Browse by Artist: LOSOUL

Artist:	LOSOUL
Title:	Belong
Label:	PLAYHOUSE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PLAY 002CD

Originally released in 2000, this record has now been remastered and re-released, with new cover art. "It has returned, it`s back: that refreshing feeling which set everything in motion. In the days when house music was still young and its first waves splashed over into the old world, this was initially just an experience. To be dancing off into oblivion along the never-ending mesh of tracks. But for some, this experience also became the key to inspiration. And this is what it looked like: House is not as simple a style of music as polka, but is one of principle, a platform, a feeling. To a DJ and producer, this platform offers the means of formulating one's own emotional demands and expression, without having to make too many compromises and allowing far more subtle diversification than any other genre. And nothing else feels as good and right. When house music was still young, Peter Kremeier was also still young, and in Cologne these first waves of house also splashed over him in '88. Back then, although house was a direct product of disco, it still sounded like a daily step into the future and not like romantic indulgence in filtered retro vibes. Disco-loop sample tracks didn't have a stranglehold on the dancefloors yet, perhaps also on account of the far more restricted sample capacities. Hip-hop, also in the figurative sense, an underground attitude, was in many respects substantially more akin to house than nowadays. A specific house way of life and other formalities weren't so rigidly defined yet, especially not in Germany. A few years later, most people had found their definition of house and Peter Kremeier discovered that his karma was pushing him to Wiesbaden to pursue, intensify and release his interpretations of house under the name of Don Disko and Losoul at a Frankfurt label called Playhouse, where a load of wild-pitching desperados and house-mates seemed to have been waiting for someone just like him. After six 12"s, the release of Belong marks Losoul's first album. In tune with the season, Losoul pushes the windows in the house wide open, tidies up really well, throws out a lot of junk, undrapes some perfectly maintained supporting pillars: the supreme aesthetics of Belong does without any disco, over-indulgent filter sweeps, without any jazz fusion fillers, without any old hat that could 'refer' to anything. Nevertheless this record sounds warm and organic, not to say it sounds phat. His crisp, yet also gruff, at times obscure style neither remind you of the golden disco days, nor jazz brass sections, nor does he try to imitate New York, Chicago, Detroit or Gutersloh. This is something completely different: Kremeier's experience of studios and how to create a certain atmosphere in his function as a producer, enable him to erect a scaffold made of 100%-stable grooves whose construction may at times adhere to strange rules of gravity, yet never collapse. This he wraps up in a foil of human emotion. The material is far from brittle and is kept supple with Kremeier's own secret adhesive, one that the competitors will find hard to emulate."

Artist:	LOSOUL
Title:	Getting Even
Label:	PLAYHOUSE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PLAY 013CD

"Getting Even is definitely not typical house music, and yet it picks up and expands on a certain mood that people experienced for the first time and in its purest form in Chicago twenty years ago. Kremeier always seems to find the perfect balance between a distinctive signature, in other words a unique, very organic sound he compiles from all sorts of sources he finds from God knows where, and a complex link to the overriding history of funky dance music somewhere between disco, house and electro. Getting Even is, therefore, never overbearingly euphoric, but rather pensive and melancholic, but, in its desire and longing for that definitive groove, ultimately always takes the (dance) floor."

Artist:	LOSOUL
Title:	Care
Label:	PLAYHOUSE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PLAY 024CD

This is the third full-length from Germany's Peter Kremeier aka Losoul on the Playhouse label. The man who used to call himself Don Disco and created monoliths in the history of Playhouse with tracks such as "Open Door," "Brother In Love," and "Lies" has chosen Care as the title of this record, as he muses over the state of a culture in dire need of reformation, conscience, and true nurturing. Influenced by his life and viewpoint as a DJ and live act, this album includes pieces like "Lords Of Sanity" that draws upon certain moments and dynamics in clubs that elude description, where functionality and individuality are not always opposites. "Gridlock" carries the unconventionally deep and hypnotic Losoul groove into the year 2009, while "Sunlite" lifts the industry ruins of the Motor City like a phoenix from the ashes: a homage without any plagiarism. A didactic masterpiece for all those who have forgotten about their local paper in favor of the Detroit News. The tracks on this album were composed with utmost meticulousness, as one would expect of Losoul -- absolute dedication and the right awareness of space and sound. Losoul does without the fuss that producers often fall victim to when seeking expression in album length. There's no superfluous nonsense or false tricks intended to communicate supposed versatility. The beat is the vehicle here. Care is a lucid and pure declaration of belief in a form of house and techno that has not forgotten its roots and loves them dearly, but isn't scared of stepping outside of them. Melancholy is a part of it just as much as comprehensible and authentic positivity. In other words: cheerfulness that has met sadness before.

