3.6.2007 von mk.

fabrique records was born out of an encounter in the winter of 2001/02 between former major company A&R, Michael Martinek, and musician & journalist, Christian Rösner. They aimed to offer a musical platform to a small, close-knit group of artists and to forge their own way into the then booming Viennese label scene. From the beginning, fabrique records committed itself to a variety of musical styles and thrust the personalities behind the releases into the foreground.
Through the first releases of artists such as Kava, Mauracher, Paloma, Konsorten TM and Bassman, fabrique records got off to a truly dream start with airplay on various radio stations in Europe including FM4 in Austria, Xfm London and BBC Radio1 in the UK, some international licenses and a temporary branch of the label in London. Consequently, fabrique records also managed to attract highly esteemed remixers such as Bonobo, TM Juke, Zed Bias, Dr. Rubberfunk, Spoonface and Don Air, and to strengthen the international reputation of the label.
Some five years on and after numerous small successes, the circle of artists around fabrique records continues to strengthen and develop with artists such as the exceptional young talent, Kava, the Discopunks TNT Jackson, the Berlin based duo Liechtenstein & Kasar, the bass and electronic virtuoso, Hannes Strobl, the Broken-Beat-duo Mirize, the electronic music pioneer Hans Joachim Roedelius, and many others destined to provide further top quality releases.
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of fabrique records, “The Fabrique Album” will be released as a showcase for the label’s alternative style. A statement that reflects the eclectic nature of the music released over the past few years by fabrique records. This album will consciously go against the classic “Best Of” principal and instead include some essential highlights from the colourful back-catalogue, numerous exclusives produced especially for the record, as well as remixes and rare material.
Exclusives: TNT Jackson present a brand new track “Great Expectations” which is a taster for their forthcoming 2nd studio album, as do Mirize with their contribution, the melodic “Dazed Pride”; while the British broken-beat magician, Elroy “Spoonface” Powell aka Pan Cosefo shows us with “There´s Plenty” the more audacious side of his musicianship.
Moving on, nobody celebrates his status as a new born “electronic” artist in a more understated way than MTV legend Ray Cokes with the song “Sleepwalking” in a remix of the turntable wizzards Waxolutionists, and he gives a foretaste of a remix 12″, which is planed for Autumn/Winter. The Waxolutionists offer with “Eos” a second very exciting and exclusive track.
In addition to the well known track “Wheels of Steel” from Paloma, former artist Bassman Hannes Strobl gives us a taster of what we can expect from his debut release under his own name with the wonderful track “Nachtzug Berlin”, while Bernhard Fleischmann delivers an exclusive cover version of “Mine” by Christian Roesner.
Finally a dreamy, minimal and rare track by Hans Joachim Roedelius serves to bring the album to a harmonious conclusion.

Label: fabrique records

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3.6.2007 von mk.

Signs marks the triumphant return of leftfield electronic band Ikon. A mixture of dubby electronica and blissful vocals this promises to put them on a par with their major label contemporaries.
Rewind 3 years and everything is going right for the band. Their single “The Dove” is being championed by daytime radio DJ’s , festival shows are booked and they are being mentioned in the same sentences as Air & Royksopp - so what happened next?
“Basically we weren’t really ready to go out and slog it round the live circuit” says Elliot Ireland from the band “The people we worked with on the first album were friends of ours that lived in Ibiza, Berlin and other even further flung parts of the world - it was really stressful getting everyone together and rehearsed for gigs and it just meant too much time out of the studio - in the end we did a few major gigs like The Big Chill and a Radio 1 showcase but turned down the rest to concentrate on studio projects. Myself and Alex are also in Skeewiff and we had an album of that material to finish for release. We just ended up concentrating on other projects till last year when Alex, Trevor and myself sat down to plan out the new album.”
The album kicks off with “No reason to stay” one of two tracks vocalled by seasoned soul singer Dee Ellington. “We had a lot of fun in the studio with Dee - she’s a lot of fun to be around and has a really distinctive sound to her vocals” says Trevor Mac “We also worked on two tracks with Ian Britt whose album we released a couple of years ago and there is a definite element of that folk singer-songwriter sensibility to the album. Dirty Girl is more about us shaping him to the IKON sound and Out of Our hands is him bending us back the other way. They seem to work really well together on the same album. The album finishes on a really stripped back acoustic track sung by Kirsty Hawkshaw - it’s great that Kirsty is on this album as her vocal was one of the highlights of the first one”
The album is a real mixture of songs and soundscapes. “We do a lot of music for film and I think that shows in tracks like “Kill Tremolo” says Elliot. It’s all about creating a mood while keeping everything moving forward. Kill Tremolo started life as an instrumental but was missing something so I got in touch with a friend called Swati who sings with Nitin Sawhney and she added a vocal that is really subtle but brings out what’s special in the track.

Label: jalapeno records

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