Label compadres Jimmy Edgar, Miro Pajic, Tomas More and Andy Martin will make their second appearances on the compilation. Detroit phenomenon Jimmy Edgar first released the "Funktion Of Your Love" EP on I&T in 2009, while Tomas More and Andy Martin took over the "Various Items" release in 2011. Earlier this year, Berlin-based producer talent Miro Pajic also appeared on the B-side of Marc Houle’s "Undercover" single with his remix. On the home team roster, Click Box, Madato, Danny Benedettini and newcomers Howard Watson and NYMA surprise us with a few new tricks as they unleash their summer sounds.
Each track is fresh, fun and tailored to the summer season, bearing unique and funky musical traits unearthing the producers’ personalities. Naturally, a compilation of such high caliber wouldn’t pass through without a corresponding mix CD and for that, Items & Things has put Magda on the job. The mix CD will come out as a separate release on July 27. Furthermore, all tracks will be made available as individual digital download.

As part of the VARIABLES release, Marc Houle and other compilation artists will head out to the sandy bar and club spot Ressort on July 22, 2012, overlooking the Spree in Berlin-Mitte to celebrate the release. A barbeque will kick off the festivities on the sundeck in the afternoon, later shifting bodies to the dance floor inside where the artists will play until the next morning. The full line-up and other details of the event will be announced soon.

Press Contact: Clare Dover | Global Publicity, clare@globalpublicity.co.uk
General Info: Franziska Eichler | Label Manager, franzie@itemsandthings.com
Released by: itemsandthings
Release/catalogue number: IT016
Release date: Jul 13, 2012

IT016 "VARIABLES" preview by itemsandthings

Lazerslut Recordings has seen the light of life in early 2008. Four years later Miro has reached No. 30 on the release list and the time to gather tracks for a "Best Of", or should it rather be called "Worst Of"? Why even considering the latter description? Because this compilation is not an assembly of the most sold, charted or successful tracks from the label.

Miro’s selection is a personal and deep choice of personal favorites. Each track stands for music that often "made" the label the way it is. Thirteen thoughtfully picked pieces of timeless and mostly spooky music covering weird after hour needs as well as dramatic techno. Additionally Saturn Rain, a previously unreleased track has been added.

Check out and purchase Highlights here: Beatport

The 15th digital release on Patrick Bateman’s always reliable Tic Tac Toe is from Berlin based Miro Pajic and comes backed with some high profile remixes from Alexi Delano and Jussi-Pekka. Pajic is someone who has always explored a romantic gloom and mathematic sense of rhythm through his stripped back techno releases on labels like Lazerslut, Klickhaus and Harthouse, and for that reason has always garnered much support from the likes of Troy Pierce, Adam Beyer, Magda and many more similar artists: happily, this excellent new EP is likely to do exactly the same.
Opener “Moan” pairs weirded-out vocals with eerie samples, which swirl and swoop about the darkened landscapes depicted by Pajic. It’s warm, atmospheric minimal techno with a deeply embed groove which gets you, and keeps you, dancing as various claps and percussive hits come in and out.

“Dark Butterfly” is the other original cut and is more detailed than the first. Here the drums drop from a greater height and the pace is more upright, but just as many deft production details linger in the lovely techno spaces that remain.
The first remix comes from Swede Alexi Delano who has made big waves with releases on seminal labels like Plus 8 and Clink. This new school techno talent makes “Moans” into a wonky wig-out tune perfect for the dead of night. His synth sounds are globular and suggestive as the original’s vocal haunts the track from start to finish.
Closing out what is another connoisseur selection of sleek minimal techno, rising star Jussi-Pekka transforms “Dark Butterfly” into an acidic, gurgling tech house monster that bides its time to build to a tense peak. The well defined beats and shiny FX are mangled into a slippery arrangement which never sits still: one for the afterparty, for sure…


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BUY HERE: Beatport

Miro Pajic can be now booked (worldwide) as a DJ or Live act via Tikapama Bookings.
Everything will be handled by the lovely Helena. For requests: info at tikapama dot com

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For his new EP, ‘Undercover', Items & Things co-founder Marc Houle jumps in his time machine and heads back in time. Destination Chicago, 1987, and a face to face with Master C&J exploring the mysterious power of plunging basslines and moody synths. On remix duties Berlin based Miro Pajic sneaks in charting a decidedly bleepier course while Bruno Pronsato delivers his signature 'romantic techno' sound.
 
