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NT 013EP
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Back in 2011, Markus Guentner and Heiko Badje formed Stareaway to follow their vision of creating both enchanting and haunting music from melodies and drones. Combining Guentner's complex wall of electronic sound and Badje's ethereal androgyn voice and multi-faceted guitar play, they indeed produced some epic works between ambient, pop, and shoegaze, strangely shimmering and profoundly mysterious. Now, Stareaway's fantastic (and back then maybe a little overlooked) album No Life In This Ghost Town (NT 001LP, 2013) sees its rerelease and is, for celebrational purposes, accompanied by this EP of four stunning remixes by stunning artists Rafael Anton Irisarri (who also did the mastering), Simon Scott (Slowdive), Thomas Fehlmann, and David Westlake (ex-Sneaker Pimps). Rafael Anton Irisarri's magical take on "O Suomi" sparkles bright, still with melancholia always present. David Westlake emphasizes the pop aspect of "Appointments", adding lush synth melodies and light-filled grooves while Thomas Fehlmann lets "All Over You" spiral into pop ambients most majestic heights. Finally, Simon Scott builds a "Kathedrale aus Klang" on "Dreams May Never". Amazing remixes of amazing originals.
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NT 005EP
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Paris' house legends Château Flight and up-and-coming Swedish producer Librah deliver beautiful dancefloor-focused remixes of Stareaway's epic pop/ambient sketches, "No Life in This Ghost Town" and "Appointments," both taken from Stareaway's album No Life in This Ghost Town, also released on Couldn't Care More. Château Flight, accompanied by Cosmic Neman playing the bongos, transform the widescreen wall-of sound arrangement of "No Life in This Ghost Town" into a lush, magically-enchanted roller-coaster-ride from deep warm bass to breathtaking heights of pop. Librah translates "Appointments" into a smooth and transparent, yet banging groove. A beatless "Reprise" version completes this lovely remix EP.
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NT 001LP
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2022 re-release. Stareaway is Markus Guentner (Kompakt, A Strangely Isolated Place) and Heiko Badje (La Grande Illusion) carefully combining ambient soundscapes, shoegaze-y guitars, melancholic pop melodies and these amazing bodiless vocals to form a deep, subtle and somehow hard to define kind of enchanted music. Their 2013 album No Life In This Ghost Town (mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri) is now re-released (via Couldn't Care More); seven wonderful tracks, caressing and thoughtful, yet touched by a certain darkness that makes you shiver. Brilliant works that need to be rediscovered. The album-rerelease is accompanied by a spectacular EP with remixes by Rafael Anton Irisarri, Simon Scott (Slowdive), Thomas Fehlmann, and David Westlake (ex-Sneaker Pimps).
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NT 001EP
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Debut release for Stareaway, a new project by German "inventor of pop ambient" Markus Guentner with singer Heiko Badje, the man behind saudade-driven pop band La Grande Illusion. The both aerial and profound ambient soundscape of "Learn How To Love Me" increases softly while Heiko Badje's voice shivers with emotions of entreaty and wanting. It is followed by the sublime deepness of "Unwise" in which Badje's lyrics about love and temptation dissipate in a vision of pop of atmospheric intensity.
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