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MULE 087EP
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This is the second single cut from the collaborative album from Minilogue & Koss aka Kuniyuki, The Möllan Sessions. The original version of "Hello People Of Earth!" is cinematic ambient jazz which recalls the sound of ECM. The Earth Tone mix is a club-friendly dance edit, like a mixture of Mathew Jonson and Âme. The original version of "Coming Home" is epic, psychedelic techno, and this edit version is like a DJ tool, for fans of Ricardo Villalobos.
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MULE 086EP
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Mule Electronic presents the fantastic new artist Benedikt Frey. The title track features super-deep Detroit house sounds with smoky male vocals. Should be especially fascinating for fans of Theo Parrish or Moodymann or even DJ Koze. All the other tracks are also high quality stuff. Featuring contributions from Chris Cox and Simon Mager.
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MULE 085EP
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Mule Electronic welcomes old friend Andreas aka Swell Session/Statless/Andreas Saag. Andreas is a well-known artist in the nu jazz scene and has already released lots of great material. Recently he moved to Berlin from Gothenburg, Sweden and into more electronic music. This time he teamed up with friend Cazuma, who has previously released two singles on Berlin label Kurbits Records. Both tracks are high quality modern house music.
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MULE 084EP
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This is the second release by Sweden's KAB on Mule Electronic, whose psychedelic pure techno house is supported by Minilogue at all times. "Trust" on A1 is his trademark hypnotic dance track. If you like the production of Minilogue or Mathew Johnson or Stefan Goldmann, you will love this track. Includes a remix by Sebastian Mullaert. Don't miss the floating slow house track "Social Events" on A2.
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MULE 083EP
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2021 restock. After the album Vision Dance (MULE 021CD) on Mule Electronic, Jus-Ed returns with the follow-up single, Flight To Tokyo. "Flight To Tokyo" on the A-side is dark, hypnotic house with a female vocal loop. "The Machine" on the B-side is a typical underground-quality-style deep house track.
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MULE 022CD
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Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson aka Minilogue and Kuniyuki Takahashi aka Koss present a very special joint collaboration. Kuniyuki's friend Toshiya Kawasaki founded in Tokyo his label Mule Musiq only because he wanted to release Kuniyuki's music in order to spread the message that he is one of the most heartfelt contemporary electronic soul musicians in Japan. That was in 2005, and since then, Mule Musiq has given birth to many different partner labels, and built up a multicolored artist family that also consists of the Swedish duo Minilogue. Minilogue member Sebastian Mullaert feels particularly at home in this warm-hearted clan and has released all his solo works so far in the Far East. The two Swedish boys traveled to Tokyo to meet label head honcho Toshiya and perform and share their creative output with him and Japan. Here they met a lot of Toshiya's friends and among them was also Kuniyuki. Some months later in November 2010, Kuniyuki traveled to Europe for a small tour and the Minilogue guys decided to invite their new buddy to their cozy hometown Malmø to share some more music and creative output with the producer and DJ from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Again, it wasn't just an ordinary tourist trip to Scandinavia. This time, they spent five long days and nights together, tightening their friendship in a studio where they jammed without any plan in mind. The result of these sorcerous moments now sees the light of the day with a mostly slow, heartfelt album called The Möllan Sessions -- a record that is made for people who like to fill the room between the notes with their own imagination. Between the sounds of a Rhodes, a Roland TR-808, a Roland SH-101, a Moog Voyager, a Nord lead keyboard, drums, congas, laptops, and lots of other music sources, Minilogue and Koss left enough space for the listeners' individual emotions. Their epic arrangements are practically meditative and everything is enriched with finely-textured stillness, introspection, and calm repose. In-between every now and then, a sweet melody pops up and sometimes a cautious bassline emerges in a pool of free-spirited ideas. This is an album you get drawn into the more you listen -- a symphony of machines and instruments, a blend of contrasting textures -- organic and synthetic, icy and warm, that are hard to pigeonhole due to their true uniqueness.
