Adam Beyer • Dorian Paic Cocoon Heroes

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Cocoon RecordingsTechhouse13/06/11



The character of the hero first came up in the ancient world. The word 'heros' originally comes from classical Greek and was often used to describe the mythical founders of cities and nations. Many of the ancient hero figures were at the same time demigods or at least the objects of a strong religious worship. What was that again? God is a DJ?

All jokes aside. The Cocoon team around Sven Väth has chosen the motto "Cocoon Heroes" for the twelfth Cocoon Ibiza season. Not as a self-adulation, as in the end all participants – whether they are behind the decks, the bar or, above all, on the dancefloor – are the true heroes of the night. And as the official warm-up for this mega event series, Cocoon Recordings is providing us with the now fifth edition of the Ibiza Summer Mix.

One of the true highlights in this season is the performance of Adam Beyer on July, 25th. The Drumcode label head who lives in Stockholm is, together with Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills and Sven Väth, one of the most influential figures in electronic dance music for more than fifteen years now. Often being a guarantor for stringent and hard Techno as a producer, Beyer proves his musical complexity as a DJ with an energetic tour de force between hypnotic-percussive Tech House, Dub and Acid, and finally surprises the listener with a distinct affinity to meaningful vocal samples. With some brilliant tracks from Function, Radio Slave, Joel Mull, Paul Ritch, Jesper Dahlbäck and, first and foremost, with Beyer's collaboration with Alan Fitzpatrick ("Human Reason"), the sweat is most certainly going to be pouring over the dancefloor.

Dorian Paic, Frankfurt resident and co-owner of the record store authority Freebase as well as label head of Raum...Musik, has been an essential part of the Rhein Main scene for many years now and is part of the line up at the Grand Opening party at Amnesia. Those who have already experienced Paic as a DJ know about his matchless talent to make tastefully reduced but nevertheless unmistakeable Tech House jewels tell their own very unique story. With his hypnotic and relaxed mix, Dorian oscillates within an artistic synthesis that distinctively bows to the roots of Minimal Techno, and the selection of tracks from artists like Baby Ford & Zip, Daniel Bell, DJ Sneak or Daniel Stefanik reveals the true connoisseur. Especially in the consonance of those two very different types of elaboration of modern electronic dance music, the listeners will already be enchanted at home, by this utopia of this collectively created power between the sun, the sea and the sound.

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specialuntil 31/5/2012

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Tracks

  Title
Artist
Length  
Play Memorize Falling The Same Way (Dommune Version) Function 0:03:29
Play Memorize Bring Joy (Radio Slaves Joy and Pain Rmx) Midland 0:05:32
Play Memorize Theo (Alex Dolby Rmx) Dave Manuel 0:02:26
Play Memorize Addiction Emmanuel Top 0:01:21
Play Memorize Phantom Skudge 0:04:30
Play Memorize Issshhh! (Beats) 0:05:27
Play Memorize Gmelina Joel Mull 0:01:52
Play Memorize Hartliner (Hermanez Rmx) Marc DePulse 0:03:14
Play Memorize Hype Nosis feat. Paris the Black Fu Samuel L. 0:04:16
Play Memorize The Causeway 0:02:28
Play Memorize Senior Scream Santos 0:04:52
Play Memorize Common Sense Paul Ritch 0:03:51
Play Memorize 9AD Reset Robot 0:03:07
Play Memorize Itchy Pascal Mollin 0:02:32
Play Memorize Hungry Steffen Deux 0:02:41
Play Memorize Lamu Luca Morris 0:04:21
Play Memorize Stay Up Dancing, Get In Monday Darius Syrossian 0:03:52
Play Memorize Human Reason Adam Beyer • Alan Fitzpatrick 0:04:29
Play Memorize You Got Me Jesper Dahlbäck 0:05:47
Play Memorize For The People (Ben Klock Rmx) Rejected 0:02:29
Play Memorize AH-64 Tiger Tripes 0:03:53
Play Memorize Collider Mark Henning 0:03:48
Play Memorize Time Doesn't Count Terrence Terry 0:04:35
Play Memorize For How Long Baby Ford • Zip 0:06:00
Play Memorize Organ Track Lawrence 0:04:31
Play Memorize Deep Down Daniel Bell 0:04:15
Play Memorize Gud Gioc Cally 0:04:11
Play Memorize Mission To Venus Rio Padice 0:04:03
Play Memorize Monday Swing Priku 0:04:13
Play Memorize Program 36 Franco Cinelli 0:03:50
Play Memorize A Is For Acid Anonym 0:06:20
Play Memorize The Silicon Garden 0:04:44
Play Memorize Praise To The Beat Maker Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts 0:07:08
Play Memorize Delta Trippin DJ Sneak 0:06:53
Play Memorize La Santa Danza Sascha Dive 0:07:00
Play Memorize Kalimba Johnny Fiasco 0:04:56

