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Artist:	MAS, FREDDIE
Title:	Arc EP
Label:	CODEK RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	CRE 015EP

"Citing Freddie Mas' biggest influences as 'dreams, coincidences and house parties...,' the Chicago native is determined to forge a new level of expression in popular music. For the last 5 years, he has been introducing a physical dynamic to his productions, collaborations, infamous DJ sets and performances, something that, he feels, has long been missing from a rather stoic NYC dance scene. He describes his sound as 'motion motivated' and considers music as 'inseparable from the phenomenon of gravity, yet a living art capable of greater possibilities beyond.' Freddie Mas' extremely unpredictable performances are heavenly and demonic, often simultaneously. Sometimes dangerous but never stingy, he aims for textural and emotional vistas largely uncharted by his contemporaries. Freddy Mas was previously featured on Codek Records and Tigersushi. The Arc EP features 4 new tracks that were entirely written and produced by Freddy Mas. Not sure how to file this music, but it's somewhere within electro-rock-punk-funk-house."

Artist:	IN FLAGRANTI
Title:	Wronger Than Anyone Else
Label:	CODEK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CRE 001CD

In Flagranti is New York-based Sasha Crnobrnja and Alex Gloor, and this is their first full-length album. After a productive 2005-06 year with six 12" vinyl EPs, In Flagranti now release this record which compiles all the tracks from the now hard-to-find vinyl 12"s, with additional unreleased tracks on one CD. Wronger Than Everyone Else is difficult to pin down, though critics have compared In Flagranti with acts such as !!!, Daft Punk, The Rapture... or as one club promoter placed them, "New York's funkiest exponent of the ever-growing disco-punk revival." What the two members share is the simultaneous discovery of the Italian cosmic scene from the late '70s/early '80s electro: a scene that blended aspects of disco, Afro-rock, funk and dub. Especially with the start of Alex and Sasha's label Codek Records, their aim is to assemble different elements of art/graphic design and styles of music into a seamless flow, which ultimately led them to create In Flagranti, an act that would reflect and continue to explore the endless possibilities of a "cut and paste" aesthetic. From the electronic disco sound of Giorgio Moroder and Patrick Cowley to the punk funk of Liquid Liquid, A Certain Ratio and more contemporary sounds of today's dance music, Wronger Than Everyone Else is an erotic and humorous collage of all of the above. Already graced with bone fide underground club hits such as "Nonplusultra" and "We Make Love In a House Made of Glass," and with Time Out NY voting them as one of the Best in 2005, it looks like In Flagranti could be the wrongest rightest thing to originate in NYC for quite some time.

Artist:	IN FLAGRANTI
Title:	Brash & Vulgar
Label:	CODEK RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CRE 002CD

This is the second full-length release from In Flagranti. Still constructed piecemeal between Basel and New York respectively, partners in crime Alex Gloor and Sasha Crnobrnja undress punk with their standard sleazy disco fare on Brash & Vulgar, the follow-up to 2006's titillating Wronger Than Anyone Else. In true Flagranti form, it's an irreverent balance of sex, dirt, distortion, dance, beauty and tongue-in-cheek humor, all wrapped up in a gritty, '70s aesthetic that harkens deconstructed vintage porn. Accomplished graphic designer Gloor first constructs collages, taking cues from 1920s German advertising, where a designer would simply make an ad and leave the company name blank, showing it to clients who would eventually fill in their name. Similarly, once the art is chosen, the tracks follow suit, with titles inspired by the artwork. Whereas Wronger Than Anyone Else was a cut-and-paste collection of 12"s, Brash & Vulgar is indeed a fully-formed album. Using a cheap mic, a 4-track tape and a slew of sex-charged vocals (one even originating directly from a bedroom in France), this release well and truly lives up to its name. Throbbing bass beats, disco bounce, and punk-pop snap make for the ultimate in metallic sheen stretchpants dance orgies. Time to revel in the afterglow.

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