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EXONE 023EP
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Exercise One release Timetrap EP. "Timetrap" has always been the dark horse of Exercise One's back catalog, so they decided to revisit the original idea of the track. A few sessions later, "Timetrap 2016" was born with the staccato groove and eerie hook of the original living in a much more powerful surrounding. Locked Groove reworks "Timetrap", taking a totally different path, meandering around a perfect balance of melody and seductive rhythms. "502 Last Sequence" is slightly rougher and darker, perfectly displaying where the duo's heart is at currently. A track built on genuine machine love.
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EXONE 020CD
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To mark a decade of their live techno outfit, Exercise One release a new album by choosing 10 remixes for their 10 years of performing live and nine tracks on the album for nine years of releasing records. The close duo of Marco Freivogel and Ingo Gansera have spent the past decade recording and performing live as Exercise One, collaborating, remixing and running two independent labels all their own way. Already seasoned live performers when they met, Marco's early years were spent absorbed in goth culture and industrial music, while Ingo leads a double life as the drummer of a Berlin punk band. These influences fuel their old school Kreuzberg DIY vibe as well as injecting their brand of techno with a warmth and vibrancy that bursts from every exuberant record and infectious performance. Their energy mixed with an abundance of creativity has helped to seal their musical world view, that music production and performance should have a symbiotic relationship. Early on, Exercise One created their own label Lan Muzic, where they put out the first techno releases of Peter Van Hoesen and Philip Sherburne, as well as Donato Dozzy and Jacopo Carreras. Their debut album was released on Anja Schneider's Mobilee Records, with 12"s over the years on Dumb Unit, Cocoon, and Wagon Repair as well as remixes for a host of others too numerous to name. Most recently they have recorded almost exclusively for their former bootleg label Exone alongside collaborators like Mathew Jonson, Matilda, Mike Shannon, and Deadbeat. In the last two years, Exercise One completely overhauled their live PA, throwing out the computer and returning to the root of techno armed with an arsenal of blustering analog machines. It's a testament to their belief that music and techno should be alive, with their music always guided by the spirit and flow of improvisation, driven forward by the tension of their real-time onstage interaction and ability to go "off script" that makes their performances more exciting and dynamic than the norm. "Same Story" sets the scene for the album, with the duo's musicality illustrated in the sea of gauzy pads that unfurl over an increasingly skewed rhythm. After succumbing to a cacophony of resonant percussion, the focus is shifted to the floor, with the unyielding 4x4 thump and haunting motifs of "Verlooka" ushering in tracks that capture the vitality of the pair's much-lauded live act. "Gatium" finds them at their most arresting, exercising the kind of restraint that renders every spluttering synth-line utterly captivating before "Electric Glare" revs into action with a dank riff locking itself on top of a feverish bass line. After the cinematic "Stay" serves as a blissful palette cleanser, we're back on the pulse with the jacking sensibilities of "33 to Pay the Rent" and the abrasive thuds of "The Raven," perhaps their most stark work to date. Penultimate track "Outshine" masterfully reintroduces ethereal hints of melancholia over an undulating groove. Finally "Look at the Harlequins" serves as an album closer like none other, a perfect distillation of a sound that unfolds like a dystopian nightmare; but one that's sure to play a part in the most hedonistic moments of dancefloor abandon.
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EXONE 018EP
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Part 2 in Exercise One's series of vinyl remix EPs, selecting 10 back-catalog remixes for the duo's 10 years of performing live and nine tracks on the album for nine years of releasing records. "Electric Glare" revs into action with a dank riff locking itself on top of a feverish bass line. After the cinematic "Stay" serves as a blissful palette cleanser, we're back on the pulse with the abrasive thuds of "The Raven." EP 2 continues with Ewan Pearson masterfully remixing in typically grandiose style, putting on the breaks and laying down an irresistible groove. Alex Smoke's charred contribution has an air of narcotic outlandishness with the swirl of Farsi poetry.
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EXONE 019EP
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EP 3 in Exercise One's Tales of Ordinary Madness series sees Peter Van Hoesen "Wandering" with a swaggering low-end and kitchen-sink percussion that gives Donato Dozzy the opportunity to pick up the pace and instills a hint of malicious intent with his dust-treated version of "Prowl." Finally, Jacopo Carreras pulls us out of the trip and places us firmly back on the dancefloor. "Outshine" masterfully reintroduces ethereal hints of melancholia over an undulating groove. Finally, "Look at the Harlequins" is a perfect distillation of a sound that unfolds like a dystopian nightmare; but one that's sure to play a part in the most hedonistic moments of dancefloor abandon.
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EXONE 017EP
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To mark a decade of their live techno outfit, Exercise One release a new album and series of remix EPs by friends and fellow travelers from along the road. Choosing 10 remixes from their 10 years of performing live, and nine tracks on the album for nine years of releasing records. For the EPs, Exercise One invited Sigha and Deadbeat along to remix their favorite tracks. On EP 1/3, you find on side A the original album tracks "Verlooka" and "Gatium," accompanied by remixes of "12 Years" (originally released on Lan Muzic, 2006) and "Top Score - Stop Thinking!" (originally released on Cocoon Recordings, 2011).
