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MIRAU 015EP
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Mirau presents tracks by Erobique and Alexander Polzin. "Warmer Bruder": The jeep's motor is already purring as Erobique switches on the car radio. He spins the tires, pushing up a cloud of dust. The cowbells clatter on the back seat as yet another warm synth wave washes the jeep up to the nearest club. "Früchtchen": an omnipresent kick marches throughout the tenacious, mounting mass of melody textures and harmony particles. "Früchtchen" is a ship without a sail, without a motor.
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MIRAU 001LP
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This is the debut album from both the Tensnake co-run label Mirau and Iron Curtis. Three years and a string of releases on Retreat, Kolour and Mule Electronic, remixes for Jacob Korn, Ripperton and Mano Le Tough and a move to Berlin later, Johannes Paluka alias Iron Curtis has matured enough as a producer to take on the heavy burden of a "house music" album. Of course, the man has earned his four-to-the-floor stripes navigation between deep house and soulful techno leanings, but he has also managed to steer clear of genre silt. Thus, the task of creating a coherent, yet amusing album without blinkers is passed with distinction here. Soft Wide Waist Band has it roots firmly planted. It streaks all the places and spaces in the past, present and future: the basic knowledge of engineering skills honed in New York, Chicago and Detroit left its traces here as much as a touch of British freewheeling mixed with the flow and indie poetry of a German country boy who has heard of electronic pop music before (guess who sang all those lovely vocal bits on the album?). While tracks like "Inner Glow" romanticize a road trip on a Midwest interstate and "Horses" offers a ride for DJs like James Holden and Dixon alike, you will meet pieces like "The Sun" that tickles the soul boy and girl in all of us, wonky, slow-motion masterpieces ("Planetarium") or the dreamy pop beat of the album's eponym. Whatever his secret is in wandering the narrow path between the norm and its deviation, Iron Curtis seems to be able to do it blindfolded. Includes mp3 download.
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MIRAU 013EP
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Alin Crihan alias Aeromaschine is a DJ/producer from Romania, and this is his innovative debut EP on Mirau. What at first sight appear to be minimalistic, funky house tracks hypnotically wind their way into your dancing shoes and burst into pulsing groove-shapes. The innocent thrill of these deep loops and squandered samples will squeeze you onto the dancefloor. Marcus Worgull contributes an ageless remix that floats like spherical haze.
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MIRAU 012EP
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Copenhagen's Tomas Barfod and Kasper Bjørke's first 12" under their new moniker Bjørke & Barfod, with a new sound perhaps best described as symphonic disco-trance, definitely marks a turning point in their collaboration. "Superbacon" is an epic, big room track with enough live drums and sexy house elements to make it work in smaller clubs as well. The remix of "Cauliflower" comes from Brooklyn's finest, Runaway, who brings rave back in a big way.
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MIRAU 011EP
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The amiably-deranged Erdbeerschnitzel is the alias of Tim Keiling, half of whose life has been spent making music. "To An End" is full of glittering soul essence that guarantees a perspiring spell of hopping and swaying, and "I Wonder" bursts forth with funk euphoria. This release comes with a hypnotic Tuff City Kids (Phillip Lauer and Gerd Janson) remix. Every time they meet at the P&G Music Factory, these kids show a love of cheesy snares and cheeky vocals.
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MIRAU 009EP
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"Who are these guys behind the pseudonyms? Good Guy Mikesh and Filburt are two music lovers: FULL STOP! Two independent acts that met in Leipzig and began to merge their musical creative capacities two years ago. A convolution of disco, pop and house, propagating one of Leipzig's most promising collaborative developments. Good Guy Mikesh has haunted Leipzig's contemporary underground for a long time. From the beginning of his musical career, his singles (published on Lebensfreude Records and Broque.de) have signified an eclectic mix of pop, soul and disco. Filburt - DJ, record store owner and Leipzig club scene veteran, was consequently Good Guy Mikesh's best possible accomplice in the mission to break fresh ground. This mixture of soul, disco and house-pop is IT, charged by the duo's certain something - an energy sought for not only in this town, but throughout the whole scene. Someone Told Me, their latest single, has been causing an outbreak of contagious enthusiasm in the scene since its release on Permanent Vacation. We are proud to release this fine EP, which comes with a remix by one of our UK favorites: Mark E!"
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MIRAU 008EP
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"Iron Curtis'pieces originate in a place simultaneously tuned to the sounds of Detroit, Chicago and Hamburg. In his home town of Nürnberg, Johannes Paluka is more familiarly known under his surname, which he goes by at the turntable. Intertwining deep-house with soulful techno in a disturbingly enchanting manner, his sound moves in the equilibrium of reduced, but never minimal. Flashes of kitsch brighten the dark universe of Iron Curtis, but fail to interfere with the melancholy subtext. Profound music for the dance floor!"
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MIRAU 007EP
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"It's 11 a.m.: he is blind drunk, as usual. Same as every morning, I stand at his bed, which has begun to resemble an ashtray. The bedroom is a maze of decrepit synthesizers, the floor a tapestry of loose keys and cables mingled with food scraps, yellowed porn and empty Prosecco cans. Erobique alias Carsten Meyer was born in 1972 in tranquil Muensterland and has been making music since he was 8. His last release was 10 years ago. In the meantime, he has worked with and for artists like Daniel Wang, Justus Köhnke, Discokaine or Andreas Dorau. But not even International Pony, the universally admired super-group he started with DJ Koze and Cosmic DJ, was powerful enough to break the steady cycle of drinking, gluttony and compulsive masturbation. Meyer is sluggish. He eyes me venomously from behind puffy lids. 'Leave him alone with my DJ shit,' I make out from his inebriate slur. All I had wanted was to bring around the test-pressing of his new 12", Endorphinmachine. Squeezing the entire, magnificent 12 minutes of these two tracks ('Endorphinmachine'/'Arf Patzo') out of him seemed at times a Sisyphean task. Disconnected telephones, nocturnal taxi odysseys across entire states, physical assaults and broken joints were enough to push even me closer to the quagmire of self-abandonment than to my ultimate goal of finally bringing out a new Erobique maxi. The gleam has almost gone from Carsten Meyer's eyes. He is one of the best and most dangerous live entertainers in disco. It is his infallibility, but also his unpredictability that make people murmur the word 'legend' behind his back. If only they could see him lying here! I hand him his test-pressing and ask in leaving if there is anything I can do for him. 'Yes,' he retorts irritably: 'write in the blurb that I am the most ambitious of them all!' 'The most ambitious!! Of all!!!' his ranting echoes from the bedroom, down the hallway."
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MIRAU 005EP
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Arp Aubert's debut release, the Actress EP hit that deep, murky pool known as heartbrokenness with a resounding splash. Played by Jennifer Cardini, DJ Koze and Alex Smoke, Arp Aubert's three new tracks do without vocals and cavort even more courageously this round, infused with minimal funkiness. Those gloomy clouds seem to have passed. Ladies and gentlemen, let us dance!
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MIRAU 006EP
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Tensnake continues to advance the belief in the dynamism of a good sock hop on I Say Mista, where cosmic synthie gales and spring reverb-claps abound. Once again, Tensnake works with remix support from Audision, evoking an eerily pleasant '90s weekend atmosphere. "Look to the Sky" rounds it all out with airiness.
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