Coincidence Records compiles the best of Forteana

Coincidence Records compiles the best of Forteana

25 October, 2009 | 4.44AM

• Written by: psytox
• Filed under: Music News : coincidence records, forteana

Forteana Records was the sublabel of Coincidence Records, a lab of sorts to experiment with some tracks that didn’t quite fit into the label’s sound. However, times change and the labels grew towards one another, so the ned for seperate label faded. And so did the Forteana label which got discontinued early 2009. However, the tracks still sound up to date, so we figured it was better to give them a proper rerelease on the Coincidence label so that the work of these fine artists wouldn’t be forgotten.

Deep’a & Vek were the first ones to sign to the newly appointed label back in ye ol’ days. Their debut EP, entitled 404 boasted by a pretty amazing remix by their friend Chaim didn’t quite blast off at first but nevertheless it got pretty good support. Thanks to the remix version it did manage to do what was the intention all along: getting them noticed. Deep’a & Vek later produced a very well received 808 EP on Kammer Music which blasted the charts like there was no tomorrow. For this compilation we chose the original version though, simply because we felt it wa one of the underestimated tracks.

The Office from Colombia was already well on his way to some critical acclaim. managing a label himself ( Attary Records and releasing a steady stream of pumpy minimal. While the original version was released on the Coincidence label, the remixes got a spot on Forteana with very off-the-beaten-track approaches by Tom Hades and Charles T. Light House (who you might know better as Ramon Tapia from f.e. Great Stuff Recordings).

Third release ‘Jonestown’ by EC50 was seriously well received. Not in the least because Laurent Garnier used the track in his podcast for Resident Advisor and the track got a lot of positive feedback as being one of the highlights in that mix. It was a moody pumping track in the style of Radio Slave’s earlier work, driven by the unsettling recordings of Rev. Jim Jones, taped just before he lead his followers into mass suicide in their Jonestown settlement.

Italia is now synonym to a specific form of minimal techno, throbbing beats mixed with four bar stabs aiming at your feet. But back then, this was hardly a popular variant of the minimal genre. Tek introduced the sound to our label and did a great job paving the way for a couple of other tracks that came on the label later on.

Filip Vandendriessche has been a life long friend of label boss PsyTox and is still widely respected for his visionairy work on infamous imprints such as International Deejay Gigolos, KK Tracks, Sativae, UFO, Teknotika, Drought and probably dozens more which even he can’t remember. Always years ahead of his time, always uncompromising and always moody and emotional. The original of ‘EchoDreams’ was edited by PsyTox, so it was rather funny that this track somehow ended up on Coincidence years after that and in a fantastic version by Valyom and Mua. It was one of the tracks that sold least of all, but it is at the same time one of the best and dearest tracks of mine on the label.

Mr. Mau signed for the last release ever on Forteana. Currently busy with his own (amazing) imprint Orbis Records he dropped of his signature sound of deep, dark techno beats. Three tracks that really sounded like a blast from the past with a future approach.

Because we didn’t want to release only old stuff, we did include a new track, by label boss PsyTox. The track ‘Strongerman’ started initially as an attempt to recreate the classic “Derek Went Mad” but soon drifted so far off the original that it became a track staning on its own. Deep, dark, sad and uplifting all in one.

You can find the compilation on Beatport of course. But also many of the tracks that didn’t make it on this compilation were released earlier on Coincidence.

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