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"Forever Jan" packs 25 (!) years into the most comprehensive compilation possible - and, despite all the stylistic diversity, makes the common thread of this extraordinary career recognizable in every respect. Jan Delay himself has become an icon of German pop: He has shaped how music sounds in this country, and he has inspired entire generations to listen to their raveheart and consistently do their thing.

But above all, he has always remained a fan. Anyone who has shared a dancefloor with Jan at five o'clock in the morning or discussed the latest Soundso record with him, indeed anyone who has experienced him on stage even once, knows what music means to him, how it drives him, how it defines his work. The beats, the bass, the whole boom, that's his element. And he has always transferred this passion very directly into his own projects. Anyone who hears "Forever Jan" knows that this fire will burn forever.

"Forever Jan" comes with 2 new tracks, classics, rarities and floor fillers.

Limited hardcover book in vinyl format incl. 2 new tracks: 5-fold vinyl (colored, 180g) and 2 CDs with glued-in 20-page booklet and signed DIN A5 photo

"Forever Jan" packs 25 years into the most comprehensive compilation possible - and, despite all the stylistic diversity, makes the common thread of this extraordinary career recognisable in every respect. Jan Delay himself has become an icon of German pop: He has shaped how music sounds in this country, and he has inspired entire generations to listen to their raveheart and consistently do their thing.

But above all, he has always remained a fan. Anyone who has shared a dancefloor with Jan at five o'clock in the morning or discussed the latest Soundso record with him, indeed anyone who has experienced him on stage even once, knows what music means to him, how it drives him, how it defines his work. The beats, the bass, the whole boom, that's his element. And he has always channelled this passion directly into his own projects. Anyone who hears "Forever Jan" knows that this fire will burn forever.

"Forever Jan" comes with 2 new tracks, classics and floor fillers.

Limited to 500 copies.

Classic der Dicke & Snares release their new groundbreaking record titled '1990'. The EP contains six carefully selected songs that are characterized by personal experiences and thoughts. The lyrics are profound and offer an honest insight into the life of Classic der Dicke. The beats are thoughtful and powerful, literally carrying the listener through the tracks. With this album, the artists manage to create a perfect blend of honest lyrics and infectious beats. For the first time, Classic der Dicke shows a very open side - this is exactly how hip-hop should be!

OG Keemo and Funkvater Frank make a mixtape. Head off, mic on. Plus the best guests you can imagine. No concept album, just rap and kill. Written and recorded as if in a fever. And that's the name of the tape. "Fieber" will be released on 15.09. and can be pre-ordered on vinyl now. If the temperature is higher than 38 degrees Celsius, it is called a fever. If it rises to between 39 and 41 degrees Celsius, the person concerned has a high fever. Extremely high fever is when a body temperature of over 41 degrees Celsius is measured and a mixtape is released.

Keemo Sabe. Funk father. Rap him his dads are back. It's that other fever now.

Cover close to NM with a beginning seamsplit at the upper seam.
Record with just a few paper scuffs.

Limited edition of 2000 copies in blue cover with black record.

OG Keemo and Funkvater Frank make a mixtape. Head off, mic on. Plus the best guests you can imagine. No concept album, just rap and kill. Written and recorded as if in a fever. And that's the name of the tape. "Fieber" will be released on 15.09. and can be pre-ordered on vinyl now. If the temperature is higher than 38 degrees Celsius, it is called a fever. If it rises to between 39 and 41 degrees Celsius, the person concerned has a high fever. Extremely high fever is when a body temperature of over 41 degrees Celsius is measured and a mixtape is released.

Limited edition of 2000 copies in red cover with black record.

OG Keemo and Funkvater Frank make a mixtape. Head off, mic on. Plus the best guests you can imagine. No concept album, just rap and kill. Written and recorded as if in a fever. And that's the name of the tape. "Fieber" will be released on 15.09. and can be pre-ordered on vinyl now. If the temperature is higher than 38 degrees Celsius, it is called a fever. If it rises to between 39 and 41 degrees Celsius, the person concerned has a high fever. Extremely high fever is when a body temperature of over 41 degrees Celsius is measured and a mixtape is released.

