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WARE 015CD
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This is Germany-based Markus Guentner's second full-length release on Ware, featuring exclusive tracks and remixes. Devoted to brilliant f-2-the-floor tracks, Guentner doesn't eschew his usual ambient minimalist tradition; however, this time he vehemently proves that his understanding of house and techno goes far beyond dub and minimal house, with plenty of genre dipping you've never heard Guentner attempt before. Lovely Society joins dreamy ambient house tracks, abstract disco references and DJ favorites to hit the crowd's euphoric nerve. This album also features two remix tracks by Renato Figoli, who has turned the track "All The Time" into an irresistible minimal trance raver hit. The other is Ziggy Kinder's version of "Option 2," and Guentner's previously-unreleased "Brickbuilder," now released exclusively for the first time on the vinyl version. Other exclusively released tracks include "As We On The Beach" on the CD version, and "Realize" on the vinyl. This is by far Guentner's most mature album that mixes what otherwise is treated separately.
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WARE 062LP
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Double LP version. This is Germany-based Markus Guentner's second full-length release on Ware, featuring exclusive tracks and remixes. Devoted to brilliant f-2-the-floor tracks, Guentner doesn't eschew his usual ambient minimalist tradition; however, this time he vehemently proves that his understanding of house and techno goes far beyond dub and minimal house, with plenty of genre dipping you've never heard Guentner attempt before. Lovely Society joins dreamy ambient house tracks, abstract disco references and DJ favorites to hit the crowd's euphoric nerve. This album also features a remix by Renato Figoli, who has turned the track "All The Time" into an irresistible minimal trance raver hit. This is by far Guentner's most mature album that mixes what otherwise is treated separately. Vinyl version includes 2 exclusive tracks.
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KOMP 039CD
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"1981. What a year. The pop culture machine is changing. Punk, Wave, Synth-Pop. Glamour and Revolution. Pop to the barricades! In Germany, the famous music magazine 'Sounds' governs the scene. And the 'real' New German Wave has reached its peak, one year before the so-called quote-pop of 'summer of love' saved us from the 'fake' New German wave. And Markus Guentner was born. 'Wenn Musik der Liebe Nahrung ist' (If Music be the Food of Love) is the title of a track on his new album. It may sound a bit overblown, but you will adore it. As if it was a matter of live and death, Markus Guentner conjures his laptop to present even the last secrets of a great love. Emotions have become the most beautiful sound monsters you have ever heard. Three and a half years have passed since his album In Moll (Kompakt 42 DoLP CD11). Three and a half years where the master of sound planes has kept on densifying and refining his magnificent sounds. 1981 presents the whole spectrum of pop ambient sound art and Markus Guentner at its best. 1981 can be regarded as Jove at the shining firmament of Kompakt's Pop Ambient universe. And as if this was not enough, you will notice -- here and there -- a kind of bass drum. But who really cares? It's glowing..."
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KOM 115EP
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12" vinyl EP version. CD Description: "1981. What a year. The pop culture machine is changing. Punk, Wave, Synth-Pop. Glamour and Revolution. Pop to the barricades! In Germany, the famous music magazine 'Sounds' governs the scene. And the 'real' New German Wave has reached its peak, one year before the so-called quote-pop of 'summer of love' saved us from the 'fake' New German wave. And Markus Guentner was born. 'Wenn Musik der Liebe Nahrung ist' (If Music be the Food of Love) is the title of a track on his new album. It may sound a bit overblown, but you will adore it. As if it was a matter of live and death, Markus Guentner conjures his laptop to present even the last secrets of a great love. Emotions have become the most beautiful sound monsters you have ever heard. Three and a half years have passed since his album In Moll. Three and a half years where the master of sound planes has kept on densifying and refining his magnificent sounds. 1981 presents the whole spectrum of pop ambient sound art and Markus Guentner at its best. 1981 can be regarded as Jove at the shining firmament of Kompakt's Pop Ambient universe. And as if this was not enough, you will notice -- here and there -- a kind of bass drum. But who really cares? It's glowing..."
