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.

The Aachen Duo Alphawezen has started the work on the fourth album. In the meanwhile, the wait is sweetened with a carefully compiled double CD with numbers of rare versions, remix works of renowned producers such as "Nightmares On Wax" and "Dadamnphreaknoizphunk", as well as new previously unreleased mixes. For people who not know Alphawezen yet, they´ve the chance to get the knowledge with "Snow Glow", the latest release of the Aachen-Düsseldorf duo. The double-CD "Snow Glow" offers a retrospective and also shows what a complex in soundcreation producer Ernst Wawra and his congenial singer Asu Yalcindag reside. Chains range from the brutally minimalist wood on the revolutionary "Mediengruppe Telekommander" through to established house producer "The Timewriter" and downtempo legend "Nightmares on Wax". Ernst Wawra itself, a German-artistic Melville Hall (among others involved in projects such as Mittekill or Electronic Willi und Sohn), is a chameleon in the best sense, changeable staged his tracks. Experimental (Frost) is contrary to pop music (White Noise). Some sounds belong in the Synthesizer Museum (the first tracks were created for performances by a modern dance company to Expo98 in Lisbon), other ones can imagine well as soundtracks for films or advertising. Indeed, sometimes you can hear Alphawezen songs in film and television productions. Alphawezen have not only the "lounge hype" survived, they are also clever and always changing the styles and moody by always beeing a little bit melancholic. Available formats: 2CD, mp3.

Quality has always been capitalised in the house of Mole. And quality is an obligation! "Living Some Dreams (edition two)" is a terrific track selection, full of emotion and atmosphere – 23 handpicked tracks by outstanding artists presenting an all-embracing exhibition of the recent status quo of advanced electronic music, giving the listener a feeling of complete satisfaction. Artists such as Naomi, Alphawezen, Zagar, moodorama, Sneaky Fox, Dadamnphreaknoizphunk, The Lushlife Project, The Casino Royal, nore elle, Robert Manos, Cosmic Orient, Tokyo Counterpoint and the Czech band Ohm Square and many more succeed in getting us out of our grey everyday life with their talent for wonderful melodies, inviting us on a journey through their sound universe, exploring one listening pearl after another. Each of it is a unique and incomparable one, thrilling to eye from several perspectives, looking different, shining different every time and let us "living some dreams". Available format: mp3.

Junichi Hoshino is one of the most revered producers working in Tokyo today. Under his alias, Tokyo Counterpoint, he has mixed disparate styles into one intoxicating musical brew. Originally producing and remixing tracks for some of Japan’s biggest J-Pop acts, he has stretched out into uncharted territory with Tokyo Counterpoint’s brilliant “Oval”. Working under the Tokyo Counterpoint alias since 2004, Junichi Hoshino’s blends breezy bossa nova bounce with ethereal jazz-tinged electronica, defying genres and transcending labels. From the opening notes of “To the Sky”, Junichi Hoshino takes the listener on a highflying aural journey to the stars and back. With majestic piano, bright summer beats and understatedly funky bass, “To the Sky” announces Hoshino’s stately vision of silky smooth grooves. One of the undeniable highlights of the song is the vocals of Japanese chanteuse WAWA. Her vocal range is as sprawling as Junichi Hoshino’s musical pallet, her voice capable of high-pitched cascades and lower register phrasing. Hailing from rural Akita in northern Japan, Hoshino brought his unique musical sense to the bright lights of Tokyo where he began working with established Japanese pop acts. But it is with Tokyo Counterpoint that Junichi Hoshino really shines. Espousing a production philosophy of “Make the art more pop and make the pop music more art”, “Oval” has achieved these goals on many levels. “Twist of Fate” is a perfect example of this synthesis. What might at first sound like pure pop, is imbued with multifaceted polyrhythms driving it along. To achieve this amalgamation, Junichi Hoshino had the vocalist listen to a 6/8 click track, while the percussionist listened to a 4/4 click track. Junichi Hoshino’s artistic inspirations are the “realities of everyday life”. He walks the same city streets every day. The streets stay the same. But then it rains. And after the rain, the street smells lightly differently. “That’s when I feel inspired”, he muses. “I’m trying to steal that moment. I want that one second of beauty to resonate in my songs”. These moments of beauty resonate abundantly on the Japanese release “Oval” and on the new international release “Oval +”, they are even more plentiful. The new version of the album, totally new produced and remixed in 2009, also features three stellar additional tracks. One of these new songs, the deliciously erotic “Swimming in Love” showcasing the new vocalist Kanata Okajima, is a neo-disco jam that has Junichi Hoshino venturing out into uncharted waters again. Available format: mp3.

