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INITIAL 031EP
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Two cuts from Pierre LX's Out 1 reworked by Big Strick and MLZ. On grey/marble-colored vinyl.
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INITIAL 004CD
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Out 1, the debut album by Pierre LX, slinks elegantly around the peripheries of electronic music in a way that only a record made in London can. Not really techno, kind of like house, but certainly influenced by the UK's bass music scene, this is one of those albums that slips between genres into its own groove. His contemporaries, producers like John Roberts, Instra:mental and Pearson Sound, are on a similar wavelength. Pierre's analog jams are moody and sensuous, raw and sometimes jacking, and they unravel in a cool, understated manner that makes them ideal for the warm-up and perfect for the after-party. You could say this is serious stuff, hopelessly self-indulgent and one for the purists, and you'd be right. But let Out 1 seduce you and it's easy to see why Pierre LX is the producer many other producers and DJs are talking about. Panorama Bar's Cassy led the way when she included one of his first releases, "Gabita," on her 2009 Cocoon mix. Out 1 is made up of eight pieces that were improvised on the machines in Pierre's home studio over a short period. The album takes its name from French new-wave director Jacques Rivette's 1971 avant-garde epic, a work Pierre encountered studying film and video art in London. "I wanted it to have a kind of geometrical feel. The idea is that the listener can approach the album from different angles, but they'll still be able get into the narrative," he says. "Each track was recorded as a continuous live take on hardware to heighten the sense of intimacy and realism."
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INITIAL 019EP
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"Egon is Franck Vergne, a young and promising talent hailing from Toulouse, south of France. We discovered him as he was selected as Trax magazine's demo of the month of March. His track 'Send Me' got us hooked up sooo bad, that we decided to sign him up immediately! Lovers of Trentemøller, beware! You're gonna love these two pieces of fine electro-house darkness."
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INITIAL 017EP
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"The Kid is back with two brand new cuts. On side A, 'The Architect' shows yet another evolution in Siskid's approach: it is a long, epic & dark number, that grows and grows, and grows, around the sexiest bassline we're heard in a while... strings, emotion, deepness. On side B, 'Mayfair Cottage' shows the Kid's taste for strings again... a crunchy beat leading to melancholic heaven... one for those who know."
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INITIAL 015EP
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"[T]ékël are back with a 12" & two tracks taken from their forthcoming album. A 'Créteil Connexion' is a weird title for a song, and is a dancefloor blaster in pure [T]ékël style...a storming funky techno track, with mega hand raising breakdowns that will blow the roof off your dancefloor. B-side 'Tutut' shows off [T]ékël's more personal touch, which you will hear on many tracks from the album...this is already a label staff favourite, a slow mo electro tune but a song in its own right too...a dark vocal journey that pretty much doesn't sound like anything else, it just sounds like...[T]ékël."
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