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Dec 3, 2012

Ceschi – Same Old Love Song feat. 2Mex and Awol One – Official Video

Feb 14, 2012

2012 Round Up – New releases by 2CC, DJ Scientist, Deckard and more

We had planned to write this a lot earlier so here is a kind of late overview about what’s going in 2012 on our label – because, actually, there is A LOT!!!

2econd Class Citizen (picture Zia)

First of all, we would like to announce the incredible new album by 2econd Class Citizen, called “The Small Minority” which will be released in early May in cooperation with the new Indie powerhouse Fake Four Inc that will support the US release. It’s 2econd Class Citizen’s second album and we believe that it’s a remarkable step up from his debut LP “A World Without”. The album will be supported with an advance vinyl postcard set (drops February 24th) as well as a single which is scheduled for early April. Furthermore, an album promo mix will be provided by non other than Strictly Kev aka DJ Food. We will soon have more info about all these exciting new releases, so stay tuned!

Next up, Deckard, who blessed us with his astonishing debut album at the end of last year, will drop another single on Equinox for the outstanding album track “Günesim” – this single will include a great remix by an emerging new talent on the German electronic scene, Anthony Drawn, as well as an alternative version by Deckard himself. Moreover, Deckard is about to drop a second album on Equinox still this year!!

DJ Scientist (picture Theresa Legler)

You may already have heard about DJ Scientist’s new EP, “The Artless Cuckoo”, which drops at the end of this week, but, may not be aware that plans are in the works to release his first official debut album this year as well. It is actually his unreleased album from 2006. More news about this will follow shortly.

In addition to finishing his solo stuff, Scientist is also working on a 2nd album with Ceschi. There’s only a few more tracks to be finished – so we all hope that a follow up release to the successful “The One Man Band Broke Up” album will be released this year.

Approximately in late May or June, Greek producer Andreikelos, who blessed us with his great remix of Ceschi’s “Black And White And Red All Over” on New Year’s Eve, will drop a first EP on Equinox called “Euryphaessa”. Be on the lookout for a really beautifully composed and exceptional release in Andreikelos’ trade mark style of organic electronic beats.

Playpad Circus (picture Max Winter)

Producer talent Playpad Circus from Berlin is about to finish work on his EP project. A release date is not fixed yet but this long awaited debut EP, which is likely to be released in cooperation with Project: Mooncircle, should definitely drop in a few months.

Anyone remember the “Leinwand EP” which was one of the few vinyl releases on our sublabel Audiac in 2006? Yes? Good! Aqua Luminus III and Misanthrop have joined forces again to deliver a great follow up EP that contains some seriously dope features by the likes of Ceschi, 2Mex, James PHoney, as well as Germany’s turntablist icon DJ Stylewarz! What more can we say?

Last but not least we have a few uprising new talents to drop music on our label as well. It’s too early to talk about it yet – but we’re ready to drop a serious bunch of great new music this year, so watch out!

And finally, for the end of the year, we would like to announce our 10 year anniversary release which will actually be the next part of our “Sound Exposure” series. Again, it’s still too early to talk about this project, but we’ll definitely keep you updated!

Meanwhile, make sure you are linked with the following pages:
http://www.facebook.com/equinoxrecords
http://www.soundcloud.com/equinoxrecords
http://www.twitter.com/equinoxrecords
http://www.mixcloud.com/equinoxrecords

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Jan 2, 2012

Ceschi – Black And White And Red All Over – Andreikelos Remix

Dec 7, 2011

Left Field Documentary w/ Ceschi, DJ Scientist & 2econd Class Citizen

Oct 11, 2011

The Weirdo Heroes World Tour with Ceschi, Busdriver & Louis Logic

Jul 15, 2011

New DEAD Magazine Website Released

Mar 24, 2011

Ceschi – Shorted Circuits Review on hhv.de Mag

Mar 3, 2011

Shorted Circuits Now Available on Last FM

Mar 2, 2011

Ceschi’s “Shorted Circuits EP” Reviewed On Data Transmission

Feb 28, 2011

Ceschi – Shorted Circuits EP Out Now!!

