The space is defined by three dimensions. Height, width and depth. Likewise, ll the physical processes are playing in space. A space is also a home. nor elle (aka Terry Lee Brown Junior) is a master of space and home. No other musician has developed such a perfect sounddesign in all dimensions on his albums. The innovation is to fill the same four walls always with new fresh colors, shapes, objects, and above all with the magical depth. The result is a work of art, that flatters the senses and creates an unprecedented well-being, that goes far beyond a simple listening over. In a nutshell: nor elle created with „2nd Home“ one of the most perfect downbeat albums. A single peak of sound culture, virtuosity and serenity. A masterpiece and a milestone. „2nd Home“ is the fifth album nor elle, which focuses on wide scapes reduced melodic. A safe place, where thunderstorms go by and donates the fireplace heat. An album that conveys a sense of home as if you are in 2nd Home. Available formats: CD, mp3.

Chill Out for 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. What a promise! Johannes Huppertz opens with his specially selected favorite songs on the new compilation Mole Listening Pearls "24 / 7 chill jazz" all doors to the finest, most emotional, most relaxing tracks. Artists like Acoustic Perfume, Naomi, Red Lounge Ochestra, Hattler or Yonderboi control their tracks with the usual magic into speakers and headphones.from a Mole Listening Pearls compilation. As a tireless composer and sound wizard, Johannes Huppertz managed a wonderful mix, that works faithful to his own motto: be always on the lookout for new and interesting variations harmony sound structures, rhythmically and melodically to produce "the perfect moment". Available format: mp3.

After long years of work the author of unique and successful albums “Shallow and Profound” (2000) and “Splendid Isolation” (2005) is back with his new long-player, “Passive Control”, which is considered to be the third, closing part of the trilogy. “Passive Control” is another typical contradictory, multilayered Yonderboi title that can be explained in different ways. One of them refers to the constantly changing and unpredictable economical/social situation of today, which is witnessed by most of us inertly, hoping that this recession-thing “gets sorted out” soon. The album’s opening song “Sustainable Development” is an equally beautiful and sarcastic interpretation of this phenomenon, featuring the suggestive voice of Edward Ka-Spel - who can be familiar already from the previous album’s closing song “Even if you are victorious”. “Passive Control” could also describe the typical mindset that social networking sites create. You sign up, put yourself in the little showroom, and then you WAIT. Like fishing. Sometimes you throw in some bait, but secretly you hope that one day something unexpected will pull the other end of the line.” And the above-mentioned method is not just a plain theoretic observation, as it was also used in practice. Actually, Yonder found the album’s female voice via myspace: the previously unreleased young German singer Charlotte Brandi. The goal was to create the sister-sequel of “Splendid Isolation”, so having female voice on the new album was of key importance. Like every Yonderboi record “Passive Control” is as well a diverse, story-like collection of songs, with a strong personal background. Even though the eleven songs are spread on a large-scale of styles, compared to the earlier works it is a bit less eclectic. Yonder produced and mixed the entire record alone in his Budapest home studio, the aim was to develop a more electronic and skeletonized version of his sound. The whole album has an elusive feel of utopia, which can be explained easily by Yonder’s love for science fiction ever since he was a kid. Jean Gireaud Moebius the legendary French comics artist, Russian sci-fi movie “Kin-Dza-Dza”, or Hungarian cult-film “Meteo” are just a few examples that inspired him during the making of “Passive Control”. Available formats: CD, 2LP, mp3.

Partners in music for over 12 years, Berlin based duo Clé and Mike Vamp are the inimitable Märtini Brös. They released 3 full length albums and countless singles with a rich, playful and catchy electronic sound that helped define a movement for a generation of more refined club-goers. Now the Brös are back with their fourth longplayer; a majestic, dextrous voyage through the many styles and zones the pair share a passion for. 'Moved By Mountains' is a fully-fledged achievement in both sound and songwriting. Settling in to the peaceful and positive vibes of 'Overture', the album gets underway with the amazing textures of 'Jericho' - a sentimental slow jam which sets the tone for the warm electronica elements found throughout the album. Quickly flipping the switch with the modern pop of 'Stay Amazing' feat. Manye Thompson's distinctive vocal message, a veritable treat lies in store with addictive, post-modern songs like 'Jolly Good Time', 'Why' feat. Louie Austen, or the spine-tingling 'The Door'. The smokey tones of Eric D. Clark are spread thickly over 'Physics', once again carrying a unique message; synth pop moments flow with 'Gang Of Two', full of uplifting, positive moments, while the more experimental electronics of 'Beautiful Children Of Mumu' or 'Little Nemo' highlight the duo's skills behind their collection of analog gear. The astounding work draws to a close with the simply epic 'Yellow' and 'End Of The Year' which really brings out Clé's singing voice - which features on many of the album's songs. Over 14 songs, casually and expertly merging production skill and seasoned ears with beautiful melodic passages, guest instrumentation and choice vocalists, 'Moved By Mountains' is surely their greatest achievement to date. Available formats: CD, mp3.

