Medellin meets Düsseldorf as Cómeme seek out the Salon Des Amateurs man to remix Sano – we have the premiere.
Jeopardy may be Borusiade’s first release of her own productions but she’s been involved in music for 14 years already. Back in 2002, she started DJing in her home city Bucharest. There was very little in the way of underground dance music coming from Romania production-wise, with a focus on Eurohouse. Miruna Boruzescu was one of the very few female DJs contributing to the clubbing scene in Bucharest at the time.
Cómeme’s resident Dreamcatcher comes correct on an hour-long mix that goes from Nitzer Ebb to the Zenker Brothers.
Lena Willikens chats Cómeme, Salon Des Amateurs, record digging, Sentimental Flashback and more with Tony Poland.
Records from Endangered Species, In Paradisum, Opal Tapes, Cómeme and, yes, FXHE, feature in our first Best Record Sleeves column of 2015.
Musically speaking, Huntleys & Palmers has always been very good at keeping its options open; the label may have been founded to release the humid rhythms and sweaty melodies of Auntie Flo, but their outlook has always been a little more forthright. It’s true that they tend to look further afield for artists than most – think Argentina, Chile, South Wales and Frankfurt, as well as their well-known links to London and Glasgow – but the music they release often has more in common with robust house and techno than the rave-friendly music hybrids coming out of certain parts of Africa, South and Central America.
Lena Willikens may only just becoming recognised this side of the English Channel, but in her native Germany she’s considered to be something of a rising star. She’s been plying her trade as a DJ for some time, most famously as Friday night resident at Düsseldorf’s acclaimed Salon Des Amateurs. At this venue, Willikens showcases a dark, woozy and occasionally paranoid style that takes in off-kilter techno, skewed new wave, pulsating EBM, industrial disco, experimental electronics and jacking, otherworldly house. Her long running Sentimental Flashback show for Cómeme Radio is more conceptually driven, but just as diverse, and it’s clear the Cologne label considers her to be a star in the making.
The recent edition of Unsound is the motivating force behind the latest Sentimental Flashback mix from the Cologne-based selector.
Matias Aguayo’s label return with a dancefloor focused various artists double pack called Gasoline.
The Berlin-based Russian will release Silver Album on Matias Aguayo’s label in June.
At the start of the year Matias Aguayo spent a month in a Colombian mountain town, learning about cumbia. Originally courtship music, first materialising on the Caribbean coast of colonial Colombia, cumbia gradually spread through the country’s urban centres, being steadily refined as it travelled. Today it is one of the world’s most popular music forms. The Visitor took some five years to make, but in truth Aguayo’s month in the mountains is the most important factor in its creation. At heart this is a cumbia record; an album in thrall to the seesawing kineticism of that lurching rhythm, fascinated by its dynamic potential.
Cómeme have announced details of the Chilean-born producer’s third album, to be released in June.
Grab some cowbell smeared goodness direct from Buenos Aires, as Djs Pareja give away new single “Saxo Temor”.
The kindly folks at Cómeme are offering a free download of Alejandro Paz’s gurgling acid house jam, “Texit”.
Matias Aguayo’s consistently excellent Cómeme label will release their second artist album in October, with Mexican producer Daniel Maloso at the helm for with his debut LP In & Out.