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SPEK 006EP
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"Showcases their live approach to dance music with one of the loosest grooves to be heard in modern dance music right now. You know it. Funky and wonky to the point of being almost out of time, 'Horny Pony' will make you smile and dance uncontrollably. It nods respectfully at both Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club, but with a flirtatious eyelash flicker at a curious blend of seductive R&B and nostalgic early '90s house. Horny Pony comes with an impressive remix package. DJ du jour James Priestly rocks in with some help from Dan Berkson for the 'Barlz E Syntho Mix' -- a deep, minimal electro-house classic-in-the-making, with wafts of early '90s Todd Terry and Germanic twists reminiscent of the great Villalobos."
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PLAY 010CD
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"We had only just come to terms with the fact that the 80's have meanwhile been exploited to death. All the references and quotations were fun, and, in many a place, the pop and the dancefloors were driven to a frenzy. Yet can one revive it all anew? Can one shed one's experience of NoWave Funk, bone dry bass and vocoder vocals once more and rediscover the whole thing? Of course one can. It happens almost automatically, if you encounter the right kind of music. Music that, with its magnitude of ideas, self-confidence and energy, in other words purely by its mere existence, wipes away any dust that may have gathered. Spektrum stood in front of a mirror and saw themselves smiling in it. But soon the mirror warped under the strain of retro-styles and got stained because pop history spat on it. Spektrum, however, began to scrape at the surface with one or two 12"s and noticed that the smile was still there. Luckily, many people noticed this too. Breaker and Freefall took over the clubs, DJs sighed 'My salvation!', and 'Freakbox' subtly drew attention to itself in such an irresistible way that the general nodding of heads meant not only dance but also approval: yes, one had to experience it. Spektrum smashed the mirror. Splinters. Enter The...Spektrum."
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