"Quite a while after his debut 12'' on Vincenzo's Dessous Recordings under his Tristan E. guise, Timm Kawohl selected Thinner to be the outlet of his choice for his new release. The artist hailing from Munich drops six functional detroit tech/deephouse tracks and also allocates an armada of functional remixes from Thinner related artists.
The major feel of this release is deep skillful house in it's many harmonic varieties. Timm easily manages to suspend between clean and classic harmonic grooves as in 'Cascades' to more twisted basslines as in 'Afternoon Sky'. But also, Kawohl regards laid back perspectives by providing easy shimmering, yet variable Nightgrooves such as in 'Providence' or futhermore with aspecial close note as in 'Life in Half'.
'Ride' finally takes it off, incorporating hypnotic floating ecstatic grooves with characterizing delayed main chords that grow big time if slammed at the right moment during peak time. The last track "Notorious Hunter" unites all the essences of the previous five tracks down to five special minutes.
Along with the six original tracks we're proud to present a couple of remixers that haven't been on Thinner for quite a while, but have been known before in and outside Thinner with many quality releases on different carriers.
Taho from France, labelowner of Lumina, tries out different paths by combining hybrid downbeats along the bassdrum and wide open strings putting 'Afternoon Sky' in a completly remodelled body - a perfect intro for the following straight 4/4 remixes. Epsilonlab's mastermind Eloi Brunelle takes up the pace by serving an uncompromised minimal house stomper. After his past releases went more directed into the veins of electro house, the feel of this mix is like cracking the cocktail bar.
Paul Keeley has received major positive feedback for his 2004 Thinner/Epsilonlab/Panospria releases and therefore gathered particular interest of several vinyl labels. Keeley has been more or less living 'in half' the past year working in Vancouver but keeping his creative homebase back in Montreal. So, after his final return home to Montreal recently he finally transmits new signals of his super discreet minimal deephouse styles again.
Dr. Dennis DeSantis clears off as always, transforming the original, rather mellow 'Cascades' into a hybrid techhouse jewel with rich detailed textures of funked and morphed samplecuts giving his mix an extra deep taste.
Mateo Murphy lays back and makes the listener desecending at least two stories beyond ground level. His remix of 'Ride' develops within a long distance tunnel and evolves endless off cutting pad sequences.
The last one of this remix pack is reserved for nobody else but Brian Kage, a master of the real detroit feeling. And indeed it's so much worth to keep listening to this entire release to the very end, as Kage develops Notorious Hunter into a euphoric playground of classic house melodies of the mid 90's, throwing around with suns just as everybody needs a warm treatment today. This should compensate us for summer's missing so far." (From the Thinner's release page)

"Initially the motivation behind our new compilation was to build a sequel to the 2003 'Silent Season Dub' compilation - to blend warm ambient with minimal dub concepts. But during the phasis of collecting tracks we figured that this compilation will turn out more experimental, more rough than than the reference. So we decided to put things into a new context, that would either underline the variety of concepts but also stand for each artists own formular of sound: 'Crossways'.
Herein, electronic music with rather minimal rhythmpatterns are crossed with spheric ambience, in different moods, different slopes and different colours. The listener is able to find warm ambient pieces like 'Warm Night Lullaby' by Transient or more dubbed out ambience with Zen Savauges 'Sunken Streetlights'. You can lose yourself in the organic cycles of Boris Heizmann's 'Azure' or drift along with 'Scrap of Truth' by Selffish. But If you feel like enjoying some darker felt material then you'd like to explore the realms of Sgnl_Fltr's chamber dub in 'All Form' by or listening to the crickets resting in Kenneth Kirschner's 'June 8, 2003 (excerpt)'. Generally said, if you're interested in the contemporary minimal electronics of 2005 you'll definately find the one or other piece within this compilation that will suit you fine.
As the music crosses the flash artwork of this releases does so, too - if you reload the page you'll figure changing background pictures of the cover artwork. The pictures were taken in several countries where Joerg (Digitalverein) has performed in a Thinner context. Note that this compilation is split into 3 parts, each part about 60 minutes of length. If you want to enjoy the compilation mixed then you can download the Crossways Mix by Selffish." (From the Thinner's release page)