The Connaisseur family welcomes its youngest member: Ava Myra Flitsch. The daughter of Hilary and Alex Flitsch was born November 15th, 2011 and both the parents and good friends of the label celebrate this miracle with this release. All participating artists were asked to produce a very personal piece of music. The style was left up to the artists, resulting in a beautifully mixed batch of great tracks.

The intro track „Hello!“ by dOP & Masomenos features a little vocal snippet as a salutation by Masomenos’ Adrien’s son and it is an atmospheric, soundscapish and beatless tool.

“Rave Forever Together”, which is the dictum inside of Hilary’s and Alex’ wedding rings, is the clubbiest track on this record. dOP created a brilliant pop-ish club moment with it, which is dominated by a lively bassline, discoish cowbells and catchy vocoder vox.

In persian language, Ava means sound or melody, however in old-frisian, it means water. Knowing this, you can tell what was Patrick Chardronnet’s inspiration, when you listen to his “Source Of Life”. This track is a pure beauty, with wonderful melodies and sub-basses. Not really for the club, but an alluring listening trip.

For the last track of this selection, “Song For Ava” by Of Norway, the Olso duo played live bass and guitar to create this wonderful piece of music hitting a bull’s eye for this special release. With “I know you’re there, makes my heart sing” they created the message of this whole release and the emotions everbody wants to transport with it. With its ambientish atmosphere, the “Song For Ava” marks the quiet highlight of “Welcome Ava”.

Additionally to the music, all persons participating in the release wrote a personal note to welcome Ava to this world. All notes will the printed on the backside of the record.

The main idea behind this release, is to hand Ava several copies of the record in a few years, when she is old enough to understand. We will tell her, that this record was released to commemorate her birth and that it was shipped throughout the world. Perhaps people will have danced to it in Tokyo, while others will simply have listened to it in the sun in São Paulo. All of her personal copies will be handsigned by the artists. She can then give a record to people important to her on her journey of life.

Much love to all of you!

We are more than happy to present the second part of the remixes of Kollektiv Turmstrasse’s Rebellion der Träumer album. The first part with interpretations by Jimpster and Robag Wruhme already created a big buzz and we hope to continue like this with the Uneins remixes by our Scandinavian Connaisseur darlings Of Norway and living legend Aril Brikha. Uneins is crowned by the haunting vocals of Florian Schirmacher.

The a-side of part 2 features a version of Uneins by our Oslo based homies and Connaisseur protégés Of Norway. They take the original parts and blend them according to their own Voodoo-Tech vision. The result is both catchy and extremely danceable.

The b-side offers one of the rare remixes by Swedish techno soul wizard Aril Brikha who delivers an epic monster. Is is techno? Is it house? Is it deep house? It is everything and nothing. But one thing we know – it’s simply timeless!
Expect more remixes in 2012…

Check the last tune, it will be released on Connaisseur in November!!

In our new digital mini-compilation series SNAPSHOTS we always present our 12″ highlights of the past months + 1 exclusive tune (in this case Himan – Images Inside My Head). For the kick-off of this series, the Dub Edit of Of Norway’s The Bleeding is for FREE!!!