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MUSIQ 247LP
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RELEASE DATE: 11/22/2019
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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MUSIQ 245EP
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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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MUSIQ 243EP
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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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MUSIQ 244LP
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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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MUSIQ 242EP
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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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MUSIQ 241EP
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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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MUSIQ 240EP
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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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MUSIQ 239EP
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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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MUSIQ 238EP
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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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MUSIQ 237EP
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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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MUSIQ 236EP
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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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MUSIQ 235EP
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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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MUSIQ 233EP
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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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MUSIQ 232EP
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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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MUSIQ 231EP
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Lake People is back after his excellent album Phase Transition (MUSIQ 057CD/214LP, 2017). Vivacity is four different styles of first class house tunes.
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MUSIQ 228EP
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The debut release of German deep houser youANDme on Mule Musiq. Title track "Belong", with African diva black soda is reminiscent of old King Britt's Obafunke. "Unbound" is atmospheric deep house for fans of Lawrence or Levon Vincent.
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MUSIQ 218LP
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Is Watarase the best jazz record from Japan, as the French-born Gilles Peterson once assumed? Or is it maybe the best jazz record of all jazz records? Everyone can decide for themselves and listen to Watarase, the second solo piano album of the Japanese pianist Fumio Itabashi, originally released in 1982. Tokyo-based Mule Musiq have unearthed it, re-mastered the original recordings and brought it back to the world in order to seduce all music lovers that embrace notes which come straight from the heart and soul. Any sensible listener finds the instrumental piano pieces are somehow soulfully connected to what Keith Jarrett plays on his legendary Köln Concert (1975). Like Jarrett, Itabashi does not play his notes academically. He lets them fly, gives them some kind a life of their own, hits the piano keys deeply emotionally and injects his into compositions and interpretations a kind of nervous human soul. In terms of style, some call his Watarase recordings post-bop, others contemporary jazz. It is all, however, just that kind of agitating jazz that melts spirituality with humanity. Three tunes, the epic "Someday My Prince Will Come" as well as "Msunduza" and "I Can't Get Started", are interpretations, respectively, of compositions by Frank Churchill, Dollar Brand, and Vernon Duke. The other four compositions were written and by Itabashi, who started to play the piano when he was eight years old. While studying at Tokyo-based Kunitachi College Of Music, he fell in love with jazz. In the 1970's, he worked with such musicians like trumpet player Terumasa Hino, drummer Takeo Moriyama, and saxophonist Sadao Watanabe. Today Itabashi is still a vital part of Japanese jazz culture as a performer and composer. Those who want to see how he makes love with his piano should check the Internet for the French documentary Jazzed Out (2010), that captured his unique way of playing in one episode. But as music is always firstly for the ears, and not the eyes, one had to be directed to play the Watarase recordings loud, to get hooked by the highly infectious piano gems that have been recorded at Nippon Columbia 1st studio in Tokyo on 12th and 13th of October 1981. They will force one to become a good friend with the repeat button, in whatever medium one chooses to surrender to the music of Fumio Itabashi.
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MUSIQ 229EP
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Mule Musiq announce The Call Super Mixes, Call Super's remix package for our main artist Kuniyuki. In the works for some time, here are first class tunes.
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MUSIQ 227EP
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Petre Inspirescu is back. His dance single is almost four years since the last one. Two first class minimalistic house tracks.
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MUSIQ 226EP
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Mule Musiq are proud Frankey & Sandrino are back. This duo delivers two first-class hypnotic dancefloor weapons. Unnecessary to say bla bla bla...
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MUSIQ 225EP
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The debut release on Mule Musiq by Italian DJ and producer Toto Chiavetta. Toto has been releasing eclectic house music from mighty Innervisions and Yoruba Records over the last few years. Magnus EP starts with the floor-killer, tropical tech house track "Higher Than A Bird". On the B side is "Magnus" and "First Day Without Her", more dark techno for the big rooms, but you can still hear some musical elements.
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MUSIQ 224EP
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The first collaboration of Kuniyuki and Japanese legendary jazz pianist Fumio Itabashi, originally released in 2009, recorded for Kuniyuki's third album Walking In The Naked City. Kuniyuki and Itabashi invited Henrik Schwarz as vocalist, you might remember Henrik and Kuniyuki's house version. Itabashi said "River" is one of the best songs he has produced. Finally available on vinyl!
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MUSIQ 223LP
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Mule Musiq present the first vinyl reissue of Fumio Itabashi's Nature, originally released in 1979. The legendary Japanese jazz pianist's first solo record ever, Nature was recorded at Nippon Columbia's first studio in Tokyo from March 13-15 in the year of its release. It features Itabashi making feverish love with the piano and he shares the studio with the great bass players Hideaki Mochizuki and Koichi Yamazaki, drummers Kenichi Kameyama and Ryojiro Furusawa, soprano saxophonist Yoshio Otomo, and vibraphone wizard Hiroshi Hatsuyama. They all joined him to perform his very own songs, composed by Itabashi himself and produced by Ryonosuke Honmura, who also produced Japanese jazz heroes, like saxophonist Keizo Inoue, during his career. Nature is fresh, propulsive, twitchy, and melodious from the first to the last tone. Sometimes the instrumentalists play a classic solo in an overall deep modal jazz atmosphere that seems to be made for cats that love the good old stars and inventors -- from John Coltrane to Miles Davis, from Thelonious Monk to Art Blakey. Nature also shows how deep Itabashi studied the history of the genre, while keeping his very own vision of jazz alive. The man that made his professional debut as a member of the Sadao Watanabe Quintet in 1971 and who was also a member of the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine world tour from 1985-1987, plays the piano in all tempos, from a nervous high-flying quickness to a deep blues-style slow. Besides the traditional jazz flavors, you get a feeling of mind-expanding spiritual jazz, that grand masters like Pharaoh Sanders or Gary Bartz, turned into a sacred music genre. A master-class record in ravishing big city jazz music, adventurous, sometimes meditative, sometimes faster than the speed of light, always grooving with a bright, pure-toned sensibility and deeply soulful melodic imaginations. It extends the jazz history with a fine balance between tradition and innovation. And it stays infectious all the time while sounding surprisingly fresh due to a lot of thrilling musical spontaneity that touches profoundly even though all notes have been written down by Itabashi before he and his combatants entered the studio. And maybe that's the mystery of these timeless five at times epic recordings: all notes written on paper, but each musician had the freedom to dance with them in his very own unique way.
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