Feb 15, 2011

Ceschi – Shorted Circuits EP Pre-Order + FREE DOWNLOAD

Feb 4, 2011

Ceschi on Tour in Europe

Ceschi will be on tour in Europe in May alongside Dark Time Sunshine and French producer Zoen. Dates will be posted soon!

If you are interested in booking a show please contact zoencontact (at) gmail.com

Here is some more information about the artists:

CESCHI (fake four inc. / equinox records)

Ceschi is an East Coast (New Haven, CT) singer-songwriter based in Hip Hop tradition. In 2010 Ceschi has made serious waves in the hip hop community with his record label Fake Four Inc. and the release of his third solo album “The One Man Band Broke Up” (Fake Four / Equinox Records) which URB Magazine has called “one of the best conceptual hip hop records to drop in the past decade.” Ceschi’s live show consists of acoustic performances of lyric heavy folk songs paired with his unique brand of psych rock influenced hip hop.
In 2010 alone Ceschi has toured The US, UK, Europe, Japan, and Canada with artists such as Sole, Awol One, Myka 9, Moka Only and others.

Ceschi by Tobias Hoffmann / www.PhyreWorX.de

http://www.myspace.com/ceschiramos

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ceschi/53355031575

DARK TIME SUNSHINE (fake four inc.)

Dark Time Sunshine is the latest collaborative project from Onry Ozzborn of the Rhyme Sayers Entertainment group Grayskul and Chicago producer Zavala. Their sound is an exciting combination of golden age hip hop, farfisa driven psych-pop and electronica. In 2010 Dark Time Sunshine released their critically acclaimed album “Vessel” which was praised by URB and Pop Matters among others. URB also named Zavala one of their “10 Awesome New Beat Makers in 2010″. In the span of only one year Dark Time Sunshine has already toured relentlessly with artists such as Pigeon John, Awol One, and Sole & The Skyrider Band – performing at SXSW and Soundset Festival.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Time-Sunshine/195604013646

http://www.myspace.com/darktimesunshine

ZOËN (Milled Pavement)

Zoen is the favorite frenchie of North american indie hip hop scene, he has indeed been touring many times around Europe with people like Noah 23, Factor, Riddlore, Filkoe.
Deliver Hip Hop music with folk accents, his lyrics are describing the real world through the sensitive eyes of a young dreamer. But he’s beatmaker as well and his talent resulted in 2010 in the album « One Night Between » featuring Ceschi, Nabahe, Soso, Noah 23,…. His music has been released by the american label Milled Pavement.

http://www.myspace.com/zo3n

http://zoenmusic.bandcamp.com/

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Jan 29, 2011

Ceschi & DJ Scientist “Shorted Circuits EP” Coming Soon!

Jan 27, 2011

Free Compilation featuring Tracks by Ceschi and DJ Scientist

Nov 7, 2010

The Equinox 2007 Tour Video Available Now

Nov 5, 2010

Son Of Kick “Guacha” 12″ & Digital Release Out Now!!

Oct 31, 2010

2 Nice Reviews On Trip-Hop.net

Oct 24, 2010

Equinox presents – The 25th – Box Set Out Now!

Ohhhh yesssssss…. It’s time to celebrate the 25th release on Equinox Records! We are so happy to finally release this neat box set package that contains a 7inch, a custom USB stick and an audio cassette.

Buddy Peace & Phonatic provided us with two of the dopest megamixes possibly ever made! 2 x 25 minutes of action packed Equinox sound – cut up, edited, remixed. Whether you are familiar with the Equinox catalogue or not – you have to check this out!

Generous people as we all are, we want to share these mixes with you FOR FREE and also want to encourage you to SHARE THEM with your friends, to post them on your blog, or whatever. Please just copy the following link:

Buddy Peace Vs. Phonatic – The Equinox Megamixes

and/or link to the official release page:

http://www.e-q-x.net/releases/various-artists-equinox-presents-the-25th/

You can also post the links to our mixcloud or soundcloud accounts.