Das Album von Produzent Gavin Sense und Rapper Das Wort vereint klassisches Handwerk, mit Liebe zum Detail und einer Prise Humor. Du bekommst stilsichere Beats mit 50 Jahren Hip Hop im Schlepptau, zeitlose Texte, zwischen großem Ganzen und privaten Reflexionen, vereint zu einem bunten Monolith. Der Titel Rauer Samt ist zum Einen eine Hommage an den Klassiker Blauer Samt von Torch, zum Anderen ein Widerspruch in sich. Das richtige Album, zur ganz falschen Zeit.

The hits from Cro's Easy Mixtape are finally on record. Nine tracks on color vinyl. Limited to 4000 copies.

No tattoos - scars and breaks tell the story!

Torky and doZ9: No one who has even briefly dipped their toe into the warm, soupy pool of the German rap underground needs to be told what top level prevails here.

One of them is rightly affectionately called "The Coach" by the entire German-language stylistic Olympus in Amsterdam, while the other has been shaping the same from five homes for over a decade with his smug crypticism.

Nine" is the ninth release by the duo and follows in the footsteps of the past. Between binge drinking in Templin, breaking bones, friendships and family, to smoky couch sessions and trapeze capades in the hallowed halls of alleycatboy. Straightforward, unusually approachable and at times completely hilarious, the record delivers trippy hinterland blues for those who have stomped free of the pep-pulling ghosts of the past.

Let's sit back, watch the flies screwing and sing together the old song that no one likes to sing along to.

"Can't go no more, can't go no more, can't go no more".

"Neun" will be released on 08.12.2023 via Sichtexot Records on vinyl LP + bonus track "Durch uns durch" feat. Sonne Ra and Wandl

Sxt9

Check out the “Flying Crossfader EP” by Carl Hang - Our latest Deck 2 Deck Records imprint. 4 Tracks you will play on an endless loop due to the highly addictive nature of the finger-licking good club sounds & scratches Carl presents on this record. In the "Flying Crossfader EP," Carl Hang's production wizardry takes center stage. This release is a sway fusion of styles, blending garage, UK bass, and ghettotech music. He has expertly crafted a sonic landscape transcending inescapable genre boundaries, taking you through Berlin's backyard flavor-infused basslines while still sticking to the likes of old-school hood anthems

Fuffifufzich was born in 2018, with sunglasses on the face. Fuffifufzich wants to open up all hearts with Fuffifufzich's songs, which are about Ferrari, heartbreak, police, but above all about love and longing in the times of the big cities. Melancholic, spherical, dreamy synth sounds go hand in hand with Fuffifufzich's lyrics, which are rhymes full of heartbreak, then a joke so that the tears aren't just in pain.

Limited edition of 300 copies on vinyl of "Gebete ohne Gott", the new album by Hazenberg from Cologne. Included are old acquaintances like Knowsum, Retrogott or Lazy Jones, as well as new acquaintances like omega.ma, Repeter T or fosfoxn.
Make yourselves comfortable and listen to what Hazenberg has to say.

With their fifth album WEB MAX II, WEB WEB continue the collaboration with Max Herre that began on WEB MAX (2021). With this new album, they have succeeded in doing much more than simply continuing a series. WEB MAX II is musically and emotionally probably the most diverse distillation of what the German jazz supergroup, originally rooted in spiritual jazz, has produced in the seven years of its existence.

Catalogue number 6 from Dedicate highlights a reissue from a timeless beat mixtape dropped in a pre-streaming era in 2012. The original 2rbostatic was released as a handmade USB flash drive/Cassette tape hybrid in combination with a free download. For the first time now the remastered version will be on vinyl.

On 50 minutes playtime Kollege Schnürschuh expresses his affection for Hip-Hop with 27 (almost) exclusively instrumental tracks representing the full spectrum of musical influences in all shapes and forms. A short entertaining journey through MPC sampling and synth sounds with an extraordinary love for details.

This two songs we did to celebrate 30 years of Texta. "Still Funky" being an ode to the old school and the funk roots, while "3sick" is a storytelling song on a hard Boombap Beat.

Limited edition of 500 copies on vinyl of "Gib Dein Geld", the 2021 opus by Tom Hengst with features by Lugatti, Pöbel MC and Skinny Finsta. Let's go!

Limited edition of 500 copies on vinyl of "Goldrausch EP", the 2022 opus by Tom Hengst with features by OG Keemo, Buddha and Gianni Suave. Dig it!

