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MUSIQ 256LP
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RELEASE DATE: 6/19/2020
Chilean/Swiss producer and DJ Luciano is a prominent figure in the global electronic club music circle. From a young age, he was exposed to music profoundly, as his father worked as a jukebox repairman and possessed a large record collection. When he was twelve, his mother gifted him a guitar, and shortly became a member of a school punk rock band. Soon after, his passion for electronic music rose. Inspired by Detroit techno and engaged by close friends like producer Dandy Jack, he started to play records in local Santiago De Chile dance clubs and became involved in the minimal techno scene around friends like Ricardo Villalobos. When Luciano moved back from Chile to Switzerland in 2000, he established a residency at Weetamix Club in Geneva, and started releasing his own productions on labels like Mental Groove and joining the Cocoon team in Ibiza to play at the famous Monday night at Club Amnesia. Since then, he's become a regular on the Balearic island with various residencies. Besides playing around the globe with the likes of Carl Craig, Richie Hawtin, or Loco Dice, he has released groundbreaking minimal techno and house on his Cadenza label since 2003. His very own music was always ambiguous. There is his club leaning creativity that can dance slightly into pop spheres while never forgetting the power of precisely sliced rhythms and subtle bass sensations. And then there is his calmer sider which displays his love for "music to listen at home, done for a spiritual travel, an inner universe and a moment paralyzed in ether," as he describes it. On his first ever Mule Musiq album release, Luci Neu House, Luciano now delivers meditative music journey full of repetitive patterns that slowly playing tricks on the listeners subconsciousness. Luci Neu House is a one-hour long composition whose esoteric deepness is reminiscent of the intensely meditative class of Luciano's older productions. An epic tune cut on vinyl into four 15-minute long pieces, the piece shifts slowly almost unperceived, whilst absorbing the mind of close observers into a micro-sliced world of moving gentleness. All new music composed by Luciano distributes a mesmerizing healing spirit, that grounds organically, even if it is totally rooted in the digital, software-driven world of composing music.
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MUSIQ 253LP
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$26.50
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RELEASE DATE: 6/5/2020
Aril Brikha seems to be on a roll. With Dance Of A Trillion Stars (MUSIQ 249LP) he just recently released a laidback ambient album full of melodic slow-motion enthusiasm. Now, shortly after, the Berlin based producer drops Prisma, a record for dancers on the deeper side of the dancefloor. Aril Brikha confesses about the secrets behind his newly hectic release schedule that made him publish two albums within half a year. Since the late 1990s, his music has melded techno and house, seducing club music enthusiasts around the world. Influenced by different kinds of electronic music -- from Depeche Mode and Jean-Michel Jarre to Robert Hood and Underground Resistance -- his music dances between straight up club tracks and deep unwound moving arrangements. He already released EP's on labels like Kompakt, Poker Flat, his own label Art Of Vengeance, as well as an album for Derrick May's Transmat imprint and a long-player for legendary Peacefrog Records. After two EPs for Mule Musiq in 2016 and early 2019, and the ambient album Dance Of A Trillion Stars earlier in 2020, he now releases an all dance track album loaded with eight arrangements, that he produced during night time on his old hardware equipment which he started using again after years of them being tucked away in his Stockholm basement. His new tunes, seductive with warm chords and pleasant melodies, tell a different story. They are all propelling, while staying somehow calm and avoid average party hysteria. Precisely produced tracks between house and techno that favor the warm soul of dance music. Underneath the grooves, each track rolls out some ambient vibes and veils of trance, dancing to delicate hi-hat shuffles and starry chords. "My '90s stuff was very Detroit influenced, not in the hard techno meaning but more towards the soulful part of it. My 2000 productions were very melodic driven and I was trying to see how far I can push a 'trance' sound without making trance music. The newer stuff is probably mix of both," Brikha says about Prisma and its power to unite different generic zones into one charmingly warm dance journey. Together with Dance Of A Trillion Stars it introduces a touching insight into a producer's soul, that did not get lost in his very own creation of melodic electronic sci-fi dance-not-dance music.
