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Artist:	SCHAFFHAUSER, MATHIAS
Title:	From 4 To 6 a.m.
Label:	BLAOU (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	BLAOU 019CD

"This is mixed compilation album album for Blaou tells the story musical wise. It is titled From 4 to 6 a.m. and presents the complete 'Blaou Years', the works for Blaou until now, including 10 tracks that appear to be a versatile and highly inspired string of sounds that work like a concept album soundtrack for modernist urban electronic dancing. A striking example how fresh and inspiring this musical genre can still be when it is composed in Cologne-Germany. And 'Composition' is the word for this album, one hour of crystal clear raunchy energetic excitement from the humble foreplay installment '4 Uhr morgens' towards the amorph bass flow when 'Smith and Wesson' appear on the scene up to the dramatic guitar crescendo of '6 uhr morgens', you can feel the rhythms build and tension grow with each round this CD spins. Due to the long time span of the single productions incorporated on the album the final edited version feels like a journey in time, going back to the future in the best meaning of the expression. You may know Mathias Schaffhäuser for his recent success on Lido Hotel on his own Ware label but you have never heard him sounding so special and intense as From 4 to 6 a.m.. So, electronic movers and future music pelvis shakers, if you didn´t know it before : the new year has no rhythm and no rhyme and no right time if it doesn't last 'from 4 to 6 a.m.'."

Artist:	SCHAFFHAUSER, MATHIAS
Title:	RE:2 - Selected Remixes Vol. 2
Label:	MULTICOLOR (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	MCR 051CD

"Like its predecessor, RE:2 compiles remixes by Mathias Schaffhäuser that were produced in the recent past. If 'RE:1' was already considered an artist album, then RE:2 is even more so. Just about all mixes were produced over the previous 12 months, i.e. the album is not just a collage of various work periods but almost completely from one single production flow. One result of this remix collection is its cohesiveness but also its definite club affinity. Over the last years Mathias has been DJing non-stop, travelling from Cologne to Istanbul via Basel and Moscow, Bilbao, Paris, Belgrade and back to Berlin. RE:2 also reflects the ever continuing differentiating and refining of the various types of minimal, in Schaffhäuser's own interpretation." Artists include: Pan-Pot, Stefan Tretau, Frankie, Dapayk + Padberg, Novox, Mathias Schaffhäuser, Good Groove, Misc., Crane A.K., And.Id, Laub.

Artist:	SCHAFFHAUSER, MATHIAS
Title:	Love & Business
Label:	WARE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	WARE 003CD

"Lido Hotel was last year; Love & Business is the title for 2001. The holidays are over, real life sets in again wavering between 'desire and obligation', 'feeling and duty', 'time and time-clock'. 'Love & Business' are cornerstones here not contradictions, not a pendulum between good and evil. Love & Business, the record, is more of an 'album' than its predecessors or comparable works. It reflects moods, ups & downs, fluctuations in the pace of time -- both real time that races ahead and inner, slow crawling time and vice versa. And floating above this is a basic, stable state of mind within the music that feels soft and delicate saying 'hey, stop, breath a sigh of relief, give yourself a shake -- it isn't that bad!'. Aural reconciliation as someone put it. Love & Business is released on Ware, Mathias Schaffhäuser's label, though it follows on imperceptibly from his album in 2000 Lido Hotel on Force Tracks. So musical continuity is ensured and there is no sudden break. Schaffhäuser's next album will be released on the Frankfurt cult label by late 2001/early 2002. The style is again compartmentalized as minimal techno house though 'minimal' here only relates to the sound aesthetics that are clearly rooted in the Cologne-Frankfurt-Berlin triangle. The tracks themselves have their own special structure though these structures do branch out quite broadly sometimes tending towards opulence. Reduced opulence, opulent reduction, varied repetition, minimal gluttony?. Love & Business deals with life and life doesn't very often run according to a logical plan. By the way: there are two cover versions on Love & Business, 'Hey Little Girl' (Icehouse) and 'Take Me To Your Heart' (Eurythmics). But that is definitely no retro thing -- it happened by chance more than anything else."

