One of the very first drum machines, the Wurlitzer Sideman. Sounds were fully produced by tubes and rhythms were played back by a rotating wheel that shot a sound each time the brush touched a contact. Very fat sound and a piece of history !

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After investing all his sweat and blood into labelwork, mastering and his fellow
artists for many years, Thomas P. Heckmann found the time and inspiration to get
back to the studio for new music of his own for 2012. We start with this analogue
beast named GLITTER AND TAND that is pure live recording and a bit of editing in
the cockpit of the Trope Studio. Wires and leads all over the place and LEDs
blinking like mad, that’s how he likes it !
Techno with no boundaries or categories and loads of knobs…

Feedback:

Alexi Delano: Nice one, will play Goldrausch!!
Andreas Kleimann: goldrausch is the track for me, rollin beat, pushin hook…like it!!
Phil Kieran: sounds great , thanks !!!
Matt Walsh: Always love heckmann!
Paco Osuna: downloaded thank you
Butch  Bülent Gürler: crazy heckmann shit
Francesco Grant: Great job , love it!  “Goldraush” Bomb!
Raphael Dincsoy Partysan: NICE!
Xavier Morel: love it play it,chart it!!!!!mega!!!
James Rekids: loving Glitter
Lars Wickinger: Goldrausch is great! massive!
Tobias Von Hofsten: Parteee!
Felix Bernhardt: Deluxe!!!
Nicolas Cuer: Glitter
Phil Kieran: sounds great , thanks !!!
Matt Walsh: Always love heckmann!
Paco Osuna: downloaded thank you
Butch : crazy heckmann shit
Raphael Dincsoy Partysan: NICE!
Xavier Morel: love it play it,chart it!!!!!mega!!!
James Rekids: loving Glitter
Lars Wickinger: Goldrausch is great! massive!
Tobias Von Hofsten: Parteee!
Felix Bernhardt: Deluxe!!!
Nicolas Cuer: Glitter

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Francesco Grant has become an institution of the finest Techno/House
tracks on AFU and way beyond and returns with his fourth release
and three brand new tunes.
Don’t Scream is a prime time piece that delivers with it’s cool
funky rhythm bed and the cut up samples that became so much
of Francesco’s trademark .
Everybody Love Me takes his style even further with vocoded
vocals and Still Here rounds it up with some mental ladies voice
and a fat groove !
Enjoy the ride…

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Support:
Raphael Dincsoy Partysan: Yeah ! Big Afu Ep ! Can t wait to play loud
Franco Bianco: Im loving this one! Thanks!
Francesco Grant: thnx
Paco Osuna: downloaded thank you
Nicolas Cuer: Realy good ! fantastic groove Nicolas Cuer
Jesper Dahlbaeck: dont scream is the favourite here! nice package!
Thomas P. Heckmann : great grooves and cut ups and funky as hell !

Electric Envoy consist of Sven Dedek and Marco Polo and they relaunched one of their famous projects

from the past into todays formats with three fat Techno and Detroit influenced tracks for their first

release on AFU Limited !
sven started producing in 1992 with the commodore amiga and did a lot of tracks for games for this computer.

In 1995 sven met alex bau (his toneman partner) with whom he collaborated to release an ep on chris liebing's

touchtone' label that would be out in 1996 and be the beginning of a set of releases on renowned labels as

touchtone, fine audio, shokoy, dave angel's rotation, pascal feos's pv-records and chris liebing's clau,

not to mention ascend recordings of course. .. as a live performing artist, sven became quite talented and

daring, so that his live acts have become an essential part of his musical existence. his performance at the

world famous "omen" in 1998 was a milestone in sven's career: "playing there, means you are part of it!"

"we spend more and more time in the studio together and we finally had the wish to establish our own label

while releasing for other labels. 'toneman' has enabled them to form their musical identity, and it is also

a quality trademark in the techno scene. .. sven..s main attitude is probably perfectionism. there is no limit

when it comes to improvement of sound or liveappearences. although he learned to evaluate exactly, if the track

maybe gets to complicated for the floor, he never stops trying to make his productions interesting and changing...

as mentioned, sven has released eps for fine audio, parasound, energy industries, rotation (dave angel's),

toneman (his own), clr (chris liebing..s), pv-records (pascal feos), predicaments (justin berkovi..s) and ascend

recordings as well as for many more labels. for details take a look at the discography at his website

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http://www.myspace.com/svendedek!

