Electronic Vibes

Although this release has been already out for a while not many of us have noticed. What get’s even more interesting is thay Alex M.O.R.P.H. & Woody van Eyden.

This CD has been released in russia exclusively (World Club Music) and contains some of the best tracks that have been released on Fenology Records since the label launched in 2003.

This mixed catalogue review is presented Back2Back by Alex M.O.R.P.H. & Woody van Eyden, who want to show that the past Fenology releases are still of great quality.

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This summer heralds the launch of yet another new clubbing venture in Ibiza, Love in Playa d’en Bossa. Taking over the entire Somny and Kiss complex, the Love Club hopes to appeal to a new generation of clubbers in Ibiza by promoting themselves as the first British superclub on the island.

Run by DJ/producer Otiz F. Angel and pal Jason McCarthy, the Love Organisation - which claims to be the fastest growing club brand in Europe - started life as an after-hours venue in Shoreditch for people like Puscha, following a short stint promoting parties at El Divino.

The police eventually shut down Love due to new licensing laws, so they sold their lease on the building and moved to a new venue - in Hamburg.

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Armin van Buuren has won five prizes at the prestigious Trance Awards, eclipsing the pre-ceremony favourites Paul van Dyk, and Tiësto. The Dutch DJ’s list of accolades included ‘Best DJ’, ‘Best Compilation’, and ‘Best Resident’, which suggests he may be a strong contender to win this year’s DJmag Top 100 DJs poll.

In 2005, Paul van Dyk won ‘Best DJ’ and ‘Best Producer’ at the Trance Awards, and a few months later was crowned the world’s number one DJ after winning the Top 100 poll a few months later.

The niche Trance Awards have so far proven to be a good indication of how the big trance DJs will fare in the all-important Top 100.

Paul van Dyk did however not go home empty handed – his Vandit label was named label of the year, and the German superstar won ‘Best Producer’ again.

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Following on from the recent ‘Spring / Summer 2006 Edition Sampler’, Audio Therapy are set to bring us the second installment in their Across Borders series. The first album, released back in 2005 placed the spotlight on artists from Greece, and the new album sees Dave Seaman and company travel to the Netherlands, where they showcase some of the best material from some of the country’s top up and coming and established producers.

Audio Therapy take great pleasure in announcing that the second instalment from the Across Borders series will be based on the DJ’s and producers from the Netherlands.

After 2005’s critically acclaimed album, based on the sounds emanating out of Greece and featuring the talents of many artists such as G Pal, Tonedepth and Kosmas Epsilon, the follow up has been highly anticipated. With the likes of Sander Kleinenberg, Matthew Dekay, 16 Bit Lolitas and DJ Remy being just a few of the names involved the waithas been more than worth it.

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I never heard of this new Global Underground release, never saw it on any other site and I just bumped accross it today on Global Underground’s website. Here’s some more information for you readers!

When Ashley Casselle spotted his then girlfriend chatting to a peroxided spikey haired youth with makeup which reminded him of Daryl Hannah playing the replicant in Bladerunner, he moved away from his spot in the DJ booth at London’s Heaven nightclub and asked her who the ‘weird looking guy’ was. A brief introduction followed and the curiously named Ben Lost chatted about his job at a music distribution company and a passion for David Bowie, electronic music, Guns ‘n Roses and Brian Eno. “We exchanged details and then a week later, to my surprise, I started receiving everything from weird drum ‘n bass to thrash metal from him. He told me he’d been the singer in a band called Charlie when he was 14 and that he’d like a shot at performing on my Ashtrax project,” says Casselle. The year was 2000 and Ashley was taking his DJing out of London and onto an international circuit, playing festivals in Japan, terraces in Ibiza and hot nightclubs all over the world while he honed his DJ skills and experimented with the ever expanding sounds of dub house, breakbeats, indie and electro. This in turn fed and influenced an array of productions and remixes which he developed with Ashtrax partner James Christopher (JC), a microchip whizzkid and studio pro fresh off the train from Sheffield raised on a diet of Aphex Twin and film soundtracks.

At the time they were working on a track set for release on London imprint Deviant records after single releases ‘Kafka’ and ‘Helsinki’ were met with widespread approval. ‘You look so digital’ sang Ben mysteriously on the haunting result, ‘Digital Reason’, a blend of deep suburban bass and frosty electronics with snappy beats. Ben Lost sounded classic yet modern, a bizarrely poppy but intoxicating voice “like the Buzzcock’s Pete Shelley meeting David Bowie on a robot farm” says Ashley.

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