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The seminal second album of Rone, Tohu Bohu from 2012, is at last back in stock in red, double-vinyl version. Including leftfield smash hits "Bye Bye Macadam", "Parade", and "Let's Go". The album has made Rone a cult figure in his own country, gracing the cover of one magazine after the other and being saluted by Trax magazine three times in 2012 (Best French Artist, Best French Album, and Best Music Video). French music legend Jean Michel Jarre has been effusive in his praise for the young man. His videos for "Parade" and "Bye Bye Macadam" have been picked up worldwide. His live performances during Tohu Bohu's tour have developed into a large-scale sound and vision show entitled "Module", bringing together the various video-makers (including Studio Fünf, Dimitri Stankowicz, and Valdimir Mavounia-Kouka) and stage technicians who have played a key part in defining Rone's visual identity. Tohu Bohu also revealed Rone's openness to experimentation, including a hip-hop inspired track with vocals from High Priest of Antipop Consortium ("Let's Go") and a beautiful collaboration with cellist Gaspard Claus ("Icare").
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Tunisian leftfield experimentalist Deena Abdelwahed returns with an EP that takes her message back to the dancefloor. Straying away from personal identification, these tracks focus in on the sonic influences of her home region, be it in terms of rhythmic structure, sampling or other local sources. A highly versatile package for any forward-thinking DJ and further proof of this producer's unique ability to fuse Arabic music references with club music.
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Arandel's new opus, InBach, released by French label InFiné, pays a poetic, infinitely respectful and innovative homage to Bach's sacred workings. Arandel was granted limitless access to the galerie of (sometime rare and ancient) instruments, as a well as a countless recordings, in the prestigious Musée de la Musique in Paris with a view to design his brand new creation. He performed a few months after at Philharmonie Paris a hybrid live performance/DJ set Switched on Bach, named in acknowledgement to the legendary 1968 by American composer Wendy Carlos -- Tron (1982), A Clockwork Orange (1972), The Shining (1980). From candles to LEDs, from DJ sets to museums, from historical instruments to machines, from Bach's themes that have entered the collective unconscious and inspired contemporary flesh and blood musicians, InBach was a foregone conclusion. In the immensity of Bach's oeuvre, in the company of his fellow wanderers, within the constraints of historical instruments, emboldened by the delightful, sometimes technically dangerous friction between acoustics and electronics: without a net, Arandel walks a tightrope without a faux pas. Features Ben Shemie, Barbara Carlotti, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Vanessa Wagner & Wilhem Latchoumia, and Areski. CD version also features Petra Haden; comes in a digipack with a 20-page booklet presenting the project.
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LP version. Arandel's new opus, InBach, released by French label InFiné, pays a poetic, infinitely respectful and innovative homage to Bach's sacred workings. Arandel was granted limitless access to the galerie of (sometime rare and ancient) instruments, as a well as a countless recordings, in the prestigious Musée de la Musique in Paris with a view to design his brand new creation. He performed a few months after at Philharmonie Paris a hybrid live performance/DJ set Switched on Bach, named in acknowledgement to the legendary 1968 by American composer Wendy Carlos -- Tron (1982), A Clockwork Orange (1972), The Shining (1980). From candles to LEDs, from DJ sets to museums, from historical instruments to machines, from Bach's themes that have entered the collective unconscious and inspired contemporary flesh and blood musicians, InBach was a foregone conclusion. In the immensity of Bach's oeuvre, in the company of his fellow wanderers, within the constraints of historical instruments, emboldened by the delightful, sometimes technically dangerous friction between acoustics and electronics: without a net, Arandel walks a tightrope without a faux pas. Features Ben Shemie, Barbara Carlotti, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Vanessa Wagner & Wilhem Latchoumia, and Areski.
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Nord Noir spins a tale as much as it paints a sonic landscape. Its progenitor, Toh Imago, took the time to sharpen his artistic chops under a few different guises, resisting the 21st-century affliction that is instant gratification at all costs, ultimately spending over 18 months to develop the narrative arc underlying his first opus. Using the historical context of the north of France's proletariat past, he created a dense, hypnotic, haunted album that will sit comfortable alongside the works of Daniel Avery, Efdemin, and Blawan.
