Olaris Records - New York City: Archive

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Roy McLaren's A Welcome Soul Out Now on OLARIS

Nocturnal Grooves recording artist Roy McLaren drops the first of two hot new singles on Olaris with “A Welcome Soul,” a techy, stompy, big house floorfiller. With his remix of 808 State’s “Pacific State” being caned in Ibiza and clamoring up charts worldwide, “A Welcome Soul” continues McLaren’s reign of the summer. A blistering trilogy of...

Aug 26th

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Royal Sapien's "You Will Be Mine"

Royal Sapien returns to Olaris with a progressive house vocal treat. Warm pads and simple, analog beats propel this melodic track into mainstream territory while the dub takes things a bit deeper. Nod your head and tap your feet to some brand new, original Sapien sounds. “You Will Be Mine” Main Mix and Main Dub OUT NOW on Beatport! Eelke Kleijn (Outside the Box / GU / Manual) this...

Jul 1st

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Royal Sapien - Easy Remastered Gold Edition Out...

Royal Sapien | Easy (25th Anniversary Remastered Gold Edition) Out Now on Olaris Records The standout track from Royal Sapien’s mix for John Digweed’s Transitions, “Easy” is better than ever after being remastered. Its smooth, wobbly bassline and infectious hook will have you dreaming the melody and humming the tune. Listen to the full release streaming for free below...

Sep 17th

Ingi & Simon Latham - Lead Me On

Ingi & Simon Latham | Lead Me On (with remixes from Monojoke and Royal Sapien) Out Now on Olaris Records Ingi and Simon Latham return to Olaris together for a big, melodic progressive house track featuring Simon with hooky, catchy vocals. Ingi’s credits include his work in Funk Harmony Park as well as running the Iceland-based label Arctic Wave. Simon’s had big hits over the...

Sep 2nd

Derek Howell - Cheer Up (with Pance Party and...

Derek Howell | Cheer Up (with remixes from Pance Party and Royal Sapien) Out Now on Olaris Records Deep, techy progressive house for a dark night from Costa Rica’s Sotela. The MoonChild Stories EP is a silky, bliss out laser show. Both “Oakland” and “Komodo” are atmospheric throwbacks to the dawn of modern progressive house. Listen to the full release streaming for...

Aug 18th

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Royal Sapien at Le Souk, NYC, Jan 17 2009

Come out to Le Souk in New York City this Saturday, January 17, to see Olaris Records’ Royal Sapien alongside Quarterlife head Indicant and Le Souk resident Jay Maggard.

Jan 11th

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Royal Sapien - Movement - December 2008

Royal Sapien presents Movement airs on friskyRadio every third Wednesday at 8pm ET. MP3 DOWNLOAD: Royal Sapien - Movement on friskyRadio December 2008 Glass Ghost - Divisions [CDR] Merka - Lime [Fat!] Ladies On Mars - Maybe [Xela Digital] Hardfloor - The Life We Choose (ERP Remix) [No Respect] Chris Lake feat. Nastala - If You Knew (Hardwell and Rehab Dub) [Rising Music] Katy Perry - I Kissed A...

Jan 9th

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Sotela - MoonChild Stories EP OUT NOW

Sotela | MoonChild Stories EP Out Now on Olaris Records Deep, techy progressive house for a dark night from Costa Rica’s Sotela. The MoonChild Stories EP is a silky, bliss out laser show. Both “Oakland” and “Komodo” are atmospheric throwbacks to the dawn of modern progressive house. Listen to the full release streaming free at last.fm and pick up MP3s at Beatport! ...

Jan 3rd

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Royal Sounds - December 2008

Royal Sapien presents Royal Sounds airs on Proton Radio every third Friday at 4pm ET. MP3 DOWNLOAD: Royal Sapien - Royal Sounds December 2008 MP3 Mike Monday - Zum Zum [Great Stuff] Melleefresh and Dirty 30 - The Money (Rockstar Mix) [Play Digital] Ed Banger - No Cow No Pow [Ed Banger] Sick - Shake Your Derriere [DUMBEST] Nick Dare - On The Floor [Detour] Bimbo Lemar - Who Got The Beats...