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MULE 082EP
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This is first single cut from the first collaborative album from Minilogue and Koss. They recorded at Minilogue's studio in Sweden at the end of 2010, then they brought back the recorded parts to add their own touch. One is Minilogue-styled hypnotic tech house with Koss' added warm sounds -- the result is a simple and timeless tune. On the B-side, New York deep houser DJ Qu's remix is a little bit more danceable than original, similar to Lawrence and DJ Koze.
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MULE 081EP
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Fred P aka Black Jazz Consortium's debut release on Mule Electronic. Fred has released music on his own imprint Soul People Music, Jus-Ed's Underground Quality and DJ Qu's Strength Music Recordings. He is well-known as an important artist & DJ in the modern New York house scene. "Soul Music" is a warm deep house tune with some male spoken-word, for fans of Underground Quality or Move D. On the flip, "Black Magic" is a dark and hypnotic tune.
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MULE 021CD
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If you want to write an explicit story about the life of the American producer, label owner, and DJ Edward McKeithen aka DJ Jus-Ed, you will need much more then just one leaf of white paper. At the tender age of 6, he was backing up his grandparents in a jazz duo called Tomi & Eddy, touring from the East to the West coast of the United States as a drummer. Later, he studied percussion instruments for some time at the University of Bridgeport at the young age of 10. His main influences around that period were soul preacher James Brown, jazz drummer Buddy Rich, and a while later, jazz-rock legends Chicago and the sensitive R&B crooner Luther Vandross. In 1982, he embarked on his DJ career, called himself DJ Jus-Ed and played the freestyle rhythms of the times from harsh funk to early house and rough R&B. Due to several intricacies of life that emerge when you party strong, DJ Jus-Ed already retired on New Years' Day of 1985, caused by a combination of substance abuse and other life-threatening factors. After more then fifteen years of doing music on his own, in 2001 he finally reappeared as a producer and DJ with an adventurous, energetic and spiritual style of quality house music that is reminiscent of deep heroes such as Theo Parrish, Moodymann, or Omar-S. Besides the revitalization of his own DJ career and work as an artist, he also launched his own label Underground Quality in 2005, a base for truly original deep house with an edge that doesn't follow any business plan -- just the beat of DJ Jus-Ed's heart and soul. After numerous 12"s and two highly-acclaimed albums on Underground Quality, he now releases his third album Vision Dance on Mule Electronic. As usual for the passionate part-time landscape gardener from Bridgeport, Connecticut, all of his ten arrangements are uncorrupted house gems that avoid heavy make-up in order to give classic house music lovers some undiluted bass pleasure. This time, Jus-Ed has eschewed his customary vocals, producing only instrumental tracks that are kicking a blend of tough, syncopated percussions and ethereal, melodic synth-lines that spread pure dance energy. Whipping handclaps here, dark string-looped atmospheres, minimal piano melodies and euphoric hi-hats there, and a warm, seductive bassline underneath: the formula is simple and effective.
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MULE 080EP
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Mule Electronic welcomes back more of Sebastian Mullaert's solo work. "Älva" is dubby, psychedelic house, sounding like a more techno version of Omar-S. This track will be a great DJ tool for everyone. On the B-side, "Lyssna Då Björkarna Viskar" is peaceful ambient house with the sound of birds singing, discordant piano, trippy synths, etc. -- perfect music for the morning in the club.
