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Not content with defining the sound of minimal techno in the nineties, Robert Hood has more recently fine0tuned his own gospel-tinged take on the genre. It comes under the Floorplan moniker, the genesis of which is said to have come to him when awakened by a late-night vision. Since 2016, it has been a collaborative duo between Hood and daughter Lyric, and never fails to lead to religious experiences on the dancefloor. With roots in the Detroit techno scene in which Hood first emerged, Floorplan's sound is embellished with the heartfelt emotions and unbridled passions of Chicago house music. It is heavy and analog and filled with vigor thanks to the expert drum programming and ever rising sense of euphoria that comes from the well sculpted synths. But it also speaks to the heart and soul and has done since first standout cut "We Magnify His Name". The pair's endless quest for the perfect groove continued through albums like 2013's Paradise (MPM 016CD/LP) -- which spawned anthemic singles like "Let's Ride", "Baby Baby", and the massive "Never Grow Old" -- and 2016's Victorious (MPM 028CD/LP). The same year saw Hood's daughter Lyric officially become part of the project. Since then they have taken Floorplan to endless headline shows at high profile clubs and festivals everywhere from New York City to Ibiza, London to Amsterdam. Their electric sets leave crowds feeling uplifted, spiritually awakening and totally in awe. Part of the success of Floorplan is the combination of Robert's old school excellence and Lyric's new school innovation: their music, with its big chords and even bigger vocal samples, could be 30 years old or fresh from the pressing plant, such is its universal sense of appeal. It is rare to make music as stripped back yet emotionally enriched as Floorplan, but this pair do it with ease and a firm focus on durable grooves. Functional but full of form, tense but atmospheric, loopy but ever evolving, Floorplan truly transcend the dance music spectrum. Features Carol Otis.
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AUS 144EP
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Finally returning to the production fold with his first full-length album in thirteen years, Will Saul's Open Too Close is a condensed trip through the influences, discovery and sense of history that have helped shape his career and drive a forward-facing, unblinking passion for new music. Open Too Close draws on the timeless futurism at the heart of the music that drew Saul into electronic music culture. Simply put, futuristic, melancholic sci-fi soundscapes meets stripped-back, raw sample-driven house music, all executed with the precision and panache of an artist who truly understands how to move a dancefloor.
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Finally returning to the production fold with his first full-length album in thirteen years, Will Saul's Open Too Close is a condensed trip through the influences, discovery and sense of history that have helped shape his career and drive a forward-facing, unblinking passion for new music. Open Too Close draws on the timeless futurism at the heart of the music that drew Saul into electronic music culture. Simply put, futuristic, melancholic sci-fi soundscapes meets stripped-back, raw sample-driven house music, all executed with the precision and panache of an artist who truly understands how to move a dancefloor.
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AUS 143EP
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Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets, aka Detroit Swindle, make their Aus Music debut with the Rhythm Girl Swing EP. The classy duo continues the sonic exploration heard on their superb 2018 album High Life (HEIST 001CD/LP) and deliver three electronic cuts varying from warm and soulful to raw and pumping.
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AUS 140EP
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Berlin's Cinthie has rapidly become one of the most in demand DJs and producers in recent times, a staple in the electronic music scene of the German capital she heads up a number of imprints as well as a record store and touring the globe. 2018 saw her debut on Will Saul's Aus imprint (AUS 134EP) and the start of a new direction musically, here Cinthie continues this, returning to the label with three more disco-tinged, sample heavy house cuts.
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AUS 138EP
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The 10961 EP is Haider's debut for AUS Music following his breakout EP on his own Breaker Breaker Recordings. Having picked up support from a wide range of incredible DJs from Leon Vynehall and The Zenker Brothers, to Annie Mac and Moxie, he caught the attention of Will Saul with his eclectic talent. The 10961 EP again features a real range of sound from classy melodic electro to dusty, trippy deep house at its finest.
