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KEPLARREV 007LP
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For its 20th anniversary, Keplar presents an absolute milestone in the history of IDM and ambient music for the first time in its definite form: Together Is The New Alone by Donnacha Costello was originally released on Mille Plateaux in 2001 as the second LP under the Irish producer's given name and firmly established him as one of the leading artists in the field of forward-thinking electronic music after he had primarily made a name for himself with house and techno releases under the Jayrod moniker. This vinyl reissue with an entirely new artwork comprises all ten tracks originally only included on the CD version in their edited and final form in which they were last presented on the digital re-release under the name Together, remastered by Stephan Mathieu and self-published by Costello, in 2015. Truly prescient artists rarely opt for introspective sounds, however that was the case when Costello set out to produce Together Is The New Alone during nightly session in his hometown Dublin between April and July in 2001, and it also explains the album's enduring appeal and unwavering radiance twenty years on. While many of his contemporaries dedicated themselves to explore the musical zeitgeist and notions of the future in conceptual terms, Costello made them emotionally tangible, allowing his audience to feel their underlying ambiguity rather than just reflect on it. Together Is The New Alone is an album that wordlessly speaks of the paradoxical sense of social alienation and isolation expressed by its title and thus seems even more topical today than it did at the time of its release. Working with elements from techno culture, glitch aesthetics, intricate IDM rhythms and lush ambient textures, Costello never once throughout the album adheres to tried and tested formulas and conventions, but holistically molds complex compositions out of distinct and discrete parts. The result is a record that is at once easily accessible and deeply affecting, but also infinitely rich and stunningly sophisticated in musical terms. A personal record expressing a universal sentiment -- a truly timeless statement that will reverberate for decades to come. Full tone artwork; includes download code; edition of 500.
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PFR 112EP
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Poker Flat presents remixes of tracks from Donnacha Costello's Before We Say Goodbye (PFR 025CD/LP), courtesy of producers Lawrence and KiNK & Neville Watson. Combining richly-dubbed atmospheres and beautiful melodic structures, Lawrence's remix of "Leaving Berlin" presents a new world of dense strings and softly-pumping percussion. KiNK & Neville Watson turn up the dials on their rework of "It's What We Do." Classic acid all the way, but with a modern studio finesse, their version jacks from floor to ceiling.
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PFR 025LP
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Poker Flat presents four cuts from Donnacha Costello's full-length album Before We Say Goodbye. Echoes of Chicago house, Detroit techno, and UK ambient flow through its futuristic core, with deep, hypnotizing grooves, rich synths and emotive harmonies. The singing strings and stand-out bass line of "Leaving Berlin" is almost a microcosm of the album itself, and "No-one Is Watching" features tense Detroitian synth-work and intricate micro-phrases. "Roll It Out" leads to another jacking, modern acid adventure, transporting you to other worlds and back.
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PFR 025CD
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This is Irish minimalist Donnacha Costello's first full length album for Poker Flat Recordings. Before We Say Goodbye is an exquisite work, to say the least. Focusing on a rich blueprint, with echoes of Chicago house, Detroit techno and UK ambient techno flowing through its futuristic core, Donnacha explores further his love for deep, hypnotizing grooves, rich synth themes and emotive harmonies. The opening bars of introductory track "Leaving Berlin" welcome the listener into Donnacha's sprawling musical landscape. Intertwining layers of lovingly-expressed synth themes build and recede in an honest and subtle game of balance. Setting the tone for the album then, similar themes are mirrored later on and gracefully resurrected in new lights. Color in sound, space and clarity are at the center of the wonderful production found in every track. Donnacha used only a strict handful of vintage equipment; in fact, aside from the drums which were processed using Native Instruments' Maschine, all the musical elements were created using only the Roland SH-101, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Rev2 without Midi and the New England Digital Synclavier II. Those rare and mesmerizing tones and textures, respectfully and accurately conveyed, form the heart-melting melodies of tracks like "It's What We Do" or "The Tug" -- tunes clearly inspired by difficult personal experiences that Donnacha chose to translate into glorious moments of musicality. These versatile instruments work in unison to provide lush and dense soundscapes, tense sci-fi dramatics or pulsing acidic workouts like "Stretching Time." Being a personal album, there are numerous references to the club sound that Costello is of course well known for. From the rousing post-deep house of "A Warm Embrace," to the tougher technoid jams of "No-One Is Watching" or "Roll It Out," a natural ear for dancefloor mechanics is at play, yet the emotional element never strays far. Clocking in at just under an hour, it's a satisfying journey, but not an exhausting one. Donnacha was keen to tell a story that can be listened to in one session, while the listener is on the move perhaps, or in other transitory states, allowing full connection with the music and reflection upon some of the themes laid out within. Full of deep personal messages; music undoubtedly from the heart, it's something that will surely take up a special place in the life of the listener. As the final bars of concluding track "Last Train Home" sink into the sub-conscious, the listener is left with the feeling that something very important, worthwhile and life-enriching has just passed through their head-space.