The French percussionist and drummer Tony Match was influenced by the famous jazzmen and jazz labels. He created his own style from Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop and Jazzbreakbeats. He started his music lessons at 7 and at the age of 18 he received his College state music Diploma. Close to the Hip Hop & electronic culture, this multi-talent artist decided to dedicate his skills to the music production. Since 1998 he worked together with DJ and Producer Soul G, well known through his engagement with one of the best French Hip-Hop bands "La Rumeur". With him he released the longplayer “Pineapple Corner”, whereof they sold over 10.000 copies, and “Round Trip 2 Tokyo” on Mole Listening Pearls. Furthermore he worked with artists like Dynamax (USA), db Clifford (Canada), Beth Hirsch (USA), Mozez from Zero7 (UK), Sol (Spain/Argentina), Kaori Kaneko (Japan), Neelam (India) and some more. Tony Match produced and mixed more than 100 tracks on major companies & leading independent labels. Together with Soul G he did the new sounddesign for the website of Air France and worked for Pepsi and Peugeot, just to name a few. Since 2008 he is also working on his solo career. In 2008 he released the compilation "Tony Match's Lounge Sessions Vol 1" on the label kju. One year later, in autumn 2009, his first artist album "A Better Place" was released at Mole Listening Pearls. On this album he shows impressive the whole range of his work, in which mixed Lounge and Jazz elements, Hip-Hop and Disco, always accompanied with a flair of urban sound. The sound of "A Better Place" also demonstrate that he is an excellent songwriter and composer. The Tracks on the album are so many-sided that you can simply dance to the tracks or you can just listen to the music during a nice dinner. It's an ultimate "sound journey" around the globe and through time. The listener will found himself again in a club of the seventies in Brazil, at the beginning of last century in Vienna or in the trip-hop spheres of these days. Available format: mp3.

His first album “Tales of the Forgotten Melodies” drew comparisons to the likes of RJD2, Portishead and DJ Shadow, while his second “Hope & Sorrow” (80 000 sold worldwide) landed him a nomination at the prestigious Victoires de la Musiques, as well as the US Indie Awards. Wax Tailor is coming off a year which saw him tour relentlessly (over 200 concerts) and score the title track for the movie “Paris” by Cedric Klapisch as well as a few remixes (Nina Simone, ASA). He is now a well-established and respected producer. Written in both Paris and New York City, his third album “In the Mood for Life” is an organic landscape with orchestral accents. Taking its cues from Soul, Funk, Hip-Hop or 60’s Pop Music, this is one eagerly awaited 52 minute journey. Who else than this necromancer of forgotten melodies can assemble such a wide array of influences and make them coexist with such ease? On Wax Tailor album melancholic melodies reminiscent of The Cocteau Twins strike a delicate balance with a brand of Hip-Hop seldom seen since the days of Jurassic 5. Wax Tailor also masters the art of reinventing oneself, and although his signature sound is immediately identifiable, this new album establishes a true evolution both in terms of production and song writing. Sting instruments, which were once just extras, now assume a more prominent role (Dry Your Eyes, Go Without Me). Where genres once crossed path from one track to another, they now collide within a track (This Train, Fireflies). The resulting sound is denser, more organic as well (Leave It, I Own You…) and the song writing more finely chiseled. With the opening notes, the mood sets the stage. Wax Tailor is now a sound stager, the director of an aural movie whose urban roots meet the perfect casting. Throughout this album, he appropriates a multitude of references with a very personal touch. His music is beyond genres and defies categorization, it is a modern brand of Pop music, designed with a rigor and an expertise that betrays the love this artist puts into his craft. Available formats: CD, 2LP, mp3, mp3 (instrumental); Albumtrailer: In The Mood For Life; Movie: In The Mood For Life (Making of).

