Featured Release
Together
Stick together during challenging times. This is the powerful message conveyed in Jean Claude Ades and Re.You’s latest single, “Together.” Written with the current turbulence in mind, the song carries a theme of hope and unity. By blending real piano recordings with a variety of synth sounds, including Novation peak ,Prophet VS and Jupiter 8V, the track creates an uplifting yet profound sound.
Label Releases
The Ancient New
Expectations and preconceptions were all dashed into a haze the moment Holed Coin started working on The Ancient New — the band’s first E.P. on Scorpios Music — with total creative freedom for each musician being a leading principle in its production. While this posed a fun challenge, it also pushed the intrinsic value of self-expression to the forefront.
Yepa EP
he waves wash in, sun sets over the island and the hypnotic sounds of the Yepa EP play out. Bringing the Mykonos spirit to a Frankfurt recording studio, this new release from Rey&Kjavik blends ethereal voices and chants with intricate oud harmonies and driving rhythms to draw in the night and conjure images of beach-side fire rituals. A hypnotic, energy instilling record from a Scorpios regular performer since 2018.
Alma Clara EP
The Alma Clara E.P. is a testament to the breadth of PAAX (Tulum)’s technical prowess and the worldly influences upon which they draw.
Mektoub
“Every song either already exists in my head or comes out, as if by magic, during a directionless improv session.” Mektoub, meaning “destiny” in Arabic, reflects the swirls and eddies of life itself — its ups and downs and arounds, its beautiful love stories, breakups, and the everyday spiritual quests that almost go unnoticed.
Too Far, Mirage
Between traversing the global DJ circuit and long laser-focused studio sessions in his chosen home of Berlin, Ulises casts his eye to Earth itself as he scours for a metaphor for his own philosophical uncertainties. In Too Far, Mirage one finds music and lyrics wavering on the line between elucidation and ambiguity.
Quiero Vivir
Through stories, songs, and poetry, cultural heritage is passed down and preserved. Literally translating to “I want to live”, Quiero Vivir is a testament to how music is a both a lifeline for cultures across time and a conduit through which personal identity and a sense of belonging is expressed. Inspired by nomadic musicians in the Balkan states who, finding themselves out of work after the dwindling Ottoman Empire had no more use for its military bands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, started up their own bands to fuse elements of military music with local folk traditions. A collaborative release from Lannka and ARKADYAN, Quiero Vivir is a celebration of brass instruments such as trumpets, tubas, and saxophones, with electronic sounds and percussive embellishments from darbukas, djembes and congas.
Talk to Me
On a winter’s trip to a studio session in gloomy Berlin, Jean Claude Ades glanced out of the window and was hit by an idea for a new track. With the intention of bringing brightness to the gray, “Talk To Me” emanates the high-summer energy of Scorpios wherever it’s played, whatever time of year or day. An exercise in out-of-the-box thinking for Jean Claude Ades, the E.P. also features a Ulises remix of the title track.
Alto Mare
Gestural, introverted, sensual, and autobiographical without compromising on its exploration of universal themes, Derun's new release takes listeners across landscapes and through the skies over them, answering none of the questions they pose in the meantime.
Esperanza
Music to make people dance with big smiles on their faces. With a penchant for a strong groovy base and melodies with “a nice bit of tension”, Arkadyan and Demayä set about work on their collaborative E.P. Esperanza: “In an early mix of the title track, we used a sample of Manu Chao’s voice, saying "esperanza, esperanza" but a chance encounter in Dubai with mezzo soprano vocalist Yana Mann changed the course of the E.P. Inspired by the trumpet melody and the beat, Yana Mann came up with a vocal line and the result was a one-shot success. One enlightening taxi ride with Jean Claude Ades later and things started falling into place. The result is a miniature collection of “octopus rhythms”, with organic percussion and electronic beats jostling for attention with a plethora of live instruments and on-the-road pocket-mic field recordings.
Aroma
The album is a passionate ode to the musical heritage of the Cyclades from a personal perspective, which comes as no surprise to Valeron's admirers. “There is nothing more beautiful than the sound of music and the aroma of its soul. To inhale is to capture, to experience”.
Abendrot
Shapeshifting between funky, mysterious, pensive, and compelling, Abendrot is an assertion of personal eclecticism, a nod to the Argentine producer’s Berlin base, and Ulises’ second E.P. on Scorpios Music. Peppered with Latin-inspired percussion and ethereal synths, Abendrot is the soundtrack to an afterglow state — or a “farewell to the sun until the next dawn” as he puts it — spent wandering a phantasmagoric desert landscape embellished with the shapes and colors of a Dalí or Gaudí sketchbook.
