theLAB Sessions

Special Guest mix by Romanian DJ/Producer Florin H.

theLAB returns after a brief break with a special mix by Florin H - the latest artist to join the xe:tech:no roster.

Regular listeners of the sessions will know that i’ve been working with Florin & playing his tracks for several months now, and it gives me great pleasure to hand over this guest slot to him for a dose of his fine tech-grooves. Head on over to the Xenophorm Souncloud page for a preview of his label debut ‘We Trust in Japan’ that is dropping @ Beatport.com on 2nd October, featuring an 11 minute rework by myself.

theLAB Sessions will return as usual next week (hopefully) with episode#7 - click the subscibe button to make sure you get your fix =)

Simon

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Boomshanka!

Greetz from Birmingham! =)

Welcome one & all to another edition of theLAB Sessions, your monthly dose of electronic technotomfoolery. April has been an interesting month for me musically, with several projects I’m working on (one of which is the first feature length artist release on Xenophorm’s new subdivision by Birmingham MC Dose1 - watch out for that!) entering their final phases which as any artist knows, always provides a pleasant moment to step-back and admire the hard graft that has turned a mere concept into a fully realised entity (hopefully) that is near completion.

I’ve listened to a lot of new tracks this month, and this session is a small reflection of some of the great work that is really banging my drums at the moment. In particular is Anton Pieete’s new release on Inacto Records - “Lovemachine EP”, which i’ve unashamadly played in its entirety, and the latest track by Romanian artist Florin H - “A Cup of Milk”. I gleefully played Florin’s fantastic “We Trust in Japan” during the last session, and have been in contact with him recently to secure his talents for some exclusive remixes of the xe:tech:no back-catalogue to be released later this year.

One more thing i feel i need to point out is that i have finally managed to crack the secret of uploading to the pod-bean FTP server and as a result you’ll be able to listen to episode 5 from start to finish, instead of two cumbersome 30 minute sections. This excited me greatly about 20 minutes ago when i finally managed to pull it off after struggling since October to get it sorted, and on reflection it probably isn’t as epic as i first thought but either way it’s a cause for celebration, so sit back/stand up/catch the bus/do the ironing and dance your ass off to theLAB Session#05.

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theLAB Sessions #05 April 09

00:00 > Rekardo Rivalo - Cha Che

04:47 > Pele - The Zoo

09:44 > Repajaro - Emerald Smiling

14:34 > M.in & YNK - Capetown River Boating

18:35 > Basti Grub - El Gitarro

23:21 > Anton Pieete - Love Machine

27:05> Siwell - Kenya (Original Mix)

30:20> Anton Pieete - The Great City

35:33 > Niko Schwind - Sing a Song

40:48 > Voodeux - Skeleton Key (Original Mix)

45:03 > Huseyin Balci - When the Sun Goes Down (Mightmare Mix)

50:10 > Style of Eye - Psalm

55:08 > Anton Pieete - Her Scent

58:53 > Florin H - A Cup of Milk (Original Mix)

64:24 > Reboot - Mirasierra

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A new year - and i’m probably the last person on the internet to mention this in their blog =)

Greetz from Birmingham and apologies for the rather obvious lack of updates over the first 2 months of this year. I’ve been amazingly preoccupied with an array of diverse distractions since 2009 began - some of them acutly inspiring, and others downright unwelcome, most notably a fire in the building where Xenophorm recording studios is located that put us out of action for several weeks and suceeded in covering the entire complex in a thin veil of black soot. Happy new year indeed. None-the-less i’m here today to present you with a fresh mix, hot off the encoder and ready to aurally excite you =)

This months session comprises of some of my personal favourites from the tracks i’ve discovered over the last few months,  plus the debut outing (as far as i’m aware!) of my latest release - the Real Body Talk EP. Inspired in name by a book i was given by a Hare Krishna who acosted me and effectivly robbed me of £4 in exchange for a “guranga!” emblazoned fridge magnet, the EP is a two track take on opposite ends of the Techno groove-spectrum designed to work the floor from the inside out and in again. I hope you enjoy it ;0) Check it out on Juno Download by clicking on the image at the end of this post!

As always, the session is split into two ~30min sections, so make sure you check below for the second half.

Part One

00:00 > Barzie - Intro

02:29 > Simon Owen - What time do you call this?

08:28 > Dorian Knox - Butterfly

12:12 > Alessio Mereu - Cafe Las Vegas

17:05 > Marco Carola - Sirens

21:00 > Carlo in Action - Magic Flute

24:54 > D-Unity - Work Your Engine (D-Unity’s Pumped Up Mix)

28:58 > Mastiksoul - Bofe de Elite

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Part 2 of the March 09 session.

00:00 > (cont.) Mastiksoul - Bofe de Elite

01:38 > Alex Under - Azul Terio Techno

06:54 > Chris Liebing > Turbular Chord

11:22 > Florin H - We Trust in Japan

14:02 > Style of Eye - Ona

17:52 > The Minimum - Alinoman (Alex Young’s Keep it Simple mix)

22:04 > Felip Shakeup - Stockholm Honors

26:47 > Simon Owen - Real Body Talk

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Greetz from Birmingham! =)

Hope ya’ll had a very Merry Christmas and are enjoying the wonders of the seemingly everlasting turkey sandwiches, turkey curry and mince pies the festive season brings. I’m thankfully going to save you the embaressment of a crude joke about Santa emptying his sack(etc) and get straight on with our yuletide speaker-beating…..

As it is the season of goodwill, i have a lil’ treat in the form of a specially extended set featuring myself and my partner-in-grime Chris Allsopp : co-director of Xenophorm and all round crackin’ fella. Recorded live, direct and unplanned @ theLAB on 2xTechnics 1210’s, an A&H Xone:92 and Traktor; it features some of our favourite tracks from this year, plus a couple of old favourites we dug out the crate =) Because of its size, the session is split across 3 parts this month, each lasting roughly half an hour.

Also after several enquires resulting from last month’s session, im pleased to announce the release of my latest project, the re-Evolution E.P which is now available for download from the good people at JunoDownload. Click the image below to head straight there and check it out!

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Part 2 of December’s session.

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Part 3 of December’s session.

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Better late then never (and it is as late as it possibly could be….) November’s podcast has finally landed - now complete with tracklistings and timings for all you spotters =)

Don’t forget, you can subscribe to theLAB sessions and have every new episode delivered straight to your iTunes by clicking on the button on the bottom right of this page!

Part One

00:00 : CMYK004/1025u

04:05 : Basti Grub - Wenn ich and die kosten denke

08:17 : John Tejada - Paranoia

12:09 : Rejected - Cliche (polder remix)

15:55 : Marco Dassi - Varese ist leer (MiniCoolBoy remix)

21:00 : Alex Young - Minimal it

25:01 : Paul Ritch - Walk the line

29:48 : Kaiser Franz - Somemfrische im waldviertel

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Camera’s ready, prepare to flash…. it’s the second part of session#02

00:00 : Kaiser Franz - Somemfrische im waldviertel

03:02 : Minimono - Ratman (Hugo mix)

06:08 : Lutzenkirchen - All that jazz (Popof remix 01)

10:41: Green Velvet - Flash (Timo Maas dirty dub)

15:12 : Bjoern Scheurmann - Musimol (Joachim Spieth remix)

18:21 : FormatB - Widow maker

22:10 : Chris Allsopp -Total Eclipse

26:58 : Simon Owen (Audisan) - re-Evolution

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