What happens if a jazz trumpeter (Thomas Burhorn) and hip hop producer (Michael Paetz aka Der Algorhythmiker) come together to make an album - jazzy trip hop with an eye for details, the warm sound of real instruments and the nostalgic crackle of long forgotten samples. The idea to fuse jazz with different styles isn’t new, yet The Burhorn create an independent, contemporary sound which convinces through its’ authenticity. Jazz listeners who want to hear strong bass drum and hip hop fans, who can differ a bass clarinet from a hookah will be more than satisfied. The strong personalities of the 20 participating musicians from Hamburg and Berlin (Germany) have enough room on the album “Beauty of the Beast” in order to unfold themselves. One especially feels this during the vocals of Y’Akoto, Valeska Steiner (Boy), Phil Fill und Milka Doo, which could not be more different from each other than day and night. However, similar to a leitmotif, the partial traditional and experimental sounds of the trumpet bound their way through the unconventional and pop-like arrangements. Through the interaction of the bass clarinet, played by the Jazzanova saxophonist Sebastian Borkowski, a complete new soundscape is created. The producers’ eagerness to experiment knows no boundaries. In the studio, instruments are often alienated, so that the one can hardly recognize them again, yet samples are also used in manner that gives one the impression that they are being played live. Reaching from Miles Davis in the 70s to Prince in the 80s, the trip hop sound of Massive Attack and Portishead in the 90s, to current hip hop productions from DJ Shadow or DJ Vadim – among other their influences have made this album modern, it sounds real, independent and timeless. Available formats: CD, mp3.

Alchemy is an old branch of nature philosophy and was removed in the 17th/18th century by modern chemistry and pharmacology. Often in alchemy the only aim was seen the "production" of gold. However, the Alchemists search was even more. They were artists who converted the materials from nature for human applications or for the preservation of human health. Costa Chrysogelos committed his project „Digital Alkemist“ exactly to this art in musical manner: To offer raw materials of music in analoge and electronic sounds to the human ear in magic ways. His album "Fuga Magica" is based on a musical composition principle from the middle age. Fuga Magica” is exactly what the title says. The actual and musical runaway from a dark era through streets and alleys, keys and notes, cables and knobs. A morbid and confused feeling is rising up…. A session in a smokey backroom, a performance at the dark theatre, a hangover after a rainy night but also a visit at the vineyard and a walk at Venice beach. All of these, combined with the Magic and the unexpected that life itself contains in his stories day in and day out – this is what “Fuga Magica” is meant to be and represents. The artist Costas Chrysogelos a.k.a Digital Alkemist has recorded this album in Athens and partially in Miami from October 2008 to February 2010. He creates an album without repeating himself in sounds and melodies. It is the first full vocal album with lots of natural instruments and less electronic soundscapes – as usual. Fuga Magica for him was a territory exploring new ways of creating music. Acoustic guitars, keys, violins, solid basslines, tripped out grooves and a ton of other instruments without missing the electronic background. On Fuga Magaica you will find trip hop, rock, funk and downtempo tracks all polished with the shine of electronic glimpse and perfect voices. A perfect mixture of music! Available formats: CD, mp3.

