A Level Non Zero release with the catalogue number 23 – who woudn’t expect a conspirational track? And indeed: After legendary release „Futher & Further“ (LNZ05) the secret house society leaders Pascal FEOS & Heiko MSO (Klang Elektronik / Playhouse) once again met for a conspirational studio session to dominate the clubbing world with an extraordinary production.
The result is named LUV and sounds like the essence of the essence of minimal house music neatly stretched out to 11 minutes running time. Cladestinely they’ve implemented classical Chicago Jack elements in a modern lunar probe to irridate mother earth with an eternal stream of love. Adequate gravitation-free the sound comes across as a gauze of warm bassy clouds, funky finger clicks, sustain violin strings and paradisiac LUV female vocals. After a long ethereal break the track speeds up again smoothly and reveals a subtile glowing sound of the TB-303.
LUV is the perfect example of rarely produced tracks that give you the feeling of oustanding full-embracement.

After their first and all over Germany well acclaimed Deep House production „Geisha“, released on the limited LNZ 20 edition, Chris Wood and Frank Leicher now come up with a complete 3-tracker. With this accordingly titled „Two Of Three“ EP the young team exeeds all expectations.

Already the first track „Into The Jungle“ with almost 9 minutes of play time captures the listener into a new simension of breathless House tribalism. Be ear witness how Wood and Leicher Voodoo priest alike stich their percussive elements into the body of party puppet to make the will-less audience dance to the point of ecstasy. And now we all know: the haitian jungle begins right behind the city limit of Frankfurt/Main: dark, atmospheric, sultry, full of vivid sounding dangers and the abstract hoots of LNZ serviles on the warpath.
The second track „No Way Back“ is also phenomenous ritualistic, but more freewheeling due to the percussions and bouncing 808-kick completed by roomy reverbs and delays.but also a demonic vocal sample that makes clear: There’s no way back to the safety of the base camp. The final EP track „I Feel The Night“ is masterpiece of housy minimalism with brilliant plucking bass sounds and sunny latin american impetus.

FFM’s premium label for deep & minimal sounds qualitative high above standard dance stuff is back from the summer break. Traditionally LNZ mastermind Pascal FEOS himself lights the LNZ release oven and adds his label cataloque with two endurance track runners.

It may surprise, how airly the runner with starting number 1 floats through the colourful wood of golden October, cheered on by Moogy mild hookline that strokes the drum body. From time to time the race track passes some clearings, the chilling atmosphere of Pascal FEOS’ side-project Aural Float waves at the horizon. But then he trots on and on embraced by the feeling of runner’s high.

With the racing number 2 the “Generator Child” starts athletic but thoughtful on his Tom Tom-dymanic soles, more and more leading into an 808-hypnotic run on black asphalt. A “Generator Child” speech sample trails off in the dusk and an LFO-spiralled veil of mist twirls over the head of the scared kid. This is what LNZ calls an ingenious ghosty cut for dancers.

After the big hit „Rezolution“, Level Non Zero presents the next limited edition.
On the a side Pascal FEOS shows us his feeling of an „Endless Summer“ with an grooving and hypnotizing touch.

On the flip Chris Wood and Frank Leicher created a deep house tune with an amazing flute – break.
Both will fit perfectly in every afterhour set !
Check it out !

"D. Diggler" aka Andreas Mügge is back ! This time not on Planet Vision but on Pascals new label: Level Non Zero.
Blessed with a father who is a jazz musician, Andreas started to play the drums at the tender age of twelve, and joined his father in his jazz combo. Soon he realized that his future is not to play in a band but to make his musical ideas become reality through the necessary MIDI equipment. His first release for raum...musik "Boogiemonster" hit several DJ charts, club charts and was played in heavy rotation on HR 3 XXL. So did the following releases. D.Diggler`s first album was released in April 2000 on CD and vinyl, its sound range varying from deep to technoid-slamming. Since then he can look back on 45 releases and 20 remixes and is a dj + liveact who playes in the first league.

On Level Non Zero he shows us with three new traxs his variety: from „hypno-techno“ (Drehmoment), over deep tech-house (Deepdown), to dub-house (Control).
We remember the old Raum...Musik – times....