Shacke One is back and brings you "Rap Wie Er Sein Wollte" - 11 tracks, uncompromising dope rap on organic oldschool-heavy beats by none other than Day One companion Klaus Layer.
Achim Funk on the mix, MC Kneipenkrieger, Tom Hengst and Klapse with some juicy parts and the Nordachse serves as ever - tasteful but decadent.
Oh yes, also house producer Rick Flair is not to be missed and provides a surprise moment.

Limited edition of 200 copies, only at HHV!

"Subversiver Untergrund", Tis L's debut album, is the result of his
meticulous work in the last years, his masterpiece. It will be released on
September 1, 2023 in a package with the so far only digitally
digitally released "Seitenhieb EP" on the Hamburg independent label
Audiolith. "Subversive Underground" bundles Tis L's strengths and preferences,
weighs a ton and is light as a feather, is a cocktail of lyrical
hail of bells, unabashed soul striptease and unerring social
Social criticism on dirty-pressing beats. Tis lays the middle finger
in wounds - not in a super-teacherly way, but rather in a reflectively defiant way. With
irrepressible looseness, mischievous wink and finest cynicism à la "meine Beats".
cynicism à la "my beats are in demand like the German passport" he formulates
ambiguous-political punchline after ambiguous-political punchline - against the state power
against the state power, your 'QAnon-Aunt', the Springer-Press and,
and, of course, your crew. Virtually every line is an antithesis to the
of neoliberalism and sexism in the German hip hop landscape and the
HipHop landscape and the gaping systemic flaws in the grand scheme of things.
Politically motivated word violence in battlerap format: entertaining, snotty,
never agitational.

“Dopeman” das neue Album von Plusmacher, produziert von The Breed.

Deichkind and HHV once again go into the next round and offer you this album in a special edition limited to 2000 pieces in müritz blue. Deichkind's new single "In Der Natur" is the first harbinger of the eighth album called "Neues vom Dauerzustand", which will be released in spring 2023.

The band around Sebastian Dürre aka Porky, Henning Besser aka La Perla as well as Philipp Grütering aka Kryptik Joe had started working on the new album during the pandemic and the general mood and atmosphere of that early pandemic phase has inscribed itself quite automatically into lyrics and music of the new songs. So Deichkind are back - at exactly the right time.

The first single release from the album, the ambiguous song "In Der Natur", combines cryptic yodeling art with abstract criticism of civilization and shows: Deichkind's social criticism works so well because it doesn't come from the bleachers and certainly not from the ivory tower. Deichkind always mean themselves, too, when they mock the impositions of the present - and in the process, as if in passing, dress up even the supposedly most unwieldy topics in potential hits that you want to sing along to right away.

Deichkind are getting better and better, more precise, more biting. So it's good that it's finally starting again. With the eighth Deichkind album and a tour in summer 2023.

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover with a beginning seam split at the upper edge.

From Munchen 2 Croydon ... Producer Bobby Slice (Germany), LeoLex (Germany) & The Strange Neighbour (uk) link up to create this international connection ... featuring artists from all over the globe!

SAFE was released in January 2021 on Bandcamp, SPACE followed a year later also in January. Now both releases are available together on record with funky artwork by Felix Plien in gatefold sleeve including printed inner sleeves. The 2LP additionally contains exclusively all instrumentals.

Mix and master are done by the gifted B-Side, who also did the majority of the production besides beats by Soulmade, dédé and L Gonzz. Guests on the mic are Yustus Malick, Herr König, Milli Dance from Waving The Guns as well as Partner in Rhyme Dennis Real. The cuts come from DJ Robert Smith.

»Jazz'n'Beats« is a new mini-compilation selected by Oonops and it's named as the eponymous »Oonops Drops«-series on Brooklyn Radio.

In the mix are renowned beatproducer DJ Mitsu The Beats from Japan who joined forces with 1Co.INR for a laid back instrumental tune with a well known core melody. Next up label-graphic design head honcho is back with a new'n'sweet mini beat called »Parakeets« before we get to the flipside. This gets started with German underground rap & producer duo 4Trackboy & Echomann a.k.a. Retrogott & Twit One who drop a sharp and jazzy dope tune for this release which gets rounded down with a beautiful jazzy hip-hop instrumental by Japanese jazz musician and composer Kazumi Kaneda.