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LNG 004EP
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Donnacha Costello returns to his Look Long imprint with the storming, one-sided monster that is "Ten Thousand Hours." To begin, an ominous, growling analog siren calls out from Costello's Roland SH-101, before rattling, shuffling hi-hats mark out the groove towards an ecstatic, 7-minute analog journey through the wispy shadows of S-Express, 808 State, Mathew Jonson and Costello's own classic Colorseries sound. "Ten Thousand Hours" is a very limited one-sided vinyl edition and won't be re-pressed. Don't sleep.
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LNG 003EP
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"As Costello continues to Look Long, the grooves continue to flow. LNG3 sees the reissue of the deep house classic 'Pleite,' which originally appeared on Trapez in 2003. Recorded in Dublin in 2002, this version has been mastered at Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin in 2009. The results are stunning and serve as a welcome reminder of Costello's deep roots. 'Pleite (Costello Dub)' could teach some of today's hyperactive producers a thing or two about setting up a solid groove and letting it sit. The timing of this reissue could not be more perfect with regard to the current musical zeitgeist. The title, a German colloquialism for broke or indeed bankrupt, which was an in-joke at the time of the original release, takes on a new significance in the context of global economic recession."
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LNG 001EP
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"How many of today's producers have been releasing music for 13 years? Not many. How many will still be recording 13 years from now? Hard to say. What can be said without doubt however is that Donnacha Costello is in this for the long haul. Since 1996 he has released dozens of 12"s and made significant contributions to electronic music from 2001's classic ambient album Together Is The New Alone to 2004's universally acclaimed Colorseries to 2006's rigorously conceptual 6x6=36 amongst others. Shedding the skin of his ten year old Minimise label, Costello emerges from its semantic stranglehold to bring us his new label and platform Look Long. From this first release it is clear that Costello aims to produce work of lasting quality and beauty with little regard for what a turbulent marketplace might expect of him. Complexity and simplicity are addressed in equal measure here and with some surprise we find traces of Eric Satie, Chet Baker, Pat Metheny and Steve Reich. Perhaps unsurprisingly we also find the unmistakable traces of grace and emotion that have become Costello's trademarks."
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LNG 002EP
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"Donnacha Costello returns with another release for his new label and platform, Look Long. The Tragedy Of The Commons sees him continuing his mission to create work of lasting quality and beauty. 'Gatsby' has that most rare and ephemeral quality, that certain something not easily defined. Work which is at once both raw and full of subtlety. Something which is at once both instantly familiar and yet inescapably new. 'Fathoms Deep' pulls the listener in with each rotation until we are so throughly hypnotised we cannot but surrender to its insistent, organic pulse. 'Baritone''s melancholy lo-fi guitars and Roland 606 drums wrap around us like a warm blanket on a cold night. A private oasis, a moment of comfort in a lonely city before the body give in to sleep. This is no throwaway music. This is music to keep, to live with, to grow with. This is music in which comfort can be sought and solace found."