Artist:	LOSOUL
Title:	Warriors
Label:	PLAYHOUSE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	PLAY 056EP

"The first 12" of Peter Kremeier aka. Don Disco aka. Losoul after his legendary Belong album (fall 2000) and again with Malte on vocals. After their very successful live-tour in 2001 they finally went back to the studio to produce one of the highest quality tracks they´ve been doing so far. Consequently A1 as much as B1 are both developed out of their common live show and have simply been perfected in the studio concerning arrangement and sound. It´s almost scary how flexible Malte is tuning his voice to fine shades in the music and vice versa, the music supporting the expression of the voice. The perfect fusion of voice and music is creating such an unique atmosphere that is slightly reminding us to the good days of Robert Owens. Losoul."

Artist:	LOSOUL
Title:	Brain of Glass
Label:	PLAYHOUSE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	PLAY 103EP

Remixes by Alter Ego and SuperMayer (yes, Superpitcher and Michael Mayer together)! "Took a while to get this project started... but here we go: Losoul gets the full Alter Ego treatment with an attack of fragments of glass to the listeners brain. Take some thumping bass, a distorted synth line and add some funny noises and you have a hell of a mind boggling remix by the hottest of the hottest of producers Joern Elling Wuttke and Roman Fluegel. And yes, ladies and gentlemen, they do it again, can't fail with their remix skills at the moment. Strike! Sort of a cool down on the second side of this massive remix 12" by another hot producer team, this time Kompakt's finest Michael Mayer and Superpitcher. Imagine it's 4h30 in the morning, you sweat the whole night long after intense dancing on the floor... when suddenly this deep and bubbling bass drum packed with a ton of incredible atmospheric sounds on top starts rolling into the club... You're sunk in deep devotion! Such a beautiful and mellow, yet dark tune with long long typical Cologne-like breaks."

Artist:	LOSOUL
Title:	What Radio
Label:	PLAYHOUSE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	PLAY 126EP

"Tune your ears to these two new epic Losoul tracks! Almost 23 minutes of 'oh so sweet' Losoul music including persuasive percussion and typical Losoul groove and dynamics. Mr. Kremeier seems to be in a real track mode, which you can hear on both sides of the What Radio single. 'Cut So Sweet' consists of sweet basslines and even sweeter, delayed keyboard motives, which have this beautiful melancholic touch. Seems like they've been played by Casper The Friendly Ghost..."

Artist:	LOSOUL
Title:	The Number/West Side Horn
Label:	PLAYHOUSE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PLAY 143EP

German micro-house heroes Losoul return with the killer The Number for Playhouse. Lo-slung late night vibes are the order here, over a brooding bass and a miasma of bleeps and rude and lewd-sounding synths, replete with the now-standard pitched-down bloke asking something ambiguous about "are you getting it?" "West Side Horn" is another cheeky club number making good use of a naughty horn sample to offset the arpeggiated synth-line which will work a treat on the most screwy dancefloors.

Artist:	LOSOUL
Title:	Slightly
Label:	PLAYHOUSE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PLAY 151EP

"Slightly" and "Gridlock" are two of the brightest flashing diamonds on Losoul's Care full-length. These are songs of enduring beauty, hymns to celebrate the joys of an endless club-night. Subtle rhythms -- cautious and coltish at the same time. Reduced grooves and deep sounds, richly filled with moods and emotions. Big support by: John Tejada, Ivan Smagghe, Donnacha Costello, Motorcitysoul, D'Julz, Miss Fitz, Dan Curtin, Sebo K., Troy Pierce, Holger Zilske, 2000 And One, Laurent Garnier, Vera, and many more.

Artist:	LOSOUL
Title:	Care Remixe Pt. 3
Label:	PLAYHOUSE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PLAY 159EP

Here is the third part of the 12" remix package of tracks from Losoul's Care (PLAY 024CD). Paris-based producer duo Chloé & Krikor perform together as Plein Soleil, and on the flip you'll find a pretty funky old school-styled mix by Stuttgart's hottest house producer Danilow Plessow, better known as Motor City Drum Ensemble. As a bonus you'll find the original of Losoul's "Deuce" -- one of his most played tracks which hasn't been released on vinyl yet.

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