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Artist:	UNAI
Title:	I Like Your Style
Label:	FORCE TRACKS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	FT 058EP

2003 release. "Unai is the one-man-effort of Swedish producer Erik Möller. Since the mid-nineties he's been spreading his unique form of Dub-House/Disco on labels like Naked Music, Raum Musik, Sub Static, Punkt Music, Holistic, Eloge, and Facets. I Like Your Style is a magnificent journey in bringing classic deep Dub House, '80's influenced Disco and groovy, futuristic House together. Few producers have been able to capture what Unai succeeds in arousing -- proving that he"s got a finger firmly on the pulse of a new generation of dance music. Brace yourself for a shining example of Force Tracks finest links between the label's past and future."

Artist:	UNAI
Title:	A Love Moderne
Label:	FORCE TRACKS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	FTS 065CD

After five long years, this is the second album from Swedish producer Erik Möller. Since the mid-nineties he's been spreading his unique form of dub-house/disco on labels like Naked Music, Raum Musik, Sub Static, Punkt Music, Holistic, Eloge, and Facets. The Unai on A Love Moderne is quite different from the man we used to know. The abstract futurism is still there, but somewhere on the way Unai unbuttoned his shirt and let the pop and the disco in, forsaking minimal techno in favor of melancholic diskotroniks. On A Love Moderne Unai sounds like the unknown lovechild of Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and Basic Channel's Moritz von Oswald (a famous German label even compared his voice to that of '80s star Terence Trent D'Arby!). A Love Moderne is about loving aristocratic pop as much as bunker techno, and that these two elements together make the most beautiful modern love soundtrack. The clash is most obvious on cuts like "Heart Is To The Left," "Youngkiss" and "Blissful Burden," where stripped-to-the-bone electronics meets heartaching pop head on. On top of this you get the cut up future-disco of "Moderne Love" and "Lucky Bastard," not to mention the grand finale of glacial ambient pop that is "Exit Wounds." If there's a wave of techno pop that slowly but surely has been rising in the last few years, Unai and A Love Moderne is truly the crest of it.

Artist:	UNAI
Title:	A Love Moderne
Label:	FORCE TRACKS (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	FTS 065LP

Double LP version. After five long years, this is the second album from Swedish producer Erik Möller. The Unai on A Love Moderne is quite different from the man we used to know. The abstract futurism is still there, but somewhere on the way Unai unbuttoned his shirt and let the pop and the disco in, forsaking minimal techno in favor of melancholic diskotroniks. On A Love Moderne Unai sounds like the unknown lovechild of Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and Basic Channel's Moritz von Oswald (a famous German label even compared his voice to that of '80s star Terence Trent D'Arby!).

Artist:	UNAI
Title:	Digital Disco 3
Label:	FORCE TRACKS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	FTS 070CD

It's been a long three years since Force Tracks released Volume 2 of the critically-acclaimed Digital Disco compilation. A reinvention of house music, Digital Disco brings together a combination of sophisticated depth, soul, lyrical narrative, and of course the uplifting energy that disco characterized back to the dance floor. The label group Force Inc, Mille Plateaux & Force Tracks is well known for its stylishness -- whether it's Clicks & Cuts or Digital Disco, all compilations document the music in its postmodern periods. There were always three aspects, which have been important for compilations: to build up a flow of tracks in a series, to show the serial aspect of one track, and to open the mix for other mixes. Digital Disco 3 is mixed by one of Sweden's finest producers, who has just released his new masterpiece A Love Moderne on Force Tracks. Erik Möller aka Unai collected tracks from electrohouse to minimal house and put them together with intensity and smoothness. There are bona fide club-hits such as Ame's "Rej" or Tejada's "Voyager," and the stunning Unai remixes of Trentemöller and Martinez. Erik Möller transforms tracks with a perfect mix. Features mostly exclusive tracks from: Premature Wig, Morgan Page, Voltique, Jussi Pekka, Soultek, 3 Farben House, Crystal Fake, Ame, Unai, Martinez, Trentemöller, Crane Ak, Soultek and Igor O. Vlasov.

Artist:	UNAI
Title:	Loving That Lost Feeling
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 021EP

"After taking a little break, the Swede Erik Möller aka Unai is finally back on Sub Static, where he already released the sold-out 'Sessions Around Midnight E.P.' about a year ago. Although Unai was unfortunately put into that fatal dub-house drawer far too often, he remained true to his musical expression, which has always been an own special style anyhow. Because of that, the title of this current record 'Loving That Lost Feeling' almost gets a slight politic touch. The housy title track grooves along in quite a classic and continuous way, using just a few elements. However, the detailed brilliance in sound of chords, bass and drums is so highly perfected, that no further sonic fireworks are necessary to unfold the emotional depth and melancholy of the song. A piece of art! The B-Side presents itself more playful and experimental. 'Soulbandit' (B1) is a scratchy minimal track combining hard experimental sounds and melodic, dreamy pads, in a way that lets you imagine Unai as an old Autechre-fan."

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