The British star producers Xenomania (Pet Shop Boys, Sugababes) recently asked Naomi for a sample (they got it); Naomi's three year old fan favourite "Needle On The Record" is a constant seller in the US iTunes Store; their Myspace and Facebook pages are brimming with love letters from Russia, Mexico, Texas or Taiwan. In their native Germany they are still something of a best-kept secret, regardless of consistently euphoric press reviews, but this might well change with The Big Shapes, their new, fifth Album on Mole Listening Pearls. The abundance of ideas, the songwriting, the attitude – everything has grown bigger, louder and sharper in the Naomi universe. Bernd Lechler and Nico Tobias still show the odd fit of incurable melancholy, but this time any world weariness comes clad in choruses that make you want to shout "Holy Kylie!". The overall sound of the album reminds one of... well, nothing else, really. Massive backbeats carry scratchy guitar riffs, buzzing synths cut through gentle electric piano lines as the Berlin duo digs deep into the pop vocabulary of the past four decades. "Fujiyama“ is an electro blues with elegiac Melodica and a downright symphonic final, “Candy Floss“ is a lazily stomping contemporary funk pop monster, and what happens in “Hello Fever“ after a soaring cosmic intro could almost be labeled as prog rock. The thing is, Naomi never play it safe here. They seem to intentionally provoke the coolness police, casting away any tasteful cleverness of comparable indietronic acts and, smiling quietly, they lay it on thick. The Big Shapes draws on the forbidden side of the Eighties (the Phil Collins drums on “Morning Belle“), mischievously quotes heavy metal guitar lines (as for a few bars in “Dragon Tree“), and makes nods toward Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode as well as Chic and the psychedelic Beatles. The final track “I‘ll Be The Past“, possibly the most touching song of the album, is a humble, obviously autobiographically inspired meditation on mortality, almost a prayer. Reviewing their last album, Aquarium, Rolling Stone magazine described Naomi as “wondrous“. They still are. Just this time with a bang. Available formats: CD, mp3.

If Audio Lotion's new album were the soundtrack for a crime, then the latter would have been committed out of love and passion in self-defense: our hero was in the wrong place, at the wrong time, too often – well, "Bad Timing" – and he knows too much... Mr. Gamma is on the run, in a silver-grey Jaguar XKR, racing along the Côte d'Azur from Nice via Eze sur Mer towards Monaco. At the wheel there's a cross between Jason Bourne, 007, and Ethan Hunt, betrayed by friends and foes, hunted by his past. Escape, start anew somewhere, or face his pursuers and wipe them out? In a speedboat across the rough Mediterranean Sea to Algier. There, those dogs almost get him! Through the deadly Sahara into the orient. Waingro, an old contact in Beirut, provides him with the necessary gadgets. The chase continues with 140 BPM! Run, hide, or die! Such scenes are being conjured up before the mind's eye when hearing the album. But Audio Lotion add a good measure of irony to their play with the spy movie genre. The title "Bad Timing" and the visual design of the album showing the spy who didn’t "come in from the cold", but "tripped at the most unfortunate moment", already suggest that there’s not always an invincible hero à la James Bond behind the wheel, but sometimes a Maxwell Smart or an Inspector Clouseau. One is reminded of a likeable, but slightly awkward, protagonist who, at the decisive moment, lacks the necessary quantum of luck – and, well, timing. Every once in a while, the music picks up that theme, too, and produces a rhythmical hiccup, an odd melody or a not completely serious bit of movie dialogue. And although all this is served with the necessary touch of "amusement", deep inside, one never really doubts that the hero of the stories the album tells is the coolest guy in the business. Available formats: CD, mp3.

Jean F. Cochois - famous for his alter ego "The Timewriter" - releases his fourth electronic longplayer and created a unique niche suited in the wide field of the genre Ambient/Electronic for his selection. His former releases - remixes for Enigma or Ex-Kraftwerk producer Wolfgang Flür (Yamo) amongst others - stand for new devised cliches and love for the music that lives in the details. At the age of 16, he founded his first electronic band and experimented with home-made effect-processors. Some years later, as member of Brigade Werther, he jumped on the EBM train and and did freelance compositions for avantgarde theatre plays like "Subtonik“ and "Exploding Faust“ at "Freies Theater“ in Frankfurt. These mutimedia performances earned him enthused reviews. He also released five successful and critically acclaimed house albums on the label Plastic City under his pseudonym "The Timewriter". The new album "Gold In The Attic" includes 15 songs of an artist who walks his own ways with emotional denseness and expertly flair as regards sound and rhythm. These tracks came into being as demos, session recordings and finished tracks that have somehow been fallen into oblivion after being put on tape or CDR and stored in dusty drawers. It's a mixture of mainly electronic influence and also a bit of soul and jazz. While listening to the material again Jean F. Cochois and Mole Listening Pearls had the idea to bundle some of these within a long player. That's "Gold In The Attic". Available formats: CD, mp3.

