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Artist:	M.I.A.
Title:	Gleis Zwei
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 007EP

"Now that her debut 12" 'Schlußlicht' (sus_04) has already enchanted this world's minimalists, Sub Static chief Michaela Grobelny is back with this appropriate follow-up called 'Gleis Zwei'. Keenly calm, but always daring to take a risk M.I.A. hereby intensifies her interpretation of minimal house. However, the title track (A1) proves that her versatility also includes some of the heavier tones. 4 tracks that dig their well-deserved space in this genre, between the polished everyday sound of now.

Artist:	M.I.A.
Title:	Irgendwas Ist Immer
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 026EP

"The last highly esteemed Traum and Sub Static releases of Cologne's M.I.A. are again lying over half a year back now -- that's ages if you like music that has more to tell you than you'd first expect; that always has new secrets to reveal. It's the many details, which M.I.A. however doesn't get lost in, rather she manages to create an own sort of microcosm with every single track. But more than ever she is also paying tribute to the needs of the dancefloor, and thus the Sub Static chief delivers what we all basically want, doesn't she? Artistic techno with a remarkably own flavor, which however doesn't shirk from the needed punch which you can rely on if things come to the worst."

Artist:	M.I.A.
Title:	Schwarzweib
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	SUS 036LP

"More than well-known as a specialist for soulful melodic euphoria through her various releases on Sub Static, Traum and Trapez, she also opened mouths and doors with her sensitively rocking remixes for The Modernist, Contriva, Jake Fairley and many more. But now she presents her inward skunk with all its darkness, scooping so much precisely kicking monster beats into juicy rumbling tracks and making even that little raver in the ear happily Hum the acid basslines. The vocals come from the heart, sure, but the beats come from an area that has usually been reserved to the testosterone-owners so far."

Artist:	M.I.A.
Title:	Safe Night
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 057EP

"After two years of release-abstinence, Sub Static boss M.I.A. is finally back with a 12" foretaste of her 2nd album. Considering the many reactions and feedbacks to these completely new live pieces, the A-side track 'Safe Night,' and the B2-goodie 'Leaving Behind' were picked as two of the very special moments of the current set, being obligatory to be brought to the studio and to vinyl at last. 'Safe Night' is one of those epic M.I.A.-masterpieces, enchanting you right from the word go, and in this sense linking to the style that made M.I.A. popular, basically since she first released records on labels like Traum, Trapez, and of course, Sub Static. Big emotions, riddled with subtle vocal dabs within a straightforward drive, while still keeping the vibe down-to-earth and drawing on moderate means -- a unique quality that has adhered to her since day one."

Artist:	M.I.A.
Title:	Straightaway
Label:	TRAPEZ (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TRAPEZ 038EP

"Yes, it is the comeback of Cologne's best female producer M.I.A. After her stunning debut on Trapez River, the breakthrough nationally and internationally, she surprises once again, this time with a super techno monster that pays tribute to analog strings and dark raving minimal tracker. Straightaway could be regarded as a German answer to Mad Mikes Red Planet Productions, sweet and deep but rocking. The unique analog quality in sound, everything is 100% non digital(!) And the spontaneity of ideas floating in and out as feathers in the wind, add a feeling not to be replaced."

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Artist:	MIA
Title:	Bittersüss Remixes
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 063EP

Remixes by Shonky, Drama Society, Falko Brocksieper. "Three high carat remixes for the album Bittersüss by Mia, three different attempts: on his remix for 'Swoon,' Shonky devotes himself once more to the nocturnal cruise missiles, just weakly gleaming on the radar at first, however already equipped with that pleasantly rolling bass which leads the pilot to the depth of the submarine immediately. Infrared sounds sweeping over the beats, bleeps condensing indiscernibly, and suddenly the vocals of the original are raining down and confuse the senses in an unforgettably hypnotic way. Drama Society rolls up the same track from the front, saddles the horse precisely and skilled to turn into a quick gallop which gets the originally melancholic, floating sounds to jump over the inhibition threshold. In the end, neither less effective nor purpose-oriented, then the label partner himself: Falko Brocksieper chose 'Can't Find You' as an original, whose unbelievable vocals and melody puzzles have only been waiting to get a solid foundation for the club. Music which can, and will speak for itself, as soon as the needle will touch the vinyl to lead this EP's deep-frozen techno its way to the legs."

Artist:	MIA
Title:	Bittersüß
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SUS 065CD

"The mistress of melancholic driving club techno returns: Mia has gone to exam and has extended her knowledge of alchemy fundamentally. After the first big throw 'Schwarzweiss' -- which has reamed out lots of clueless DJs with its sharp edges -- now follows a far more mature album which compiles tracks just as thrilling, to an extremely danceable trip through the abysses of human sensitivities. Like a water lilly, the music of Bittersüß ('bittersweet') glides along at the water surface, maybe virgin in its impression, but the roots reach down deeply into the darkness. Where the water ghosts live, ready to pull every curious observer into their empire, who bends over the wet mirror too carelessly. They're nymphs, once died of a broken heart, now wandering through the nightly realm forever. Their element is the silent high -- warm, lasting, dangerous. Never fully definite, but always vibrating of tension, this is how the journey through the woods is framed, when Sub Static's label boss lets rain voices of sulfur onto heart melting melodies, pushed by the marching beats of a deus ex machina, who can turn rocks into humans, just by his sheer view. It's the soundtrack of the last steps just before the fog clears up, and opens the view on waving bodies, captured in the calm before the storm, before the eruption, before the bass drum. It's the soundtrack of the space between the extremes, fave music from the second half of this strangely amorph decade. It is music, smouldering like the smoke from a fog machine, slowly wrapping you into a finely woven silk cloth to take you on a safe journey. It is music for the crowd in your heart."

Artist:	MIA
Title:	Bittersüss Remixes Vol. 2
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 067EP

"..and because it was so beautiful and so hotly favored, Sub Static ramps up for the second part of remixes for Mia's album, certainly not available on CD. Some real tasty cuts are gathered here, starting with the epic remix of BPitch's Kiki who draws a giant bow from the dancefloor. Detroit-flavored monotony including fine organ garnishes as a provision on the way to the late, but well-earned break. Then the delightfully rattling interpretation by Fumakilla's 'Autotune,' who enriches the spooky 'Wild Ponys' by the significant synth stabs and doesn't have a handbreadth of space for needless ballast. And finally, the lost track 'Cold City' -- owing to the great demand, and after all..."

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Artist:	MIA
Title:	Redsoul
Label:	AREAL RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	AREAL 048EP