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COR 112EP
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Minilogue are known for their larger-than-life electronic music adventures, and "The Island of If" comes with a slightly reduced play-time that manages to stop the clock at 11 minutes and 49 seconds. The track is a bit like a winter version of "Knights of the Jaguar" and offers big potential to be one the first hits of 2014. "Nothing Is Lost" features the duo hammering out a breathtaking epic monster that is reminiscent of the highly-acclaimed remix by The Mole of Minilogue's "Hispaniola." Everybody who fell in love with Mole's remix back then will hear pure heaven again with this masterpiece.
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COR 033CD
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Since their foundation in the year 1997, Marcus Henriksson and Sebastian Mullaert aka Minilogue emerged to one of the most respected and hard to pigeonhole electronic music acts world-wide. House, techno, ambient, trance, and lately jazz, are equal parts in their creations. The most effective proof for their musical universalism was marked in 2008 with the release of their debut album Animals (COR 016CD/LP) on Cocoon. Since then, a string of EPs on labels like Mule, Wagon Repair, Traum Schallplatten, and their own imprint Minilogue continued their story in sound in which everything is made out of the present moment. Also the jazz-infused album Bring Out the Imps that they recorded under the alias IMPS with two jazz musicians and a heartfelt collaboration album with the Japanese producer Kuniyuki entered their discography. And between all their work they constantly performed their intense improvised live shows all around the globe. Privately they formed themselves a life far beyond the big city lights, out in the Swedish woods in the north of Malmö. In the past five years they meet every now and then when they felt like hooking up in the studio, jamming on their equipment without a clear goal in mind and recording each unique moment that was guided by the experience of the single day of life that marked their souls when they came together. They went through the archives from these sessions and their second album Blomma emerged. The Swedish word "blomma" represents two meanings in one: to bloom and the flower -- this heterogeneous album does not work like a regularly formatted club music album. It comes in two parts that both have two faces that are constantly shifting: dance-oriented rhythm parts and airy, layered ambient atmospheres -- always intensely tuneful, musical, and shapely. No ego can be heard and all grooves, melodies, field-recordings, samples, and chords work like a single color of a musical painting that is full of versatile electric elements and unnatural sounds. Nothing you hear on the album is edited or post produced -- it all sounds exactly like it was when the atoms of these two individuals danced together. The result is a record with no real beginning or end. Six-panel digipak with 20-page booklet.
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TRAUM 147EP
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Traum presents some top remixes of tracks from Minilogue. The "Drop The Mask Of Self Protection" remix of Dominik Eulberg is a bit of an adventure, kicking off a relaxed percussive and deep house groove and undergoing quite an explosive transformation. With a lot of skill and finesse, Mr. Eulberg pulls the strings with accuracy and makes the transfer of what unfolds to be a heavy, big-pounding techno rocker. Other remixes from Microtrauma and Spada.
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TRAUM 146EP
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Minilogue's "Let Life Dance Thru You" reveals itself as a "safari" of live played percussion, instruments and sounds. The duo create here a biotope of sounds that interact with each other -- like a live band would do -- at times almost Arabesque-sounding, this track is full of mysterious soundscapes, like a spiritual "voodoo session" from the '70s. "Drop The Mask Of Self Protection" could be described as a soundtrack for Apocalypse Now -- haunting, hallucinatory, and evolving into deep acid.
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MULE 074EP
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This release is a single cut from Sebastian Mullaert aka Minilogue's first mix CD WaWuWe (MULE 019CD). Fantastic Swedish duo Minilogue have released on highly-acclaimed labels like Cocoon, Wagon Repair and Mule Electronic and they have become one of the best techno acts in the world. On the B-side is "Tzymbals."
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COR 057EP
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Three more remixes of Minilogue's smash hit "Animals" from Luciano, Tolga Fidan and Beat Pharmacy. Swiss/Chilean minimal groove legend Luciano varies the track with sketchy, fragmented, tribal techno with a dry-as-a-bone bass kick. Brendan Moeller aka Beat Pharmacy interprets "Animals" within a mythical hypnosis of slagged deep house and deep dub-techno, somewhere in between nu-groove and Basic Channel. Tolga Fidan mixes with his highly-percussive prime-time techno approach, with a spoken voice reminiscent of Minilogue's 2008 club hit "Doiicie."
