CÓMEME

A1 - GIVE IT UP: 18 years ago, on one of his adventures, Christian S found a Casio Keyboard on the street, that brought him back into the active process of music production. We can hear it in this track reflecting the essentially needed "saudade" in dance, like a farewell and a new beginning, keeping us wondering where we find all this energy that allows us to move on.

A2 - JONNIE SDA: The second track is pure dance floor frenzy, techno not techno, for those who know and those who wanna learn! Climbing afrofuturistic arpeggios and soft and precise low ending drums that reverberate inside the heavily pulsating veins of our nocturnal machine - bodies. 

B1 - SIX MILLION BASSDRUMS LATER: In this title track, a psychotropical club anthem, time looses its linearity for good, reanimating lost moments as flashbacks, a raw comemian groove experience as you will only ever find it in the house of Cómeme. "Six Million Bassdrums Later" will be a track you will be hearing dropped by the best throughout this summer (or winter, depending on the hemisphere that you call a home).

B2 - UNDER THE RIVER: I cried a river over you, but what lies underneath? Christian S applies the psychominimal technique of free floating particles again (see his "Little Dragon" remix - released last year) to be softly unloaded upon late night crowds that already gave themselves away and move on in a sleepwalker's or sleepdancer's trance.

"Life goes on in circles, loops, the red 808 light every 16 steps anew, 120 beats per minute, 365 days a year, 6 million bassdrums later - Christian S is back."

Coming on // August 5, 2016 Format // 12" Catalog Nr // Comeme 033

Welcome to a nocturnal show of climbing creatures and warm moving bodies, strangely familiar voices on lonely nightrides, and hair-raising déjà-vus of forgotten dreams. Welcome to her first EP: Jeopardy. Welcome to the world of Borusiade.

Miruna Boruzescu, DJ and producer from Bucharest, descended from Saturn's sphere through various channels of transmission such as: the mesmerising show "Dreamcatcher" on Radio Cómeme, Gudrun Gut's "Expartriarch Generations", Berlin's gay classic "SchwuZ", and in living colour at night from Milano to Mars. 2016 will see her visions coagulated into black vinyl, not only on Cómeme but also on Jennifer Cardini's Correspondant; obviously choosing labels opposed to the genre-abiding underground neocons.

The soundtrack to her Saturn return - a period of loss, transformation and empowerment, soaks us in during the very first bars of Spellbound (Surrender), opening a velvet drape to a hallucinogenic dramatic play of sensualities, sexualities, emotional and physical bondage. Could a film score in a parallel world when doppelgangers of Bela Tarr and John Carpenter team up with Bela Lugosi sound like this? How would these melodies work underlying the imagery of Tarkovsky's Solaris or Stalker?

They not only evoke visions but sweetly poison our bodies on non-documented dance floors. It is here where the queer souls abandon their precarious conditions in society to turn into blooming night shades.

The trip continues with the energy driven Haunted By Flashlights, an electronic body trance of exciting anxiety where lampposts passing by at high velocity turn into strobe: A real nightlife flip book of self forgotten corporal mannerisms.

The title track Jeopardy leads you with the help of a technolover's groove through a modern epiphany, wrapped in Borusiade's softly swinging voice: "When I was listening to the radio the other day… It struck me… I thought I heard your voice… it was a weird noise… a powerful wave… like a whirlwind of sound… It hit me to the ground…"

Rescue seems to stand erected with the monumentality of a greek statue, the melancholy of artifacts from lost civilisations, a slow eruption of cosmogony and rebirth, and ever repeating, inevitable human tragedy. Closing tune Dancer's Doom brings to clarity that this is the beginning of a story that will be continued in other chapters of our lives, through further vibrations of Borusiade's urged transmissions. The enormous drums plus its ever climbing synth arpeggios, trigger our body's chemical rush and makes us long for more. And more.

The Jeopardy EP was written and produced by Borusiade. Final touches done in The District Union, Berlin with the assistance of Gregorio Gomez aka Gladkazuka and Matias Aguayo.

Release Date // January 29, 2016

Format // 12''

Catalog Nr // Cómeme 031

The 12″ comes with an silkscreen-printed inlay.

