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If you have not heard about The Giraffe EP, it is not too late, but you did miss a great release party and probably need to have your ears cleaned so that they are fully prepared. Right now it is about a lot more than just fornicating giraffes; there are now banging drums, raging horns, skyrocketing astroids, quacking ducks and… PUPPY CRACK!

Soulclap has decided to continue making music for AirDrop and will continue to be a part of AirDrop with some secret remixes popping up here and there as well as increased recognition such as Chris Fortier‘s April 2008 chart on Beatport.

Check out the videos with the Giraffe love making visuals from last wednesday’s midweek techno.

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Also, a little preview of die Ente

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This week, AirDrop is proud to receive Super DJ Connie from New York City for a full gig marathon over 4 days!

The race will start on Wednesday at Levitar on the occasion of the We Float party.
Connie will be playing with Fase Miusic Sender, the latter will grace us with one of their fantastic live sets.

Friday Night will see the Shamrock Basement rocking the buildings above with Connie on the decks and Paulo warming-up the room for her.

Saturday Night… well it’s a big night… and a big line-up for the Second Edition of our Extracto party.
Especially for Connie’s coming, AirDrop is organising a very special party in an abandonned office space on the world’s widest avenue! That’s riiiite. And to accompany the delicious Connie: Nico Purman and Sr. Replicante.

Nico Purman will be celebrating the release of his new EP on Berlin-based label Vakant, and Sr. Replicante his, on Madrid-based label 11:00a.m…

Don’t miss, and put your name on the list: info@airdrop.com

AirDrop released its new compilation. It’s called EXTRACTION and unites 8 amazing Argentine talents that we respect a lot. Some of them are already out there in the world’s electronic scene, but most are still young and growing. EXTRACTION is a tribute to their different visions of electronic music, and represents AirDrop’s first aim, that is giving voice to the youthful and diverse talents.

All tracks were exclusively composed for the compilation. EXTRACTION opens with an other-worldly ambient track by our friend No Hay Pitch, and follows with minimal bangers and deep-techno hypnotizers by Fase Miusic Sender, Dilo, Peter Pan Project, Nexus DJ & Mon, McFly without forgetting our young favourite Minimaril! EXTRACTION closes on an amazing production by Acampante.

We have been distributing to a lucky few, a special edition of EXTRACTION limited to 250 copies, on the occasion of the Winter Music Conference two weeks back. For those of you who weren’t lucky enough to see one drop from the sky: the compilation is coming out tomorrow on Beatport for your personal pleasure.

Click play on the viddy below and see how Missing Keyframes, Fase Miusic Sender’s EXTRACTION tune, rocked Miami’s Townhouse Rooftop when Jamie Jones played it as his set’s closing track, before leaving the controls to Shonky.

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Saturday April 19th: Dual Musik Label Night

Barem – Dokser – Jonas Kopp – Lega & Maxeen
Omar Salgado – Nico Forster

Soho Club
Nicaragua 4346
Buenos Aires C.F

AirDrop is proud to announce its participation and support in the “Naturaleza y Artificios” exhibition of the Centro Cultural San Martin of Buenos Aires. Opening today Tuesday April 15th, the exhibition regroups 16 emergent artists, including AirDrop’s preeminent figure in Argentina, Maria Bedoian.

“The exhibit explores the mestization between organic and abstract forms that expand themselves within various spaces, with the aim of creating an original nature, more bound to the artificial than to the natural. Art’s Nature, or Nature’s Art, both in perpetual threat for imperfection. The pieces presented invade the space and create a dialog with the architecture of pure and modernist conception, created by Mario Roberto Alvarez. The noble materials of steel, wood, glass and marble used in architecture, are in counterpoint with the recycled materials such as wax, fabric, chalk, cardboard and paper used by the artists. The contrast between the images of an idealized New York City and of a scarred Argentina, converses as well with this counterpoint. The whole results in a signalization on the diversities between the modern, and the creativity of the present, in a society that has been through the rationalist ideal of Modernity, the mistakes of the utopist Postmodernism, until perceiving a higher and open path, the one of imagination.”