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The Under Frustration project takes stock of the contemporary Arab electronic scene, and highlights its astonishing diversity, by deconstructing Western clichés that are still fantasizing about a culturally homogenous Arab world. In a context of post-revolutionary disillusion, this ambitious trilogy sets itself as a manifesto of a new, futuristic, underground wave that aims to uplift the Arab voice, once again. With this new release, Arabstazy allows the listener to walk among Shiite, Shaabi or Stambali lands -- revealing new mystical sounds, reserved for trance ceremonies and ancestral rituals; all vivid in the eyes of the collective members, musicians, producers, videographers, and photographers, nowadays, scattered between the United States, Tunisia, Germany, France, Sweden, Iraq, Lebanon, and Poland. Vol. 2 includes unreleased tracks of DJ Haram, Praed, Hello Psychaleppo, OkyDoky, and many more. Also features Saint Abdullah, Khan El Rouh, Rafael Aragon & Stas, Nazal, Adam Jawad, Praed, and Miss Machine. Curated by Arabstazy, produced by Shouka, and published by InFiné.
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Double LP version. Includes a bonus track: Philip Glass's "Etude n°5". Inland is Vanessa Wagner's continuation of the exploration of the minimalist composers register to complete the solo continuum of the Statea released in 2016 with the Mexican producer Murcof. Inland highlights a set of pieces, mostly rare or unavailable to date (Moondog, Nico Muhly, William Susman, Bryce Dessner, Gavin Bryars...) and some other well known (Philip Glass, Wim Mertens, Michael Nyman) that Vanessa Wagner performs with her classic pianist background and velvet sound. The title of the album refers to John Cage's Imaginary Landscape (1939), one of the first works to use electronic devices. Making more with less, the album turns long harmonies into multicolored prisms, miniature detailed embroidery, sighs and breaths, syncopated or restrained chants. The choice of works and their sequencing was dreamed up as a sort of storytelling. Between familiar melodies and unknown rarities, the pianist dug deep to find previously unreleased pieces. Within the cornucopia of Wagner's career, Inland stands as a hitherto unknown intimate and dream-like space. The album is both the fruit of her maturity and a new temporality that she is now exploring -- a secret conversation between her spirituality and the deep connection she maintains with nature, the elements, and living matter. The Inland journey begins with the vision of iconoclastic Moondog, who claudicates over a modest ritornello, and continues with French composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch's "Louella", like a volatile caress. On the way, you come across familiar figures like Philip Glass, and rediscover Michael Nyman's "The Heart Asks Pleasure First", as Wagner's fingers transfigure the cult piece, rendering it with delicate sensuality. At the origin of the source, German composer Hans Otte plays entrancing magic tricks with the fluids that spring henceforth; on the horizon, the inescapable Meredith Monk draws you into her hypnotic circles; elsewhere, Bryce Dessner is takes you on a dream-filled odyssey with characters who guide you to boundless territories, and William Susman breaks down boundaries under the harmonic mists and mute rhythms of "Quiet Rhythms". At the end, you find a blank canvas of quiet nature, a clearing in which Latvian composer Peteris Vasks invites you to listen to the suspended silences. When the album is over, the spirit of Inland continues to stir inside the listener's mind, in hazy reverie, clouds of nostalgia emanate from Vanessa Wagner's piano.
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Lucie Antunes is a French classically trained drummer and percussionist, inspired by the pioneers of minimalism. Her debut album Sergeï is a tour de force of eclectic music that leaves the listener amazed, almost hooked up in Lucie's magnetic spiral of sounds. The eclecticism that pervades Sergeï is shown by Lucie ability to create labyrinths of sounds through the use of unconventional instruments such as marimba, vibraphones, celesta, tubular balls, glockenspiel, and Ondes Martenot. Sergei is a statement of freedom. The same childish freedom that we run behind and that we desperately seek. Lucie, with Sergeï, achieves her freedom and builds on it, the artist that she is with no compromises but only with the determined ambition to break the boundaries, to shake genres and to make the eyes smile. Includes CD which includes an additional track, "Lettre à F"".
