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In Interview with Leftwing : Kody

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Since forming in 2012, Leftwing : Kody have gone on to become one of the UK’s finest exports. Both Mixmag and DJ Mag have selected them as artists  to watch a mere year after they paired up, with DJ Mag even nominating them for ‘Best Breakthrough DJ’ in their Best of British Awards.

In the last year alone, they were named as Beatport’s #22 best-selling artist in 2018, as well as notching up releases on Desolat, Relief, Moon Harbour, Sola, Toolroom, Solid Grooves, Truesoul, Sony & Lost.

Earlier this year they put out “I Feel It on Toolroom:, which is shaping up to be one of the biggest house records in Ibiza this season.

We caught up with the duo to talk about their rapid rise, how that’s affected their partnership, upcoming releases and plans for the future.

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We Perfectly Understand Each Other Until We Start to Talk with Arno

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Longtime German talent Arno Völker serves up a fantastic debut solo album on Dana Ruh’s Brouqade under his actual name, Arno.

We Perfectly Understand Each Other Until We Start to Talk is also the label’s first album and across 12 tracks serves up a complete and absorbing house vision.

Back in 2010, the Frankfurt tastemaker best known as Einzelkind released a collaborative album with Christian Burkhardt, but this marks his first solo long player. A resident of the legendary Robert Johnson and founder of the legendary Pressure Traxx, La Peña, JAX, and Harlo. With an extended discography spanning across many years he has pushed some of his finest work on Pressure Traxx, Playhouse and Aku and now moves forward under his real name for a fascinating new album, for close companions, Broquade.

This is classy dancing music that is laced with emotion and is designed for cosy and intimate clubs and cultured crowds.

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In Interview with All Day I Dream’s Newest Addition: Padre

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Pete Lazonby is Padre, the Taipei-based Brit and pensive force behind ‘Sweet Transport” and the newest addition to Lee Burridge’s All Day I Dream (ADID) fold. Just don’t call him a newcomer to the melodic house and techno scene: with previous releases on Traum and Neovinyl Recordings, Padre’s presence in the global dance sphere has been a long time coming.

Padre joins ADID a fervent electronic music veteran. “I’ve been battling an electronic music-making addiction for most of my life,” he confesses. His fighting spirit is that of a producer’s producer – the kind of purist who endeavours to touch others with his music. To fulfil this desire, Padre found himself living in Taiwan: an atmosphere that offered him homely inspiration with little distraction.

“Sweet Transport” is a collaboration with Nigerian vocalist Oe. It’s an uplifting effort that samples Vaughn Williams’ “The Lark Ascending.” It’s a seamless addition to the ADID catalogue and one that is inherently Padre – thoughtful, organic, and with minimal force and pressure. Equally wistful are “Sweet Transport’s” re-works, which come from fellow ADID newcomer Quatri, and label stalwarts Gorje Hewek & Izhevski.

We sought to learn more about the enigma that is Padre through a candid discussion about his creative process, living in Taipei, and more.

Order a copy of “Sweet Transport” here.

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Digging Deeper with RISC

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Bradley Nelson is an internationally recognized DJ and recording artist producing under the monikers, DJ Evol and RISC.

The DJ Evol moniker has been an established player on the international drum & bass scene for many years, releasing on the highly lauded UK labels True Playaz and Urban Takeover and CIA recordings. Originally from Chicago, Evol has found a home in LA and brings years of experience in bass music production from residencies and radio to the West Coast, a fact which is not lost on the dance floors he habitually incinerates. Evol has also brought his thick talent at the decks to the SMOG family’s wide variety of parties and productions.

A respected name in the international electronic music community, Bradley has produced under is moniker RISC on Green Velvet’s Relief Records, Chicago’s UKR records, Berlin’s established GND records and Spain’s N&N records, along with a steady slew of new releases and remixes coming in the next few months. He brings a unique, catchy, dance-floor approach to his production. His tracks have a humbling feeling, with unforgettable synth lines and an array of funky drums and rhythm.

