Another $upra-Rerelease: PUCH – Sense

it’s time for another rerelease on $upra Recordings: this time it’s the second official longplayer by PUCH ,named ‘Sense‘.

‘Sense‘ was produced & recorded between 2002-2003 – compared to our first selftitled lonplayer ,’Sense‘ is a far more melancholic and also more songoriented album.
it combines styles like downtempo/triphop with classic pop and aswell lounge flavours and has a slight indietouch through spices like glitch, dub & illbient.

I first give you three tracks for a small listening impression:

1.) Son Of Schiwago
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Featuring the magnificent vocals of Cara McQueen this song has somehow slightly atmospheric & cinematic vibes.

2.) Cover Me With Joy
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we can’t deny a little ‘Air’-influence on this one – a worn-out and crunchy dopebeat carries a symphonic organ thru a classic composition featuring the vocals of myself.

3.) Blue Corazón
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blue is the keyword here for the overall mood – a deep & melancholic jazzed-up song featuring cara’s outstanding voice again.

I hope these impressions give you a nice view on the overall sad vibes of ‘Sense‘ – tho ‘Sense‘ has way more tracks with vocals, there are some instrumental tunes (f.e. ‘Days Gone’, ‘Big Noise’) aswell.
we also give away two tracks of ‘Sense‘ for free download: ‘Space Travel’ & ‘Whatelse Is Wrong’ !

listen/download/share ‘Sense’!

thx & enjoy!

Nu Mix: V70P14 by L064N 5!!

it sounds a bit like a fragrance or a new clothing collection – but it isn’t: it’s a new (and the first at all) mix by L064N 5!!

V70P14 (Utopia in regular script) – what isit? let’s ask wikipedia:

‘Utopia is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system.’

ok, sounds legit! sounds also like a goal, that should be achieved by humanity somehow in near future…if there weren’t this huge, all-consuming, mercy- & joyless circumstance called reality…

but hey, it’s a mix by L064N 5! and he’s from the future, u know? he should have seen it all…

now to the mix:
seriously? please don’t let me talk about or try to explain it! just grab your headphones, close your eyes and visualise whatever your V70P14 should be – it’s a deep, dreamy, chopped & screwed, futuristic trip featuring artists like datasette, purity ring, keys n’ krates, k.o. and many more.

for a complete tracklist send a msg!

and now:
create V70P14 with your imaginational brainpowers & with this mix!

listen/download/share/enjoy!

Approaching the Mp3 Abyssum again!

it’s been quite a while since we’ve approached my mp3-abyssum, nearly one year ago exactly.
while digging thru old tapes I found another rare pearl of my very early recording and composingworks from 1995.

it stars my second dead alias ‘Floater‘ (read more about ‘Floater‘–> HERE! ) with the epic-10minute-dreamy-ambient-electropop tune ‘Shoreline‘ and it’s one of that tunes which unfortunately only exist on regular audiotape.
so please don’t expect high-end hifi sound!

inside my mp3 abyssum this track is found in the quadrants ‘Lonely Tunes‘ & ‘Totally Leftfield‘ – stilistic it’s a slow & smooth ambient electronica tune with lots of synthpads, a bright FM piano and far-died-away vocals in the background.

enjoy ‘Shoreline’!

Floater – Shoreline

Another $upra ReRelease: hell g. – TCS

yesyesyall, kickin off the nu year with another re-release on $upra Recordings (and another freshly-retro bloglayout ) !
this time it’s the 2003 album ‘Total Consuming Satisfaction‘ by my alias ‘hell g.‘

‘TCS‘ displays my soundworks from 2001-2003 – it was that time where I was very much into producing drum & bass and dopebeat/triphop music.
I was also pretty much in experimental-mood when it came to loopconstruction, beatprogramming or fx-layering.
some of the tunes on ‘TCS‘ where completely jammed in a row, others where complex constructions with weeks or month of finetuning work.

to get a short glimpse on ‘TCS‘ i’ve got some listening-tips for yalls.

1st : U Took My Love
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this is one of the jam-tracks from ‘TCS’ – a slightly mad groovy triphop tune with lots of obscure synths, a wobbly gum bassline, tricky dopebeats and an ill rhodes piano. it’s also one of the free-download tracks from ‘TCS’!

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2nd : Memento
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starting smooth with a soothing pad and percussive breaks then turning into a dark and ominous roller – one of the drum & bass tunes from ‘TCS’.

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3rd : Pullover
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another dnb-tune from ‘TCS’ – this time it’s a remix of one of my alltime-favetunes: ‘Pullover’ by Speedy J (the old raveheads beyond you dear readers will remember that techno-anthem)! This track is also for free-download!

