The label is featured in the current edition of Big Shot Magazine. Its a short and sweet tribute to our rewarding work putting out vinyl in a small, ever-dwindling yet still viable marketplace. Thanks to Sean Yoder @ Vinyl Junkies for the interview!!

We're very excited at all the support, play & charting that has been circulating around Black Rhapsody. We'd like to thank the following for their encouragement!

Chris Fortier (Fade, EQ)
“Hollis shows his complete depth and grasp of a real groove here. i like it alot.”

Noah Pred (Thoughtless Music | Toronto)
“Haunting deepness once agian from the de'fchild camp.  'I Wept For You' is the one for me!”

Rob Paine (Worship Recordings, Solomonic Sound | Philadelphia)
“Feeling 'black rhapsody' and the beautiful Izi (Ruoho Rework) the most.
i really like where you have taken your sound. its still you but very current.”

DJ Stryke (Adrenalin, Ovum)
“Very cool ep and message. Thanks!”

Erwin Keleman (Plastic Lounge @ Radio FDS)
“Beautyfull EP, Let´s Rock!”

Android Cartel (Viva Music, Mija)
“We are digging the second track, "I wept for you." Very cool.”

Leigh Morgan (Urban Torque)
“Black Rhapsody was the one mate, although all good, but that was my fav”

Hernan Cattaneo (Perfecto)
“good stuff!”

Finn Johannsen (RA)
“this is a very interesting release. Thanks for sharing!”

Robert Dietz:
“my favorite is your own track 'the beautiful izi'. super nice atmosphere in there, will play it for sure.“

also supported by:
- Tyree Cooper (DJ International Records, Underground)
- Chris Brann aka The Ananda Project (Strictly Rhythm, PeaceFrog, Yoshitoshi)
- Astrid Suryanto (Saw Recording, Project Recording)
- DJ new.com (DubExMachina | Zurich, comfortnoise)

We are proud to present a new 12" split-EP by Hollis P. Monroe & Ruoho Ruotsi. The record entitled Black Rhapsody is out now on vinyl in finer shops everywhere, distributed by Crosstalk International (Chicago). For sounds & more information on the record, check out the release page.

This 12" record came about in the most fascinating way. In September 2008, while digging through crates at Jerry's Records in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Ruoho Ruotsi stumbled upon Black Rhapsody, an epic spoken word LP from 1970 by famed African-American historian & educator, Dr. Ed Robinson.

Touched by Dr. Robinson's words & moved by his deep & sonorous voice, Ruoho Ruotsi enlisted the talents of legendary house producer Hollis P. Monroe to collaborate with on interpreting this arresting spoken word as music. The results are “I Wept For You”, a Hollis P. Monroe signature deep house classic and “Black Rhapsody”, a left-field techno oeuvre by Ruoho Ruotsi, both tracks breathed to life by Dr. Robinson's powerful presence.

This EP is completed by another Hollis P. Monroe original “The Beautiful Izi”, with Ruoho Ruotsi on the remix detail. You can read about and see more of the actual Beautiful Izi on this Hollis facebook Note.

The release is also available on all your favourite online outlets:

Beatport
Zero Inch
Dancetracks Digital
iTunes
Juno

*Clicky* below for hi-rez photos of the original and new artwork:

Now that the Eclaircies Dumont has been out in the wild for a week or so, we'd like to thank all the folk that have been supporting this record:

Jus-Ed, Anthony Parasole, Agnes, Triple R, Sean O'Neal, Brendon Moeller & new.com

“Very serious dub Techno here! All tracks deep and bouncy, exactly my type of vibe. The two original tracks are my favourites” - Quarion (Drumpoet)

“Really nice release of lush dubby techno to brighten up the day or darken down the night.” - Ryan Brogan (SubTrak)

“Gorgeous deep space dub” - Noah Pred (Thoughtless Music)

We are proud to present a new 12" split-EP by longtime friends and collaborators Triton & Ruoho Ruotsi. The record entitled Eclaircies Dumont is out now in finer record stores everywhere, distributed by Crosstalk International (Chicago). For sounds & more information on the record, check out the release page.

The release is also available on all your favourite online outlets:
BEATPORT
Zero Inch
Dancetracks Digital
iTunes
Juno

Release blurb:

Brooklyn based, Zero-G Sounds label head, Triton gangs up with former roommate Ruoho Ruotsi in a followup to Selector II, their 2006 collaboration on SKOR Records.

*Clicky* below for hi-rez photos of the artwork & artists on flickr:

DJ, producer, label owner and straight-shooting Detroit native, DJ Bone, brings the candor in this interview for Smart Shanghai.

The most memorable quote was when the interviewer asked him if he keeps tabs on the trends in Europe/the US. His answer:

Yeah, I keep tabs...Yeah, I never keep tabs on genres, I keep tabs on people. But it's only as homework... not necessarily someone I care about, it just almost like... it's almost like Swine Flu. You may not be looking to catch the Swine Flu... but it's nice that you know it's out there...

After reading the interview, check out his jacking and clearly live DJ set @ Void Shanghai

Our good friends over @ Remixin are sponsoring a Johnny Fiasco remix competition. If you're a fan of this Chicago House music legend, then check out the full contest details at: http://www.remixin.com/contests/fiasco

Sadly, tonight is Perla's last gig in San Francisco before he peaces-out back to Sevilla next week. I'm reposting the flyer & email-blurb for Faktion @ Anu tonight.

WHO:: Perla :: STML :: Disconnect
WHAT:: Faktion
WHEN:: 6.26.9 9PM-2AM PST
WHERE:: ANU @ 46 6th ST. SF and Live Online:: http://radio.defsf.com:1200
WHY:: Faktion again brings you some of the best trueschool techno from some
of the best in the bay to SF and beyond. We are coming together to bid a
fond farewell to our friend and one of the best techno producers the bay has
seen in quite some time, Perla. Juan Valverde's, aka Perla's, work has been
recently featured on Bay Area imprints Auralism records (http://www.auralismrecords.com/artists/perla.html) and Ruoho Ruotsi's
de'fchild records (http://www.defchild.com/releases.php?id=dcp011). We are
sad to see him return to his native Spain, but it is not like us here at
Faktion to be sad, instead to celebrate our existence while we may. So
please joins us for one last hurrah for our compatriot Perla and also his
lovely wife Isabel. They will surely be missed.

Also in full support will be Faktion Rezzies and DEF Heads STML and
Disconnect.

Chunky Move's Mortal Engine (Australia) is an amazing multi-media work fusing modern dance, laser & "live" motion tracking video. The results are simply stunning. All I have seen are these videos. I imagine the live perforamance would be be mind-blowing!!

Related Video & Posts:
Networked Performance blog post
Youtube video

Ahh les Français ... These chaps have certainly taken nice images of a Detroit in ruins, but are they tolling the death knell prematurely? While documenting a post-industrial, quasi-post-apocalyptic city in decay, with nary a soul in view, I feel that they give a manifestly one-sided view of Detroit. Disclaimer: I have family in Detroit & visit regularly.

• The Ruins of Detroit by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography
  
• Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline, Time Magazine Slideshow

After you look at these photos and are feeling rather dejected, don't forget that that is just one perspective. To check out what's happening in the Motor City from another perspective surf over to CurrentTV and check out this video & interview with the Underground Resistance crew, in their swanky record shop, with polished hardwood floors! ... There ain't nothing decrepit about it!

Detroit's Underground Resistance