Dec 27th

Olaris Supports Awesome Causes

And you can, too! The following charities and organizations enlighten the mind, protect civil liberties, provide medical care, feed the hungry, prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and give hundreds of thousands of people access to clean water. We’d be honored if you decided to support them with us. ACLU - Protecting civil liberties and fighting for the Constitution Direct Relief International -...

Dec 19th

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OLARIS044 TwoPlay - Trippin OUT NOW

TwoPlay | Trippin (Original, Royal Dance Remix, and Royal Sapien Remix) Out Now on Olaris Records If you want old skool-flavored, building progressive trance, look no further than TwoPlay’s new killer “Trippin,” produced by Italy’s Dee Green. Royal Dance Project from Mexico provide a stunning funky tech house remix and New York’s Royal Sapien rounds out the package...

Dec 18th

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Season's Greetings 2008

Thanks to all for a great 2008. Enjoy the next few releases on Olaris from TwoPlay and Sotela. We’re preparing some amazing stuff for 2009 and will see you all at our WMC 2009 party. Details TBC, naturally. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Royal Sapien - Year End Mixtape 2008 December 2008 [MP3] RUNTIME: 59:01 Royal Sapien [www] [Facebook group] [MySpace] TRACKLIST ...

Dec 14th

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Royal Sapien Movement November 2008 on friskyRadio

Royal Sapien presents Movement airs on friskyRadio every third Wednesday at 8pm ET. MP3 DOWNLOAD: Royal Sapien - Movement on friskyRadio November 2008 Merka - Regeneration [Fat!] Pet Shop Boys and Sam Taylor-Wood - I’m In Love With A German Film Star (Gui Boratto Mix) [Kompakt] Chris Fortier - B-Dub (Mark Broom Remix) [EQ] Kilowatts - Luna [Harmonious Discord] Janet Jackson - That’s...

Dec 7th

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Royal Sapien - Everyone Remixes OUT NOW

Royal Sapien | Everyone Remixes Vol. 2 feat. Opencloud and Blake Jarrell Out Now on Olaris Records Brand new remixes of Royal Sapien’s sleeper progressive anthem, “Everyone.” The Opencloud remix is a huge builder with melodies and atmospherics swirling all over the place. Blake Jarrell’s mix takes it into massive progressive house-trance territory for a version that will...

Nov 14th

Royal Sapien Movement October 2008 on friskyRadio

Royal Sapien presents Movement airs on friskyRadio every third Wednesday at 8pm ET. MP3 DOWNLOAD: Royal Sapien - Movement on friskyRadio October 2008 Stanton Warriors - Slanty feat Ce Cile [Punks] Charlie May - Midnight [GlobalUnderground] Substantial and Chew Fu - Don’t Play With Me [Brooklyn Zoo] OnePhatDeeva - Bad Habit feat Lisa Millet (Stanton Warriors Remix) [Defected] Innate and Rob...

Oct 28th

Indicant - Just Say What You Want OUT NOW!

OLARIS042 Indicant | Just Say What You Want Out Now on Olaris Records Indicant returns to Olaris Records with a release of his own after dropping techy remixes of Royal Sapien’s “Everyone” in early 2008. In addition to co-founding several excellent labels and promoting successful parties and club nights, Indicant has established himself under several other guises as one of New...

Oct 24th

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Royal Sapien - An Incomplete Theory of Everything...

Royal Sapien | An Incomplete Theory of Everything EP1 Out Now on Olaris Records Royal Sapien is back with his first originals collection since the Strip Poker Slot Machine LP released in 2006. Quite literally dancing around established genres and taunting them, An Incomplete Theory of Everything EP1 brings spy mystique in the form of “Clouded,” a quiet plea to unkind clubs in...