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so far for the tips – there’s quite a lot more different stuff and sounds to discover on ‘TCS‘ – why not checkout for yourself?

listen/download/share ‘Total Consuming Satisfaction’ on bandcamp!

free download tracks are ‘U Took My Love’, ‘Fauna Flashed’, ‘Pullover’ and ‘Don’t Keep Your Head Down’

enjoy!!

Your favourite post in 2012

my dear readers,
it’s again time to pay tribute to yalls – 2012 is full, 2013 is already knockin’ and I again wanted to know which was yall favourite post of mine in 2012?
I used again the fantastic wordpress-stats-tool like I did last year.

so, here we go again with ‘Ħ Ξ Ŀ Ŀ’s Blogreaders Top Ten Posts of the Year 2012′!!

Number 10:
Brandnu Remix!!
430 readers checked out a brandnu Remix I made for my mate Ralph Ruthe.

Number 9:
It’s SYLVESTAAA again!!
440 people enjoyed my yearly sylvester dance-mixtape.

Number 8:
Downer 1000©
520 readers liked to get down with my doped-out downtempo-mixtape ‘Downer 1000©’.

Number 7:
ZOMBIERAVE!!
600 humans got zombiefied with my ZOMBIERAVE-mixtape.

Number 6:
From Here 2 Eternity
640 readers entered a nu dimension with my mixtape ‘From Here 2 Eternity’.

Number 5:
10 Questions for Valera Igla
790 of you got curious for 10 questions I asked Valera Igla.

Number 4:
Nu $upra Release: Valera Igla – Fallout Feeling E.P.
820 people checked out the first official, digital E.P. release by Valera Igla on $upra Recordings.

and here cometh the first three places:

Number 3:
Ghosts In Disguise – Odenwald – Out on Vinyl!!
910 of you loved the first vinyl release of Sieren’s & my project ‘Ghosts In Disguise’.

Number 2:
This is $upra – A Labelcompilation Vol.II
950 users enjoyed the second edition of ‘This is $upra – A Labelcompilation’.

And the Winner is
On Number 1:
The oldest Oldie evarrr!!!
1040 (!!!) blogreaders can’t be wrong – they enjoyed a nostalgic blast from the past with the oldest oldie ever found in my music-vault, starring me & my brother with a selfwritten and played song from 1986.

thankyall’s for reading/listening/enjoying Ħ Ξ Ŀ Ŀ – hope to see yalls again in 2013!
keep it all UP!
sincerely yours,
luv,

helge

A special Freebie for St. Nicholas Day!!

Ho Ho Ho, my dear readers – it’s St. Nicholas Day, tiny snowflakes are already falling and it’s time for a very special free-giveaway I’ve got for yalls:
the very first $upra labelcompilation ‘This is $upra – Vol.I‘ is ready for free download!!

you should better grab it quick, coz it’s free only for a limited time (til jan013).

it’s already two years ago, that ‘This is $upra – Vol.I‘ was released with a lot of beautiful artists on it – want to know more details? click —> THIS WAY!!

download/stream/share ‘This is $upra – Vol.I’ on bandcamp!
(first click on ‘download‘ below, then click on ‘buy now‘, type ‘0,00‘ in the ‘name your price-field‘ and click on ‘download now‘ – note: free download only works for the complete compilation, not for single tracks!)

enjoy ‘This is $upra – Vol.I’!

p.s.: also checkout ‘This is $upra – Vol.II’!

Another Release-Reminder from $upra Recordings!!

it’s time for another short release-reminder of the latest stuff on my little label $upra-Recordings!

1.) ’54NC7V4RY E.P.’ by ‘L064N 5′
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discover the magic realms of broken, wonky but chilled downtempo beats inside a retrofuturistic sci-fi atmo and grab the first official digital e.p. of my new sideproject ‘L064N 5‘ – btw: it’s still available for free download – but only til the end of 012!

listen & download

L064N 5 on Soundcloud // Facebook // Tumblr

2.) ‘So it is’ by ‘takt3′
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smooth, minimal, deep & emotional – the keywords for takt3‘s definition of house-music. checkout their second lonplayer ‘So it is‘ and experience it for yourself!

listen & download

takt3 on Soundcloud // MySpace

3.) ‘Mon Fil Rouge’ by ‘Pas De Parisiènnes’
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here we go with another premiere: the first official album by french producer & $upra-Artist Pas De Parisiènnes aka jacques depot. if you have a gusto for deluxe french- and funky filter-house, this is your record!

listen & download

Pas De Parisiénnes in my Blog

4.) ‘A Small Entrance’ by ‘FX-INTRUDER’
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last not least the second free-download-release in this release-reminder: the selected works of my very first sideproject ‘FX-INTRUDER’, consisting the nostalgic tunes I did from 92 – 00!

listen & download

thanks for listening, downloading & sharing!
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out!

