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CONNECTED 054EP
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After more than a decade at the forefront of underground electronic music, Re.You puts all his vast experience into a long-awaited debut album on Connected, breathing new life into house music. Maison is a bold artistic statement across nine tracks featuring guests and label bosses Stereo MCs, plus Florian Busse & Ahmad, Elli, and Aaaron & Oluhle. German artist Re.You is Marius Maier, a producer who runs his own Younion label and continues to innovate with his edgy house and tech-fueled productions. As well as on releasing Connected, he has seen his music issued on Moon Harbour, Kompakt and Mobilee and manages to transcend fashions and scenes with his unique sound. After many years in Berlin, he moved to Paris, and found himself full of new ideas, inspired by the city and its creative energy. As such, most of this new album was written in the French capital. He was there for just six months but as Marius says "it was a truly inspiring place and time, so I thought I would give the album a French name. 'Maison' means home. That's what I feel now I'm back in my German hometown Ulm after ten years of Berlin and a short stay in Paris. I feel now is a good time to release my debut album on Connected, a platform on which I always felt at home."
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CONNECTED 007EP
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They Vibed is the second release for Re.You on Connected. "They Vibed", featuring Lazarusman, is a machine-like groove with driving pistons and staggering drum stabs rising with the introduction of shakers and bass synth pulse - easy riding and freeform. "Try To Sleep" is an energetic, springy groove that feels like an early summer day with hypnotic, spiral movements in synthesis and female cinematic whispers and shimmering hi-hats and a very 808'esque feel to the groove. The vinyl version of "They Vibed" strips down the original, providing a minimal, drone landscape.
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CONNECTED 003EP
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Re.You has collaborated with Rampa and Rodriguez Jr.; remixed Tiefschwarz, David Mayer, Terranova, and &ME; and released on Saved, Souvenir, Mobilee, Keinemusik, Kompakt, and Rebirth -- and the list goes on. "NapLater" features a spellbinding groove anchored to a hypnotic synth phrase and an ever-increasing drum arsenal. "Otherside" (vinyl only) shows Re.You's capacity to create space, joining a pulsing groove with a twisted bass cycle and staggered vocal slices. "Body" features Re.You's trademark keyboard themes backed with synthetic percussion and a strident groove -- pure dancefloor, stripped back and upfront.
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KOM EX086EP
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Berlin-based producer Re.You (Keinemusik, collaborator with Rampa) delivers the latest installment of Speicher, a worthy addition its heritage of forward-looking, club-ready techno. The hypnotic "Fantasy," grinding its synth teeth and brimming with foreboding atmosphere, is a particularly enigmatic stomper that pairs its compositional relentlessness with a small, hand-picked sound-palette, tailored to perfection for an adventurous crowd. The uncanny "Robot" starts out as a somewhat relaxed groover embedded in what sounds like an animatronic zoo, but builds up a sizeable amount of nail-biting tension thanks to a single rising drone that is joined by mysterious voice snippets and a stoic baseline.
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MOBILEE 138EP
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Re.You returns to Mobilee with three tracks certain to satiate fans of the label's techno leanings. Watching You finds Re.You in familiarly fine form, particularly pairing with South African poet Lazarusman on the track, "Vivid." Another example of the open-door policy that house music thrives on.
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MOBILEE 121EP
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Do I Know? takes the classic Re.You formula of walloping kicks, freewheeling drums, and spacious sound design and reworks it with a deep autumnal mood. The title-track is formed around a thick, rubbery bass line and clipped percussion before spiraling off into twisted dancefloor trickery: skewed voices, wonky keys, and a broken breakdown melody. "Hurt Me" hones in on jungle drums and whispered voices. Sounds and melodies float as if somewhere underwater, and a heavy bass line plunges the track even further into deepness. "The Whistle" is a deep tribal jam with crystal-clear percussive layers and evocative nature sounds. Remix by Anja Schneider.
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SOUVENIR 051EP
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Marius Maier aka Re.You brings the funk on "Insanity" with a trademark, treated vocal serving from LIA. A niggling percussive interplay sends the track reeling all over the dancefloor -- various creaks and whistles playing off each other until a solid bass line swoops in. "Lonely" follows with a more frantic tempo, small drum pattern loops, throwing you with its slightly skewed beat. On the flip, Re.You brings it down a notch, going straight deep house.
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MOBILEE 093EP
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Re.You kicks off the 2012 summer on Mobilee. "Mind Your Head" is a funky vocal piece featuring Daniel Wilde with just the right drops between its smooth grooves. A crazy trip through the mind after a wild night out gives this track a boisterous appeal. "Junction" isn't too far off the button as it keeps the upbeat tempo grooving with the background percussion. Re.You hijacks the mood and keeps the number high-spirited and actively exciting by offering a non-stop party package.
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SOUVENIR 042EP
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Souvenir presents an EP from Marius Maier, better known as Re.You, who ups the tempo for this pair of fresh productions for his home label. The A1 brings an old-school flavor, a drumset mail-ordered straight from Chicago builds the framework for a bouncing bassline to drive the track along. The flipside features the vocal talents of Daniel Wilde. The title itself speaks of the track's nervy equilibrium, the vocals and hypnotic beat doing little to aid one's balance. Remixes by Philip Bader and Avatism.
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