"It´s night. A sea of lights in- and outside in the casino shine her the way into the inside of the mighty building. With her skintight silk dress strolls past in money, diamonds, cigar smell and men gazing at her ...." Big orchestra, blower and groovy percussion-sounds combined with a clear women's voice - this is "The Casino Royal". "The Casino Royal" was founded in Portugal by producer Pedro Janela. After a longer search, he decided on the singer Marisa Mena as firm "voice" for the still young band. The first album "Dolce Vita" was completely produced and recorded at Master Mix Studios in Portugal. The band, today consisting of Pedro Janela (production, keyboards), Marisa Mena (vocals), Mauro Ribeiro (guitar), Ricardo Ribeiro (percussion), Miguel Duarte (bass) and Filipa Cortes (violin), is influenced very strongly by the "Easy-Listening" sound. The voice of Fado-singer Maria Mena, cheeky, sexy or melancholy, embodies a breath of Hollywood in the 50s and 60s and brings this atmosphere also on stage during the live gigs of "The Casino Royal". Inspired from the "Dolce Vita", to the luxurious life in the casino in which women and men are surrounded by money, luxury and hedonistic plays, the first album is to be understood as a perfect soundtrack for such a scenario. The film aesthetics and the soundtracks of the 60s and 70s had strong influence on the album "Dolce Vita" also. The idea and the red thread of "The Casino Royal" is the creation of a female character which is involved constantly in "Little Plays". Whether power plays between men and women in "Now that I'm Blond" or own play addiction in the casino are described in the lyrics of "The Casino Royal". All songs from the album "Dolce Vita" are an epic, discribing presentation of circumstances. Step by step the listener can experience the pleasure of an outstanding Portuguese band. Available formats: CD, mp3.

Mole Listening Pearls presents the next big album from Czech electropop combo Ohm Square. Famous for long periods of creating the new album “Taking Shape” was written and recorded in the last two years. Ohm Square is one of the most famous Czech bands. Founded in 1996 as a trio Jan Čechtický (Jan2), Jan Kleník (Jan5) and Dušan Lipert (Dušan Only One) engaged english songstress Charlotte Fairman soon, who worked for the English dance act Wubble U as lead singer in the 90ies. But also the male colleagues of Charlotte were part of national successful band projects like The Sebastians or Colorfactory. At the beginning the band focused their creative energy on Drum'n'Bass and Breakbeat and released the results of their collective work on the own label Mr. Cucumber. After the first singles „Pillow“ and „Coloured Post“ the first album „Ohmophonica“ followed also in 1996 and was the start of an impressive career. Until now Ohm Square were honoured with two Popular Music Academy's Angel Awards and the caption „Band Of The Decade“ by the only Czech indie radio station Radio 1. Meanwhile they toured with Fat Boy Slim, Lou Reed, Coldcut, Kosheen and the EZ Rollers and produced three albums. The follow-up longplayer of „Love Classics“ puts it concrete form. The strong songwriting and the intuition for clear and complex forms leads the sound of Ohm Square to a new quality of pop eclecticism. Placed between Soul, R'n'B, Breakbeat, Electro and Dance the exploding sound of Ohm Square's „Taking Shape“ fuses to light and dreamy but kind of abstract lounge styles in the ballads. It is amazing how careful the voice of Charlotte Fairman manages all the different styles and colours. Between Kosheen and Moloko exists enough empty space to fill it with this funky, smooth and complex kind of power pop spiked with enough soul, sensitiveness, creativity and candidness. This very direct and soulful album goes directly into heart and body and is definitely one of THE electropop albums in 2009. Available formats: CD, mp3.

“T a x i” is the 4th album from nor elle aka Terry Lee Brown Junior. After “Phantom Of Life” (1998), “Slapstick” (2001) and “Kombologi” (2006) nor elle defines his own borders of down beat and lounge once again. Concentrating on wide scapes reduced melodic insinuation this time, the album seems to work as a screen. Like a movie without dialoque or a documentary without comments the music gives room for own imaginations and projections. Creating an atmosphere of a nocturnally taxi ride Terry gives a theme, but the rest is up to the listener. Where the taxi drives, how fast or slow, wether the driver is a good or bad one may depend on the mood of the one who to dives into the calm and fantastic world of these wonderful narrative tracks. No instruction is included but leaning back and letting fantasy fly over a warm street at a coast, through a forest or the centre of an illuminated city. After "T A X I 4 5", this is the second Remix EP with interpretations from Ocean Gaya, V_for_Volkan and Terry Lee Brown Junior from the nightride in the taxicab. Available format: mp3.

