Absence Of Essence

Atlanta has always had an affinity with Melbourne ever since Phil K discovered Habersham and Numinous in 2002. Phil was meticulously going through a pile of records he was sent for his Balance 004 compilation, and one record was the diamond in the rough, standing out like a sore thumb – it was called “Mister Cool”.

Phil included the then unknown pair on his Balance 004 Disc 2, with the record making such an impression on him that he immediately asked his agent to find where these kids lived. He flew straight to Atlanta and discovered a thriving underground production scene, and he started producing with Damon Fonooni – Habersham straight away – working on records such as Cloudbrake, Furball, and paved the way for Habersham’s international profile to grow substantially.

Ever since then, a select group of artists in the city have been solidly producing forward thinking records. Lobotomy Recordings was soon formed – with this imprint being the main source of output for Atlanta based producers Absence Of Essence, Rob Dowell, Habersham, and many more.

After Darius Bassiray made a recent trip to Atlanta in 2010 – and listened to the recent output in the city with Rob Dowell – he was certain he wanted to get amongst it. It was almost destined to happen, and when Absence Of Essence’s Darius Kohanim heard the first two releases from Text Book Music – he knew they shared more than just the same name.

Kohanim sent Bassiray a handful of records, which instantly blew him away. Four months later and we are now very proud to present a selection of records from the now defunct Lobotomy, as well as some previously unreleased material.

The EP is genre-defying and futuristic funk at its very best – that sits somewhere in between techno and electronica – with darkening strikes of techy breakbeat and dynamic melodic elements. In a recent interview Darius Bassiray stated “(they) are so cutting edge with their music it genuinely excites me… These tunes – I am not sure how to even genreise (is that a word?) them, which is so sick.. They are fuckin serious.”

– We think that says it all really !

Ladies and Gentlemen we now present to you :

Text Book Music 003 – The ATL EP.

Absence Of Essence – Ousia
Habersham & Absence Of Essence – Duneza Danza
Habersham & Absence Of Essence – Redneck Robotics
Habersham & Absence Of Essence – Redneck Robotics (Beats Tool)
Habersham & Absence Of Essence – Dewlio Julio
Rift – Therim (Habersham Remix)

May 2011 |Serch Your Style

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Maceo Plex – Your Style [Crosstown Rebels]
Max Cooper (reset Robot Remix) – Chaotisch Serie [Traum]
David Sens (tim Gregor Remix) – Deeptonic [Microfreak]
Marcello V.o.r., Daniel Marques – I Like My Coffee Black [Nulogic]
Broombeck (wehbba Remix) – Wtfa [Mbf]
Jay Lumen – Aha [Klimaks]
Wehbba – Mammut [Bedrock]
Rainer Weichhold, Lutzenkirchen – Impeccable[Napith Music]
Roger Martinez – Acclaim[Artform]

April 2011 |ilmli spring is sprung mix

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Peter Horrevorts – Escapade
Tiger Stripes – Lonely Girl
The Timewriter – Pasodoble (Junior Gee Remix)
Gabriel Rocca & Yosh (sato) – The Events
Giom – Things U Do
Latenight Society Featuring Diz – Down For It (Fred Everything Mix)
Andrew Chibale – Apple Martini (Kev Obien L.i. Iced Tea Mix)
Optick & Ciprian Lemnaru – Maya
Julio Bashmore – Battle For Middle You
Jeff Service – Rip It Up (Jangatha Remix)
Gabriel & Castellon – Hit The Bottom (Alan Lockwood & Paul Darey Remix)
Wehbba – Double Standards
Evren Ulusoy – Marriage Of Heaven And Hell

March 2011 |Sal Magallon Sno Love

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Life Magically Is – Portable [Perlon]
Jakata A – Minilouge [Minilouge]
Dark Side Of The Sun – Sehou [Be As One]
Le Velour, Late Night Dub – Shonky, Frank Roger [Real Tone]
Elephant – Prompt [7noise]
Dumptruck – Cobblestone Jazz
Bigger Than Lions – Greenbank, Gregorythme [City Fox]
Omars – Solely Supported [Fxhe]
Blue Steel(azari And Iii Instrumental) – Botox [I�m A Cliche]
Another Lonely Night – Anthony Collins, Nina Kraviz Remix-curle Recordings 11. Darker [Merc]
16th Machine – Botox [I�m A Cliche]
The Muffin Tops – Double Oh Oh, Clement Meyer, Bodycode Remix [Get The Curse]

