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PEDL 004LP
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Double LP version. Includes CD. Gatefold sleeve. Following contributions from Carl Craig (PEDL 002CD/LP), Stacey Pullen (PEDL 001CD/LP), and Wajeed (PEDL 003CD/LP), Swiss DJ and producer Mirko Loko steps forward to mix the fourth volume of Planet E's mix series, Detroit Love. Active since the late '90s when he first began DJing in the clubs of Lausanne, Switzerland, Mirko Loko has always felt a deep connection to the music of Detroit. Having been personally invited by Carl Craig to play at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2001, that connection has stayed consistent and electric ever since. Mirko Loko is also known as a Cadenza mainstay and a curator of Verbier's Polaris Festival, but the music of the Motor City has been the guiding force of his creative career. Mirko's selection offers a taste of Detroit that intermingles emerging talent and the deepest cuts from established heroes. Mirko has loaded the mix with exclusive productions and remixes including new collaborations with Derrick May and Ursula Rucker; an updated version of his classic recording with Stacey Pullen, "Tronic Illusion"; an exclusive remix of Japan's Takuya Yamashita; and a new track under his Bel-Air Ltd alias. Each of these comes alongside tracks from Phase Force, Lady B, and a heretofore unreleased Carl Craig edit of DJ Deep & Romain Poncet's Sergie Rezza project. "The influence of Detroit on music all over the world is immeasurable. Like so many others, my relationship with music was inspired and forever marked by the talent and genius of Detroit and midwest USA's musical pioneers, and we all owe the city and its cultural legacy a huge debt. This mix is my small way of saying thank you to the city." --Mirko Loko, 2020 Double-LP version features Mirko Loko, Derrick May, Ursula Rucker, Stacey Pullen, Bel-Air Ltd, Sergie Rezza, Carl Craig, Takuya Yamashita, Phase Phorce, and Lady B.
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PEDL 004CD
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Following contributions from Carl Craig (PEDL 002CD/LP), Stacey Pullen (PEDL 001CD/LP), and Wajeed (PEDL 003CD/LP), Swiss DJ and producer Mirko Loko steps forward to mix the fourth volume of Planet E's mix series, Detroit Love. Active since the late '90s when he first began DJing in the clubs of Lausanne, Switzerland, Mirko Loko has always felt a deep connection to the music of Detroit. Having been personally invited by Carl Craig to play at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2001, that connection has stayed consistent and electric ever since. Mirko Loko is also known as a Cadenza mainstay and a curator of Verbier's Polaris Festival, but the music of the Motor City has been the guiding force of his creative career. Mirko's selection offers a taste of Detroit that intermingles emerging talent and the deepest cuts from established heroes. Mirko has loaded the mix with exclusive productions and remixes including new collaborations with Derrick May and Ursula Rucker; an updated version of his classic recording with Stacey Pullen, "Tronic Illusion"; an exclusive remix of Japan's Takuya Yamashita; and a new track under his Bel-Air Ltd alias. Each of these comes alongside tracks from Phase Force, Lady B, and a heretofore unreleased Carl Craig edit of DJ Deep & Romain Poncet's Sergie Rezza project. "The influence of Detroit on music all over the world is immeasurable. Like so many others, my relationship with music was inspired and forever marked by the talent and genius of Detroit and midwest USA's musical pioneers, and we all owe the city and its cultural legacy a huge debt. This mix is my small way of saying thank you to the city." --Mirko Loko, 2020 CD version features Fred P, Mirko Loko, Ursula Rucker, Feater, Vilja Larjosto, Villalobos, Chaos In The CBD, Sergie Rezza, Carl Craig, Still, Takuya Yamashita, Eduardo De La Calle, Scott Ferguson, Wincent Kunth, Phase Phorce, Adryan, Russ Gabriel, Derrick May, Gilb'R, Bel-Air Ltd, DJ Duke, Tevo Howard, The Prince Of Dance Music, L.B. Bad, Jared Wilson, The Godson, Stacey Pullen, and Lady B.
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CADENZA 109EP
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Swiss DJ & producer, Mirko Loko presents remixes for 2015's Comet Plan (CADENZA 016CD/CADENZA 102LP). Sebastian Mullaert plumps for a solo remix of "Venus" of epic proportions, split into two versions; "Phaze One" and "Phaze Two". An organic trip through the cosmos, Mullaert tweaks and teases over two seductively trippy versions, showing us a master class in minimal electronics. Brett Johnson tackles "U Special" featuring JAW with a very tasty remix and instrumental version. Soulful, spacey and groovy in equal doses, Brett delivers the goods in abundance on these mixes.
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CADENZA 101EP
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Mirko Loko follows his 2015 album Comet Plan (CADENZA 016CD/102LP) with Kolor in a return to Cadenza after his 2009 debut Seventynine (CADENZA 038EP). Mirko is obviously indebted to the techno music of the Motor City, and these classic Detroit tropes are certainly used in the building blocks of the original mix of "Kolor," sprinkled with a dusting of xylophones, bells, and chimes. For his remix, Planet E founder and legendary Detroit producer Carl Craig keeps the 4/4 framework of the original mix and strips back the percussion somewhat, working with elastic synths, flanged percs, and a heavy low end.
