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STRIKE 106EP
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This outstanding record by Berlin's Shitkatapult features the most clubbing hit on Daniel Meteo's house album Working Class, in its original version and also a Chicago/Detroit acid house remix by Abe Duque, who takes "In The Mood" down to the underground with pitched-down vocals, acid chainsaws, Detroit bass drums, strings, keys, etc. Unreleased dance track "Audio Quattro" combines 4-to-the-floor and half-beat to create the future funk of electronic music. Stevie Wonder meets current club music.
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STRIKE 107CD
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This is the second full-length solo album by Berlin's Daniel Meteo. Working Class is a painting, a patina-coated classic, a precious collection of bourgeois oddities that are heavy, deep and dark. Meteo packs his (steamer) trunk with 11 uncanny, old-fashioned tracks, veering between house and electronica. Meteo kicks it all off with a roughly-hewn club beat, then slathers on layer upon layer of DIY piano loops, fluttering melodies, creaking bass lines and constantly-shifting, spellbinding harmonics. Working Class shrugs off its house-y pretensions to reveal its true, underlying nature as a modern soul album. Unshackled from concepts, quotations, and its own history, all the tracks follow their own mood and take a leisurely stroll through the club scene before a quick dip into the abyss. "On The Corner"'s massive, dark walls of chords, the soulful clarions on "Return Of The Pure" or the Moodyman-inspired "Working Class" cherish and celebrate deepness and groove without any overt gestures, tricky beats or rave-centric hi-hats in favor of a more dreamlike and picturesque composition. In a way, the Detroit-esque FM interplay "Signals" and the trad-house homage of "Grace" seem to herald a new chapter or classic B-side. All of a sudden, there is more levity, more treble, more light and clarity, culminating in the gloriously-mumbled vocal track "In The Mood." A huge club hit and eminently listenable, its snappy lyrics stick in your brain long after the last chord has faded. In-your-face beats, off chords, techno bass -- done. A brief respite for weary souls, the remaining three tracks float dreamily through the evening sky: "Schön Feddich" and "Opener" plus the piano exercise "Reclam," with the latter skirting dangerously close to a kitsch-infused piss-take. The album's artwork -- courtesy of Bianca Strauch -- shows a photograph by Daniel's sister Kathrin Peters and depicts the garden of an old bourgeois home. Beautiful classicism, just like this album.
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METEO 025EP
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Working 1st Class kicks off another chapter in Daniel Meteo's ongoing house-oriented music productions for the special floor. "Return Of The Pure" is based on a catchy piano loop and a hearty chord hook moved by four-to-the-floor bass drum and hi-hat beats. "Signals" takes it from there with '90s synth waves and strings. The B-side contains two pieces (119 bpm and 116 bpm) featuring classy house moments of organ and bass, beats and soul. This is truly deep electronic music.
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KALKPETS 009EP
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"Jack of all trades Daniel Meteo released his debut album Peruments in 2006 on his own Meteosound/Shitkatapult imprint. Now he is presenting with 'Memento' a club version of his musical world on Berlin label Kalk Pets. The actual hype for well-trained, cleaned up and straight functional minimal techno does not seem to touch Mr. Meteo, who prefers to take an extra ride around the block to have a 2nd look into deepness and other musical horizons and music-music. So Memento offers a tech house EP combined with a big love of ideas, motive, harmonies and sound very euphoric on the floor. Daniel Meteo runs his own little booking agency Flow.er and runs the label family Random Noize Musick (Shitkatapult, Musick, Meteosound) together with Marco Haas aka T.Raumschmiere and Lorian Schmieg. As DJ, he travels the world and produced with Tom Thiel as Bus two long players and several 12"s on Pole's ~scape label, as well as remixes for artists like The Orb, Apparat, Masha Qrella and Dntel."
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METEO 020LP
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METEO 020CD
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Berlin-based Daniel Meteo runs his own experimental dub label Meteosound, and this is his debut solo release. Meteo has already graced a surprising number of records under a variety of guises, keeping his finger in plenty of delicious musical pies in pursuit of that elusive moment of aural bliss. Above and beyond championing Berlin's local electronic music scene, Meteo has added his spin to the likes of Apparat, Orb, Dntel and Masha Qrella as a remixer, and drives the beats of the dub/hip-hop/electronica duo Bus. Nevertheless, some part of his musical spectrum remained unexplored -- for almost as long as Daniel can remember, a folder called "Peruments" (Peru meets government) has been hiding in the depth of his hard drive, a black hole eager to swallow all those fragments and ideas too wayward and personal to find their way into one of his many collaborations. These would be entirely sample- and vocal-free ideas tinkered with and fine-tuned in many obsessive marathon sessions. Searching for an element of soul found in artists such as Barrington Levy, Theo Parrish, Marvin Gaye or Flabba Holt, Daniel decided on an ambitious experiment, using Peruments to square the circle between club, dub/downbeat, house and his most personal tracks and experimental excursions. While his own secret favorite track "Goodbye, Nice Try" is left to meander over leisurely convolute rhythms and the chopped up "Peruments" rewinds everything back to its origins, other tracks see snippets of traditional guitars slip back into the mix for brief, touching forays into the intricate melodies of Meteo's inner and outer realms. Fragile dub structures provide temporary scaffolding for his sonic digressions and even the album's obvious club tracks systematically search for breaks in the break, to then, after intricate diversions from the track's basic beat, bounce their way back onto the dancefloor. This is Daniel Meteo's long-secret document, finally brought to light.
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