Zagar are a headliner of the Hungarian electronic music scene. Their unique sound is based on electronic tunes, dub and rock elements flavoured by Eastern European soundtrack moods. The story of the band began in 2001 after the Shallow and Profound Tour, when three members of the "Yonderboi Quintet" (the live band around the Hungarian artist Yonderboi) started rehearsing separately from the Quintet. First, Balázs Zságer, Andor Kovács and DJ Bootsie performed as "Pulzus". The material they put together during the rehearsals and the earlier solo works of Balázs Zságer were synthesized and led to the creation of the characteristic sounds of the new band. In the summer of 2002 they played at different festivals in Hungary and abroad as well: this time under the new band name "Zagar". That year they also recorded their first album "Local Broadcast". The album received a warm welcome abroad by professionals and collectors alike. In Hungary, the album was selected for the chart of the 50 all time most important Hungarian records by the music magazine WAN2 beside albums from Yonderboi and Anima Sound System. As they are all experienced musicians, their main virtue is playing live. Today Zagar has five members: Balázs Zságer (producing, keyboards, vocals), Andor Kovács (guitar), Ákos Zságer Varga (bass), DJ Bootsie (scratches) und Tibor Lázár (drums). On top of this George Ligeti is frequently a featured vocalist. On their second album entitled "Cannot Walk Fly Instead", they mix cosmic electronic tunes with psychedelic prog-rock while sometimes using church choir elements and quotes from movies to merge the past and the future in a surrealistic way. For the song "Wings of Love" they invite on top six of the most popular independent female singers from Hungary (The Underground Divas). The concept of the album is a kind of exodus from the stereotypes of cosmopolitan urban living, delving into the mysteries and spiritual experiences of the 21st Century Man. They try to convey their imaginations with simple regular issues as solitude, desire for love, nostalgia or vanity. Available formats: 2CD, mp3; Albumtrailer: Cannot Walk Fly Instead; Interview with Balázs Zságer.

Sleep is a naturally recurring state characterized by reduced or absent consciousness. The Music of Naomi was always a sleeping beauty. After four albums Naomi’s qualities are no longer a secret to the international scene: the British star producers Xenomania (Pet Shop Boys, Sugababes) recently asked the Berliners for a sample (and they got it), Naomi’s three year old track „Needle On The Record“ is a constant seller in the US iTunes store, and their Myspace and Facebook pages are full of declarations of love by fans from Russia to Mexico and from Texas to Taiwan. The "Rolling Stone magazine" described Naomi as “wondrous“. They still are. Just with the new album with a bang. "Sleep" is the third single from Naomis longplayer The Big Shapes". The overall sound of the album reminds one of... well, nothing else, really. Massive backbeats carry scratchy guitar riffs, buzzing synths cut through gentle electric piano lines as the Berlin duo digs deep into the pop vocabulary of the past four decades. “Sleep“ ponders the fact that only those who don’t act at all make no mistakes. This release includes a brand new Dubstep Remix from Ron Paul. Available format: mp3; Video: Sleep.

Pending the release of their fourth album to date in 2012, Alphawezen are back, after a two-year break, with a new single entitled "Smile", co-produced by Chris Zippel. "Smile" interweaves soft, melancholy strains into the fabric of summer sprightliness. A song about the gentle sense of the fleeting nature of all things, which leaves us no choice but, with a bittersweet smile on our lips, to plunge headlong into life.... Life – a moment – smile! Alphawezen are Asu Yalcindag and Ernst Wawra from Aachen and Düsseldorf, Germany. They first met in 1999 and have put out three albums since then. Their 2CD "Snow/Glow", with remixes of tunes by Nightmares on Wax and The Timewriter, among others, came out in the autumn of 2009. Their 4th album is slated for release in 2012. Chris Zippel has co-written songs with the Pet Shop Boys and the German band Ich und Ich, as well as remixing tracks by artists like Robbie Williams, Schiller and Snap!. He ushered in the Nu Ambient scene with his very own project Genuine. An ex-Berliner, Zippel has now opted for a sweet-sounding setting on the island of Ibiza, where he is currently working with Alphawezen on new sounds and tracks. Available format: mp3; Videos: Smile, Smile (Alpha Weedloaf Remix).

