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MFF 15028EP
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Music For Freaks are chuffed to off the third in the series Let's Do It Again series. Chilean anti-hero Ricardo Villalobos delivers a tripped-out, discordant tech mix of the Freaks track, "He's Angry". A track properly hidden in the Freaks DAT vaults from the 1990s, "Unbeknown To Us" finally sees the light of day. The Martinez Brothers make their MFF debut with nothing but good vibes, a true rip snorting tech house remix of "Time". TCK 808 whip-up an excellent stripped 808, electro-hop mix of "Turning Orange" with low slung electro beats, minor key atmospherics, and nostalgic 80s vocal pitch-shifts.
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MFF 15018EP
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Repress. From the classic vinyl vaults of Music For Freaks, Methods in Madness, was originally released in 2000 and featured a minimal funk house remix courtesy of Chicago-based deep house guru Tim Shumaker and Brooklyn-based musician Tim Kvasnosky as Home & Garden. The flipside came with two mixes from Soul Capsule, aka Thomas Melchior and Peter Baby Ford, who delivered a minimal house tour de force of stripped back, energetic beats, bubbling bass, and atmospheric vocal samples.
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MFF 15002EP
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Freaks' Let's Do It Again Part 2 opens with Ricardo Villalobos's second remix for the Music for Freaks label, a confoundingly brilliant 14-minute rework of "Eighties Throwback" constructed alongside studio partner Frank Greiner. With their remix of "Washing Machine," Boston house duo Soul Clap funk-up Diz Washington's vocals and turn in a crisp, futuristic, and downright freaky funkathon. Closer "Robotic Movement" is an original Freaks track remastered for this release; it was originally recorded as a remix in the '90s, but Justin Harris and Luke Solomon removed all references and renamed it for their 2000 album The Beat Diaries.
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CCS 096EP
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Three gems from the extensive archives of Freaks (Luke Solomon and Justin Harris), who should need little introduction to anyone with even a passing interest in the weirder end of good-time party-ready house music. On "Shrunken Heads (One Pro Mix)," the rock-solid foundations of filter house music collide with flamboyant synth noodlings for a truly cosmic result, while the slower, deeper groove of "Absolut Zero" is peppered with oddball effects-tweaking. The soulful sample licks of "Funk You (Who Do You Trust Dub)" wriggle and writhe through a laid-back atmosphere that shows off the range Freaks have sported since the mid-'90s.
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MFF 15001EP
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180-gram vinyl. This 12" marks the relaunch of Music for Freaks, previously responsible for such releases as Turning Orange (1999), Washing Machine (2002), Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (2003), The Creeps, and works by Recloose, Kenny Hawkes, Doc L Junior, Mark Farina, and others. Ricardo Villalobos delivers an innovative rework of various tracks from Freaks' 2003 The Man Who Lived Underground album. Tuff City Kids (Gerd Janson and Phillip Lauer) remix Turner's "Been Out," a classic MFF release from 2000. Freaks' "Instrument" is a rediscovered, previously unreleased gem from the days of DAT recording.
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