Saschienne & Ryan Crosson

No moikka! A hungover Sunday feels like as good a time as any to give my Blouse 2013 a decent kick-off. Let's hope that Sascha Funke and Ryan Crosson can help me do just that.

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Move D, Tale Of Us & Metro Area

Have you wrapped your head around the fact that it will be next year in just over 7 weeks? And can you believe that it is nearly Christmas? I bet you haven't even thought about what gifts you will be getting for your loved ones.

I have. Here's what I came up with:

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Sasse & Guy Gerber

Time to get back on the horse.
Deeper sounds have worming their way into my playlists since my last Berlin visit.. Is that Spring in the air?

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Blouse's Best of 2011

Well well.. Our 2011 calendars seem to only have a couple of days left until they run out of paper.

I guess that means that it is time for Blouse to reflect and cherry pick the things that we felt made 2011 the year that it was.

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Part Of Me

i have to say that stepping back into the world of vinyl has - in a way - rekindled my excitement for music. it might sound obvious, but paying (considerably) more and dealing with waiting periods longer than 10 minutes breed a kind of love and pride for your records that only a father could have.  

that's why it means quite a lot when i say that one of the clear stand outs in my first haul of vinyl has been greg paulus' "crew love remixes ep".. the intoxicating blend of smoky horns, quirky synths, and minimal beats have certainly been getting much airplay around these parts. 

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Tale Of Us

sorry for the lack of posting action on blouse recently.. omar and myself have been busy acquainting ourselves with the best of london's german techno scene - and getting our heads caved in in the process.

my slow recovery has seen me take in plenty of softly spoken chillwave and folk, and it is only now (nearly two weeks later!) that i feel like i can start getting back into the swing of things. so back to regularly scheduled programming soon..

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