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COR 001DVD
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Malmö, Sweden's Minilogue (Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson) present the animated movie version of their highly-acclaimed debut full-length album, Animals. When the pair founded Minilogue in 2000, it was thought of not only as a musical project, but also as a visual one. From the beginning, the two musicians thought animals to be the front for Minilogue: animals which do not actually exist, but imaginary animals. As they appear on Minilogue's record sleeves, they merge elements and parts of all different animals together: there is a donkey with a trunk of an elephant or a mouse with the horns of a deer. With Animals -- The Movie, Minilogue's visual world comes fully into existence to the soundtrack of elegant and inventive minimal-techno -- with tracks from both the "dance" and "ambient" selections on the album release, plus three exclusive tracks -- 1 featuring Tobias. The 80-minute-long DVD was created by Hinge Design from New Zealand and a couple of other visuals artists. Two segments by Kristofer Ström were released as a preview; "Hitchhiker's Choice" had more than three million views on YouTube. The rhythm of the whole movie is defined by its quiet camera motions. With its countless images and movements, the films put us in a detached position, and we watch the world around us like scientists, experiencing a remote beauty to its full extent. Animals -- The Movie manages to combine the repetitive collages of club visuals with the subtleties of video art. Strange, boldly-colored animal amalgamations bounce around a Swedish cityscape, others appear on a blank page, being drawn and distorted by their creator. This is quite possibly one of the most ambitious visualizations of today's electronic music. It will appear in your living room, on your TV, as well as in your favorite club. Mesmerizing and charming animation that perfectly suits its sonic environment. NTSC format for North America, region-free DVD.
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MULE 056EP
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After the success of their new project Imps, Minilogue return to Mule with two fantastic tracks. "My Teenager Gang" is a bit new-style of them: abstract, percussive house-beat with ethnic voices. It's a perfect tune for spring-time. "Hundraelva" is strong, trippy, hypnotic, minimal-style house. High-quality as always!
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WAG 043EP
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Malmö duo Minilogue present a release with the kind of warped sounds and dense textures that have become their signature. "Snake Charmer" incorporates ghostly Eastern flute sounds into a tribal, percussive drive. Wisps of synth and pulsed tones encircle the central beat, recoiling into dreamy ambience before biting back with bass kick. "Urban Slough" is a deep techno gem driven by droning synth and reverberating percussion. This mix of industrial beats and howling tunes is a melancholy masterpiece.
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COR 051EP
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The Swedish producer duo Minilogue's debut album Animals is going to be one of the most influential releases of electronic dance music. The intimacy of sound and the variety of movement extends the existing boundaries of techno and experimental. The Mole reworks "Hispaniola" with a hypnotic dub framework of extraordinary warmth. Dubfire's 13-minute long interpretation of "Jamaica" bespeaks night-time paranoia, but a pumping bass drum and the repeated valve discharge sounds make the club totally present in your home.
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TRAUM 099EP
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This Traum 12" includes a Radio Slave and Bukaddor & Fishbeck remix of Minilogue's most successful track of 2007, "Space." Radio Slave's remix has a monster beat and an epic dub touch. Bukaddor & Fishbeck's remix is equally stripped-down but with a different sound aesthetic, taking its time with a gentle, slight swing. The drastic break in the middle of the track pulls down the dynamic to the absolute minimum and lets the hands fly up in the air.
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Malmö, Sweden's Minilogue (Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson) present Animals, their debut full-length release for Sven Väth's Cocoon. Nowadays, electronic producers tend to retreat into their special stylistic niche -- Minilogue dare to draw the bigger picture. After releasing outstanding productions on such renowned labels as Traum, Crosstown Rebels and Wagon Repair, this opus magnum covers a wide spectrum of music, reaching from peak-time techno to beatless deep ambient. The full range of Minilogue's vision of electronic music is developed on a double CD -- one devoted to dance music, the other devoted to ambient, while the vinyl version naturally focuses on the dance tracks. The immediacy of the club tracks incorporate the elegance and simplicity of classic early '90s techno, the economy and lightness of the minimal sound and the sweetness and charm of their recent developments. This is a journey to be listened to from beginning to end, mixed in a seamless flow. As Son Kite and Trimatic, Mullaert and Henriksson became very successful in the trance scene, playing enthusiastically-received live sets all over the world. With Minilogue, they leave the boundaries of that genre -- and actually of any genre. The result couldn't be more striking: the dance tracks are powerful and humble, the ambient tracks are subtle and bold. While other producers tend to get lost in layers of sounds and reverb, Animals is spring-loaded and nimble. Tracks so humble, effective and elegant, they stream unremittingly into the listener's ears. The music stretches out towards the horizon in a gesture of unmitigated desire: a desire for wideness, a desire for sound, a desire for the elementary beauty of techno. 2nd pressing, digipak packaging.
