Harlem Station Recordings

The following is a short preview of the upcoming releases on Harlem Station Recordings for the Spring/Summer ’11. These records/albums are already in the bag and ready to be unleashed. Make note of their release dates if you want to be among the first to get your hands on them.

Lab 152 Media Presents Le Catalogue Des Sessions With DJ Gaty Lopez [HSRCD03 : 05/26/2011]

Mr. Soul Fabulous Laudromat EP [HSR026 : 06/23/2011]

Harlem Station Recordings presents Nu Werk City mixed By The Undah-Dub [HSRCD06 : 07/28/2011]

And just to wet your appetites a bit more, just around the corner, for a late Summer, early Fall schedule, expect remix singles to come both from La Veda‘s STICKY/FOREPLAY album (that is doing extremely well in sales both in the US and in Europe) and a couple singles, choke-full of stellar remixes, from CJ Burken‘s MY THIRD I that was just released and is slowly showing traction with the dedicated tech-house fans.

For more information and a complete list of upcoming release, please visit our official website (www.harlemstationrecordings.com).

For more information, feel free to email us or use the contact form on this blog.

CJ Burken‘s latest full-length album, “My Third I“, is a musical saga in two halves, an aural recount of his own life experiences and struggles to make sense of a world in chaos around him. The financial meltdown of the end of the decade and an earthquake in early 2010, deeply shook the core of his foundation, greatly impacted his family and spun his life out of control. Faced with an inescapable fall into despair, CJ Burken took refuge in his music and poured all his emotions and struggles into the notes, melodies and rhythms that shape a well-balanced electronic and deep house album for the new decade.

Influenced by his Caribbean roots, drums and african-zouk melodies serve as the backdrop for deep, sometimes slow and lazy grooves that resonate in one place in particular: your lower hips, center of your sexual chi. On tracks like “Gotta Get To You” – where exquisite vocalist La Veda seduces your senses with her sultry invitation, “Mahal Mal” – an ode to an angry lover and “Purgheaventory” – a human plight for liberation, they all deliver rich layers of contemporary deep house grooves imbued with darker tones and strict minimal drum sequencing.

“Droid Push” – definitely the more frenetic and boisterous track on the album – is a well rounded and nicely woven techno track in its purest form. It foibles, throttles and buzzes in all the right places and will definitely stir any crowd to a whipped frenzy. On “Paradise“, CJ Burken unleashes what is arguably the central piece of his creation: a dark bass-heavy track backing haunting vocals courtesy of Lou Peoples that bookends the first – and arguably darker – half of the CD.

Newcomer The Infamous Quest delivers a bone-chilling yet sweet and heart-warming vocal performance on “My Life” – a decidedly tame acid-ridden techno track that pulses and undulates under Quest’s ad-libs to a liberating echoed ending.  From then on, the rest of the album is typically Burken at his best: deep, musically lush, vibrant and pulsating deep house tracks of various bpm’s and lead instruments but they all basically showcase this producer signature sound. “Salvation-Eye“, “Inside” and “Perfectionista” are all single-worthy standouts and will find their way easily in any deserving deep house DJ’s record bag. Last on the album – and not to be forgotten – is the treasure gem “Startanu (my friend)” about new beginnings, hope, about a vibrant future, delivered by as yet-discovered singer/vocalist, Kevin Ray. His almost child-like delivery of the tender lyrics end up completely embracing and enveloping you by the end after detouring through an unbelievable breakdown of ordered chaos and noisy symphony delivered with only 1 or 2 instruments at a time and the syncopated phrasing of Kevin Ray; definitely something worth waiting for through the 12-track journey.

To fully understand and grasp the fullness and the richness of this album, it helps if you are a deep house lover, aficionado or familiar with the mechanics and audience of deep house music in general but it is guaranteed that anyone and everyone who picks up this album will find something to cling to or a chorus to sing along or a message in either the music of the lyrics.

Available beginning April 21st, 2011, exclusively at a handful digital distributors (Bandcamp, iTunes, Audiobliss and Traxsource), CJ Burken’s “My Third I” is slated for worldwide release on May 19th, 2011 at all the major digital stores and the major CD retails stores and boutiques.
For more information and to schedule interviews or meetings with CJ Burken, please contact Harlem Station Recordings and keep up-to-date with the latest news and happenings with the label, and this album in particular, by signing up to our RSS feed, our email newsletter or promo list.

The album will also be available in “exclusive packages” on bandcamp.com that will feature tons of additional digital goodies – such as liner note booklet, digital posters, music videos, mobile-specific multi-media and even a limited-edition package offering a unique chance to spend a whole day with CJ Burken in his studio where you could live “his” life and even record a song or a track with him while in the studio or ride along as he shoots a music video.  As the icing on top of this limited-edition package, CJ Burken will even perform an intimate DJ-set privately for you and 20 of your closest friends, with beverages and light snacks sponsored by a major local market operator.

www.harlemstationrecordings.com
www.cjburken.com
http://cjburken.bandcamp.com
www.audiobliss.com

To celebrate the release of CJ Burken‘s new full-length album MY THIRD I on April 21st, 2011, Harlem Station Recordings is proud to make available for free download the following digital items as our way to thank the fans for their continued support of the label and of our artists over the years.

Simply click on any of the images below to get the full-sized version that can be easily saved or downloaded to your local computer.

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It is with great pleasure that HSR announces the launch, for a limited time only, of the HSR Limited shop featuring merchandise designed exclusively by renown Maine Smith Art Studio of Brooklyn, New York.

The unique and one-of-a-kind items featured in the shop were designed to coincide with the release of CJ Burken’s new album My Third I and will be available for a limited time only. So go ahead and visit the shop now (http://www.cafepress.com/HSRltd) to purchase some of these unique items before they are all gone and to support the incredible talent of Maine Smith, a renown local artist and a big fan of the label.