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Having returned to his hometown of Brussels over the last few years, Jona is planning to move back to Berlin this Spring!

After releasing his first tracks and getting picked by Get Physical in 2005 to be an entire part of the family, Jona has since released some landmark EPs on Supplement Facts, Planet E and Resopal. More recently over the last year, he also joined the Airdrop and Mobilee families by releasing a splendid mini album on Airdrop and a floor-burning record on Mobilee’s sublabel Leena.

Expert in the twists and turns of music theory and studio recording and always driven by his desire to explore new sound perspectives and ideas, Jona keeps reinventing his music around his perfect production techniques. This week he delivers this new mix we have been waiting for so long, giving a good example of what a Jona set would sound in the club…

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Artist: Fritz & Lang Title: Confessions (This Ain’t Time For) Label: Airdrop Records Format: Digital Cat. No: ADDIG021 Release Date: 23rd April 2012 Tracklist: 1. Confessions (This Ain’t Time For) – Original Mix 2. B4U – Original Mix 2. Rain Again – Original Mix 4. Confessions (This Ain’t Time For) – Death On The Balcony Remix 5. Confessions (This Ain’t Time For) – Jef K & Gwen Maze Remix

ADDIG021 – Fritz & Lang – Confessions (This Ain’t Time For) EP by Airdrop Records

French-Argentine duo Fritz & Lang left a strong impression last year with their debut effort – the Crash EP, released in February 2011, included the hit of the same name and stunning remixes by Maya Jane Coles and Feadz.

Fritz & Lang is the fresh collaboration between Parisian Francois Touin – a professional synth head, and the Argentine Nico Stofenmacher – better known through his work on igloo-rec as part of Elephant Pixel. Developing their sound further down their very own electro-disco alley, the duo present here three new original numbers, stamped with the F&L quality seal.

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Artist: Exos Title: With The – Re-Edited Label: Aux-Rec Format: 12″ only Cat. No: AUX 05 Release Date: 16th April 2012 Tracklist: A1. With The (Exos & Ruxpin 2012 Mix) A2. With The (Oculus Remix) B1. With The (Andres Zacco “UFO” Mix) B2. With The (Yagya Remix)

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Exos lives in Iceland where he has been producing some essential Techno since the mid ’90s. He released many of his productions on the foundational german label Force Inc. Music Works. Exos’ music ranges from the most experimental compositions to some of the most elegant dancefloor tracks. He also gets in the studio with his father Octal, who released some of his music on Mosaic.

While listening to ‘Strength’, his second album on Force Inc. – a long player he actually co-produced with Octal in 2001, a short interlude caught our attention. “With The” – little over 2 minutes long – is the kind of groove you could listen to on loop for a whole day. We thought more juice could be squeezed out of that loop.

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Following Felix Dickinson’s mix, here are 80 minutes displaying the genius of Jamie Read. This is the 2nd part of two AirPod episodes dedicated to UK’s classic house duo LHAS Inc.

LHAS Inc. recently released their first remix ever produced for our 20th record release. Jamie Read is better known for a string of classic releases in the mid-’90s which he produced in answer to the Chicago sound of the time. At the time, Jamie Read’s music was also object to an unfortunate offense.

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Artist: John Spring Title: Benzo – The Remixes Label: Airdrop Records Format: 12″ / Digital Cat. No: AD 020 Release Date: 14th Mar 2012 Tracklist: A. Playing No More Games (Franco Cinelli Remix) B1. Drummachines (Mike Huckaby Remix) B2. Benzo (LHAS Inc. Remix)

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Exactly a year ago we released our first collaboration with John Spring, the Benzo EP which included three phat floorburners, featuring that classic Spring sound. We are really proud to present you with outstanding remixes for each of these.

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In the light of AD 020, our twentieth 12″ outing, “Benzo – The Remixes“, UK’s classic-house duo LHAS Inc. prepared two unique mixes for AirPod.

LHAS – the Larry Heard Appreciation Society – is a project started by Jamie Read in the mid ’90s, later renamed LHAS Inc. as Felix Dickinson joined Read. Dickinson’s name has surfaced through many different projects, from numbers of disco edits, to producing as the Foolish half of Foolish & Sly, as well as running the celebrated Cynic label. The first two records, produced by Read alone, came out on a dedicated imprint, Push II Shove. These were followed by the first three records including Dickinson’s participation in ‘03 and ‘04, on Wax (Doc Martin’s label), Eskimo and Cynic. In the last two years, LHAS Inc. presented two more records, “Learning To Live” on the fantastic Vibrations project (one of the best 12″s release in 2011 in our humble opinion) and another one on Cynic.

We are really proud to include their first remix work ever on “Benzo – The Remixes”, released on Airdrop, on Monday, March 12th through Syncrophone Distribution. And probably the first LHAS Inc. mixes, featured outside of Cynic’s treasure download chest. Enjoy this first part, mixed by Felix Dickinson.

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The first release of 2012 on Airdrop comes from young Argentine producer Brandub. Hailing from the city of Cordoba, Exequiel Brandan presents his second EP on Airdrop under the Brandub guise and continues exploring the deep path he started beating last year.

The two original cuts ‘Procesos‘ and ‘Writhing Dub‘ show all the subtlety in Brandub’s production, in which lone ethereal elements blend in homogeneously with smooth beat sequences.

When we first made him listen to it, Brendon Moeller instantly fell for the project and Brandub’s textures. He decided to immediately slip into something more comfortable – aka his Beat Pharmacy overall – to complete the release with his very own writhing, quite an incendiary device!

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Some of you have been lucky enough to attend one of Funkalicious James rare appearances behind the wheels of steel. The others had to wait until… today! Yes, the wait was long, but get ready for an hour of pure FUNKaliciousness in the classiest manner.

Last summer, Funkalicious James’ edit of Janet Jackson – That’s The Way got rinsed on the floors and beaches worldwide by anyone in the know from Soul Clap to Till Von Sein.

Funkalicious James is also one half of the Childhood ‘87 project with Le Loup – their edit of “Caught Up” on our 2nd Aux-Rec 12″ outing made some serious commotion in 2010.

This year, he comes back with a full EP for Airdrop. Due out in the spring, it also includes stormer remixes by John Spring and Douze, who just dropped a really hot one on Le Loup & Seuil’s Hold Youth. Funkalicious James will be playing this weekend on Saturday, February 11th, at Airdrop’s winter shindig in Paris.

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Mark Caramelli and Paul Hargreaves really marked their territory in 2011. On top of their latest release on Airdrop, the Leeds duo presented its productions on Jef K’s Silver Network label, on Catz N’ Dogz‘ Pets Recordings imprint and on Culprit the label handled by Los Angeles DJ-collective Droog.

This new edition of Airdrop’d – our free download series – presents ‘Long Ago‘, initially included in DOTB’s ‘We Need Passion EP‘ on Airdrop. ‘Long Ago‘ got remixed by Mark E for the occasion, but today we are sending you the original version for download. Enjoy!