So here we are, Ab Initio 04 is upon us, with the French producer Sebastien San pushing his boundaries once again. Sebastien’s sounds are his very own, situated somewhere in that crucial area between the deepest of Detroit and the best of Deep House. An area ruled by tight drum programming, heavenly strings and deep chords to die for. Melody is key, melody that makes you dance and makes you listen. So here is the short review of this atmospheric “Lunar dance EP” that will be released tomorrow only in vinyl.

Smash TV released their debut Get Physical album last spring, and since then the remixes have been pouring in. The Smash TV boys are indeed still basking in the success of their first Get Physical album – ‘Noise & Girls’. This batch of remixes comes from Yousef, DJ Linus, Alland Byallo and a Smash TV ‘Bareknuckles Edit’ after a first part of remixes released in June with Tom Budden, German Brigante and Fabio Giannelli versions.

Speicher staple and renowned club juggernaut, Kolsch debuts on Kompakt with the full-length “1977”, an extraordinary collection of club gems that introduces his earlier masterpieces like “Loreley” or “Opa” that we reviewed previously, such as exclusive new material. Here, the epic, the rad and the snappy find themselves under one expertly crafted groove, making this album an essential choice for both home clubbers and floor hounds… your new best friend is here and it’s a record. This was above all one of the most anticipated albums just before summer. It has been released the 24th June 2013 to be precise.

3 years ago, I interviewed Stimming but I never had the chance to publish it. Here is, with a big delay, the words I had with him. Interviewing Stimming has been a real pleasure for Actualités Electroniques notably because at that time his label Diynamic Music was not so known. The famous German DJ and producer Stimming answers our exclusive interview some days ago. If there are few tracks I will never get bored of, “Funkworm” from Stimming is certainly one them. After releases on famous labels like Diynamic Music, Buzzin Fly and Freerange, Stimming has been considered as the best newcomer of the 2010 DJ Awards at Pacha Ibiza in September 2010.

Propelled to the forefront of today’s scene by her flawlessly executed sleazy house and techno sounds, Nicole Moudaber is now an unstoppable force. Some years ago, Carl Cox famously labelled her “the Most Underrated DJ of 2009”. Pete Tong is also a big fan, recently featuring Nicole as a “The Rising Star” on his Essential Selection. Moreover, the Moudaber mix of Sian & Mladen Tomec’s “Front Pocket” on Octopus and her version of Carl Cox “Chemistry” on Intec, which also scooped a prestigious IDMA at Miami’s Winter Music Conference, winning the award for ‘Best Minimal/Techno Track’.

To celebrate the 20 years of the well-known German label Kompakt, I rummaged through my old vinyl records, my CDs and MP3 to select the best releases of the label founded in 1998 in Cologne by Michael Mayer, Jürgen Paape and Wolfgang Voigt. This results is a set of 2h with the presence of the label's most iconic artists like Michael Mayer obviously, Superpitcher, Jurgen Paape, Justus Köhncke or some more sporadic artists like Gui Boratto, Coma or Sei A. The set also attempts to show you the diversity of the artists who signed for it.

Melodic and groovy - that’s the distinguished sound of the two Thuringians Marcel and Thomas, aka Boss Axis, from Germany as in 2008 they decided to have a share in the electronic music scene. Their sound features warmth, pressure and especially harmony, on what they emphasize in particular. Their attention to detail is obvious. Recently, they were titled “ministers of melody”. The review about their latest album released in December entitled “Bridge a divide” is a splendid performances of Boss Axis like fireworks of euphoric moments.