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Transmissions from Titan 004 |
12/08/2010 |
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Titan's Halo
Records has the pleasure to announce
the launching of the fourth episode
of Transmissions From Titan, our
downloadable serie of spatial sonic
trips. Eduardo Peciña Castilla aka
EPC is in charge of offering us a
walk by ambient in this mix called
Inside Titan.
Thanks to a deep arqueologic
vocation, EPC has drawed up a set of
aproximatively one hour duration of
ambient made of the ambiental tracks
that we could find in the b sides
of classic techno and electro
records. A Special concept that
pretends to recover the lost tracks
that techno artists included in
their records seeking musical credit
and respect of the milieu,
offering them a second opportunity.
Tracks that stayed in a limbo, so
close of the used tracks, but at the
same time so far of being kissed by
the needle of a turntable, at least
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As we
said, those would normally be reserved to
domestics or private and personal listenings.
That said, the musical theme could not be
other than this: a trip to twilight or
experimental ambient, made sonic fragments
of one minute in wich we will find
sensations of obscureness, solitude, and
soul searching. Cause everybody has it´s own
Titan, that unique refuge, the den that we
all love and fear at the same time, each of
us in it's right mesure. Our own cavern.
It's
because of that that concept applied by
Pablo Sanz to the design of this mix coul
only represent a cave, a cavern. A chromatic
range high in dark tones, reds and oranges
indicates us that we are in a warm and
comfortable place, but at the same time
mysterious and that absorbs you, a place
near the inside fire that we all have, our
own Titan, Inside Titan.
You can download "Inside Titan"
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Calma E.p
by Dj F |
01/06/2010 |
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Titan's Halo
Records presents it's second
reference, made by madrid techno
veteran producer Dj F. This e.p
entitled Calma includes four
oneiric techno tracks that gravitate
over the concept enunciated in it's
title.
Known
for his many years of musical
dedication in clubs like One or
Audium, but also to hold the
mythical store Recycle from Madrid,
Flavio Tortora uses in this
reference his techno moniker Dj F.
During his career, Flavio has
published with his other aliases
Acid Future Overdose and Ideograma
in the main labels of Spain's
electronic music scene such as Sun
Stone, Drivecom, Chaval Records and
Semántica. In this e.p as in it's
frequent live shows he uses only
analogic technology. |
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In this "Calma E.p",
Flavio recreates organic landscapes of a
planet like Titan before it's colonization
using floatating melodies on 4x4 rythms. The
four tracks homonyms to the record's title
reflect the personal and unique style of his
creator wich manages to print to his music a
rusty sound and to extract all the soul from
the techno as the masters of the genre did
at the beginning of the nineties.
The cover's
design got it's inspiration from the astro-geological
calmness concept that Flavio's tracks
evoked. This artwork has been realized by
Abdul Qadim Haqq, founder of Third Earth
Visual Arts, wich has colaborated several
times with labels as UR, Red Planet and R&S,
repeating the experience with Titan's Halo.
The backcover and the inner designs were
made by Alvaro Estevez and the mastering
process has been handled to Eternal Midnight
Studios and to it's engineer Xergio Córdoba.
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Transmissions from Titan 003 |
10/03/2010 |
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Titan’s Halo
Records is glad to present the third
episode of it's galactic podcasts
series. This mix called "Huída de la
Tierra" has been conceived by dj,
record collector and music lover
Alex Pé.
For one hour an a half, Alex will
drive us into a journey through a
blend of old school disco classics
amongst with other interpretations
of the genre made by nowadays
artists from different backgrounds.
The concept of the mix appeals to
it's title, a musical trip that
pictures the escape from a collapsed
earth towards the funky and
misterious colony in Titan. |
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The design by Pablo Sanz
takes its inspiration from the science
fiction tv shows aestethics made at the end
of the seventies and beginning of the
eighties, period where most of the tracks of
this mix are from. The portrait of the woman
is based on beautiful and sadistic lizardess
and rat-eater Diana from the orginal "V
(Visitors)" show. The back cover represents
a cosmical version of Kit from "Knight
Rider". The design, the letters and the
colors have received a treatment that
undeniably remind us to that period. They
look as burned, exagerated and unnatural as
back then, when design facilities were
shorter than today and in the likes of how
science fiction was pictured and
characterised at that concrete time.
