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dario zenker - new live set. vakant newbie dario zenker showcases his talent with his latest live set on vakant.net. click to listen and enjoy all new zenker stuff!

va019 dario zenker - sam und er/womde! - out april 21. freshness blossoms from the vakant spring garden. yes the around the world big deep freak out bus comes back with a new artist driving us back to the fatherland. munich’s dario zenker joins vakant after sprinkling his magic chuga chuga dust on some of the world’s gourmet minimal labels. dario’s thick kink finds a natural home here in aforementioned bus bumping and bouncing all the kids wherever they need to go. a public service really. can we get tax subsidies for this? a-side ‘sam und er’ goes on that first forest camp trip, giddy and exciting. it’s all about the ride to the spot: happy expectations and the psych-up. scattered claps and fun synths combine to make something uplifting with friendly mystery. definitely forest rave. b-side ‘womde!’ is 3 days later. you are still there and realize it’s not all hippies and sunshine anymore. its getting dark and the trees are coming in on you. you don’t remember where u parked. or if u drove. in other words, dario drops the deep freak on dis here.

tolga fidan - new live set. accompaning tolga fidan´s new vakant release 'all pleasure is relief', we´re presenting a 45 minutes live set exclusively recorded for vakant.net. click the button and enjoy.

va018 tolga fidan - all pleasure is relief ep - out march 24. indubitably talented tolga fidan returns for his 3rd ep on berlin’s fulcrum of funkified tomfoolery, vakant heavy industries. zee young frenchman by way of first istanbul and then london has again taken his varied past to transgress genre and fused flavors to birth a creation that would make even the Iron chef shiver with inferiority. a side and ep namesake 'all pleasure is relief' takes the now signature vakant deep-tek chuga-chuga, complete with ultra clean pressing sub bass, and adds percussion and patterns hinting south and east. live guitar played and recorded by tolga unravels the grasp the ear had, then just as the dance floor has settled deeply into the track’s moods and grooves, a ghostly persian vocal enters and the scope of musical expanse is revealed. b side 'for our fathers' continues the deep multi ethnic feel of the ep, but a touch faster and with straighter rhythmic underpinnings. guitar, synths, wails, and even what sounds like a harmonica all add expansive melodic textures, grounded in dance music but freely floating unbound by tradition or convention. redefining ‘world music’ somewhere behind the shielding refuge of techno, tolga fidan and vakant have once more extended scenic and artistic frontiers.

nico purman - new 3h dj set. as nico´s new year´s dj set has been received so well, he didn´t think twice to deliver another mix exclusively for vakant and you! enjoy this brand new and 3 hours-long set.

upcoming vakant nights: may 10 2008 - vakant night @ harry klein / munich / germany with mathias kaden, dario zenker live and ana may 17 2008 - vakant + dumb-unit night #10 @ watergate / berlin / germany with alex smoke live, onur özer, tolga fidan live, jeremy p caulfield, sarah goldfarb live, jorge savoretti and pige june 14 2008 - vakant night @ harry klein / munich / germany with onur özer and tolga fidan live june 22 2008 - vakant @ gmm @ la masia / barcelona / spain with onur özer, alex smoke live, tolga fidan live and nico purman june 27 2008 - vakant @ echos sonores festival / tunis / tunisia with onur özer, mathias kaden, alex smoke live and tolga fidan live july 5 2008 - lessizmore presents vakant night @ rex club / paris / france with alex smoke live, onur özer, tolga fidan live and pierre september 13 2008 - vakant + dumb-unit night #11 @ watergate / berlin / germany with alex smoke live, dinky, dario zenker, dewalta & aquatic live & dj, lee curtiss live and others september 27 2008 - vakant night @ romy s / stuttgart / germany with alex smoke live and tolga fidan live october 18 2008 - vakant night @ versteck / dortmund / germany with mathias kaden and onur özer november 8 2008 - vakant night @ monkey´s club / düsseldorf / germany with onur özer and tolga fidan live