There’s no way back and Marc launches the fist bars of ‘Undercover’ with just a bouncy kick and a vintage ‘house’ bassline. With reverb in full effect the drums and hi-hats find their own space and time. Then, if the synths that roll in aren’t mysterious enough for you, the pillow talk vocals will be. The end of each line, spoken with a certain sense of agitation, is covered by chords that ride, all night long. The revelation is for your imagination but you might not want to be ‘Under Covers’ with this guy.   
 
Next up, Miro takes the dirty sheets and chucks them in the washing machine for a good old fashioned rinse and spin. This mix creeps along all bubbles, pops, tick tocks and rim shots. Snare rolls glide in and out of time only to snap back for a sub-bass drop or a little heavy breathing. What more can you ask for?
 
Bruno’s ‘Electric Blanket Dub’ warms things up quite nicely with its intricate, heady take on the original. Bringing a subtle balance to the three mixes with vaguely organic tones, natural rhythms and spontaneous drum fills, Mr. Pronsato comes through in full on a cold Berlin night.
 
The final track, ‘Triple E’, is an underground goodie brandishing a relentless kick and enough swing to make Chancellor Merkel do the Jitterbug. Combine sharp snares, a muted bass warble and nonsensical vocal snips panning from side to side and you have the perfect late night jack track or pump priming party starter.
   
True to the ‘no rules’ vision laid out by Marc, Magda and Troy, this new edition of ‘Items & Things’ is weird and wonderful with more bounce to the ounce.


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According to the calendar of the Mayas, our planet will end this year, which is hopefully an imprecise forecast. Nevertheless Miro starts his 2012 with an apocalyptic sounding and 29th state-of-the-art release on Lazerslut. The title track Zombie Beauty floats with a funked up, filthy disco beat. Typical for Miro, it melds with a heavy leading bass synth which reminds of Carpenter style late 70's sci-fi horror movies. To cover the spectrum, he rounds out the track with doomy bleep glides, other obscure vintage sounding synth chords and his perfectionist atmospheric colors from outer space.

Falling Love Birds is far from a romantic or sad love song in its classic sense.This track rather fits a 2012 Maya-vision soundtrack from every aspect. Unsurpassable romantic gloom masterly assembled to an ultimate dance tune to hell. Miro's passion for accurate, emotional expression peaks at levels barely heard by other artists in this genre. Love it or loathe it - There's no in-between!

Release Date:
27/01/2012 (Beatport excl.)
10/01/2012 (all other shops)

BUY HERE: Beatport

Miro's 28th release on Lazerslut introduces itself with slick, yet intense simplicity.

A vibe-y atmosphere keeps creeping upon you whilst a funky basic 808 supported beat is rolling and marching in this 10 minute "tour le dark". Click Box and their various releases on Minus and Items & Things certainly need no further introduction. Remixing Neon Glow, they deliver their usual highest quality techno. As so often the guys combine old school drum machine fun(k) with spooky vibes of the original mix and perfectly blend it to another hit track!

Is This Dub? is the question on track No. 3. To find out youd have to say yes and step into another adventurous world of twisted oddity. Spring reverb driven hand claps funk throughout a spaced out low frequency nebula and alienated bass patterns. Occult-y voices chanting for and with the listener, not knowing where this will end. Find out for yourself - Possibly on the next party, after hour or another solar system...

buy Neon Glow here: Beatport

This remix of the Horrorist’s track Hostage has been floating around for a few months, played by several selected DJ’s. Finally it has been released on Oliver Chesler’s label „Things To Come Records“ among 18 other remixes (tracks taken from his album Joyless Pleasure) in various styles, covering genres like industrial, electro, synth pop or techno. A package that should satisfy numerous people out there.

Here’s the link to Miro’s remix:

BEATPORT

Enjoy!