No more than a year ago formed, but in most Tech House temples already known like Paul Bocuse in cockaigne. Before the first record 50 WAYS (LNZ 011) was released no one would have guessed that FRESH FRIED could achieve such a big success. And only a few weeks after putting out the awesome second 12 inch MADNESS (LNZ15) Chris Wood, Nedzad Berovic and Frank Leicher return to serve their third musical création à la Minimal Maison, which is also the dessert from their debut album THE MENUE (LNZ17). In best delicious tradition of the well known Frankfurt Tech House label Level Non Zero, INSTANT SOUP also takes ten minutes to develop its full flavour. Beginning with the macerating of the zesty 808 basis including flangered bass and digitally preserved rim sounds, the chef heads increase the heat, add some crisp filtered vocal croutons and bring it to the scalding maximum after six minutes.
On the flip FRESH FRIED mate MATT STAR demonstrates impressively how to create a mild tangy variation with click-groovy accentuation just by changing the ratio of the condiments

Too many cooks spoil the broth? Definetly not if three masters of LNZ´s Minimal style Cuisine prepare their very special synthie molecular meals. Tabled piping hot from a secret kitchen located somewhere in the concrete heart of Frankfurt/Main, FRESH FRIED finally come up with their debut album THE MENUE. The young project consisting of the producers Chris Wood, Nedzad Berovic and Frank Leicher already took the DJ playlists of named Tech House DJs by storm – not only in Germany and Central Europe-wide, but also in the States, Russia and even Japan. Certainly it would have been easy to put all tracks of the recent 12-inches 50 WAYS and MADNESS on album to guarantee a second success for LNZ. But FRESH FRIED would not call themselves FRESH FRIED if everything wouldn’t be totally new.

Already the opening meal of the eight-course-menu called INSTANT SOUP is a good example for what the head chef team is able to put on our plates: A scalding hot groove enjoyment in 808-creamy consistency with crisp Vocal sample croutons blowing the lid off the pot. And as you can tell from the note “Album Version” this hypnotic highlight is also available as a 12 inch vinyl version including superb deep remix from Matt Star (Mainrecords, Weavemusic) on the flip.
As second meal the German guys serve very sensational nutritious Microhouse food with HEART OF PALM; a track that professionally peels the core of the minimal music and touches the clubber to the quick due to the freak funky finesse.
Followed by a Sushi role filled with sticky synthetic rice and named MAKI that gets its spicy flavour from a FRESH FRIED home-made Flanger-wasabi.
Next is a unique aromatic mellow Lounge pastry titled FOIE GRAS, and when you come up to track five, don’t expect to spit, because unlike other debut albums THE MENUE has a some more delectabilities to dish up. Why not knibbling off the Electro hot sawtooth creaky FROG LEGS with female vocals à la Parisienne? Or trying BURNT ORANGE which is a pure, to the bitter-sweet fruit essence reduced Tech House experience?
And before THE MENUE finishes with the mysterious, reverb dubby downwards running kickshaw LIQUID CHOCOLATE, the producer team presents a giant pen of CHILI with round dancing colourful bongo beans to fill our muscles with percussive proteins.

So Wood, Berovic & Leicher really made it and present a debut album that turns on, deeply satisfies but never stuffs.

Label-Compilation (1st Edition!)

