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

Additional to the limited vinyl DJ Scientist is about to share this EP for free via Bandcamp. However, he will ONLY release it if he has reached 1000 likes on his Facebook page until the release date. He’s already on a good way, but please support him and share the following page with your friends:
http://www.facebook.com/djscientist1

More info about the release right here:
http://www.e-q-x.net/releases/eqx034/

Random Seed Episode 4 by Count Coney by Equinox Records

Tracklist:

01 Phonatic – random seed intro – (Equinox)
02 Miguel Atwood Ferguson – untitled – (Mochilla)
03 Busta Rhymes feat. Duke Pearson & Donald Byrd – christo redentor – (Musicast)
04 fLako – broken toy – (Project Mooncircle)
05 Mount Kimbie – before i move off (Star Slinger Refix) – (none/digital)
06 Asap Rocky – been around the world (Sweatson Klank Re-Rub) – (none/digital)
07 Dead Prez – hip hop (Swedeart Remix) – (none/digital)
08 Outkast – unhappy (Deebs Dreary Dayz Rework) – (none/digital)
09 Lil Wayne – a milli (Harmonimix Remix) – (White Label/Blake01)
10 Birdy Nam Nam – written in the sand – (Savoir Faire)
11 Take – paper garden (Low Limit Remix) – (Alpha Pub Records)
12 Machinedrum – $$ life – (TLM)
13 Nalepa – sunflowers (Virtual Boy Remix) – (1320 Records)
14 Fortune Howl – samurai sword (Busted by heRobust) – (none/digital)
15 heRobust – coma toast – (BluntGutsNation)
16 heRobust – grief case – (none/digital)
17 Infinite Potentials – L♡vesng – (Indigo Pyramid)
18 Leonard Dstroy – sunnshine – (none/digital)
19 Jneiro Jarel – android romance 1&2 – (Label Who)
20 Slum Village – raise it up – (Good Vibe Recordings)
21 Slum Village raise it up (M-Phazes, Damian Smith and Mikey Chan Remix) – (none/digital)
22 Suff Daddy – brewsters – (Melting Pot Music)
23 Paul White – gettin’ lucky – (One Handed Music)
24 DJ Scientist – serious business – (Equinox)

Selected and Mixed by Count Coney

http://www.mixcloud.com/ConeyIsland/
http://soundcloud.com/count-coney
http://www.conestruction.blogspot.com/
www.facebook.com/therandomseed
www.facebook.com/equinoxrecords

Check this Podcast on bitbang.ca that came from free downloads from our label and songs entered in the Mutant Breaks #4 Renoise competition.
http://bitbang.ca/49-mutant-breaks/

Deckard’s “Andromeda” as well as J. Baracuz’ “A Contemporary Witness” are now available on Addictech.com:
http://equinoxrecords.addictech.com/

Mad Hop Vol. 4 out now featuring our friends from France, Turnsteak (as well as a great big bunch of other new uprising producers of course):
http://mad-hop.bandcamp.com/album/mad-hop-vol-4-2

2econd Class Citizen has posted some news on his blog about the DJ Food “The Search Engine” release party on January 19th in London:
http://2econdclasscitizen.tumblr.com/

Deckard’s recent top 10 releases via DEAD Magazine:
http://www.deadmagazine.de/2012/01/10/deckard/

J. Baracuz releases “The Overture” via the Mixed Tape / Mercedes Benz blog:
http://mixed-tape.com/j-baracuz%E2%80%99-mixed-tape-24-%E2%80%98overture%E2%80%99-fuses-epic-hip-hop-beats-with-folky-vocals-incl-free-mp3s-7874/

If you haven’t checked David Vangel’s beautiful website yet – go here:
http://www.vangelmusic.com/

2econd Class Citizen’s favourite releases of 2011:
http://www.deadmagazine.de/2012/01/05/2econd-class-citizens-favorite-11-albums-of-2011/

Progolog.de released an exclusive and unreleased track by Deckard last month:
http://www.progolog.de/2011/12/progolog-adventskalender-tuerchen-16-deckard-album-minimix-free-download/

Today, we are proud to announce the premier of the awesome video for Deckard‘s “Günesim” via Pulse Radio in the UK that is featuring Deniz Cagli on vocals and was directed by Ceylan-Alejandro Ataman-Checa.