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MUSIQ 254EP
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$15.50
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RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2020
The debut release of Australia-born, Berlin-based producer Fantastic Man on Mule Musiq. He has released many nice records from quality labels like Let's Play House, Kitjen, and his own Superconscious Records. Since Mule Musiq met Fantastic Man in Milano in 2019, they started to talk about this release. And now they both present the 12" here. A debut LP is soon to follow.
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MUSIQ 255LP
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$28.50
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RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2020
Mule Musiq present the first vinyl release of Kuniyuki's Walking In The Naked City, originally released in 2009 on CD. It's a first-class mixture of jazz, African, soul, and modern electronic music. It could be considered a masterpiece of its scene. Edition of 500.
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MUSIQ 252EP
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Debut release of Montreal-based veteran producer Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts on Mule Musiq. He has released so much good music on labels like Circus Company, Oslo, Musique Risquée, to name a few. Title track "Shipuchiy" features his trademark minimal Latin house, and both tracks on the B side are hypnotic jazzy deep house.
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MUSIQ 251LP
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Mule Musiq present a reissue of Skymark's Primeiras Impressões, originally released in 2013. It is really rare that Mule Musiq does not offer new music for fresh imaginations. In the label's 15-year history, there only been a few reissues in the widely ramified discography: Lydia Lynch in 2006, Hans-Joachim Roedelius in 2013, Fumio Itabashi in 2018, and now with Skymark with his jazz album Primeiras Impressões. The Italian producer, composer, record collector, and Modern Sun Records label co-runner, that lists to the name Marc Friedli when he hands his tax report to the government, is no stranger to fans of modern Brazil, disco, fusion, house, Latin, jazz, funk, soul, and all other organically swinging music that grooves deep. Since 2007, he has released a string of albums and EPs on his own label as well as on imprints like Neroli, Mukatsuku Records, or Rush Hour, showing his impressive electric piano keyboard skills and unique style with an array of vintage synthesizers like ARP, Prophet, Moog, Roland, or Korg. On his privately pressed and strictly limited album, Primeiras Impressões, he delivered nine, gently jazzy tunes that process his experiences in the heat of Rio De Janeiro. They are intensely spiritual, they avoid ornamentation, and they bow before jazz history with a gentle respect, while adding an elegantly explorative and thrillingly uplifting freshness to the genre with deep discreet minimal funk and light-as-a-feather piano-melodies, as if the keyboard were a saxophone.
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MUSIQ 250EP
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Dave Aju returns to Mule Musiq with straight dance floor tracks after the excellent album TXLAX (MUSIQ 247LP, 2019) on Mule Musiq. "Go!" on Side A is dark, jazzy, new wave/deep house, it's already favorite of Axel Boman. "Glendale Blvd Boogie" is a trippy tribal house tune and "Ciao Sun" is experimental breakbeats.
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MUSIQ 249LP
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Tehran born, Stockholm, Sweden based (now Berlin) DJ and producer Aril Brikha is no newcomer to the global electronic music scene. Since the late '90s his genre meltdown between techno and house seduces club music enthusiasts around the world. Influenced by all sorts of electronic music -- ranging from Depeche Mode, Front 242, and Jean-Michel Jarre to Robert Hood and Underground Resistance -- his sounds always wind between straight up club tracks and more deep unwound moving arrangements. As one of the most prolific producers around he released EPs on labels like Kompakt, Poker Flat, his own company Art Of Vengeance, as well as an album for Derrick May's Transmat imprint and a long-player for legendary Peacefrog Records. After mesmerizing EPs for Mule Musiq in early 2019, he now drops a quieter album on the Tokyo-based enterprise, showing his love for slow, trance-influenced compositions that are perfect for meditative moments and thoughtful party situations. His new productions listen to dreamy names like "A Cautious Gaze" or "Everything Was Here First" and get constantly enlarged with melodies, sounds, and harmonies that go beyond the usual characteristics of a dance album. The overall touch is ambientish; partly discreet rolling bass-lines call for a physical movement while spherical synth lines drift across deep floating trance territory. An album for dreamers, that love to get lost in a contemporary un-nostalgic musical journey without the dictation to dance. a record that explores an infinite space of sound with a heartfelt human touch delivered in eight slow grooving tracks mixed to perfection. All hand out a moving story arc full of fluid in-the-moment moods who dance around subliminal bass shapes and dreamfully synth pads. You can call it ambient. You can call it trance. Whatever you name it, the laidback enthusiasm of Dance Of A Trillion Stars brings an auditory experience that haunts deeply, gives space for the tones between the tones, and prepares all Aril Brikha fans peacefully for his upcoming adventures for the dancefloor.
