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Top Tracks of 2010: Part 1

By Urlaubshits • Dec 24th, 2010 • Category: Blog

I don’t know how anyone else feels, but 2010 has been a fairly exceptional year for music. It seems to me that the last couple of years have been lacking a distinct energy, but much of the music that I have really enjoyed in 2010 has had an urgency to it, brought about in no [...]



Oni Ayhun: Machine Music, the Pastoral and the Sublime

By Urlaubshits • Nov 25th, 2010 • Category: Blog

About four weeks ago I had the pleasure of seeing a live performance (at the excellent BleeD night run by some of the people behind London mainstay Bloggers Delight, at the also excellent new club XOYO) by one of the most interesting and dare I say it, enigmatic (and I don’t mean enigmatic in this [...]



Urlaubshits Radio – October 2010

By Urlaubshits • Oct 29th, 2010 • Category: Blog, Mixes

Kosmische synth mixtape featuring Cluster, Oneohtrix Point Never, Emeralds, Fennesz, Walls, Brain Machine and more.



Thisisnotanexit Summer Sampler 2010

By Urlaubshits • Jun 21st, 2010 • Category: Blog

This Monday sees the release of the Thisisnotanexit Summer Sampler 2010 EP, which includes my debut remix, of Detachments’ “The Flowers That Fell”. The release also features the long unreleased Faze Action remix of Hatchback’s “Jetlag”, a new original collaboration by TINAE artists The Dark Esquire and Club Silencio called “You Got To Look” and [...]



Tigersushi = X

By Urlaubshits • Jun 9th, 2010 • Category: Blog

Joakim’s label Tigersushi is 10 years old this year, and in celebration, the label has just seen the release of More G.D.M. X, a compilation featuring some unreleased tracks, and some label classics, as well as a continuous DJ mix by Joakim which delves into the more experimental side of the label. Although Joakim is [...]



Urlaubshits Radio – May 2010

By Urlaubshits • May 28th, 2010 • Category: Blog, Mixes

Featuring tracks from The Crystal Ark, Floating Points, Claro Intelecto, and remixes by The Emperor Machine, Kyle Hall and Luke Abbott.

MP3:> Urlaubshits Radio – May 2010



Thisisnotanexit: Manifesto #1

By Urlaubshits • Mar 24th, 2010 • Category: Albums, Blog

London based Thisisnotanexit’s first compilation, featuring familiar artists and new, and a continuous mix from label head Simon A. Carr.



Secret Danger #1

By Urlaubshits • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Blog

Details of the inaugural Secret Danger party, this Saturday 12th December, with a guest DJ slot from myself.



Signals From The Cosmos III

By Urlaubshits • Jun 9th, 2009 • Category: Blog

The latest in the continuing voyage into cosmic disco, mutant house, future acid, radiophonic techno and grooves “slung lower than a Wire character’s jeans” (according to a hilarious Time Out description).



Signals From The Cosmos II

By Urlaubshits • May 12th, 2009 • Category: Blog

With special guest DJ, Thisisnotanexit label boss Simon A. Carr, celebrating the launch of the new Parallels EP, Ultralight. Entry is free, and if you’re there you might just win yourself a copy of this wonderful piece of black plastic.