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RISQUEE 029EP
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Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts is never one to shy away from fresh contrasts in his works, and there are no exceptions here -- all manner of dark-to-light, flacid-to-hard, and identifiable-to-WTF? moments. "Histories Vraies" brilliantly soundtracks the inevitable future moment when a season premiere costumed viewing party for Game Of Thrones unknowingly gets their punch spiked. "Far Is The Field" counterattacks with the next level fusion of Sun Ra Arkestra-esque transmissions wrapped around a Humpty Dance-on-steroids bassline. Long-burner "Whatever's Inside" rocks a sultry belly dancer's theme song at an FM and modular synth bazaar on Uranus.
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RISQUEE 028EP
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These tracks were given to Musique Risquée more than ten years ago and waited since then on a hard drive before they got rediscovered on a boozy night in Tokyo. They have not aged a bit.
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RISQUEE 027EP
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Hailing from the rank depths of SF Bay Area back-alleys and the grittiest rundown nightclubs and dive bars, DJ Milanesa Especial's sleazy magic is finally here for the world to behold. Fellow Yay Area freak and veteran fan of all things slightly askew for the dancefloor Dave Aju, managed to get DJ Milanesa in the studio for this nasty ass jam of the highest/lowest order. "Chili Dog" surely finds its inspiration in the classic Dance Mania cannon of raw shit-talking party-rocking house trax, but Aju's unique knob twists and turns here and there on co-production steers it clear into 2015.
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RISQUEE 025EP
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Akufen is back in great shape with some new original material for his own label Musique Risquée -- the only label where you can find these unidentified musical objects. Five tracks of swinging, melodic madness like only Akufen can craft. If these songs don't bring you a smile, well, too bad for you.
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RISQUEE 024EP
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Yoshihiro Hanno's project Radiq has beautifully evolved over the last years. From his more dubby, chilled-out experiments to his present housier sound, one thing always remains: his music has the natural feel of groove and rhythm, and it can't be clearer than on this EP for Musique Risquée. From the groove of "Gun Street Shuffle" to the soulful "Pharaohe" to the funky "Stolen Moments," this EP has it all.
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RISQUEE 023EP
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Stephen Beaupré is back on Musique Risquée with a really solid record. "Gl'amour" bears his distinctive signature with a subtle use of vocals and strings colored with warm echoes layered over a big and chunky drum beat. On the flipside, "When You Have It" is an excellent way to summarize Stephen's electrifying live sets: funky, melodic hypnotic and sexy.
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RISQUEE 022EP
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Jichael Mackson is now back on Musique Risquée with 2 great songs. "Locus Pocus" is what you can call a hard-edged, hypnotic techno track: loopy, bleepy, trippy and squiddly-diddly. "Sugar Hill Mountain" is what you can call a deep, warm and moody ambient song: shiny, airy, velvety and mushy-gushy. Check it yourselves. It's really worth the listening as it was worth the waiting.
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RISQUEE 021EP
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The Mole is back on Musique Risquée with his 3rd EP. Each track is a story about dreams. "Dreamer" is this weird one you can't get rid of, with an annoying voice following you around everywhere. "Oh My Stomach" is the mysterious black & white dream, with cigar reek and bad whiskey breath. "Last Ditch" is the action-packed one, with a car chase and the usual neverending sex scene at the end. You wake up, and the record is over.
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RISQUEE 020EP
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Musique Risquée presents Guillaume And The Coutu Dumonts' The Pussy Shepherd EP. The title track was licensed for Sebo K's mix CD for Watergate Records.
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RISQUEE 019EP
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Others is the new project from Bruno Pronsato and funk master Daze Maxim -- a collaborative work that studies the possibilities of saxophone and trumpet sound within a techno/house frame. This project explores the melodic possibilities of the instruments, which are processed to widen their scope. "Take 1" focuses on the wide palette of the saxophone, floating, fleeting and flocculating over 9 minutes. "Take 2" is constructed around the trumpet, showcasing its more virile, twisting side. Completely unique.
