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Brand new in those deeper days
dub2dust records
Gabriel Le Mar and Carsten Schorr are going to start their vinyl-label dub2dust records, releasing electronic dance music with a special focus on the various colours of deep DubTechno and Dub inspired TechHouse.
As artists and remixers Marko Fürstenberg, Gabriel Le Mar, Frank Leicher, Quantec, Luke Hess and youANDme will light a match this year for dub2dust, reflecting their passion and respect for the needs of a Dub head on the floor.
The dub-feeling is clearly the inspiration behind the general flavor of the dub2dust sound and will demonstrate innovative efforts to offer interesting hybrids of techno/house music.
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Many thx to let us know and hope it`s on your beat!
Artist: Gabriel Le Mar
Release: what´s your sleeper?
Release Format: EP - Vinyl (limited Edition)
Label: Dub2Dust Records
Release Date: April 2012
Distribution: DHB
Catalog: d2d 001
Tracklist:
A1 DiscoVery
B1 what´s your sleeper?
B2 what´s your sleeper? (Quantec´s afterhour at the sunrise remix)
With his first release on dub2dust Gabriel Le Mar again shows his side as a producer focussing on dubtech music with an energetic flow.
Quantec remixed up a great dub rocker, let us get going through deep and floating dub chords and twitchy piano rolls. The tracks are a wonderful example of going through waves concerning energy and flow with one result - something more musical and playful.
You can get a taste of the music here
These are the official videos of Gabriel Le Mar`s 12'' Single "what´s your sleeper?" on dub2dust records
some fresh news
Gabriel reads from Ulf Pochardt`s book "DJ culture" - german
www.bln.fm/2010/08/gabriel-le-mar-liest-ulf-poschardt-dj-culture/
Gabriel Le Mar nices up with his new album LEVEL
LEVEL shows Gabriel´s affinity to Techno, TechHouse and Detroit influences, while Dub sound is what connects the tunes in all the variations.
All tracks are made for the floor but also work in pure listening fun if you like music that can tell stories.
Moody floating sounds, bassy grooves and atmospheric filterworks as well as danceable deepness are the carrying elements of these nine tunes.
Gabriel is looking to find the right balance of emotion in sound and groove and to give space for floating lyricism in the music. "Palindrome", "Luxury" and "Ich flog auf dem Wind davon" are groovy TechHouse songs and feature vocal performances with lyrics by his friends Ingo Ito and George DIN, who are both excellent musicians and writers.
The album opener "Palindrome" and as well "iGeorge" put the focus more on the groovy DubTechno beat, while "Traralgon Epilogue" with its string-layers and the dubs of "Science-Faction" refer more to atmospheric Detroit Techno.
"Luxury", "die andere Seite" and "Auf dem Wind davon" are shaping out the TechHouse side of the album, while "Twisted" continues invisibly the inevitable "french kiss" chord-stab syncopations that provide a pretty laidback techdub tune. The album ends with a the german-dubbed version of "Ich flog auf dem Wind davon". Gabriel sends us into suspense chillz and made a great beatless dub out of the tune.
give it a listen
I wave numbers JUMP CUTS
Gabriel Le Mar draws inspiration from many sources. But african funk and african musical traditions and culture influenced him in many ways. On JUMP CUTS Gabriel Le Mar cooperates again with singers and songwriters from South-Africa, after having worked in the past with the band Amampondo.
A true co-work from soul-dub-brother Gabriel Le Mar, fusing tech house and dub influences with the local style of south african music like Kwaito, Maskanda and traditional Zulu music into modern club sound.
The queen of modern Zulu music, legendary Busi Mhlongo with her distinctive voice, is chanting on this album.
Busi sadly passed away in june 2010. "Her love for music kept the flames of hope alive during the country’s struggle for democracy. A true legend has passed away. Her music encouraged and influenced a range of contemporary South African artists. She inspired the nation and let the world know of South Africa’s quest for freedom.” President Zuma said.
Jump Cuts
Gabriel also co-opted with Lungiswa Plaatjies, Madala Kunene and Mantombe Matotiyani from Amampondo, one of Nelson Mandela`s favourite bands.
The result is a fusion of ideas that became evident through the characteristic expression of these artists, whose vocal performances oscillate between traditional to contemporary, and that are merged in the techhouse mix with a soul and dub feel.
"It is all about combining these styles, the physical energy of digital club and dancefloor sounds with hypnotic afro-rhythms and the vocal-power. It`s about to push the musical styles and to find ways to intensifying our tracks both emotionally and meaningwise. I worked with big respect for the ideas of the artists on one hand, and on the other side I focused on creating music for body and soul."
