Browse by Artist: RENAISSANCE MAN

Artist:	RENAISSANCE MAN
Title:	What Do You Do When You Do What You Do
Label:	TURBO RECORDINGS (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	TURBO 111EP

For Renaissance Man's first single off their Turbo debut LP (TURBO 032CD), they have assembled a team of remixers who live up to the playful intelligence of the original. The result is a MENSA-level dissection of contemporary dance music. Legendary producer Herbert offers up a subtle, atmospheric take, adding his own vocals and introducing an esoteric pop sensibility. Scottish producer Sei A checks in with a hypnotic techno groove bomb. UK vet Paul Woolford strikes a balance between wobble acid and melodic piano hooks.

Artist:	RENAISSANCE MAN
Title:	Call2Call
Label:	TURBO RECORDINGS (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	TURBO 141EP

Turbo Recordings takes new-school electro to grad school with this release from Finnish duo Renaissance Man. Following their brilliant 2011 Turbo debut LP, they continue to bring high-minded concepts to low-ended club tracks with Call2Call. The six tracks on this EP take the DNA of classic electro and splice it with techno's focus on structure and the duo's trademark "critical house" conceptual ingenuity. The use of landline phone samples over dirty 808 beats evokes something both timeless and incredibly time-specific.

Artist:	RENAISSANCE MAN
Title:	Renaissance Man Project
Label:	TURBO RECORDINGS (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	TURBO 032CD

This duo of Finnish architects launched their career in 2008 with Spraycan on Switch's Dubsided. They soon found eager champions in the tastemakers at Kitsuné, Sound Pellegrino, and the blogtelligensia over at Fluokids. By 2010, they were legitimate players, having remixed WhoMadeWho, Delphic, Crystal Fighters, Brodinski, Crookers, Health, and, most recently, Azari & III. A more refined, structural sound emerged on the Babbadabba EP on Made to Play. And the larger scope of their commitment to intelligent design comes to fruition on Turbo Recordings, erecting a post-tropical hermitage of dancing man's thought-funk. The music is highly detail-oriented, referencing everything from bass music to curry house, with eyes and ears trained on millennia of art and concept, with a special emphasis on the millennia when music actually existed. The first track and single, "...When You Do What You Do" is a who's-what-you-who of blazing critical house. Renaissance Man. Designing the box. Building the box. Thinking on top of the box. Features Tuomas Toivonen (Acid Kings, Giant Robot), Helsinki Bass Machine and K-X-P.

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