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RISQUEE 018EP
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San Francisco's Sutekh (aka Seth Horvitz) and Kit Clayton (aka Joshua Kit Clayton) are Pigeon Funk, and the veteran West Coast glitch kingpins have delivered an angular and crazed version of 23rd-century funk from an ultra-robotic future. These are the 3 most funky tracks from The Largest Bird in the History of the Planet... Ever! record, with a remix by Dave Aju that captures the melodic essence of the original but twisted in a way that will make any Pharaoh groove in his sarcophagus.
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RISQUEE 018CD
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San Francisco natives Sutekh (aka Seth Horvitz) and Kit Clayton (aka Joshua Kit Clayton) are Pigeon Funk, and the glitch kingpins have delivered an angular and crazed version of 23rd-century funk from an ultra-robotic future. Get ready for The Largest Bird In The History Of The Planet... Ever!. For those who are already familiar with the work of the two men involved, this second Pigeon Funk album should come as no surprise: the duo specialize in top-drawer, maximalist playfulness, angular funk with blocks of squirms, whistles, horns, Latino squabbles, and faux-lounge robotics tripping over each other in a sonic playground that reveals new dimensions with every listen. The Largest Bird In The History Of The Planet... Ever! is a braindancer's delight, well within the label's tradition of surrealist mindbending for the dancefloor. This 12-track voyage through the wild imaginations of the West-Coast vanguard is a bible for serious beat manipulators hell-bent on putting a smile on the listener's face. This is no ordinary techno album; the two producers at the helm here are godfathers of the San Francisco techno scene and, as a result, have an impeccable track record of frothing personality. Though many of you may remember Pigeon Funk being a trio on their 2004 Proptronix/Onitor co-release Proptronix Presents: Pigeon Funk!, the funksters now return as a lean duo; however, they enlist a host of collaborators on various tracks, including vocalists, instrumentalists, and even a klezmer ensemble. But Pigeon Funk is all pedigree. Kit Clayton, who owns the Orthlorng Musork label, has four albums to his name, including the 1999 cult-classic Nek Sanalet on ~scape. He has recorded for Background, Mille Plateaux, Plug Research, and Carpark among others over his decade-long career in computer music. Sutekh, who has spent the last few years recording for the always-quality Soul Jazz and Leaf labels, is the producer behind full-length demented techno monsters like 2000's Periods.Make.Sense and 2002's Incest Live, two gems that appeared on Force Inc. at the height of the Frankfurt's label's heyday. And they aren't kidding when they claim this album to be The Largest Bird In The History Of The Planet... Ever! Funk has yet to meet the talons of a pigeon this big, and the outcome is bound to be messy, loud, and unprecedented.
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RISQUEE 017EP
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Knowing Looks is the project of Jason Hopfner, a unique, atypical electronic artist. Originally from the wilds of the Canadian prairies, he now resides in Toronto. Uzbekistan Love is a tribute to a trip to Uzbekistan. From the rolling hypnotic groove of "1x100=Moon," to the bumpy, melancholic rhythm of "Party Mortality," to the building crescendo of "Hyperthymestic Syndrome," his musical palette shows he has a great taste for drum programming and a clear sense of surprise.
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RISQUEE 015.1EP
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Les Gans is the first of the two singles taken from the stellar album Face à L'est by Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts. These two tracks (until now only available on CD) were kept off the LP in order to give them a special remix. On the A-side, you'll find the original version of "Les Gans," a beautifully-crafted moody house tune with an Afro-jazz sensibility. Audio Werner dives into the dub on his remix, augmented by Hayden Chisholm's saxophone.
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RISQUEE 015.2EP
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The second edition of a two-part 12" release by Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts from their Face à L'est full-length. The original version of "They Only Come Out At Night" features gentle piano stabs, floating vocals and smooth percussion that will keep you dancing. The remix by Horror Inc. (aka Akufen) feels like being underwater only to surface with a bubbly bass line, powerful chords, a gorgeous bell melody and vocals that would make Brian Wilson jealous.
