DIKSO 010 - V/A - Super Sound Single Volume 7

This is number 10 - how time flies when you're having fun. But this is not the right time to get sentimental because there are four great new tracks for you. Ultrafunkular House from Detroit, ah no... from the land of the rising sun... ah, wrong again... it's from Berlin. And we have label head Daniel Solar collaborating with Huxley, one of UK's definite talents in deeper House. Not to forget Balcazar & Sordo, the intercontinental contribution from Mexico and Satin Jackets. He is about to return to Dikso. Could you celebrate a 10th record more impressive?

A1 / Nhan Solo - Supervisor / TT 05:52


Wow, isn't it one of these million dollar Detroit house classics from discogs? No, it is not and no, it didn't sample such. Nhan Solo an up-and-coming talent from the land of the rising sun created a funky slam dunk for the disco dancefloor with at least one woman on it, stand back and watch them come. This is definitely the supervisor... synthesizer... vitalizer... womanizer... what did he say? Doesn't matter - all that matters is that pure organic bassline groove which drives you on and on....!


A2 / Huxley & Daniel Solar feat. Miss Bee – Dancing With Your Heart / TT 06:43


Label commander Solar and chief officer Huxley from Tsuba and 20:20 Vision bring you something from outer space: Miss Bee. Her voice is so shy and fragile... when she is asking for the next dance you cannot refuse her, especially when she wants your heart. So open it up wide and let all this spring fever in. Green trees, colourful flowers, the happy sound of playing children... Oh my god, this is true, it's springtime. Hopefully it is not a programme on the holodeck, this must be real.


B1 / Balcazar & Sordo – Stay With Me / TT 07:31


Here we have some relaxed mexican vibe: Balcazar & Sordo, well known from No.19 Music and Dirt Crew with a track like a summer breeze, creating a nice and lovely atmosphere with a so so beautiful pianob and voices that are sounding like the Sirens from the Odyssey. OK, I have never heard the Sirens before, but I bet they sound like this.


B2 / Satin Jackets feat. Natalie Conway – One More Chance / TT 08:10


Woohoo, he is back, and he is not alone. Together with Natalie Conway, Satin Jackets beams us right back into that time most of us takes all our inspiration from. But this not an edit, this is fucking real, this is real music. We are really, really proud to have them on board. Watch out, there's more to come...

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Nice reactions on DIKSO 009

Again, we got a lot of nice reactions on our recent remix release. Thank you guys and gals, we really appreciate your support, your chartings and features in all those articles, blogs and podcasts. And of course, keep on playing out this stuff, it's a wonderful feeling to spread something all over the world we really love, MUSIC!!! <3

We also got some chartings from Manik, Martin Hayes, Get Down Edits, The Legendary 1979 Orchestra, LeSale and many others. Also a really warm thank you for that, fellas.

And these are some of the comments, in no particular order...:

- Robert Owens: "Turning Slow, great track, great group of tracks and mixes"
- Jimpster: "Like the sound of the Soho808 track. will try it out."
- Craig Smith from 6th Borough Project: "Strong EP, hard to pick a fave on initial listens. All cuts will be getting played. Excellent tunes chaps!"
- Pional: "Just to let you know that i was listening this ep and its completely amazing, ace!"
- Trickski: "I am always looking forward to get dikso promos. they are just so much fun! all tracks are dope! love it!"
- The Revenge: "Cheers guys ... the Soho 808 and Duff Disco remixes are my favourite thanks."
- Chopstick: "All 4 tracks are damn solid! One of my favourite labels.. 2012 will be big for them!" and Johnjon added: "Love the Duff Disco tune"
- Catz n Dogz: "still 10 tons of love for your label guys!"
- Noir: "Really nice release. Will support."
- Sleazy Beats: "Wow, number 9 already? Time flies when you're having fun :-) Really nice collection of remixes, KRL's wonky remix should do serious damage when played at the right moment. Homework's remix is my favorite though, classy 90s Westcoast deephouse vibes."
- DJ T.: "Thank you for good music"
- Fred Everything: "Really enjoy the cheeky, french-touchy remix by Roberto"
- Alex Niggemann: "Quality as always!"
- Dirt Crew: "Big Up for Duff Disco! quality dope shit as always.. also the Soho 808 remix is real nice!"
- Nhan Solo: "I´ve fallen completetly in love with Dikso, my heart flitters on every release, please don´t tell my girlfriend."
- Till von Sein: "those 2 lil bastards from Amsterdizzle do it for me...great vibesand the DS & ADL remix is dope as well"
- Mario Aureo: "Great remix release - My fav is the Homework remix but also KRL and Solar de Luxe did a good job!"
- Mike from Kolour Recordings: "Words seem to fail me right now. Fresh new perspectives on previous dikso gems... wow... what a bona-fide treat. Every single remix is very special & picking a favorite is next to impossible. To sum it up best... everyone should do themselves a favor and pick this vinyl up. In-fact... Pick up two copies so when one wears out... you've got a fresh new one to put in it's place! tremendous release guys!"
- Jacques Renault: "Go go dikso - will play these guys for sure"
- Kruse & Nürnberg: "Digging all mixes. THANKS"
- Hot Since 82: "Larse track is cool, love roberto anyway... ace. Soho 808 is always really really cool, thanks guys will support"
- Nicholas: "Very strong release, especially the a1 track"
- Sasse: "Nice vibes, like robs remix and the homework perspective"
- Kiko Navarro: "Dikso is one of the labels that when i get a promo there is a big smile on my face, i like the way you are taking care of the high quality on each release. On This case my favourite is the Duff Disco, loving the deep chords and the atmosphere it creates."
- Adana Twins: "All tracks are super nice! Will play for sure."
- The Dead Rose Music Company: "Huge release, KRL is on fire as is Rob. boom"
- Tornado Wallace: "Liking the KRL remix. Thanks!"
- Norm de Plume: "Really like A1 & A2 nice and deep. Will be playing these two" and 20 minutes later he added: "Nice EP. A3 nice too , will play all 3..."
- Bicep: "KRL kills it, lovin the homework perspective" - David Magnier from The House Of Disco: "Really brilliant release! The A side totally blew me away! Well done guys, will be playing the hell out of these"
- Salvatore Freda: "B1 track is the one for me! love this early house feeling vibe...very very gooood one ! full support"
- Scope from Southwestseven: "Quality ep.. love the synth horn action on the solar remix!!"
- James Johnston: "Yet another superhot release!!! Every remixer comes up trumps here but the KRL mix just edges it for me....BOOM!!!"
- Satin Jackets: "A1 + B2 make me feel all giddy inside :o) Killer release!"
- Andres from Raw Cutz: "Cool remix package! Roberto Rodriguez and Daniel Solar & Andi de Luxe are for me."
- Toomy Disco: "Really nice set trax on this release. Will sit very nice in my deep house sets. Excellent production, very open minded. Great mood setters to open the evening. 10/10"
- Ali Ooft: "Wooo! KRL!!! Gonna be a big track for me. Digging Homework's deep remix as well."
- Show-B: "Booooom... another excellent release. really diggin A1 and B2... will be in one of the next CBLS. cheers."
- D-Pulse: "Daniel Solar & Andi de Luxe remix is what we need" Also some quotes from the blogosphere:
- keep-it-deep.blogspot.com: "The owners of Dikso recordings do a great job and release outstanding, genre-crossing music between lush disco and bouncey house."

P.S.: When I was writing this article, I had a first listening session with the final remix for the digital add-on package. Daniel and Aniya's track "Can You Really Know" got a big apple treatment from 50% of the soho808 guys, Dave Robertson and his girlfriend Alyssa. Must be a really harmonic relationship, the remix is unbelievable. Full of mystery and full of love, what is not a contradiction in terms. Love has always been a mystery to me. but it's there, for everyone of us. You don't believe in that? Can you really know...?