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AUS 137EP
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Tom Ruij aka Tracey's palette of influences is wide and far-reaching, from the far-sighted futurism of Detroit and the deep space pulse of electro, to left-of-center electronic experimentalism and the alien world of British and European IDM, all of which are showcased on Metamorphosis.
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AUS 134EP
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Cinthie joins the roster of Aus Music with Trust, comprising three original cuts from the Berlin artist. Recent months have seen Cinthie build her own studio and dedicate her time to carefully crafting music. Trust is a product of this time spent and marks the next phase. "Trust" is fuelled by an infectious marimba-style percussive melody, bright tension-building strings and a bumpy bass hook. "Lost At Sea" employs a loosely-flowing organic drum groove, jazzy Rhodes chords and resonant moog style synth licks, while "Hip Swing" closes with up-tempo drums at the forefront whilst murky bass reverberations flow in the depths.
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Will Saul returns to AUS following By Your Side (AUS 130EP, 2018) Arps & Early Starts sees Will take things deeper, trippier and once again in another direction, continuing to move things forward. This is his third release in the past six months and sees the AUS label head enjoying the studio and DJing more than ever, he's on the road extensively over the coming month, visiting the legendary Rex in Paris, London's Printworks, Barcelona's Nitsa, Elsewhere in NYC and putting on his own ADE party alongside Jeremy Underground and Bradley Zero, to name a few.
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Gerd returns to AUS with The Prophetess, a four-tracker that showcases a producer capable of soundtracking peak-time moments anywhere and everywhere. The A-side leans towards breaky drums and punchy melodies whilst the flip includes two acid bombs. If you're a fan of Gerd's much-loved NY Stomp and Geeeman monikers then this release should be no different.
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AUS 131EP
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Following the release of 2017's The Brane 001 EP (BRANE 001EP), Youandewan returns with Ideal Passage.
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AUS 132EP
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Aus Music welcome Matt Karmil to the label. The Sourced EP follows his critically acclaimed Will on Smalltown Supersound (2017). Matt delivers two classily edited cuts and two off-kilter deeper tracks, a perfectly balanced EP with a track for all times and moods.
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By Your Side is the second solo release of the year from Will Saul, following his 12" Bugs (AUS 125EP). Never content to sit still in one style or genre BYS see's Will exploring his love for electro, acid and tripped-out, left-of-center house.
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AUS 128EP
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Following a string of tour dates with his good friend Joy Orbison and setting up his own Well Street Records imprint, Fold returns to Aus Music with the Aegean Sea EP. Rob Glassett, aka Fold, delivers three '90s Peacefrog-inspired deep percussive house jams, accompanied by a big room broken beat Mall Grab remix.
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Bugs is Aus Music label owner Will Saul's first solo EP since 2014 and follows his inaugural release on new Aus Music compilation series, Inside Out. Here's Will: "'Bugs' is inspired as much by dancing at Plastic People/Co-Op to the Bugz In The Attic as is it is by Carl Craig's Innerzone Orchestra track 'Bugs In The Bass Bin'. Hopefully I bring my own twist to these key influences... 'The Map Room' tumbles with big, swinging drums as a fervid sense of tension burns throughout before Matt Karmill takes 'Bugs' off on a linear dubbed-out excursion..."
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EP#2 carries forth much of the same classiness Tee Mango's well known for. "Come A Little Closer" samples "Make It Last Forever" by Inner Life which is paired with playful drum rhythms and smooth Rhodes chords. Prototypical opts for punchy drums and a swinging bass, a track that would work as well peak-time as it would warming up. "Wazoo" is a deep cruiser with a pinch of acid.
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Inside Out is a series that invites DJs and producers to blur the boundaries between traditional artist albums and mix compilations. Each instalment will feature 100% new and unreleased music. Depending on who is at the helm, Inside Out will take different forms: producers may wish to represent their own sound with only music they have made themselves or with close collaborators, while DJs and label heads may wish to reflect the sounds and scenes that surround them. Features Komon, Will Saul, Gerd, Primitive Trust, Floorplan, and Juxta Position.
