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cocoon compilation k
various artists (cocoon)
Release date: 22.07.2011
Music Style: Tech-House
Article No.: 1723905 / CORCD027
1 Moritz Von Oswald - Cocoon Dark Dub 2 Basti Grub & Komaton - Sick 3 Pantha Du Prince - Bolder 4 Mathias Kaden - Rave Strikes Back 5 Nick Curly - Keep On 6 DJ Koze - Sbooty 7 Loco Dice - La Bicicletta 8 Dubfire - Rejekt 9 Popof - Roxy 10 Extrawelt - Simpleton 11 Ricardo Villalobos - Humusweg 12 Reboot - The Unspoken Word When the then still young Frankfurt label Cocoon Recordings discovered the long-playing format with its Compilation A in Summer 2000, probably nobody could have, even approximately, foreseen the success story of this series. For ten years now, the cocoon-style declination of the alphabet is a guarantor for high-class and exclusively produced floor burners by the international Techno and House elite, and, beyond that, a reliable indicator for the stylistic bandwidth of contemporary electronic dance music. And even with the previous editions A to I having set the bar damn’ high, the J edition starts with a true musical sensation, as the opener “Cocoon Dark Dub” comes from nobody less than Moritz von Oswald. “Those who - even just rudimentary - have followed the evolution of electronic music over the last twenty years, know about the outstanding importance of von Oswald’s timeless classics like “Domina", “M-4? or the whole Basic Channel series. Insofar, “Cocoon Dark Dub” is maybe the nicest birthday present at all, and an absolute honour for our label.” (Sven Väth) So, initially, it’s the heartbeat of Dub Techno that pulsates through a lonely piano and noise fractals, and club world keeps its breath for a good eight minutes. However, the Compilation J literally puts out all the stops over the following 110 minutes playtime and shows what modern electronic dance music has to offer in these times. Mathias Kaden’s intuition for the crowd and location is legendary, his music is both distinctly ambitious and refreshing, and so is his contribution “Rave Strikes Back". The Dial impresario Pantha Du Prince from Hamburg is celebrating crystalline ice dance (”
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