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MED 021CD
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Mule Musiq pool their strengths to release an exclusive mix CD by the Swedish heartbreaker Sebastian Mullaert, best known as one-half of the staggering duo Minilogue, called Move The Wave To Your Heart. In order to support all the needy people of Japan that suffered in the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake on March 11, 2011, all earnings from the sale of this record will be donated to Japan's Red Cross Society earthquake fund. Sebastian Mullaert aka Minilogue mixed an 11-track strong charity journey towards the widely-ramified Mule Musiq opus, that travels heartfelt from lively African-influenced house right into the cold, dubby heart of a German techno club. His journey starts tribal with the kalimba percussion-driven house deepness of "Kalimba Dance," produced by Da Capo from South Africa, with the bass-heavy "Japan Japon" rhythm voyage of Mr. Raoul K, the man from the Ivory Coast that lives deep in the north of Germany. One of his brothers in spirit is Culoe De Song, who subsequently opens Minilogue's mix with his emotional house trip "Ambush" towards an atmosphere that slowly grows from a summer-like outdoor party mood into a sweaty, compact club feeling. The first real step into the midnight arena is "Capital City," a killer track by South Africa's Moodswing that perfectly migrates after six breathless minutes into "Shades Of Grey," a cool funk techno excursion by KAB & Mac. From that moment on, Minilogue digs deep in the shallows of the Mule Musiq catalog to find some of his solo and some of his Minilogue tracks like "Älva," "Jakata A," and "Hundraelva" beside arrangements like the touching "The Search And The Breaks." As any DJ with the right feeling for a complete musical trip, Sebastian Mulleart fades out his mix with his airy 12-minute remix of "Ocean Wave," originally produced by Kuniyuki Takahashi aka Koss. A long goodbye that tickles your fancy of more spheric tracks which oscillate between techno and house while taking the term deepness seriously. A stirring mix straight from the heart made for a good cause.
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MULE 078LP
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LP version. Includes CD version.
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MULE 079EP
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This is the debut release from Kassem Mosse under his new moniker Seltene Erden. This new incarnation was started when Mule Electronic asked him to make an ambient song for Mule's ambient compilation Enjoy The Silence. The title track is dubby beatdown house -- like Theo Parrish meets The Orb. "Bayan Obo" is taken from Enjoy The Silence Vol. 2, and sounds peaceful and ambient.
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MULE 077EP
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Lawrence is back on Mule Electronic with four brand new songs. "Teenage Barb" is a hypnotic deep house tune with melancholic piano chords and monotone synth sounds. "Organ Track" is a percussive deep house tune with a modern approach for all deep house lovers. "Above The Sky" is a dance version of "Enjoy The Silence," included on Mule's ambient compilation. This is a very nice ambient house sound with an illusory melody à la Steve Reich.
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MULE 020CD
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Mule Electronic presents their second ambient compilation, featuring Mule regulars such as Koss, Lawrence, Terre Thaemlitz, Sebastian Mullaert (Minilogue) and newcomers such as Kassem Mosse, NSI and Porn Sword Tobacco. The album is kicked off by Koss' "Voyage," which is aesthetic and beautiful, followed by Lawrence's "Floating," which is transient and melancholic. "Krakow 6" from Tobias Freund's NSI is reminiscent of John Cage or Morton Feldman. After you listen to producer Glitterbug's track, you will fall in love with his warm and cinematic sound. Probably the highlight of this album is Terre Thaemlitz's remix of John Cage: it's very beautiful and musical. Next, Japan's Fumiya Tanaka's freestyle project Individual Orchestra features a rare type of ambient music. There's some trippy stuff from Sebastian Mullaert, classical ambient from Italian producer Donato Dozzy and two Lawrence tracks, because the label couldn't decide which one was more beautiful. Seltene Erden is Kassem Mosse's new project, and it is fresh, downtempo stuff, reminiscent of Global Communication or Larry Heard. Lastly is Swedish experimental producer Porn Sword Tobacco with an absolutely perfect ending.
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MULE 076EP
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Mule Electronic presents Swedish artist Alveol aka Ludvig Cimbrelius. Terre Thaemlitz says of this artist: "very nice house music -- sounds like a fusion of DJ Sprinkles and Kuniyuki." "Glitter Path" has a dubby and atmospheric deep house sound. Kassem Mosse's remix of the track is a more playful and mixable version. "Mariposa" is melancholic stuff reminiscent of Larry Heard or Lawrence.