Andi 'the Sunday preacher man' de Luxe

DIKSO009 - V/A - Super Sound Single Remixes

Welcome to Dikso’s unbelievable before-and-after-show. Four contestants and four remix teams, four original stories that had to be continued and four results that had to be pressed on vinyl. And Dikso’s very own Daniel Solar was such a chatterbox that he produced a fifth story that will follow as a digital bonus.

A1 / Autodeep & Romorri - Make You Mine (KRL Remix)

I’m gonna make you mine, I’m gonna make you mine… That’s what Romorri said on Super Sound Single #4. And KRL, well known from the almighty Wolf Music Recordings label, beams him in a situation that made all dreams come true. The courtship has succeeded and Romorri, Autodeep & KRL are going mad on it. Definitely the most crazy piece of house music Dikso has ever released!



A2 / Larse – So Much Fun (Roberto Rodriguez Remix)

With “So Long” Larse is in everybody’s record case, Traktor playlist or download queue at the moment. On Dikso’s fifth Super Sound Single he delivered with “So Much Fun” his probably most disco- and funk-influenced track for years. Roberto Rodriguez from Finland added some straightness and a cool nordic attitude. So much rolling…



B1 / Duff Disco – I Won’t Forget (Homework Perspective)

Also more straightness for Duff Disco. Homework from Amsterdam touched his original in a very respectful way and present their deep and dope dancefloor perspective on Duff Disco’s original.



B2 / soho808 – Turning Slow feat. Lydia Caesar (Daniel Solar & Andi de Luxe Remix)

The hosts of Dikso take the back seat called B2. They sent Lydia and the boys from soho808 to the classic NY house scene before KBE Giuliani cleaned the city…



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DiKSO Podcast 11 - Nhan Solo

When you check out a podcast you will have a look at the tracklisting first. So, four of the first five track titles include the word "Love"? Any questions?

It's Nhan Solo from Berlin who joins us for podcast number eleven. He brings us some warm and deep slowmo disco mixed up with Janet, Liz and Lydia. Wanna meet the girls? Check out these 59 minutes of "Love".

Nhan runs the up and coming label Semester Musik, resident in the recent Beatport chart lists and different cases and harddisks of Berlin and not so Berlin deejays. He joins us at Dikso not only with this wonderful podcast, he will also be on our next Super Sound Single Vol. 7, coming up in April with some still top secret hot stuff from Mexico, Dortmund and London. And from Berlin, of course!

Also watch out for Nhan's new baby, a new label called Mother...

DiKSO Podcast 11 - Nhan Solo by Dikso Records on Mixcloud

Feel free to visit him on...:

http://www.nhansolo.com
http://soundcloud.com/nhan-solo
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/nhansolo

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DiKSO Podcast 10 - André Langenfeld - The Gretchen Mikso

1979 - Video Killed The Radio Star. Radio programmes are for senior citizens, the future is music television.

2011 - Music television is just a shadow of it's former self. In Germany MTV turned pay TV and its sister Viva exchanged the music videos with daily soaps and other stuff for general pubescent interest. Radio Killed The Video Star?

I know wide areas in Germany where you can scrap your radio, nobody needs this boring Top 40 shit or "the best of 80s, 90s and from today". I hope that the people of my hometown Berlin can estimate the value of their high quality variety of different radio stations they have. One of these stations is "Fritz". And one of their hosts is André Langenfeld.

Starting his radio career right after the fall of the wall with a hip hop show on DT64, the legendary legacy of GDR youth radio, you can hear him now on Berlin's Radio Fritz with his 'Nightflight' show that features an intersting and wide range from nu-disco to house, from dubstep to electo. new stuff as well as classic stuff. Every friday night (to saturday) from 0:00 to 5:00 AM or for the following 7 days on: http://fritz.kunden.nc3.de/fritz.samstag.1.pls

[DiKSO PODCAST 10] André Langenfeld - The Gretchen Mikso by Dikso Records on Mixcloud

Here we have DiKSO podcast #10 and it's a re-recording of a mix André played at the opening night of a new club in the heart of Kreuzberg called "Gretchen".

