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After success on the club scene as well as being on Café Del Mar compilations 12 times all together. Steen Thottrup just finished his debut downtempo/chillout album "Sunset People", and it certainly is sunset time.
Steen Thottrup has been part of the club scene for 18 years, being one of the first Artists to release a true underground single in Denmark on Kenneth Bagers label Coma Records, back in 1991. Shortly after he moved to London to pursue a more international career as an artist/producer for electronic music.
Steen stayed in London for ten years until 2001 when he released a numerous amount of singles on different high profile labels, such as Effective, Hooj Choons, New State, Southern Fried, Blanco Negro, Milk & Sugar and more. The result of these releases was, to mention a few, grabbing the attention of Pete Tong's radio show, hitting 12 on the official UK Top 40, and his tracks been played by most big name Dj's world wide.
In 2008 he was asked to do a Steen Thottrup chillout remix of the legendary track 'Infinity - Guru Josh', which by now (early 2009), has earned him a Silver Disc from the U.K (more than 250,000 sold) and a Diamont Impala Award for recognised sales of more than 250,000 sold in Europe.
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Sine Music is proud to announce the collaboration with one of Zurich’s most active producers for their debut artist album, none other than the producer Flavio Maspoli with his project ‘Merge of Equals’.
The album title ‘Intoxicating’ describes his music perfectly. Ambient and Chillout sounds are mixed together to form a distinctive, urban audio-cocktail with a wide range of emotions and atmospheres. Flavio incorporates Electronica, Funk and Film music creating a breathtakingly groovy album which transcends the usual styles of the Lounge genre.
Many of his tracks can be found on numerous Chillout and Lounge compilations released worldwide and are among the most frequently played titles in the bars and cafés of Ibiza, for example the Café del Mar. At last these well known tracks will be combined with new creations on one album.
Let yourself be carried away and intoxicated by the sounds of Merge of Equals!
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Crouching in her backyard garden, Shannon Stephens is poised for greatness. Although she ran from music for almost a decade, she’s not hiding now. Recorded in her living room over the last year,
"The Breadwinner" belies its humble roots; with themes of love, home, family, and a vision of the end of the world, the lush and exquisite sound of this album is anything but domestic.
Shannon Stephens resides in Seattle, Washington with her husband and young daughter. Instead of playing her gorgeous guitar, which currently needs its strings changed, she keeps busy with other pursuits.
She does plenty of dishes, enjoying the sensation of the warm water on her hands. She pushes her daughter on the rope swing, super-duper-high.   She reads about geology, theology and growing food. She cooks the same meals over and over, like "Saucepan Spaghetti" and "Chicken in the Crock-pot". She pulls dandelions in the back yard and is especially thrilled when she gets the whole root.
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As children of small-town Linkoping, Sweden, the members of Doris Days had their first joint musical experiences in 1989. At this time they were making alternative soundtracks (which they themselves labelled â€romantic interpretationsâ€) for American movies from the 1950s. Lisa, already a promising singer, was used on some tracks, while the boys sung or toasted on others. The first result, a demo-cassette called â€Cricket Buddhistâ€, was praised in the media as â€deeply impressive†and the issue was quickly sold out.
Despite the growing public interest in the trio, this co-operation was put on ice until late1991. During the years to come, the romantic light continued to glow from the music they created. The EP â€Places†(1993) contained four songs which were not easy to place in any standard category. Some journalists tried though, and besides the commonly used epithet â€escapistsâ€, they were also deemed â€pathetical intellectualistsâ€.
In the autumn of 1996, the full-length album â€Live in Poland†was released. After having spent a great deal of time in Poland, the result was a collection of songs that in many ways was the very opposite of the softly-woven American dreamscapes from which they had departed.
Doris Days came to Dorado’s attention when a handful of 10†singles made their way over from Japan and onto the turntables of people like Gilles Peterson, Patrick Forge and Ross Allen. "To Ulrike M." is their debut for the label. The track is a tribute to Ulrike Meinhof who was part of the revolutionary German terrorist group Baader-Meinhof which operated in the 1970s and it is her own spoken word intro that the mood for that piece.
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ANDERSON is an indie-pop duo from The Netherlands, consisting of Bas van Nienes and Jeroen van der Werken. Their debut album we radio anderson was released by Dutch label VOLKOREN (16 Horsepower, at the close of every day) in 2005. A mix of singer/songwriter-pop and fizzy electronics, the album drew rave reviews from the music press, not just in Holland, but throughout Europe, and even in Japan, where it was released by Thistime Records. Successful tours followed through western Europe, the USA, and Japan.
All this global travelling has obviously left its mark on ANDERSON. "It Runs In The Family" is not only thematically more ambitious than its predecessor, telling one central story through different characters from across the world, the music is also bolder. Comparisons to artists like The Postal Service and The Notwist still stand, but the warm intimacy of the first record is enhanced with heavier beats and synths, and irresistible eighties-grooves that could make anyone from Prince to The Pet Shop Boys run to the dance floor.
Besides writing and performing, Bas and Jeroen also produced and recorded it runs in the family, with additional recording by René de Vries (This Beautiful Mess) and Martijn Groeneveld (Solo), who also mixed the record. Lydia van Maurik-Wever (Brown Feather Sparrow) provided backing vocals.