With over ten years’ experience in the music game, including three full length albums and a slew of EPs, Sweatson Klank – formerly known as Take – is one of L.A’s longest standing producers working at the periphery of hip hop and electronic music, a man who had a direct hand in shaping L.A’s beat scene in the 00s through the Sketchbook night alongside Kutmah. Whether or not you’ve heard his music before you’ll n have felt the impact of his work. After a two-year hiatus Sweatson Klank returns with the Elevate Me EP on Project Mooncircle, five tracks that further cement him as one of the nicest and most articulate producers in the game today.

Written, produced and mixed by Tom Wilson.
Mastered by Sven Friederichs | A&R: Gordon Gieseking & Laurent Fintoni.
Original Drawing by Marcus Gunnar Pettersson. Design and typo by Gordon Gieseking.

Release date: May, 4th.

PROJECT: MOONCIRCLE | SWEATSON KLANK | MARCUS GUNNAR PETTERSSON

You can pre order the vinyl/cd version at hhv.de | Rush Hour | Cargo UK | Diskunion | Jet Set Records | Crosstalk | Juno | Boomkat and more.

Digital download at Itunes | Juno | Zero Inch | Beatport | Amazon | Bandcamp | Boomkat | BLEEP.COM and more.

Excerpts of press or air play outcomes:
XLR8R April 16th, 2012 feature, stream and download of the song Always You – LISTEN/READ. Navator April 8th, 2012 feature – READ. Playground Magazine April 19th, 2012 feature – READ. XFM April 21, 2012 Mary Anne Hobbs with the song Always You – LISTEN. Deftune Music Blog April 12th, 2012 feature of the song Always You – READ. 90BPM.COM April 16th, 2012 feature of the song Always You – READ. Finest Ego April 16th, 2012 feature of the song Always You – READ. Groove Merchants – April 15th, 2011 hosted by Valentin Menedetter with the song My Love Is Here – LISTEN. Campus Paris – May 5th, 2011 Amplitude with the song My Love Is Here – LISTEN. XFM May, 5th 2012 Mary Anne Hobbs with the song I Can’t Explain – LISTEN. XLR8R May, 9th 2012 review – READ. Juice FM / Tru Thoughts Radio May, 6th 2012 Robert Luis with the song My Love Is Here – LISTEN. M94,5 May, 3rd 2012 Bassport with the song My Love Is Here – LISTEN. Seattles KBCS 91.3 FM May, 4th 2012 City Soul Radio show with the song Always You – LISTEN.

DJ / Artist Comments:
Love this EP (Mary Anne Hobbs – XFM – UK)
Feeling the vibes, great fresh sounding beats and sounds that keep you shaking..! (James Barrie – Audio Texture Radio Show – Spain)
Sounds dope! (Danny Breaks – Droppin’ Science – UK)
That’ a niceee record!! (Mamiko Motto – NTS – UK)
I got as far as “My love is here”..i have to keep pulling this one back,its amazing!
Will definitely be supporting this in my sets and on sensei.fm (Ben Dolo – Sensei.FM – UK)
Big vibes on this one, looking forward to playing on radio / out. (Dark Sky – Various – UK)
EPIC! (Chrissy Murderbot – Planet Mu/Various – UK)
FCKIN BRILLANT !! LOVE THIS. (Simbad – Raw Fusion/GAMM/Brownswood/Various – Worldwide)
Lovely evolution from the man Take, one of the unsung heroes of the early beat shit subtlely catching with the last stuff and taking it to his own lawn definetly playing this, thanks! (Mwëslee – Arkestra Discos/Rush Hour/Various – UK)
Verrrry nice! (Hackman – RAMP/Various – UK)
Amazing stuff. Way more focused than previous things i’ve heard. Loving the step up. Always You is the one for me. Massive track. Also loving Can’t Explain but got lost a bit on In Between because it just sounds a little too familiar (which is not what I was expecting from a Sweatson record at all…..) BIG UPS (Luke/Typesun – Futureboogie/FallingUp/Soul Motive/Passion Radio – Bristol)
Pretty interesting vibe. Inbetween hiphop beats and post dubstep… interesting enough and good to give it a couple spins (Lefto – Brownswood/Brussels FM – Belgium)
More really amazing work from Mr Klank, of course!! Sick! (Kid Kanevil – First Word/Temp Clash/Various – UK)
I really like it, can be played on the radio + club. (Ahu – Dynamo Radio/Dolly/Brownswood/Various – UK)
Really quality EP – didn’t know the artist, will be digging into them more…top release. (David Martin – Modern Amusment/VOX/Dimensions Festival – Leeds)
This sounds very hot. Will support on my radio show. (Red Rack’em – Smugglers Inn/Bergerac/NTS – UK/Berlin)

