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01. ROMAN FLUGEL - Connecting the Ghost
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02. ROMAN FLUGEL - Friendship Song
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03. ROMAN FLUGEL - Stuffy
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04. ROMAN FLUGEL - Your War is Over
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05. ROMAN FLUGEL - Wilkie
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06. ROMAN FLUGEL - Tense Times
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07. ROMAN FLUGEL - Parade
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08. ROMAN FLUGEL - We Have a Nice Life
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09. ROMAN FLUGEL - Occult Levitation
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10. ROMAN FLUGEL - All That Matters
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ARTIST
FLUGEL, ROMAN
TITLE
Happiness is Happening
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
DIAL
CATALOG #
DIAL 031CD
DIAL 031CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
9/16/2014
"An album by
Roman Flügel
is always a sensation. That holds true for his countless monikers and collaborations as it does for his 2011 Dial debut
Fatty Folders
. Being the first of its kind under his civic name, the long over-due association of Hamburg's cerebral label and its group of off-center house and techno individuals with Frankfurt's favorite electronic music producer for the thinking man and woman, proved to be a seminal one. Now, that sort of
Happiness Is Happening
again. Roman Flügel's follow up on Dial takes off, where
Fatty Folders
landed: on a runway that acknowledges the roots of house and techno as well as its fruits, but leads to a different location. Exempt from the burden that a concept album can lay on its author, Flügel seems not to be concerned with the current trends, retro fashion or a pre-conceived topic. Free-wheeling and with a freshness akin to morning dew, he rather takes us by the hand and through ten tracks that sometimes feel like songs without a voice. Having said that, the strongest point of
Happiness Is Happening
is that it has a voice. The voice of a maker who is not afraid to mix joy and pain, ambient textures with remnants of dancefloor euphoria, quiet spaces and loud places. So you have an almost
Depeche Mode
-like ballad that the 'Friendship Song' is, next to the techno city ghost story of 'Occult Levitation'. Slow-motion robot disco ('Wilkie') appears as much at home here as the bulky 'Stuffy' or the sudden impact in 'We Have a Nice Life'. That list goes on and on. The most startling fact about Roman Flügel's tour de force is that its sum is as great as its parts. Nothing feels superfluous, ill-paced or forced here. It's a condensate of a life that has been spent in techno, house and its various mutations and archetypes with a sensibility for pop music, a consciousness of indie culture and an affinity for the avant-garde as such.
Happiness Is Happening
is like a concept album without a concept. A testament to the fact that the concept of an album that works within the realms and boundaries of 'electronic (dance) music' can be so much more than a loose collection of 12-inches or just an exercise in style: it can be, after all, a piece of art and at its best comparable to a successful singer-songwriter album without words. Especially, when the creator of all his seems to be truly comfortable with himself and at his best. Then,
Happiness Is Happening
, indeed." --
Gerd Janson
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