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WARE 035EP
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"It's bubbling, it's boiling -- so we must add fuel to the fire. Markus Güntner's cover version of Talk Talk's 'Such A Shame' on his Forget Sandra maxi has turned out to be a nice little club-hit -- and that calls for remixes. The Swayzak mix sheds light upon the darker sides of the original, creating a super-deep mood, perhaps best described as 'trembling'. This is surely what is known as 'magic', or in the best sense, 'trance' (as pronounced in French). Mathias Schaffhäuser picked exactly four elements from approximately 372 tiny fragments of Güntner's version, putting together a functional minimal-rocker track, showing once again that less can be just as much as minimal yet somehow acid. Markus himself tucks the beats under a warm eiderdown, then adds the hot-water bottle. Any Kompakt fan will know that this lad from Regensburg is a master of ambient music, and this record will tell a good three million more at least."
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WARE 036LP
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WARE 009CD
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"Markus Güntner is going to make it big -- we firmly believe that here at Ware. And maybe even very soon -- his cover of Talk Talk's 'Such A Shame' is currently being remixed by Swayzak. Who knows what will follow... Or what has already been -- Audio Island also includes a co-op with Acid Maria: 'So Well' features one of the most whacked-out lyrics of all time. This track will have people doing summersaults on the dance-floor. Güntner has been producing electronic music since 1996. His records on Ware breathe an airy spirit, which pleasantly stands out from the usual minimal-tech-house strictures in a very individual way. People have described some of Güntner's tracks as neo-trance -- and this Regensburg lad can live with that quite well. Anyone who knows Kaito (Special Life) will understand where Güntner is coming from. Rarely is house so comforting, so tender, so intimate. Markus Güntner released his first release in May 2000 on Gemeinschaftspraxis (Festplatten Rec.). Then the ambient production Regensburg appeared on Kompakt (and was recently remixed by Mike Ink), followed by Äpfel und Birnen, again on Festplatten. Last year his ambient album In Moll (Kompakt) caused a furor."
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WARE 030EP
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"It's a shame -- such a shame? that Sandra, the German pop starlet from the darkest days of the eighties, covered 'Such A Shame' before Markus Güntner could get his hands on it. That darned parallel idea phenomenon! Those mainstream buccaneers! Shameful indeed! Never mind. With his version of 'Such A Shame', Markus has no intention of casting sidelong glances at the mainstream. It comes from the heart, not the abacus of success. And the fact that the track is another eighties cover -- well, what can you do if Talk Talk wrote such good songs back then? If it bothers you, then go right ahead and take a listen to the three other tracks on 'Forget Sandra', representing various pieces of the techno-house puzzle that Güntner has made his own, and with one thing in common: no fear of feelings or velvet robes, and three spoonfuls of sugar in the tea. Yet somehow it all manages to remain minimal-something. Just try pigeonholing this." Last copies, deleted item.
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KOM 053EP
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"New 12" from Kompakt's Markus Guentner featuring four tracks of orchestral ambient style Minimal House. The title track is included in two remix versions, one by Wolfgang Voigt aka Gas and one by Michael Mayer."
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KOM 042LP
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KOMP 011CD
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"After the massive success of his debut 12" 'Regensburg' which has been recognized as a blissful beatless variation of our most favourite music amongst others by German 'DJ pope' Sven Vaeth and the current 'No Title' 12" on Mathias Schaffhäuser's Ware label, Markus Guentner comes up with his first longplay album In Moll (In Minor). Effortlessly he leads us to an ocean of slowly modulating shimmering textures. New romantic laptop emotions drowning through a thicket of enchanted honeycombs of harmony. Water has no beams."
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WARE 021EP
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"Ware 21 kicks off in a way that might proverbially compartmentalize it. But hang on -- 'Re-form' very quickly turns out to be nothing less than a hymn, a romantic ballad manifesto -- a FEAST. 'Seven Days' begins in a similarly familiar manner but then darts sideways towards ? let's say neo-trance -- that is both audacious and incomprehensible. 'Skyline' on side 2 takes off on a flight of fancy and quite unashamedly runs for more than 10 minutes, quite happy to let compartments be compartments as it were (anyone still wanting to talk about minimal house and dub should also listen 'Luomo' as a model dream sequence to crown it all)."
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KOM 024EP
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"Three slow burners on the GAS-eous tip, rhythmic but beatless (no kicks to speak of) long tones and hoth-like drones. Reminiscent of Various Artists' epics '8', '9' in spots. Very cool, an interesting (but not necessarily non-sensical) choice for a Kompakt release." -- Hrvatski.
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