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MUSIQ 248LP
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Mule Musiq announces the vinyl release of Kuniyuki's masterpiece, All These Things. Originally, it was only released in 2007 on CD. It was Kuniyuki second album, but it's essentially his first album because the first album was a collection of early productions. The first track "The Guitar Song" is a good mixture of jazz, fusion, world music, and electronic music. The second track, featuring African vocalist and percussionist Omar Guaindefall, is a gem. "You Get Me" features the singer Josee Hurlock, who released her fantastic album Residue on Hefner in 2000. She is also featured on the fourth track, "All These Things", too. The fifth track "Flying Music" features poetry by Alex From Tokyo and popular Tokyo trumpeter Shuichiro Sakaguchi. "The Session" is a collaboration of song with Henrik Schwarz. They have met at Mule Musiq's party in Tokyo and clicked immediately. The seventh track "Touch" sounds very nostalgic, recalling the type of African jazz or Spanish fusion popular currently as Balearic music. The last track, "Rain Of Ocean", is primitive, African minimal deep house. A collection of eight timeless and genre-less tracks.
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MUSIQ 247LP
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TXLAX is Dave Aju's first album since 2015. As always, there is plenty of fresh genre-defying ideas in the music, but this time wrapped in a much more relaxed and focused aesthetic -- a fitting personal soundtrack for the homecoming theme of his move back to Los Angeles from Berlin, as the combined airport letters in the title suggest. There is a sonic stylistic bridge of sorts between the sister cities on display as well, all imbued with that inimitable combination of raw playfulness and warm refined soul as only Dave Aju does. From the soaring west coast future funk opener "Bird's Eye", the nautical disco-not-disco of tomorrow in "Out To C" and the bugged-out broken beat flavor of "Silverfish" to the slick melodic electro vibes of the title track, and gorgeous shuffling deep house closer "Yulia", TXLAX is a masterwork filled with beauty, character, and detail that will reward many repeat listens.
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MUSIQ 246EP
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The second release from the brightest hope in modern deep house scene, Laurence Guy. The title track is something like a nice mixture of Four Tet and DJ Koze. It will be lovely DJ tool for all house DJs. "The One Where I Like The Vocals" is more UK-style with jazzy broken beats, and "Dissociation In The Car Park At Sain" is a trademark elegant deep house tune in Guy's style.