Label boss, Matias Aguayo, as well as Djs Parejas, Christian S, and Daniel Maloso deliver four takes on Little Dragon’s song Killing Me from their latest album ‘Nabuma Rubberband.’

Aguayo uses his unique technique of his own re-version instead of a traditional remix; replacing the instruments and singing all the way through, he pulls the track from cosmic spheres down to orbit the dark dungeons of the District Union Studios, Berlin and teleported back to the reaches of the universe via mixing desk of Vicente Sanfuentes.

DJs Pareja, long time key figures of Buenos Aires’ thriving underground nightlife, concentrate on the synth/bassline. They dive into a deep and energetic version- a hot, late night trip, drifting and searching…

Christian S dissolves the original in a psycho-minimalistic style, focussing on dubby abstract bits and pieces of Yukimi Nagano’s original vocals and adding his characteristic masterplan of percussion. From Cologne he has created a long, floating ride – a ride already heavily dance-floor approved by DJs around the globe.

Finally, the most sought-after man from Mexico, Daniel Maloso, brings everything back on track. He delivers the Maloso signature of quality: simply irresistible, impulsive and sweaty dance music. This clears your mind and makes your feet move.

Release date: 11 December 2015 Artist: Little Dragon Title: Little Dragon - Killing Me (Cómeme Remix)EP Format: EP Digital Artwork by Sarah Szczesny

Carolina Stegmayer and Ismael Pinkler are sharing their lysergic and lush visions that have become such a fundamental part of today's underground of the city of passionate night-time techno glamour: Buenos Aires.

Dancefloor profoundness, nocturnal whispers, subtropical fruits and disco confusion, on this second EP on Cómeme.

A1 - Fruta : A juicy fruit in shape of a track; a slice of watermelon on the pavement, a journey through landscapes of flavours from unknown but populated planets. Savour the most joyful track of this pleasantly disturbing Vertigo EP. Fruta was made incorporating field recordings of tropical mosquitoes and the drainage pipe from a washing machine, all put to a bass line. It has already become integral in the crate of Cómeme's poster-boy Christian S- to name, but one …

A2 - Discoteca Profunda: Translating to 'profound disco,' this is heavy listening, not background sounds to accommodate chill-out wifi-ed hotel lounges of boutique techno professional conformity. Electricity, flashes, velocity, and contrast in the hands of a dj who dares to drop this tune. Playing it from the start and waiting till the very end to drop the next song's beat, allows to feel the track's whole elevation process…Building up like a large tidal wave on a sweaty dancefloor it soon turns into a seasick Discoteca Profunda, music that makes you feel drunk, or submerged in the open sea, hearing the steadiness and regularly of breaking waves from above.

A3 - Conversación Nocturna : Floating in darkness on a 3am landline call at the end of the weekend: kiss of death, heat, sex, humidity ...  A cinematic interlude, just in time.

B1 - Vertigo : This is not a song- it is an endless circle.

In this prime-time, outdoor, abstract funk jam, under electric storms we experience more liberating disorientation via Carisma's Argento – Tech, every sound becoming a singular character in a slow motion moshpit of soft body masses…

B2 - Dueños de este instante: The psychedelic dancefloor narrative of Carisma: enigmatic and labyrinth-esque. This time represented by a track within a track which decidedly pushes forward, taking and guiding you to another place, and back. A voluntary and careless free fall into an unknown, but trusted universe- rays of light, velocity, strobes, lasers, and high voltage … 

A dance under the electric moon of a dramatic skyscape, finishing a delightful and wonderfully tipsy EP on Cómeme, following Lena Willikens' spatial "Phantom Delia" EP, Aguayo's dance kraze of "El Rudo del House" and Medellin's Dany F dark tropical "Wouhau" 12"…

Coming on // July 20, 2015 (physical & digital)

Format // 12''

Catalog Nr // Cómeme 030

El Rudo sightings documented here: www.instagram.com/donmatiasaguayo

The "Wouhau" EP is 21 year-old Dany's outer worldly take on modern dance music in the most original of forms. Heavy, dirty bass driven rhythms of jacking frenzy, dark and hot, lush and electrifying.

Born in the city of eternal spring and growing up with the omnipresent rhythms of Reggaeton, Dany started to produce his own beats in an early age. He states he also was listening to very commercial electronics, but then started to move underground at the age of eleven.