You can download "Huída de la Tierra"
here |
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Transmissions from Titan 002 |
27/01/2010 |
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Titan´s Halo Records presents the
second volume of its podcast series
titled "Silence Titan's Halo", made
by Madrid own's Dj F, who has a
residency in clubs of the capital of
Spain such as One and Audium. During
the week, Dj F manages one of the
historical record stores of downtown
Madrid called Recycled Music Center,
or produces music for one of his
various monikers. He has recently
published a mini-album as Acid
Future Overdose for Semántica
Records titled "Exobiology", and
shared e.p with Victor Santana in
Chaval Records. He is also about to
publish the second reference of our
label with a four conceptual tracks
e.p called "Calma E.p".
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For this second podcast, Dj F offers us a
mix made out of techno-dub gems, more
focused on the warmth and soulish Detroit
approach than in Berlin´s coldness and
texturologic one. Due to years of
coleccionism and laborious seek of
references, Dj F did not want to reveal the
complete tracklist of the mix.
In order to illustrate this second chapter,
Pablo Sanz has made a minimalist and spatial
cover. To reach this goal, he only used a
few elements, playing with the composition
until managing an almost holographic
sensation of emptyness, of silence. In this
artwork, we also can observe other concepts
such as the degraded recurrence of the
planets that remember ourselves the
characteristical echoes of dub, but also the
vanishing tail of an orbitating heavenly
body. At last, the lively colours symbolise
the warmness of the tracks chosen and the
orange tones evoque us the real colors of
Titan´s sphere, in drastic counterpoint with
the dark depth that pictures the coldness of
space.
You can download "Silence Titan´s Halo"
here |
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Wires goes digital |
02/12/2009 |
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Passed a few months from the
publication in vinyl of our first reference,
"Wires E.p" made by catalonian
electro artist Ivan Arnau aka Dark
Vektor, we have decided to stop
playing the ostrich with modern
times and finally launch "Wires E.p"
in Wav and Mp3 formats.
The track that gives its name to the e.p is "Wires",
wich has been included by Morgan
Khan in the new volume of the
classic compilation "Street Sounds"
wich is themed in new school
electro. |
The track has also been played many times in
Martin Evolvah's Future Shock program and
has received good critics from heavyweights
of electro such as Aux 88, Kosmo-D of
Newcleus and Debonaire. This e.p includes
also another track called "Extrany", in wich
we will appreciate Ivan's dark and spacey
touch for this old school fashioned electro
beat. Sharing the b-side we can find "Wires
Remix" a brilliant rework made by Miami's
finest electro bassmasters Hydraulix.
You can find this reference available in
http://junodownload.com/ppps/products/1482241-02.htm |
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Transmissions from Titan 001 |
02/12/2009 |
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Titan's Halo presents it's new
podcasts series, in wich diferent
artists, collaborators and friends
of spaceness in all it's shapes will
offer us their own musical and
visual concept about the Cosmos.
The first mix of our podcast series
has been selected, mixed and crafted
by spanish journalist David Puente,
and it's name is "Un Viaje Por
Titán". A peculiar odyssee into the
spacyest music soundtracks,
Germany's kosmische music, french
psychedelia and cosmic electronics
with a dense atmosphere of the
foggiest seventyes escapist music. |
The two covers have been designed by Pablo
Sanz, who has got his inspiration in the
covers of many of the musicians included in
David's mix, and in many of the cult covers
from Krautrock groups in the likes of
Tangerine Dream, Cosmic Jokers Cluster or
Zweinstein or american musicians Pi Corp.
You can download "Un Viaje por Titán"
here |
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