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RISQUEE 016EP
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After being released a couple of years ago on an American indie rock label, it is time to bring back Akufen's remix of "Supa Doopa" from the now-disbanded Les Georges Leningrad. With a completely new and much-improved mastering and a nice full side cut, this track brings us back to the funky swinging side of Akufen's music, with his usual crazy voice cut-ups, groovy piano stabs and solid driving drum programming, recalling Herbert's craziest moments.
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RISQUEE 015CD
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This is the debut full-length album by Montréal's Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts. Since the turn of the millennium, Guillaume Coutu Dumont has established himself as a near Svengali-esque character within the group of musicians associated with Montreal's Mutek festival. Though the festival's influence has spawned countless creative collaborations, none of the other players have made their own voice heard so clearly amongst the comedic madness said collaborations have so often produced. Whether working alongside Julien Roy as Egg, David Fafard as Luci, Ernesto Ferrerya as Chic Miniature, or under Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts moniker, a distinctive blend of classic house sensibilities and crystal clear digital production techniques have always revealed his unmistakable creative influence. Though classically-trained as a percussionist, his productions to date have seemed to draw greater influence from his academic research in electro-acoustics then any long-forgotten rhythmic tradition. In searching for the inspiration for his debut album, Face à L'est, Guillaume Coutu Dumont spent several months in Senegal, living with a family of musicians and traveling around the country with a jazz ensemble. It was during this trip that he became "deeply impressed by the relation between music and movement." It is this exact relationship which clearly leads the way through Face à L'est's various rhythmic excursions. Whether drawing inspiration from field recordings made of the morning in Sael Desert, or simply the happy nights spent Dakar, or the impossibly hot Harmattan winds, Guillaume Coutu Dumont weaves a rich tapestry of organic percussion and futuristic textures into an inescapably funky rhythmic whole. A debut album not to be missed.
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RISQUEE 013EP
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The Mole is back on Musique Risquée with a beautiful introspective three-tracker. The opening track ''I've Got My A'' is an upper-mid-tempo, Theo Parrish-style, tribal house groove. "Thanks For Coming Out Pt.1" is a sweet little anthem building up slowly and softly. It reminds of the Twin Peaks soundtrack, with lush keyboard pads supported by a smooth drum pattern. Finally, "Border Times" is a soulful, reggae-styled club track that will make its way into the playlist of many DJs.
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RISQUEE 011LP
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2006 release, double LP version. This is Montreal-based Stephen Beaupré's (half of duo Crackhaus) first full-length solo album, after two 12" releases on Musique Risquee and ~scape. A fistful of soul combined with snappy tunes. The CD version is on the Mutek label.
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RISQUEE 014EP
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"Musique Risquée is proud to introduce a new artist on its roster for this fourteenth release: Munich's best kept secret, Jichael Mackson. This release has come a long way since Jichael handed a CDR to label owner Marc Leclair (Akufen) on his last trip to Munich. Since then, Marc has played the hell out of these three tracks in his numerous DJ sets around the planet, getting fantastic reactions everywhere. Michael Reinboth (of Compost Records) has been harassing Jichael about the release of this new fabulous EP for months now. We understand clearly why. ...Wasn't Me crosses many different genres, from the opening 'The Grass Is Always Greener' that features slick deep grooves reminding old Basic Channel material, to 'Freitag Abend RMX' that we are proud to put back into circulation again after being sold out on Pastamusik and the long incursion in the dark fjords of his mind through the track 'Snuff' that he co-produced with Ole Larsson, an unknown producer from Iceland."
