- 22
- Jan
Prosumer & Murat Tepeli - Go Silla
I really like it when a dance album comes out that I can listen to all of, multiple times, and hear more and more in it each time. Serenity the new full length album by Berlin's Achim Brandenburg, aka Prosumer, and Köln's Murat Tepeli, is just that.
The album is the first full-length artist-album on Ostgut Ton, the in-house label of the famous Berghain/Panorama Bar, and it reflects an interesting slice of dance music in Europe right now. While the draw of 'minimal techno' still exists in quantity, this last year saw many artists make a return to house music, especially deep house. Besides this acid-tinged somewhat retro-sounding house track, Achim and Murat play with many different styles of house music on Serenity, a large portion of which include (gasp!) vocals by Achim, and guest vocalist Elif Biçer. The album reminds me a lot of Unai's 2006 album, A Love Moderne, which also did a great balancing act between styles for the livingroom and for the floor. Highly recommended.
You can get the lead single from Serenity, the excellent "Turn Around", right now from Beatport, which is already receiving some pretty solid reviews, but the album doesn't come out in the US for another week or two. The CD version of the album has seventeen tracks, and the DJ-friendly double-vinyl version has eight, dancefloor-tuned versions of the tracks.
For those of you over in Berlin, you should go to the release party, happening at Panorama Bar this Saturday, the 26th - I'm sure it will be a great night, and Prosumer & Murat Tepeli are performing live.
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