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IFEEL 080EP
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Running Back regular Feater aka Daniel Meuzard puts his newly transplanted studio through its paces for the first time since relocating from Vienna, swapping out the bustle of the city for the fresh mountain breeze of the West Alps. The Positive People EP proves that a change is as good as a rest, as the wide-open nature not only had some rejuvenating effects on the creative process -- it also gave Feater some room in his head to ponder questions about nature, nurture, and whether our inner morality is externally programmed. The taut jazz funk of opening track "Coding" springs into action like the montage music of a lost '70s TV show, while the title track "Positive People" plays on the ambiguity of its title, with cascading synth notes, tastefully dubby 303 stabs, and an Afro-Cuban drum figure that forms the foundation for a spaced-out dancefloor workout. It's a combo of tracks that should appeal to chat room moderators and serotonin programmers alike. "Expensive Zeit" kicks off sounding like grime maverick XTC had been brought up on Murder Capital electro rather than East London garage -- before it morphs into a bumpin' electrofunk and percussion session, with its sights set firmly on an aquatic worm hole. The EP rounds out with "Decline All Cookies", which breaks out of a flanged-out half-time drum n' effects intro to reveal a lush chord progression, flipping a soul jazz piano mood into a trippy slice of modern instrumental funk. Can man be the master of his own destiny? It seems with this change of location and musical direction, Feater might just have figured out the answer.
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RBINC 007LP
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Three's a charm, as they say. After Waste The Time (IML 004LP, 2016) and Socialo Blanco (RBINC 002LP, 2019), Money completes Daniel Meuzard's Feater triptych. Again joined by the likes of Eric Owusu and Sam Irl and their musical as well as technical skills, as well as by the lovely voice of Vilja Larjosto, the ageless beauty and intellectual brilliance of Money is impossible to resist. It could have been imagined, written and recorded almost any time in the last 50 years. Inspired or -- better put -- troubled by the rise and transformation of capitalist systems, fatalism, extravism, climate change and -- surprise -- the power, corruption, and lies revolving around money, its topic is anything, but bubblegum. The music though, is ranging from powerful songs to clever synth experiments. Incredibly executed with a perfectly wonderful result. And even if Daniel writes that there is "no need to worry, I want you to panic," you should listen to this album, while you do so!
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RBFEATERDUB 001
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Running Back welcomes Blood Shanti. The Falasha Recordings main man and brother of UK's living sound system legend Aba-Shanti delivers four breathtaking versions of Feater's "Time Millionaire", taken from the album Socialo Blanco (RBINC 002LP).
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RBFEATERRMX 003
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What started as an attempt to transport Feater's brilliant outsider pop "Time Millionaire", taken from the Socialo Blanco album (RBINC 002LP) onto a dancefloor with one or two remixes, ended up as a feast served on three different platters. On this 12", Krystal Klear takes the material down to love town: the sound of 1980s Island records meets NYC boogie and UK street soul sounds. Hessle Audio's Pangaea follows the other path: up-tempo bass fun with a driving dub and an instrumental pass. Feater and Sam Irl themselves deliver a blissed-out dub of the original.
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RBFEATERRMX 001
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What started as an attempt to transport Feater's brilliant outsider pop "Time Million" taken from the Socialo Blanco (RBINC 002LP) onto a dancefloor with one or two remixes, ended up as a feast served on three different platters with some heavy hitters. First up, Pépé Bradock and Ricardo Villalobos are crossing their beams. Spread over two 12"s, the masters of idiosyncrasies and splendid aural design, Bradock and Villalobos treat the voice of Vilja Larjosto with love and care and bring it into their respective universe during peak time: vocals, dubs, acapellas, and bonus bits included.
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RBFEATERRMX 002
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What started as an attempt to transport Feater's brilliant outsider pop "Time Million" taken from the Socialo Blanco (RBINC 002LP) onto a dancefloor with one or two remixes, ended up as a feast served on three different platters with some heavy hitters. First up, Pépé Bradock and Ricardo Villalobos are crossing their beams. Spread over two 12"s, the masters of idiosyncrasies and splendid aural design, Bradock and Villalobos treat the voice of Vilja Larjosto with love and care and bring it into their respective universe during peak time: vocals, dubs, acapellas, and bonus bits included.
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RBINC 002LP
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Sometimes -- despite the high-octane, fast-track, and hyper-hysteric music business -- you come across things that seem so pure, perfect, and poetic that it almost hurts. Socialo Blanco is one of these objects. It appears understated at a first listen, startling at the second and totally enamoring by the third run. To lay it all out on the table: it sounds like a Music From Memory reissue, looks like a Growing Bins Records discovery, and feels like a flea-market-hippie-uncle-record-collection find. Based on the language (coincidences and misbehavior included) and direction of the classic EMS Synthi AKS and recorded by hand and directly to tape (no MIDI, no sync, no computer), it is at once out-of-time and out-of-touch with current sound aesthetics, but that only makes it even more contemporary (vintage), like a great piece of furniture. Unsurprising, if you know that Feater is helmed by Daniel Meuzard. Hailing from Vienna and having made a name for himself as a trustworthy and skilled studio equipment dealer and working closely with producer and studio engineer Sam Irl, the man has a knack for turning yesterday into today. Already is his project's second album, Socialo Blanco is the result of all of this and some magical and effortless sessions. The voice of Vilja Larjosto from Finland and Ghana's Eric Owusu (Pat Thomas, Ebo Taylor) on percussion, spontaneously invited to the recording sessions by fellow Viennese Giuseppe Leonardi, are the icing on the cake. All of that and especially the non-conformist pop song "Time Million" symbolizes the heart and soul of an album that deserves to be billed as such. And that is no mean feat.
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IML 005EP
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Label head Daniel Meuzard, aka Feater, and two of the top notch remixers around -- Tuff City Kids with Gerd Janson and Phillip Lauer. After 30 seconds, when the bass line rocks through the kicks and congas, the "Bright White Shoes" remix unfolds a magical attraction as if from another galaxy. Guiseppe Leonardi rumbles through the catacombs between slow-tech and calimba on his remix of "Digital Love". Ruutu Poiss from Estonia conjures up a mysterious and playful odyssey with Feater's "Birds" and meanders between Düsseldorf, London, and Detroit.
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IML 004LP
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Daniel Meuzard, aka Feater, originally hails from a small mountain village in the Western Austrian Alps. The music producer with North African roots has called Vienna his home for quite some time now. For more than ten years, he has been involved in electronic music and working with analog synthesizers and classic tape recording. As an owner of a studio equipment shop, he was able to get his hands on a wide variety of equipment. Experimenting with different instruments and recording techniques helped him to develop his own musical ideas. In 2013, he released the 7" vinyl single Digital Love on Paradeis Garage. In February 2015, he recorded his debut album Waste The Time on a 8-track tape recorder and finalized it together with the producer and recording engineer Sam Irl in the summer of 2015. As a member of the Finish-German-Austrian group Skymax (along with Stiletti-Ana and Sam Irl), he released the self-titled EP vinyl on his own label called International Major Label in October 2015.
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