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SUBFIELD 011LP
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Double LP version. Belgian DJ and producer Mugwump performs an about-face with a new sound and live show and unveils the first extract of his second album Drape. It's first extract, "No Trepidation", is a fast-paced postpunk/electronic hybrid and a punch in the face of conformity, formatting, and self-censorship. Borrowing his name from a character from William Burroughs's famed novel Naked Lunch (1959), Mugwump is an elusive presence, a reputation preceded by infamous DJ residencies at Belgian clubs and a long-standing recording relation with Cologne's Kompakt Records, ongoing DJ support from Andrew Weatherall, as well as a large catalog of electronic "disco-techno" records, released on leading labels R&S, Gigolo, Cocoon, Endless Flight, Eskimo, Permanent Vacation, or International Feel. Mugwump is also well-known for running the Leftorium club night in Brussels where like-minded DJ guests such as Ivan Smagghe, Andrew Weatherall, Superpitcher, Matias Aguayo, Optimo, Prins Thomas, Sascha Funke, Gerd Janson, Ata, or Roman Flügel share decks. Drape is the follow-up to 2015's debut studio album Unspell, which boasted many guest vocalists, garnered media plaudits across the board internationally, and was supported with live appearances at Benelux, French, UK, and Dutch festivals and venues. Taking it further and morphing into a full live band with new members, Mugwump released the Metempsycho EP in November 2016 on which Geoffroy made his singing debut. Drape is the result of nine months locked up with musicians Stephane Fedele (bass), Thomas Stadnicki (guitars), Lukas Melville (drums) and a series of live shows in Belgium. It fuses the electronic with an occasionally heavy-rock feel and outstanding lyrics, all topped off with a French-Belgian-tinged vocal and lyrical topicality. Music-wise it spans a breadth of influences from the Interzone between post-punk, indie pop, psych, and noise while Geoffroy Mugwump lays down conscious, parlando-style, lyrics over nine songs "soundtracking our torments in the age of laissez-faire and aestheticisation".
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SUBFIELD 011CD
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Belgian DJ and producer Mugwump performs an about-face with a new sound and live show and unveils the first extract of his second album Drape. It's first extract, "No Trepidation", is a fast-paced postpunk/electronic hybrid and a punch in the face of conformity, formatting, and self-censorship. Borrowing his name from a character from William Burroughs's famed novel Naked Lunch (1959), Mugwump is an elusive presence, a reputation preceded by infamous DJ residencies at Belgian clubs and a long-standing recording relation with Cologne's Kompakt Records, ongoing DJ support from Andrew Weatherall, as well as a large catalog of electronic "disco-techno" records, released on leading labels R&S, Gigolo, Cocoon, Endless Flight, Eskimo, Permanent Vacation, or International Feel. Mugwump is also well-known for running the Leftorium club night in Brussels where like-minded DJ guests such as Ivan Smagghe, Andrew Weatherall, Superpitcher, Matias Aguayo, Optimo, Prins Thomas, Sascha Funke, Gerd Janson, Ata, or Roman Flügel share decks. Drape is the follow-up to 2015's debut studio album Unspell, which boasted many guest vocalists, garnered media plaudits across the board internationally, and was supported with live appearances at Benelux, French, UK, and Dutch festivals and venues. Taking it further and morphing into a full live band with new members, Mugwump released the Metempsycho EP in November 2016 on which Geoffroy made his singing debut. Drape is the result of nine months locked up with musicians Stephane Fedele (bass), Thomas Stadnicki (guitars), Lukas Melville (drums) and a series of live shows in Belgium. It fuses the electronic with an occasionally heavy-rock feel and outstanding lyrics, all topped off with a French-Belgian-tinged vocal and lyrical topicality. Music-wise it spans a breadth of influences from the Interzone between post-punk, indie pop, psych, and noise while Geoffroy Mugwump lays down conscious, parlando-style, lyrics over nine songs "soundtracking our torments in the age of laissez-faire and aestheticisation".
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IFEEL 026EP
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International Feel presents "Boutade" by Mugwump -- the best chunky, slo-mo dance track ever made, now remixed for 2013 in a "Techno Redux," and the glorious new beat of "God is Gracious." Originally released on Ewan Pearson's Misericord imprint and played by everyone from Mr. Scruff to Optimo, Tensnake to Dixon, and Weatherall & Smagghe, the tension, joy and energy-rush created by the filmic strings and monstrous Carl Craig-esque bass line has made "Boutade" the track that refuses to lie down and die.
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GIGOLO 251EP
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Belgium's Geoffroy and Kolombo aka Mugwump have an unmistakeable, varied sound, and Die Nacht Ist Kuhl is possibly the best example of this. Disco loops, Latin rhythms, a classic vocal-house sample, heavy techno synth stabs and German spoken word grace the title-track, while "Steamulus" is more reserved, making way for some nice mood music with a modulating disco loop that infectiously builds for most of the record, and then lets go with heavy bass lines that deliver the big pay-off.
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EF 014EP
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This is Belgian disco-house producer Mugwump's debut release on Endless Flight. Mugwump has released on excellent labels such as Misericord, Kompakt, Moodmusic and more. "Tellakian Circles" is uplifting, percussive disco-house, and the Runaway remix on side B is deeper than the original, but still very playful. If you like discofied house tracks, then both versions will be your weapons of choice.
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MOOD 056EP
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"The Belgian power-trio Mugwump have gained solid support from the likes of Ewan Pearson, Ivan Smagghe and Ata among others in the recent years for their floor crunching sound on labels such as Eskimo, Hi-Phen, Suicide, Crosstown Rebels and Brique Rouge. 'Memory Lane Refund' was projected for Moodmusic as a proud statement. Building on a solid house basement, the original is influenced by early Chicago and UK house with jacking beats and excellent synth workouts from the Belgian maestros. Their own Acid Retraxion remix works out some more rolling beats and an evil bass line straight from Chicago á la 1987. For remix duties, Alexander Maier turned the original upside-down and injected a funky, yet melodic dose of new school house in its best form. This rocks. Sasse delivers a serious Sunday afternoon rocker with the same flow as his recent work with Kiki & Nick Chacona."
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