Artist:	SCHAFFHAUSER, MATHIAS
Title:	Truthology / De: tox - Re: tox
Label:	WARE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	WARE 041EP

"'Don't believe in nothing / don't believe nobody / don't believe in anyone / no god, no guide, no party.' Life without truth, life without faith -- try it. It works! If this seems a bit banal, you can have it backed up by Friedrich Nietzsche -- from his excellent On the Genealogy Of Morality: 'The will to truth requires critique -- let us thus define our own task -- the value of truth must for once be experimentally called into question...' Yes Please! Try it, it won't hurt. So why does something like that occur to Mathias Schaffhäuser now? The current state of the world? Hmm. yes, no, partly. The text was actually written in 1992, and was indeed influenced by Mr. Nietzsche. But the critical approach to God, ethics and truth has always been central to Schaffhäuser's way of thinking. In his opinion, contemplation and content should (once again) be brought into the focus of Techno and House -- as hard as that may be. But the music should come across without being cramped or stiff -- it's always better to have a smile on your lips, hidden by a mask. 'Truthology' is funky and mean and light on its feet at the same time. Rumpelstiltzkin philosophy, foot discourse... The B-side is called 'De:tox - Re:tox' -- and who isn't familiar with that? The morning after: 'Oh no, I will never take this or that again, from now on I will walk the path of virtue!' And one day later: 'Hey, that tastes fine, sure, lets have another one...'. Give us our daily liquid bread (or whatever). It works even better in the context of confusing dance music. Actually, you don"t really even need any toxic substances if you have warped clusters like 'De:tox - Re:tox' -- but hey, what am I talking about..."

Artist:	SCHAFFHAUSER, MATHIAS
Title:	Coincidance
Label:	WARE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WARE 014CD

Pure techno-house authored by Mathias Schaffhauser of Ibiza club hit "Hey Little Girl." Coincidence is music made out of blocks and loops. But keep your senses as the nighttime fog of "Nacht & Nebel" descends yet again. Turn daylight off and the strobe-light on. The illusion of "Being Wild" is young, hip and forever dangerous, even if only at the village disco. Direct your own personal blockbuster "Episode X," featuring all your favorite stars and the elements that your synapses and fantasy budget can produce. And we won't be seeing this guy again; sadly, he's dropped out of the game of daily reincarnation -- Elliott Smith. "Dear Elliot" is dedicated to him in thanks for lines like "Yesterday dream's just a waste of time."

Artist:	SCHAFFHAUSER, MATHIAS
Title:	Truthology Revised
Label:	WARE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WARE 049EP

"Over the last 12 months 'Truthology' (Ware 41) has turned out to be of the most successful tracks on our label -- so remixes were a must! This time those fateful lines? 'Don't believe in nothing/don't believe nobody/don't believe in anyone/no god, no guide, no party' have been taken up by: Frank Martiniq (Boxer, Sender, Areal) -- here he doesn't rock as hard as usual, ranging somewhere between Ricardo Villalobos' euphoric restraint and Super-Collider's funkiness. Matthew Mercer (Forte, Background) has, of course, once again pulled some wildly-chopped cut-ups from his box of tricks. Frankie from Paris, from the -- you guessed it -- eponymous Frankie Records label always knows how to place his subtle craziness most unerringly -- as he does here. Colleague Schaffhäuser has treated his original to a make-over, pumped it up and brought it even more to the point."

Artist:	SCHAFFHAUSER, MATHIAS
Title:	Lost Vox
Label:	WARE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WARE 059EP

Berliners Pan Pot (Mobilee/Einmaleins) remix Mathias Schaffhauser's all-style minimal track, "Lost Vox." This track is a piece of '70s dance history and it fuses here in a greatly diverse and brilliant 2005 version. Some would say "electro house," some "electro tech" -- we quite like to call it "minimal functionalism." Schaffhauser's original turns the Ware boss' funky side on its head: where normally soundscapes roam, he now lets out some squealing screams. Lost voices... Lonely voices... No voices... Hmmm...

Artist:	SCHAFFHAUSER, MATHIAS
Title:	More Alternatives
Label:	WARE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WARE 061EP

In April 2005 Ware label-boss Schaffhäuser released his album Coincidance. The Alternatives EP, which followed in June, became the most successful 12" in Ware history mainly due to Trentemøller's remix of "Coincidance." Needless to say, we'd like that to happen again. Andreas "Audio" Werner turns up the 4-to-the-floor bassdrum on "November Reign," ringing in the New Year as if Christmas was tomorrow. On side B Mathias Schaffhäuser transforms "Dear Elliott," the requiem for the Californian singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, into a stubborn minimal-dark funk track, pulling the mourning crowd from their seats and onto the dance floor.

Artist:	SCHAFFHAUSER, MATHIAS
Title:	Gott Ist Tot (God Is Dead)
Label:	WARE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	WARE 075EP

Mathias Schaffhäuser approaches the subjects of religion, God and faith via a totally burning techno manifesto. "Gott Ist Tot" ("God Is Dead") is a punchy rave track which deliberately lacks any missionary intentions and doesn't philosophize but beats around the bush tongue-in-cheek. With the [a]pendics.shuffle remix, all content vaporizes and is ultimately kidnapped into weightlessness by a godly (!) guitar at the end of the track.

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