tracks with other labels including Hot Creations, Cityfox,Maison D’Etre, and Supplement Fact.

So hot they are, they’ve been playing gigs at The Flying Circus at Sankeys Ibiza all season.

The two came together after meeting and playing together at a few parties and then came into studio to pair up and the rest as they say is history.

Afterwards, they wanted to use a pseudonym and decided on the name after spotting a pair of Ultrasone headphones on a table and decided that the moniker would work.

The sounds of Ultrasone can be heard on SoundCloud and will take up a residency at Café D’Anvers and Fuse – club of Igor soon.

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Top five music festivals to attend in October

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Some great music festivals will be happening in the month of October and this is your guide to the top five ones to attend according to Resident Advisor.

The Amsterdam Dance Event takes place from October 16 – October 21 inAmsterdam. The line up will feature over 1,700 artists with acts such asObjekt, Prosumer, Mathew Jonson, Ricardo Villalobos, I-F, and Dave Clarke.

Number 2 on the list is the Unsound festival from October 13 – October 20 inKrakow, Poland. Look out for the likes of White Material crew, Golden Pudel resident Helena Hauff and Anthony Naples onboard.

Head to Bristol in the UK on October 12 for the UK Bristol festival with its house music and bass; Over 60 acts line up there and look out for names like Nicolas Jaar and Moderat as well as Hyetal and Outboxx.

The Robot festival takes place in Bologna, Italy from October 2 to 5 and is number 4 on the list. The festival will feature acts such as Cosmin TRG, Pantha Du Prince, Seth Troxler, Tim Hecker, and Tropic Of Cancer.

Last but not least, from October 23 to 25 you can head to Graz, Austria for theDom Im Berg festival where you will hear the sounds of Peverelist, Powell,Vakula, Delroy Edwards, XOSAR and Ron Morelli. With festivals spread out from week to week, you will be dancing all October long.

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Psychemagik could become archivists

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The UK duo Psychemagik (read here other news) are on the road to becoming real archivist by the looks of things.

The duo have been collecting some priceless pieces of music and selling their records to Soulwax and The Chemical Brothers.

According to group member Danny McLewin Soulwax is always looking for things to work with and are also very much into archives. The group has an extensive collection of styles of mixes and Psychemagik themselves are collectors of various styles of music.

Among their favourites? Italo, psych disco, and music from Bollywood. Electro is also in the bag.

And McLewin admits that he would like to become an archivist himself somewhere down the line if they collect enough records with great help from the Internet.

He has collected works from David Axelrod and Kenny Rankin. He has bought as many as seven of Rankin’s records.

“It really comes down to money”, says McLewin. “There have been albums I’ve spent years looking for and then when I find them it’s been overwhelming because you’ve been looking for so long”.

“I wouldn’t merit a record having more value because it’s rare, though. People do that but a dollar bin record is just as valid”.

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Futureboogie, big things ahead

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The future of Futureboogie (read here other news) looks bright. Among the leading names that the label produces are Christophe, Lukas, Waifs & Strays and Behling & Simpson.

According to label head honcho Dave Harvey, Futureboogie, which was started by Harvey and Steve Nickolls in 2011, is all about the “good time party music.”

The label has dubbed Ron Basejam’s remix of the White Lamps “It’s You” as the most important they have produced.

The two first established their base in Leicester and have had many artists from Bristol in the line-up although they say it wasn’t their intention but local producers kept sending them fodder for the Bristol mill.

More than half of the line up from Futureboogie has been Bristol based.

“You can be earning not much money in Bristol and live quite well, which gives people the space to breathe and be creative,” said Harvey.

“Geographically it’s really small… there are all these people from disparate genres or subcultures that are all actually in the same place physically.”

The guys are constantly busy managing their label, programming festivals managing artists, bookings, and promoting parties.

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DVS1 talks about Mistress Recordings

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DSV1 has launched a new label Mistress Recordings. According to DSV1 the label is an offshoot of HUSH, the label started by Zak Khutoretsky.

HUSH has to date released only one 12-iinch track since 2011 when it was first launched. The label’s Facebook page says it will be dedicated to “house, techno and everything in between.”

According to Khutoretsky: “For those that follow me closely, it will be no surprise that Mistress Recordings’ first release has a housier vibe”. “Mistress 01” is the label’s first release which will come from Borrowed Identity, which has released tracks on labels such as Legendary Sound Research and Traveller Records.

And it seems Khtoretsky wants as much hype for this track as possible. He has promised to issue a free download code for Mistress 01 and a bonus track to anyone who buys the vinyl as well as sends a photo of themselves holding the record.

The other tracks on Mistress 01 include Leave Your Life, Painted Clouds, Step Out, Ruhephase In D-Moll feat. Mechanical Soul Brother, and Leave Your Life (Beat Down Version).

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Pezzner’s Last Night In Utopia

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Dave Pezzner will seek to continue his success when he releases his sophomore album Last Night In Utopia in December. Pezzner got his start back in the late 1990’s when he was known as one-half of the musical pair known as Jacob London.

The musician who resides in Seattle, Washington, had his own breakthrough in 2008 with melodic sounds and deep house techno that was on the edge of mainstream house music.

The roamer doesn’t stick to one music label having hits across the board. Among the labels that have produced his songs are Crosstown Rebels, Smoke N’ Mirrors, 8bit, and Freerange Records. Freerange released his 2010 debut album The Tracks Are Alive.

Pezzner wrote much of Last Night In Utopia in 2011 in the island of Malta and in Italy’s capital Rome. During that period he was travelling.

Last Night In Utopia has 15 tracks and will be released through Marc Romboy‘s Systematic Recordings. Pezzner debuted on the label earlier this year with the single All Night Dancing Party.

Tracks to look out for include Birdsong, One Up, Prey, Bell And Whistle, and Step Away.

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Axel Boman prepares for “Family Vacation”

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Swedish musician Axel Boman (edit something about Axel here) is in prep mode. The Stockholm-based musician is set to release his debut album “Family Vacation” in November.

The album will be released through Studio Banhus, another Stockholm native that Boman operates along with Kornél Kovács and Petter Nordkvist.

“I decided to go through the vast collection of ideas and sketches I had on my computer, as a final project before I set that machine on fire and let it all go up in flames, kind of like what Lee “Scratch” Perry did with The Black Ark in Kingston in the ’70s,” Boman told Resident Advisor.

“A friend says the album sounds like ‘weird Jamaican space disco,’ so maybe it’s a fitting reference.”

Boman hit the music scene in 2008 with an irreverent look at house music and he hasn’t looked back since. His music has been on labels such as DFA, Permanent Vacation, Hypercolour and DJ Koze‘s Pampa Records.

Pampa Records released Boman’s breakthrough beat Holy Love. HE has also teamed up with Talabot under the moniker Talaboman on a beat called “Sideral”. That track was included on Talabot’s upcoming DJ-Kicks mix.

Family Vacation will be released on double-vinyl, CD and digital.

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