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news and events What Do You Say? Great news for all the true appreciators of the Mad and Spectral's productions as well as the a-class house music lovers! A long-awaited new release by Mad and Spectral entitled "What Do You Say" EP is finally out on Low Flow White, after numerous delays and re-schedules. The package includes an original tune of the same title - a bright and positive house tune loaded with sunshine and a high summer mood, plus a remix by the authors themselves, which takes a listener to the slightly minor and deep shades. This release is a debut one for the new born Low Flow White, which in turn is a tiny sub-division of Low Flow Records imprint. Mad and Spectral - "What Do You Say" EP is exclusively available on Beatport, so don't sleep and grab your copy of this summer anthem right now!  "Remember" EP Huge news for all the fans of Mad and Spectral and the intellectual deep electronics appreciators out there: finally, the long-awaited "Remember" EP by the producer-duo is out via Belgium-based SoulHeat Records. Because of the enormous amount of load that Ashot & Garry have to face by running the record label and going forward with their side projects, the producer -duo manages to provide the world\'s deep house community some priceless specimen of their art. "Remember" EP was initially recorded in October 2008, but its release has constantly been postponed because of various circumstances. It includes two original tunes that represent two different pieces of mood, with "For The Stars In You" - a true beach vibe with loads of positive emotions and canned sunshine, and "Remember" itself - an unrepeatable and powerful emotional storm-raiser, which has already managed to create the army of fans during the appearance on the ADE \'09 sampler of SoulHeat Records. Mad and Spectral - "Remember" EP is another trademark material from this tireless crew and surely can be considered as one of the brightest pearls of your deep electronics collection. Purchase here!  "Easy Motion" EP It's been a long time since the producer-duo Mad and Spectral put out a fresh release, as the duo's members have been busy with their solo-careers as well as the sub projects such as Salt Sweet and Warm 8. And now it's high time to realize that show goes on, and goes with more power and more bright musical ideas to be put through. The brand new release, titled "Easy Motion" EP was released on June 9, 2009 and its highlight is not only in the trademark music solutions but also in a fact that this EP is an initial issue of a new-born Low Flow Records - a record label founded by the Mad and Spectral very members, Ashot Babayan and Garry Mkrtchyan. This EP brings in warm and comforting fusion of deep house flavours. Starting with the original version, the duo introduces the smooth and laid back rhythm filled with elegant and synthetic synth stabs, crowned by the positive 80s styled analogue keys that work out an outstanding ambience. The remixes include a re-rub by Pavel Korzhensky - a talented DJ and producer from St. Petersburg who appears under the alias of Ksky. Having previously produced for such labels like Deepology Digital and Support House, Ksky represents the ‘techier’ side of the original track, with his trademark urban signature sound throughout his dub. The closing remix by the original artists themselves, titled ‘deeper motion dub’, sounds just as it reads. This one is actually more dancefloor-oriented one and has got that pulsating and crowd-shaking vibe in it. So keep an eye both on Mad and Spectral's new achievements and the Low Flow Records, because this is part of history, where you can become a part of it!  "Through It All" Mad and Spectral have prepared a brand new gift for all the real deep electronics appreciators as well as for the whole electronic club music community. The brand new single, titled "Through It All" is released through the Athens-based label Wet Recordings, which is firmly oriented at the signature deep house music production. The tune can be considered as a real luxurious dessert among the numerous routinized deep house releases of nowadays and it will surely draw attention by its smooth and melodic structure. Besides the original version of the track, "Through It All" EP also includes two brilliant remixes from the Wet Recordings' DJ Fevos and Nickolas & G. Spice. Mad and Spectral - "Through It All" EP is already available at Junodownload as a promo and is scheduled to be released on 29.12.2008  Slow Sex: Deeper Revision The chaotic situation in Mad and Spectral's home studio, with scattered CDs and papers all over the room and the keyboards on the floor, gave another brilliant result. This time the tireless and ever fertile duo has decided to give a new breath to one of their old and almost forgotten tunes - "Sex Me Slow". The track was initially recorded in the middle of 2006, during the soulful house-influenced period of Mad and Spectral, with the exclusive guest-appearance by the mysterious UK-based singer, who went under the alias of S.Curley for this production. Unfortunately, due to some problems that the duo had to face by that time, the initial version of "Sex Me Slow" had got no chance to be released or just to be put in a club/radio-rotation and became almost lost. Not to lose the great emotional background and the perfectly performed vocals of S.Curley, Mad and Spectral gave a new life to the tune, changing its old "skin" that turned "Sex Me Slow" sound really smoother and deeper, vindicating it's title. The single also includes a trademark remix by the artist known as Addex, whose dark rework of Mad and Spectral's "Something For Catwalk" has already made some noise in the contemporary deep electronics community. The newly resurrected "Sex Me Slow" EP is released through Manuscript Records on November 17-th, 2008, and it is exclusively available on Juno.  