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MULE 075EP
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Minilogue's Marcus Henriksson and KAB (Karl-Axel Bissler) collaborate after their now-unforgettable DJ set at Japan's Labyrinth festival. "Local Report" kicks off the A-side with hypnotic and groovy peak-time tech-house. On the flip, "Shades Of Grey" is dark and psychedelic with a modern touch, perfect for fans of Ricardo Villalobos and Mathew Jonson.
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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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MULE 073EP
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Mule Electronic presents a single cut from Sebastian Mullaert's (aka Minilogue) first mix CD, WaWuWe (MULE 019CD). The title track is in a very similar style to Minilogue -- hypnotic and groovy and a perfect DJ tool for the dark dancefloor. On "Music Becomes A Function," Sebastian shows his more musical side with some ambient house reminiscent of Thomas Fehlmann or Lawrence.
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MULE 019CD
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Mule Electronic proudly announces the first mix CD from Sebastian Mullaert of Minilogue. Swedish duo Minilogue have released on highly-acclaimed labels such as Cocoon, Wagon Repair, and Mule Electronic and they have become one of the best techno artists in the world. Minilogue have two sides to their work: dance-oriented music and ambient music. As a result, Mullaert has collected moodier and slower tracks for CD1, while CD2 features a peak-time selection. There are also many exclusive new songs here, including Mullaert's first solo production and the first collaborative track between Minilogue and Koss. This mix CD is mixed live without a computer -- the seamless computer mix is sometimes good for home listening, but this live mix definitely has more soul and emotion. CD1 kicks off with Sebastian's own track and he mixed in his favorite psychedelic ambient house, such as the new release from Donato Dozzy and his friend KAB and The Mole. CD2 is faster and boasts a more pumping, clubby sound. Other artists include: Claudio Fabrianesi, Leftover, Roger Gerressen, El Txef A, STL, Darko Esser, Black Jazz Consortium, Gunnar Jonsson, The Machine, Âme, Joe Claussell, Oleg Poliakov, Jerome Sydenham & Dennis Ferrer, Rejected, Cobblestone Jazz, Mike Dehnert, Marlon D, Samuel L. Session, Argy, The Black Dog, Daniel Mehlhart, NSI, Cio D'or and XDB.
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MULE 072EP
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Foog is a project by Japanese veteran producer Yukihiro Fukutomi and "Open Your Eyes" is a cover version of Marshall Jefferson's house classic. Has received support from Michael Mayer and Ewan Pearson, amongst others. This 12" illustrates a modern approach to Chicago house music.
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MULE 071EP
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This is the 2nd release by Canadian producer Basic Soul Unit on Mule Electronic. "Night Heat" is a melodic and playful Detroit-ish house track. On the B-side, Fred P aka Black Jazz Consortium remixes, almost cutting off the melody to make a more DJ tool version. It fits perfectly in a dark club. If you like the sound of Underground Quality releases or that kind of house music, you will definitely need to check this out.
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MULE 070EP
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This is the first release from Italian producer Donato Dozzy on the Mule Electronic label, who has releases on various labels such as Prologue, Time To Express, and Curle, to name a few. This time, Donato invited his friend Claudio Fabrianesi. The music from this collaboration is very different, sounding somewhat like Larry Heard, Theo Parrish, or slow-mo house producers like Mark E.
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MULE 069EP
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Ekkohaus aka Kostas Tassopoulos is a Greece-born and now Berlin-based producer, and his debut release on Mule Electronic contains two modern, deep-house sounds. "Almost Definately" with its vocal samples and piano loops sounds like a modern remake of "Mood II Swing." "Haunted House" is dirty Chicago house-influenced tech house. Both tracks are very playful if you like the sound of modern deep house or early '90s house.
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MULE 068EP
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Koss' own remix of "Ocean Waves" is a beautiful slow house sound. New track "Mercury Dub" is trippy and psychedelic but still sounds organic. This is Koss' most club-friendly track. The highlight of this EP is a remix by Swedish duo Minilogue. It's hypnotic and groovy and a perfect tool for the dark club.
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