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NEW RELEASE
Lawrence - Timeless (COCOON)
(Dj Mx CD - Coremix35)
Label: Cocoon Recordings
Available formats CD only Barcode CD 827170118225 Release Date 19th August 2011 physical / 19th August 2011 digital



Being Germany's Gateway to the World, the port city Hamburg always had a special affinity to America. So, it's not surprising that Peter M. Kersten aka Lawrence has a deep musical and spiritual relation to the Detroit Techno aesthetics for more than ten years now. His label Dial Rec, which he runs together with Carsten Jost, stands more than almost any other European address for the value-conscious cultivation of high-quality melancholy Techno. After seven albums under his producer aliases Lawrence and Sten, Kersten now continues the perfection of his sound vision also as a DJ in a congenial way.

"Timeless" is far away from the dictate of the dogmatic obligation to currentness that DJs have to face nowadays, but celebrates electronic dance music as a timeless sensual component. With instinctive certainty, Kersten covers 16 years of living club history without ever losing the sight of the acoustic 'here and now', or even becoming the slightest bit anachronistically nostalgic. Instead, under his sensitive hands, milestones of minimalized Deep House like "Forever Monna" by Chez Damier, Ron Trent and Stacey Pullen (1995) or the 1999 club hit "Overcome" by Thomas Melchior/Baby Ford come together with contemporary and intensive hommages to Detroit Techno like Smallpeople & Rau's "Life Aquatic", Delano Smith's "My Life" or Pigon's fantastic Dub Tech romance "Beatmatching" from the 10-Years-Anniversary compilation of Dial Rec in a wonderful way. Besides that, the mix features such well-known names like Aril Brikha, Isolée, the Ifach Collective and Robert Hood, before Roman Flügel sets a wistful final chord with "Brian Le Bon", a track based on Duran Duran's masterpiece "Save A Prayer", and Plaid finishes the mix with the crystalline "OI" from their classic album "Not For Threes" (Warp).

Lawrence's mix literally breathes the serenity of a light-flooded Sunday morning somewhere between a modernist city and a wood glade, and thus gives his global artistic approach a suitable dimension.

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NEW ALBUM OUT SOON ON MULE

Lawrence - Until Then, Goodbye
Mule Electronic CD
Release Date: August 2009

Tracklist

01 Friday's Child
02 Sunrise
03 Grey Light
04 Jill
05 Father Umbrillo
06 Todenhausen Blues
07 The Dream
08 In Your Eyes
09 Miles
10 Sleep And Suffer
11 Don't Follow Me
12 A New Day
13 Until Then, Goodbye

plus several 12"es
first 12": In your eyes

tourdates for this release tour are still available!
if you want to have a promo cd please write to romy@magnet-musik.de

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Sten - The Essence - New Album on Dial September 2008