Are you triskaidekaphobic? Then we have an audio drug to heal your fear disorder. It’s called "Details". And consists of 13 in the mix tracks, released by a Frankfurt label established three years ago to leave a very own mark on the Deep & Minimal House genre. With a bow before the historical achievements of the golden Chicago Jack and Detroit Tech innovators, but not that low that it could limit the own mobility. And a far cry from common ice cold, free of emotion minimal click sound dictates. To create warm, atmospheric but also bass driven energetic structures was main target right from the beginning instead. Something that really deserves the title LEVEL NON ZERO with non gravity music high above average tracks and average record labels. Music that can’t reveal the full impact when dropping the needle on it just for a second or pre-listened as low resolution online-file.
Starting off with the debut 12-inch DESIRE in 2004 and 14 releases later the imprint conducted by Pascal FEOS and his partner Chris Wood already has made it. And, thanks to optimal nourish and cherish, grew from a rare plantlet to a strong, fine-branched tree.
This CD is the first LNZ mix compilation ever and displays some of the most requested highlights and other terrific musical moments in the young label history. With tracks that can be compared to the behaviour of a octopus in the deep blue: At first slowly approaching, then embracing you cosy with all of its eight tentacles, suddenly adhering and pulling you down to the ocean’s ground. Experience a 74,14 minutes lasting Tech House feeling similar to the rapture of the deep. Wisely built and perfectly mixed, this CD develops a breathtaking organic flow that other compilations too often promise but always break. A flow that brings together13 different coloured underwater bubbles until they touch each other and blend into a giant iridescently one. Beginning with the latest tunes from Wood/Berovic/Leicher called DOWN BELOW and THE WAVE, presenting a tasty subtle HiHat-sound melting on your tongue like a butterscotch, followed by the ultra hypnotic and due the huge success on Ibiza just re-released track REZOLUTION by Pascal FEOS & Marc Miroir. The fabulous Acid infiltrated label hits TRES O TRES and FURTHER & FURTHER (produced with Klang Elektronik Mastermind Heiko M/S/O) are also part of the adventure, not to forget the legendary TANZBOMBE (DANCE BOMB) which reached top underground chart positions all over Germany. Nicely complete rounded is the mix by Andrew Frame’s awesome psycho baseline tune BLUE MATRIX.
We’re sure that "Details" will have a kind of backdraft effect for all who haven’t heard LNZ tracks before. To open this door means to be confronted with a fire outburst that only can be controlled by owning the original vinyl tracks. Btw: Any methods to really quench it are pretty senseless...

Tracklisting CD:
01. Down Below, Fresh Fried, LNZ 15
02. The Wave, Fresh Fried, LNZ 15
03. Rezolution, Pascal FEOS & Marc Miroir, LNZ 13
04. First Contact, Mihai Popoviciu, LNZ 09
05. Tres O Tres, Pascal FEOS, LNZ 04
06. Fresh Fried, 50 Ways, LNZ 11
07. Further & Further (Chris Wood Re-Edit), FEOS/MSO, LNZ 05
08. The Key, Pascal FEOS, LNZ 06
09. Brooklyn Style, Pascal FEOS, LNZ 06
10. SteamTrain, Chris Wood, LNZ 08
12. Tanzbombe, Pascal FEOS, LNZ 03
12. R U Ready Ralph (Pascal FEOS Treatment), Björn Wilke, LNZ 07
13. Blue Matrix, Andrew Frame, LNZ 12

As the first 3 maxi-releases of Pascal FEOS`s album "Synaptic" were focused on a hypnotic and percussive style, the 4th forthcoming release "Sunset" is an amazing new variation of his sound!
"Sunset" seems to be one of those "detroit-influenced rays", as they`re well-known being played at the end of Pascal`s famous after-hour-dj sets. That`s the reason why "Sunset" with it`s warmness is the final track on the FEOS "Synaptic" album (cd-version) and makes the whole thing complete. You will be carried into the sunset by the smooth and perfectly integrated melody..

In contrast to this "Can`t Get Enough" is an ingenious produced dub track as it`s best. It works up to the middle and unloads irresistibly in a percussive bass.

The third singlerelease of Pascal FEOS's new album "Synaptic" includes the two tracks "Out Of My Head" and "Timeless" and in addition a yet unreleased track called "The Key."

"Timeless"
The name of the track stands for itself. Pascal combines Techno and Soul which hits the momentum of our time perfectly - but still overcoming space and time with his unmistakable feeling for sound. You can feel the funky bits throughout the whole track – discharging the pent up energy at its climax in the middle of the track through filtered and modulated chords at the break.

"Out Of My Head"
This is the result of a long lasting cooperation and friendship with the well known swiss Djane Manon. Pascals very own style meets Manons conception and idea of Techhouse. They combine Pascals deep grooving acidlines with Manons understanding for minimalistic melodies. The outcome of those two highly experienced artists is a symbiosis that neither leaves your heart untouched nor makes it possible to leave your legs off of the dancefloor.

"The Key"
The track excels in a unique organic structure with deep humming percussions whose tubing character won´t let you go and will surely leave you under Pascal's spell.