Nightflight w/ André Langenfeld
André Langenfeld

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DIKSO 008 - V/A - Super Sound Single Volume 6

The last Dikso... for 2011... with an intercontinental selection: Social Disco Club from Portugal, Kitano (aka Andy Hart) from Australia, soho808 feat. Lydia Caesar from NYC and Satin Jackets from Germany.

All tracks in one go...

DIKSO008 - Super Sound Single Volume 6 by Dikso Records

...and for the very first time with individual video art for every single track:

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A1 / Social Disco Club – You Got To Stay / TT 06:40

Yes, Dikso got him. After they have laid the baits out for such a long time, Humberto Matias from Portugal went finally on it and delivers a totally weird style bastard that defines disco house in a complete new way: House is not adopting disco anymore, disco is adopting house. Welcome to the Social Disco Club.

- DJ Ionik from Traveller / Kojak Giant Sounds: "Personally the best Dikso 12" yet - a true 4-tracker with not a filler in sight. 'You Got To Stay' will blow people away "
- Huxley: "Social disco club is big! will definitely be playing that."
- ShirKhan from Exploited Records: "The Social Disco Club Track is always in my box. Interesting marriage of UK Garage Bass-Sounds meets Disco. Love it."

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A2 / Kitano – For The King / TT 07:10

A track like a fairytale. Imagine a proud father that sends his most beautiful daughter to the king’s castle. Her whole life, her education, everything has been arranged for the king. Surely the speaker in Kitano’s track means something totally different but the story could have been so so nice… At least as nice as the track.



- Ali Ooft: "Feeling the Kitano joint the most, thats some lo-slung biz right there! Dikso keeps on rolling!"
- Chris Lattner: "For the king is awesome!!!!!! a real killer!"
- Homework: "Especially Kitano's For The King is our cup of tea. That special Dikso flavor, as always."

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B1 / soho808 – Turning Slow feat. Lydia Caesar / TT 06:05

Bootsy, fasten your seatbelts, soho808 are back. After they led Dikso with “Get Up Disco” from Super Sound Single #4 to their first feature on a Fabric longplayer ever, here is the follow up. More funk than disco and lots more catchy than ever, Nathaniel and Dave teamed up with this so great chanteuse called Lydia Caesar and created a high potential dancefloor filler for all the ladies. The boys will follow.for sure!

- Daniel from Trickski: "Another great package once again!" and Yannick added: "Only burners!!!! you dikso guys are really growing stronger with every release! soho 808 is my fave here. thanks!"
- Larse: "Hard to pick a fav, think it's the soho808 jam!! Boogie Oogiee"
- Sasse: "Turning into a Soho808 fan, nice dirty groove going on here again, will play !"

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B2 / Satin Jackets – Girl, Forever / TT 07:25

As always Dikso keeps the B2 position for the pearls. Satin Jackets tried to put as much romance as possible in every single sound, even in the name of the track. Don’t call it kitschy, this is the perfect first aid against all the dark feelings, depressions and cold days that we will have to survive the next months in the northern hemisphere. Pure love!


- Craig Smith from 6th Borough Project: "Loving all the cuts, hard to pick a fave, probably Satin Jackets on initial listens."
- Dirt Crew: "Big up for the Satin Jackets groove ! smooth as hell :)"
- Kiko Navarro: "Loving the first chords on Satin Jackets, loving how they develope the track, very nice surprise to close the EP. Thanks a lot!"



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Controverse reactions on DIKSO007 - Manolo - Night Rhythm '11

As you may have noticed, Dikso likes to cross the boundaries of good taste from time to time. And if we love a rework of a cheesy nineties dance anthem, we will release it.