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MINIMISE 035EP
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Donnacha Costello takes it back to simpler times with just one synthesizer, one Roland TR-808 drum machine, and some basic effects. "It Simply Is" is an emotive ambient track in which synthesizer melodies and echoes wash over each other and modulations send shivers down the spine. "Trust" is a building, rushing, euphoric dancefloor track. Brought to life with only a few classic elements, it shines in its simplicity and emotion. The first 1000 pressings will come exclusively on clear vinyl.
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MINIMISE 034EP
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Donnacha Costello presents straight-up, highly-refined and irresistibly groovy techno/house music in two different formats: one with a slightly faster development and one that's been stretched out a little. With a hypnotic, rolling synth pattern functioning as both bass line and hook, warm percussion, analog strings and Costello's trademark digital edits, both versions are so completely soaked with groove that one cannot help but lose oneself in their charms. A future classic.
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MINIMISE 031CD
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The Colorseries was a series of ten records released in rapid succession by Ireland's minimal master Donnacha Costello in 2004 and marked the breakthrough point in his career. The original releases were vinyl-only and to date have not been made available for download. This is their first appearance on CD. For this 2007 compilation, Donnacha's favorite selections from the series have been edited and carefully remastered and are now sonically far superior to the original vinyls. In addition, the CD contains some previously unreleased and very special material from the Colorseries sessions. These additions will undoubtedly make the CD of interest to the many fans that enthusiastically collected the original vinyl series. In the intervening years, Donnacha has scored a number of hit releases and has broadened his fan base considerably. To date, his work has been licensed for CDs by the top tier of techno DJs, including among others: Josh Wink, Ricardo Villalobos, Magda and Tiefschwarz. The Colorseries CD will therefore appeal to those who were not around for the original releases and those who have discovered Donnacha's work through the CDs of other DJs or through witnessing one of his famed live appearances. Throughout 2004, the Colorseries consistently appeared in the charts of big name DJs and eventually appeared in end of year top ten lists in many publications, including The Wire magazine and The New York Times. Minimise is proud to present these tracks on CD for the first time, offering the full-spectrum sound-rainbow for your listening pleasure. Colorseries influences include: Farley Jackmaster Funk, Steve Silk Hurley, Inner City, 808 State, Plastikman, F.U.S.E., Aphex Twin, The Black Dog, Lobe, LFO, Maurizio, Basic Channel, Model 500, Baby Ford, Mike Ink, The Modernist, Studio Eins, Thomas Brinkmann.
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MINIMISE 028CD
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Announcing the CD archive version of Donnacha Costello's 6x6=36 project (which was initially issued as 3 separate 12"'s). Six tracks, each of six minutes duration were written/recorded/edited in just six exhausting days as Costello locked himself in his Dublin studio. Get all tracks here: "6.1": Sounds like the hyperactive bastard child of a threesome between Studio Eins, Richie Hawtin's Concept sound and the modern sound of Costello himself, along with loops and whirrs. Random elements rub like sandpaper against the precision for a mathematical yet groovy and exhilarating ride. "6.2": Machines loop and fall all over each other as a snarling, gnarly twisted modular synth growls over the top, bass rumbles beneath and the percussion swings furiously. "6.3": Weaves a dirty, gritty, digital, bass-heavy groove. Simple yet devastatingly funky, the repetition builds to a looping, swinging climax. Simply killer. "6.4": The aural equivalent of someone spiking your drink and pushing you backwards down a helter skelter into a cartoon world of hypnotic bass, twisting modulations, swinging rhythms and hyperactive snare drums that work the crowd into an all-out frenzy! In all the hot crates for all the right reasons. "6.5": This track is pure, beatless ultra-stripped super-dub. "6.6": Totally unhinged with its undulating bassline, filtered beats, snippy clicks, whacko hook, and insomniac spoken vocal line. Housed in a beautifully designed 3-panel digipack, this CD compiles the six tracks featured on the 3 vinyl releases of this outstanding conceptual project. Despite the expense of the sleeve production, this one reaches fans at mini-album price -- a very nice surprise.