The second release from the "Synaptic" lp, reflexes Pascal's focus on techno resp. techhouse. The track "Brooklyn Style" creates a dynamic base because of his minimal-bass- groove, which gets rounded by the perfect set in of the 303.

"Synaptic" reflects compressed Pascal's interpretation of his album.
The minimal but very driving beat develops thru the perfect input of a sawtooth to a track, which nobody can resist on the dancefloor !

After Pascal Feos’s last LNZ 005 his first single release of the new album “synaptic” (coming out 21. April 2006) will hit the streets.
The producer and DJ Pascal Feos impressively shows with his first of altogether 6 vinyl single releases in which musical direction the album “synaptic” goes.

“Impulse” is a minimal-programmed track which in the beginning grooves by the extraordinary sounds and effects. The track rises more and more until a break, where the accumulated power merges into the great final.

You won’t find a B-side on the AA-side, at all! No less than the producer and remixer of the moment, Robag Wruhme aka Wighnomy Brothers arouses our enthusiasm with excellent produced sounds of first-class quality.
Robag Wruhme reproduced the “Tanzbombe” which gets us going! Perfectly structured minimal sound meets atmosphere and sensitivity which transport its pressure on the dance floor for sure!

Totally 12 tracks of the album will be released monthly as a “musical episode” on 6 separate vinyl maxi releases – beginning: 12 April 2006. As a special, the 6 covers, put together at the end of the episode, will form one poster showing the complete artwork!


Tracks:

A: Impulse
B: Tanzbombe
(Robag Wruhme RMX)

Three years after Pascal FEOS released the album “Self Reflexion” on PV Records, the time has come for a new repositioning. His new album will be released on Level Non Zero, where the  “Tanzbombe- EP ” was released successfully last year.
It was very important for the perfectionist not to walk on the promising and secure path of club music between elektroclash-nostalgia and eccentric “beats and clicks”.
Of course the “G-Tone” Acid has a history in connection with the Chicago House in the end of the eighties. And the modulations of “Ausklang” will remind the one or another of the Acid in the nineties. But what comes first for Pascal: “Synaptic” is to be understood as a homage for Techno/Techhouse of the year 2006. It is an album which conjures-up the groove in the most hypnotizing and mysterious way ever produced in Pascal’s studio.

“The best description for Synaptic could be “Hypnotic Mind Music”. It was very important for me not producing sounds which are much too detailed and complicated”; Pascal outlines the focus of his production of the last 12 months. Even though Pascal’s album includes tracks, which will be definitely touted for the hottest night-hymns of this year:
The title track “Synaptic”, an uplifting-hysteric Techtrack, the reduced bass impulses of “Brooklyn Style”, subtle percussive subsonic-bass dub as “Can’t get enough” or “Bring The Beat Back” and last but not least “Out Of My Head”, the result of a cooperation with the Swiss top-Djane Manon Abenojar-Maeder.
Moreover the album includes a remix version of “Tanzbombe” made by the superb producer Robag Wruhme aka Wighnomy Brothers.
Of course Pascal insisted to present the 14 tracks of the CD version in a consistent and fluent mix – you can count on him!

Additionally 12 tracks of the album will be released monthly as a “musical episode” on 6 separate vinyl maxi releases – beginning: 12 April 2006. As a special, the 6 covers, put together at the end of the episode, will form one poster showing the complete artwork.
With Synaptic Pascal FEOS shows impressively that the journey for inspiring electronic music will not end a long shot.

For the first time after 8 years the DJs and Producers Pascal FEOS (Planet Vision/Level Non Zero) and Heiko MSO (Playhouse/Klang Elektronik) are teaming up again to join forces and transform once more their knowledge and inspiration into musical energy.

It's not a revival - the time is simply up to get out there and perform this specific sound again, that has always been the biggest inspiration for both of them: THE TIME TO "JACK" !!!!

Check out their first new single "further and further" that already has full DJ support by people like: Ricardo Villalobos, Richie Hawtin, Luciano, Ivan Smagghe and Sven Väth.

Omychron Recordings' second release consequently follows the quality of the first. Yet again, this release shows the track "I Can Feel That" (1999, Pascal FEOS) being remixed by state-of-the-art producers.

Speedy J presents his second interpretation which in no way ranks behind the first.

