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Today we have a very special guest. With impressive reviews of his Lessons EP and a strong new EP, Symphonia with remixes by Claude Von Stroke and Tomas Barfod, James Braun has definitely put himself as one of the major names on the Danish tech house scene.
This is what James has been listening to the past week.

Firstly, here’s an older piece by San Proper (and Steven De Peven) who will play at my release for Symphonia at Dunkel on March 27. It’s pretty chilled but the chord progression always gets me. Excellent stuff.

Cottam is an up and coming producer from the UK, which I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot more from in the future. He makes slow house music, heavily sampling hip hop, soul and african roots music not unlike Theo Parrish’ early work, but with his own unique touch. This one makes any day of the week a little sunnier.

Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir recently released a 4×12″ of some of his best tracks from the years 1994-2009. Apart from the timelessness of the tracks it is a great introduction to his body of work and house and techno in general. Highly recommended.

Here’s an older track from Basic Soul Unit who recently gained a lot of recognition from his track on one of the Panorama Bar releases. He’s been doing old school house since before it became fashionable and really well at that!

I just recently rediscovered this track by infamous producer Omar-S from one of the best records ever made, ‘Just Ask The Lonely’. You can love or you can hate Omar-S, but he always does whatever he wants. That’s why I love him. Long time.

This might be the most banging banger of the seven, ‘The Climax’ by Carl Craig moniker Paperclip People. His track ‘Throw’ got a revival a couple of years back but if you pick up his ‘The Secret Tapes Of Dr. Eich’ you might find some more.

Going on Saturday morning, you might find yourself half dreaming, half spacing out to this one. Substance & Vainqueur’s ‘Libration’ is an amazing dub techno track and I suggest picking up the whole Basic Channel back catalogue if you want more.

Take a listen to James Braun – Symphonia
Symphonia by jamesbraun

San Proper & Steven De Peven – Twif Twaf (download)

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Cottam – Untitled (Cottam 002 B) (download)

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Anthony Shake Shakir – The Other One (download)

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Stacey Mallory & Basic Soul Unit – Back Then Now (download)

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Omar-S – Congaless (download)

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Paperclip People – The Climax (download)

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Substance & Vainqueur – Libration (download)

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