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CADENZA 102LP
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CADENZA 016CD
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Swiss DJ and producer Mirko Loko presents the follow-up to Seventynine, his 2009 debut, catapulting us into the techno and electronica galaxy with Comet Plan. "Un voyage entre toute mes influences," Mirko Loko shares, breaking into his mother tongue to describe the essence of his sophomore long-player, which he conceived in Berlin and later birthed in his hometown of Lausanne after a two-year gestation period. Literally translated as "to travel between my influences," it's a fitting summation of an artist whose work has respectfully mined early inspiration from Detroit and Chicago, drawing on artists who laid the foundations of the emotion-filled productions he has become known for. Loko also sees his connection with Luciano's Cadenza Music -- a relationship that's been in existence since day one, and that has seen the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Thomas Melchoir, Pedro, and Rahdoo come together to form one of the most innovative crews in dance music -- as leaving an indelible imprint on his musical DNA. It's Loko's strong sense of musical identity that is at the core of Comet Plan, a work that's equally informed by the artist's spiritual connection with the Motor City as his halcyon Cadenza roots. And one thing's for sure: he knows how to captivate. Take "Venus," whose trickles of melody and syncopated drum rhythms increase in intensity with each bar toward an eerie crescendo. Then there's "U Special," which builds the kind of subtle party vibes you could imagine Luciano dropping to create one of those moments on a heaving, blissed-out dancefloor. On the CD version, "Kolor," the album's early single (also remixed by Carl Craig as part of an excellent EP package), is sprinkled with a dusting of xylophones, chimes, and other bells as the melody is driven forward for a heady trip across the electronic galaxy. "Timeline" sees Mirko enlist visionary pianist and electronic composer Francesco Tristano for an absorbing piano house jam session with a difference before handing the collaborative baton to dOP vocalist Jaw and taking us down a murky, slightly menacing house path with "Danger." For the CD finale, the melody-soaked futurism of "Coelum Piuzis" pours wave after wave out of the speakers -- se termine le voyage. CD includes five exclusive tracks: "Lea," "Flash," "Kolor (Original Mix)," "Radio Vini," and "Coelum Piuzis."
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CADENZA 045EP
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Cadenza presents a special remix package of tracks from Mirko Loko's Seventynine, featuring Carl Craig and Ricardo Villalobos. Craig's remix of "Love Harmonic" stretches to nearly 12 minutes and, following a long, gradual build-up of rolling congas, trademark C2 sawtooth drones slice through a haze of strings. Villalobos' remix of "Takhtok" places the chanting children's choir of the original at center stage, framing them with a velvety curtain of fuzzy synthesizers and shirred, crumpled beats. This is Ricardo at his amniotic best.
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CADENZA 038EP
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Mirko Loko (one-half of Lazy Fat People) presents a cross-section of tracks off his debut solo album Seventynine on double 12" vinyl. These tracks celebrate the communal ideal of dance music with spirited, percussive melodies that present a clear distillation of the Cadenza sound. But Mirko also diverges from the dancefloor, ducking into shadowy corners. Rather than scattering energy, that tension between moods binds the album into a coherent whole, bridging the gap between classic Motor City and Cadenza's nomadic aesthetic.
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CADENZA 004CD
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This is the debut solo album by Switzerland's Mirko Loko (Lazy Fat People) and his first appearance on Cadenza. With Seventynine, Mirko takes us even deeper into his musical imagination, celebrating the communal ideal of dance music with spirited, percussive tracks. But Mirko also diverges from the dancefloor, ducking into shadowy corners in search of more private emotions. With its groaning sub-bass and flickering percussive flashes, "Sidonia" echoes the dubby, drifting melancholy of classic Warp records. Bells and voices lend an atmosphere of shimmering energy that's carried over into "Around The Angel," which is propelled by intricate polyrhythms and uplifting female vocals. "Love Harmonic" possesses a classic, melodic sound inspired equally by Detroit and Sheffield, as lean drum-machine patterns entwine with loping congas, and lush strings color everything delicate shades of yellow and rose. "On Fire" marks a 180 degree turn, pursuing a scorched-earth policy in nearly 9 minutes of techno intensity. After that, "Astral Vacuum" offers necessary respite via a short, beatless passage of strings and abstract sound, before Mirko takes us once again into the breach with "Bluebook," a lean, focused groove battered by metallic drums and shot through with voices and bleeps ripped from radio transmissions. "Shadow" is deep and melancholic, with a booming 808 kick underpinning ragged, gleaming chords and frayed strings. "Tahktok" features a children's chant rising over a primal beat and scraps of Bulgarian folk song. With "Le Monologue d'Orfeu," Mirko returns to one of his limpid, endlessly unspooling, headlong grooves."Altrove" is 2 minutes of molten strings and electronic birdcall you wish could go on forever. But there's one more dance to be had: "You Know Where," which rises from a wooden, skippy rhythm into a string-laden celebration of techno at its most melodic -- its deep, sung/grunted bass line serving as the warm, pulsing heart for this massive, man/machine mover. It's a glorious finish to an album that never takes its eyes off the horizon, sending it up, over and beyond. Seventynine is ultimately all about the journey, as it travels between Lausanne, Detroit and outlying points on electronic music's map. Mirko's travelogue bridges the gap between a classic Motor City influence and Cadenza's own nomadic aesthetic, firing up dancefloors and fueling the imagination.
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