London house trio X-Press 2 mix the latest volume in NRK's Coast2Coast series.

From New Jersey (Kerri Chandler) and Chicago (Ron Trent) to Berlin (Âme) then back to Baltimore (Karizma), NRK’s Coast2Coast mix series has been following house players around the globe, and next up the series pulls up in London for a volume from X-Press 2, aka Diesel, Rocky and Ashley Beedle.

Previous editions have included the same tracks on mixed and unmixed discs but X-Press 2's volume is a double disc set of thirty mixed cuts including best-of-2007 picks from Stefan Goldmann, Dennis Ferrer and Etienne Jaumet as well as older tracks from house and techno legends such as Carl Craig, Mr. Fingers and Phuture.

Tracklist

CD01 Mixed by X-Press 2

01 X-Press 2 feat Bernard Fowler - Don't Make Me Wait (Acoustic Version)
02 Johnny Blas - Picadillo (Carl Craig Extended version)
03 Farley & Rocky - The Cobra
04 Ron Basejam - For The People, By The People (Schmoov Mix)
05 3-Voices - Escape (Inst.)
06 Blackjoy - Untitled (Solid Groove Mix)
07 Presence - The Strength (Within)
08 As One - Germanium (Los Hermanos Revival Mix)
09 Master C&J - Dub Love
10 Joint Venture - Love & Happiness
11 Katcha - Touched By God (Peace Division mix)
12 Phuture - Inside Out (Roy's Rad Nomad Mix)
13 X-Press 2 feat Rob Harvey - Kill 100 (Lost Heroes Mix)
14 Mr Fingers - Stars

CD02 Mixed by X-Press 2

01 Skat - This Is
02 Stefan Goldman - Lunatic Fringe
03 Alton Miller feat. Lady Linn - Possibilities (Boddhi Satva's Ancestral Dub Mix)
04 Etienne Jaumet - Repeat Again After Me (Ame Mix)
05 Andre Kraml feat. Schad Privat - Dirty Fingernails
06 Solomun - Jungle River Cruise
07 Marlow & Claudia Nehls - Water (Jackmate Remix)
08 Art Of Tones - Praise
09 Dennis Ferrer - Transitions
10 Johannes Heil - All For One (Tobi Neumann's Swingin Mix)
11 Frankie Valentine - Paradise Regained (Slam Mode Mix)
12 Audion - Noiser
13 Paul Ritch - Nordbanhof
14 Michel De Hey vs Grooveyard - Compound
15 Robbie Rivera - Sound Xpress
16 Oxia - Domino

'Coast2Coast' mixed by X-Press 2 arrives on NRK on February 25, 2008.

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St. Louis techno producer Butane promises dark, detail-oriented minimal on his debut album Becoming out in March.

The seven-track album, which arrives on 2x12” and digital but not on CD, is the product of six months away from music for Butane, known to his family as Andrew Rasse. “Moving to Berlin around Christmas of last year kind of forced me to take a break from studio work for nearly six months,” says Butane. “Then when I came back to Berlin in June after Sonar, I slowed my travel schedule down and spent a lot of time reading philosophy and just generally enjoying the Berlin summer.”

“When I finally took all the pent-up creative energy from those past six months into the studio with me to write the album, it all just came pouring out. I fine tuned it over the next few months, testing some of the tracks while out DJing, and this is the final result.”

“I really wanted to present something a bit different than what I had done before,” adds Butane. “And approaching this as an album enabled me to do that. I feel like these tracks all somehow belong together.”

Tracklist

A1 Collapse
A2 A Rave Mistake (Remix)
B Hallucinate
C1 From the Beginning
C2 Wanderer
D1 I Didn't Know
D2 Reflection

’Becoming’ by Butane is out on Alphahouse on March 17, 2008.

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