Project: Mooncircle Label Night with Om Unit, Robot Koch, Jinna Morocha, and Sina. @ Club Gretchen in Berlin, Kreuzberg – June, 2nd! ▸▸ Free tickets and news! here.

Finest Ego | Challenge with live showcases by Long Arm vs Ruslan Gadzhimuradov, Mike Gao, and Sweatson Klank @ Distillery in Leipzig – June, 15th! ▸▸ Free tickets and news! here.

Danish electronic artist Rumpistol, aka Jens B. Christiansen, releases his fourth and most ambitious album yet – Floating – a collaboration with LA based vocalist Red Baron that further explores the post dub-step vocal territories opened up on last year’s Talk To You EP. With tighter song structures, intimate lyrics and the Baron’s ecstatic vocal projections, the two create a parallel world in which the domestic breakdowns of wintry Copenhagen are filtered through surreal sun-bleached Californian dreams, resulting in a robotic and hypnagogic hybrid of soul.

The sound, while still recognizably “Rumpistol” in its organically unstable clicks and gurgles, marks an evolution in Christiansen’s thinking, shedding light on the interior landscapes of existential crisis and bliss that he’s been essaying over the last ten years.

The introduction of Red Baron does a great deal to carry this forward. Many of the tracks were written in partnership with the elusive vocalist on an almost subconscious level, through a process where different phrases were recorded until the atmosphere was properly expressed. It’s through the Baron’s heavily processed voice, hovering between male and female timbres, that the ghost of American pop culture finds itself here too. In this way Grace Jones stands tall in a frozen stream on I’m Not Listening, Lionel Richie gets stuck in traffic on a bad trip in Colors Breaking while Kanye pushes his auto-tuned bicycle through the blizzard of Floating.

But as the arctic arpeggiated synths let you know, the album is more about the future than any past, a future where Rumpistol and Red Baron dare to take current genres from the post dub-step and wonky scenes and defy them with the human voice for a dystopic soul music of their own.

You can pre order the vinyl/cd version at hhv.de | VME | Rush Hour | Cargo UK | Diskunion | Jet Set Records | Crosstalk | Juno | Boomkat and more.

Digital download at Itunes | Juno | Zero Inch | Beatport | Amazon | Bandcamp | Boomkat | BLEEP.COM and more.

Excerpts of press or air play outcomes:
Audio Texture – March 23, 2012 hosted by James Barrie with the song Dinosaurs – LISTEN. Chrome Kids – March 26, 2012 with the song Floating – LISTEN. Seattle’s KBCS 91.3 FM – March 23, 2012 City Soul Radio Show with the song Floating – LISTEN. Dinamo 103.8 FM Istanbul – March 23, 2012 Basic Soul Radio Show with the song Talk To You – LISTEN. Playground Magazine April 4th, 2012 feature – READ. hhv-mag.com April 5th, 2012 feature – READ. Tokyo’s Inter FM 76.1MHz / Yokohama 76.5 – April 8, 2012 hosted by Toshio Matsuura with the song Gravity – LISTEN. Pinboard Blog April 9, 2012 feature – READ. BLN.FM – April 8, 2012 Finest Ego Radio Interview + live set – LISTEN. Boiler Room – March 20, 2012 #82 London Live set – LISTEN. Soma FM (San Francisco) – April 14, 2012 with the song Anywhere – LISTEN. Groove Merchants – April 15th, 2011 hosted by Valentin Menedetter with the song Dinosaurs – LISTEN. The Milk Factory – May 2nd, 2011 review – READ. M94,5 May, 3rd 2012 Bassport with the song Anywhere – LISTEN.