Ales Boek alias ALEX LONG delivers yet another fine EP filled with four hot peak
time Techno-House tunes for the cold winter days to come !
He sure loves his chords and stabbs and has turned his style into his distinctive
sound, that can easily cross the bridge between Techno and House !
But once again let the music speak for itself !

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Support by Richie Hawtin
Paco Osuna: downloaded thank you 
Raphael Dincsoy Partysan: nice afu release, as usual !
Francesco Grant: I really like this artist. I will play something  sure!
Stephan Bodzin: good release! will def spin this one.
Umek: good!
Nicolas Cuer: Fantastic Tech house track! full support and play 
Alexi Delano: Will try out!
Misstress Barbara: Great package here.  Really like all the tracks.  Support!

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One of Techno’s most famous and greatest tracks is back with a vengeance !
Christopher Just was and is a man of many faces, writer (Brennstoff, Porno), very successful remixer (Divine, Drax, Pulp, Chicks On Speed,…),
member of the infamous Ilsa Gold project (with a great performance this year at the Mayday !), has released uncounted records on Cheap,
Giant Wheel, Force Inc. and is now working for theatre and as producer and musician.
His track Disco Dancer was originally released as a one-sided 12inch on Hell’s Gigolo Records and was a huge success with a license to the
XL label in the UK and remixes by none smaller than Fat Boy Slim, Dave Clarke, Hell aso. ! Many new remixes followed, but somehow all
of them forgot to include the great original !
Now it’s back in it original form with a fine remaster by TPH and two great new contemporary remixes by our AFU guys Harry Axt and
Felix Bernhardt !
This all is packed onto a nice limited picture disc Vinyl and already on the decks of a few collaborateurs !

Francesco Grant: Harry Axt for me….Tnx!!!!

Ergin Karabulut: excellent. thanx for this

Laurent Garnier: original remains from far the best mix

Dr. Motte: like the orig. and harry axt remix! full support!

Felix Bernhardt:

Derrick Carter: Still the original for me.

Xavier Morel: boogy!!!!booogy!!!!

Lowkey: GREAT RMX !!!!!!!! THANKS .  LowKey

Martin Runge: Classic!

Bacid: The original being one of my all time favourite and often in my case, this one goes right next to it!

Sven Schaefer Raveline: B2 is dark and good!

Matt Walsh: wow, one of my all time favs and its BACK! HARRY AXT REMIX YES!

Nicolas Cuer: My favorite ! we like disco music

Jesper Dahlbaeck: disco is not dead!!! i dance to this disco!

This offer is limited until the 25th of November so get your Vinyl now !

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Here comes the second part of our french team Lowkey & Kardinal’s Electrovino series !
The first part is nicely rockin’ the floors around the globe and found it’s way into many cases (or better said file-lists) of many Djs from small to big!
The second part follows the path with another rocker called OROBORUS (the name taken from an ancient greek tale of a dragon eating his own tail !) with a kind of Tech-Housy but Techno bangin’ feel to it, bringing back the old Casio organ sound.
Followed by two versions of INDIAN SUMMER, one in it’s more smoother original version and the second in a very nice prime time Techno version by Kardinal himself !

Support:
Raphael Dincsoy Partysan: Full Support on all 3 Tracks !!!

Paco Osuna: download thank you

Misstress Barbara: Great package.  tough to pick a top one out of this bunch.  will be playing them all

Xavier Morel: gr8,,,,boooogy!!!!!!!

Jesper Dahlbaeck: oroborus for me! great release!

Dubfire : Thanks!

Sasha carassi : Cool!Full support!

Electric rescue : nice release ! all tracks good thanks

Commuter : bomb! great dancefloor smascher!! full support

Tarlouf X : an other BOMB from my friends Lowkey & kardinal full support, will play and chart !!

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Two long time mates Thomas P. Heckmann and Gez Varley aka G-Man finally release their studio sessions they recorded over a short period of time in 2011.
Based mainly on live production and using funny and long obsolete instruments and samplers, they managed to throw their long history in music together
for these fun sessions. The EP starts with the title track DRIVE INN, very minimal in the production and reduced to the main ingredients a great track needs
and definitely to be experienced in a nice club with decent PA. This one also gets a very fine treatment by the Detroit duo AUX 88 as a Mad Scientist remix !
The flipside starts with the Chicago influenced BACKPACK tune, very Techno-House in it’s appearance, but not to be mixed up with Tech-House !
Nice swirly and pushing FMed basslines carry this tune into the subconscious.
And we finish off this package with the trippy and dubby SIDEWINDER, a great builder with fancy and psychedelic effects and deepness…
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Felix Bernhardt is back with four new tunes delivered straight from the dark forest of the Westerwald.
It was already a very successful year for one of the most talented young Techno producers from Germany
with his first album on AFULAB in the first half year of 2011, three (!) 12inches in the top 10 sales
at Deejay.de of 2011 already and many remixes for a lot of different labels and artists.
But he’s never lazy and has already the next package done with the fine title PARTY FREAK.
Four lovely tunes in his own unique style that fly so easily between Techno and all other sorts
you want to name ! And the next package is aleady done and will come soon !