Sep 26th

Join Olaris Records at SF LoveFest 2008

Proton Radio and Olaris Records are proud to be partnering with listed for the infamous Get Weird party featuring Lee Burridge! The San Francisco LoveFest Weekend kickoff event opens at 10pm on Friday, October 3 at Mighty, San Francisco’s favorite underground club. Joining Lee Burridge in the main room will be listed DJs Mike Khoury and Tim McCormack. On the Patio you can hear the sounds...

Sep 24th

Olaris Records Endorses Barack Obama

Most of us have lost faith in the political system. Many of us have lost faith in the country and its direction. Some of us have lost faith in our neighbors and friends. I blame the Bush administration. Our patriotic countrymen have good hearts and want what is best for the country but a majority has been led astray by a government we are supposed to trust. They’ve been led astray by a...

Sep 14th

Simon Latham - On Fire Out Now!

Out this weekend on Olaris Records, we are proud to welcome Simon Latham to our roster on this 40th Olaris release. There’s the original mix featuring Simon’s vocals and songwriting, plus the stripped down raw mix with the same vibe. Ingi’s progressive remix has gotten a huge response from top DJs and the Chillout Bootleg remix is a tripped out, spacey version of the original. A...

Sep 7th

Download Royal Sapien Movement August 2008

Royal Sapien presents Movement airs on friskyRadio every third Wednesday at 8pm ET. MP3 DOWNLOAD: Royal Sapien - Movement on friskyRadio August 2008 Prisoners of Technology - Horizon feat. Arkanna (Prisoners of Technology Remix) [Battlemaster] Karoshi Bros - Love The World (Flash Atkins Extended Mix) [We Are Woodville] Simian Mobile Disco - Love (Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve Remix) [Wichita]...

Aug 30th

Royal Sapien Chart - August 2008

In case you’re interested, here is Royal Sapien’s top 10 for August 2008. Taken from RoyalSapien.com. Always updated at ResidentAdvisor. 1 Royal Sapien - Everyone (Opencloud’s Dual City Remix) [Olaris] 2 Simon Latham - On Fire (Remixes) [Olaris] 3 Chris Fortier - Deviated Septum (One of Them Remix) [EQ Grey] 4 Overcast - Just A Few (Royal Sapien Remix)...

Aug 25th

Royal Sapien Battles the Metal Menace

Olaris Records fan Mike Jacobs edited an old Superman cartoon to Royal Sapien’s remix of “Celebrity Science” by Hybrid. Enjoy!

Aug 25th

Simon Latham - On Fire VIDEO

Olaris Records is proud to welcome Simon Latham to our family with a beautiful tune he wrote and sang called “On Fire.” It’s a chilled out, booming ambient experience co-produced by Royal Sapien. The release also includes a stripped down, raw mix with just the basic groove and vocals, a bootleg chillout mix with some wicked beats,...

Aug 23rd

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Download Royal Sounds August 2008

Royal Sounds with Royal Sapien airs on Proton Radio every third Friday at 4pm ET and is available OnDemand anytime at Proton Radio. MP3 DOWNLOAD: Royal Sapien - Royal Sounds HOUR 1 August 2008 Opencloud - Untitled [Proton Limited] Gui Boratto - Golden Axe [Cocoon] The Stain - Black Hole [HeadRush] Chris Fortier - Deviated Septum (One of Them Remix) [EQ Grey] Dave James - Crazy Pitcher...

Aug 21st

Turning Tricks OUT NOW!

The debut release of Olaris Summer 2008 now that we’re part of Proton is a special breaks track from Royal Sapien called “Turning Tricks,” radiating warm strings and big drama. Remixes come from the bangin’ Boshell & Cody and the progressive Dj KiRA. You can pick it up now at Beatport, check the video in the sidebar and on YouTube, and listen for free on Last.fm....

Aug 15th

Olaris Records Artists & Friends

We took these links out of our sidebar with the new design, so here are the links to our wonderful artists and awesome friends. OLARIS ARTISTS Bitfiend Boshell & Cody Chris Fortier Derek Howell Eddie Cumana Funk Harmony Park Indicant Joel Armstrong DJ Kira Leo Leal Nick and John Dalagelis NO:3 and Hambrick Opencloud Royal Dance Project Royal Sapien Ryan Crane Stefan Anion Stroud Terje Bakke...

