FUTURE GROOVE

Future Groove is the specialist club label of the world famous Mute Records and was founded in the year 1999.
The general feel and vibe of the label is for dark club tracks which are not techno, not trance, not house and not progressive, but a mixture of all these styles.
The main influence of the label can be traced through the original Chicago acid tracks, through the dubbier elements of American house and the deeper tougher elements of European techno.
Classic and current tribal labels like Touché, Plastic city, Hooj choons and Junior also had an heavy effect on the development of Future Groove, because across all these labels are one defining element – big club tracks with a deep dark hypnotic feeling.
Being not interested in what is cool and often played Future Groove is interested in that feeling onto its records – the emotion of being lost in great sounds, that acid house feeling.
Due to such a intention Future Groove has created a label profile that you cannot find every often (in Germany).

Already in the year of foundation the first great 12 inches were published for example Tungsten’s "Carbine", Aircom’s "Red Cloud" and Wired‘s "Transonic".
This stuff was followed by well-known dancefloor fillers of Mike Wells, Inertia, Polaris and Grayson Shipley.

Tied up to the great success of these publications in the United Kingdom Future Groove broke into the German dance scene in 2001 by publishing its first compilation "Future Groove Collection".
This compilation contains a DJ mix of older Future Groove releases like Arrid’s "The trench" or Vic20 & Sinclar’s "Nikita" and was mixed by Mike Wells aka Force Mass Motion.
The classic Tatabox Inhibitors‘ record "Plasmids" and Desert’s "Lettin‘ ya mind go" followed this compilation.

Last year (in 2002) P.I.M.P. and Kolaborators (a Robbie Rivera project) released the label debuts "Music" and "Music all around" to start another great series of very cool 12 inches (like the current "Space" of Oscar G).
In the last month of 2002 the second compilation of Future Groove became available in the shops.
It is called "Future Groove Compilation" and consists of two cds. The first disc contains a fabulous mix done by Desert and the second one delivers the tracks which present the current activity of Future Groove.

Because of their great sound a lot of these releases made their way into the record cases of famous DJs like Darren Emerson, Pete Tong, John Digweed and Josh Wink to mention only a selection of DJs playing the Future Groove stuff.
That’s the way it’s gone. But we hope that it will go on to give us this great feeling – that acid house feeling.

Future Groove

future groove is the new specialist club label from the world famous mute records. the general feel and vibe of the label is for dark club tracks, not techno, not trance, not house, not progressive but a mixtire of all these styles.

the main influences of the label can be traced through the original chicago acid trax, through the dubbier elements of american house in the mid nineties from the likes of strictly rhythm, miami sound and of course the classic tribal label (whose records still grace the future groove turntables everyday), through the deeper tougher elements of european techno, with labels like touche, work, plastic city, right upto the current standard leaders such as yoshitoshi, hooj choons and junior. accross all these labels are one defining element - big club tracks with a deep dark hypnotic feeling in which to lose yourself on the dancefloor.

we arent interested in what is cool, or what this and that dj are playing. we are interested in getting that feeling onto our records, the emotion of being lost in sound in new york, miami, berlin, amsterdam, london or wherever - an international language, that acid house feeling.

current and forthcoming releases include the classic tatabox inhibitors record plasmids with new mixes from miami house hero oscar g, the dutch pioneers jamez & dobre, and current english progressive fave force mass motion.

next release is regrooves featuring 2 sides of new york house; the uplifting funky vibes of joystick and the twisted beats of powder productions. these tracks are already big faves for deep dish, seb fontaine and steve lawler

this is followed by the deep pulsating techy flicks theme from deadbeat society which john digweed plays on huis radio show, and the classy remix from trisco, a deep but large production with a cool trancey breakdown.

the new release from desert follows this, pickjing up from their remix of danny tenaglia music is the answer, this is a peak time twisted house track that is currently number one for roger sanchez. the remixes come from uk female house dj, lottie, peak time progressive pumpers king unique and the infamous west coast dj, doc martin, who has delivered a very dubbed out acidic version

on from this we have the excellent sunkissed "round trip", whic is licensed from richie hawtin's definitive label in canada. an 11 minute peak time funky acid track, this record could be a really big one, and comes with a full quota of top international remixes. steve porter from florida has delivered a superb version, very deep dish sounding, whilst fellow american brian zentz (familiar to many for his releases on carl cox's in-tec label) has returned to his original barada name for a neat funky west coast acid house track. finallly, our long time friend from mainz, thomas p. heckmann has done us proud with a fine speak shuddering slice of pneumatic techno with a bassline that will break the windows. play it loud !!!!

watch out for forthcoming future groove events in new york, switzerland, and amsterdam, with excllent and well known guest dj's spreading our message, sound and vision.