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RISQUEE 011EP
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Remixes by Dimbiman, Ark, & The Mole. "When we asked the 3 remixers which track they wanted to remix off of Stephen Beaupré's great album Foe Destroyer for Musique Risquée, it was without hesitation that everyone chose 'Les Filles.' The deep soothing sounds and rhythms of 'Les Filles 'is an instant favorite amongst all who had the chance to experience the album. It was an immense pleasure for us to let Dimbiman, Ark and The Mole dig into Stephen's material and make it their own, creating three very unique interpretations on the oldest source of inspiration known to man: 'Les Filles!' Dimbiman's remix kicks off the superb record with a deep bass-driven punch, building gradually into a glorious funky ending, reminding us why he's so masterful in creating groove from space in between rhythms. Ark's remix comes in with a rougher approach, more syncopated and creating a simple funky jam out of snippets of percussion and pitched down vocals for full dancefloor effect. Finally, The Mole closes everything beautifully with a long, twirling discofied version of 'Les Filles' that will hypnotize any listener on the planet."
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RISQUEE 012EP
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"It is with immense joy that we present for the first time on Musique Risquée the Montreal/Argentinian duo Chic Miniature, composed of Ernesto Ferreyra and Gabriel Coutu-Dumont (Egg, Luci, Guillaume and the Coutu-Dumont) with their EP Poco-a-Gogo. As their alias so aptly reveals, Chic Miniature fabricates intricately sculpted little gems, finely-crafted works that unravel like finely woven lace. Their delicate structures and warm spellbinding melodies trigger rich imagery while fervently rousing the desire to groove. 'Chanchita' plunges us directly into an electropical jungle where fractured voice and percussion bustle around an elegant succession of elements woven into a slow progression both organic and sexy. An aural oasis. The warm and sensuous piece 'Kimono' will leave no trace of indifference. The magnificent and obscure quasi-mystical Latin melodies, the unmistakable signature of Chic Miniature, reveal an immense sensitivity and sensuality. All is strung together by a solid rhythmic structure that will surely move your feet before the information even reaches your brain. 'Kimono' invites us on an expedition through the furrows of certain unknown somber terrains, such as an unmarked seductive mirage at the heart of a desert where anything can transpire. A classic."
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RISQUEE 010EP
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"Who could have been more appropriate as a guest on Musique Risquée than mister Uwe Schmidt himself, man of a thousand faces and one beige suit. I'm sure like Clark Kent he has seven of them in his closet. Also like Kent, Uwe Schmidt bares a secret identity. The mighty Atom Heart who has been rescuing our ears and heads for two decades with some of the craftiest, freshest and most diversified electronic musak ever. This time, Sir Atom TM has reinvented our good old wheel, and replaced it for one that squeaks and skips for better mixing accidents. The humoristic piece on the B-side 'Insulting the DJ' is in fact the ultimate DJ testdrive for those who like to cruise at 200 kilometres per hour on a gravel road next to a cliff. For the adventurous daredevil DJ in you, or simply for those who enjoy music with an edge and a dash of humor. For the safest Sunday deckdriver, the A-side proposes a four lane asphalted road. The piece 'Form Swallows Function' keeps the pedal to the metal while slowly evolving into a deep and hypnotic journey on a lost highway. Many people out there could claim they've reinvented the wheel, but only one man rethought it everyday of his life. The music speaks for itself. Atom has done it again. The wheels are in motion."
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RISQUEE 009EP
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"Alex Kaline and Edward Krilov, two Russian guys from New York. Let them explain the new EP in their own words: 'Mugen Vugen' and space between, or conceptualization of its opposite. Taken to ultimate logic, we cannot experience ourselves as what we are until encountered what we are not. This is the purpose of the theory of relativity, and all physical life. This seems so amazingly simple, yet it becomes very complex and subtle here. There are some people are willing to actually listen. They are willing to hear, and they are willing to remain open to communication even when it seems scary, or crazy, or downright wrong, asking for something fucked up and out off straight line, without theological doctrines or scientific theories. At the end of the light day, 'Mugen Vugen' retires to the state of righteousness and compliance as the stock markets crash in the distance. A mind lock error and the hope of the human race... what's wrong?"
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RISQUEE 007EP
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"Risquee presents the future of R'n'B before they throw with some big beats at you. Weird as weird can be."
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