Browse by Artist: BAUMEL, PATRICE

Artist:	BAUMEL, PATRICE
Title:	Roar
Label:	GET PHYSICAL MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	GPM 092EP

Patrice Bäumel has made a name for himself as a producer of warm, lustrous and dynamic dancefloor music. "Roar" builds suspense with a taut, tense rhythmic backbone, consisting only of a hand-clap and a lisping hi-hat. "Comfortably Uncomfortable" features a tough kick-drum, a panning synth motif and a precision-tooled bass melody. "Clair" swings with a kick-drum offset by Latin percussion patterns and melody. A velvety, synthetic string theme swells into the foreground, making it a deeply atmospheric, dramatic track.

Artist:	BAUMEL, PATRICE
Title:	Mutant Pop
Label:	TRAPEZ (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TRAPEZ 050EP

"Born 1975 in Dresden, Germany, Patrice was raised on a diet of free jazz, Frank Zappa and all kinds of other music you wouldn't normally expect in an average household. Starting to develop a musical taste of his own, his main influences quickly became bands like Depeche Mode, The Cure and Yello. The love for combining cold synthetic sounds with a warm human touch has stayed with him until today. Today, Patrice's musical style can best be described as genre-bending, organic, never loosing sight of the groove, and melting '80s electronic music with today's cutting edge underground house and techno, a style he refers to as 'Mutant Pop', which is his first release to date on Trapez."

Artist:	BAUMEL, PATRICE
Title:	Just Electricity
Label:	TRAPEZ (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TRAPEZ 073EP

Amsterdam-based artist Patrice Bäumel released his very successful first record Mutant Pop in 2005. Now presenting "Just Electricity" -- a huge post-Chicago A-side track with melodic strings, creating dramatic moments with ups and downs -- never hectic, always shiny. This track has been charted by leading artists in Amsterdam such as Shinedoe and DJ Darko as a huge tune for 2007. "Fantomas" gets started stripped-down with a kick and a bouncy electro bassline, steadily moving towards a melodic climax, which sees all hands up. Two wonderful tracks with a universal approach, fusing Detroit and Chicago with modern European influences.

Artist:	BAUMEL, PATRICE
Title:	Flow
Label:	TRAPEZ (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	TRAPEZ 089EP

Patrice Bäumel is a phenomenon on Trapez. "Flow" is a cool mighty Chicago techno house track with a grinding bass line, stuttering vocals and an overall old school touch. "Cavern" works with psycho-acoustic microphone sounds which seem to linger in the background, and short vocal stabs and mighty percussive programming provide the track with a stronger active rhythm. Melodic sequences slowly make their way into the track, never obtrusive. Pure hedonism for the techno crowd.

Artist:	BAUMEL, PATRICE
Title:	Vapour
Label:	TROUW (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	TRW 001CD

This is the debut album from producer and Trouw (Amsterdam) resident DJ Patrice Bäumel, known for previous releases on Get Physical, Trapez and !K7. The album steers clear of many clichés surrounding artist albums done by DJs in this day and age. Instead of delivering a collection of dancefloor singles or getting lost in awkward style experiments, Bäumel chooses a homogenic approach worthy of the album format. All tracks seamlessly flow into each other to form a meandering 54-minute trip. In spirit, Vapour is 100% techno, a continuous act of finding balance between contrasting elements of man vs. machine. Abstract, precise rhythms and soundscapes form a dark, almost otherworldly backdrop to perfectly-measured emotional outbursts. Vapour does not dictate what the listener is supposed to feel at any given moment, but is a stimulant to his imagination, leaving plenty of room to "fill in the gaps." Bäumel's maiden album threads a fine line between club and living room. Like a well-designed podcast, Vapour works in many life situations. It is a cleverly-crafted and timeless piece of listening techno, providing the kind of fluidity that works wonderfully on a car stereo, your iPod or in afterhour situations, with enough horsepower under its hood to hold its own on the dancefloor.

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