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Available exclusively at HHV: The album in gold! Limited to 100 pieces.

Second album by Magic Island from Berlin-Neukölln. Co-produced by hiphop producer Phong. A fragmented, multimedia album about your neighborhood

Limited Edition of 150 copies, coming with a hologram sticker.

Quantum Web is the new album from Discovery Zone, the experimental pop project of musician and multimedia artist JJ Weihl. Dipping into a pool of musically stylistic depth and flipping themes of omnipresence in advertising and corporate culture sterility into aesthetic guideposts for her omnivorous compositions, Quantum Web represents the next evolutionary phase of Discovery Zone while arranging the past, present, and future across the infinite, invisible web that interconnects us all. First edition vinyl includes a printed inner sleeve with album lyrics. Music and lyrics performed and written by JJ Weihl Produced and arranged by JJ Weihl and E.T. Recorded and mixed by E.T. at Phantom Studios, Berlin, Germany Additional music written and recorded at The Loft, New York City, NY, at home in Berlin, Germany and at Trixx Studios, Berlin, Germany (Thanks Tim!) Mastered by Heba Kadry, New York City, NY Lacquers cut by Josh Bonati, Bonati Mastering, Brooklyn, NY

Release Date is March 8th, International Women's Day.

„The Great Design“, the third album by Berlin based indie musician John Moods will be out November 11th on Mansions and Millions. The record was produced by ET and mastered by Heba Kadry.

HHV and the VUT label award 2020 winning label Mansions and Millions come together for the second time to offer you a run of 100 white vinyl copies of a new release. „The Great Design“, the third album by Berlin based indie musician John Moods will be out November 11th on Mansions and Millions. The record was produced by ET and mastered by Heba Kadry.

"What we're talking about now, is now. How long is now?" New York born, Berlin based musician and film maker JJ Weihl is set to release her debut solo record as Discovery Zone on June 5th via cult Berlin label Mansions and Millions. Her album Remote Control, with its palette of chimes, chirps and shimmers, is a glowing meditation on our contradictory moment in history. In her hands, the limitations of the default setting form a territory of unbounded experimentation, from the system-notification synth funk of "Dance II" to the trance incantations of "Blissful Morning Dream Interpretation Melody." There are bits of sound collage and a lot of operatic robot choirs woven through tight emotional electronic pop. Weihl implements drum machines, vocoder, sound collage, theremin and electric guitar, creating a small laboratory both in the studio and on stage. The experimental aspects of Weihl's music are reflected in the spectrum of playful aesthetics, maintaining a strong focus on emotional and accessible pop melodies. Nostalgia is mixed into more synthetic sound worlds, each song dipping into past and future sonic landscapes.

NALAN, that means quite literally "the screaming one" and "the wailing one". Perhaps also the one who can give suffering a fleeting form through the vibration of her vocal cords. And it is also both the civil name and the new pseudonym under which Nalan Karacagil will release her (at least technically speaking) debut album "I'm Good. The Crying Tape."

The record is conceived, it couldn't be otherwise, as a kind of modern siren song that should literally make you cry. But all this can be interpreted positively, especially on the musical side. The album also sounds like skating on Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, warm summer wind and breaking into the swimming pool as a distant memory of youth. A time machine to the teenage years, when the world seemed to consist only of pain and joy.
Accordingly, the record is composed of melancholy-tinged and cheerful songs, electronic synth surfaces, Timbaland-esque and 90-jungle inspired drum machine beats on one side of the spectrum, guitars and drums on the other.

So why technically the debut album? Well, in recent years, Nalan appeared mostly as part of the group Gaddafi Gals. But besides that, she also released her first solo EP “ugly” in December 2018, at that time still under her moniker slimgirl fat, under which she continues to DJ, while two EPs had already been released under the name Nalan381 before Gaddafi Gals. So far, so complicated. Anyway, for her upcoming first solo album she is now working for the first time with the Berlin label Mansions and Millions.

“I'm Good. The Crying Tape”: this is also the most personal phase in the work of the musician and writer so far. Right on the first day of the first lockdown, when it was feared that she would really only be able to go out on the street to shop, to spend months in quarantine, she began work, and indeed the first single “I'm Good” was born on that first evening. In the end, it turned into eleven songs.

On the producer side, the musician worked with walter p99 arkestra, who also served as executive producer and is also part of Gaddafi Gals, keyboardist Kiara Bo, and David Tobias of Dürerstuben.
"The album has a bit of a script, each song is like a single chapter for me, in which I highlight themes from different perspectives and moods," says Nalan himself.
"I'm Good," for example, is about the question "How are you?" to which one can almost only answer with a phrase. “Good. what else could it be?”. The single accordingly sounds very cheerful at first, but it quickly becomes clear that much of this is only happening on the surface. As "good" as one was promised, it does not end, that much can be revealed.

In "Only Birds Can Tell" this surface is also broken sound-technically, the piano chords sound melancholic, the 808 hums gloomily. In addition, the artist sings about the tragic loss of her grandmother, with whom she had grown up for a time and about strategies to remain positive and strong despite everything.
The story takes its course. "Bed of Tears" describes a feeling of powerlessness, the doubt about one's own existence, told like an abstract, fantastic film. Nothing seems real, everything like a dream from which you do not wake up, once again fueled by the apparent contradiction between poppy sounds and plaintive vocals.
The bonus track "Son Kez" (English "one last time") in turn is the only song in Turkish. It was inspired by covers songs she published on her Instagram channel, where for once she did not sing in English. The track, as Nalan, who grew up bilingually, describes it herself, could only be written and thought in Turkish. It ironically describes the despair of unrequited love, in which the main character unintentionally turns out to be a stalker in the end.
The slow-building "Crush," the last song on the album, feels like catharsis for everything that came before it. Everything is shouted out, the positive as well as the tragic, for now at least.

Quantum Web is the new album from Discovery Zone, the experimental pop project of musician and multimedia artist JJ Weihl. Dipping into a pool of musically stylistic depth and flipping themes of omnipresence in advertising and corporate culture sterility into aesthetic guideposts for her omnivorous compositions, Quantum Web represents the next evolutionary phase of Discovery Zone while arranging the past, present, and future across the infinite, invisible web that interconnects us all. First edition vinyl includes a printed inner sleeve with album lyrics. Music and lyrics performed and written by JJ Weihl Produced and arranged by JJ Weihl and E.T. Recorded and mixed by E.T. at Phantom Studios, Berlin, Germany Additional music written and recorded at The Loft, New York City, NY, at home in Berlin, Germany and at Trixx Studios, Berlin, Germany (Thanks Tim!) Mastered by Heba Kadry, New York City, NY Lacquers cut by Josh Bonati, Bonati Mastering, Brooklyn, NY
Release Date is March 8th, International Women's Day.