Aug 14th

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friskyRadio Loves New York

It’s back! The world famous friskyRadio World Tour is back with another great destination! After already visiting countries in three continents it’s time to showcase artists from one of the biggest cities in the world: New York City! friskyRadio Loves New York spends two days diving deep into the underground of NYC. Chicago invented House, Detroit invented Techno, but dance...

Aug 12th

A remix of The Bugle’s theme that Royal...

Aug 11th

Royal Sapien was testing out some vocal recording...

Aug 8th

Simon Latham - On Fire Sneak Peek

Check out the bootleg chillout mix of Simon Latham’s “On Fire,” due out on Olaris Records August 28.

Aug 7th

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Olaris Records joins Proton label roster

Big news from Olaris and Proton! From Proton: Royal Sapien’s Olaris Records label is joining the Proton family this August. As host of two monthly radio shows, one on Frisky and one on Proton, Royal Sapien is constantly at the forefront of the ever evolving scene and remains one of its most dedicated participants. The Olaris label exists as an outlet for his own original productions as...

Aug 7th

Free Chris Fortier Remix

Since Apple thought it wise to include this track on their San Francisco LoveFest download card, we thought it would be nice to make it a free download here to launch the new site. Chris Fortier’s remix of Royal Sapien’s “Where’s the Bar” is a dubby tech house version of the album track from Strip Poker Slot Machine, available at Beatport, Amazon, iTunes, etc. ...

Aug 7th

Olaris Records.com BETA!

Welcome to the new Olaris Records site! We are refining it daily and adding more features to better enable us to get news to you with a quickness. Soon there will be an RSS feed to keep up with news and releases, streaming DJ sets and full-length tracks, and much more. If you haven’t already, please visit Olaris on Facebook and MySpace! We’re also pretty active over on Last.fm. You...

Aug 7th

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New Video from Royal Sapien!

Royal Sapien’s “Turning Tricks” is out August 14 on Olaris Records with remixes from Boshell & Cody and DJ Kira.