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The third release of German house duo Frankey & Sandrino on Mule Musiq. The title track on side A is a trademark hypnotic deep house tune for big rooms. Side B is much deeper and functions as a nice DJ tool for dark underground club.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15-year anniversary. They're releasing twelve 12"s with their friends and Stefan Marx is handling the artwork. The 11th release is from Kuniyuki, a long-awaited new release following his highly-acclaimed album Newwave Project on 2017 (MUSIQ 058CD/215LP). "Middle Eye", on the A side, is a trippy melody raw house. On B side is "black", more industrial dark machine funk. "Newwave Project 7" was a killer track off of the Newwave Project album; here, Kuniyuki edited it as a more mixable DJ tool version for the dancefloor.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15-year anniversary. To celebrate, the label are releasing twelve 12"s with their friends and Stefan Marx is making the collectable artwork. The last release of the series comes from Swedish house mafia man, Axel Boman. First track, "Chestnut Hearts" is a super emotional, no-beat, club banger that Axel played at his latest Boiler Room. "Slave To The Vibe" is slow-mo, cosmic tune. "Paid By The Rhythm" is Axel's signature floating house, while "Copacabana Dub" is epic Brazilian affair, a deep house anthem. "Don't Bug Me" is dubby rasta tune and "Konoba Boba" is a little bit reminiscent of the early Border Community sound.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15-year anniversary. The label is releasing twelve 12"s with Stefan Marx handling the artwork. The tenth release is by the label's long-time friend Superpitcher, aka Pachanga Boys. "Maki" on side A is a tribute song for legendary Japanese folk singer Maki Asakawa. Superpitcher wrote the lyrics and Dip In The Pool's Miyako Koda translated to Japanese and did the reading. "Mishima" on side B is a Superpitcher trademark melancholic house tune. It sounds like updated percussive NYC house from the early '90s.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15 years anniversary. They're releasing twelve 12-inches with Stefan Marx's artwork to celebrate. The ninth release is from one of the best newcomers in the modern deep house scene, Chaos In The CBD. These two new songs are ambient break beats tracks. It's a kind of their new style. If you like Boards Of Canada or Global Communication, you will love it.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15 year anniversary. The label are releasing twelve 12"s with Stefan Marx making the collectable artwork. Their eighth release is a Japanese brightest hope Iori's debut release on Mule. The A side is his trademark deep hypnotic house tune and the B side is more dubby and psychedelic.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15 years anniversary. Their seventh release of 2019 is Roman Flügel's debut single on the label. The title track on side A is an electric soul house tune and the B side is hypnotic jazzy deep house. It's reminiscent of Kuniyuki.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15 years anniversary. The label are releasing twelve 12"s with their friends and Stefan Marx is making the collectable artwork. The sixth release is from their dearest friend Lawrence. His music is just pure beauty.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15 year anniversary. The label are going to release twelve 12"s with their friend artists and Stefan Marx making the collectable artwork. The fifth release of 2019 is Losoul's debut release on Mule Musiq. Losoul is one of the nicest German house producer since end of '90s. Two first-class deep house tunes.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15th anniversary. The label is going to release twelve 12"s with collectable art by its friend Stefan Marx. The fourth release is by living legend, Detroit techno/house hero Aril Brikha. Mule Musiq has been talking about the release since a long time ago and now Pattern Recognition arrives with three first-class tracks of house music. "Bass Stomp" on the A side is his trademark Detroit house sound; both tracks on the B side are more wired alternative house tunes which are well-loved.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15 year anniversary; Super Flu's Lord Extra continues a series with artist Stefan Marx with collectable artwork to mark the occasion. This third release features Super Flu, a Hamburg-based producer duo; they have been releasing constantly since 2005. The title track on side A is a killer tribal house tune; the B side is hypnotic and psychedelic deep house.
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MUSIQ 234EP
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15 year anniversary, and Isolee's Ginster is one of twelve 12"s released in celebration, with collectable artwork by Stefan Marx. This is Isolee's first new release on Mule Musiq since 2009; super original-style unique house music.
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2019 is Mule Musiq's 15 years anniversary. The label plan to release twelve 12" with their friends and artists, and Stefan Marx will make the collectable artwork. To kick off release is the debut release of Bodycode, aka Portable, on Mule Musiq. The label and Bodycode have been talking about making the release together long time and they finally made it. Alan invited his favorite female singer Niqe and produced two first class vocal deep house tunes.
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The Birds is the debut release on Alex Niggemann on Mule Musiq. Alex has released many records on Poker Flat, Watergate, Sasha's Last Night On Earth and his own Aeon. We were actually not familiar with his music but Sandrino (aka Frankey & Sandrino) let Mule Musiq listen to his demo and signed him immediately! Two first-class hypnotic house tunes.
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