Paco Osuna: very nice ,full support

MANDY: downloaded for M.A.N.D.Y.thank u!

Raphael Dincsoy Partysan: Turbo Besen, was ein geiler Name… Cooler Track! Wird getestet

Misstress Barbara: Like Zappelkiste

Jesper Dahlb‰ck: zappelkiste is my pick here! cool release!

Nicolas Cuer: Party Freak it’s a perfect track ! melody   minimal groove = Amazing work !

Felix Bernhardt is back with four new tunes delivered straight from the dark forest of the Westerwald.
It was already a very successful year for one of the most talented young Techno producers from Germany
with his first album on AFULAB in the first half year of 2011, three (!) 12inches in the top 10 sales at
Deejay.de of 2011 already and many remixes for a lot of different labels and artists.
But he’s never lazy and has already the next package done with the fine title PARTY FREAK.
Four lovely tunes in his own unique style that fly so easily between Techno and all other sorts you want to name !
And the next package is aleady done and will come soon !

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Daniel Steinberg aka Harry Axt has always shied away from press attention, instead preferring to craft
his music shrouded from ego and hype. His productions are in favour with the likes of Ricardo Villalobos,
Luciano, Claude Vonstroke and Richie Hawtin and he is very much an unsung hero of the scene.
As Berlin’s underground throbbed with minimal beats and stripped down house, Steinberg seemed to reach
into the concreted shadows and caverns and emerge with something shimmering with real heart and feeling.
Dicing Brazilian samples with killer beats and laying on the glitch to heavy effect
A veritable chameleon of Berlin’s musical landscape since he first started producing his colourful vision of
house and techno back in 1993, a time when Berlin’s sound was stripped back and very distinctive, Steinberg
was already thriving outside this box, experimenting with exotic world samples and having fun fusing elements
together to make a cohesive whole that was always greater than the sum of its parts.
And again he leaves no doubt that he can rock the house with his distinctive style whatsorever !
The title is to be taken as an ironic statement as it is hard to categorise his output…and then again, who needs categories anyways

Feedback :

Support by  richie hawtin
Luke Solomon: me likey loads
Dave Clarke: Tough to choose between No House and Hold it, both great late night groove holders
Popof: no house is dope ! thx
Raphael Dincsoy Partysan: will try! harry rockz
Ramon Tapia: testing for ramon again
Stel: Top, top quality as can be expected from all parties involved here!
Misstress Barbara: Like no house and hold it
Justin Harris Music for freaks: yeah! this is dope!!
Nicolas Cuer: Hold it it's fantastik ! very good line bassNIcolas Cuer
Matt Walsh: always play his harry axt tracks, never a set without one and now 4 new bombs!
Dr. Motte: mega fett. full support!
Dub Dummies: Wow great sound! No house is the one for us, anyway all really great tunes!
Ergin Karabulut: great ep!

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Daniel Steinberg aka Harry Axt has always shied away from press attention, instead preferring to craft his music shrouded from ego and hype. His productions are in favour with the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Claude Vonstroke and Richie Hawtin and he is very much an unsung hero of the scene.

As Berlin’s underground throbbed with minimal beats and stripped down house, Steinberg seemed to reach into the concreted shadows and caverns and emerge with something shimmering with real heart and feeling. Dicing Brazilian samples with killer beats and laying on the glitch to heavy effect

A veritable chameleon of Berlin’s musical landscape since he first started producing his colourful vision of house and techno back in 1993, a time when Berlin’s sound was stripped back and very distinctive, Steinberg was already thriving outside this box, experimenting with exotic world samples and having fun fusing elements together to make a cohesive whole that was always greater than the sum of its parts.