Aug 7th

Olaris Records Releases Log

OLARISLP001: Royal Sapien - Revolutionary
OLARISLP002: Royal Sapien - Strip Poker Slot Machine
OLARISLP003: Ryan Crane - Audio Putty
OLARISBBY01: Olaris Records presents Best Best Y'all Vol. 1 (Mixed / Unmixed)
OLARISBBY02: Olaris Records presents Best Best Y'all Vol. 2 (Mixed / Unmixed)
OLARIS001: Royal Sapien “Melted” with Ryan Crane Remix 
OLARIS002: Ryan Crane “Look Upward” with Royal Sapien Remixes 
OLARIS003: Royal Sapien “Armed” with Ryan Crane Remix 
OLARIS004: Ryan Crane “Pushers” with Royal Sapien Remix
OLARIS005: Royal Sapien “Be With You”
OLARISBP01: Olaris Founders EP
OLARIS006: Royal Sapien “Be With You” Global Love Remixes
OLARIS007: Royal Sapien “Repeating The Lie Often Enough / A War We Can’t Win” 
OLARIS008: Ryan Crane “Upper Ground” with Royal Sapien Remix
OLARIS009: Royal Sapien “Try” with Ryan Crane Remix
OLARIS010: Royal Sapien “Triple Nine” with Royal Sapien Body Shot Mix
OLARIS011: Ryan Crane “Phoenix Phase EP”
OLARIS012: Royal Sapien “The Sound of The City” with Royal Sapien Body Shot Mix
OLARIS013: Ryan Crane “Quicken” with Royal Sapien Remix
OLARIS014: Ryan Crane feat. Royal Sapien “Move On It” with Carmina Verano Mix 
OLARIS015: Funk Harmony Park “Silence Me” with Royal Sapien Remix and Ryan Crane Remix
OLARIS016: Royal Sapien “Allmonde”
OLARIS017: Royal Sapien “OH NO” with Original, Dub, and XXL Mixes
OLARIS018: Ryan Crane “Just Like That” with Maximum Voltage and Royal Sapien Remixes
OLARIS019: Ryan Crane “Full Scale” with Maximum Voltage and Royal Sapien Remixes
OLARIS020: Royal Sapien “Do It Now” with Opencloud, Ryan Crane, and Royal Sapien Remixes
OLARIS021: No Context “Freedom Kiss” 
OLARIS022: No Context “For The Breakers” 
OLARIS023: Ryan Crane “Stone Built” with Maximum Voltage Remix and Royal Sapien Dubs 
OLARIS024: Royal Sapien “Where’s The Bar?” with Chris Fortier, Ryan Crane, and Royal Sapien Remixes
OLARIS025A: No Context “Easy” 
OLARIS025B: No Context “Anti-Skate”
OLARIS026: Ryan Crane “On the Way” with Royal Sapien and Stroud Remixes 
OLARIS027: Royal Sapien “Broad Styles” with Original Mix and Dub 
OLARIS028: Slot Doctor “Airhorn vs. Foghorn” 
OLARISBP002: Royal Sapien “Save Me” with Strip Poker Slot Machine Remix and Dub 
OLARIS029: Ryan Crane “Matter / Anti-Matter EP” [Buy from Beatport]
OLARIS030: Royal Sapien “Akimbo”
OLARIS031: Royal Sapien “San Francisco Love” with remixes from over a dozen artists
OLARIS032: Royal Sapien “Make Love EP” 
OLARIS033: Ryan Crane “That One” with Royal Sapien Remix
OLARIS034: Royal Sapien “Everyone Remixes” Mixes from Indicant and Bitfiend 
OLARIS035: Will Spencer “Oceanica” Remixes from Opencloud, Stefan Anion, Royal Sapien, and Ryan Crane
OLARIS036: Funk Harmony Park “Aida’s Theme” with Royal Sapien Remix
OLARIS037: Funk Harmony Park “Harpa V” with 3 original mixes 
OLARIS038: Funk Harmony Park “Harpa V Remixes” Remixes from Royal Sapien, DJKira, Leo Leal & Royal Dance Project, JAYO
OLARIS039: Royal Sapien “Turning Tricks” Remixes from Boshell & Cody and DJ Kira
OLARIS040: Simon Latham "On Fire" Remixes from Royal Sapien and Ingi
OLARIS041: Royal Sapien An Incomplete Theory of Everything EP1
OLARIS042: Indicant - "Just Say What You Want" Streamless Mix and Rubber Mix
OLARIS043: Royal Sapien "Everyone Remixes Vol. 2" Remixes from Opencloud and Blake Jarrell
OLARIS044: TwoPlay "Trippin" Remixes by Royal Dance and Royal Sapien
OLARIS045: Sotela "Moonchild Stories EP" Oakland and Komodo
OLARIS046: Derek Howell "Cheer Up" Remixes by Pance Party and Royal Sapien
OLARIS047: Ingi and Latham "Lead Me On" Remixes by Monojoke and Royal Sapien
OLARIS048: Royal Sapien "Easy" 25th Anniversary Gold Edition Remaster
OLARIS049: Royal Dance Project "From Here to the Sun" Remix by Chris Fortier
OLARIS050: Royal Sapien "Clouded" Remix by Stefan Anion
OLARIS051: Anomy "Winter Flower" Remix by Great Scott
OLARIS052: Royal Sapien The National Archives
OLARIS053: Royal Sapien "The Kills" Remix by Indicant v Camelo
OLARIS054: Fike "Curfew EP"
OLARIS055: Argeniz "Thinkin N Purple" Remix by Biologik
OLARIS056: Andrew Benson "Before Glow" Remix by James Warren
OLARIS057: Juspio "Frozen Light" Remixes by Chris Fortier and DJ Kira
OLARIS058: Royal Sapien "You Will Be Mine"

Aug 3rd