DJ / Artist Comments:
Checked out Floating and really love the vibe of the music. The production is superb. This is what Massive Attack should be doing… Big support. (Ashley Beedle – Balistic Brothers/Various – UK)
Absolutely intriguing sound, I’m feeling it. (Simbad – Raw Fusion/GAMM/Various – UK)
The whole LP is ace. DEEP. I’m so into the vocal track, love Red’s voice <3 (Dj Flight – Metalheadz/Rinse FM/Various – UK)
Dinosaurs is beautiful. (Dj A La Fu – VaVa/Big Dada Records/Radio Magnetic/Various clubs – Scotland)
This is phenomenol… definitely going in the next show… think going with the Title track. (Kaptain/Chrome Kids – Chrome Kids Radio show/Various – UK)
I’m liking “Floating” although it’s not an easy track to play out… (Daniele Davoli – Various – UK/Worldwide)
Chillaxing (Mike Stukes – Mystic Vybes – WHCR 90.3 FM – NY)
Nice sounding beats and always nice to hear some vocals in the post dubstep/beats world, even if they are heavily processed. Anyways ‘Talk To You’ and ‘Dinosaurs’ are my tunes and one of them will be in the show double quick style. (Audio Texture Radio Show – Various – UK/EU)
Really dig this…will definitely support on the show. Look forward to hearing more too! (Part Time Heros – Soundwave/Vibe Bar/Various – UK)

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Director: Lukas Feigelfeld | Photography: Lukas Feigelfeld & Mariel Baqueiro | Production: Retina Fabrik | Cast: Eva Wilson & Paul Feigelfeld

Just days after the big 10th Anniversary Showcase in Berlin, the Project: Mooncircle family, along with sub-labels Project: Squared and Finest Ego, will be going on a little day-trip to London to play a show at popular underground music show Boiler Room. Joining in for the night are Robot Koch, Om Unit, Jehst, Rumpistol, John LaMonica, and Asusu as well as label DJs like Gordon Gieseking and Malte.

LIVE STREAM from London ▸▸ MARCH, 20TH (7PM).
Facebook event | More information

Stream recordings ▸▸ Jehst & Fae Simon | Robot Koch & John LaMonica | Rumpistol | Om Unit | Gordon Gieseking

Project: Mooncircle, as the name reveals, has been on a journey to the moon since day one, exploring the frontiers of music and art, always looking for new discoveries and giving a different perspective to look at the earth. In it’s 10 year history the label has published roughly 100 releases by equally as many artists from all corners of this globe and, therefore, the selection of sounds on this compilation represents the development of the label from the past, present and going into the future.

Some of the artists featured on this compilation have been a part of the label from its very beginning, like CYNE, Manuvers and Jahbitat, whose song will be the last one he produced and published under this moniker, while others, like Robot Koch, fLako and Long Arm, are outstanding examples of its growing popularity and success. Furthermore, the box also features an exceptional selection of close musical friends and inspirational artists like Jehst, Dday One, Kwala and Ichiro_, just to name a few.

The logo and artwork represent someone who was very close to the label, especially in the early years but unfortunately passed on and whom this box is dedicated to. Featured on the compilation are artists such as Mike Slott x Diane Badié, CYNE, Sweatson Klank aka Take, Jahbitat, Robot Koch, fLako, Jehst, Beat Butcha, Long Arm, Kelpe, Pavel Dovgal, Blossom, Daisuke Tanabe, Dday One, Inner Science, Substantial, Arts The Beatdoctor, Rain Dog, Kidkanevil + Microkorg by Dorian Concept, John Robinson, Sorrow, Rumpistol, The Red Baron, Christoph El’ Truento, 40 Winks, Sina., 1000Names, DZA, Ichiro_, EAN, Tom Dicicco, Headshotboyz, Graciela Maria, Gards From KC, Sekuoia of Kilimanjaro, Sense of The Q4, Sneaky, I.V.A., Empt, John LaMonica, Mike Gao, Bambooman, Manuvers, Krts, Kwala, Soosh, Memotone, Sun Glitters, Called Understandable Souls & Szenario.

