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MSHIP 019CD
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3x12" version previously released on Mothership, now available on CD with an extra track, "Skeleton Key." This is the debut full-length release by Boston/Philly duo Voodeux. Two years ago, on the East Coast of America, a couple of highly technical production wizards joined forces and created their own genre of strange and creepy techno under the moniker, Voodeux. Tanner Ross and James Watts first released The Curse EP on Mothership in 2008 with great success. With DJ support rolling in from everywhere, Claude VonStroke soon commissioned them to record a full-length album of this new moody sound. The Paranormal is a concentrated vision of myth and mysterious beats, exploring the eerie afterlife side of techno like no other artists have done to date. It is a 10-track vision of ghosts and goblins hiding in the closet (or lurking in the dark corners of the dancefloor), ready to scare the daylights out of you. Using dark funk, ghoulish atmospheres, quizzical beats, growling, ominous vocal stabs and futuristic production, Voodeux is staking their claim as the next generation of American techno. The Paranormal is Halloween on wax, and a minimal techno masterwork for the modern underworld.
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MSHIP 015EP
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Like the alien skull that adorns its cover, Voodeux's Bones EP is certainly from another place and time. Reach for "Bones" if you want to rip the crowd's heads off. Burly slabs of bass rain down while crystalline atmospherics splinter. "Skeleton Key" broadcasts its spidery theme over an ever-evolving, increasingly paranoid chord sequence. Once the kick drops back in, the chords frost over with a layer of ice, smashing through the frame with all the subtlety of a Yeti attack.
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MSHIP 003EP
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"Voodeux is the deep techno moniker of Tanner Ross & KiloWatts (from Dirtybird.) On 'The Curse' Ross & Watts expand their catalog of sound beyond the funk and into the sublime. Instead of swiggles and bounce, we get creeping bass lines and chilling echoes. With 'Thriller' as a distant relative, side A1 makes for the graveyard, zombies in tow, and as the track matures, so do the chills on the back of your spine. 'The Spell' goes one step further, taking the sound of a distant train, shards of ghoul-sound and an ancient wind under a pulsing beat and chiming melodies. It's Halloween on wax. Mike Shannon, founder of Cynosure and master of all things trippy, puts his own well-crafted stamp on this dark sound. Shannon has recorded for ~scape, Force Inc. and many more. And no one's gonna save you from the beats about strike."
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