Dana Ruh – Can You Handle – Connect Four

14/10/2009

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Cat.: C4-DIGI-001
Label: Connect Four Records
Format: Digital
Style: Minimal House

Tracks (click to listen):
1. Can You Handle
2. Haunting The Elps
3. Rights

Connect Four Records is finally back after our little summer break, and we are very happy to introduce a new signing to the label.

Dana Ruh might be a newcomer to Connect Four, but is definitely a girl on her way up the ladder in the minimal house community. She has released/remixed on labels such as Clink, Brouqade, Einmaleins, LesIzmo:r, Perspective, Capsula, Dialtone and many more, and now finally she is ready to deliver 3 cool minimal house tracks on Connect Four!

Dana was born and raised in Gera/Thüringen in Germany, and has always been into music. First singing in choir, later doing background vocals in a rockband and in 1994 she bought mixer and turntables and started her electronic venture, still though on a hobby basis, as she was studying economics. After graduation and working as a stock warrant in a bank, she finally decided that she wanted to focus 100% on music and moved to Berlin to do this.

1. First track up is ‘Can You Handle’. Starting out with a long groovy rolling intro, making its way into the breakdown and the vocals asking if you can handle it, making the track tip over and the crowd go crazy. The track fits perfectly into the current wave of newschool house coming mainly from South Germany.

2. Haunting The Elps follows up closely to the first track but is more focussed on drum programming and a moody theme which takes you all the way through.

3. Last track on this release is ‘Rights’, which again follows in the same vein as the 2 previous tracks, but has a bit more ‘in your face’ attitude and small vocal snippets, ahhhh

Supported by:
Mikael Stavöstrand, Paco Osuna, Alexi Delano, Ripperton, Brothers’ Vibe, Camea, Lee Curtiss, Hernan Cattaneo, Someone Else, Miro Pajic and many more.