Manana selected for Spotify Radar 2024
Excited to announce that Manana has been selected as one of the artists for Spotify Radar Program 2024! Congratulations to everyone involved!
OUT: album 'Moment' by Jan Faati
Jan Faati has been a successful producer, musician and singer for over 15 years and has produced numerous successful records (including with Fully Fullwood, Sara Lugo, Marla Brown, Deena, Galv, Ceeopatra and Luksan Wunder) and played at major international festivals. During this time, he has developed and perfected his special sound of neo-soul, hip-hop, African influences and modern, electronic synth sounds. With Moment, he now presents his long-awaited debut album JanFaati's music is always oriented towards the bounce. It's all about surprising arrangements, new sounds and effects and being cool and casual at the same time. The songs on Moment are authentic, catchy, often funny and always danceable and sexy.
OUT: album '18 Short Stories' by Bymski
The idea of narrative is prevalent in every art form in different ways. In literature, the short story compresses this narrative structure into less space, distilling the sweeping narratives of longer novels into single-reading encapsulations of a feeling. And so it is, too, with Bymski’s newest addition to his prolific catalog of personal expression.
The project '18 Short Stories' was born in Japan during typhoon season, when Bymski was caught indoors during a downpour. Although only one sketch came out of his time there, the mood captured by Evil Snorer laid the foundation for a new conceptual framework. Instead of approaching his break-infused songs as long-form literature and trying to spin out a larger narrative, Bymski embraced his laid-back experimental side, treating each track as a distillation of a single feeling. And the more the sketches emerged, the more natural it felt to work this way.
The result isn’t so much a pre-conceived thread woven tightly through a full-length album, but an album’s worth of inner conflict, desire, hope and fantasy where the thread is Bymski himself. To add some additional twists to the mini-plots featured here, he took Pink Tank, a sketch from dear friend Oliver Remme, and developed in the style of the short-story format. And finally, he brought in the talents of dear friends Maya Wada and Saiko Ryusui to add their own colors (and the joy of collaboration) to the mood. Although these 18 Short Stories were always crafted as an a la carte collection of sonic treats, the unexpected sounds and structures just might tempt you to keep it playing until the end, discovering 18 of your own distinct moods as you go.
OUT: album 'Stereo Noir' by Lary
Anyone who wants to know who Lary is will find the answer in 'Stereo Noir'. An album that inspires self-acceptance and allows you to exhale, lean back, cry and laugh, and treat yourself to a strong drink. And as an acquaintance of hers said after listening to it for the first time, it sounds above all like a longing for a real encounter - and thus summarises both the album and the spirit of the artist very well. 'Stereo Noir' is co-written by label boss Patrice.
OUT: album 'Hyacinth' by Dena & Lauer
After several releases on Permanent Vacation Lauer teamed up with Dena to delivere the new album 'Hyacinth' full of Italo-Disco tracks. Perfect for the upcoming summer!
OUT: album 'Build From Here' by Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans’ latest album 'Build From Here' is driven by a desire to explore and to expose. It navigates joy and heartbreak amid ruin and rebuilding, embodying hopeful defiance in uncertain futures. The songs vary in style, from propulsive and catchy to contemplative, featuring lush instrumentals transitioning into danceable beats. Tillmans’ voice, whether growling and confrontational or tender and stripped down, maintains its prominence throughout, serving as the album's core.
New signing: Lambert
The musician known under the pseudonym Lambert is a trained Jazz pianist and became known primarily through so-called re-works, in which he reinterpreted well-known pieces on the piano and published them on the YouTube video platform. He achieved his musical breakthrough in 2014 with his album of the same name. The album, which was released on the Berlin label Staatsakt, was produced by Lambert himself and mixed and mastered by Nils Frahm.
OUT: album 'New World' by Cats & Breakkies
Drums, synths, guitar and bass... that's all the four musicians from Cats & Breakkies need to create danceable but also complex and atmospheric sound worlds that can be located between techno club, science fiction soundtrack, house and psychedelic Krautrock. Eclectic contemporary electronic music styles merge with the power of a live band. Since 2013, the four musicians from Cats & Breakkies have been developing their unique and distinctive electronic live sound and have played over 300 shows in clubs and festivals across Europe. After their debut album 'Organic Electro' and their second album 'Spectral', the Berlin band just released their third studio album 'New World' and will start touring soon!