February 2011 |Matt Gatt Form & Function Verano edition

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Leonel Castillo – Espejo [Airdrop]
Maceo Plex – Gravy Train [crosstown Rebels}]
Maceo Plex – Silo [crosstown Rebels}]
Harvey Mckay – B Class [Soma]
Leonel Castillo – Atlantico [Airdrop]
Prompt – Albir [Highgrade]
Luna City Express – Mr Jack (Robag Edna Mompf Remix) [Moon Harbour]
Clement Meyer – Piece By Piece (Maetrik Remix) [Family Name]
Maceo Plex – Your Style [(crosstown Rebels}]
Maceo Plex – You & Me [crosstown Rebels)]
Vincenzo – The Clearing (Dub) [Dessous]
Vince Watson – Atom [Tresor]
Deetron – Collide [Green]
Joel Mull – Danny Boy [Truesoul]
Youknow – Surinam Cherries [Varianz]
Guy Gerber, Dop, Varoslav – The Fire Within [Supplement Facts]

January 2011 |Tocayo Mas Alla del Sol

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Vincenzo – The Fruit Fly
Alexi Delano – Un Do Me
Rossa Evana – Things That You Say
Minicoolboyz – Surgery
Cydonia – Hermanez
Italoboyz & Jens Zimmerman – Gesichtlein
&me,rampa – That’s What
Lemos – Sher Base
Fiord – Blindside (Facundo Mohrr Remix)
Butch – Sun In Her Eyes

December 2010 |Tony Rohr live @ The Sound Table 11-19-10 Wiggle Factor Atl

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November 2010 |Matt Gatt What Happened to the Underground

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H&S (France), Jan Hendez, Eda – Aka [Small Room Music]
Kane Roth – Dangy [Monocline Records]
Martin Eyerer, Bjan – In My House Maetrik Mix [Airdrop Records]
Sawf – Fratzola [Dirty Planet Recordings]
Gurtz, Dilo – Lotus [Klectik Records]
Faktorm – Slot [Multi Vitamins]
Nathan Coles, David Coker – Say What [Wiggle]
Dead Seal – Sword Play-Clint Stewart & Jason Short Remix [Auralism]
Maetrik – So Real [Dumb Unit]
Bjorn Spielmann – Just A Piece [Wasabi Recordings]
Pascal Mollin, Thorsten Heiser – Trial [Touched Records]

October 2010 |Habersham Live El Paso

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Riccardo Ferri & Daniele Papini – Fragments[Alchemy]
Muzikfabrik – Vojeleje[Lip]
Seth Troxler – Panic, Stop, Repeat [Spectral Sounds]
Metro Area – Miura [Environ]
Grunbox – Zoomba (Grandpa’s Finger Twist Von Grunbox) [Trapez]
D. Ramirez – Satur8 (Jamie Stevens Tech Dub) [Slave]
Galaxy Group – Out Of Control (Asad Rizvi Remix) [Loveslap]
Maetrik – Kemik [Audiomatique]
Daniele Papini – Hidden Source [Craft Music]
Dapayk, Dapayk Solo – Vermo’s House [Mos Ferry]
Boris Brejcha – Space Invaders [Harthouse]
Cave – Mexican Standoff [Harthouse]
Jahcoozi – Read The Books [Bpitch Control]

September 2010 | Jr. Bravo “Deep Reflections”

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Babak Shayan – Seasons
Darius Bassiray – El Camino (Darius Bassiray & Paul Beynon Balls Deep Remix)
Sunset Blvd – Laetitia (Liberto Remix)
Pherox – Parte Traseira (Lee Curtis Remix)
Adam Beyer & Alexi Delano – Turn Loose
F.E.X. – Meditation (Modul & Clapan Rework)
Alvaro Ernesto – Inside My Soul (Original)
The Disclosure Project – Friends for Tea (Office Gossip Remix)
Alvaro Ernesto – Deep For You
Mike Monday – Yoppul
Alavaro Ernesto – Inside My Soul (Rodriguez & McCutchan Remix)
FM Radio Gods – 333 (D-Nox & Beckers Remix)