Miros creative sound architecture shines in a variety of interpretations, living between romantic gloom, absurd musicality and rhythm mathematics that could be a Stanley Kubrick version of modern dance music whilst retaining functionality. His mostly dense assemblies enrapture the fantasy thursty listener, who can expect episodic surreal surprises. His deepest passion for detail and visionary audio adventures can be heard regularly on his label Lazerslut and has been unveiled on labels such as Klickhaus, Harthouse, Tic Tac Toe Records and several others. With "Calling Earth" Miro presented his latest works on Gastspiel Records for your pleasure.

buy it here: Beatport

The latest podcast invitation was by the guys from Get The Curse, for whom Miro has recorded a very special set, which includes various unreleased and upcoming tracks into a one hour audio sensation. Don’t sit back and relax. Turn up the volume and take a ride.

Go check it out here:
GTC129 - Miro Pajic

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(Official Presstext by Harthouse)
With his latest album „Saturn Drama“ on Harthouse techno primary rock Miro Pajic, who has records out there on labels like Proper NYC, Kiddaz.fm, Tic Tac Toe or Tora Tora Tora and collaborated with artists like Chroma or The Horrorist, crossed the border of minimal techno with his tight and powerful arrangements full of black romantic rooms and intelligent sound design. Now we have the first single „Do It“ out on vinyl, together with the album tracks „Alien Angels“ and „Sexy Beast“.

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Alphadoom borders between durable fundaments and haunting ghost messages from the unknown. Straight forward rhythm dynamics march throughout a 9 minute journey of an endless seeming ride to nowhere. A thick and bass loaded framework pushes and drives along with fluffy percussions, guaranteeing a functional, substantial movement. The fun begins with Miro’s specialties, once he opens his book of weirdness. In this case he goes for the next episode of unpredictable, ghost-like spook in form of unreal synthesizer lines. This is the type of track you’ll surely appreciate, if you were into some of his previous dark productions. It’s his most modern interpretation of this kind.

Three other views about Alphadoom is what we have in the bag for the 23rd episode of Lazerslut. Hans Bouffmyhre (Sleaze Records - UK), Ricado Garduno and Andre Ramos (both Illegal Alien Records - USA) complete this release with three fantastic sounding remixes.

Hans, known for a pretty tough and straight forward sound, doesn’t hesitate and immediately goes the „I make a techno party bomb“ way with his remix, while staying pretty close to the vibe of the original mix. This will surely be found on many laptops of worldwide Techno DJ’s!

Ricardo shines with a stripped down, atmospheric remix with lots of sensibility, minimalism and attention to aesthetics.

Andre (Ricardo and Andre are also producing as Pitchverb) delivers high
quality in a literally minimalistic and dry sounding remix, that perfectly fits
„those certain hours“ of magic and relaxing excitement.

Pick your poison and enjoy!

Tracklisting (click to listen):
1. Alphadoom (Original Mix)
2. Alphadoom (Hans Bouffmyhre Remix)
3. Alphadoom (Ricardo Garduno Remix)
4. Alphadoom (Andre Ramos Remix)


Also check the guys out at their homebase:

www.sleazerecordsuk.com
www.illegalalienrecords.com

Cat. No.: HHMA018-2
Format: CD / DIGITAL
Artist: MIRO PAJIC
Album: SATURN DRAMA






(Official Presstext by Harthouse)
One of the most successful Dj's and producers of the nineties presents his new album on Harthouse: Miro Pajic. As 'Miro' he played at the biggest international raves, under aliases like 'Hypnotizer' he characterized rave and hardcore and released on labels like Kiddaz.FM, ToraToraTora, Tic Tac Toe, Proper N.Y.C., Things To Come and his own imprint Laserzlut, of course.
With his new album he is blowing up the boundaries of minimal techno. The architecture of his ten tracks is as manyfold as the philosophic interpretations of room and time in general like the physicists are speculating about a multiverse. Every sample, every little designed sound is at its place and could never be somewhere else. Thus Miro Pajic creates moods between reading romantic poems, floating in weightnessless and exploring new worlds of perception. Thus the intro of the first track '(Welcome) Bubblehead' reminds to the first scene of the movie 'Alien' where a nearly poetic and romantic music supports the pictures of the awakening crew. Then he sets a highlight with the very sexy 'Do It' (feat. Joody). Concentrating on beats basses and science fiction sounds he gives the vocals enough room to unfold their atmospheric effects. Miro Pajic has the ability to give his tracks a certain tightness by giving them a little kick in the ass at the right moments. So the synth line in 'Evacuate The Equator', the dry beats in 'Collide', the melody in 'Octopusm' or the razorsharp percussions in 'Dusty Star' are surprising elements. Furthermore Miro gives his tracks a deepness that seems to be bottomles. This album really is a little treasure of minmal techno music where you will explore new things everytime you listen to it.

