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Artist : VA Ripdate : Jun-2011
Title : Eleven Years Cocoon Recordings Source : CDDA
Label : Cocoon Recordings Type : Compilation
Catnr : CORCD025 Tracks : 10
Year : 2011 Size : 268,0 MB
Genre : Electronic Encoder : LAME 3.98.4
Style : Electro, Minimal, Tech House, Techno Quality : VBR -V0
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Selected Remix Works (Unmixed)
01 Dinky - Acid In My Fridge (Visionquest Remix) 07:27
02 Martin Buttrich - Hunter (Roman Fluegel Remix) 09:16
03 Argy - Unreliable Virgin (Tim Green Remix) 08:50
04 Joel Mull - Harmonautic String (Steve Rachmad Remix) 07:51
05 Dubfire vs Oliver Huntemann - Diablo (Carlo Lio Remix) 07:44
06 Pig & Dan - Deliverance (Gary Beck Remix) 07:12
07 2000 And One - Tropical Melons (Paul Ritch Remix) 08:08
08 Guy Gerber - Timing (Kollektiv Turmstrasse Remix) 09:37
09 Extrawelt - Titelheld (Petar Dundov Remix) 07:50
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Retrospective Mix (Mixed By Patrick Kunkel)
01 Minilogue - We All 00:15
02 EMT - Extra Lunch 02:46
03 Roman Flugel - Geht's Noch? 02:54
04 Glove - Drogenkontrolle 03:13
05 Legowelt - Disco Rout 03:43
06 Pig & Dan - Sly Detector 03:25
07 Oliver Koletzki - Der Muckenschwarm 03:29
08 Timo Maas - Subtellite 03:25
09 Len Faki - Death By House 02:51
10 Joris Voorn - The Secret 05:02
11 Reboot - Ronson 03:54
12 Nick Curly - Pujante 03:24
13 Julian Jeweil - Soho 03:40
14 Minilogue - Jamaica (Dubfire Remix) 05:23
15 Stephan Bodzin - Treibsand 04:40
16 Guy Gerber & Shlomi Aber - Sea Of Sand 04:17
17 Jacek Sienkiewicz - All Yours 04:20
18 Lucio Aquilina - Magic M 03:35
19 David K - Mayann 05:09
20 Loco Dice - Carthago 04:13
21 Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Dead Room 02:38
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Scan the tracklist of any one of the 20-odd Cocoon compilations released over
the past 11 years and you'll find a common thread. Almost invariably, each
edition serves to welcome a few new producers into the label's ranks. And more
often than not, it's the efforts of these one or two-time contributors that
shine most brightly. This revolving door approach is one of the primary reasons
that Cocoon has never been associated with one sound for very long. That's just
as obvious on 11 Years Cocoon Recordings as it's ever been, with the bulk of the
remixers having had less than two tracks signed to the label throughout its
11-year history.
Perhaps the most in-demand quartet in house music at the moment,
Visionquest Seth Troxler, Lee Curtis, Ryan Crosson and Shaun Reeves open up the
album by reworking Dinky's "Acid in My Fridge" into a plodding and highly
workable deep house excursion. Roman Flugel's first outing on the label since
his 2004 debut sees him applying his loopy touch to Martin Buttrich's "Hunter"
for another one of the collection's standouts. Further along, Joel Mull's
"Harmonautic String" gets the Steve Rachmad treatment, and ends up drenched in
the Amsterdam resident's smooth chord progressions for what results in one of
his more memorable recent remix efforts.
By and large, the rest of the release isn't too far from what you've heard from
each of the respective artists before. If it's a heavy hand on the appegiator
button that gets you going, Kollektiv Turmstrasse and Petar Dundov have you
covered, remixing Guy Gerber's "Timing" and Extrawelt's "Titelheld" into epic
but somewhat one-dimensional workouts respectively. Meanwhile, Carlo Lio goes
deep on "Diablo" from Dubfire vs Oliver Huntermann and Gary Beck gives Pig &
Dan's "Deliverance" a spacey makeover.
When it's all said and done, however, it's the guests, not the Cocoon old guard,
that steal the show. Cocoon's constant efforts to reach out have resulted in 11
strong years for the label. It stands to reason with efforts like these that
there'll be plenty more to come.
URL: http://www.discogs.com/release/2882786
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