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Various Artists – Mexican EP

greatstuff — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:33:57 +0000

Various Artists

Mexican EP

Craft Music

Tomcraft’s ever-impressive Craft Music returns to kick the January blues into touch with a very tasty, spicy 4-track collection from himself and three rising artists: the Mexican EP.

The label owner’s Taco heads up the herd with its fierce electro house stylings. Packing a hell of a punch, it fuses rude synth grunts, super-sharp percussion and all manner of bleeps with bundles of big room appeal. Soaring builds hammered by heavy drums lift the track up into the ether before the futuristic tech-funk groove slams back into life. A perfect set-builder.

Solid Snake follow up their recent impressive work with another solid banger: the undulating techno chug of DFWH. Arpeggiated bass, taut bongos and fizzing shakers form a beast of a groove, with layers of extra percussion and FX welded together in potent fashion and a rasping sidewinder of a lead line boring its way through the heart of the track. Tough tackle.

It’s a deeper approach that SQL take on Inside Myself, opting for wonky, drugged-up techno with a menacing glint in its eye. It’s an exercise in subtlety, throbbing bass carefully woven into the root of the track, pitched and glitched vocals twisting around and eerily tribal percussion and textures heightening the tension.

David Durst rounds off the EP in dark style with the rumbling Side One. While ostentisbly techno, there’s something about its mood that recalls old skool progressive house, all brooding and slow-building with an emphasis on spooky atmospheres. There’s nothing overstated; instead the focus here is on heads-down hypnotism. Get involved and zone out.

Also check:

www.tomcraft.de

www.solidsnakemusic.com

www.sqlmusic.com

Tomcraft – Written High

greatstuff — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:56:10 +0000

Removing his A&R hat and once again gracing his own imprint, Tomcraft delivers his latest electronic masterpiece. Back in the studio for a reunion after huge success with long term production partner Eniac they set to work on this driving peak timer delivering a release that’s tweaked and engineered specifically for the main room.

Having tested it for months and dropped it to huge evasion in clubs around the world the man that is Tomcraft takes a well deserved rest in the A&R chair once more, putting together a remix package of both strength and diversity.

Luigi Rocca, Aka Marshall from Hotfingers sets to work on a Techno master class, gritty, dark and large. Couple that with a slamming rework from Tomcrafts old friend and Techno don Lützenkirchen and the originals engineer Eniacs house rub the package is complete. This is quality music strictly for the heads!!

Dave Spoon vs Danny Freakazoid – SPOONAZOID (Strobe & Danny Freakazoid re-work)

greatstuff — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:05:52 +0000

Roy Ströbel aka Strobe and Danny Freakazoid teamed up in their studio to produce a smashing re-work of this huge electro stomper by Dave Spoon. Dave Spoon produced Remixes for acts like Paul van Dyk, The Pet Shop Boys, Beyoncee or even Madonna. he is well known for his typical fresh sound and gets support from the biggest dj`s not only in in the uk.

Zürich based Danny Freakazoid is known from tracks like soia or black or blonde which are always a guarantee for cool and energetic club sound. together with Strobe aka Roy Stroebel they deliver a fantastic electro house 2011 rework of dave spoon´s “spoonazoid” and it was definitely worth to spend the time in the studio again.

the release includes 3 fantastic remixes by David Jones, one of the best remixers at the moment and of course a remix by labelowner Tomcraft himself, which is a real Big Banger. Mario Ochoa added a Tech House Remix to complete the package. This one is a real club bomb and gets absolutely awsome reactions on the dancefloors worldwide!

Tomcraft – A place called soul

greatstuff — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:16:51 +0000

Just after is big #1 Techhouse anthem „Room 414” Tomcraft returns with his next peaktime anthem on his very own label Craft Music. Produced again with his partner in crime Eniac and with twisted remixes from Amo & Navas and Manuel De la Mare. Looks like a biggie again.

Check:

http://www.facebook.com/TomcraftOFC

http://www.facebook.com/amonavasfansite

http://www.facebook.com/pages/MANUEL-DE-LA-MARE/107539865957

Tomcraft – Room 414 (Can´t get away)

greatstuff — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:21:44 +0000

Great Stuff Records finally celebrates its 100. release six years after Tomcraft started the label together with two partners from scratch and discovered some of the hottest new artists of the decade. Back in the days the first Great Stuff release was from Tomcraft & Eniac (called “Great Stuff”) so Tom had the idea to find his former studio partner Eniac again to also produce GSR100. With their long common history of producing evergreens like “Loneliness” it was a shame that they didn’t work together for 7 years. But now it all changed, they met in Berlin, had their first chat in hotel room 414 and started being in the studio several times since then rediscovering their mutual love for the big anthems. For this first common single they used a sample from Mood II Swing’s house classic “Can’t Get Away” and had the help from great remixers Tube & Berger and Citizen Kain.

Check: http://www.facebook.com/TomcraftOFC

Tim Healey & Tomcraft feat. Junior Red – My People

greatstuff — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:40:30 +0000

Tim Healey’s two hot labels Giant Pussy Records and Surfer Rosa Records go from strength to strength and so is the labelowner himself. Now teaming up again with Tomcraft from Munich for their second common release for Taste/d Music, this time with vocals from MC Junior Red from Brighton. Both, the Deep Club and the Supertrash versions were produced together by the two friends in Tim’s studio in Brighton. A great dubstep version come from Screen Age & vocalist Junior Red while the Weekend Heroes and Sandro Silva use the progressive path.

Check:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/TASTED-MUSIC/125756797454438

http://www.facebook.com/pages/TIM-HEALEY/53704349812

http://www.facebook.com/TomcraftOFC