Kiss

Berlin's Axel Bartsch releases his debut full-length for Karmarouge, Kiss. After a few 12" releases on Kompakt, Sportclub and Spielzeug, Axel Bartsch has been searching for a suitable record label and Karmarouge gave him the opportunity to do it his way. Bartsch made the final decision to name his album Kiss because of his passion for music... because music is like kissing - highly emotional and sensual, as the feeling of approaching lips. These are melodic and energetic tracks that space out into ambience, dipping into the abstractness of familial and emotional electronic soundscapes. Kiss celebrates the glorious pressure and tension felt in the body when the dancer is animated by a grooving techno current - moving, throbbing, and finally being released in hisses and pops, like being kissed by music.