Mainfloor: Dominik Eulberg, Extrawelt live
Lounge: Sebastian Lutz, Gregor Kempf
 

In Aufruhr! Das neue Album vom Hamburger Produzenten Duo Extrawelt zeigt uns einmal mehr das die beiden zu den führenden Techno Protagonisten der 2000er Jahre gehören. Zu unserem Freitags-Restart (der Samstag ist diesmal eine Woche vorher dran) gab es ein extra langes Set der beiden mit jeder Menge neuer Tracks und auch dem ein oder anderen Klassiker. Komplettiert wurde das Cocoon Line Up an diesem Abend mit Dominik Eulberg und in der Lounge lieferten Sebastian Lutz und Gregor Kempf die passenden Beats.

Title Extrawelt - In Aufruhr

Label Cocoon Recordings 

Available formats CD + 3LP

Cat.-No. CORCD028

Cat.-No. CORLP028

Release Date 4th November 2011 physical / 4th November 2011 digital

Already their debut maxi "Soopertrack" on Border Community from 2006, which can still be found in many DJ cases, but also the "Titelheld EP" (2006) and the album "Schöne Neue Extrawelt" from the year 2008, which belong to the best-selling releases on Cocoon recordings, have also ultimately rocketed the two Hamburg residents Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe – famous for their excessive live performances – to the Mount Olympus of the most style-forming Techno protagonists within the last ten years. "We don't want cowardly Zeitgeist Techno. We want to be courageous and dare new sounds and melodies. Sunrise scenarios, energy, revolution and 'Kaputtheit' – these are all parts of the Extrawelt", the two musicians once said, and this artistic credo applies for the long-awaited second Extrawelt album, too. "We took our time and have collected tracks that have particularly touched us, no matter whether they are club-compatible or not. Besides that, we didn't want to repeat ourselves but create a unique second album that's stands for itself." Without doubt, the two have succeeded in this!

Writing about the single tracks here would not make much sense. Just a few words: Every single track is unique! And still, there is definitely inside what the label promises: Extrawelt. The variety and, at the same time, the unity of the most different sounds, the caring arrangement and the fascination for details can only be described as a great sonic performance! This is again that valiant and brave reaching into the well-filled sonic lucky bag of modern electronic music that makes "In Aufruhr" so much more than just dancefloor entertainment. The spectrum of musical influences has again extended and the most different styles of electronic music are connecting seamlessly with the Extrawelt spirit. Here, the sonic Zeitgeist is not the determining variable for the music – what really counts is the creation of nothing more and nothing less than a new world, by the means of a never-exhausting power of acoustic imagination which shows new facets, even after the thousandth time of listening pleasure. One should be careful with the use of superlatives, but this is exactly how masterpieces are sounding!

Tracklisting CD

01 The Next Little Thing
02 Division Dunkel
03 Blendwerk I
04 Leave 43 (Neverlasting Edit)
05 Aufwind
06 Herz aus Blech
07 Pontiac
08 Swallow The Leader
09 808 Slate
10 Blendwerk II
11 Phoebe
12 Dumb Age
13 Die Welt Ist Nicht Genug
14 Schlusslicht

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Title Extrawelt - In Aufruhr

Label Cocoon Recordings 

Available formats CD + 3LP

Cat.-No. CORCD028

Cat.-No. CORLP028

Release Date 4th November 2011 physical / 4th November 2011 digital

Already their debut maxi "Soopertrack" on Border Community from 2006, which can still be found in many DJ cases, but also the "Titelheld EP" (2006) and the album "Schöne Neue Extrawelt" from the year 2008, which belong to the best-selling releases on Cocoon recordings, have also ultimately rocketed the two Hamburg residents Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe – famous for their excessive live performances – to the Mount Olympus of the most style-forming Techno protagonists within the last ten years. "We don't want cowardly Zeitgeist Techno. We want to be courageous and dare new sounds and melodies. Sunrise scenarios, energy, revolution and 'Kaputtheit' – these are all parts of the Extrawelt", the two musicians once said, and this artistic credo applies for the long-awaited second Extrawelt album, too. "We took our time and have collected tracks that have particularly touched us, no matter whether they are club-compatible or not. Besides that, we didn't want to repeat ourselves but create a unique second album that's stands for itself." Without doubt, the two have succeeded in this!

Extrawelt - In Aufruhr (CORCD028) by cocoonrecordings

Writing about the single tracks here would not make much sense. Just a few words: Every single track is unique! And still, there is definitely inside what the label promises: Extrawelt. The variety and, at the same time, the unity of the most different sounds, the caring arrangement and the fascination for details can only be described as a great sonic performance! This is again that valiant and brave reaching into the well-filled sonic lucky bag of modern electronic music that makes "In Aufruhr" so much more than just dancefloor entertainment. The spectrum of musical influences has again extended and the most different styles of electronic music are connecting seamlessly with the Extrawelt spirit. Here, the sonic Zeitgeist is not the determining variable for the music – what really counts is the creation of nothing more and nothing less than a new world, by the means of a never-exhausting power of acoustic imagination which shows new facets, even after the thousandth time of listening pleasure. One should be careful with the use of superlatives, but this is exactly how masterpieces are sounding!

Tracklisting CD

01 The Next Little Thing
02 Division Dunkel
03 Blendwerk I
04 Leave 43 (Neverlasting Edit)
05 Aufwind
06 Herz aus Blech
07 Pontiac
08 Swallow The Leader
09 808 Slate
10 Blendwerk II
11 Phoebe
12 Dumb Age
13 Die Welt Ist Nicht Genug
14 Schlusslicht

This is a recap of the Cocoon night at Berns from April 21st, 2011!  Berns 2.35:1 is a nightclub installed in the venerable Berns Hotel, which was built in 1863. Together with Cocoon Berns 2.35:1 presented the first gig of Sven Väth in Sweden in many years.

Among Sven the line up for that night billed Extrawelt with a liveset, Dorian Paic, SIS and Bulu.

We ́re in love with the Wonnemonat Mai und deshalb lädt der Cocoonclub vor dem Beginn der Open Air-Saison zum kollektiven Durchdrehen ins Frankfurter UFO ein. Muss man zu diesem Line-Up eigentlich noch etwas sagen? Die beiden Techno-Grandseigneurs Sven Väth und Frank Lorber sind seit vielen Jahren ein eingespieltes DJ-Team, und das Hamburger Produzentengespann Extrawelt befindet sich spätestens seit ihrem 2008er Debütalbum “Schöne Neue Extrawelt” in der Liga der brandheißesten Liveacts weltweit.

Aktuell werden Arne Schaffhausen und Wayan Raabe nicht nur ihre im Mai erscheinende “Vorsprung durch Hektik”-EP auf dem Kölner Boxer- Label vorstellen, sondern mit einem ersten Vorgeschmack auf ihr im Herbst angekündigtes zweites Album Premiumtechno ohne Kompromisse zelebrieren.

Die Lounge des Cocoon Clubs etabliert sich zwischenzeitlich mehr und mehr als einer der wichtigsten Talentschmieden der elektronischen Tanzmusik: Neben Ingo Boss heute dabei sind Christian Burkhardt und youANDme. Während der ursprünglich aus Heidelberg stammende Frankfurter Christian Burkhardt mit seinen Releases auf Oslo, La Peña und seinem gefeierten Cocoon-Debüt “Stop Over Goa” Klangbrücken zwischen der Abstraktion von Minimaltechno und dem Funk des US-House zu schlagen versteht, repräsentieren das DJ-Team youANDme den unverbrauchten Sound von Berlin.

Videofootage by Bela Molnar