Browse by Artist: MAYER, MICHAEL

Artist:	MAYER, MICHAEL
Title:	Fabric 13
Label:	FABRIC (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FABRIC 025CD

"Fabric presents yet another brilliant audio journey -- this time by well respected German techno and house stalwart, Michael Mayer. Mayer runs Kompakt -- the much admired German imprint and distribution network along with the revered techno and house weekly 'Connfusion.' Mayer, along with co-conspirators Superpitcher and Tobias Thomas have been key players in shaping the envelope pushing sounds currently coming out of an city in Germany which is rapidly gaining a reputation as a fertile bed for creativity in both music and the visual arts: Cologne. A 16-year turntable veteran Michael is a staunch disciple of the 4/4 sound. Michael says, 'The only thing I pre-determine is that I play 4/4. The rest happens by accident. I love the deeper side of music, obviously, but I like it raw and kicking. There has to be some pop sensibility too but... not obviously. The structure of my set is very pop influenced ... I love to play...songs... things you can whistle on the way home.'." Artists: Heiko Voss, Richard Davis, Westbam feat. Nena, Robag Wruhme & Wignomy Bros, Thomas Schaeben, Ricardo Villalobos, Magnet, Superpitcher, M83, Thomas Schaeben & Geiger feat. Schad Privat, Le Dustsucker.

Artist:	MAYER, MICHAEL
Title:	Lovefood Rmx/Slow
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	KOM POP006EP

"'Lovefood' is the mysterious morbid but incredibly wonderful track of the recently released album Touch. Friend and companion Matias Aguayo ( ex Closer Music ) for a remix. The result is a groovemonster, teeming whole South American sex appeal. With lascivious hip action he is wobbling around a fragile, transparent the popsongish original is always noticeable. And how things go in the inebriation of passion, an indispensable completely brings up Mayers' and Aguayos' adoration for the Australian pop goddess. Now it's out."

Artist:	MAYER, MICHAEL
Title:	Immer
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	KOMP 015CD

Classic 2002 release. "Mr. Kompakt himself Michael Mayer releases a very fine CD-Mix in the typical Cologne style: Dubby Minimal House with Click-Techno elements. Immer features artists from all over the world in a continuous 70 minutes flow aimed at the more sophisticated dancefloors." Artists include: Auch, Audision (Tobias Schmidt), A Rocket In Dub, M. Rahn, Carsten Jost (Superpitcher mix), Stargazer, Phon.o, Thomas Fehlman, Akufen, Phantom/Ghost, Selway, Paul Nazca, Frank Martiniq.

Artist:	MAYER, MICHAEL
Title:	Touch
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	KOMP 036CD

"Three years ago, Michael said he was working on an LP, but it never arrived. He was unable to fully concentrate; three times he started, and three times he stopped. In the end, he made the entire thing in just three weeks, locked in isolation from the angry summer weather. Its rainfall samples were captured during those nights, as it constantly pounded down on his back yard. His stunning, sensual mix CDs -- Kompakt Koln Prasentiert Michael Mayer, Immer, Speicher CD1 + CD2 and Fabric 13 -- his involvement in the MinTech-Boygroup Forever Sweet (together with Tobias Thomas & Reinhard Voigt) and string of powerful singles for Kompakt that include the Schaffel classic 'Love Is Stronger Than Pride' -- are its foundations. He likens Touch's making to throwing up; at first there is pressure, and then there is relief. It sounds honest, true, whole, and complete. On it, you hear the music of his past, and the spirit of his present. Alan Parsons, The Steve Miller Band, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, acid, New York deep house, movie scores, and thirteen years of techno are there. It's the soundtrack of a Scorpio: sinister, sweet, tender, and sleek. For its title Touch he wanted to reflect his reality, his constant meeting of people, the forging of partnerships, and reliance on contact. He needed something simple, to capture these hazy, crazy DJ days forever. Touch is Michael Mayer's debut album."

Artist:	MAYER, MICHAEL
Title:	Immer 2
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	KOMP 046CD

Michael Mayer is the archangel of the minimal house scene. Since arriving from Germany's famous Black Forest to the near-utopia of Köln, he has become one of the world's most respected and revered DJs. His climbing, arcing sets have established his Kompakt label and its sleek style as The Sound of modern club music -- his first mix CD for Kompakt, Immer ("Always"; KOMP 015CD) was met with triumphant exuberance ("A luxuriant digital bubble bath of envelopingly rounded beats." 5/5 stars --AllMusic.com) and his contribution to the esteemed Fabric mix CD series was hailed as a benchmark of the series ("Soundtrack of the new European techno." --XLR8R Best Of 100 Issues) and now comes Immer 2. Mr. Mayer took a full year to select and perfect the sequence, which stars 12 of his most essential selections. The result is a journey on the Trans Atlantian Express, a dance floor fully immersed in heavy bliss, a manifesto for the new international deep techno sound. From the static heaven of Philadelphia's Someone Else, we are plunged directly into a new-motorik beat: Ian Simmonds (UK), Brooks and Frank West take us to Crowdpleaser and St. Plomb's revered "18 Years." Justus Köhncke's Boz Scaggs tribute leads towards the sun and Todd Terje's epic take on Lindstrøm's "Another Station." Then K2's The Rice Twins (Stockholm) and Kompakt's own SCSI-9 (Russia) welcomes us back to the Martian disco. Mayer's mixing of Canadian nano-trance hero Jesse Somfay into Norway's DK7 is micororgasmic. But the submarine comes to a long slow stop via the under-appreciated strains of Geiger, assisted via Mayer and his good friend Aksel Schaufler (Superpitcher) as Supermayer. Michael Mayer has been preparing and studying his technique and his selections for months, and he comes through with an intimate yet majestic mix which surpasses genre-definition. Immer 2 is not for those with a history of heart trouble. Immer 2 will not be stale in 5 years. Immer 2 knows not of genre or subgenres. Immer 2 is somehow a new kind of mix. Immer 2 is not for the crowd. Immer 2 is for you.

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