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HIGH 112EP
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Ahead of his highly-anticipated first studio album Wishful Thinking (HIGH 113CD), Philip Bader presents this tantalizing EP, featuring the track "Move On Me" featuring Spoony Talker, coupled with some very impressive remix treatment. Fabrizio Maurizi lends this hammering track his own unique signature. Also, no less impressive is Quenum's contribution. Todd Bodine also hasn't missed an opportunity to lend a hand, imbuing Bader's track with his typically fine-tuned, hypnotic beat -- a pinnacle of electronic music.
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Highly-regarded DJ Philip Bader presents his first studio album for Highgrade Records. The title of the album, Wishful Thinking, already expresses one of Bader's central desires: "I've tried to combine many styles, and also to bring in emotional elements to electronic music." With this album, he aims to leave behind any apparent restrictive boundaries and to simply let go creatively... wishful thinking? Not at all. Wishful Thinking plays with conventional stylistic expectations, mixing what at first seem to be incompatible genres into a diverse and exciting album. The excitement within Wishful Thinking is generated not least through the range of new and unexpected collaborations present on the album, for example, jazz singer Anna Luca, with her soulful voice shining through on the track "Shine On Us," as well as other guests Ja Hier and Spoony Talker. For the tracks "Sunshine" and "Wishful Thinking," we are treated to a voice never before professionally recorded, Bader's best friend's girlfriend. Wishful Thinking cannot be put into any one category, switching skillfully between electronic sounds, jazzy tones, and house rhythms, while other musical influences make themselves evident in the background. Nevertheless, the album exists as a harmonious whole that loses none of its power or originality through its creative diversity.
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HIGH 106EP
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Philip Bader's second solo EP for Highgrade flatters the aural canals from the outset with an almost mystical sound, before suddenly popping out of the speakers, squeaking and peeping with urgent sound clips leading towards another musical realm. On the next track, Bader extends the conventional genre pigeonholes and crosses boundaries with audible pleasure. For whoever needs more on this theme: these two tracks are excerpts from a whole album, which will appear soon.
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This is the first solo EP from Philip Bader on Highgrade Records. Wonderland Ghost is a gift for all friends of electronic dance music. The three tracks all exude the pleasure of working with the original beats and rhythms that rattle through Bader's music. These are elegantly-arranged sound montages that relentlessly push into the ears of an enraptured dancefloor, taking surprising twists and turns on their way to a land of pure musical fun.
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