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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 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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AOV 006EP
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Definition of D is a little tribute to Detroit, the city that influenced and later embraced Aril Brikha's music in the mid/late '90s. This EP is an attempt to make music that is closer to the sounds that he started out making, but still different from the old Detroit releases. High-tech soul is the key here.
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AOV 004EP
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Art of Vengeance makes it clap with three from Aril Brikha. Melodies and claps, deep chords and claps and bass and claps.
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AOV 003EP
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Art of Vengeance's second release sees Aril Brikha take yet another turn in style. "Forever Frost" is a journey in melody built in layers, trying to fit as many melodies in one track without going over the line. "Tundra" is a bit more on the rough side but with arps and chords coming in and out while "Glaciar/For Minou" strips things down a bit to a more bassier and warmer sound with strings/chords, less melodies and more groove.
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AOV 001CD
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Now a new star of deep techno, Stockholm's Aril Brikha went on tour with his live show playing all over the world, including the Detroit Electronic Music Festival and clubs like Fabric, Air, and Yellow, and hasn't stopped doing so ever since. As one of the most innovative producers from Europe, he went on to release the club-hit EP Winter on Kompakt, and more releases on Poker Flat followed. In the summer of 2007, his long-awaited album follow-up was released by Peacefrog -- a classic Detroit techno/house longplayer, with elements from his previous productions. Deeparture In Time - Revisited is released in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of his 1999/2000 album on Transmat. This also kicks off his own label, Art Of Vengeance. Next to the remastered originals from Deeparture In Time, the release features a second CD with 10 previously-unreleased tracks that were created between 1995 and 1999. All of them time travel you to the '90s, with a sound still prevalent in modern productions, as pure as can be. This one's for the lovers of early Detroit techno with that unique Aril Brikha twist, and all those who'd like to discover it: One Chord To Rule Them All.
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AOV 001LP
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2LP version. Now a new star of deep techno, Stockholm's Aril Brikha went on tour with his live show playing all over the world, including the Detroit Electronic Music Festival and clubs like Fabric, Air, and Yellow, and hasn't stopped doing so ever since. As one of the most innovative producers from Europe, he went on to release the club-hit EP Winter on Kompakt, and more releases on Poker Flat followed. In the summer of 2007, his long-awaited album follow-up was released by Peacefrog -- a classic Detroit techno/house longplayer, with elements from his previous productions. Deeparture In Time - Revisited is released in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of his 1999/2000 album on Transmat. This also kicks off his own label, Art Of Vengeance. The 2LP version features 8 tracks from the 2CD version.
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AOV 002EP
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Deetron, Octave One and Jori Hulkkonen put their hands on some Aril Brikha classics. In 1998, Brikha reacquainted the world with deep techno soul, as his recording of "Groove La Chord" crossed generic boundaries. Is it techno? Is it house? Is it deep house? It's everything and nothing. Aril's own label, Art Of Vengeance presents its first release with versions of "Groove La Chord" and "Read Only Memory" from the Deeparture In Time 12" released in 2000.
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PFR 083EP
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Sweden's Aril Brikha is the author of the 1998 debut "Groove La Chord," which remains a tech house big floor classic and his live-sets have been highly appreciated all over the world. Brikha joins Poker Flat with a welcome dose of hi-end melodic deep techno soul. "Akire" wins quickly with its dark dirty bass line grooves, light sample work and atmospheric build-ups. "Life Like" builds up softly and tweaks out with strong percussion complemented by subtle kicks and surges. "To Begin" features a straightforward funky bassline and dry percussion, making it a straight-up floor-shaker. Brikha has dropped eclectic elements of electronic music, weaving warm hooks and spacey disco techno, resulting in his well-known spacious atmosphere.
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KOM 151EP
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Stockholm's Aril Brikha presents a new 12" full of wintery yet warm Detroitish minimalist techno. His previous releases for Fragile, Transmat, Absoluttracks and Music Man have already earned classic status. On these two tracks there is no new "Groove la Chord," (from his esteemed Deeparture In Time release) but still, what these two tracks are doing to the dancefloor has rare value nowadays: there is a lot of smiling, jumping and kissing.
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