Electronic Vibes

The UK’s original and leading Sessions Album series continues to showcase the most innovative, gifted and exciting DJ & Producers. Big Love head honcho, Seamus is the latest in an elite line-up of DJs, alongside other Saturday night regulars Steve Angello, Derek Carter, DJ Sneak, and Josh Wink, who have revived Ministry’s legendary Sessions series for a new generation of clubbers/listeners .

With no less than 15 exclusives or unreleased tracks on his double mix Sessions CD, Seamus Haji delivers a cutting-edge, climactic dancefloor journey of the highest order. Showcasing the glorious breadth of House Music out there currently, there’s the exclusive Funkagenda Remix of Seamus’ own “Last Night A DJ Saved my Life” alongside the hotly-tipped “Play To Win” from K3 (aka Paul Harris, Steve Mac & Radioslave), Those Guys “I Walk Alone” Haji & Emanuel Remix, Satoshi Tomiie’s “Glow” and many more from the UK and around the world, from hot new producers and great established ones.

Release Date: 31 July 2006

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Ministry of Sound have unveiled the new series of their Hed Kandi compilation which feautres all those hot house tracks that are currently being spinned over at Ibiza.

This year’s edition of the world-famous Hed Kandi summer sampler, A Taste of Kandi Summer 2006, takes you from a dozy summer’s morning, through an afternoon at the beach bar or pool party and onto a hot summer night of Kandi clubbing.

We prefer to present Kandi music in its full 12” glory, however, this mini-mix has become an institution amongst Kandi followers and is the perfect showcase for our summer activities. Edited into an easy to manage, bite-size collection of highlights from our latest and upcoming full albums and singles, this year’s summer sampler is a taste of utter Kandi magic!

Release Date: 17 July 2005

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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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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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Mark Farina Releases his first UK Mix Album as one of acclaimed Ministry Sessions Series. Mark has pulled all the stops out on this one with nearly 40 tracks of Absolute jackin’ Houser’s. Mark Farina is going on a full World Tour to promote this album. Mark Has sold over 100,000 albums worldwide with the bulk in America. His work with OM records was and is legendary. From His House albums alongside Derrick Carter to his Mushroom Jazz Series Mark Farina is very much the DJ’s DJ.

Release Date: 10 July 2006

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What is the true sound of Ibiza? Is it the waves gently lapping against a sandy shore, or the blissed out beats of a beachfront bar? Neither – it’s the sound of thousands of clubbers going crazy to the biggest tunes spun by one of the world’s biggest DJs, Judge Jules, at the most popular night in San Antonio, Judgement Sundays.

Now Ministry Of Sound, the truly global clubbing brand, are bringing some of that Ibiza magic on to your stereo, courtesy of Judge Jules himself. ‘Judgement Sundays – the true sound of Ibiza’ delivers 2 CDs of tunes that accurately reflect the tracklist of a rocking Judgement Sundays night in Ibiza.

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Mike Koglin burst onto the scene in 1998 with his club anthem and UK top20 hit The Silence, heralded as one of the defining tracks of the UK trance phenomenon which put Mike firmly onto the map as one of the key players in dance music.

Koglin’s debut album ‘VS’, featuring 13 cutting-edge dance collaborations with the likes of Above & Beyond, Lange, Darren Tate, Alex Morph and Smith & Pledgeras well as many new, yet un-released tracks, is aimed at clubbers and dance music fans around the world. People who bought compilations by Tiesto, Armin van Buuren or Above & Beyond will love this album.

Release Date: 07 July 2006

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With a fresh emphasis on their present and future, ‘Gatecrasher Forever’ encapsulates the sound and resonance of the infamous lion’s roar in 2006. With upfront and underground tracks from the essential world of Trance, the album also incorporates the new element of House - signaling a progression within Gatecrasher’s musical direction.

With CDs 1 and 2 comprising a euphoric journey through some of Trance’s finest modern anthemic beats, from ultimate Gatecrasher favourites; Chicane, Paul van Dyke, Mauro Piccotto, System F, Underworld, Tiesto, Above & Beyond- the CDs also include remixes of the ultimate Gatecrasher classics brought up to date for 2006.

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After completing the final in the series of Lights Out For Global Underground, Steve has moved on to all things VIVA. With a 6 date residency in Pacha Ibiza, Space Closing Party and a 30 date world tour, VIVA will certainly cement itself as the new incarnation of Steve Lawler the DJ. Steve has meticulously put this album together with exclusive re edits of the tracks included.

Spaced onto 3 mixed discs, defining Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. Day 1 as Warm Up, Day 2 as mental and Day 3 as a beautiful ambient mix from the most obscure electronic labels. This is a must hear. The first in a series of 3 VIVA cds.

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