Infos:

With his second album, Mike Opani dives deep into the cultural heritage of his father and thus also dedicates himself to the history of his hometown Napoli. The inspiring splendour of this city, once founded by the Greeks as Neapolis (New City) and later expanded by the Romans, forms the basis for his new work.

„Charon“ bears witness to the unique influence of these two great civilisations. Mike Opani’s fascination with Greek and Roman mythology unfolds in full glory and results in a passionate engagement with these rich cultural traditions.

With „Charon“ he has created a remarkable work of art. It is a musical melting pot that impressively showcases the diversity and fascination for his historical roots.

With two shows he can be heard on Evosonic Radio for a long time. It is nice that he is now also represented on Evosonic Records with his second album.

Infos:

Top 10 Beatport Deep House and Top 20 Beatport Electronica Album Charts! Several weeks number 1 Beatport Breaks Single Charts! Congratulations to all of us. For producing, releasing, presenting and for this strong album mix of Phil Harmony’s „Deepnight Station“ by dPorter. As with the Continuous Mix from the compilation Backlist Vol. 5 (EvoRec 065), dPorter proves what he’s made of. This mix here stands for everything that distinguishes the Evosonic family. Spoiler alert: We have the first remixes from the album. You may be curious.

Infos:

In 2005 Phil founded the Dubnight radio show, which is still running successfully today. Various gigs in clubs, between album productions and remixes followed. In 2018, the dream of getting his own show on Evosonic Radio, the leading electronic music station, came true.
Deepnight Station was born. In his radio show, Phil Harmony sees his DJ sets as a journey with a red thread. Music to float and fly away, from soft to hard everything is possible, only it must not be disharmonious. The first step to the album presented here was made in 2022. His contribution on the release „Evosonic25“ (EvoRec 063) catapulted the anniversary compilation of the cult radio several weeks to number 1 in the Beatport Bass House Charts.
It was only a matter of time to immortalize the music of the Deepnight Station on a longplayer. It is deep house at its finest, never turning its back on „dub“. Reaching a trance-like state is guaranteed.

Infos:

After „The Silver Cat“ (EvoRec 024) it is Matziz‘ second work for Evosonic Records. This LP, like the first, is simply different, simply sensational.
„L’émoi“ is an ode to the 12 months, the different cyclical feelings that return every year. Matziz tries to extract an essence, a certain perfume that he translates into a personal musical poetry.
12 instrumental tracks, between Trip-Hop, Drum & Bass, Electronica, IDM, or as he calls it „Weird French Touch“. Somehow not to categorize, somehow not tangible. And that’s exactly why it is of relevance for Evosonic Records.

I’m going to go out on a limb and give it the rating: Especially valuable. Ponchmann and Friends actually manage to combine broken beats with jazz, some funk, house and a little breeze of rock in such a way that in the end you think, sure, this is electronic music. If Immanuel Kant were a record critic today, his „review“ of „Another Story Untold“ would sound like this: Leaning on the cycle of the traveling hero in dramaturgy. Imbued with the sound of improvisation. Created in times of discontinuity and metamorphosis to audial progrom. Set pieces of musical diversity. But this masterpiece is also about classical themes, such as love, friendship, family, work, life, death, beginning and end.

Addendum: The last words on the album, are drummer Oliver’s (R.I.P.) appreciative emotions after a brilliant jam session.

Not that I want to compare Dudelsaladt with Underworld, that would be a little presumptuous, because after all, the guys from Bremen do what Underworld calls „The Drift“, already in its 5th year. Underworld only for 2! Since season 4 you can listen to the result every Friday on Evosonic Radio at Evopool Update. So, it takes 2 days for the guys to finish what is produced weekly on Wednesdays, e.g. on their YouTube channel. Their first release ever is now available on Evosonic Records in album format. 10 selected tracks from the 4th season are finely arranged and offer the listener about 60 minutes of progressive techno. Ok, Dudelsaladt have never, unlike the guys from England, released a big dancefloor hit, but what is not, can still be. With this output I’m sure it won’t take long until Nils and Fefe from Dudelsaladt correct this.

Matziz composes at the boundaries of film music, including hip-hop, rock and jazz. Here is his attempt to translate images into music, to shape the sound material, to play with textures and to extract an emotional essence from it. Our new „family member“ Matziz is the electronic part of French music producer Mathieu TORRES. He also composes hip-hop, rock and jazz at the boundaries of film music.

Matziz also works with #DIRTINTHEWIND, a famous collective of art filmmakers. For the music (Turtle, track 1 on the LP) for the short film „Tiroirs“ he was honored with the „Best music price“ at the 48h Film Festival.

Ponchmann, Sandro, Markus, Mike and Achim have experienced a lot together, made a lot and thought, but above all, music. The guys from the so-called „HeartbreakHotel“ created a lot of tracks with their freestyle sessions from 2004 to 2012, which unfortunately remained hidden on defective hard disks for a long time. In 2017, 12 of them have been „saved“. This LP proves once again that not every music has to have a genre and timestamp. It is even harder to describe them. But I still try to label this work of art: a perfect Tarantino soundtrack of the electronic kind.

Life is a river. Everything changes. Nothing remains as it was, and it‘ s always the old song of love and hate, hope and despair of light and shadow, and of those who fight through. And what does Frank do? He comments on that. He reflects that. He accompanies this. Frank has developed into a style that is strongly influenced by jazz and electronics. It is important to him, the expressiveness of the pieces. Creating Moods. A soundtrack without a movie. A wonderful LP, which once again withdraws itself from any classification into one of the known genres.

Philipp Giebel’s rework of the album „Two Point Zero“ by Chris Maico Schmidt. Stylistically still located somewhere between Tech House and Techno it has provided with an extra portion of love, enriched by one or the other breakbeat and processed into a continuous mix, which is best enjoyed in the sunshine on a green field.