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Artist:	FAIRMONT
Title:	Flight of the Albatross
Label:	BORDER COMMUNITY (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BCR 019EP

Here is a tantalizing taste of Jake Fairley's (aka Fairmont) forthcoming debut album, Coloured In Memory. These five mixes of "Flight of the Albatross" will appeal to those looking for the dancefloor aspect of Border Community, while also catering to the more experimental end of the label's fan-base. The original mix skips along in triplet time while the other remixes take things into darker areas. Remixers include Reef Caribbean, Christ. and Metope.

Artist:	FAIRMONT
Title:	Coloured In Memory
Label:	BORDER COMMUNITY (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BCR 020CD

This is the second full-length release by Fairmont (Jacob Fairley). Coloured In Memory is the best techno album since either Vitalic's OK Cowboy or Agoria's Blossom. Coloured In Memory manages to combine forward-thinking techno with the vitality of the best modern pop. From early releases on Traum, Echochord, Kompakt and Dumb, Fairmont's understated techno has enjoyed a loyal following and critical acclaim amongst the cognoscenti. When Gazebo was released on Border Community in December of 2005, it became an instant classic, encouraging Jake to give the Fairmont sound a bigger focus, stretching minimal techno into the pop format rather than the experimental. It is perhaps these less-classifiably techno, more deviant moments where the album shines -- most memorably in the demented-surf-rock-electro of "Bikini Atoll," the heroin-drone-trance of "I Need Medicine," the mellow folk-hop of "Calm Before The Storm" and the straight-ahead pop of "Times Fool." "Mobula" continues Fairmont's quest for the perfect melodic techno song, "All Good Things" furthers his catalog of electronic gems, and "Flight Of The Albatross" feels new and fresh when put up against the uninspired minimal tools dominating the techno scene at the moment. With enough dancefloor cuts to please the DJs and enough listening tracks to pacify everyone else, Coloured In Memory is destined to be regarded as one of the most impressive Border Community releases to date.

Artist:	FAIRMONT
Title:	I Need Medicine
Label:	BORDER COMMUNITY (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BCR 024EP

The dancefloor mantra of "I Need Medicine" highlights Fairmont's vocal side, as featured on several intimate and personal Coloured In Memory album tracks. Canada-born, Germany-based minimal pioneer Pan/Tone (aka Sid Le Rock, Gringo Grinder) turns in a hypnotic slap-bass new wave groove, vocal-free but retaining an emo-techno feel. Ricardo Tobar's remix is a joyful, crunchy guitar stomp for bolder indie-electro dancefloors. Also features "Centre Of Gravity" -- wistful early-morning techno melancholy.

Artist:	FAIRMONT
Title:	I Want To See the Sun Come Up
Label:	ECHOCORD (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	ECHO 016EP

"We are proud to announce the first EP by Fairmont aka Jake Fairley on Echocord. Over the past few years Jake has become recognized as a key force in the growing Canadian electronic music scene. Since June 2000, Jake has had nearly twenty releases under various names and on various labels, mostly under the Kompakt distribution umbrella. Being from Toronto, he has developed a style which is a little harder, a little drier, and a lot dirtier than the common sound from Montreal. All 3 tracks on this EP will fit perfectly on the dancefloor, especially for the afterhours, all with a beautiful, deep and minimal structure."

Artist:	FAIRMONT
Title:	Hotel Deauville
Label:	PLAYMADE MINUS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	PLAYMAD 009EP

"At the bottom of his heart, Toronto born artist Jacob Fairley is actually a punker. With his great releases on labels like Sender, Traum, Dumb-Unit, and Speicher he has attracted a great deal of attention within the Minimal Techno community and just recently had a club hit with 'Gazebo/Gazelle' on Border Community (Groove Charts #2). Under his Fairmont alias, he produces calmer tracks with a touch of ambience, showing his smoother side. With 'Hotel Deauville' he reflects on his residence in Cuba with his girlfriend and delivers a beautiful and melodic 3 track EP for Playmade."

Artist:	FAIRMONT
Title:	Paper Stars
Label:	TRAUM (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	TRAUM 010CD

"Fairmont is the alias of Jacob Fairley and stands for his melodic techno soul side as opposed to his radical stripped down minimal techno releases on Dumb Unit, Sender, and Killer. Under Fairmont he has released two 12"s on Traum. Paper Stars features tracks that deliberately have been recorded over the last 12 months for a project that was to introduce Jacobs vocals, guitars sounds, drum machines and synths. With Paper Stars he departs even more from his status as a minimal techno producer, giving credit to his rock roots, which a city such as Toronto is known for. Fairley hums melodies, rocks basslines that sound like 1000 trapped bees ('Last Words') and then dives into a minimal groover ('True North', 'Inside') to end in a folk nurtured "Ignore Me'. Paper Stars tells a story, is spiced with pictures and emotions that allow the listener to rehash a bit of his life. In contrast to his new project, The Uncut, we witness a stronger pop influence drawing for example on Wolfgang Voigt Gas project ('Kinmount') stating a light quality with bits of heaviness. Ten tracks that fly by as if you were sitting on the back seats of a car letting towns and buildings pass by."

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