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MINIMISE 026EP
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"Third volume in this series (following 6x2 & 6x4). This volume is either available separately, or included w/ the box (to hold all 3 volumes) as MINIMISE 027."
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MINIMISE 027BOX
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A limited edition collector's box to house all three records in this series. This also comes w/ the 3rd 12" record in the set (MINIMISE 026). Ideally, you buy MINIMISE 024 & 025 individually, and then buy this box to complete the set. Or all 3 12"s will be available separately and you can save a small piece of a tree.
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MINIMISE 024EP
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"Announcing a special new project of Donnacha Costello: 6x6=36 six tracks, each of six minutes duration were written/recorded/edited in just six exhausting days as Costello locked himself into his Dublin studio. They will appear over six sides of vinyl to be released over a period of six weeks. 6X2 -- The first installment in the 6X6=36 project. Housed in a beautifully designed and spot varnished sleeve, and sounding equally impressive, this is exactly the type of high quality release people have now come to expect from Minimise. '6.1': sounding like the hyperactive bastard child of a threesome between Studio Eins, Richie Hawtin's concept sound and the modern sound of Costello himself, '6.1' loops, whirrs and spins a constantly shifting, energetic and pushing groove which tears floors apart as the opener in his new live sets. Random elements rub like sandpaper against the precision for a mathematical yet groovy and exhilarating ride. Like life itself, just when you get a handle on it, it shifts. '6.2': intensity in ten cities! Machines loop and fall all over each other as a snarling, gnarly twisted modular synth growls over the top, bass rumbles beneath and the percussion swings furiously. Costello's trademark edits round out the picture. The whole track is awash in paradox; devilishly dark yet completely ecstatic, claustrophobic yet liberating. Costello is lashing us with sound and we love it!"
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MINIMISE 022EP
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"Troy Pierce out-does himself here as he puts his spaced out twist on Donnacha Costello's 'Bear Bounces Back.' Neither producer seems to be able to do any wrong right now and the combination of the two results in something even stronger than the sum of its parts. Paranoid, moody, subtle, spaced out, groovy. We think it's so special we decided to turn it into a collector's item. Only available in one pressing of strictly limited, one-sided red vinyl!"
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MINIMISE 020EP
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"Hypnotic, symbiotic man-machine-computer mind control experiment aimed to entrance and ensnare all whom cross its sticky path. We dare you not to buy it. Being caned in digital promo form by the usual suspects for some time now. A: 'Ok, That's Great, Start Over' -- randomly modulated bassline, snare drums twisted with dsp to become more like synthesizers, groovy swinging bleeps subjected to detailed edits, spoken word elements. These things combined with a devastating and totally unexpected ending ensure that this record will be in all the right boxes and on all the right hard drives for a long time to come. It's clear that Costello is working hard in the studio and has found a new energy in his new approach. B: 'Rusty Sticks' -- unbreakable groove backed up with space-out synthesizers, thumping kick drum and an extremely hooky bassline. Round and round we go, getting sucked in further with each rotation. Computer/machine hybrid hypnosis."
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MINIMISE 019EP
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"Although undeniably great records that were universally acclaimed, by the end of 2004 Donnacha Costello's 'Colorseries' on Minimise had left both artist and label open to accusations of being too 'retro,' which was never the intention of either. However, with his old machines in storage since January and with a handful of brand new machines and a full Protools setup now residing in Donnacha's studio, such accusations should be banished forever. Thoroughly excited about techno's current period of accelerated growth and discovery he has been working hard on a new computer/machine hybrid sound, with fresh and compelling results. This new release has been available to DJs in digital promo form for some time and is currently receiving heavy play from luminaries such as Troy Pierce/Magda and Steve Bug to name just a few. A: "No Matter What I Do" dark, moody, energetic, highly accomplished production borrowing from the future and the past in equal proportion, twisted snippets of spoken word sharing space with sophisticated digital edits, swinging crunchy rhythms, jerky computerized synths and emotive strings. B: "Bear Bounces Back" a current favourite of Troy Pierce, this is a swinging, loopy, chaotic track that gradually descends into madness over the course of its seven minute duration. Simultaneously reminds of Daniel Bell, Run Stop Restore, Plastikman. Innovative, inventive, tripped out."