Using platforms like Soundcloud or Bandcamp to self-releasing his music (e.g. The "Champetraxx Collection" and his album "Cumbia Bonita") Dany F has made a name for himself amongst the young Pan-American scene of tropical rhythms of today (and of the future) which travel from Perú to México, from Argentina to Colombia. These rhythms are produced by katz who grew up without the idea of recordings as a sellable products but instead to be (naturally) generously shared on the all accessible internet, spreading their music via P2P programs and social networks.

Simultaneously releasing albums, EPs, single tracks, and remixes, whilst running his show "Africa, Sur, Champeta" on Radio Cómeme, where he shares a glimpse into his seemingly endless Champeta* collection he is probably one of the most prolific artists of our time, shamefully ignored by imperialistic music press and it's colonial take on music.

(*Champeta being a Colombian phenomenon of bringing the vibes of West African music to heavily equipped sound systems called "pickós.")

After his debut Cómeme release with his underground cumbia house classic "Chalole Batata" on the intercontinental "The Power Of Now" EP, Dany F returns with his very first vinyl released solo EP. In his own words, releasing on vinyl fills him with joy as it is like "leaving a little part of you in the world."

“This disco is taken over!” exclaims El Rudo. Reclaiming the dancefloor for the dancers, in this heavyweight soundsystem jams with claps designed creating the illusion of being spanked (in a good way) once you find the right position: between the speakers.

El Rudo Del House is a collective effort presented by Matias Aguayo, who will be spinning his records and its influences throughout this year from Hamburg to Johannesburg, from Mexico City to New York City, from Paris to Perth … “I invoked El Rudo Del House,” Aguayo proclaims, “and soon there are going to be others possessed by the same spirit.”

Tracklisting:

The four 'Rounds' total 17 tracks, with locked grooves of field recordings from Aguayo's Rudo adventures, on coloured vinyl 12"s. Each Round features a life-sized El Rudo mask that you must copy, disseminate to friends, and wear at your gatherings (and Aguayo's live shows!) to invoke the spirit of El Rudo. El Rudo del House is the quake rattling your organized home. El Rudo del House is the spirit occupying the club and laying dormant in your body… till now, brought out by heavy commercial promotion and hopefully eventually sponsored - according to the new underground strategies of marketplace infiltration. Starting in March 2015, and continuing now...

ROUND TWO (16th March 2015)

Track Notes: A1 - TOMADA 128 BPM - "This disco is taken over!" exclaims El Rudo. Reclaiming the dancefloor for the dancers, in this heavyweight soundsystem jam with claps designed creating the illusion of being spanked (in a good way) once you find the right position: between the speakers.

A2 - 69 GROUND FLOOR LEFT 120 BPM - Here we can listen and dance to pounding tom drums, and the "69 Ground Floor Left!" announcement from a giant airport hall. Hosting industrial machinery plus a warm and dry sound that is characteristic for this series!

B1 - GATO DISCO 120 BPM - "The Disco Cat", with its bouncy Tabla rhythm and its rave stabs, was dubbed the mascot for this EP and inspiring the mask as well as the feline moves that represent the artwork for this release.

B2 - LOCA DANCE 130 BPM – This is an energetic uptempo house rhythm designed for dancefloors with strobes and smoke machines.

B3 - ESE POMPIN 123 BPM – A pounding rhythm for the skillful DJ, who will be able to spice up any track with this irresistible beat 'that pumps!'

Release Date // April 13, 2015 (physical & digital) Format // Coloured 12'' Catalog Nr // Round Two

Buy on Juno, iTunes, Beatport … Release date: March 30th

Shouting out »Agarrate que vai a salir volando!« (Hang on, or you gonna fly off!) Warning you that There's an elephant in your House! Teaching you a dance that is called El Volcanico (The Volcanic). Declaring the disco to be Tomada! (Taken over!). El Rudo Del House takes over the club and reclaims its space for the dancers!

