The second edition of Vakant’s new party series at Horst Krzbrg in Berlin goes into round two. Long time artist and ‘Studio 10′ producer Mathias Kaden joins for a all night set supported by another local Gera citizen: Tyler. Definetely the place to be on Friday night, so better come early!

Here’s a free and new set by Tyler to give a prove we have a real new talent here!

Tyler DJ Mix

1. Gaijin
2. Drunk Rotations
3. Alright (whatpeopleplay excklusive)

Tolga Fidan, in his last tasty impartment on Vakant before his solo debut album due out in October of this year, brings 2 full sides of the most expansive mind and body moving you will find outside of a gypsy circle on Jupiter.

If techno has a jazz fusion subgenre, A-side ‘Gaijin’ is it, making Tolga our own personal Chick Corea with a strobe light. With the prerequisite thickness and authority we have come to take for granted from the Vakant camp, ‘Gaijin’ goes to space while sporting an afro and 15 piece avant-garde jazz band. 15 minutes later you remember the trip but have no idea where you’ve landed.

B-side ‘Drunk Rotations’ loses a few members of the band due to cosmic radiation. Remaining members cut their parts into smaller morsels while Chick aka Tolga applies the icing by way of piano. Then the stowaway horn section appears. Where did the modular synth fit, and who brought the Theremin? These are questions for the Mystics. Yet in all the detail of ‘Drunk Rotations’ you never lose the jack or your place on the cosmic dance floor.

here’s the resident advisor link with more information about the party.

Photos by Vakant

We hope you enjoy this piece of music, timeless and classic it seems to last forever.

VA Podcast – Nico Purman’s Interstellar Discotheque

Belfort

Vakant continues its VALT series with the third installment of uncompromising club tracks. Started in 2008 with Onur Özer and followed up by Tolga Fidan in 2009, Dario Zenker brings up VALT3 in 2010.

Vakant’s representation in the decent south of Germany locates ‘Belfort’ as close to Detroit as it’s indefinite in time. Was it written by littleDario in the 90’s? Or maybe on a US tour in Detroit itself with some helping hands? We don’t know, but surely have a timeless piece of music here.

His Family Gang Mix, a blend of finest classic and up-to-date house music beyond any fashion and with real and raw attitude.

VA Podcast – DeWalta’s Family Gang Mix

what what

Nico Purman, our Argentinean (soon to be Berlin based) drumline captain and all around groove slinger is back for his third instalment on the marching band in the sky that we call our Vakant home.

Purman’s sound continues to evolve, covering truly large distances with every release. Since his robo-strobe inspired earlier Vakant works Tuesday EP (VA017) and Euphrasia EP (VA025), Nico drops 3 large-and-very-much-in-charge space jazz masterpieces that he fermented in what sounds like a mid-nineties New York house basement.

First up is ‘Why What’ where Nico sets the free-flowing rhapsodic mood that covers so much ground with one track. Starting in what sounds like Tenaglia’s beloved Chelsea, the track slowly moves uptown landing at the Blue Note where Rollins, Monk, and Roach sit in on the session.

‘Funk Forest’ follows with more pep and less mood. Upbeat and popping percussion blend with Rhodes while a diva whispers in your ear until late seventies Hancock shows up with his synth and brings the hands way up.

‘Chamomile’ finishes the EP off in style. Moody while maintaining the jazz feel, “Chamomile” peaks with futuro baritone sax and piano in unison. Smooth and steady all the way.

Onur Özer
Nico Purman
DeWalta
Dario Zenker
Justin Nabbs

Watergate, Falckensteinstrasse 49, 10997 Berlin. 26.12.2009, 0h. 12€.

‘Panic Stricken’ taken from Mathias Kaden’s debut album ‘Studio 10′. Video directed by Markus Gebauer, www.ronknroll.com.