Tracks

  Title
Artist
Length  
Play Memorize Cocoon Heroes CD1 Adam Beyer 1:19:35 7.99 *
Play Memorize Cocoon Heroes CD2 Dorian Paic 1:13:30 7.99 *

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Terry Church

18/08/11 http://terrychurchpr.com/index.php/adam-beyer-cocoon-heroes-mix/

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Terry Church

18/08/11 http://terrychurchpr.com/index.php/adam-beyer-cocoon-heroes-mix/

It might just be a CD made in techno heaven: Adam Beyer, one of Sweden’s most influential techno DJs and producers has done a mix for Ibiza’s biggest techno night, Cocoon.

As Sven Väth kicked off another summer of crazy techno parties in Ibiza this week – Cocoon’s Amnesia club nights have ruled Monday nights on the island for 12 years now – the German techno lord asked Drumcode boss Beyer to mix the first CD for his Ibiza night’s 2011 mix album.

Called ‘Cocoon Heroes’ (in keeping with Sven’s motto for Cocoon Ibiza this year), Adam Beyer’s 120-minute live DJ mix features no less than 22 tracks segued effortlessly by the Swedish techno giant. Beyer is due to play at Cocoon Ibiza on July 25th, a set which Cocoon says will be, “One of the true highlights of this season…”

Adam Beyer’s Cocoon Heroes mix is a complex mosaic of underground electronic music. The smooth voyage of club sounds moves with lightening pace. Beginning with a lush soundscape from Berlin-based techno experimentalist Function, the mix seamlessly delves into Radio Slave’s delicate dub techno mix of Midland ‘Bring Joy’, its soulfully distorted vocals creating an atmosphere of mystery and melancholy.

Beyer then adds some gritty percussion and beats to the proceedings, via Alex Dolby’s mix of Dave Manual ‘Theo’. The set soon takes a turn for the wonkier with Emmanuel Top’s ‘Addiction’, and Swedish analogue duo Skudge providing some loopy techno rhythms with their track ‘Phantom’.

It’s at this point, around the 17-minute mark, that Beyer decides to take the energy to the next level by calling upon the services of his long-serving DJ partner and friend Joel Mull. So far, Beyer’s mix had been a carefully staged show of atmosphere, tension, and suspense, with the Drumcode boss deliberately choosing to keep his foot of the gas. Mull’s new H-Productions cut ‘Gmelina’ cuts through that early haze, with some gut-kicking bass and chunky techno rhythms.

The mix then builds in momentum via straight techno shooters from Hermanez and Samuel L Session, whose collaboration with vocalist Paris the Black Fu offers evil acid lines, machine funk, and warped, whispered vocals. Beyer then takes his mix in a completely different direction with The Martinez Brothers’ deep house roller ‘The Causeway’, adding some surprising soul to the package. Santos’ ‘Senior Scream’ brings the mix back to techno.

Beyer then ramps up the energy significantly with Paul Ritch’s explosive techno hit ‘Common Sense’. The track’s hypnotic percussion loop acts like the perfect bridge to the latter half of the mix, which is filled with driving techno shufflers and pumping club tools.

There’s a speaker buster from Pascal Mollin, understated funk from Steffen Deux, twitchy vocal blips from Luca Morris, and squelchy acidic techno from Darius Syrossian. By the time Beyer moves into his Drumcode sound with ‘Human Reason’, his new DC collaboration with Alan Fitzpatrick, and Jesper Dahlbäck’s recent single ‘You Got Me’, the mix positively brims with fluidity, excitement, and raw techno power.

The final act of Adam Beyer’s ‘Cocoon Heroes’ mix sees the Swedish techno pioneer explore darker and more stripped back club sounds, with bleepy loop techno from Ben Klock, radioactive machine growls from Tiger Stripes, and heavy bass-driven beats from Mark Henning.

The mix finishes with the light melodic flutterings of Terence : Terry:’s ‘Time Doesn’t Count’, a suitably serene moment of calm, after the dancefloor storm.