All tracks are written and produced by Matias Aguayo. »I invoked El Rudo Del House,« Aguayo proclaims, »and soon there are going to be others possessed by the same spirit.«

Originally inspired by the Elbee Bad question, »Why not just dance through life?«, Aguayo pursued the question leading him to this radical dancing Spirit who says you should confront every situation with dancing, and apply this spirit into your everyday life. El Rudo Del House teaches that when we dance we can become other beings, switch our species … Turn into little nervous, jittering muppets or clumsy giants. This attitude in motion can become so contagious that we might even make club bouncers dance! El Rudo will strike four times in 2015, starting mid-march. The four 'Rounds' total 16 tracks, with locked grooves of field recordings from Aguayo's Rudo adventures, on coloured vinyl 12"s. Each Round will feature a life-sized El Rudo mask that you must copy, disseminate to friends, and wear en masse at your gatherings (and Aguayo's live shows!) to invoke the spirit of El Rudo.

El Rudo del House is the turbulence in your comfortable auto-piloted flight. El Rudo del House is the monster occupying the club, your house, the street, and will be heavily commercially promoted and hopefully eventually sponsored - according to the new underground strategies of marketplace infiltration. Starting now… MATIAS AGUAYO presents EL RUDO DEL HOUSE - ROUND ONE (16th Mar 2015)

Track Notes:

A1 - EL RUDO DEL HOUSE 120 BPM - The title track and manifesto of the series introduces the rhythm of El Rudo del House, featuring heavy machine drums and powerful moody chords played by airbus jet engines. There are two vocal samples that keep the track going, one female, and one that sounds female.

A2 - AT THE GATE 125 BPM- According to L.A. Williams, Cologne was dubbed 'Baby Chicago' by the US - based DJs of the nineties. This track is heavily inspired by the spirit of the housekatz from the lesser known Sound of Cologne and the 'Lost' parties that Matias Aguayo ran with fellow Cómeme artist, Christian S.

B1 - BAY A SALI BOLANDO 121 BPM - Another track to celebrate the existence of dance music. Here, El Rudo is screaming "Hang on, or you're gonna fly off!" over a non-stop pounding beat while introducing foot shuffling snare drums.

B2 - ELEFANTE 123 BPM- Featuring the statement of El Rudo del House: "There's an elephant in your house." This track is full of off-beat banging cowbell and cascading tom toms of joy. Perfect for the DJ who likes to create new rhythms when combining two tracks, and great for the dancers who like to get down, but shimmy shoulders at the same time.

Release date // March 16, 2015 (physical & digital)

Format // 12''

Catalog Nr // Round One

Limited Edition 300 units 

Listen and order here

13/03: Rizumu meets Cómeme @ 52Hz, PHILADELPHIA, PA w/ Christian S & Lena Willikens 14/03: One Night IN Cómeme @ Le Bain, NEW YORK, NY w/ Matias Aguayo, Christian S & Lena Willikens https://www.facebook.com/events/1552166735024796/

17/03: Cómeme BIS Radioshow Takeover @ WNYU Radio w/ Matias Aguayo, Christian S & Lena Willikens 18/03: c/o pop Radio Cómeme Special @ German Haus, AUSTIN, TX w/ Matias Aguayo, Christian S & Lena Willikens https://www.facebook.com/events/405496056288153/

18/03: Reeperbahn Cómeme Showcase @ German Haus, AUSTIN, TX w/ Matias Aguayo, Christian S & Lena Willikens https://www.facebook.com/events/405496056288153 18/03: One Night In Cómeme / SXSW showcase @ Empire Control Room, AUSTIN, TX w/ Matias Aguayo, Daniel Maloso, Christian S & Lena Willikens https://www.facebook.com/events/1571696979750333 19/03: One Night In Cómeme @ Public Works, SAN FRANCISCO, SF w/ Matias Aguayo, Christian S & Lena Willikens https://www.facebook.com/events/1396485700663469/

20/03: One Night In Cómeme @ A Club Called Rhonda - Los Globos, LOS ANGELES, CA w/ Matias Aguayo, Christian S & Lena Willikens https://www.facebook.com/events/767833589969230/ 22/03: One Night In Cómeme @ Hipodromo, TIJUANA, MEXICO w/ Matias Aguayo, Christian S & Lena Willikens 27/03: Limited Edition @ PORTLAND, OR w/ Lena Willikens 28/03: Fixed @ Good Room, NEW YORK, NY w/ Lena Willikens

Supported by City of Cologne and Initiative Musik.