We were partying in PS14 on Friday for Cheap Sunglasses, with Italoboyz playing incredible sounds and their new John Coltrane track (…) (see Full WMC Post below), when we were called to the Beatport Headquarter at the National Hotel for a special interview. Their new information website, Beatportal.com, conducted a full review of Miami WMC activities, including track reviews and interviews; they did both for us… Our little yellow record pressed with the beats of The Giraffe (Soul Clap Original & Franco Cinelli Remix) was such a success that they had to know more about it. We were really happy to sit on the Beatportal Miami Report next to Josh Wink or Matthew Dear‘s interviews; and be interviewed before Anja Schneider finished her set, and it was time for her interview!

Here is the link to the interview between Beatportal.com and Soul Clap.

Anyone who has once been to Miami during the Winter Music Conference knows the feeling of contentment, tension but also emptiness when stepping in the shuttle that links South Beach to MIA Airport. Contentment for having heard the best music in the world (non-stop), in such a short lapse of time and in the most cinematic city of the world, (that normally doesn’t receive such musical quality the rest of the year). Tension because you obviously arrived late for the shuttle since you stayed too long at the Sunday School for Degenerates and the people waiting are mad at you. Emptiness because you simply had such a BLAST that you can’t really feel anything, anymore…

Our week started on Tuesday with the Wave Music Party at Pawn Shop and Tedd Patterson opening our 6-days marathon with beautiful deepness and followed closely by François K (one of our favourites) and an unusual set (for the U.S) with a certain Techno dimension to it… Beautiful! As soon as François finished his bomb-dropping we ran to the back room to catch the last half-hour of Cobblestone Jazz Live! The trio composed by Mathew Johnson, Danuel Tate and Tyger Dhula kept the whole room in a rare intensity before finishing their set with the voices of my favourite track of theirs: ‘W’. Speechless…In the main room Radioslave took over François for some super-efficient stripped-down Techno, while DJ Three started rumbling the whole place with the backroom’s speaker-wall. All of Tuesday’s wonderful artists were super happy to receive a little yellow Giraffe and an Extraction Compilation. However we had to keep a little bit of energy for a special day…

… Wednesday started with the Freak’n'Chic (Dan Ghenacia and David Duriez‘s Label) party: Jamie Jones, followed by Shonky and Marc Antona! What a line-up for this afternoon party. And what a venue: the Red Terrace of the Townhouse Hotel. Jamie Jones has a unique style, his beats really trigger something special in the people’s minds and feet. It’s simple, essential, super power and chic! Jamie really liked “Missing Keyframes”, Fase Miusic Sender‘s track that is featured on our Extraction Compilation so he closed his set with it! Having the place melt under the mid-afternoon sun and handing down the commands to Shonky. Needless to say, AirDrop celebrated this properly, and had a hard-time making it to the OVUM vs. Pokerflat party at The Vagabond. The venue is great with such a big and tropical garden and two rooms.

Then we headed to Studio A, three blocks down for the absolute killing of Switch (closing the Downtown Riot party) and Justin Martin taking over for the Dirtybird afterhours. Switch is something apart and we all know it already, but having Justin follow up made it even more interesting. Justin is crazy, we all know that too, we had already heard him when he played for Soul Clap‘s 3rd Edition of their Dancing on the Charles 2007 Party in Boston last summer but his style at Studio A was something else. No Comment…

Thursday, we needed to chill, and the Giant Step/ Demon Days party at the Delano‘s pool was all the most welcome. With Roland Appel playing nice and relaxed, followed by Carl Craig and his profound slow techno synths. I saw him a few hours earlier at a panel, and Carl is so above everything that he didn’t even have to say a word during the whole panel, the other panelists kept on talking, but Carl is wisdom, and wisdom is silence. At the Delano, we had the time to congratulate Justin Martin for his set the night before, give our Giraffe to Claude von Stroke and Carl Craig and even cross paths with Harley and Muscle! After this a big mistake was made, the mistake however lead to a great thing. But we thought Crosstown Rebels Afterhours was the Friday morning when it really was the Saturday. So we went to rest to be fresh for that. Although, as I told you, it did lead to a good thing:

FRIDAY AT PS 14: CHEAP SUNGLASSES. In our view, it was the best party this year. We spent a beautiful day in the garden of PS14, playing hide and seek with the dancefloor, the boiling sun and the refreshing clouds; warming up to the beats of Tamur and the BLK/MRKT boys and going absolutely nuts to Italoboyz outside and Derek Plasaiko inside (who played for us in Boston two weeks ago, get the set at the link). Then, something good/ bad happened again: We had to leave PS14 in the middle of the afternoon: BAD; but it was to get to the interview Beatport organized for us at their National Hotel Headquarter: AMAZING. Check it out here. When this was over, Princess Anja Schneider just finished playing next to the interview booth and it was her turn to get interviewed, but it was also time for us to go back to PS14! And guess who closed the garden? Another Princess… Magda.

Saturday we decided to go back to Townhouse for Anja’s Mobilee Party organized by Listed, the Chicago/S.F boys. But before that: we also went back to the National Hotel/ Beatport Headquarter, which wasn’t on the program, but when we heard of the Ryan Elliott/ Matthew Dear/ Guy Gerber/ Richie Hawtin bonanza, we decided we couldn’t really miss that, could we? Richie was ending at 5:30PM, exactly when Pan-Pot was starting at the Townhouse, 4 blocks away. There definetely is a higher force ruling WMC. After Pan-Pot was Sebo-K and Anja Schneider for the finish-him. All I can remember is that it was great Right after that was Minimoo with a very special line-up and in a very special place, a hangar on North 24th Str. in Continental Miami! Minimoo have been gracing NYC with one of the finest quality party over the last few years. And once again in MIA they did their thing right, with a dope spot, a deafningly powerful sound-system and line up.

Sunday… School of Degenerates.

The moment has finally arrived when AirDrop Records officially comes to existence with its first release AD 001 aka Giraffe by Soul Clap, you must know them by now. The release will be on 10 inch vinyl- Yeah, that’s right! And if that’s not enough, the vinyl is yellow with a nice little label design (see for yourselves below).

Now to put the cherry on top, we got Franco Cinelli to remix the living day out of the original (A side) creating a dark masterpiece to grace the B side of our first vinyl.

Here is a close look on Side B:

If you weren’t lucky enough to get your hands on one and since they are all gone around the world, get it on Beatport and read our interview with Beatportal at the Winter Music Conference.

We are really excited by all these releases coming up on AirDrop, and we decided to throw a party on Saturday 22nd at 1070 Cerrito and Santa Fey (see map) before leaving for the Winter Music Conference on the 24th.
EXTRACTO is going to be a live preview, an essence, of what our EXTRACTION compilation is (view post). It’s happening on the night of Saturday the 22nd, and the venue is an abandonned office space on the World’s Widest Avenue that happens to be right here in Buenos Aires. Micro Sounds on the Big Street!

DJ Connie is just one of those DJs you should know, follow and respect, just like we do. From being one of the first DJs at minimoo to a residency with the ReSolute parties, she spins around the world and with top names like Guy Gerber, Trentmöller or even at the Sunday School of Degenerates during WMC! Connie is now based in NYC and has spun at every notable electronic music event and venue. We love her fun mini rolling tech party music and have booked her at the Bâton parties in December and January at the Galapagos Art Space. She will be at the WMC spinning at PS14 on the 27th and Blue on the 28th so definitely check her out.

Our praises don’t come without a little music

So here it is, for AirPod N°5 Connie has generously provided us with one of her mixes that we thought would be just right for our podcast. The mix titled “Matte on the Beach” fits us perfectly sipping on our mattes in Argentina. Connie will actually be joining us early April in Buenos Aires…

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