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Inland Versions is the electronic extension of the latest album Inland (IF 1050CD/LP) by the French pianist Vanessa Wagner. Five reworks by GAS, Suzanne Ciani, Vladislav Delay, Nadia Struiwigh, and Marc Melia. On the original album, released in May of 2019, Vanessa Wagner performed, with excellence, solo piano rare pieces from the minimalist repertoire (Moondog, Philip Glass, Wim Mertens...) to featured works from younger composers from the contemporary music scene (Bryce Dessner, Nico Mulhly). On Inland Versions, the pianist has invited established artists from the current experimental scene to transform her unique interpretations into equally fascinating electronic explorations.
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Double LP version. Digital Kabar: Electronic Maloya From La Reunion Since 1980 is a compilation of electronic music from Reunion, an island in the Indian Ocean. Combining tropical sounds, sunny moods, and créole dialect, Digital Kabar features mostly unknown artists from the island. It is the perfect summer-opening compilation for both rare groove diggers and DJs in search of the best tropical beats. Formerly clandestine, today manifest, both sacred but also profane, sometimes meditated, very often improvised, the Kabar transpires in the daily life on Reunion, getting rid with insolence of any label that dares to try to impose itself. The Kabar is a fleeting but bubbling manifestation of an identity and a local culture that is still difficult to define. A moment of life and sharing where handcrafted instruments, neighborhood meetings, ritual dances and lyrical demands are mixed, a meeting. Born from the musical union of maloya and electronic music, Digital Kabar is a compilation at the crossroads of cultures, porous to all sound experiences. It's also the result of a friendship resulting from InFiné heading to the Les Electropicales festival, the fascination of a small team dedicated to the independent musical cause of a musical scene and its diversity. A musical electronic snapshot from an exotic and unknown part of the globe, half of the tracks on the compilation have never been officially released. Features: Patrick Manent, Boogzbrown, Loya, Jako Maron, Sheitan Brothers, Ti Fock, Boogzbrown & Cubenx, Force Indigène & Jako Maron, Agnesca, Zong, Labelle, Psychorigid, Salem Tradition, J-ZeuS, and Kwalud.
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Digital Kabar: Electronic Maloya From La Reunion Since 1980 is a compilation of electronic music from Reunion, an island in the Indian Ocean. Combining tropical sounds, sunny moods, and créole dialect, Digital Kabar features mostly unknown artists from the island. It is the perfect summer-opening compilation for both rare groove diggers and DJs in search of the best tropical beats. Formerly clandestine, today manifest, both sacred but also profane, sometimes meditated, very often improvised, the Kabar transpires in the daily life on Reunion, getting rid with insolence of any label that dares to try to impose itself. The Kabar is a fleeting but bubbling manifestation of an identity and a local culture that is still difficult to define. A moment of life and sharing where handcrafted instruments, neighborhood meetings, ritual dances and lyrical demands are mixed, a meeting. Born from the musical union of maloya and electronic music, Digital Kabar is a compilation at the crossroads of cultures, porous to all sound experiences. It's also the result of a friendship resulting from InFiné heading to the Les Electropicales festival, the fascination of a small team dedicated to the independent musical cause of a musical scene and its diversity. A musical electronic snapshot from an exotic and unknown part of the globe, half of the tracks on the compilation have never been officially released. Features: Patrick Manent, Boogzbrown, Loya, Jako Maron, Sheitan Brothers, Ti Fock, Boogzbrown & Cubenx, Force Indigène & Jako Maron, Agnesca, Zong, Labelle, Psychorigid, Salem Tradition, J-ZeuS, and Kwalud.
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Emerging artists rarely exceed listeners' expectations with a complete album right out of the box, but Deena Abdelwahed is the exception that proves the rule. While the young artist of Tunisian origin stood out with her daring DJ sets, it is her surprising first album, Khonnar, released on InFiné (2018), which sealed her status of eclectic producer, guaranteeing her a place among the best releases of the year. Khonnar Remixes compiles a series of remixes in 12", inspired by the unique atmosphere of Deena Abdelwahed's first album. Remixes by M.E.S.H., Karen Gwyer, Ital Tek, and Lord of The Isles.
