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Artist:	PRONSATO, BRUNO
Title:	Wade in the Water, Children
Label:	HELLO? REPEAT RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	HELLO 003EP

"One thing that is already a fact about new label on the block Hello Repeat is that they're not playing it safe by catering standard clubfare to the latest trend but are rather determined to kick electronic sounds decidedly back to the future. In 2005 Bruno established himself as a true renovator of techno music with seminal releases on Orac, PhilPot, Milno Modern or Musique Risquée, proving that there are still enough fresh rhythmical twists possible even in a 4/4 pattern and that his infinite sound palette goes far beyond the scope of typical formalistic minimal stuff. Wade In the Water, Children will drive your circulation right up and get your juices flowing like the classic Kneipp cure with it's bassline getting bent and strangled in every extreme direction plus a duet of spoken voices meandering in between the quirky wigglin beats and blurring your perception between the track and what is going on around you on the floor."

Artist:	PRONSATO, BRUNO
Title:	There's Galaxies Better
Label:	HELLO? REPEAT RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	HELLO 005EP

"Bruno returns with another piece of jewelry for Hello? Repeat. The title track 'There's Galaxies Better' arises at a mysterious place somewhere in Seattle and tells the story of a Lady Cabdriver somewhere in the future. 'TGB' starts with loose, stuttering percussion over a locked bass before opening out into a beautifully detailed mix of chords and straight to your face chorus-vocals. As if this is not enough, Grandmaster Thomas Melchior steps along and delivers with his interpretation of 'TGB,' a hypnotic build up groove monster which will take you on a cosmic spellbinding ride. The second strike on this EP is 'Our Holiday Clothes.' It's peppered with fresh-flavored ingredients, cut-ups, smacking claps, stumbling bells, sexy-beats and a driving arrangement which makes us dance, dance, dance."

Artist:	PRONSATO, BRUNO
Title:	Why Can't We Be Like Us
Label:	HELLO? REPEAT RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	HELLO 010CD

This is the second full-length release by Seattle's Bruno Pronsato (Steven Ford). Why Can't We Be Like Us embodies his old passion for playing the drums as well as his addiction to ones and zeros. Instead of creating streamlined minimal, he has more of an abstract sound on his mind -- one that lives on a dark, organic and percussive note. He has always been unpredictable and funky with a twist between the beats, his tracks often relying on devious turns, flickering sounds, warm bass lines and some free-riding vocals. These tracks tell a story with long, grooving compositions that are full of rhythms that twist around bubbling sounds that seem to launch out of his very own inner space. Sometimes a piano melody dances around, then an undefinable vibrancy chirps out of the background, and in the next moment some unheard buzzing sighs apart from space and time. This album feels like a logical progression from his EPs for labels like Orac, Philpot, Hello? Repeat and his creative powers as one part of the duo Half Hawaii on Perlon. Musical suspense that processes feelings and soul through electronic vibrations. Everything sounds like Bruno Pronsato plays it himself and follows the "I am an instrument" dictum of the spacy free jazzer, Sun Ra. Bruno Pronsato lives in the space of the inner-sound.

Artist:	PRONSATO, BRUNO
Title:	Silver Cities
Label:	ORAC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	ORAC 009CD

"In another lifetime, Bruno Pronsato (Seattle producer Steven Ford) drummed for Texas speed-metal/punks Voice of Reason. But then he had his head split open by My Bloody Valentine, Gang of Four, Electric Company, death-metal titans like Venom, Slayer, and Napalm Death. While establishing his rep as Seattle's foremost sculptor of powerful, electronic abstractions, ford dabbled with dance music production under the Bruno Pronsato moniker. What began as a lubricious lark to get the ladies bumpin' and grindin' became Ford's primary obsession. Over the last year, Bruno's live sets emerged as fist-pumping demonstrations of heady sound design and hedonism. Listened to on headphones, this album will turn your gray matter purple and periwinkle with its panoply of unusual organic and digital sounds deftly arranged as if by a g4-tanned Teo Macero. Heard on a big club system, silver cities -- especially hard-driving Pantytec-with-a-phd stompers like 'Kuche' and 'Read Me' -- will get thongs snapping in approval while fellow producers in the house will marvel at the wealth of exploratory textures and bizarre moods animating cuts like 'Women in Large Coats' and 'Viaje a La Luna.' Whether you scratch your chin or shake your ass to it, silver cities gives you more sonic nutrition than you deserve over its 43 minutes. Few minimal tech-house full-lengths deliver such maximal impact. 'One of the reasons techno or minimal techno is such a force in my life,' Ford says, 'is because it is music that is working with a predefined set of rules, namely 4/4 time. Much like the 12-tone composers who had to work within their tone rows, techno producers are also working within a set of boundaries. I think it's quite a challenge to come up with something creative within a set of pre-established rules. It makes me think a little harder about what I can do.' Silver Cities offers irrefutable proof of what Bruno Pronsato can do. In this album's wake, tech-house's tried-and-true formulas suddenly seem under-cooked."