August 2010 |Serch & Escape-Live Set- Wingman Downtempo Mix

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Live set, sorry no track  list available. Ask Jason Lanier or Steven May on facebook

July 2010 |delic

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Clark – Night Knuckles [Warp]
Aphex Twin – Iz-us [Warner Bros.]
Aus – Idle Talk [Preco]
Kieran Hebden – Unspoken-four Tet Mix [Domino]
Helios – Fourteen Drawings [Type]
Tim Koch – Blue Little – 1032 Mix [Ghostly International]
Apparat – Useless Information[Shitkatapult]
Bomb The Bass & Lali Puna – Clearcut- Arovane Mix [Morr Music]
Infinite Scale – Pirkel [Ilabelweb.com]
Kieran Hebden – She Moves She-four Tet Mix [Domino]
Lusine – Tin Hat [Ghostly International]
Chin Chin – Shallow Dive [Deepwater]
Arc Lab – Transients [N5music]

June 2010 |delic Serendipity mix

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Martin Buttrich – Song Six[Desolat]
Trentemoller – Sycamore Feeling Thomas (Schumacher Remix)[In My Room]
Alex Dimou – Mamba[Elite]
Robag Wruhme – Biech Beule[Circus Company]
Vavinchi – Astronaut (Sozonov Remix)[Artefekz Muzik]
Jay Tripwire – Ronin (Adultnapper Remix)[Soco Audio]
Two Armadillos – Hawthorne’s Theme[Bang Bang]
Silicone Soul – Hurt People Hurt People (Bearweasel Mix)[Soma]
Stimming – The Beauty[Blanco Y Negro]
Harvey Mckay – Welshly Arms[Manual Music]
Steve Bug – Ice’ N Fire[Poker Flat]
The Black Dog – Northern Electronic Soul (Claro Intellecto Snake Pass Mix)[Soma]
Hector La Buena – Onda [8 Bit]14
Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself (Ben Klock Mix)[Bpitch Control]

June 2010 |ilimi

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YU – Fine
Robert Babicz – Astor(Shur-I-kan Remix)
Lawnchair Generals – I Want You (Fred Everything Mix)
The Messenger – On the Edge of Love (Raygun Remix)
Wehbba – Sweet Spot (Original Mix)
Greg Kobe – Art & Illusion (Kiko’s sunset Hill Remix)
Eelke Kleijn – The Night – Original Mix
Presslaboys – Alti E Bassi – Alex costa Remix
Monday – Maskio
Peckos – Sensual Strawberry Soda – Tommy Remix
Ross Couch – A New System
Pryda – Reeperbahn
I:Cube – Supernovac
Terry Poison – Comme Ci Comme Ca (The Twelves Remix)
Michna – Bumper Car Masters

May 2010 |Aaron Blauer

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Daegon – Bad
Dani Sbert – Sparrow (Aaron Blauer’s Isolated Edit)
Steve Parker – Klik Klog
Maetrik – Purr Baby
Octave – Hmm A Pig! (Rene Walther Remix) (Aaron Blauer’s Isolated Edit)
Andomat 3000, Bernd Krull – Franz
Re:axis – Floating Flame (Zhao Remix)
Mitaka – Nrg
Extrawelt – Disttheme
Dvs1 – Falling (Drumcell And Audio Injection’s Finally Falling Mix)
Miro Pajic – Noon Moon
Pascal Molin – The Elephant (Pan Pot Remix)
Dani Sbert – Aritmik (Juancho & Mimbre Remix / Original)
Pan Pot – Face To Face (Confronted) (Slam Paragraph Remix)

April 2010 |Dee Washington

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Adultnapper – Vase[Clink]
Paul Brtschitsch – One Morning [Rootknox Music]
Mri – Die Staskinder Vom Busbahnof [Resposal Schallware]
Mri – Crusty [Resposal Schallware]
Spartaque – Spoon Bait, Alex Long Remix [1605]
Audion – Full Of Blinding Light [Spectral Sounds]
Alland Byallo – Walking [Missive Music]
Tim Xavier/camea – Beaded Sweat [Clink]
Kalon – Haiku, Female Edit [Sandwell District]
Tim Xavier/camea – Three Days In Bed [Clink]
Robert Dietz – Teleparty [Cecille Numbers]
Matthew Dear – Grut Wall [Spectral Sounds]

