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XRP 1904EP
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The Architect is an artist that travels through styles: swing, jazz, electro, soul, funk, and hip-hop... A real digger of hidden samples, he is also beatmaker for the famous collective L'Entourloop! 2019 marks its big comeback, with the announcement of a new album and a new immersive live under the name of The Architect & the Unique Orchestra. The first EP of the beatmaker The Architect entitled Foundations is finally available on vinyl more than six years after its original release in 2013.
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KARLOFF 017EP
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"There's always a shivering with cold in winterly Berlin, especially in all the unheated basement laboratories of the electronic community, whose members keep staring at their pale-shimmering screens with red eyes and snotty noses, in order to conceive that one formula to raise the inner temperature and to bring down the inhibition threshold. It's a strange job, but some just seem to do it better than others. The Architect, infamous for his sonorous brain therapies anyhow, appears to be an expert arctic explorer and thus used to life-threatening low temperatures. In the middle of icicles and frostbites, he manages to grow subtropical plants in his private sonic hothouse, winding scurrilously between the electric circuits and releasing a completely different warmth than that cup of bourgeois chicken soup. This music is so highly interspersed with unarrested hot flushes, that your forehead gets sweaty just by listening to it. This way the pure science of minimalism also becomes a strategy of survival under the circumstances of real existing ice age: Maximal effect at minimal consumption of energy."
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FOT 002EP
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"Friends of Tomorrow is back with a new way of consuming the world and staying well-off at the same time! What's the deal? Jay Haze himself -- well-known for lots of fat-minimal-soulful even dark escapades -- came down and dropped some vibe on us. What is the only basic signal conquering all the dancers on the floor? That's right: the bass! This international language of vibration takes away our darkest fears as well as all the duties of consequence. Return to yourself and learn to love to be the one -- the one watched, the one to be or: the one chosen! You can run, you can hide, you can even assimilate, but what's still up to you is just one thing: you've got to make it by yourself, by your own courage, your own mind and body. This big city with all its streets of madness and its vicious creatures might be all around us but the groove of light metal keeps moving on and on. There's no need to talk a lot about Jay. He's the one who has been through all this. He's the one who knows the way out. When the sun is rising back up the sky the game begins. It's going to be easy to relate, to flow. Nothing is going to be steady, it's just about to keep it going. Tear down the walls of jealousy and get alive. Let the bass remind you of what you came for and let the voices talk."
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VOLT 009EP
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One of Jay Haze's working identities. His releases as The Architect are "primarily geared to bring glitch and deepness to the dancefloor -- tracks that make you shake your booty while dousing your head in minimal crackles, scrapes, scrunches, warm tones and rolling basslines."
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