Get your hands on these limited pieces of recycled vinyl, be that the colored or the black version (or the digital version).

Limited edition of 1000 copies w/ yellow artwork by Stefan Marx.

The A-side features the original version of the title track and the B-side features a version recorded by Lambert.

Limited edition of 500 copies of "Durch Die Nacht" by Slowy and Niko.

Previously only available digitally, the album finally gets its well-deserved vinyl release. Slowy raps on 10 tracks produced by Niko, with a feature by Tom Hengst.

A journey to Mars and back.

OkyDoky & MC Semnov drop a double dose of hip hop science fiction.

Al Mareekh [Mars] and Al Ard [Earth] tell a dream of intergalactic migration.

OkyDoky’s pulsing synths and dredging basslines conjure the cold vastness of the red planet, while jaw-grinding beats and blaring synths signal a return to Earth. MC Semnov rides the flow, weaving together tales of migration and frustration, exile and identity, with dreams of another, better planet that is perpetually out of grasp. Gritty, dark, and fantastical, this double EP release has been over three years in the making.

Vienna 2009; Whizz Vienna, an Austrian musician is nominated for the Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the category 'Album of the year'. Why and how that happened, he is still not sure of to this day. By now, the album in question 'Versager ohne Zukunft', which is produced in collaboration with Kamp, has turned into a classic. Even though he has released several projects since then, such as the renowned 'Wiener Staub' Beat-LP, it has become quiet around the producer. His studio existence and his musical creation more or less turned into dust. Darmstadt 2020; during a thorough tidying up of old hard drives a folder labeled 'Whizz Vienna Beatz' experiences a musical renaissance. The dopeness of the material is undeniable to this day and that kind of freshness cannot be just left in the digital wasteland ready to rot. The search for the missing Whizz Vienna was more challenging than expected due to the fact that he enjoyed his own presence to be buried in the underground. In the end, the hidden asset has been unvcovered, plans have been cultivated and now after a two year waiting time the final product is ready to be launched. 13 long-lost instrumentals, Kamp and Prinz Pi spitting on 2 of them, cuts by DJ Vektor, 1 love for Eva.

Limited Deluxe Gold Vinyl Edition.

“Einsteigen Bitte!”

After more than six years of collaboration between label and artist, Feines Tier and Luca Musto bring to you the highly anticipated first full length LP “Nice Place, Bad Intentions”.

Musto’s first LP “Nice Place Bad Intentions” departs from the conventional 4/4 time signature. Instead, the album’s structure and the tracks themselves are reminiscent of a 1990s/2000s Hip Hop long play release. This becomes evident in the fact that the LP not only features 17 tracks, including skits and interludes, but also that they make up the framework of a conceptual album. Here, listeners will be encouraged to follow the track list and listen to “Nice Place, Bad Intentions” in one go.

“Nice Place, Bad Intentions” was produced over a period of 1,5 years. Besides the majority being original samples and vocals from Luca Musto, the LP also features a number of studio musicians, including bass players, trumpeters and guitarists. Cologne-based guitarist Simon Bahr can be found on several tracks, including the three singles “Infiltrate”, “Boogie Angst” and “Real Name, No Gimmicks”. Moreover, the skits and interludes are spoken by professional voice actors from the US and Canada.

The Berlin-themed album follows the characters Mick and Richie, who are all about partying and come to the city for one weekend in hopes to have the time of their lives. When the characters’ expectations meet reality, their naiveté (or bad intentions) lead them to getting screwed, robbed and even arrested. These stories about their journey through Germany’s capital are found in the interludes and skits. Listeners can follow them passing infamous places and metro stations in the city based on sampled BVG announcements, which gives the album a radio play vibe.

Sound-wise, Luca Musto’s unique sounds include scratched hooks that meet original lyrics and melodies, resulting in distinctive genre-bending tunes. As Mick and Richie stumble through some of Berlin’s most in-famous places, their expectations repeatedly clash with the reality of the capital’s nightlife. Similarly the liste-ners’ expectations are twisted and turned. Yet, the soundtrack underlining the characters’ journey never disappoints and brings its listeners on a rhythmic trip of old and new sounds. From rapping on downtempo as in “City of Grind” to merging the classic structure of electronic music with funky guitar licks and unconventional chord transitions as in “Infiltrate”, the LP feels at once like a daring experiment and like the beginning of a developing new genre.