OCTOBER 00

NORDIC NEWS & PROMO BIZNESS 10.30.00 - NT015 - 12" out now! - UK dates & chart from Luke - Necessary Pieces 2 CD released today in Europe! plus reviews ______________________________________________________ CAT#: NT015 FORMAT: 12" vinyl only ARTIST: MORGAN PAGE TITLE: Pathways RELEASE: Oct 23, 2000 via Prime worldwide. Currently making waves with his release on NYC's Fiji Records, this Boston producer drops another timely ep for Nordic Trax. Smooth, refined deepness is on tap here, as Morgan displays his considerable prowess in the studio. >From the brooding textures of 'Northern Lights' to the smooth and skippy vibe of 'Floater', Morgan escapes the traps of definition in modern dance music, and turns in a solid ep of quality music You can listen to and/or buy this ep now at: www.homebass.ca/release/r3605.cfm ______________________________________________________ Chart 10/30/00 Luke McKeehan - Nordic Trax/Sonar Resident @ Fever - Saturdays @ Sonar, 66 Water St, Vancouver BC CANADA www.sonar.bc.ca in London this week: Fri Nov 3 - 'Special Needs' @ Turnmills, 63b Clerkenwell Rd, London 10pm-7am w/ Dave Rowe & Guy Bastable Sun Nov 5 - 'Kerfuffle All-Dayer' @ Plug, Stockwell Rd, Brixton 6am-1am w/ Liz Edwards, Terry Francis, Matthew B, Deano, Dave Mothersole & more DJ Delerious - Fade Away (CDR) Alric - Lower Horizon (Plastic City) Mettletrax - Rush (Nordic Trax) George T - Sauce (Pohm Pohm) King Kooba - Fooling Myself *Derrick Carter Dub (Om) Pete Moss - Connective (Ovum) Harrisson Crump - Racing Rotors *Circulation Remix (Special Needs) War Against Silence EP (Grow) V/A - Refresh Your Sense Vol 2 (Sense) Native Soul - Our Day Will Come *Problem Kids Rmx (Afro Art) ______________________________________________________ NECESSARY PIECES 2 CAT #: NT014 FORMAT: CD/2LP ARTIST: Various TITLE: NECESSARY PIECES 2 - Mixed & Compiled by Tyler 'T-Bone' Stadius Out now in Europe from Prime Distribution. Vancouver DJ Tyler Stadius has found time to sift through another massive batch of unreleased DAT's and presents our newest full-length offering. The release is the follow up to 1999's critically-acclaimed 'Necessary Pieces' (NT007CD), Tyler's first collection of deep house from Canada. The latest installment is a journey into deeper moods of house & dubby techno, featuring an eclectic cast of strictly underground Canadian producers. Released on double-vinyl & mixed-CD, 'Necessary Pieces 2' features music from across this large country, including Deja Vu, Peter Hecher, Jon Delerious, F.S.P., Ben Nevile, Gavin Froome, Jay Tripwire, Mike Shannon & Sunkissed. ______________________________________________________ NT014 CD/LP Press & Charts Our latest full-length release is receiving support & charts from Eukahouse (London), DJ Link (Spain), David Duriez (France), Murray Richardson (Edinburgh), Liz Edwards (Swag/Brixton), Laurent Garnier (France), Tomas @ XLR8R (SF) and Harri @ Sub Club (Glasgow) amongst others. > MUZIK Magazine UK, Nov 00 Excellent compilation of techno-influenced deep house culled from the increasingly happening Canadian scene. Highlights include tracks by FSP and Deja Vu, Sunkissed's 'Embrace', DJ Delerious' low-slung bass groover 'Way Out' and Ben Nevile's beautifully dreamy 'Designer Drugs'. Top music, good value. **** (DM) > XLR8R Magazine SF, #45 Nordic Trax's follow-up to their 1999 release Necessary Pieces comes packed with more Canadian patirotism, featuiring deep tech-house tracks by attention-worthy producers. The CD-mixed by Tyler 'T-Bone' Stadius uncovers previously unreleased sounds from the country's most forward-thinking scene-builders. Necessary Pieces 2 is a smooth, mood-swingy collection filled with shadowy floor-movers; encompassing all things dubby, tech-oriented and groovesome, it spotlights the skills of house revolutionaries Gavin Froome, Peter Hecher, Deja Vu and other like minds. A smooth, subtly aggressive mix promises to turn more critical attenton towards our neighbors to the north. Nordic Trax wants more respect, and this release seals the deal. (MP) > Untitled Magazine http://www.untitledmusic.co.uk ISSUE 25 ONLINE Mixed and compiled by Tyler 'T-Bone' Stadius, this twelve track CD shows off what Nordic Trax have been doing so quietly for so long. Right from the likes of Ben Neville 'Designer Drugs' with it's spaced out moods and direct bassline leader you get the sense of well built tunes that can please and tease at will. Gavin Froome 'Skunks' adds another edge to this sound with his high stepping percussion filled spiralling track that whips up your heals and slides a carpet of deep bulbous beat underneath. Peter Hecher with 'Electric' lifts the tempo again adding an electronic current to the heart of the track, pacey direct dance music with a mean face and a magical bass hook. The more it progresses the hard the sound gets culminating in Mike Shannon and 'Deep Blue' a hard beating bassline stomper with industrial clanks filtered in the backroom, it's hard and bold, but the journey here never loses you building it all up in class fashion. 9/10 > Vancouver Province 9/26/00 Another winning release from Vancouver's burgeoning electronic music scene. File it alongside Gavin Froome's 'Mobile Villager' and Upstairs Recordings debut compilation. Big props to Nordic Trax for not releasing an album of relentlessly bouncy house music that dominates the local dance scene. Stretching out to include a variety of textures and moods, from 'Designer Drugs,' Ben Nevile's minimalist exercise in subdued, bubbling beats, to Calgarian Peter Hecher's pulsing, bass-driven club floor number 'Electric,' all 12 tunes on this compilation benefit from a seamless mix by the talented Tyler 'T-Bone' Stadius. The release party for the CD is at Sonar this Saturday. (Stuart Derdeyn)