And again he leaves no doubt that he can rock the house with his distinctive style whatsorever ! The title is to be taken as an ironic statement as it is hard to categorise his output…and then again, who needs categories anyways

Feedback :

Support by richie hawtin

Luke Solomon: me likey loads

Dave Clarke: Tough to choose between No House and Hold it, both great late night groove holders

Popof: no house is dope ! thx

Raphael Dincsoy Partysan: will try! harry rockz

Ramon Tapia: testing for ramon again

Stel: Top, top quality as can be expected from all parties involved here!

Misstress Barbara: Like no house and hold it

Justin Harris Music for freaks: yeah! this is dope!!

Nicolas Cuer: Hold it it’s fantastik ! very good line bassNIcolas Cuer

Matt Walsh: always play his harry axt tracks, never a set without one and now 4 new bombs!

Dr. Motte: mega fett. full support!

Dub Dummies: Wow great sound! No house is the one for us, anyway all really great tunes!

Ergin Karabulut: great ep!

Millozzi & Petroni

Carnival Ep

Our Techno alliance from Italy - Emanuele Millozzi and Claudio Petroni - return with four
rockin' tracks that will definitely do their damage again ! They delivered absolutely high
class rockin' tracks with their first release on AFULAB 16 Outsider EP last year already,
but spared no efforts to top it with this monster four track CARNIVAL EP.
CARNIVAL for sure is a peak time monster that leaves no doubt to be bangin' dancefloors
around the globe pretty soon and is already working more than well with a very few selected Djs.
Followed by the next great Techno tune VIRUS to fulfill the duty with power on the A side.
Side AA starts off to a bit darker territories with RAUCO and rounds it up with a nice remix
treatment by collaborateur Manel Diaz ! 

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Support:
Speedy J: Thanks, will test.
Phil Kieran: Pleassounds cool , thanks !e submit some feedback!
Stephan Bodzin: carnival for me!
Franzie (Richie): download for r hawtin
Matt Walsh: great main room shit!
Alexi Delano: Will play some.
Paco Osuna: Downloaded thank you   will try it !!!!
Franco Bianco: Fucking amazing ones! Full support!!! I will play a LOT! =)
Dr. Motte: full support, play and charts! i have so much fun!
Nicolas Cuer: fanstastic techno minimal track ! i already play it !!

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Our Techno alliance from Italy - Emanuele Millozzi and Claudio Petroni - return with four
rockin' tracks that will definitely do their damage again ! They delivered absolutely high class rockin'
tracks with their first release on AFULAB 16 Outsider EP last year already, but spared no efforts to top
it with this monster four track CARNIVAL EP.
CARNIVAL for sure is a peak time monster that leaves no doubt to be bangin' dancefloors around the globe
pretty soon and is already working more than well with a very few selected Djs. Followed by the next great
Techno tune VIRUS to fulfill the duty with power on the A side.
Side AA starts off to a bit darker territories with RAUCO and rounds it up with a nice remix treatment by
collaborateur Manel Diaz !

After the success with their repress of AFULAB 06 BUMP RACE, Lowkey & Kardinal from the wine capital
of Burgundy (that's why it's called Electrovino   in France return with a massive and solid Techno release in two parts.
The first part includes the peak time übermonster TWO STROKE, which features all the ingredients a
massive four-to-the -floor track needs ! Fat rhythm bed and a never stopping and building tension !
SLICE OF LIFE features the equal recipe, but goes definitely deeper and darker.
Coming to the final with POPPING CHERRY, another Techno bomb for this more than great package of ELECTROVINO PART ONE !
And ELECTROVINO PART TWO is following shortly...

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SUPPORT :
Ergin Karabulut: DANCEFLOOR BOMB!!! Thanx
MANDY: downloaded for MANDYthank u !
Jesper Dahlbäck: excellent, like french wine!
Raphael Dincsoy Partysan: I like !!! big ep
Xavier Morel: mega pulses!!! full supports!!!
Nicolas Cuer: Wouaw fantastic techno track full support from Nicolas Cuer
Misstress Barbara: Will be testing all of these
Franco Bianco: A trully BOMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow... this release is HUGE. Thanks for this. 
Thomas P Heckmann: FAT ! FAT ! MASSIVE FAT !

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The two different versions of the machine, the Texas Instruments Language Tutor  and the Language Translator.

There were four different languages available, German, English, Spanish and French.

More were planned, but to my knowledge unfortunately never went into production.

Language Translator package

Booklets with phrases and numbers to build sentences

The Translator was used on Kraftwerk’s Computerwelt album and on Heckmann & Kauffelt – Espectaculo