TRAPPED // BROKEN & SKREWED !!

it’s about that time for a nu mixtape – this time I poached inside the slower realms of contemporary electronic music.

as fall slowly turns into winter I thought about what could be a nice soundtrack for this event?
it somehow had to be slow and dark, it needs atmosphere and it should have a somehow ‘golden‘ vibe to it.

and here it is:
please enjoy ‘TRAPPED // BROKEN & SKREWED‘ !

featured styles in this mix:
downtempo, dubstep, chillwave, hiphop, trap, glitch hop, future screw, drag, and many more..

featured artists in this mix:
Purity Ring, Haleek Maul, Big Chocolate, Trill-Scott Heron, BoomBaptist, Com Truise, Creep, Them Lost Boys, Death Grips and many more..

TRAPPED // BROKEN & SKREWED (download by rightclicking on the link below)
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TRAPPED // BROKEN & SKREWED – mixed by hell g.

or get it from mixcloud:

TRAPPED // BROKEN & SKREWED - mixed by hell g. // Nov12 by Hell G. on Mixcloud

p.s.: for a complete tracklist please send a msg!!

Oldie(s) of the month

time for some more old shit – this time I’ve got 2 tunes from my dead sideproject ‘Annette Gratze‘ for you, created somewhere between 2001/02.

the last time I blogged a track of this sideproject here was already two years ago, so if you want to know more about ‘Annette Gratze‘, go on clicking THIS WAY!

the first track I got for you was one of our latest sessionworks & it wasn’t part of our album ‘Words More in the Air‘.

Achnbach and me (who wrote and composed all tracks) sometimes lingered in the basement of their house and had sessions with various instruments. it was mostly improvised stuff without an defined structure. we jammed around, achnbach on guitar & me on synths & percussion and created this organic, slightly ill piece of cake – it somehow has an overall sloppy jazzy feeling to it so we named it after the place where it was created.
we later added additional electronics and annette’s ad-libs.

annette gratze – jazzhole

the second tune I got for yalls is the closing track of our album – a beautiful, ethereal and melancholic instrumental guitar performance by achnbach.

annette gratze – distance (gone)

enjoy the music!

Annette Gratze on MySpace

ZOMBIERAVE II – Dance of the Dead

yall know wut? it’s halloween tonita – and what could be a possibly better soundtrack for this event than another ‘ZOMBIERAVE‘ mixtape??

in may this year I posted the first ‘ZOMBIERAVE‘ mix for yall dear readers and it consisted of ultra-slowed-down 90′s techno rave tunes & anthems melted together into a haunting, hypnotic slo-mo joyride.

this time I took a step across another border: I invited a bunch of already dead and undead vocalists and mashed-up the old slowed down techno tunes with their vocals – how friggin’ sick is that?

here’s a short overview about these artists:

dead singers
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ian curtis (courtesy of joy division)
carl & dennis wilson (courtesy of the beach boy zombies)
john lennon (courtesy of the zombles)
the beastie boys (courtesy of the beastie boys)
nico (courtesy of the velvet zombie underground)

undead singers
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brian wilson (courtesy of the zombie boys)
lemmy kilmister (courtesy of motörzombiehead)
joey tempest (courtesy of europe)
madonna (courtesy of madonna)
neil tennant (courtesy of pet shop zombies)
josh homme (courtesy of zombies of the stone age)
chris martin (courtesy of coldzombie)
thom yorke (courtesy of radiohead)
morten harket (courtesy of a-ha)
dolores o’zombie (courtesy of the cranberries)
and many more

this time ‘ZOMBIERAVE 2‘ turned out into a true monstermix lenghtwise – it’s nearly 2 hours long!
so I devided it into two parts for your listening- and downloading-pleasure.
(right click and ‘save as‘ on the links below – it’s free!!)

enjoy halloween – enjoy ZOMBIERAVE 2!!

ZOMBIERAVE 2 – Pt.1
ZOMBIERAVE 2 – Dance of the Dead Pt.I – mixed by hell g. – Oct.2012

ZOMBIERAVE 2 – Pt.2
ZOMBIERAVE 2 – Dance of the Dead Pt.II – mixed by hell g. – Oct.2012

p.s. to all my hometown-readers: we have a creepy party tonite named ‘ZOMBIERAVE‘ at our beloved little venue ‘Nr.z.P.‘ in Bielefeld featuring ‘killerfritte‘ (aka rec.effort) & ‘hoellen-g‘ (aka me) – come as a zombie & get free entry! C yall there!