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PFR WHITE06
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NYC's Adultnapper presents Slowly, a typically spooked-out 2-tracker from the East Coast's master of the dark and funky arts. The title track is full of the type of crazy textural landscapes that have become synonymous with Adultnapper's bass-infected sound. Jazz-influenced hooks, sultry vocals and horns-a-plenty, it all makes for an incredible workout. "Gold And Forgetting" is a touch more mysterious, with a floating, Chicago-esque synth theme at its tender heart. Nine minutes of pure and precious metallic sheen.
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AM 038EP
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Adultnapper turns in a freaky two-tracker using a timeless electronic sound palette. "Almost Nothing" is a reduced spacer that features endless, tweaked-out studio trickery. Haunting smatterings of melody, synths and funky vocals drop in and out as this deep, acidic groover charms you from the inside-out. Patrick Chardronnet's remix also begins on a reduced, textural tip, yet builds into an organ-led climax. "White Fingers Black Hair" features a meandering groove, jacked-up with dirty hats and a playful synth theme.
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NUMMER 031EP
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"Compass Rose: Beware. When Adultnapper is at the controls, what often starts out innocently enough as a thick dub rhythm, proves, by the end, to be something entirely more nefarious. On Compass Rose, Adultnapper is up to no good again, wooing the listener with gently pulsating kicks and snappy hats before foreboding tidbits of well placed noise that open the door for an insistent pad rising ever so slowly from the nether regions of consciousness. Like the onset of a migraine, the groove tightens around the pad until its mass obliterates all else... and then, just like that, it melts away to reveal a sweet melodic surprise that is sure to unleash a wave of euphoric emotion on the dance floor. 'Lugubrious': File under surrealist sci-fi soundtracks for the club. Rich with strange atmospherics, listening to 'Lugubrious' evokes scenes of Barbarella exploring an Yves Tanguy landscape, only our heroine had better hurry back to her ship before that sinister sounding synth catches up to her!"
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AM 035EP
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NYC's leader in hi-tech mindplay Adultnapper, brings us more of his dark and addictive electronic funk. "Madeleine" is a cooly focused, dark, yet sweet grind, giving way to twisting wires and electro-acoustic energy as a catchy theme is constructed from broken stings and ghostly, junked pianos. "One Room" is a complex, jacked and blissfully melodic jam that is versatile, but cries out to be played at sunrise! Gregor Tresher transforms the original's gentler sentiments into a peak-time, bouncing techno treat.
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AM 032EP
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Following Audiomatique 2.0 mixed by Adultnapper, here's one more helping of fresh house and techno, with remixes by Samuel L. Session and Ben Watt. Joel Mull's For "Red Light of Dawn," SLS turns in two peak-time techno tools, overloaded with power and energy. "The Drums" mix holds things steady, while "The Melody" mix fills the room. Watt's edit of The Viewers' "Streethorn" is a journey through a deep world of hissing percussion and synth hooks.
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AM 003CD
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After the devastating excellence of Audiomatique Volume 1.0, mixed by venerable label don Martinez, it's time for the masters to reclaim their techno crown. Steve Bug's imprint Audiomatique is back with a second label compilation, seamlessly blended by NYC's arch tech selector, Adultnapper. Audiomatique Volume 2.0 is a descent into the deepest realms of electronic rhythm, veering from the spare, crisp minimalism of Gui Boratto and Martin Eyerer's "The Beach," to the moody, strobe-lit melancholia of M_nus producer Gaiser's "Found Guilty Mix" of Adultnapper's own "Juror No. 9." A perfect snapshot of the label's diverse roster, Adultnapper subtly builds the mix from stripped-back, echoing grooves to tougher, club-battering technoid epics. Electronic music's brightest flames -- Trentemøller, Robert Babicz, Joris Voorn, Martin Eyerer, Gui Boratto, Martinez and Adultnapper -- all contribute to Audiomatique's formidable reputation, weighing in with their heaviest tracks. Audiomatique Volume 2.0 also features no fewer than eight new, exclusive and unreleased tracks by Robert Babicz, Martinez, Adultnapper, Boratto & Eyerer, The Viewers, Joel Mull and Mikael Jonasson: six on the CD and three more on the 12"s. Adultnapper's mix illustrates the electronic zeitgeist, and offers a glimpse of where house and techno are heading in the future. Other artists include: Stephan Hinz and Alexi Delano.
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AM 030EP
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12" vinyl version, part 1. Featuring full unmixed vinyl versions of tracks from the new Adultnapper mix CD on Audiomatique. Artists include The Viewers, Robert Babicz, Joel Mull, and Mikael Jonasson.
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AM 031EP
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12" vinyl version, part 2. Featuring full unmixed vinyl versions of tracks from the new Adultnapper mix CD on Audiomatique. Artists include Martin Eyerer & Stephan Hinz, Martinez, Alexi Delano, and Adultnapper.
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AM 026EP
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This is Francis Harris aka Adultnapper, with his second EP on Audiomatique. With its stoic bass line and freaky synths, "Juror No. 9" builds very subtly and creates a dense, claustrophobic atmosphere. With its devilish vocals, freaky sounds and a dirty bass, "Brandy McLeod" is an even darker dancefloor weapon. Jon Gaiser does remix duty, inducing a percussive, minimal rhythm which turns the track into a highly intoxicating floor-filler.
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RNPT 002EP
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"The results are immediate and obscure all alternatives. The most miniscule motion portends a proliferation of susceptible affects dancing across an amaranthine fold. I am at that particular physical place within the anatomy of doubt where distance has little to do with the movement between two points. The distinctions between objects and their naming is merely the residue immediacy that courses like a doomed circuit all through and around me. A fractured Anima. An Apostate waning. The waves ever shortening. If I do return it will be through no force of my own."
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MULE 024EP
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"In the past two years, Francis Harris has zapped his way toward the top of the dance culture energy grid in New York City with a deft ability to find tracks and create mixes that fuel his experimental and innovative spirit."
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AM 012EP
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"The Adultnapper is Francis Harris from Brooklyn, New York, a shrewd & clever coeval who reveals his vision of modern electronic dance music on his first EP for Audiomatique entitled Gravity EP -- three new cold twinkling Techno tracks. The well-read producer carefully chose the track names which refer to what he considers as greatest novel of the 20th century: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Much of his relationship with music coincides with his love of literature. When he is working on tunes, he tends to have a specific project or concept in mind. At the time, he was thinking of some specific moments in the novel and this music came to mind. The first track an the a-side named 'Fodder Feeder' refers to the material production of knowledge in media and capital, a feedback loop of control that works in its apparent flaws and mistakes. If one notices, the main synth that comes in is a bit odd and almost out of time, but works in a grinding sort of way. 'Metabulia' on b1 is the living organism that is no organism at all. Just the illusion of humanity as projected by the fodder feeder (the word doesn't even exist). And 'Slothrop' on b2 is actually the main character in Gravity's Rainbow. Now you know."
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MULE 012EP
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"In the four short years he has been DJing, Francis Harris has made a significant impact on dance music culture. Through the co-production of one New York's premier club events, Overboard, and now with the launch of his much anticipated label, Matter-Form records, along with his own house production with production partner Erich Lee, Francis has established himself as a driving force behind New York's burgeoning tech-house scene."
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