But thats that not all folks! Equinox Records wouldn’t be called Equinox Records if there wasn’t a dope piece of vinyl included in the package as well. Therefore, Part II of this gorgeous package is a bunch of unreleased remixes from the label archive. Amongst these are tunes from the never released remix EP that was planned for the 2008 release “One Year & A Day – A Sound Exposure Vol.2“. The A side of the vinyl contains Deadpan Darling’s “Laugh Track” remixed by Deckard. And on the flip, 2econd Class Citizen’s classic “Wishing Well” gets reworked by The Raincoatman and Vangel from Canada. Further tracks on the digital version include “A Year And A Day” by The Peddlers (with Roy Phillips), remixed by Twistedlogic & Pesticyde, “A New Day” by 2econd Class Citizen this time remixed by DJ Phonatic and a new version of Asup’s “Untitled” by lodsb. If you are not into buying nice looking boxsets you buy these tracks seperately on itunes and many other download stores:

iTunes
Juno Download

Last but not least, as Part III of the box set, we are happy to release the 2007 tour video that features incredible unseen live footage by Ceschi, Noah23, The Dedicated Beatheads & 2econd Class Citizen. The 50 minute movie is definitely fun to watch and is available on the ultra limited 2 GB USB Stick that comes along with the first 50 copies of the box set. However, those who buy the cheaper normal package (without the USB) will receive a free download code for the whole video.

So yeah, that’s it folks. Hope we’ll soon be able to hit number 50!

Again, here are the links to buy the limited box set:

hhv.de (Normal Edition)
hhv.de (Deluxe Edition)

Here you can download the free megamixes:

Buddy Peace Vs. Phonatic – The Equinox Megamixes (Free Download in 192 kbps, 66 mb) (Right mouseclick, safe target as)

Buddy Peace Vs. Phonatic – The Equinox Megamixes (Free Download in 320 kbps, 99 mb) (Right mouseclick, safe target as)

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Sep 26, 2010

DJ Scientist – The One Man Band Instrumentals Out Now

Ooooooh yeah! Another beautiful release is out now on Equinox Records…

After the successful Ceschi album “The One Man Band Broke Up”, we are now happy to offer the gorgeous instrumentals of this release: DJ Scientist – The One Man Band Instrumentals. But don’t even think that these are “just instrumentals”! – The beautifully arranged and meticulously produced beats result in a new and one of a kind album that could possibly be one of the best organic sounding instrumental hip-hop releases this year! Alongside the limited vinyl edition that you can get at the stores listed below, we are also offering this as a free download to all newsletter subscribers! If you are already signed in you should get the download link within the next few days. If you don’t receive the Equinox newsletter yet, please subscribe now. And no worries – we do not sell or trade your addresses and you can always unsubscribe of course.

Buy the limited picture disc at the following stores now:

hhv.de
juno.co.uk
discogs
Vinylkingz.de
Kudos Records
Rough Trade UK
loop 23.de
Sound-Station.at
deejay.de
chemical-records.co.uk

Ceschi’s album “The One Man Band Broke Up”, entirely produced by DJ Scientist, was released in June 2010 and immediately became a success on the independent market. Many magazines and fans already designated it “album of the year”, Okayplayer called it “a significant piece of art”, giving it 89 of 100 points, while URB mag even stated it is „one of the best conceptual hip hop records to drop in the past decade“.

Aside from Ceschi’s incredible lyrical talent, many reviewers honorably mentioned the beautifully arranged and detailed production work backing the vocals, recognizing it as a major force behind the success of the album. On the instrumental version of “The One Man Band Broke Up”, that is now released as a beautiful limited vinyl picture disc on Equinox Records, one can hear how meticulously those songs have been put together and arranged, and how all tracks, alongside sundry interludes and vocal samples, result in a new and one of a kind album that is equally as entertaining, bright and powerful as any Blockhead or RJD2 release. With cinematic drums, a large variety of sounds and samples as well as chopped live instruments, main tracks like “Half Mast”, “No New York” and “Hangman” stand out with hard hitting beats while the more mellow and folky tunes like “Bad Jokes” or “Long Live The Short Lived” give the album the smooth melancholy bliss Scientist is known for.

Without even trying, “The One Man Band Instrumentals” by DJ Scientist could possibly be one of the best organic sounding instrumental hip hop releases this year.

A|
(01) The One Man Band Broke Up
(02) Half Mast mp3
(03) No New York mp3
(04) Hangman mp3
(05) Fallen Famous mp3

B|
(06) Serious Business
(07) Bad Jokes
(08) Long Live The Short Lived mp3
(09) Swallowed Salt
(10) Julius’ Final Song mp3
(11) Outro

The vocal version of the album can be found here.