March 2010 | Knix “Sundown”

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Luke Abbott – Little Wonderment
KiloWatts – Nocturnal Sunrise
Reinhard Voigt – Charge Your Dreams
Marc Romboy & Stephan Bodzin – Oberon
Santiago Salazar – Arcade
Lucy – Downstairs
Ben Watt – Guinea Pig (DJ Koze Remix)
Modeselektor – The White Flash (Trentemoller Remix)
Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself (Ben Klock Jack Mix)
Extrawelt – Was Ubrig Bleibt (Ricardo Tobar Remix)
Nathan Fake – Narrier

Feb 2010 | Rob Dowell “Unseasonable Seasonings”

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Zorg – Lady (Crazy Penis Mix)
In Flagranti – In The Silver White Box
Lindstrom – Pesto Og Kolera (Brennan Green Saucey Version)
Linus Loves – Rock Chk
Departure Lounge – Dep Lounge 2 (Vocal Mix)
Deepchild – No Disgrace
Blaze – Lovelee Dae (20.20 Vision Main Mix)
Aruba – When I Saw U
Touane – Marion
Summer Of Space – With You (Instrumental)

January 2010 | Matthew Gatt “Form & Function”

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Danny Bonnici – Crooked Fruit (Habersham Remix)
AOE & Habersham – Redneck Robotics(Dub Tool)
Rift – Road to awe(Komposit rmx)
Rob Dowell-I could be wrong
Martin Buttrich – Hunted
Ogenki Clinic- Kieri
Lostep – Burma(stoned immaculate mix)
AOE & Habersham – Duneza Danza
Minilogue – Mustafa A
Peace Division – Eh Oh Um
Reshuffle – Hedonism
Paolo Mojo – Motor Strings(Jamie Anderson Remix)
Paul Beynon – She left her umbrella at the Roxy(Night mix)
PQM – They just wont let me be(Phil K edit)

December 2009 | Darius Kohanim “BBQ House Sessions #4

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Minilogue – Mr Mustafa
Lusine – Every Disguise
Vincenzo – Return Of Sha
David James – Raw Separation
Claude Vonstroke – Aundy
Two Armadillos – Hawthorne’s Theme
Adultnapper – Other People
Io – Matin
The Mountain People – Mountain 006.2
Markus Muller – Chateaubriand
Robag Wruhme – Pelagia
Russ Gabriel – React

December 2009 | Dee Washington

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Intro
Jens Zimmerman – X12
Mirko Loko – Le Monologue
Bank Brotherhood Acapella -
Re:axis – So Long As You Want To Feel
Mark Verbos – Jilted Love (Tim Xavier Remix)
Deep – Doen (Guido Schneider Remix)
Jay Pace – Jengalord
Jacek Sienkiewicz – Modern Dance
Mike Dehnert – Umlaut 2 (First Version)
Jonas Kopp – 27
Pig&Dan – Organix
Mark Verbos – Frozen In Time (Tim Xavier Remix)
Mariano Dc – Zoom
Tiefschwarz Ft. Matthew Dear – Hurt (December Edit)
Jacek Sienkiewicz – Never Landing Story (December Edit)
Outro

Darius Kohanim, Knix, and Dee Washington comprise Absence of Essence and are collectively responsible for releases on Audio Therapy, Proton Music, AlterImage Recordings, Influx Audio, Hunya Munya and Emote Music remixed by PigandDan, Habersham, and a host of other top-tier producers. Together in Atlanta, their digital addictions create a musical forum dedicated solely to the future.

Warped between three minds, Absence of Essence brings you re:produce pack 005 with over 103 MB of infectious techno and tech house samples. The pack is filled with intense, twisted sound effects, rhythmical noise and synth loops, mangled vox loops and wicked drum patterns with dirty techno undertones. Most of the samples have been recorded at 126 BPM and are all ready for use in Ableton Live. The signature AOE sounds have a unique personality, and once you’ve listened to the preview clip you will hear why this is one of our favorite and most inspirational re:produce packs to date.

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