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Double LP version. Malmö, Sweden's Minilogue (Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson) present Animals. Nowadays, electronic producers tend to retreat into their special stylistic niche -- Minilogue dare to draw the bigger picture. After releasing outstanding productions on such renowned labels as Traum, Crosstown Rebels and Wagon Repair, this vinyl version of their upcoming 2CD full length (one CD devoted to ambient, the other to club tracks) focuses on dance tracks. The immediacy of the club tracks incorporate the elegance and simplicity of classic early '90s techno, the economy and lightness of the minimal sound and the sweetness and charm of their recent developments. As Son Kite and Trimatic, Mullaert and Henriksson became very successful in the trance scene, playing enthusiastically-received live sets all over the world. With Minilogue, they leave the boundaries of that genre -- and actually of any genre. This is music that stretches out towards the horizon in a gesture of unmitigated desire: a desire for wideness, a desire for sound, a desire for the elementary beauty of techno.
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COR 044EP
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The two Swedes Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson are already a well-known name in the psy-trance scene as Son Kite. As Minilogue, they now conquer the minimal and house world. With their rather unique sound, they manage the tightrope walk between minimal and trance and never allow us to put them into a drawer. Jamaica features two calm tunes where organic matter and groovy sounds are worked into a detailed minimal labyrinth. Say YES to techno made in Sweden.
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TRAUM 089EP
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This is Minilogue's fifth release on Traum, and giant step into Space. "Space" is an intergalactic voyage and a symphonic firework of melodic stabs and rhythmic build-ups. Psychedelic flourishes, '70s sound color and analog sound make it a big tune. "Star Command" is more ambient, more linear, quiet and introverted, revealing Minilogue's interest in experimental electronic music. Forget space disco, this is space heaviness.
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WAG 022EP
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"Behind the production of Minilogue are Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson. With different origins they got together in 1996 and are today working full time as animalistic producers in their studio in Sweden. After 10 successful years in the music business, Marcus & Sebastian now are Minilogue, a musical and animal concept without the boundaries of genres. In the last year they've released on Crosstown Rebels, Traum, W.I.R, Silver Planet, Audiobahn, Size Doesn't Matter, etc. The music is playful, ambitious, simple, complex, fun and melancholic and extremely animalistic. They have an album Animals ready to drop in 2007. 'Elephant's Parade' was played completely live with drum machines, synths and analog sequencers. The duo like to record this way (compared to stuck in front of the computer) as they get more free in creating a specific and spontaneous feeling. Here one might imagine a big gang of crazy elephants getting lost on a psychedelic parade. In the middle of the track, things are getting a bit weird, perhaps too much amarulla fruit, which gives the second part its childish and naïve playfulness."
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TRAUM 080EP
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The A-side track "The Leopard" of Minilogue's recent hit record on Traum has now been remixed by the well known Hamburg-based duo Extrawelt and by newcomer Roel H. from the Netherlands. Extrawelt's remix was produced in the fantastic, emotional and powerful style for which they are well known. Their track is a passionate one that works more on the melodic side than turning up the tempo and percussions. A wonderful voyage of floating music. On the B-side, Roel H.'s remix works through different melodic layers underpinned by roaring and linear beats.
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TRAUM 073EP
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Minilogue is Sweden's own Marcus Henriksson and Sebastian Mullaert. On the borderline between minimal techno and modern trance, this duo defines a new kind of dance music that fits perfectly with Traum's vision of the future. Leopard EP is powerful in its melodies and panoramic analog sound, while still remaining sensuous and fragile. Minilogue are masters of the build-ups, making their music an adventurous trip from powerful synth melody to seconds of silence. "The Leopard" puts emphasis on live energy, while "Seconds" creates a stunning, slow crescendo, taking the expectations of what will happen to the limit. Minilogue will give you goose-pimples.
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TRAUM 064EP
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"Minilogue are a curiosity. The two Swedish producers from Malmö are socially completely different. In 1996 the traditionally trained musician Sebastian Mullaert meets Marcus Henriksson the autodidactic artist. Mullaert & Henriksson are both passionate DJs, who have been active in the trance scene for a long time, and have been established under the name Son Kite since 1998. They started their side-project Minilogue which revealed their love of house music. Meanwhile they have reached a point where their side-project has taken over and become their main interest and want to make it more public. The debut record on Traum, Certain Things EP comes with two different tracks which link onto earlier releases on Traum. There is also a special bonus track on the record, a remix by Steve Barnes."
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