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MACROM 079CD
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Impérieux (aka Alper Durmush) is a beatmaker extraordinaire hailing from Kırcaali/Kardjali: since antiquity a hub of mythical music, located at the crossroads of Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. Rezil is his stunning debut album, built on the ground cleared by his head-turning earlier releases for KiNK's Sofia Records and DJ Koze's Pampa. Its effortlessly mesmerizing ten tracks consolidate the outlines of forward-leaning club music. Experimentation is a well-established facet of Impérieux' approach to the adventurous techno (left)field, but more than ever on Rezil he seizes the opportunity to thrill with holistically captivating hooks, bass lines and rolling rhythms. A culmination of several years of exploration and refinement. Unpredictability lies at the heart of all this music, bound together by a consistent modernist glint. From the warped wobble of "Sword Fight" to the unhinged dairé excess of "Imana," from the drunken Casio bliss of "Rezil" to the hopeful euphoria of "Young."
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SOF 008EP
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"It's like nothing I have ever done before." For the past ten years, the Bulgarian-Turkish artist Alper Durmush aka Impérieux has been carefully developing his artistic style and building strong momentum with a high-profile following. Now the young Berlin-based producer enters a fresh chapter with his EP named Extensions on Sofia Records's eight release. It is filled with brisk, forward-looking breaks, raw jungle attitude and highly combustible house. In all this you can still trace Impérieux's emotional signature interwoven into delicate soundscapes and ethno antics. The place to kickstart this new direction is a symbolic one, and in a way -- coming back home. In his five-tracker, Impérieux keeps consistent with Sofia Records' establishment as a breeding ground for hyper-energetic, yet intelligent sound. And to do the honors, a signature stomping remix has been added by the label headmeister himself -- KiNK.
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PAMPA 039EP
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The illusive Impérieux ventures into the fantastical world of DJ Koze's Pampa with three tracks of masterful, genre-bending electronica. It's little wonder that the Turkish/Bulgarian native finds himself coming into the orbit of the Hamburg-based label head. DJ Koze has been a long-time supporter of Impérieux's music, his intrepid DJ sets often finding their most dramatic peaks or existential lows with one of the producer's audacious dancefloor soundscapes. Now Berlin-based, Impérieux's music draws deeply on the sounds of his heritage, taking inspirations from Bulgarian folklore, twisted and chopped Turkish dialect as well the gritty underground of his new surroundings. With Fantasmagorii EP, Impérieux explores his sonic boundaries with techniques inspired by the label-head himself. As a producer he is becoming known for his ability to build fantasy worlds through aural experimentation, creating productions soaked with fragility and emotion. His music brings a full-body listening experience of its own, laden with intensity and mystery, and full of opposites. He has the ability to pluck their listeners out of reality, to bend the rules of time and space and defy genres in a way that is reminiscent of Koze's various bodies of work, and it's no surprise that this selection of tracks feels right at home in the Pampa fantasy. "I am permanently seeking for Music that blows my mind. It's like digging for gold. Impérieux delivers a psychedelic bullion" --DJ Koze.
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