The limited box includes 2 white & 2 black vinyl LP’s with 32 tracks, 13 additional digital bonus tracks, a T-shirt (only at hhv.de) and a poster (with digital download code) all in a specially designed box that features a special light-reflecting varnish, which makes this truly a collectors and music lovers item.

Berlin-based label Project: Mooncircle and it’s two sublabels Project Squared and Finest Ego is an official label from hhv.de. It was founded in 2002 and is specializing in the conjunction between electronic and organic music. The label, at first envisaged as a compilation project only, soon released the first instrumental and vocal solo releases by such artists as The Q4, CYNE, Mr Cooper, Robot Koch, fLako, 40 Winks, John Robinson & MF Doom, DZA, Krts, Sina., Graciela Maria, Manuvers, Lambent, Lewis Parker, Non of Shadowhuntaz, Strand, Ta-Ku, Mika Gao, Onra, Obba Supa, Asusu, Furesshu, AnD. Kowton or Glen Porter. The work of illustrators and graphic designers such as Bioniq, Dan May, Iain McArthur, Ima One, LNY, Gordon, 44 Flavours, La Mano Fria, and The Binh create images that accompany the acoustic spaces.

Project: Mooncircle with its various producers & vocalist shall be an interesting experience for anyone looking for the extraordinary.

A&R: Laurent Fintoni, Jinna Morocha, Karolina Kaczor, Gordon Gieseking and Malte Tarnow. Mastering by Sven Friederichs. Artwork and original paintings by Gordon, LNY & Bioniq. Webdesign 2006 – 2012 by Thimo Hörster & Hendrik Stein. Animation trailer by Sebastian Muñoz.

Release date: March, 16th.

10th Anniversary Showcase with Jahbitat, Robot Koch, fLako, Long Arm, Jehst, Fae Simon, Rumpistol, Sekuoia of Kilimanjaro, Sunny Grave & Graciela Maria @ Club Gretchen in Berlin, Kreuzberg – March, 17th!!

4LP (white vinyl) BOX + SHIRT | 4LP (white vinyl) BOX

You can pre order the vinyl version at hhv.de | Rush Hour | Access HipHop | Cargo UK | Diskunion | Jet Set Records | Crosstalk | Juno | Boomkat and more.

Digital download at Bandcamp | Itunes | Juno | Zero Inch | Beatport | Amazon | Boomkat and more.

