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Jimpster: “This LP sounds like a breath of fresh air”
Laurent Garnier: “This is pure Chymera beautifulness. Love the album – Superb work”
Orlando Voorn: “You went off in the unknown deepseadwelling here…blew me away man!!”
Mark Archer (Altern 8):”I was surprised how ‘big’ this whole lp sounds, the sheer depth of each track is immense.”
Fabrice Lig: “Its a real magic journey into sounds and emotions”
Joel Mull: “Really love it”
Makossa: “great deep album”
Âme / Kristian: “nice”
Jori Hulkkonen: “awesome & full support, radio & clubwise”
The Revenge: “Lovely”
Mano le Tough: “The album is a masterpiece.”
Nick Warren: Strange Things Are Afoot is amazing – Can’t wait to hear the album

What is the definition of epic? We think it is Of Norway‘s newest track Libertine. A 12 and a half minute long Nu-Disco monster, mindblowing from beginning to end. Techno as it might have sounded had this genre already existed at Woodstock.

For Libertine, Preben Olram – a Norwegian multi musician and voice actor – joined the Of Norways and played live bass and percussions, as well as vocal percussions.

Libertine has been the closing track of Of Norway‘s live set for around half a year, always causing ovations, screaming people and goosebumpish hands-in-the-air-moments. Check the recording of their live-set in Moscow for example, on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biVmVApdh6A

After their winning release ‘Blott Ditt Eige Lam‘ on Silicone Soul‘s infamous Darkroom Dubs imprint, and their ambientish declaration of love ‘Song For Ava‘ on Connaisseur, which entered several chill-out charts, Libertine is the Oslo boys‘ next release in 2012.

We feel honoured that Offenbach deep house legend and Playhouse veteran Losoul did the remix treatment on the flipside. He did what he does best, loosening the outer flesh gently to get to the filet of the track. The result is a stripped down afterhourish deep house track with techy references and big balls. It is stunning how he transformed the original track‘s sweet melody into something crawling, almost spooky. Thanks Pete for this Killer!

Furthermore, cns048-6 features the next part of our Erich Proksch papercut artwork series.

Connaisseur teamed up with Junodownload for a big Kollektiv Turmstrasse Remix Contest.
The winners will get prices like £250 worth of Juno vouchers, SoundCloud Pro account (worth €250), Mixed In Key, Platinum Notes and the best remix will be released on Connaisseur.

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!