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MUSICK 015EP
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Håkan Lidbo strikes back on Musick! The Swede has hit us with tons of releases, tracks, labels, dates, ideas, pictures, skills, titles, themes, etc., and his tracks are always worth checking out. After Call for Islam, the present 12" showcases two more excellent floor tracks taken from his full length Dunka Dunka. Fulfilling all needs/wants and have-tos in the techno business is not Mr. Lidbo's game -- he is into the music business to have fun and to rock the floor. You can taste this on every single bar, click and clash of his music.
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MUSICK 016CD
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Sweden's foremost producer Håkan Lidbo is a legend in '90s tech-house, and has released nearly countless dance/pop records in his almost 15-year-long career. Virtually everything that Lidbo touches becomes a new invention in quirky electro production, welding together minimal, Latin, soul, disco, click-house and more to baffle even the most well-seasoned techno-phile. Dunka Dunka, according to Lidbo, is "an expression old people use to describe modern music." What this means for the actual content of the record is unclear, but as is evidenced with the three previously 12"-only tracks "Half Man Half Lobster," "Speedway" and "Call For Islam," Dunka Dunka should be chock-full of dark disco-techno, bit-crushed minimal melodies, and well-distorted vocal lines. It's not the usual minimal mainstream output, but some sort of variation on futuristic splatter, still holding onto a solid remnant of classic disco. Whatever your mood, Lidbo demands that you dance from side-to-side under a deep purple strobe-light, keeping in mind that these tracks were made under the influence of self-administered electric shock treatment, cocaine, happy-pills, and ginseng juice.
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MUSICK 013EP
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Sweden's Håkan Lidbo presents a preview of his forthcoming album with this 12", Call For Islam. Lidbo's music is perfect disco-techno without the false romance, straight from the bottom to the top. "Call for Islam" opens with Arabic-ish distorted vocal lines, dark disco bass lines, highly bit-crushed minimal melody, 4 to the floor beats... and then the wonderful hi-hat starts: chickchickchickchick. "Half Man Half Lobster" dances from side to side, even more disco than techno. An old school sawtooth line clears the set. Finally "Speedway" is good old school with a forbidden master gate snare. Deep purple stroboscope light shit, heroin Iran, swinger club Kreuzberg, and more synths from Istanbul... 4 to the floor and more!
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STRIKE 046EP
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Five track vinyl EP version, with the original mix, plus remixes from Matthew Dear, Si Begg, Apparat, and Lidbo.
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STRIKE 046CD
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Extended remix EP, featuring remixes from Matthew Dear, Si Begg, Apparat, Lidbo. Plus bonus video. 11 track CD. "The life of Anne Frost and John Lane can definitely be described as a routine. Anne is hard working, lives in London, works in a restaurant, and has a thirteen-hour day. John Lane, also from London, is a bank employee and the typical nine-to-fiver. Breakfast hours are regulated strictly. This is the deeply sharp plot of 'Clockwise,' the identical name from the piece on Hakan Lidbo's Shitkatapult EP (Strike 38 from 2003). That one swerved with a musical narration between pulp'n'bass and yap-phonics painted by undertones of toothpaste and edible sounds. The actual interesting part about Anne and John's catchy stories remains in the fantasy of the listener. In some way it stays open, whether or not they both know each other, maybe even fuck, given a nice lunch break. As for fucking, it was obvious that Hakan Lidbo wouldn't forget to finger the ol' label whores at Shitkatapult. In so doing, it will only be a short while before the Proms are called up and turned onto pushing a special version of 'Clockwise.' Sibegg, Brighton Noodles Imperialist, is busy transplanting Anne and John's story into a British undercover-agent comedy. A bomb is ticking, suspicious signs strike keys conscientious of accusations as the protagonists stutter, since the emergency number isn't working with Dr. No in charge of the bass-buzzer on the power lines. Hakan's punkslut Minimix has nothing but quacking spite for Anne and John's day in day out routine, coming and going as fast as the point of a ridiculous joke. Apparat, that old fogy, winds the tempo down so far until it's running backward since it's nighttime and John is dreaming Anne's dream. Matthew Dear, the platinum boy from Ghostly International who respectively gave the minimal techno experience life and enjoyment in 2003, shuffles with Anne and John in the clacking and scratching infinity of reduction, where beginning and end always hang out in the middle. Vinyl has been pressed for all those who like to see big names united on one record without needing to switch the plate. The CD is complete with all the tracks and remixes of the EP as well as an extra mini-movie for home use. Hair dressers would be smart to buy it for their salons, where people like Anne and John go to have their hair done up. Of course there will be others who gaze in the mirror and wonder about it."
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STRIKE 038EP
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"'Microsonic' is an electro-stomper stapled together with the most important conventional effect elements of the last 20 years. This is polished up with refreshing and silly micro-music fragments. Well, there is almost nothing out there musically that evades Mr. Lidbos grasp. 'My First Honest Penny' illuminates the fact that this old Swede knows exactly what kinda sound is necessary to wrap label chief T.Raumschmiere around his finger. Here we have the Munster family with their artificial hips on the black and white dance floor of their deteriorated home combined with gnarzing thunder beats, while a suspenseful organ plays the mighty song of dread. If a video-clip were ever to be made for this track then only Ed Wood would be ripe and worthy enough to do the job."
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