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Artist:	MODERNIST, THE
Title:	Collectors Series Pt. 1: Popular Songs
Label:	FAITH RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	FAITH 004CD

The Collectors Series is a new series of mix CDs compiled by German A&R figurehead Stefan Struever, the mastermind behind the seminal DJ Kicks compilations. The Collectors Series is aiming to showcase the multiple faces and histories of dance music and beyond. In the Collectors Series, well-known music lovers from around the globe present gems, rarities, unreleased tracks and favorites from their vaults. The first volume of The Collectors Series comes from Cologne-based producer The Modernist (Joerg Burger), who has been a major figure in the "Sound Of Cologne" for more than a decade. Digging in his vast song collection, Burger has unearthed crisp, electronic pop music that elegantly smoothes the listener's ear. Several mash-ups, specially-arranged blends and exclusive tracks and remixes make this selection a unique and essential minimalist pop affair... The mix opens with Burger's dubby version of "1-2-3 No Gravity" from Closer Music, blending seamlessly into track 2, Mikkel Metal's "Microho," which tightens the rhythmic fundamental. The hypnotic "Late Night Moves" by Repair, is followed by Burger's very own Triola project with "Freifeld," one of the exclusive tracks for this album, followed by Autosundmädchen's compelling track. With Telepopmusik's "Breathe," the mix hits its first peak, succeeded by the Superpitcher remix of D'ntel. After DJ Koze and his dog "Bobby" walk out for air, it's Erlend Oye featuring Morgan Geist who changes the rhythmic format of the mix into a more electro funky vibe. Richard Davis' moody "World Disappears" morphs seamlessly into Autobianchi's guitar twanging track "Stay," which was exclusively made for this compilation. As B.Movement he remixed Ada's "Lifedriver," to bring out even more of the pop-appeal of this beautiful composition. After the original version of "Protest Song" comes a special gem, "Mushroom Angels," which merges beautifully into "Never Forgive & Forget." Round Two propels Berlin's minimal dub sound and leads to the congenial finale, a brand-new track by seminal '80s agit pop band Scritti Politti. The Modernist has greatly delivered for The Collectors Series.

Artist:	MODERNIST, THE
Title:	Presents Popular Songs
Label:	KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	KOM 142EP

Features tracks from the Collector Series Pt. 1 CD, with original tracks by Closer Musik, Mikkel Metal, Superpitcher -- "mixed and mashed up" by The Modernist. The master of the tidy funkyness distinctively selects some of the most beautiful techno-pop releases of the last year. The Modernist mixes the tracks in such long and sensitive passages, with masterful techniques and hip edits, that a new track arises. Reconditioned, polished and refined with a digital sugar icing. They come out of the Modernistic washing-bay and develop new glamour.

Artist:	MODERNIST, THE
Title:	The Modernist Comeback
Label:	WONDER (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	WON 010EP

"Of course, The Modernist hasn't just been on vacation for the last three-years, he's been working on numerous releases under names such as Triola, Geometric Farms, Auotbianchi and Pop Up (with Antonelli Electr.). The Modernist Comeback begins a series of releases on Wonder and, a bit like on Architainment (the introduction to The Modernist Explosion), it's a definite DJ-tool and an affirmation of his commitment to club culture. With 'Comeback' and 'News Value', this 12" contains two floor fillers, tested live on numerous occasions, while 'Kodac Moments' exemplifies yet again the more harmonic (or 'bionautical') side of the Modernist, giving us a preview of the album to be released early next year. "

Artist:	MODERNIST, THE
Title:	Kangmei
Label:	WONDER (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	WON 011CD

"When it comes to Techno, The Modernist is interested in a special kind of beauty: he loves classic pop harmonies, a Roddy Frame or Edwyn Collins guitar sound, the grand gestures of a Martin Fry or a Kevin Rowland. That was 'his' '80s. And this is how he transferred those song structures into the present swinging times: Be it through his melodious alter ego Bionaut, turning from spherical, uplifting trance (Cologne-style) to a calmer song-writing for home use; or as Trinkwasser, with Lothar Hempel -- between the Pet Shop Boys, New Order, The Smiths -- with enormous pop appeal which goes straight into the charts (in another world, at least); and of course with Mike Ink (aka W. Voigt) as Burger/Ink; finally Popup, the inevitable collaboration with Antonelli Electr. -- like the Modernist for clubs. The same motto applies: Pop as an attitude. Pop as a statement. And now Kangmei: The Modernist's third album. It seems as if all the threads that he has laid out over the years have come together here. Kangmei. America. We know The Modernist's labels: Virtual Elvis. Interstate 10. Burger Industries and Eat Raw. Wild Horse Annie. And productions: Johnny Cash. Fort Knox. Nashville and Las Vegas. Pop Art. Silicon Minor, in the guitar valley. Magic Lantern, the alleged FBI computer virus. Over and over again: America. Kangmei is Chinese for: 'Resist America!' It's a protest song against arrogance, against imperialism, against stupidity. Also in 'Prozac Europe', knowing that one really does love so much about, and so much from, America. Kangmei/Resist America means: let yourself be seduced, but stay awake! Love makes the difference, 'only a smile remains'."

Artist:	MODERNIST, THE
Title:	Protest Songs
Label:	WONDER (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	WON 012EP

"Create confusion! Smash expectations! Doesn't The Modernist just love making a statement which, at the end of the day, is so wide open it can only be explained (away) in contradiction... So it is with the 'Protest Song' on his latest album Kangmei. It's a laconic taking to task of the past and what happens when the truth lies somewhere between standing still and moving on. 'That's why the song remains the same / only the singer has gone insane'. Unusually, its Jörg Burger's own voice you'll hear on this recording. Producer turned singer? Techno gone Pop? Is this the end of an era? Under normal circumstances, Jörg Burger is the last to complain about an unanswered question mark. This time, however, he won't let it lie and has enlisted friends from the highly renowned Kompakt family Reinhard Voigt, Michael Mayer and M.I.A. to pick up the pointers. Four exclusive versions of the 'Protest Song' on one slice of vinyl, this is the Here and Now of Techno"s possibly overdue integration into the social system, or thereabouts. Little hints of our Pop history no longer leave the electronic music scene embarrassedly shuffling their feet, now its more of a knowing grin you'll spot here and there on the dancefloor. In his Modernista 90 guise, Jörg Burger winds up the 303 acid memory banks (don't drop the bass) whilst Reinhard Voigt leaps a few years further on with comically pitched vocals and what sounds like a loop orgy at an open air Tech-House rave. It just doesn't want to stop. Michael Mayer's freeze frame full on rave horn works its way up to an almost sadistic climax. M.I.A., incidentally the power behind the Sub Static label, comes closest to what we generally call minimal, dare we say contemporary. So much for end of an era. Contradiction makes sense in the end. An indispensable release uniting one of Germany's finest electronic artists with the best of Kompakt in one historical document."

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