Excerpts of press or air play outcomes:
XLR8R February 29th, 2012 10th anniversary compilation feature, stream and download of the song It’s All In Your Head – LISTEN/READ. Boiler Room February 14th, 2012 feature and stream of the song Only Love – LISTEN/READ. Red Bull Music Academy February 25th, 2012 feature and download of the song Naiad – LISTEN/READ. Donky X Hivemind Vol 17 February 9th, 2012 Hosted by Slugabed with the song Take Ur Time – LISTEN. Radio Prun’ (France) February, 12th 2012 10th anniversary label special LISTEN. Sonic Router February 13th, 2012 10th anniversary label special, free download & interview with Gordon Gieseking – LISTEN/READ. BYTE.FM March 14th, 2012 10th anniversary label special with Gordon Gieseking – LISTEN/READ. Space Invader FM February 13th, 2012 Trust In Dust with the song Take Ur Time, Aquarius – LISTEN. Chrome Kids Radio February 12th, 2012 Hosted by Kaptin with the song Nightingale – LISTEN. Audio Texture Radio Show February 17th, 2012 Hosted by James Barrie with the song Spatial Separations – LISTEN. Sky Digital Channel 0129 February 21st, 2012 Hosted by Kev Beadle with the song Nightingale – LISTEN. 92BPM.COM February 23rd, 2012 10th anniversary feature – LISTEN/READ. The Word Is Bond February 20th, 2012 10th anniversary feature – LISTEN/READ. Red Bull Music Academy February 23rd, 2012 10th anniversary feature – LISTEN/READ. Grounded.TV/Lowpass February 26th, 2012 10th anniversary label special, free download & interview with Gordon Gieseking – LISTEN/READ. Radio Campus Paris February 25th, 2011 Amplitudes with the song Aquarius/Closer – LISTEN. Red Bull Music Academy February 23rd, 2012 10th anniversary interview with Robot Koch – LISTEN/READ. Beyondjazz #424 February 26th, 2012 hosted by Lensco with the song Gika Gika – LISTEN. The Main Ingredient / NYC February 28th, 2012 hosted by Jon Oliver with the song Tiffkas – LISTEN. PBS 106,7 FM – Melbourne February 27th, 2012 The Blend with the song Jekyll & Pride – LISTEN. Brighton’s Juice 107.2 FM February 24th, 2012 Morning Glory Radio Show with the song Naiad – LISTEN. Play.FM May 4th, 2012 Bogaloo Radio Show with the song Jekyll and Pride – LISTEN. It Is What It Is – PBB Radio, France March 13th, 2012 Hosted by Laurent Garnier with the song Austrailian – LISTEN. Create Digital Music March 29th, 2012 label report – READ. Playground Magazine March 20th, 2012 review – READ. Unfold April 4th, 2012 Tru Thoughts Radio Show with the song Jekyll and Pride – LISTEN. RTRFM (Melbourne) April 9th, 2012 Out To Lunch Radio Show with the songs Jekyll and Pride / Closer – LISTEN. Radio Wave (Praha, Czech Republic) April 19th, 2012 10th anniversary special and interview – LISTEN.

DJ / Artist Comments:
Thank god for labels like this whose quality control makes record digging in the ever growing but increasingly mediocre world of beats a whole lot easier. Happy birthday boys, I’m looking forward to the next 100 already!! (James Barrie – Audio Texture – Spain)
It’s good and massive! (Thristian – Boiler Room – UK)
10th anniversary comp sounding very strong! (Donky Pitch – UK)
Damn! This sounds like classic compilation or compilation of classic tracks. Whichever way, the quality remains very high all the way through and originality is paramount too. Love this. (Eliphino – SomethinkSounds/Various – UK)
Distant Recall is definitely the jam out of these. Going into my dj box! (Chrissy Murderbot – Planet Mu/Various – USA)
EPIC release!! Every track is amazing, perfect celebration of a classic label. (Kidkanevil – First Word/Tempo Clash/Various – UK)
Good shizzle, I shall promptly download to my laptop. (Jon Kennedy – XFM/Various – UK)
Went round this at least three times today, great stuff. Will definitely jump on the box set when it comes. Cheers for the heads up. (Dam Mantle – Various – UK)
This is QUALITY yoooooooooo !!!! Beautiful tunes, hard to pick favourites! (Simbad
Thanks for this..i’m a big fan of the label and this sampler represents but just touches on the groundbreaking music they release. Everything they do interests me and is up my strasse. (Red Snapper/Toob – Various – UK) – Raw Fusion/Various – EU/UK)
Loving the Om Unit and Robot Koch tracks. PMC have always been a great label, congratulations on the anniversary! (Jon1st – UK DMC Finalist/DROP/UTC- UK)
Fantastic Jehst track also like Nightingale. (Rob ‘Stereo Mc’s’ Birch – Various – UK)
Lovin Niad, Serve and Distant Recall. This album is superb, the production is immense. (Dj Sterling – Future Radio/Kane FM/Various – UK)
Lovely space sounds, much appreciated. Highlight track for me is Flako ‘Jekyll & Pride’. (Dj Irk – Solid Steel/Various – UK)