Recently, Nelson married his Chicagoan roots with his love for techno as RISC, for a debut release on Eats Everything and Andres Campo’s EI8HT Records: the four-track Midwest-inspired Sessions EP

With Sessions Scheduled for release on June 28th, and available for pre-order HERE, we sat down with the LA transplant to dig deeper into his Chicago roots and the influences for the EP.

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In Interview with Khainz

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There must be something in the water in Luzern, the town that label regular Khainz calls home. The Swiss producer has been churning out tremendous, polished dancefloor bombs for over a decade, and this effort has culminated in his third studio album and first since 2012: Fingerprint, out on Yoshitoshi on June 28th, 2019.

If you’ve heard Khainz’s music, you know his tracks are equal parts heavy groove and brilliant sound design. Fingerprint shows the scope of Khainz’s skills with track after track of heavy, club-focused composition that flirts with both delicate, beautiful melodies and savage techno sounds. In a world where many believe that the dance music album is increasingly irrelevant, Khainz proves the contrary with a stunning body of work that sounds like much more than just a collection of tracks.

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Digging Deeper with Luca Guerrieri

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Italian producer and DJ Luca Guerrieri has been rocking the Italian scene for 25 years.

With the exciting launch of his new artist album and his current remix of Nerio’s Dubwork & Darryl Pandy’s classic ‘Sunshine & Happiness’ blowing up in clubland, 6AM checked in to find out more.

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In Interview with Tomasz Guiddo

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And right in front of your eyes, Fine Coincidence is born. Shenzhen based Tomasz Guiddo fires up the first release on his new outlet shared with close friend Moussa Clarke, featuring the fantastic Niki Darling. A real, classy house affair to make you move, with remixes from Kacper Bogacz, and Jakobin & Domino, “Queen Tea,” has been receiving rave reviews from peers and fans alike:

Dope stuff, quality house that is!” – Mason (Defected Records)

“This is some real classic sounding house here. Love it!” – Pezzner (Get Physical)

“Great track my friend” – Bob Sinclair

Tomasz has a great year ahead taking care of his Vinyl House record store in China, launching his new label and a Sunday spot at Panorama Bar next month. Now is an exciting time to catch him, here is what went down.

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Digging Deeper with BOHO

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If you’re an avid reader of our site you will be very familiar with BOHO and his Jannowitz Records and Jaw Dropping Records imprints, as we have featured premieres and releases from both labels plenty of times, and have also invited BOHO for the 116th edition of our weekly Global Vibe Radio mix exactly a year ago today, on June 12th of 2018.

BOHO is the artistic project of Lars Kohl, a German producer, DJ and label owner who has made progress by leaps and bounds over the last five years across all spectrums of his electronic music endeavors. Based out of Cologne, Lars’ imprints have been churning out quality techno and progressive-tinged releases for the best of 5 years now, with artists the likes of Maksim Dark, Kaiser Souzai, Matt Sassari, Alberto Ruiz and Justin James just as a selection of the names who have released on Jannowitz.

At 6AM we thought it was time to formally sit down and have a chat with Lars to learn more about both the BOHO and Jannowitz projects, as well as about him on a more personal level.

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In Interview with Another Day Another (Oliver) Dollar

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Respected and in-demand amongst the scene, Oliver Dollar continues to drive forward with the release of his album Another Day Another Dollar.

Sitting comfortably on Luke Solomon’s Classic Music Company, a well-deserved feat, Oliver is currently embarking on a huge celebratory album tour, with whistle stops in Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and much more.

Despite a schedule much busier than the average Joe, we managed to catch up with Oliver Dollar recently to discuss all things album, and music related. Here we go:

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Digging Deeper with Izo FitzRoy

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Since bursting on to the scene with her debut album Skyline a couple of years ago, Izo FitzRoy’s unique voice and soul-drenched songs have been causing a storm in the soul, blues and dance music community.

As she teams up with the legendary Dimitri From Paris on one of the biggest Disco records for Summer 2019, 6AM grabs a chat with the powerful songstress


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