Shine! A great surprise for all the real deep electronica aesthetes: a brand new single from Mad and Spectral is already out! The tune entitled "Shine For Me" is a true embodiment of its title and represents a deep and mega-positive edge of what is called house music. The vocals for the track were provided by Lucia - Mad and Spectral's trademark vocalist, who has already showed her performance mastery in the producer-duo's previous releases such as "Paradise" EP. Mad and Spectral - "Shine For Me" EP includes the original version of the track, a remix from its authors themselves, titled 'la couleur de soleil dub', which can be characterized as a garish fusion of the contemporary deep house and the classic French wave. The single also includes the remixes by Shannon Chambers and Marlon Sadler, which discover the classic UK house sides of the 'shining' tune. Mad and Spectral - "Shine For Me" EP is released through the UK label Groove Baby and is already available at all main digital music stores. "Shine For Me" is another emotive deep house elixir that will not remain unnoticed and will leave its bright trace in the history of the modern electronic music by any means.  Tribute To Catwalk After quite a long period of productive silence, Mad and Spectral are slowly bringing out one of their brand new secret deep house weapons, in a form of an EP, titled “Something For Catwalk”. The tune is an outstanding experience of the contemporary deep house and deep tech fusion, where the delicate noises and freaky samples embedded in the funky minimalistic bassline and percussions come as one to grant you the unforgettable traveling without moving. Due to its musical feeling, “Something For Catwalk” can be associated with glamour, posh, acid, nasty and freaky modern deep neo-minimalism that starts to reign in the electronic music of nowadays. According to its main sound and genre specification, this release could be easily put out under the alias of Salt Sweet, but this time Ashot and Garry did not think so, and just like some other similar upcoming tracks, “Something For Catwalk” is out under the name of Mad and Spectral. “Something For Catwalk” EP includes the original mix as well as a very bright and emotional re-rub by an artist called Addex. The remix by Addex represents a flagship ‘technoesque’ tune which discovers the darker sides of the original version and without a doubt can be considered as a pre-dancefloor-burning tune. Mad and Spectral – “Something For Catwalk” EP is out via Manuscript Records and surely it is an exotic and delicious dessert for any house music gourmand or a self-estimated DJ.  Daclip Remixes EP A forthcoming deep house masterpiece by Mad and Spectral is going to be represented by the collection of remixes of the duo's previously released works. The man who took care of the remixes is another master of deep sounds, known as Daclip (born Aleksey Sharihin). Daclip's original production, which is mainly released on Deepology Digital, is a true evidence of the classic deep house fusion with nowadays technoesque influence, and as a result we get amazing tunes that deserve the highest mark. Releases by Daclip have managed to blow the international top-charts, such as Beatport (Daclip – "Transcendentalism" - #11 @ Beatport Top 100 Deep House Charts, Daclip – "Vanity" (Alex Douche remix) - #6 @ Beatport Top 100 Deep House Chart). His tracks are the often guests of such podcasts and charts by the likes of Fish Go Deep, Da Funk (June 2008 Top 10), UrbanTorque Transmissions Podcast, SMOKE IT DEEP – with Blacksoul podcast, and many others! The summer-2008 is already here, and it's high time to get some brand fresh and positive vibes for Your collection, and Mad and Spectral – Daclip Remixes EP – is a perfect choice for any beach party, after-party, pre-party, for both deejays and just the true appreciators of the real deep house music! Mad and Spectral - "Daclip Remixes" EP will be exclusively available @ Beatport, on July 17th, 2008.  "OSFH" - Out NOW! Another brilliant example of deep house and deep soul fusion is represented in the latest release by Mad and Spectral, titled "One Step From Heaven". As it has previously been informed, the composition was recorded in November 2007, with the guest-appearance of a mega-talented vocalist known as E.M.O.K. a.k.a. Emoque, whose deeply emotional and soulful vocals made "One Step From Heaven" an unforgettable and unique piece of deep house work. "One Step From Heaven" EP includes the original version of the track plus a dance-floor-oriented rework by Mad and Spectral themselves, titled 'yellow ice dub'. The single is released via Uplifto Records and since June 19-th, 2008, is availabel for purchasing at all digital download stores. Be the first to grab it! It's just one step from... heaven!  "Let You Go" EP Something that many appreciators of the hi-quality deep house have been waiting for appeared yesterday, on March 30, 2008. A long-awaited "Let You Go" EP by Mad and Spectral is officially released through Soulful Mood Recordings and now available at all the major digital download stores. "Let You Go" EP includes four of the brightest Mad and Spectral tunes from the mid-2007 period, such as "Distant Starz", "Le Plaisir Oceanique" and "Let You Go" with its bossa dub re-rub. Definitely, this EP could be a great and delicious dessert for all the gourmands of deep and soulful house music!  Deepology Radio-Show Mad and Spectral are going to share their presence within the bounds of the 'In Love With Deepology' radio-show, which will be aired on March 28, 2008. The program is powered by one of the leading tech house and deep tech-oriented Russian labels - Deepology Digital, run by DJ/Producer Konstantin Lyubimov a.k.a. DJ Electric. 'In Love With Deepology' radio-show is among the few Russian radio-programs that gained respect and popularity not only in Russia and the ex-USSR territory, but the whole world as well, and was hosted by the numerous talents from all over the globe. For more information about 'In Love With Deepology' radio-show and Deepology Digital itself, click here.  MaS aka Salt Sweet Taking into consideration the contemporary trends and the massive mutations in the electronic club music industry, Mad and Spectral decided to give a worthy response to the latter, by running a new producer alias - Salt Sweet. The main concept of Salt Sweet is consolidation of Mad and Spectral's tech house and deep tech productions in another branch, where the original sound ideas of the duo remain the same but the musical genre bends towards tech, progressive and minimal. "Well, I think it's a natural part of an evolution for such project as Mad and Spectral", noticed Garry Spectrum. "Salt Sweet is Mad and Spectral, but dressed in other clothes and scented with other perfume, and just like our other projects like Artificial Twins or Sckaff_9, Salt Sweet is going to represent a let's say "techier" part of Mad and Spectral." According to the duo, they're currently negotiating with some proper labels to present the Salt Sweet debut EP to the global electronic music community. Here is the official Salt Sweet page on MySpace.  It's About Life Mad and Spectral hit the studio yesterday (March 2, 2008) to take care of the vocals for their latest production, entitled "Life We Live". For this purpose the producer-duo has involved Lucia, who showed her talent in such tunes as "Paradise" and "Fallin' Leaves" and her emotional voice will crown Mad and Spectral's recent tune as well. "This song is really amazing...", said Lucia with delight. "I put all my heart into this track and it seems that this is going to become something like my life's anthem..!" Mad and Spectral is currently working on the "Life We Live" mixing process and according to duo itself, the new tune will be complete till the middle of March, 2008.  MaS Goes UPLIFTO Nice news for all the appreciators of Mad and Spectral's efforts and musical activities! After a quite long period of silence (which the duo calls 'calm before the storm'), Mad and Spectral are putting out two independent digital releases, which are going to be a great present not only for their fans but the whole electronic music society as well. The duo has hooked up with the leading Russian electronic/club music label - UPLIFTO Records, run by veteran DJ/Producer Sergey Pimenov. Both "Paradise" EP and "I_Love" EP are released on 10.01.2008, available on all known digital music stores. Both releases contain only the original versions of the tracks, and according to the label, the remixes that include re-rubs by Daclip, Tomato Jaws and Paul Korjensky, will be released later. Click here to get the official press-release.  MaS v 2.0 Online! Dear friends! At last we have an opportunity to appear in the new "skin" and the upgraded version of our official web-site is already online! Mad and Spectral would like to thank all those, who kept on supporting us during all this time! It's more than just appreciated! Starting with the new version of our official page the news and events-related topics that have been compiled during 2006 and 2007 were erased. Mad and Spectral starts a new year and a new season with greater and brighter news that will appear in the course of time! So, stay tuned! This is Mad and Spectral! |
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The formation of the DJ/Producer duo MAD and SPECTRAL was the logical aftermath of the constant collaboration between two artists, Mad Dee Jay (born Ashot Babayan) and DJ Garry Spectrum (born Garry Mkrtchyan).