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Will Saul and Tee Mango continue the Primitive Trust EP series with their third release. Little Love EP is a blissful three-track package featuring a Floorplan remix. "Little Love" builds warm harmonies driven by syncopated bass grooves whilst Tee Mango's Dub of "Tejon" heads for the sun with radiant, shuffling chords. For the remix, Floorplan delivers unrestrained rapture on a peak-time roller full of cathartic vocal bursts.
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Aus Music welcome Allen Wooton, aka Deadboy, for his debut release on the label with Auogeides 77. Wooton's bold, rugged club music has really reached its zenith in recent years following key releases on Local Action (LOC 011CD/LP, 2017) and Numbers, Auogeides 77 is no different. Rough analog drums, broody melodies, and a smidgen of his famous UK flavor.
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Marquis Hawkes presents two takes on one concept. "Part 1" takes his amalgam of disco and house to its logical conclusion, perfectly walking the tightrope between joyous abandon and classy depth, and giving DJs the perfect weapon for all floors, from sweaty basements to much bigger venue. "Part 2" then flips the program with the same raw materials and sets up the perfect shot, directed at a big-room house-techno crossover and building on the foundations laid by the Detroit techno originators by infusing contemporary production values and a more modern twist.
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Fallen Down EP is the second EP from Tee Mango and Will Saul's Primitive Trust project, featuring a remix by Shanti Celeste. The title track weaves percussive shuffles and vocal refrains with glowing synths, whilst colorful melodic layers and resonating vocal stabs armor the choppy live drums of "Day One". Dekmantel regular Shanti Celeste does what she does best with her remix of "Fallen Down" in building a rich, hypnotic groove that steadily develops with intricacy and depth, whilst "Big Tracky Disco Tool" is exactly that. Illustration by Geoff McFetridge.
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Primitive Trust is the coming together of two experienced musical minds: Will Saul of the influential Aus Music empire and Tom Mangan, aka Tee Mango, the producer who started Millionhands record and clothing label. Their sessions have resulted in a series of three EPs that will be released over four months. Using the building blocks of house and classic techno, Primitive Trust can do zoned-out and romantic as much as driving and heady. They mix samples, wigged-out synth work, and propulsive rhythms to create something honest and heartfelt. Skarbard provides a remix of "Power On".
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Marquis Hawkes makes his return to Aus Music in the form of a blazing, floor-focused two-track EP. The Basement Is Burning takes its name from a near-fateful experience stemming from an electrical fire in Hawkes's home which culminated in him and his family being evacuated from a fifth floor balcony. The title track kicks off with splashy, live drum samples that are armored with electronic layers before a feel-good piano lick glides into the mix. "Tower Block Boogie" then tumbles short funk samples through bold drums as a fervid sense of tension burns throughout.
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AUS 113EP
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Will Saul and Komon line up "Harmonise", a smoldering single that comes backed up with an almighty pair of remixes from Nick Höppner and Juju & Jordash. The title track kicks things off with glowing, interweaved synths and a pattering tom line. Vocal snippets and trippy delays suffuse a purposeful bass tone before the "101 Dub" version rolls out with punchy drums and a sharp, darting acid line. Nick Höppner's remix builds a rich, hypnotic groove that steadily develops with intricacy and depth. Juju & Jordash then drive a warped, rumbling synth line through spacey atmospherics rounding off the EP.
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AUS 114EP
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Aus Music present a disco-tinged 12" courtesy of Millionhands head honcho Tee Mango. Having so far almost exclusively released on Millionhands alone, Tee Mango makes a rare appearance outside of his home turf and in doing so follows on from his acclaimed Imperfections Vol.1 LP (2016). His EP#1 for Aus Music carries forth the sense of raw, sample heavy soul that was the real spark of Imperfections Vol.1, while maintaining a feel for the needs of the dancefloor. Loose, natural drums, deftly chopped samples and hazy synth lines keep it moody.
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