Release : Roland Appel - Inner Sound
Artist : Roland Appel
Album : Inner Sound
Genre : Electronic
Source : Web
Label : Sonar Kollektiv
URL : http://www.junodownload.com
Date : 00-00-2008
Encoder : WEB
Quality : 320kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 2
Time : 10:33 min
Size : 24.20 MB
1 Inner Soul 5:30
2 New Love 5:03
After one year and 2 great EPs that have taken dance floors down all over the
world Munich-born ROLAND APPEL needs hardly introduction anymore! Just 2 words
will suffice: Dark Soldier. This stunning track was a secret hit at the 2007
Miami Winter Music Conference, and found its way into the bags and the charts of
the biggest DJs in the world such as LAURENT GARNIER, TIEFSCHWARZ, MICHAEL
MAYER, HELL, EWAN PEARSON, DIXON, GILLES PETERSON, AGORIA, KIKI and DJ T amongst
many others. Even UKÆs most important music magazines like Mixmag, Fact and I-DJ
acclaimed it and made it track of the month last summer... Not bad for a debut
solo E.P.!
But ROLAND APPEL is far from being a newcomer in the world of music production.
On the contrary the JAZZANOVA crew knew the made the best possible choice when
asking him to release his solo tracks on Sonar Kollektiv. Indeed ROLAND started
Djing and writing music in the early nineties. With his long-time partner and
friend CHRISTIAN PROMMER he founded the band FAUNA FLASH and himself a name with
3 full-length albums and many 12ô, remixes and appearances on great labels such
as Compost Records, G Stone Recordings and !K7. He was also of one third of the
famous TRUBY TRIO, whose album Elevator Music has been an outstanding success in
Germany and beyond. Together with CHRISTIAN PROMMER and PETER KRUDER he formed
the project VoomVoom, releasing on !K7. With such a high profile ROLAND APPEL
toured all around the world and played in the best clubs such as Fabric in
London, Cielo in New York or Yellow in Tokyo and at the biggest music festivals
such as Roskilde festival, Sonne Mond und Sterne, Sunflower, Big Chill Festival,
10 days off and Montreux Jazz Festival.
ROLAND started to work on his solo project in 2004 with the aim of bridging the
gap between a song and the feelings it carries and a banging house track that
could make people dancing for hours. For Dark Soldier (SK158/elektrish) and
Unforgiven (SK168/elektrish) he teamed up with sound engineer JAN KRAUSE and
delved into his diverse influences from Detroit Techno to Folk over to Soul,
Disco and House and produced neo-romantic deep-house tunes with enough drama to
tear up the dancefloors. In his third single called Inner Soul (SK178) ROLAND
APPEL tells us the origin of his inspiration in musical way. His creativity
comes from his inner soul. äCreativity is love-making with your soulô. To put
this adage into music, ROLAND kept this dreamy deep-house touch intact with once
again a grandiose orchestration made of live drums, flourishing layers of
strings and pads, soulful female choirs, arpeggiated and modulated stabs of
synths and a magical break that will certainely take the crowd to the 7th
heaven. Once again itÆs ARABA WALTON whose voice underlines and strengthens the
feelings of the track.
On the flipside ROLAND goes a bit more moody and uptempo with the track New
Love. Over a pounding 4/4 bass drum beat, soulful vocals and over his
now-trademark live house beats ROLAND added some very dirty stabs of synths and
pourred a few drops of acid just when itÆs time to break loose. More than a
simple B-side New Love is a killer track that will make people fall into ecstasy
on the dancefloor from Berlin to Barcelona!