In 1974, Marcus Schmahl, also known from his chill out, downbeat and electronica productions "Guardner" and "Rauschfaktor" and was born in Mainz, Germany. Whe he was 14 he start as a "computer and electronic freak" by using his hardware as a musical instrument and he produced his first electronic tracks with it - in addition to his classical guitar training. Marcus has developed his own way to write music and performe live or as a DJ. A view month later, he found his own production company, which also started video production activities (f.e. for the television series "Flow Motion" and "Hessenbilder" at the German "Hessischer Rundfunk" also known as "hr") and well as photography. With his albums for the project "Guardner" at the well known label Elektrolux, he led for months the German chill charts. To date, his music catalog is regularly used by TV producers / directors around the world. In 2000, Marcus Schmahl and his team also produced the first film score for a TV series of the German national TV channel "ARD". Berkstroem was founded in 2008 because of his new music layouts were not adapted to the existing projects. The project will see a different part of listeners and also a musical evolution of Marcus Schmahl. Of course he works with Berkstroem, as in his other projects, with many guest musicians and producers in terms to incorporate as many musical styles and working methods as possible. Available format: mp3.

The project "The Burhorn" lives from the co-production with many different artists from Hamburg and Berlin. A lot of different artists contributed to the beautiful result of the first single as well: The brilliant voice comes from Jennifer while Yaa Kieck Akoto aka Y 'Akoto, the trumpets and keys are played by Thomas Burhorn, the bass clarinet by Sebastian Borkowski, the drums by Sönke Reich and the bass is contributed by Robin Engelhardt. There're also drumprogramming and guitar by Philip Guenther and the unmistakable Cuts by Gehad Ujeyl aka Mr. Beats. "The Burhorn" is an alien drumcomputeranimal with trumpet trunk (like from an elephant). Sometime in the distant future it will come to us to bring back our paradise on earth (so the legend says). Anyone who does not want to wait such a long time should at least listen to the new songs from "The Burhorn". "You Will Never Know" is inspired by Portishead, Massive Attack, and Ursula Rucker. The title is a co-production with the singer Y 'Akoto, a songstress from Hamburg known from various musical projects in Hamburg (Hot Air Balloon, Pilotfilm, Tom Hugo). The recordings were made in a cozy basement studio in the heart of St. Pauli in Hamburg. If you listen closely, even the pulse of urban neighborhood and port can be heard in the background. The track F'n'P was created in collaboration with Grunert, who has composed film music in addition to his solo albums already for the German TV series "Tatort" and some other films. In the past, Thomas Burhorn worked together with a lot of live musicians (eg Fettes Brot, Dennis Lisk, Kettcar) and already produced several music for various commercials. Available format: mp3.

Trip-Hop, Soul, Jazz, Ethno - a seemingly neverending row of elements makes up the wonderful Lushlife Project sound. It creates emotions, pictures and atmosphere. What is special: The sources from which the two artists draw their inspiration are inexhaustible - Hungarian traditional music and the complete history of music, which Zoltán Palásti Kovács knows from his heart due to his studies. Tibetian folk songs cannot be blended into Trip-Hop? They do not harmonize? Wide of the mark! Zoltán Palásti Kovács and Konrád Pilisi prove the contrary. Their creative and innovative music has vision and future. The "Eskimo Trip" is a full story. Zoohacker from Hungary, one member of The Lushlife Project, decided to do a full soundtrack to this story with 9 new interpretations based on the very well know track "Budapest Eskimos". Usually known from classical music (for example from Richard Wagner), Zoohacker elaborate the music by using the "Budapest Eskimos theme" as a leitmotif and variate this theme associated with particular situations, emotions or plot elements. Available format: mp3; The Story: Eskimo Trip 2010.

Zagar is one of the freshest electronic band from Hungary. Zságer, the leader of the band was the keyboardist and co-writer of the successful album “Shallow and Profound” from Yonderboi. As they are all experienced musicians, their main virtue is playing live. At the performances they use many improvisations and they develop the structure of their songs by mixing many genres like hip-hop, jazz, house and dub with a special sense of style. 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. They have already played in UK, The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, The Czech Republic and Russia. During performances, visual art projection is used to connect Russian avant-garde films with modern cinema and surrealism. In autumn 2009 Zagar release their new single" Wings Of Love" and their second album "Cannot Walk Fly Instead" on Mole Listening Pearls. On the new single "Wings of Love" they invited six of Hungarys most popular independent female singers, called The Underground Divas. "Wings of Love" entered the top 10 charts immediately in Hungary, earned heavy radio airplay and secured a no 1 position on the Hungarian MTV Video Charts. They have earned numerous awards for this record also, most notably the Hungarian Record Industrys "Phonogram Award" and second prize in the "International Songwriting Competition 2008". Available formats: 7", mp3, mp3 (Remixes).