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RESORT 003EP
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$18.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 4/4/2025
Isolée is best known for his early work, the now '90s classic "beau mot plage" (1998), included on his first album Rest (2000). Allowance (2013) on DJ Koze's Pampa Label, Pisco (2016) on Mano le Tough's label Maeve, and the launch of his own label Resort Island with his fourth album Resort Island in 2023 are the highlights to date. "Love Algorithm," the first single title, pulls listeners into the rabbit hole of social media. In this deep house track Isolée embraces the unpredictable. The slacker who takes things at his own pace. He leisurely lets some vocal debris wail through the track, and fans might recognize a Kerri Chandler vibe in the background textures, maybe more obvious in the stripped-down B-side "3rd Places Dub" version. "OMG So Random" seems old-scool, not boosting the tempo. Though not being "fast," this track is pushing and powerful. Its classy dub sounds and textures put up against some scratchy, seemingly exotic, flute-like instruments make this track less obvious to categories than it might seem at first. It marries the reflection of a contemplative tune with the quality to be a dance track. On "Chopstick!," the third and final single, the bass line dominates, too. Isolée rediscovered one of his analog '80s Roland synthesizers, the MKS30, which creates that distinctive thudding sound. This track picks up the pace the most.
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RESORT 002LP
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isolée's fourth album, Resort Island, is a record as that's in turns hazy and thumping, euphoric and melancholy, always delivered in brilliant splashes of color. "coco's visa" sets the tone, its soft chords lapping against the drums like waves against a dock. Gentle moments like this and the exquisitely bittersweet "let's dence" offset dreamlike club tracks of the kind only German artist Rajko Müller could make. "rumour", the album's first single, is all ghostly strings and loping synths, a mellow joy-ride in magic hour light. isolée need not apologize for this flirtation with the sound of French touch on "pardon my French" (second single). It has the key elements that give the best disco and disco-flavored house records their magic: impossibly smooth bass tones connect perfectly plump kick drums, a strutting rhythm, glittering synths, all joining forces to give you the feeling of having a supremely, impossibly good time. On Resort Island, it's a vacation within a vacation, an artist so skilled at subtle, ambiguous moods going for straight up bliss, just this one time. "canada balsam", the third single from Resort Island is "Canada Balsam," a dreamlike club track of the kind only isolée could make. The beat is taut and punchy, a welcome echo of the minimalist flair of his early records. The rest draws from the lush sonic palette he's perfected since then: vaporous chords, swirling hand percussion, a subtly dramatic earworm melody that almost sounds plucked from a harp. It's the kind of tune that brings a wash of technicolor onto the dancefloor, a cool breeze riding on a perfectly tight groove.
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RESORT 001EP
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One for a sundowner: "Rumour" is the first single of isolée's upcoming album resort island, his first proper long-player since 2011's Well Spent Youth on Pampa Records (PAMPA 001CD). With its glittering strings and buzzing bass "Rumour" feels like a warm embrace. The groove as well as its textures and soundscapes will take you (and you friends) out there to resort island watching a vast mirror ball rising up over the horizon. The EP Rumour sees the release on isolée's own new record label Resort Island and comes with an exclusive, epic B-side track entitled "Seven Eleven" that will not be on the album. This is deep in thought house music that levitates between intoxicated ecstasy and escapism.
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