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Artist:	RAUDIVE
Title:	Paper EP
Label:	MACRO RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MACROM 017EP

Raudive aka Oliver Ho drops one of Macro's most dancefloor-centered, future-forward outings so far. "Paper" -- the chord, the bass, the strings! All deep ingredients are there. "Brittle" is "Paper"'s evil sister and a giant step forward in groove design. Its repetitious patterns put any record to shame that has ever been called hypnotic. 2010 is right here. The EP is rounded off with the shimmering "Sienna" -- a no-beat melodic variation set against the warmth of grainy crackle.

Artist:	RAUDIVE
Title:	Chamber Music
Label:	MACRO RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MACROM 019CD

Over the past 14 years, London's Oliver Ho aka Raudive has gathered a worldwide following with his research into deep techno, through his legendary Meta label and with his unique DJ gigs from New York to Berlin to Tokyo. Introducing the Raudive alias, he created a reduced, sexy, dancefloor-centered wave of greatness for labels from Drumcode to Cocoon. This sound turned out to be highly attractive for the DJs to play and for the girls and boys to dance to. The unparalleled appeal of his beats left the usual minimal competitors sounding rather dull. Thus, Raudive quickly became the blueprint of techno modernism with one of today's most influential genre-bending production styles. With his Cone and Paper EPs, he is now a key artist of the ever-brilliant Macro family, and just having launched his own new Wires imprint, the man is more than on fire. Forming the hallmark of the Raudive saga, Macro unleashes the highly-anticipated debut album, Chamber Music. This album is both claustrophobic in sound design, reminiscent of the dark and sweaty concrete club spaces this music inhabits, and carries acoustic qualities of induced instrumental experimentalism. Bitches Brew-voodoo reeds, New York no wave voices and European avant strings spin a mesmerizing, dark patina around the ultra-sexy year-3000-rhythms. No wonder there's huge DJ support all across the board -- from Miss Kittin to Surgeon to Sven Väth to Jeff Mills. Massive, deep edge and one of 2010's finest albums, so far.

Artist:	RAUDIVE
Title:	Here
Label:	PODIUM (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	POD 001EP

"Podium is Len Faki's second sublabel on Len Series and closely connected with his residency at Berlin club Berghain. Each release follows a call-and-response pattern between the featured artist's exclusive tracks and Len Faki's opposing track or remixes. The first to show up is Oliver Ho, who, after establishing himself as one of the most creative electronic music producers (on Blueprint, Meta, Light&Dark) has recently explored more minimalistic ways of expression under the name of Raudive (on Klang). This new approach meets the philosophy of Podium which calls for a rediscovery of techno's electronic side: profound and refined, with versatile use of sparse but intense ingredients."

Artist:	RAUDIVE
Title:	Love Is The Devil
Label:	RRYGULAR (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	RRY 048EP

Producer Oliver Ho aka Raudive is not a dark horse -- he returns to Rrygular with his new release Love Is The Devil. Straight and facing forward, but also "back to the roots" somehow, this Englishman knows how to use percussive elements without getting cheesy. A certain reference to electro is obvious, but it underlines the typical dirty Raudive sound, rather than trying to be referential. But who needs genres anyway? This is some kind of club-disco-techno-house-funk-electro monster.

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