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Sep 22, 2010

The Strange Citizens Tour with Ceschi, 2econd Class Citizen & Buddy Peace

Today, we are proud to announce The Strange Citizens Tour with Ceschi, 2econd Class Citizen & Buddy Peace in october this year. While Ceschi will already be on tour in the UK (joining Louis Logic & Akil of Jurassic 5 from october 5th to 8th, he will join forces with 2CC and Buddy on october 10th, to travel for another week within Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Belgium. Before meeting up with Ceschi, 2econd Class Citizen and Buddy will also have 2 shows in France.

Please check the whole tour dates below and note that at some of the gigs not all artists are performing.

Ceschi UK Dates with Louis Logic and Akil of Jurassic 5:

The Strange Citizens Tour with Ceschi, 2econd Class Citizen & Buddy Peace:

Fr 08/10 FR St. Marie Aux Mines @ C’est Dans La Vallee // 2CC & Buddy Peace only!!
Sa 09/10 CH Frauenfeld @ tba // Ceschi only!!
Su 10/10 CH Berne @ Rössli Reitschule
Mo 11/10 CH Innsbruck @ PMK
We 13/10 GER Frankfurt @ IvI
Th 14/10 GER Hamburg @ Hafenklang w/ Dosh // 2CC & Buddy Peace only!!
Th 14/10 GER Munich @ Sunny Red w/ DAS FEST, Cocon & Son Kas // Ceschi only!!
Fr 15/10 GER Berlin @ Bohannon // with Louis Logic & Akil of Jurassic 5
Sa 16/10 BEL Mellery (near Brussels) @ Formik Event

Equinox Records presents:
The ‘Strange Citizens’ Tour

Featuring:
Ceschi (USA – Equinox Records / Fake Four)
2econd Class Citizen (London, UK – Equinox Records)
Buddy Peace (London, UK – Strange Famous Records)

October 6th – 16th 2010

Ladies, gentlemen and kinfolk, we would like to formally invite you to our three man show. Taking place over ten days in October 2010, we will be taking our music on the road to selected locations in Europe, to bring you our delightfully demented and deliciously powerful blend of beats and rhymes.

We bring you Ceschi, the one man band who is as comfortable freaking a solo set as he is working with any combination of his amazing group of friends (such as the Fake Four squadron, for example). Having toured and worked with Sole, Mykah 9 and Awol One (to name but a few), Ceschi displays the elements of rap which are always begging to be set free- uniqueness, creativity and pure originality. With a heavy hitting foundation of acoustic folk and abstract hip hop, expect a skilful and hugely entertaining presentation of what hip hop music can do when it is gently pushed in the right direction. His fantastic current album, ‘The One Man Band Broke Up’, is out now on Equinox Records and making much noise.

2econd Class Citizen is right up there riding shotgun (in a triple barrel sense), strapped with a punishing array of dusty drum breaks, sweet sample psychedelia and two very busy hands. With a wide sample-based repertoire which often extends into live instrumentation and areas far beyond conventional instrumental beat based music, 2CC’s live set incorporates heavy manipulation and extreme head nod potential, providing a vibrant and hefty showcase of bitter-sweet but straight up bumping productions. His work and stage time with Noah23, Ceschi, Nosaj thing, Ugly Duckling and even prog-rock legends Gong give some indication of the standards of dopeness you can expect from 2CC.

Buddy Peace is also in the building. Currently signed to Strange Famous Records, the label run by indie hip hop legend Sage Francis, Buddy has some treats to share with you. From a background of DJing and prolific mixtape production, he has been producing for a good while and has produced/scratched/DJ’d for Buck 65, Sage Francis, B Dolan, 2Mex and Prince Po to name a couple. The Buddy live show mushes together the DJ and production elements, with live MPC drums and programming with a very turntable mind-set, and you can surely expect some head-pounding and cheerfully savage drums, cuts and invention which bring out the creative and rugged side of hip hop music.

We would be honoured by your company. We will not disappoint you. We will be very happy to see you. The Strange Citizen tour will make October of 2010 a very wonderful month indeed. Let’s catch up…

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