We have never received so many reactions on a release as on Manolo's "Night Rhythm". More than 10.000 plays on Roberto's soundcloud really impressed us. Most of them were thrilled but some people were rather irritated. Phonica reviewed it in their online-store like that: "This love-it-or-hate-it track..." and "a less tacky version of a guilty pleasure or the proof that nu-disco has become the new funky house....answers on a postcard!" Guys, we looove to entertain you... :-)

Fortunately, chartings and massive airplay from Tensnake, Jody Wisternoff, Ooft!, Chopstick & Johnjon, Jacques Renault, Marc Poppcke and DFA's Justin Miller showed that there are people out there who share our strange sense of humour. Also a million thanks to André Langenfeld and Shir-Khan from Radio Fritz and Larse from Einslive for their great support. And Tensnake for promoting it on his facebook page which generated more than 150 likes within 24 hours...

And here is the unavoidable hall of fame:

- Tensnake: "Brilliant!"
- Soul Clap: "Can't wait to see the crowd reaction!"
- The Revenge: "Dubs for me..."
- Daniel from Trickski: "Fun, fun, fun!" and Yannick added: "Hugh release [...] will play both versions"
- Chopstick: "I love Dikso! Been playing all the releases so far!!!" and Johnjon added: "HOLY SHIT! [...] The Solar & de Luxe Remix will find its place in a lot of our sets!"
- Guy from Sleazy Beats: "Not so keen on the vocal mixes but both dubs will destroy dancefloors I reckon." and Kris added: "I honestly can't get into the vocal cuts because they really remind me of that awful uber pop dance track that played non-stop on the radio in the 80s (or 90s?). Will give the dubs some action though!"
- Ali Ooft: "Gotta be Andi & Daniels Dub mix for me. Big track."
- Francis Inferno Orchestra: "Absolutely fantastic, 10/10 the whole package is A+++"
- Catzn Dogz: "Fantastic release!!"
- Till von Sein: "Damn.. the vocal sucks.. biiiig time! but the dubs are cool"
- Jody Wisternoff from Way Out West: "Will be hammering this till the cows come home :)"
- Danny Howells: "Been DYING to get my hands on this groovy little f***er!!"
- Alex Niggemann: "Nice musix for a special moment!"
- Dirt Crew: "This is Amazing!!! good times all over"
- Jef K. "Waaaa yes yes cant believe u guys did this!!! LOOOL this is great music by the wayy... full support!!!"
- David August: "Cool!"
- KRL: "Yes!! guaranteed party smasher, going straight in the [...] bag for this weekend."
- Kiko Navarro: "First reaction was an smile on my face [...] this one is thousand times better than the original. Now its a bit special situation to play this mix even the work is excellent because of the vox, depende where and how can be a bit too..."
- Mike from Kolour Recordings: "What a great package and potential for record of 2011! go go go"
- Social Disco Club: "Sounds like a hit.."
- Jacques Renault: "Oh hell yes. [...] Great release, I'll be playing this for sure."
- Pional: "Amazing!"
- soho808: "Love the old school pianos and vibes!"
- DJ Harri: "Liking this, especially daniel solar mixes"
- Homework: "Loving the original and dub. Charting this right away."
- Soul Minority: "Instant smile on your face!"
- Salvatore Freda: "Wow! didn't expect to that one.... very like the dub version!!!"
- Autodeep: "Crossing over 70's disco and 80's chicago vibes with 90's trash vocals? YESSSSSSSS :D Right up our alley!"
- Toomy Disco: "Amazing vibes! 10/10 keep doin' this."
- DJ Ionik from Kojak Giant Sounds: "Bravo! [...] if this thing doesn t get the party going you re most likely playing to a bunch of Perussuomalaiset. 10/10."
- Sleazy McQueen: "This is ridiculously top notch material."
- Scope aka Southwestseven: "RR Vocal mix for me.. BOMB!"
- Show B.: "Well yeah... that's an anthem right there."
- Satin Jackets: "Oooooooooohhhhh... I am getting ze goosebumps! Vonderfullllll :D"
- Andres Bela from Raw Cutz: "Really like this release! All The tracks works for me."
- Mario Aureo: "Awesome!"
- David from House Of Disco: "This is one will remain in my favourites for the forseeable future"

This was fun. Next... DIKSO008 with tracks from Social Disco Club, Kitano aka Andy Hart, soho808 and Satin Jackets. Watch out...