Artist:	PRONSATO, BRUNO
Title:	Wuorinen
Label:	ORAC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	ORAC 015EP

"The title track is a an eardrum teaser, a strange mix of filtered rhythms, thick percussion effects and crisp sampling. In the middle of it all a mysterious female is assuring the listener that it all 'is love' and expressing gratitude siren style. A strange musical piece it is, unresolved, unsettled and yet inviting you for a dance. Jackmate strips the original down to the bare bones. On the flip, 'Live in Cascadia' condenses a whole novel into 6'53. Creaky sounds, a growling bassline and sonic fragments from a crowded cocktail party set the tone, soon to be accompanied by piano chords and pointillistic synth effects. Egged on, Bruno delivers more metal machine jazz for dark places."

Artist:	PRONSATO, BRUNO
Title:	Lady Collage
Label:	ORAC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	ORAC 021EP

Lady Collage is, even for Bruno, a somewhat dark record. Starting innocently enough with a muted kick and tension-building drones, a myriad of tiny sounds kick in one by one until the bottom drops out and we are left swimming in a sea of skittery percussion. The B-side is a little more tractable and less epic, though by no means what we'd call innocent fun. The mix by Papa Sang Bass takes dark elements and builds a humorous, atonal funky house cabaret feel, the madness anchored by that solid 909 kick right where we need it.

Artist:	PRONSATO, BRUNO
Title:	Open Your Eyes
Label:	PHILPOT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	PHP 014EP

"Bruno Pronsato from Seattle is a new artist on Philpot, but well known for his live-sets and several releases on the ORAC-label. 'O.Y.E.'...'Open your Eyes'...great classic -- flavoured ingredients, cut ups, a spooky arrangement and straight to your face chorus-vox...did anybody mention Lil Louis?!...let in the lights! E as in Ella...A as in Acid!...smacking claps, stumbling bells and skizzo-beats make us shiver...and circulate, circulat, circula, circul, circu, circ, cir, ci, c...'Open your Eyes!'

Artist:	PRONSATO, BRUNO
Title:	We Were...
Label:	PHILPOT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	PHP 019EP

"Our man from Seattle strikes again on Philpot Records after several releases on imprints like Alphahouse and Telegraph. We are glad to welcome Steven Ford aka Bruno Pronsato back after his stunning Open your Eyes debut . 'All Night Blahblah' is taken from Pronsato's great album Silver Cities which was originally released two years ago on Orac Records in Canada and is nowadays a hard to find piece of vinyl. The extraordinary vocals are done by Orac label chief Randy Jones, aka Caro. Reason enough for the Philpot crew to pull this amazing tune out again and give it some straight Jackmate treatment to rock the floor. On the flip 'We Were...' is a jackin minimal mover with some strange acid bleeps, repetitive beats and typical Pronsato claps. Definitely more a player for the late hours at Berlin's Panorama Bar, maybe."

Artist:	PRONSATO, BRUNO
Title:	The Lime Works Vol.02
Label:	TELEGRAPH (FRANCE)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TEL 022EP

"Bruno Pronsato (aka Steven Ford) has been subverting expectations within techno's upper echelons since 2003. A former speed-metal drummer, Pronsato began creating electronic music in 1999 under the moniker Bobby Karate. In 2003, Ford transferred his focus for advanced tone-bending into the experimental-techno realm, as evidenced by Pronsato's debut 12", Read_Me (Orac Records). Pronsato followed that with the acclaimed full-length Silver Cities (Orac), a phenomenal derangement of dance-music tropes and an ear-tricking delight on headphones. For the second volume of the lime works series, Bruno has produced three fantastic tracks -- sophisticated and rich music full of jazz-funk influence. Each tracks a chapter, evolving into one final story. Add to this a killer groove perfect for dance floor, as all of the tracks have a percussive and free musical flavor! The Lime Works, Vol. 2, is once again good for both home listening and dance-floor sensation."

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