Harlem Station Recordings announces a one-of-a-kind FREE Giveaway for the next three months. Starting May 16th, 2011, and lasting for 12 months, we will be offering 1 track a week for free from CJ Burken‘s new release album MY THIRD I.

Yes, you read it here first! One track a week for free (320kbps Mp3). There is no need to register or fill out any form: Simply go to CJ Burken’s website at http://www.cjburken.com and right on the front page, you’ll be able to click and download the track.

All tracks are from CJ Burken’s latest album. To Purchase the album in its entirety, you can go to his website or to Audiobliss (www.audiobliss.com) or Bandcamp (http://cjburken.bandcamp.com)

This is your one and only chance to get the entire album for free, starting May 16th. Happy Downloading!

So, why not follow us on Twitter? And we return the favor to all our followers by doing the same and following them. With Twitter, there is no reason for our fans not to be in constant touch and reach us at any time of the day or night.

Follow Harlem Station Recordings at

http://www.twitter.com/Recordings_

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Note the lucky id that we were able to grab! Recordings_ (yes, that is an underscore right at the end of the word).

When visiting our Twitter page, make sure you check out our HSR Artist List where we’ve collared all our singers, producers, artists (those who tweet at least) in one easy to use and follow list.

Tweet you all later…

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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.

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
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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.

For more information, please visit the iTunes store or contact the label directly.

These packages are available for sale & download EXCLUSIVELY on Bandcamp. The default package features 18 sublime tracks in high-quality MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG or any other digital formats, an alternate CD artwork, high resolution CD face template, several wallpapers for your computer’s desktop, 4 high resolution posters, a La Veda photo album, a 12-page digital liner note CD booklet and a hidden bonus track. The basic full album package is available NOW at a name-your-own price at http://laveda.bandcamp.com.

The Special Limited Total Fan Package includes all the digital goodies and hidden gems available with the regular digital album plus an original La Veda “Smooch” pillow, a “Sticky/Foreplay” yellow T-Shirt (available in M, L, XL), a “Sticky/Foreplay” calendar (featuring one of the posters specially created for the occasion by the studios of Burken Productions), a large 20′ x 20′ poster of the alternate album cover and an autographed personal note from the artist herself.  This package is available now in a limited set of 100 and is priced between $75 and $100. Based on demand, an additional set of 100 may be added at a future date.

The Special Limited Ultimate Fan Package includes everything from the Total Fan Package and the complete digital package, plus your choice of one of the following: Dinner in New York or A Day In The Studio with the artist; the third unique choice is to receive a song recorded specially for you by La Veda, with your name mentioned in the lyrics. Each choice is limited to one lucky fan and once reserved by a paying customer, each of the above choices will no longer be made available to no one else! If you chose one of the first two (Dinner in New York or A Day In The Studio), you must be able to arrange for your own transportation to the location in New York agreed upon on the day selected for this meeting. All effort will be made to accommodate every one’s schedule and the period of time to excercise this option will remain open for 6 months after initial purchase.

To get your copy of one of these exclusive digital packages, visit the La Veda page on Bandcamp at http://laveda.bandcamp.com.

For more information about Sticky/Foreplay (or any other release) from Harlem Station Recordings, please visit our official website at www.harlemstationrecordings.com or click here.

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For more information, contact the record label directly at the address listed in the Contacts Page.

We’ve been supporting and promoting Netmusique since its inception in 1999 as one of the greatest places online to listen to quality, solid, tech-house music on the web. Now, it is no more, thanks in part to the newly enacted digital broadcasting laws that are making it prohibitive and costly for any and all the small independent online radio stations that have emerged and served us tremendously since the early days of digital streaming and promotion.

What makes these laws so deathly is that the bodies that are imposing them are asking “retroactive” payments for broadcasting going back to the creation of the radio station, more then 10 years ago! Why not work with those stations and create exemptions for them to align themselves with the new laws and start paying fees going forward? This is a subject that needs to be debated and supported strongly by the community.

Below is the letter that we received from Netmusique:

Hey Everyone,

It’s with a heavy heart that I send this message out, but after 11 years of amazing service and as a netradio pioneer, we’ve been forced off the air and to go silent. On Friday, we received an engagement letter from lawyers at SoundExchange whom are attempting to collect broadcast back royalties from when we first started. We do have a valid legal argument, as we broadcast in Canada and not the US, and we also have the support of the majority of the labels and artists that we play, but the fight would be costly and we don’t even have enough money to cover the costs of our servers as it is. This has always been a hobby for us and it would take too much time and money to try to fight this. In the end, we decided to throw in the towel and kill the station off quietly. We did this yesterday at 1:46pm.

Thanks for your understanding, friendship, and years of amazing of service and beautiful music. Please keep it flowing. We’ll make sure we’ll keep it flowing soon too.

It’s been an unbelievably fun run!

Lots of love,
Hali & Jeff.