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MINIMISE 013EP
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"Donnacha Costello's Colorseries reaches its tenth and final installment. As the sun goes down on the Colorseries, it has now become clear that it will take its place in techno history alongside some of that genre's finest series. It has been favourably compared with Wolfgang Voigt's 'Studio Eins' and Richie Hawtin's 'Concept'. In a recent interview with Go magazine, Michael Mayer of Kompakt even went so far as to declare Costello 'today's Basic Channel'. 'Cocoa', the a-side contains a classic, dark, driving string laden acid track; 303, deep bass and silky strings... Plastikman meets Jon Carpenter in a disused warehouse outside Detroit and gets down! The B-side finishes the series in true style with a pensive, melancholic and touching ambient track, the type for which Costello is well known since his landmark 2001 album Together is the New Alone and his contributions to Kompakt's Pop Ambient series."
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MINIMISE 010EP
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"Donnacha Costello continues to push what he can out of his machines and comes up with the most direct record of the Colorseries since min007, 'Grape'. On the A side, this results in euphoric acid with strong connections to Plus8, early 90s trance and even the disco-tech of Giorgio Moroder. On the B side, Prince meets Plus8 and Chicago trax in the operating theatre and gets down to some serious jacking. With an ear on the past and an eye for the future, Donnacha continues to push on in his own unique direction."
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MINIMISE 016EP
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"It's as if clickhouse and the computer revolution had never happened, while the rest were hacking, one man kept on jacking. Sometimes one has to take a step backwards to move forwards. For some time now, Donnacha Costello has been offering an alternative to the palpable entropy of the click, the glitch and the tricky, skippy, flippy rhythms all too common at present. So far, this is the closest he has come to a mission statement, urging us to remember the past and try to imagine an alterative future. With its sublime melody, classic synths and big strings, 'Infinite Now' (Leeds warehouse mix) is a joyful celebration, a wide open, sublime composition, a manufactured memory of a moment on a huge dancefloor when you just couldn't smile any harder. Flip to the b for 'Into Tomorrow' and you can almost feel the heat and smell the sweat of an old school basement party in full swing. This record was too big to be confined to the colorseries and has it's own message to spread, hence its own release outside of the series. Soon to be joined by more extra-series releases. Of course, the title is a reference to the classic 'lfo' (Leeds warehouse mix) and the spirit of that record and of that time."
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MINIMISE 006EP
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"Donnacha Costello's Colorseries continues with the release of 'Rubine Red', bringing a tight yet playful a-side and a hands in the air b-side. The a-side recalls Costello's debut album Growing Up In Public [Force Inc]. The dub element is removed however and in it's place is the early sound of acid house, 303 mixing with 101, trapped in Costello's tight and formalized grid. The b-side maintains links to the a-side but takes the acid reference further, blending Chicago with the early Sheffield bleep sound and the early 90s UK sound with it's repetitive chord hook. Overall, another strong record of trend bucking hardware music."
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MINIMISE 007EP
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"Donnacha Costello's Colorseries continues with the release of Grape. Taking a more relaxed and altogether European look at the American Midwest acid sound of the early 90's, Costello explores this territory while stamping it with his own individual style. The a-side presents a solid, sophisticated groove, with clever interaction of elements over a hissy 303 pattern which remains insistent but buried, almost unseen at the heart of the track. The B-side brings the 303 to the front as the track builds steadily until it achieves meltdown. Overall, an energetic yet tasteful record."
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