Robag Wruhme's Kisslekk Rekks Mix starts with the typical clicky and frisky style; a soulful break then unveals what could definitely become the absolute smashhit.

Dj Gogo sticks more to the roots giving the 1999 feel its revival.

Following the great success of LevelNonZero Recordings, Pascal FEOS starts up a further innovative Label, directed solely by himself: Omychron Recordings.

His wish is to furthermore offer a new platform for elegant groovy techno. For this purpose his 1999 production "I can feel that" was remixed by several producers. To kick off the label at top-level, he was able to attract the artists Speedy J, Tony Rohr, and Robag Wruhmes aka Wighnomy Brothers for the first two releases.

Speedy J's first mix reflects the qualities of one of the big Techno producers. Fascinating the listener withits dynamic character: this could be a real hit!

Tony Rohr`s mix is click Techno at its best, just the way we know and expect from him: absolutely dance floor compatible.

Five years after the last album ‘Freefloat’ and 10 years after the first album ‘Introspectives’, the beginning of the all-time success story of their Elektrolux label, Alex Azary, Gabriel Le Mar and Pascal FEOS now deliver their new Aural Float Album ‘Beautiful Someday’. And, by the way, having significantly influenced Ambient und Chillout along with soulmates like The Orb or Pete Namlook in a way still defining the aesthetics of the genre today. Is there a more suitable coronation for the 10th Elektrolux anniversary as this long overdue sign of life of the probably most renowned German Chillout formation? A lot could be told about Aural Float, this ‘Supergroup’ of electronic music. After all, Azary, Le Mar and FEOS are constitutive pioneers of electronic music as single protagonists as well. Their names stand for cutting-edge and ambitious sound design. Pascal FEOS e.g. can look back on a DJ carreer of more than 20 years, but also considerably influenced German Techno culture by his productions for his PV label, and especially by his Sonic Infusion and Resistance D. projects. Gabriel Le Mar has produced countless albums, e.g. for Spirit Zone, Blue Room and Superstition, where he always managed to blend the borders between Dub, Downbeat, Ambient, Trance and Techno in a most pleasant way. And as the former sales excutive of AMV, DJ, club and event manager and, last but not least, as visionary motor of his Elektrolux label and the groundbreaking TV formats SPACE NIGHT and FLOWMOTION, Alex Azary plays an important role in the history of electronic music.

On the other hand, you don´t have to look back into the past, because Aural Float have to tell a lot here and today as well. Their third album ‘Beautiful Someday’ strikes surprising new paths, particularly with the increased use of vocals by Kim Sanders, Nada Nadia Vagioka and Catenia Quentin. To Aural Float, Ambient definitely means more than mere escapism to mellow spheres, but stands for an organic consensus between Pop Music and Chillout never been heard in such a perfect visionary power (‘How Deep’, ‘Him & Her’, ‘Still Here’) before. Having gathered lots of experience in all this time, Aural Float, in an almost playful easiness, present the way from the experimental search of the beginning to a clearly structured high-end version of sensual cutting-edge Pop Music. Nevertheless, the system always stays open enough to e.g. allow a winking cross reference to their impressionistic Ambient Trance past by epic tracks like ‘Dreamer´s Dream’ or ‘Gone Forever’. This is Electronic Listening Music 2005!

Additional to the CD release of ‘Beautiful Someday’ comes a DVD issue where the tracks of the album are interpreted by various video artists. The DVD is produced and released in cooperation with corbis motion, one of the world´s most renowned picture and film agencies.

More information here.
www.elektrolux.com
www.gem-store.de

A masterly staged progressiv juwel, heating a 1000 Ton locomotiv that pulls various sounds that gain weight after each break. Everybody would like to catch a ride on those hi-hats that roll through the room but are impossilbe to keep up with.

Beware: Everytime a neurose wakesup to grab a poor soul, its fault could be found in this recording. The sounds arise traumatically up and niether, grabbing a hold of the brain windings and hardly find a way out. Only the realty of the sensible claphits brings you back in line.

www.elektrolux.com
www.mikrolux.com
www.gem-store.de

The fourth upcoming release on Level Non Zero is once more a successful
collaboration of Pascal FEOS and Chris Wood.