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From techno to electronic cross-over classical, and now back again -- Carl Craig's Versus project continues to morph and evolve with the release of five beatless versions taken from the eponymous album. These pieces "without electronics" give primacy to the orchestral texture of the instruments and to Carl Craig's close work with Les Siècles during the recording sessions at Davoux studio. With this new take on four Planet E catalogue classics, Carl Craig and Francesco Tristano transport their listeners into a new time space.
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Inland is Vanessa Wagner's continuation of the exploration of the minimalist composers register to complete the solo continuum of the Statea released in 2016 with the Mexican producer Murcof. Inland highlights a set of pieces, mostly rare or unavailable to date (Moondog, Nico Muhly, William Susman, Bryce Dessner, Gavin Bryars...) and some other well known (Philip Glass, Wim Mertens, Michael Nyman) that Vanessa Wagner performs with her classic pianist background and velvet sound. The title of the album refers to John Cage's Imaginary Landscape (1939), one of the first works to use electronic devices. Making more with less, the album turns long harmonies into multicolored prisms, miniature detailed embroidery, sighs and breaths, syncopated or restrained chants. The choice of works and their sequencing was dreamed up as a sort of storytelling. Between familiar melodies and unknown rarities, the pianist dug deep to find previously unreleased pieces. Within the cornucopia of Wagner's career, Inland stands as a hitherto unknown intimate and dream-like space. The album is both the fruit of her maturity and a new temporality that she is now exploring -- a secret conversation between her spirituality and the deep connection she maintains with nature, the elements, and living matter. The Inland journey begins with the vision of iconoclastic Moondog, who claudicates over a modest ritornello, and continues with French composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch's "Louella", like a volatile caress. On the way, you come across familiar figures like Philip Glass, and rediscover Michael Nyman's "The Heart Asks Pleasure First", as Wagner's fingers transfigure the cult piece, rendering it with delicate sensuality. At the origin of the source, German composer Hans Otte plays entrancing magic tricks with the fluids that spring henceforth; on the horizon, the inescapable Meredith Monk draws you into her hypnotic circles; elsewhere, Bryce Dessner is takes you on a dream-filled odyssey with characters who guide you to boundless territories, and William Susman breaks down boundaries under the harmonic mists and mute rhythms of "Quiet Rhythms". At the end, you find a blank canvas of quiet nature, a clearing in which Latvian composer Peteris Vasks invites you to listen to the suspended silences. When the album is over, the spirit of Inland continues to stir inside the listener's mind, in hazy reverie, clouds of nostalgia emanate from Vanessa Wagner's piano.
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Frieder Nagel's first solo work Distract Robots on French label InFine. This 12" has become an album in miniature with a final polish by mastering guru Zino Mikorey, known for his work for Nils Frahm's All Melody (2018). This EP offers up a mystical world, full of warm synths and detailed sound clusters morphing into each other to form utterly dark and dystopian ballads. Distract Robots is rooted with one foot in the basement of an underground club featuring loops building up with unescapable pressure, majestic voice samples, and analog sawtooth wavefronts. Features Mima.
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With her debut Self Fulfilling Prophecy (2018), French producer La Fraicheur closed the loop on the first sequence of her life. With the necessary hindsight and application, La Fraicheur has created an opus that blends raging techno with more atmospheric moments. Self Fulfilling Prophecy Remixes recasts the techno of La Fraicheur´s original album with four reworks, which condition the dancers to unstoppable footwork as much as they open the listeners' minds up with contributions from VTSS, Noncompliant, Scalameriya, and Fritz Windish & Nayan Soukie.
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The flamboyant and off-kilter title track from Rone's latest album, "Mirapolis". With this new four-track EP, combined with a new video by Aurélie Castex, Rone extends the carnival of electronic cultures of his latest musical citadel to the dancefloor. Johannes Brecht offers a refined reading throbbing with cerebral pulsations. Matias Aguayo provides a playful and wild take, sweeping in with a ritornello of chiptune sounds and orchestral arrangements. French techno scene boss Laurent Garnier embraces the original piece in all its meticulousness and its psychedelic lifeblood. Coincides with the release of a new video by Rone's sister Aurélie Castex.