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EXONE 016EP
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Exone's sweet sixteen is 100% Exercise One. Three new cuts from the duo comprising their vision of club music. Different states of matter shape-shifting around a unifying core. Atmospheric. Dark. Techno.
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WAG 057EP
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Wagon Repair welcomes Exercise One to their roster with this 4-track EP. "Several Things At Once" lays out a groovy foundation and lets the machines do their thing with a rough and dirty sound. "Breeze" features wind-chimes which were recorded with a mic and mixed with melodies and reverbed kicks. "Colony" accumulates power by winding itself into the mind and body of the listener. "Prowl" is based on sound-shifting samples that evoke a predator in search of its prey.
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MOBILEE 008CD
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This is the debut full-length release by Berlin duo Exercise One (Marco Freivogel and Ingo Gansera). DJs know them as crafters of cracking tracks on wax. Clubbers around the world know them as an unstoppable live act. Now, prepare to meet another side of Exercise One. On In Cars We Rust, the dancefloor stormers are still here, and the record's flow is guided by the same spirit of improvisation that drives their live sets. But the clubbier material is rounded out by sounds we've never heard from Exercise One before: gorgeous, enveloping ambient tracks; soundtrack-ready synthesizer ballads; even a kind of retro-futurist electro-pop. In Cars We Rust is the studio product of their hands-on approach, as passages of spontaneous creation are edited, collaged and remixed into a strikingly varied, startlingly cohesive whole. "Circeo" comes on like dawn, with a rustle of percussion and muted horns giving way to slowly unfurling chords and gentle electro-acoustic chatter -- featuring Seth Josel on guitar, it's an ambient palate-cleanser to prep you for the deep-listening experience to follow. The beats begin on "1994," which eases out of the intro with shimmering keys and a shimmying beat, nearly dissolving into bubbly echoes of Steve Reich. "It Is Happening Again" features home-hewn breaks and a monster bass line courtesy of Jacopo Carreras. "Trapdoor" cools off with a taut, undulating spiral of metallic percussion and oscillators. "The Drunken Tinman" is low-slung funk, skipping dry drum machines across a sludge-pool of charred, muddied bass and dubby chords. After that, "Good Kid" rouses with cinematic strings and a drunken piano line. "No News Today" features Argenis Brito's distinctive vocals, and is the perfect fusion of electronic production with a classic pop sensibility. "Sleeper" boasts lush chords, diamond-tipped drums and spiraling oscillators. "What You Say" is a lean, mean percussive groover, and "Don't Slip" slows the tempo and loses itself in a field of freaky bleeps. The breathtaking finale "Just Not!" feels like an amalgam of all of Exercise One's deepest tendencies, as ropy bass lines, dissipating chords and intricate rhythms spin together into a hypnotic, pulsing whole.
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MOBILEE 051EP
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Prepare to meet another side of Exercise One with tracks off their full-length In Cars We Rust. Alongside their clubbier material are gorgeous ambient tracks, synthesizer ballads, and retro-futurist electro-pop. No News Today showcases standouts from both ends of the spectrum, along with a mind-melting remix from Deadbeat. Featuring Argenis Brito's distinctive vocals, "No News Today" is the perfect fusion of electronic production and classic pop sensibility. Contemplative and driving, it's reminiscent of Underworld at the height of their emotive powers.
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LAN 017EP
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Exercise One present two mind-expanding cuts that reaffirm them as masters of the hypnotic groove. "All Out" opens with a restrained bass line and clacky claves before a bruising forward motion of percussive fills and ragged waveforms. For the truly hardcore, there's a gigantic old-skool rave breakdown. "Parasol" is more controlled with a simple, sidewinding groove. Glowing tones begin to unfurl like cosmic vines, tracing an unpredictable, expanding melody. This is psychedelic music at its purest and a real mind-fuck.
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MOBILEE 024EP
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Exercise One came off of a giant tour, so Mobilee decided to press the most successful and euphoric tracks of their live set on vinyl. "Dark Star" and "Melting" are deep techno tracks with the typical Exercise One flavor. Two rollin' and groovin' intelligent bombs blowing up unstable planets. John Carpenter would love these tracks, for sure.
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NUM 013EP
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"Is there any need to introduce you to Exercise One? They are simply the incredibly advanced modern techno 'duo human core' powered machinery from Berlin. And they were dual powered way before it was trendy, believe us... None more happy to produce some of the most effective and sparkling minimal techno to date on many critically acclaimed releases, the duo also delivers one of the most mindblowing live-acts to date. It is of course with no surprise that the talented two's are now showing up with a superb EP on Num Records. 'Where Is My Keyboard?' grooves in full effect -- this huge club clash is definitely a wild smash. Tight as a teenager, the Exercise One twenty gold fingers did it again. Wild and groovy beats, including the personally loved shuffled hi-hats, a bouncy and catchy bassline that evolves all along the track. Crazy processed sound effects and not the least a swinging and blasting techno hook to get on the floor even the most shy of you. Where is their keyboard? We don't know... we just know that this track rocks with or without keyboard...'A Night Like This' superbly introduced with wizardry and magic, this eight minutes journey into the Exercise One definition of the night will render anyone accorded. We dance, they dance, everybody's dancing. A dubbed-out minimal techno anthem that once is not lesson sounds truly analogical."
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