GABRIEL presents his album DUBWIZE
On his album "Dubwize" Gabriel offers 8 new tracks which are tailored for the dub inspired clubber, combining different playful approaches of Dub with the functionality and stringency of techhouse music, without sounding like another Basic Channel epigone, but rather to focus on an own approach with different methods and results. Precisely this means that the length of an album context is used to tell a story: agile tracks like the opening "Dubster" mixes and the more minimal pounding "Love Dub" alternate with spheric minimal groovers like "Seasonal Dub" and "Time For Everything". Bridges are built by more minimal functional grooves like "Minitex" or "Nova Bluez" which give an opportunity to exhale. A perfect on-the-point production, Dubwize sounds refreshingly variable and deep.
experience black, gold and green
video dubster beatless by Gabriel Le Mar and George DIN, researching the dance of the "liquid" elements fire and water, footage shot by George Din on location in Alto Paraiso, Brasilia.
Gabriel Le Mar - Dubwize (auxiliarymagazine US 04.09)
reviewed by : Alex Kourelis
genre : dub techno
In a vein of music as pigeonholed as electronic music, Gabriel Le Mar keeps your interest, not with ethereal ambience or hard driving beats, but with a mindful eye on detail. Hailing from Frankfurt, Germany, Le Mar brings us a fine selection of dub techno entitled Dubwize from the German label, Thinner. From the onset, this album gives you rising organ sounds with minimal percussion on the single “Dubster” (also released with a video). An unobtrusive yet hypnotic and mesmerizing selection of cuts follow, each resonating with style and mastery. While many artists within this genre tend to focus on the next dance floor filling track, Le Mar’s toolbox seems more oriented on the vibe that is consistent in style. While listening to Dubwize, I reflected many times on how well this album’s tracks complement each other. The listener moves from the brilliant opener into a dub category with “Nova Bluez” and settles in with “Funkstern”; a decidedly more per- cussive affair. Further within the album, “Love Dub” and “Motorace” up the tempo slightly, ringing true of the Thinner style that can be attributed to the majority of their artists. Dubwize is fantastic for an easy afternoon listen or equally as fantastic for the more fervent dub fans. Dubwize is an album which promises to grow on the listener with each play. Indeed, I found myself neglecting my own iTunes library over time with this gem of an addition to my heavy rotation. Songs such as “Seasonal Dub” (featuring MC Markie J) in particular, brought me back over and over as I settled into the groove. While many may question the necessity of so many near-eight-minute tracks (of the 9 tracks on Dubwize, 8 of them top seven minutes), for me, it marked the style of the album as more of a journey and it stands better for it.
recommended tracks : Dubster, Seasonal Dub, Motorace
if you like you may like : Nulleins, Deadmau5
grade : overall 9 - music 9 - recording quality 9
www.auxiliarymagazine.com
Wize Dubs - ideas on Dubwize
Wize Dubs - is a collection of tracks of the "Dubwize" album with remixes by Motionfield, Octex, Max Cavalerra, Echonomist, Daniel Blonqvist, Subsonic Park, Das Kraftfuttermischwerk, P. Laoss, Veer and Marko Fürstenberg.
This remix album reflects on the story of Dubwize from different angles, as for each tune the original songs are deconstructed and thus mixed differently. Overall a the collection spans a wide range of moody remixes, from abstract excursions over functional floorkeepers and detached sentiences.
The opening mixes by Octex and Daniel Blomqvist are quite experimental perspectives upon 'Dubster' and 'Motorace' (Dub Mix), both dissolving and rearranging the elements of the original tracks by using shifting beats in a rather submerged dubstep corset. Following this comes the 'Nova Bluez' Mix by Das Kraftfuttermischwerk, remixing Nova Bluez in a loungey environment, managing to provide aural satisfaction.
A string of functional mixes is opened by the mix of P. Laoss, rendering 'Seasonal Dub' into a deep, yet uplifting house version which ascends between the poles of sunken dub house and textural landscapes. Max Cavalerra, on the other hand, offers a more minimal technoid approach on 'Funkstern', which centers around a deep stab which gradually evolves into a tunnel.
With the remixes by The Echonomist and Subsonic Park the compilation goes deeper. The Echonomist goes back in time and builds his mix of 'Love Dub' on a groovy house chord sequence from previous days, while Subsonic Park offers a journey to a distant location somewhere between deep techhouse and dubtech.
Having arrived there Veer picks the listener up with his tracky, sequenced twirl of 'Seasonal Dub', which leaves enough headroom to unfold the funky blowers of the original. Afterwards Marko Fürstenberg launches a most gorgeous rocket to spaced out dubspheres with strong detroit reminiscences, where there is indeed 'Time For Everything' as indicated by Gabriel's original song. Finally, Motionfield lets us exhale with a natural ambient version of the beatless version of 'Dubster'.
greetings to one and all!