Tracklisting:
1. (Welcome) Bubblehead (6:50)
2. Sexy Beast (7:13)
3. Alien Angels (6:04)
4. Do It (feat. Joody) (8:19)
5. Evacuate The Equator (6:43)
6. Collide (8:39)
7. Dusty Star (7:01)
8. Underwater Love (7:11)
9. Saturn Drama (8:02)
10. Octopusm (7:44)


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It's been two years, since Oliver Chesler (The Horrorist) and his old buddy Miro have cooked an audio soup together. The title track Das Seltsame Grau , a modern zombie-dance tale performed by Oliver, showing of his german language-skills and his usual hypnotic power. Together with Miros programming passion, this obscure piece of modern dance music puts a spell on you and the person next to you.

The Horrorist  wouldn't be the Horrorist, if the music wouldn't speak words of horror, like in Your Lips. Spooky voice effects jacketed in assertive sound structures and bulldozer bass-ground guarantee a cold shower experience and pleasing nightmares.

Lazerslut welcomes Beaner (Bar25) , who delights us with his two versions of the main title. Slow, groovy, deep and housey sounds for slow motion afterhours and funny substances. Catchy vibes, carefully crafted with love, knowing what it takes to make „the ones that know what it's all about“ move their wasted bodies in a good Bar25 manner. Gotta love this one!

Another unique remix (and complete opposite of Beaners remix) is done by  The Mover : Legendary apocalyptic techno hero, co-founder of  PCP  (Planer Core Productions/Frankfurt) and Miro's old colleague, who's last offcial release has been 10 years ago on Tresor. His interpretation of Das Seltsame Grau is, as so often, a slow, dark and pounding sound with minimoog bassline and heavy melodies.

Pick your poison and enjoy!



 Tracklisting 
(click on tracks for samples)
1. Das Seltsame Grau (Original Mix)
2. Your Lips (Original Mix)
3. Das Seltsame Grau (Ol Dirty Beaner Version)
4. Das Seltsame Grau (Ol Dirty Skirtchaser Version)
5. Das Seltsame Grau (The Mover Remix)

support by:
Alexi Delano, Troy Pierce, John Selway, Camea, Tim Xavier, Bloody Mary, Patrick Bateman, Audio Injection, Mike Wall, Noreuil, Miss Sunshine, Click Click, Alexx Wolfe, Dave Shokh +++

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Lazerslut is happy to welcome Miss Sunshine, Heron and Noreuil onboard.

Croatias Miss Sunshine has no remorse and took the cat into a dark alley. Atmospheric and spooky vibes are her interpretation of Meow. Senor Heron has one specific message: Techno, techno, techno! Dancefloor ripping straightness and long build-up's make this a prime time killer! Noreuil, a fantastic UK based producer who knows what it takes to make this release even better. Classic bassline, driving percussion and well built arrangement guarantees fun times on the floor.

Pick your poison and enjoy.

already supported by:
Alexi Delano, Stephan Bodzin, Magda, Dubfire, Tim Xavier, Camea, Audio Injection,
Steve Parker, Patrick Bateman, Ziel 100, Franco Bianco, Mike Wall + + +

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This is the official announcement of my forthcoming CD album "Saturn Drama", being released on the legendary label Harthouse. I'm very excited about this special release including 10 tracks, done with alot of love, concept and passion. Three of these tracks will be released on vinyl, aswell as a mixed version coming a little later (more about this here soon).

The album will be available:
Digital / CD: 29/10/2010
Beatport excl: 15/10/2010
Vinyl: 10/11/2010 (tbc)



Tracklisting:

01. (Welcome) Bubblehead
02. Sexy Beast
03. Alien Angels
04. Do It (feat. Joody)
05. Evacuate The Equator
06. Collide
07. Dusty Star
08. Underwater Love
09. Saturn Drama
10. Octopusm

Label: Harthouse
Distributed by: Intergroove