Alongside the video you should read the cool interview where Deckard aka Attila Makai talks about a brand new music project, collaborations and more.

Here’s the link:
http://pulseradio.net/articles/2012/01/deckard

More info:
Directed by Ceylan-Alejandro Ataman-Checa.
Director of Photography: Bastian Gascho

Cast: Jules Armana & Pascal Houdus

“Günesim”, a track off of Deckard’s new album “For A Better Tomorrow”, features the beautiful female voice of the Turkish singer Deniz Cagli. This is a cover version of a song featured in the German movie “Im Juli” (In July) by Fatih Akin where it is performed by the German-Turkish actor Idil Üner.

More info about the album release right here:
http://www.e-q-x.net/releases/eqx033

Lyrics:
güneşim ayım sana ışık olsun
sıcak kumum yoluna açık olsun
okşarım tenini rüzgarlarımla
susuz kaldı sularım dudaklarına

ah o gözlerin
arasın beni izlesin peşime düşsün
ah o dudakların
gelsin bulsun tatsin ve öpsün beni

al bulutlarım sana yatak olsun
yumuşacık sessizce üstünü örtsün
ateşim aşkına kıvılcım olsun
sonsuz yansın yüreğinde hayata doysun

As a special Silvester treat, we decided to release an exclusive remix of Ceschi’s song “Black And White And Red All Over” by Greek producer Andreikelos.

With this new version, Andreikelos provides us with a darker and more electronic perspective of the song, but still tries to maintain a portion of the romantic and melancholic feel of the original – DJ Scientist produced – version.

You can download the release for free via our bandcamp account:
http://equinoxdigital.bandcamp.com/album/black-and-white-and-red-all-over-andreikelos-remix

More info about the release right here:
http://www.e-q-x.net/releases/eqxdgtl006/

You can buy the vinyl via the following links:
Equinox Records Online Store
hhv.de

More shoplinks will be added on the 16th.

Here are a few pictures of the vinyl – it sure looks good!

Thanks to Sara Krines for the pictures!

Random Seed Episode 3 by DJ CanNiKz by Equinox Records

The next podcast is already in the works and will drop end of next month – so stay tuned and follow us on mixcloud.com/randomseed.

If you want to contribute a mix to our podcast series please use the Equinox Records dropbox via soundcloud.com/equinoxrecords and upload a file of your mix. Otherwise you can get in touch with randomseed @ e-q-x.net. The length of the mix should be at least 20 minutes and should contain good music, mixed well and tight. The mix also has to be exclusive for our series.

Tracklist:

1. Phonatic – Random Seed Intro (Equinox Records)
2. El-P – Dream Theme (Definitiv Jux)
3. Genaside II – Come To The Fools (feat. Sharon Williams) (Internal)
4. Doze – Space Attack (Braindamage Records)
5. Ground Zero – Take Over (Audiac Records)
6. DJ Shadow – Closing Credits (Reconstruction Productions)
7. DJ Cam – Underground Vibes (Street Jazz Productions)
8. DJ Krush – Bypath-Would You Take It (Static Mix) (Red Ink)
9. Glen Porter – I Sat Alone (Inner Current Recordings)
10. 40 Winks – Sketch (Merck)
11. Vario – Krylo’s Tune (Content (L)abel)
12. Der Tobi & Das Bo – Psychiatrie (Instrumental) (Yo Mama)
13. Pop Will Eat Itself – Underbelly (Renegade Soundwave Mix) (Infectious Records)

Selected and Mixed by DJ CanNikZ (recorded 2011-04-23)

http://www.djcannikz.de

www.facebook.com/equinoxrecords

To support the independent market please remember to support independent stores like junodownload or similar. The best way to support artist and label is to buy directly via the Equinox Online Store, of course.

The vinyl release of the album will be available on december 23rd. All pre-orders will be shipped early next week. The vinyl version, as always, additionally contains a download card for the full hi res 320kbps mp3 files of the release.

Here is a list where you can buy the album digitally:
iTunes
Juno Download
Beatport
Equinox Online Store
soulseduction.com
amazon.com
musicload.de
play.com

http://www.hhv-mag.com/de/feature/282/Deckard-Ich-Will-Nur-Das-Besondere-Veroeffentlichen

You can buy the “For A Better Tomorrow” album as well as the “Andromeda” single in their store here:

http://www.hhv.de/item_261840.html
http://www.hhv.de/item_259050.html