2012-09-18 Foundations 2 Compilation out now on Dewtone RecordingsA tribute to inspirational roots featuring Morgan Packard, Sabi, Alexandre Navarro, Eric Delay, Julien Neto, Syene, Sven Laux, Purl, Letna, Segue, Daniel Blomqvist and more. Free download, exclusively on Bandcamp. www.dewtone.bandcamp.com |
2012-08-21 And Then We Were Surrounded out on Dewtone RecordingsMy latest "And Then We Were Surrounded" EP is out now.It's available on Beatport, Whatpeopleplay and directly on Bandcamp. |
2012-07-27 Remix for Paul Gutschmidt on Unfoundsoundgermany's paul gutschmidt delivers some deep, heady, leftfield minimal grooves on prepynion. plus two more german producers dish out floaty remixes -- sven laux with a laid-back atmospheric minimal head-soother, and jonn melchiat with a groovy minimal house rework. that's right. it's time to get laid-back and groovy. read more |
2012-04-09 Kalimari Musique is back!Sweden's Ingemar Stalholm makes a return to the Archipel family after his excellent album "Mental Garden Still Life", this time with his "Anti Techno EP", on Kalimari's digital series. read more |
2011-12-21 5 Years Tropic Netlabel Compilation out on TropicHere we are again after a long break. But it was worth the waiting as we want to create something special for the fifth anniversary of our little Netlabel. We are happy to cooperate with the amazing Pointbarre Designers from Montreal who create this wonderful artwork. read more |
2011-11-15 Unfound Sketches out on UnfoundsoundFinally my "Unfound Sketches" EP on Unfoundsound is out. It's free so you should hurry and grab it before the Internet gets deleted! :)www.foundsoundrecords.com |
2011-08-04 Shoreline EP out on Villar Village MusicMy latest release "Shoreline" is now available exclusively on Beatport. It includes two originals and two remixes by Pheek and Allan Villar. www.beatport.com |
2011-07-31 Redefintion #1 Compilation out on UnoikiFor REDEFINITION twenty-two carefully selected producers from diverse fields from all over the world had been asked for participation: new upcoming talents as well as established artists - all of them standing for a highly interesting, exciting and unique style somewhere between dubstep, dubtechno, drone, glitch, sound-art, minimal, techno, house and IDM - always with an experimental approach right in the sense of UNOIKI. Redefintion 1 – undefined compiles the first half of remixes of all tracks from the album UNdefinition, refined and made-up for a fine listening experience in a strictly limited CD-R edition of just 100 copies. read more |
2011-06-17 An Unconventional Exposure LP out on 31337 RecordsPut on your dancing shoes girls and boys, we are back again with a marvellous release by Sven Laux! Straight from the Berlin underground Sven has been releasing previously on labels such as Archipel, MultiVitamins and lately received a lot of attention for his brilliant album on Microcosm Music. read more |
2011-03-24 Evaluation Compilation out on UnoikiThe third album of the international UNOIKI collective - presents twelve subjective views on modern electronic music behind the curtain of club-music evaluated by talented producers and thinkers such as Storlon, Andrés Marcos, Keinzweiter, Dr.Nojoke, Sven Laux, MRZ, choenyi, Ten and Tracer, J-Lab, Humeka, Sul.a, RJ Valeo and Marianne Klausen. read more |
2011-02-25 Homesickness or Nostalgia album out on Microcosm MusicSven Laux presents his first full-length album, after several EP's and remixes, and his first works with Microcosm. Sven's material is a fitting, rich and compelling addition to the catalogue, as his sensibilities are aligned with the label's manifesto while stamping out his own approach to these ideas. Moody at times, freshly uninhibited at others, Homesickness or Nostalgia ponders dance floor music that tethers you to its origins. Equal parts mid-tempo funk and heady found house, Sven uses tropes of the ultra-modern electronic landscape towards his devices, along with a more classic sense of bass tone and forward momentum, of the history of these arenas of 4/4. |
|
Quirky and bouncy with a heart that drives through each track, the titles suggest the motivations. Infusing his music not just with an array of non-traditional sound sources, but ones with memory associations, Sven is filling the album with a personal story, even if it is one that only he knows. Truncated vocals befriend street sounds and warm pads. Playful grooves make measured use of beeps, scrapes and static-inflected hooks. Rhythms stutter over themselves in some moments while remaining completely true to form in others. At times it can feel like you're walking down a street, passing scenes of sounds emanating from people's windows, all the while keeping a steady pulse in your headphones that ties the thread through it all, identifying it as one object that has several tangents throughout. In this fashion it is able to cover the bases of a sweaty warehouse, an evening at home and the morning after a late night out. |
|
Homesickness or Nostalgia is an excellent mark in the continuum of dance floor influenced sound that
straddles categories, that wants to remain part of its inspirations while not getting too bogged down in
function. Sven would agree that house, techno and all its mini subdivisions require treating the whole as an
art form to be pushed and pulled and occasionally reinvigorated in order to be kept living, to never forget
where it came from and some of its more overt purposes. |