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Labelle has laid the foundations of an electronic maloya, modern and deeply rooted in its home territory: La Réunion. Labelle releases a fascinating EP of introspective trance music with Post-Maloya. You'll find the maloya stamp, which is Reunionese traditional music, both in the rhythms and the instruments used, like the valiha. This traditional tubular harp from Madagascar is played by Vola on the track "Jaojoby". Vola was taught by Rajery himself, who is widely considered as a master of this instrument. The hypnotic sounds evoke distant dimensions and resonate like shamanic incantations, gently leading you towards the trance.
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InFiné hand-picked a clutch of up-and-coming producers to remix tracks from Carl Craig for the Versus project. Jazzy-house renaissance man Henrik Schwarz brings his horn- and piano-heavy world music influence to "The Melody". French producer Antigone lightens it up with his version of "At Les", built on a vintage beat reminiscent of the early days of IDM. Benedikt Frey brings a half-driving, half-ambient rendition of "Domina" that retains enough strings to keep fans of Tri Repetae-era Autechre (1995) blissing throughout. Tom Trago provides another version of "The Melody" -- a harder slice of functional, dancefloor-ready techno by Dutch producer.
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Standout track taken from Don Nino's album In the Backyard of Your Mind, "Beats" is a freaky and well-balanced piece of folk music. Its lyrics are about body transportation and spiritual dematerialization. But in the hands of Chloe, Turzi and Cubenx, the beat boxes substitute the drums, the vocals get distorted, and the track deconstructs itself as the walls fall between the genres.
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Tides of Mind (IF 1018CD/LP), the second album by Oxia, turned 2012's cloudy springs into a shining early summer. "Housewife," featuring Miss Kittin, is a standout track taken from the album, and this EP includes two new versions signed by the originators of the track. Miss Kittin turned the track into an electro vintage delight while Oxia boosts the original element to lengthen dancefloor pleasure. On the flip-side, Society Of Silence brings darkness and minimal sweat to make of it a perfect pick for afterhours.
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Dark, powerful, hypnotizing, magnificent, and raw, Spitzer's debut tests the boundaries in its own way, just like InFiné. The Call perfectly captures the spirit of our movement-revering age, and turns the alt-rock energy into club monsters. The album includes the American vocal wonder, Kid A (Agoria) and Fabrice Gilbert of Parisian electro-punk band Frustration (Born Bad Records). Their previous EPs have been supported by A-list DJs such as James Lavelle, Dave Clark, Ewan Pearson, Joris Voorn and Trevor Jackson and electronic experts like Resident Advisor, Data Transmission and De Bug. With this first-class first chapter, the Spitzer revolution does appear to be under way. This "call" -- at once outraged and restrained -- will resonate on many levels with its audience.
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2LP version on 180 gram vinyl. Almost eight years after the release of 24 Heures (on Goodlife), Oxia, pioneer of the French techno scene, is back in 2012 with a surprising new LP entitled Tides Of Mind. Deep, melodic, soulful and irresistibly groovy. For Tides Of Mind, Oxia put aside the trendy electronic patterns and moved back to his earliest influences. With this said, the album is not shy of a deep and melodic sound that ventures to the dancefloor with a stamp of the Oxia groove.
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Here are three tracks from the two brothers that comprise Spitzer, in anticipation of their upcoming debut full-length. "Sergen," here packaged in its extended version, puts together a metallic bassline and a hypnotic loop of synth, enlightened by a hardened steel guitar riff. "Serpentine" is infected by some venomous loops and an oppressive rhythm. More intimate and almost Lynchean, "Delenda" concludes the EP with the gothic poetry of ice-cold xylophone and ethereal waves.
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Two tracks remixed from Cesar Urbina aka Cubenx's On Your Own Again (IF 1017CD/LP). When Urbina heard that Cocteau Twins' mastermind Robin Guthrie was up to rework "Grass" and that remixes by Telefon Tel Aviv and Douglas Greed would complete this 12", there was another earthquake in Mexico. Douglas puts a spell on Cubenx's voice and slow-dives the guitar. Telefon Tel Aviv delivers a no-frills version, enlightened by celestial synth notes and androgynous verses. "These Days" is remixed by mysterious post-dubstep combo Downliners Sekt.
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