“True music for Honest People. Pure music – less words.”
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Released: 6 Dec 2013
Style: Deep House, Dub
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Aqstnik : Tasten Der Unendlichkeit EP [BIOS_008]
“The Biotop Label presents the first EP of the genre-breaking Aqstnik project, containing 3 deep and dubby tracks. Aqstnik combines classic piano-music with tricky electronic elements, created by two skillful maestros in their artistic fields.
The two artists behind Aqstnik can both look back on their extensive music-careers and numerous trademark-releases within their genres. For this project they decided to use an independent name, unrelated to their artist-names, so the focus is completely on the music, not the men behind it.
Aqstnik had no master plan when they fired up the machines in the studio. It was all about the intuitive flow with the aim to unify piano-music with electronic production- skills, and to develop something original out of it. In about 12 months a whole album accrued, containing 9 experimental, deep and sensitive songs, most of them freely interpreted. Cineastic and enthusiastic – in some places blue-eyed and light-hearted, in other parts dark and sophisticated – continuously emotional and packed with magic moments.
Fortunately for all music-lovers the Biotop Label drops the Tasten der Unendlichkeit EP with a selection of the most electronic tracks of this album as a free download! The full album will be released with a special concept very soon.”
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Released: 21 Aug 2013
Style: Tech House, Deep House
Alessandro Crimi & Patrick Zigon : Order Of Priority EP [BIOS_007]
“The Biotop Label celebrates the first anniversary with a beautiful collabo-EP of Alessandro Crimi and label-head Patrick Zigon.
Exactly one year ago the Biotop Label released its first EP. The Various Artists EP Lebewesen, including tracks of Paulo Olarte, Alessandro Crimi & Patrick Zigon. 5 more and more experimental releases were following. Now it’s about time to get back to the starting point of the label-history, and to drop some deep emotional Dub-Techno.
Patrick Zigon likes to collaborate with creative guys, which he has proven again and again on previous Biotop-EPs and his 2011 album The Alpha State. This time he has teamed up with the swiss Grandseigneur of Dub-Techno. Alessandro Crimi gained a lot of attention with his trademark-productions for Sthlm Audio, Polytone and his freshly launched label Waehlscheibe. Alessandro and Patrick had some inspiring days at the Traumraum Studio at Lake Constance and developed what they call Caribbean Dub-Techno. Deep and hypnotic chords, shaking woods & percussions, all topped off with a caribbean and melancholic mood.
They invited another Biotop-key-artist for a proper remix-treatment. Fortunately Gabriel Creole has caribbean roots. The rhythm-master adds his typical percussions and mellow pads to the original track.”
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Released: 4 Jul 2013
Style: Dub Techno, Deep House
Patrick Zigon : Hobson‘s Choice EP [BIOS_006]
“The Biotop Label celebrates the spring awakening with the first solo EP of Patrick Zigon.
After the release of his album The Alpha State and numerous eps & remixes on labels such as Highgrade, Cocoon, Kompakt etc., the Biotop Label-head took a small re-creative release-break. Completely focused on the buildup of the Biotop Label profile, Patrick only released collaboration-EPs with Gabriel Creole & Till Krüger and a few remixes on his own label, with exception of ‘The End My Friend’ which was released in January on the Etui Records Wintercamp Compilation and gained big support from the ‘Godfather of Techno’ Juan Atkins.
Finally he‘s back with the Hobson‘s Choice EP. While the last Biotop-Releases were more experimental, Patrick‘s new EP is what you can call a proper Dance-Floor 3-Tracker.
‘Swaption’ is a typical Zigon track. Moody pads and Detroit style synths spread the mysterious vibes. Glitchy vocal-snippets and twisted rides completing the spooky and techy attitude of this track. It sounds like Patrick dreamed a lot about the upcoming summer-season while he produced ‘Vita‘s Wood’. It developes with shakin’ percussions, dubby chords and deep filtered pads, until the break unveils the classy house- organ…and the crowd begins to smile! ‘Nooning’ is an extensive hypnotizing sound-journey, filled with a huge sub-bassline, broken bassdrums and melancholic synth-layers.”
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Released: 17 Apr 2013
Style: Tech House, Deep House
Krautfass 3000 : Little Voice EP [BIOS_005]
“The Biotop Label kicks of 2013 with the most experimental release so far.
‘Krautfass 3000 combines different fragments of musical history and genres to create an explosive flow of psycho-sensory quodlibets that exist somewhere between chaos and order.’
Krautfass 3000 is an innovative band-project combining music & art performances. Their music develops always intuitive, there‘s never a plan what they will play, it‘s a surprise for everybody – most of all for themselves. As Studio-neighbours of Biotop Label-Head Patrick Zigon they are quite a big influence in Patrick‘s music and way of working generally. He already collaborated with a few Krautfass 3000-musicians for his album The Alpha State. So it‘s about time to release their debut-ep on Biotop.
Little Voice was recorded live at the ‘Kunstnacht Konstanz 2012’ in Southern Germany, when Krautfass 3000 played their concert under the ‘Rhein-Bridge’, as highlight of the event. Additionally german visual-artist Roxana Purmandi made an amazing video for this 12-minutes-journey.
Biotop-resident Paulo Olarte and Flix reworked the experimental original-files into their very own deep, dubby and soulful versions.”
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Released: 24 Jan 2013
Style: Tech House, Deep House, Funk, Jazz
Till Krüger & Patrick Zigon : Drone EP [BIOS 002]
“Patrick Zigon likes to collaborate with creative guys, which he has proven again and again on previous EPs and his 2011 album ‘The Alpha State’. This time he has teamed up with the talented Till Krüger from Southern Germany for the second Biotop release. Till has gained a lot of attention with his timeless hi-class productions for Treibstoff, 200 Records and Bullet Dodge as well as remixes for Gabriel Ananada, Alle Farben & Patrick Zigon.
Till and Patrick had some inspiring days at the Traumraum Studio at Lake Constance. They combined their skills and produced a deep techy 3-tracker – melodic and emotional but with a huge dose of dub. Hypnotic pads and chords create dreamy sequences, while the bottom-end is filled up with pushing sub-basslines and warm kick-drums.
Each track stands by itself, but together they also provide a continuous atmosphere, the typical Biotop-mood.”
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Released: 25 Jul 2012
Style: Dub Techno, Deep House
Various Artists : Lebewesen EP [BIOS 001]
“First release of Patrick Zigon‘s new label Biotop!
Paulo Olarte, Alessandro Crimi and Patrick Zigon are well known artists in the field of electronic music for a long time. Each one of them developed his very own style over the years, and created a constant output on a high artistic level.
Paulo with productions for Diynamic, Liebe*Detail and his labels Fresh Fish and Gala, Alessandro with productions for Sthlm Audio, Polytone and his freshly launched label Waehlscheibe, and Patrick with productions and remixes for Highgrade, Cocoon, Kompakt and now with his label Biotop.
For the first release the artists present a continuous atmosphere. Dubby chords with deep reverbs and hypnotic rhythms characterize these three tracks and provide the typical Biotop-mood.
The [BIOS 001]-packet is available as free download on http://www.biotop-label.net. It contains 3 tracks as MP3 and WAV, special artworks for each track and remix files of Alessandro Crimi’s ‘By Night’.”
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Released: 4 Jul 2012
Style: Dub Techno, Deep House
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