Alhambra
Conceptually, Lannka’s Alhambra E.P. is an auditory transposition of the imagery of Spain’s Andalusia community and a self-assured stride on the pursuit of his own organic deep house aesthetic.
Fragile
“Fragile is one of my favourite Sting songs, so I decided to release it as an official single with Gabriel Russel on vocals and guitar and adjusted synths and vocal phrases. This track holds a special place in my heart and it’s one that has brought the band closer in the past — we always play it as the last track when performing live.”
Where the Earth Meets the Sky
Aaroon’s illustrious production career takes another step forward with Where The Earth Meets The Sky, his second release on Scorpios Music. An intricate combination of organic sounds and synth keys unlocks the door to another dimension, taking the listener on a whistle-stop tour of the post-industrial spaces of central Europe’s club scene to temporary jungle clearings and tropical beaches via the recesses of Aaroon’s own psyche. Despite shifting tempos and tones between tracks, the E.P. as a whole blends elements of Middle Eastern psychedelia with hallmarks of house, tempting the spiritually adventurous to skyward introspection.
Awake
The interplay between light and dark is the metaphorical leitmotif du jour on Jean Claude Ades' Awake E.P., inspired by the people who “come into your life and give you joy, bringing brightness, turning the night into the day” and the universal feeling of emerging from darkness with fresh perspectives, according to the Scorpios veteran.
Moonshine
Conceptualized while dancing around a fire deep in the mountains of central Bulgaria, Moonshine is an ode to the storytelling abilities of nature and the heightened feelings and ruminations that the natural world can draw from us in ways that we can’t quite grasp.
Hypnos
Hypnos is characterized by a sinuous fluctuation of intensity that reflects how humans experience the textures of life. PAAX (Tulum)’s second E.P. on Scorpios Music looks to the varying energies of the everyday and transposes them for the dancefloor, with the occasional reference to Spanish and Latin culture. Instrumental flair comes from revered names such as Daniel Herranz Gómez and Nelson Williams. Introspective yet with the sun’s movements in mind, Hypnos contributes to the richness of life from which it draws inspiration.
Espelho Prata
Playing with a broad range of rhythms and melodies inspired by his native Brazil, the Middle East, and beyond, Kurup uses music as a conduit through which to consider questions on life, existence, and what it is to be human.
Aminta
An innate tendency to inspire chemistry between virtuosos of ancient Greek folk instruments and a keen ear for making music with both the reveller and thinker in mind has ensured Valeron a beacon-like status on the Mykonos electronic music scene both as a DJ and producer.
Paraga
Paraga is an EP eponymous with the place that inspired its creation. Rey&Kjavik's first release on the Scorpios imprint is an emotive, technical effort at distilling the aura of Paraga Beach — upon which sits Scorpios Mykonos — into a sonic diptych, conjured up in the DJ-producer's Frankfurt studio.
Esperanza
The conspicuity of rhythm is a veil to the more introspective underpinnings of Esperanza by MoM, ANuT, and CharlieM, with a certain cerebral momentum hidden within electronic intricacies throughout.
Cry for Kashmir
Born in London, raised in Thailand, and now based in Berlin, Aaroon possesses a worldliness that inexorably manifests itself in his music by informing both emotional breadth and stylistic diversity. The DJ and producer’s E.P. Cry for Kashmir is simultaneously a statement on half-forgotten crises occurring around the world, an optimistic nudge towards global peace, and a testament to the power of art, created on the belief that music can physically affect anything from a human brain down to the structure of a snowflake. Feeling, technical dexterity, and raw emotional expression play out across the “little stories” of this release, as Aaroon puts it.
Wallas EP
PAAX (Tulum)’s E.P. Wallas is an auditory exploration of global proportions, taking influence from the real and organic sounds of myriad countries and cultures — from the DJ duo’s native Buenos Aires to their chosen home on the Riviera Maya, to Spain, and beyond.
Ritual Incognito
The inaugural release under Scorpios Music, Ulises’ latest creation is a collaborative act that implicates Jo.Ke of Feathered Sun and César B. Abounding with subtle references to Zen Buddism, Sufi mysticism, European avant-garde and the magic realism of his native Argentina, Ritual Incognito manifests anything but monotony. It speaks to hypnotize you to the point you begin seeing, smelling, tasting it. In short, you live every vibe of it and in every sense.