Gefördert durch die Initiative Musik gemeinnützige Projektgesellschaft mbH mit Projektmitteln des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien auf Grund eines Beschlusses des Deutschen Bundestages.

as one of the only female DJs in the city's emerging alternative clubbing scene. Influenced by a classical musical education and fascinated by raw electronic sounds Borusiade combined these elements in the construction of her DJ sets and starting 2005 also in her music production. After experimenting with different projects, Borusiade slowly crystalized a sound of her own, often dark, with poignant bass lines, obsessive themes and by all means melodic. 

Her DJ sets combine bold and obscure sounds and genres fluctuating mostly in the field of Dark Disco, Minimal Wave, raw House with an Acid touch. The sound is gloomy and powerful, with beats that touch one’s deepest senses on the dance floor.

Links soundcloud.com/borusiade facebook

On Radio Cómeme The Dreamcatcher

Again Sarah: "Right. Her debut EP is indeed that special." 

 Let´s keep this clear. Cómeme has a notorious appetite for stars, shining in their own right. Just listen to "Sentimental Flashback", Lena Willikens' resident broadcast on Radio Cómeme. But this EP even lets her tell a totally confused hippo to recollect its senses ("Nilpferd"). She can hardly be serious. Speaking to herself? 

Since this collection of tracks is overtly at odds with self-restraint. In fact it´s a sublime pairing of technotic lunatic lingo and the vocabulary of her favored musical past and present. 

When I first met Lena, I was struck by her appearance too. I believed her to be a secret encyclopedia, at least on everything Düsseldorf (see her involvement in Salon des Amateurs), everything Brussels and everything New Wave. Barely the whole truth. Actually not at all. 

Because one lavish night two years ago or so, I heard her playing one of her inimitable sets for the first time and was struck again. Here was some white-Reeboked Taeuber-Arp version of an oddball-Techno DJ, delicately refusing the obvious pattern of dance communication. 

Evidently raised on certain 20th-century avant-garde subjects and fantasies (like e.g. becoming a phantom) she was distinctively converting those fantasies into the contemporary realness of fueling twisted and contorted dance floor needs. Has done since, now travelling the world. 

Phantom Delia (the title) may be regarded as a tribute to her patroness of choice, Delia Derbyshire. But that´s only a hint. Phantom Delia (the record, co-produced by Matias Aguayo) comes as an irresponsible plunge into the stone cold/feverish schizo-joy of deviant data music, of monstrous and moonlit, red-eyed and grinning deus ex machina-floorwork a là Cómeme and haiku-like electronic shadow plays (title track) with a secret knowledge of how to turn the finest gloom into finest white light and vice versa. 

 Release date: January 12th, 2015 

Don't Hide Be Wild - This track that starts in a bass and drums mood that could bring an ESG performance to mind, slowly and inexplicably morphes into a modern psychedelic discoteca monster that sucks you in deeper and deeper in the most old school sense of the term, and leads you to Mr. Pascal Schäfer's Saxophone frenzy. Track Con Flute immediately feels like a classic and hearing it you might wonder in which year it was recorded: 1979? 1994? 2014? 2025? For more timeless euphoria the disco always needs, this is a great present delivered by the overly talented Ms. Helder. Otra Cosa breathes a similar spirit, but turning the vinyl onto side B we are acquainted with the title track Fiebre De Marte, in a late night or early morning »keep on dancing« mood of slowly but steadily ecstasy induced pleasure around a deep wobbly bassline that comes from underneath and is answered by a vocal mantra and a hypnotically modulated synth. Chabond, the next song, features heavy drum and guitar action where rock embraces disco without fear, stomping, pumping and pounding its way through the city jungle. The EP closes with Cada Día Te Quiero Mas, which breathes the rhythms of Argentinean stadium crowds or popular »murga« carnival in combination with newyorkish wha pedal guitars and morphing synth bass.

If you want to support modern genre defying dance music made by women, the purchase of this vinyl is a must, and be sure you won't be deceived, as this record will grow on you more and more with time, and it has met the Cómeme's own 100% Dancefloor Approved Warranty standards.