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Artist:	ARCHITECT, THE
Title:	When the Bass Is Pumping
Label:	FRIENDS OF TOMORROW (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	FOT 002EP

"Friends of Tomorrow is back with a new way of consuming the world and staying well-off at the same time! What's the deal? Jay Haze himself -- well-known for lots of fat-minimal-soulful even dark escapades -- came down and dropped some vibe on us. What is the only basic signal conquering all the dancers on the floor? That's right: the bass! This international language of vibration takes away our darkest fears as well as all the duties of consequence. Return to yourself and learn to love to be the one -- the one watched, the one to be or: the one chosen! You can run, you can hide, you can even assimilate, but what's still up to you is just one thing: you've got to make it by yourself, by your own courage, your own mind and body. This big city with all its streets of madness and its vicious creatures might be all around us but the groove of light metal keeps moving on and on. There's no need to talk a lot about Jay. He's the one who has been through all this. He's the one who knows the way out. When the sun is rising back up the sky the game begins. It's going to be easy to relate, to flow. Nothing is going to be steady, it's just about to keep it going. Tear down the walls of jealousy and get alive. Let the bass remind you of what you came for and let the voices talk."

Artist:	ARCHITECT, THE
Title:	After What My Boy Told Me...
Label:	KARLOFF (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	KARLOFF 004EP

"Jay Haze aka The Architect belongs, no doubt, to the most exciting activists of the current minimal techno league, with this ever unpredictable tightrope walk between experimental minimalism, straight beats, electronic dub and all kinds of musical absurdities. His labels Contexterrior, Tuningspork, Future Dub and the netlabel Textone.org are standing for an uncompromising crusade against pop, rave, and other musical superficialities, and this Karloff release is no exception. 'Inside Out' drops in as a mighty atmo track, whose seething bass potage gradually spawns a swarm of analogue hornets, until the piece finally gets to a weirdo funkiness through Jay Haze's ubiquitous live jam character. 'Fo Shizzy' switches the styles even more extensively, madly distorting anything that gets in its way. Mr. Jackson's judgment: 'Alright!'. 'Don't Stop' proves itself a bit more gentle, and by awfully few elements Jay manages to carpenter a fresh, funky house piece over a cool, casual groove, easily making it a swinging dancefloor mover. And the bonus track 'Light Friend' finally betrays what the new-Berliner from Philadelphia means by 'Representin' P-Style'..."

Artist:	ARCHITECT, THE
Title:	Warm Soul Pt. 2
Label:	KARLOFF (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	KARLOFF 017EP

"There's always a shivering with cold in winterly Berlin, especially in all the unheated basement laboratories of the electronic community, whose members keep staring at their pale-shimmering screens with red eyes and snotty noses, in order to conceive that one formula to raise the inner temperature and to bring down the inhibition threshold. It's a strange job, but some just seem to do it better than others. The Architect, infamous for his sonorous brain therapies anyhow, appears to be an expert arctic explorer and thus used to life-threatening low temperatures. In the middle of icicles and frostbites, he manages to grow subtropical plants in his private sonic hothouse, winding scurrilously between the electric circuits and releasing a completely different warmth than that cup of bourgeois chicken soup. This music is so highly interspersed with unarrested hot flushes, that your forehead gets sweaty just by listening to it. This way the pure science of minimalism also becomes a strategy of survival under the circumstances of real existing ice age: Maximal effect at minimal consumption of energy."

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