Pascal's "dream of analogy" is becoming reality:
The A site combines old elements with a form of new age production. The track's minimal structure and it's "hypnotizing" characteristics just fascinates, and won't let go the audience.

The B site is Chris Wood's second own production on Level Non Zero. Similar to his first release (Desire), Chris Wood's instinct for progressive sounds makes him combine old school with new age elements in one track.

Tracks:

A: tres o tres
B: seis o seis

With its third release Level Non Zero presents Pascal FEOS' first solo
production. The A-Side shows more of Pascal's 'tech'- rather than his
'house'-line and delivers us a track in absolutely typical 'FEOS'-style.
The B-Side moreover reflects his experimental motivation. Extravagant
sounds and an extraordinary arrangement underline the track's effect
without leaving the dancefloor at all.

Quotation Raveline:

'It's a real bomb!' Deep like a phono-elements-release, but increasingly
techno-dance-compatibly constructed, with beamy deep bass drums, that roll
together almost like electro-snails, sharp-edged soundfragmental gadgets,
that spread out splintering, combined with a really nasty synth-hook, that
smoulders around at ground level, and finally a step-pattern that ticks
like a time fuse. Well, this is FEOS' construction plan for a time bomb
2004 - and it works. No doubt! Put it on and duck, because the party crowd,
too will explode. No doubt at all: 6 points by mat.cat.'

Tracks:

A1: Tanzbombe
B1: aphex & intellekt

With his second release, Producer and DJ Pascal FEOS interprets Techhouse in a very determined manner. As proven on the last release, Pascals passion for the fine stylistic Detroit and Chicago Sound continuous throughout the record. Like on the first Level Non-Zero release, Chris Wood rocks big time on the AA- track with a re-edit of Trigger. The minimalistic Techhousesound totally measures up to his style as a DJ.

Tracks:

A1: Trigger
B1: Trigger (Chris Wood Re-Edit)

Inspired by the latest musical developments, Pascal FEOS is celebrating his new label Level Non-Zero Recordings. The multi-faceted label will move across techhouse orientation through to Electro-Tech without loosing track of Dancefloor. The first release represents a cooperation of three producers, Chris Wood, Michael Schidlo, and Thorsten Schneider, who are moving on Pascal Feos new production grounds. The title "Desire" was developed in close collaboration with the singer, Johanna Thielemann. LNZs fist release includes a Re-Edit by Chris Wood and is supported by a Pascal FEOS-Treatment.

Tracks:

A1: Desire (FEOS Treatment)
B1: Desire (Chris Wood Re-Edit)

The site gives you the opportunity to
get information about previous releases and the involved artists,
to listen to published records or just to give feedback (compliments and
criticism) in the "Guestbook" section.

Future projects:
We want to give you the possibility to listen to exclusive Dj mixes via
online- streaming.
And soon we will open up the "Merchandise" section where you can order label-shirts, slipmats and other stuff.

So watch out for further details!

Have a pleasent week and an even more pleasent weekend!

greetz,
Chris Wood

A-Side
A Deepdish by Kowalski, whose invitation to dance is a must. Voodoo Antidope is ineffective against the rhythms which fascinate from the beginning to the end. Dark voices shove the spheres aside and a perfectly detailed programming provides that they dominate the monotony. The rise of the new PV- Records #69 does not lead into a new magic era but the constellation of P.FEOS/A.Kauffelt/A.Kowalski is another proof for their proficiency and predicts that people with a weak cardiovascular system rather should stay away from dancing. One can hardly imagine a world without these beats and it is said that a long time ago people managed to live without them …

B-Side
"Self Reflexion" was already a hit for the Prophet of Techno, Pascal FEOS. This time Andreas Kauffelt and Alexander Kowalski had their try over this to prove that motion is a motor of evolution. A progressive kickdown by Kauffelt which – without fail - squeezes even the last drop of winter out of the body and whips the neural network electrically. As usual, he slammes through the introduction raising a storm of sweat, passion and vitesse, punctuated by breaks only in order to give a chance to take a breathe while dancing. The History making veteran, Andreas Kauffelt, who has already released countless tracks with dozens of Hits, just seems to get started, as he points out with “Das Akustische Labyrinth”.