Mole Listening Pearls artist Yonderboi won for the third time the "Fonogram Award" for the "Best Electronic Production". After wining previously the trophies for "Shallow and Profound (2000)" and "Splendid Isolation(2005)", Yonderboi got also the price for his current third album (and closing part of the trilogy) "Passive Control" by the Hungarian Music Industry. "Passive Control" has an elusive feel of utopia, which can be explained easily by Yonder’s love for science fiction ever since he was a kid. Jean Gireaud Moebius, the legendary French comics artist, Russian sci-fi movie “Kin-Dza-Dza” or Hungarian cult-film “Meteo” are just a few examples for his inspirations during the production of “Passive Control”. The album was released in Hungary in cooperation with CLS Music.

For more information, please visit: Yonderboi artist page

digedo is distributing the Hungarian contribution "Sound Of Our Hearts" from the band Compact Disco for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku (Azerbaijan) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the autumn of 2011 the band has been nominated to an MTV Europe Music Awards 2011 in the Hungarian section of the category of Best Local Act, which they won by popular vote. As a campaign for this, they teamed up once again with actor Antos Gémes in a series of funny video shorts. In 2011 Compact Disco has entered into various endorsement deals among others with international telecommunication company, T-Mobile; Hungarian fashion brand, Tisza; Japanese musical instrument maker, Akai Professional; and Italian eyewear manufacturer, Police.

From August to December 2011, Compact Disco performed more than 50 concerts in Hungary showing their growing popularity in Hungary, which culminated in their first ever big solo event in January 2012 on the A38 ship (which by the way was voted the world’s best bar by Lonely Planet’s website in February 2012) that was sold out a lot of people could not get in. In December 2011 Compact Disco entered the televised contest for the opportunity to represent Hungary in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, which the band won on February 11, 2012 after a series of semifinals and a final by the votes of the judges combined with audience’s telephone vote. This means that Compact Disco will hit the stage of first semi final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku on May 22, 2012.

For more information, please visit: Compact Disco - Sound Of Our Hearts

Launched in May 2011 Labium records is regarded as one of the leading labels for underground house music in Italy. The label is at the deeper end of the dance music spectrum with emphasis on deep grooves and spacey melodies for late night & early morning clubs. This brand new music label weren't seeking perfection, but were trying to discover the sounds that will give them the feelings of long daylight beach parties on sandy stretches of paradise, and with Labium Records they found that. Labium Records brings along talented artists that will send their young vibe all over the world. Teaming up with, and dedicated to promoting the new kids on the block, the label will also be drafting in some of world's finest names on remix duty.

Here are two special "Tech-House Highlights" for April 2012 from the German artists Marc O´Tool (Circle Music) and Lukas Greenberg (Plastic City):

Marc O´Tool - Serious (Circle Music)
When it comes to clear-cut, highly effective House music, there’s almost no chance you haven’t heard of German prolific artist Marc O’Tool yet or at least danced your socks off to various of his productions. Born and raised in Essen, Marco became an active part of the electronic music scene at a time, when demos still have been sent out on tape. Running one of North Rhine-Westfalia’s first Techno venues, the “Passarella Club” bringing early legends such as Laurent Garnier, Daniel Bell or Jeff Mills to his hometown, and his first signing with a record label went almost hand-in-hand. The course of his life was set. Surviving far more than one musical craze by constantly reinventing his artistic roots, Marco has grown from a club dj and producer to a versatile musician and business man, running his own record label Mauritius Music, producing various acts, composing jingles / commercials and being equipped and outfitted by diverse industry brands. „Allow me to be“ is Marc O’Tool’s third artist album to date and the debut long player on Alex Flatner’s imprint Circle Music after several already foregone EPs. In 11 songs this album pays tribute to sounds, riffs and grooves that have not only significantly influenced Marco since his first contact with electronic music, but made a major impact on dance music since its birth. Expect vintage sounds and chords in the veign of Inner City, Marshall Jefferson and Dave Clarke, refined and brought into a modern outfit and combined with Marco’s composing and songwriting skills as well as production support from close friends such as Criss Source, Stu Patrics or Marc Vision. An album, that does not claim to re-invent the House wheel, but rather wants to be understood as a tailor-made party suit: personal, cultivated and precisely sound-designed with premium material to make you feel and look good while dancing. Listen: Marc O´Tool - Serious

Lukas Greenberg - Essence of Me (Plastic City)
Plastic City looks towards the release of Lukas Greenberg’s latest artist album ‘Essence Of Me’ featuring his genre defying mix of quality electronic music. Lukas Greenberg is definitely no newcomer to the electronic music scene. He started his career in the early nineties as a hip hop dj before shifting to house and techno to play at famous venues like Tresor, 90Grad and KitCat. He launched his own Synphon Records label in the early noughties but it is his work with the legendary Plastic City imprint during the last five that has really brought him to prominence. His previous artist albums ‘Rhode’Stories’ and ‘Prisoner with a Key’ were critically acclaimed and gave an insight into Greenberg’s broad musical tastes and expansive production repertoire. For his latest long player Lukas Greenberg draws on his rich musical history and delivers a diverse and engaging album that features hypnotic house, downtempo melodic gems, uplifting anthems and a cover of an R&B classic. The album opens and closes and with the seductive vocal tones of the appropriately named Cari Golden who delivers both an atmospheric intro and a diva house final opus. Greenberg’s interpretation of the Timmy Thomas classic ‘Why Can’t We Live Together’ sees the original vocals and Hammond keys woven into an excellent floorfilling version. Other highlights include the Satie inspired title track ‘Essence of Life’ and the downbeat ‘Broken’ featuring the lyrical stylings of Idiophonic who has worked with Greenberg on previous albums. This may not be an album for purist house/techno fans but for anyone whose heart and ears are open to the rich variety of electronic music ‘Essence of Life’ is a great listen. Listen: Lukas Greenberg - Essence of Me

We´re proud to announce, that the new "Sunshine live, Vol. 41" compilation, which was digitally released on the 16th of March 2012, already reached top-positions in the top downloadstores in Germany, for example:

Sunshine live, Vol. 41 @ iTunes:
# 21: Album Charts
# 04: Dance Album Charts

Sunshine live, Vol. 41 @ Musicload:
# 05: Musicload Album Charts
# 02: Musicload Dance Charts

Sunshine live, Vol. 41 @ amazon.mp3:
# 14: Top 100 mp3 Album Charts
# 02: Top 100 mp3 Dance Electronic Album Charts

Radio Sunshine live is the biggest electronic music radio station in Germany. Electronic music, 24 hours a day, which makes the program of Radio sunshine live unmistakable. You can listen to Radio Sunshine live viw FM in Germany (Baden-Württemberg and parts of Hessen and Rheinland-Pfalz), in Berlin (Germany) also via DVB-T, in the German cable network, via satellite in Europe and worldwide via the Internet. Because of this, Radio Sunshine live is also one of the most important interfaces in the communication between producers, DJs, promoters and between the advertising industry.