"Blind!! A word, a song and Lozee's statement on environmental protection. Least 800,000 liters of oil per day flowed into the Gulf of Mexico. Another disaster - the next environmental disaster is just a matter of time. "This is the year of the policy." Lozee's first single "Blind", taken from the debut album "Tell It to the Sea", starts with this question. He also asks in, why the leaders of this world operate far from being a more consistent environment and whether the fuel-driven cars are still up-to-date? Hella Wenders, niece of the largest German filmmaker Wim Wenders, and Luca Lucchesi have teamed up in Nice with Lozee and filmed the video for Blind over three days. "As more often we have heard "Blind" as more inspired us the song and accompanied everyday life," explained Hella Wenders their motivation for video. "The song is more relevant than ever, and stands for itself. For us it was a delightful challenge images to this strong musical appeal to find". This is also the background why get such a powerful, visual packaging. Available format: mp3.

OHM-G alias Olaf Gutbrod is a well-known name in the music scene. Vangelis or Vaya Con Dios estimate his work and his remixes just as much as Blank & Jones and many others. The artist OHM-G is in great demand for successful compilations, his involvement in the well-known chill out "Café Del Mar", on the “Klassik Lounge” CDs, in the "Clubber´s Guide to Ibiza" (Ministry of Sound) or in "Le Café Abstrait" speaks for itself. With his albums, OHM-G offers always evidence for his unbelievable versatility, his overflowing creativity and his obviously never-ending fund of ideas. Olaf Gutbrod sees himself as a story-teller, he exposes a lot of his inner life and tries to make you hear a moment in an acoustical form - which he manages in an extraordinary way. In Spring 2011, he Starts his down label "Eivissabeat". Because of his new label works in close cooperation with Mole Listening Pearls, their is on top of all the new activities a new EP with five tracks on Mole Listening Pearls. Available format: mp3.

The "Brös" are back with their fourth longplayer; a majestic, dextrous voyage through the many styles and zones the pair share a passion for. "Moved By Mountains" is a fully-fledged achievement in both sound and songwriting. Over 14 songs, casually and expertly merging production skill and seasoned ears with beautiful melodic passages, guest instrumentation and choice vocalists, 'Moved By Mountains' is surely their greatest achievement to date. Settling in to the peaceful and positive vibes, the album gets underway with the amazing textures of sentimental slow jam which sets the tone for the warm electronica elements found throughout the album. Partners in music for over 12 years, Berlin based duo Clé and Mike Vamp are the inimitable Märtini Brös. The single "Gang Of Two" is taken from the current album with a new Radio Edit and a the brand new "Summer Of Loveleven Mix". Available format: mp3.

As part of the burgeoning Eastern European electronica scene, the heavyweight Zagar are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year. With their distinct sound of wave rock, electronica and psychedelic soundscapes embedded in an intriguing Hungarian spirit, their powerful live shows which they toured around Europe and hits such as Wings of Love with close to 1.5m views and in hot rotation on german radios they clearly put their name on the music map in Europe. They are already in the studio working on their eagerly anticipated next studio album. In the meanwhile, they are releasing a single from their previous hit album “Cannot Walk Fly Instead” with remixes from some hot producers. Prophet is a Fool is a genuine rock song with electro influences which was torn apart and pieced into a headbowing, hip-hop fused gem, by Dj Bootsie (BBE Records). As Moonbootica, the Hamburg duo is saying, they have been keep on keeping on for almost ten years now. Their fusion of old and new school electro mixed with hip-hop samples have made them a solid career over the years, and again, delivered a sure party cracker. The Hamburg based remix-guru Eriq Johnson has previously worked with Zagar on their remix album for the hit song Wings Of Love. His an exceptionally prolific producer, who's remixes and own releases continously land among the Top 10 on major download charts. The pioneer of the genre Tech-House, Terry Lee Brown Junior made a real minimal flow-music, and the UK based trip-hop producer, Sheever took a dark acoustic aproach to the track. Available format: mp3; Video: Prophet Is A Fool (Live @ Sziget).