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CORR 066EP
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Mexico-based composer Man Power returns to Correspondant with three truly singular trips. "The Zen Of Xen" comes in two segued parts, comprising almost 13 minutes of full intergalactic immersion. It's laced with the alluring deep-dream vocals of Tel Aviv's Xen, anchored with tripped-out humanized harmonics and weaved with soaring pads. "Heart For Yes. Life For No" will have you spitting rainbow emojis all night. An incredible piece of vibrant melodic techno rooted in synthesis, galvanized with emotive layers, driven by feels setting you up perfectly for the fantastical finale "Hubris". Cosmic, soft-focused, sparkling but topped with a choral chant.
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DGTL 003EP
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Man Power presents the three-track Apologue EP. "The Duelist", is an emotive house record, with a soundscape of piano melodies, synths, and syncopated percussion laid on top of an acid bassline. "El Mago Del Tiempo" features heavy hitting kicks, a sharp synth pattern, and a long build up that keeps evolving. The B side's "Put Your Hands On The Car (And Get Ready To Die)" brings back memories of a long gone past with nods to Balearic pop, EBM, and the Soundtrack work of Stewart Copeland, James Horner, and Jan Hammer.
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OT 029EP
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Newcastle-born, Mexico-based Man Power debuts on Optimo Trax with two psycho-sonic missives cuts, extra loud for optimum sound system performance. Man Power on the release: "Both tracks sound different, but they're both from the same place in as much as they represent a conscious effort by me to strip back some of unnecessary niceties in my music and really sharpen my focus on what makes people dance without crossing the fine line of what makes me sound like me."
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CORR 052EP
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Correspondant present a release of remixes for Man Power's self-titled debut LP (CORR 001LP, 2015), featuring artists and friends hand-picked by both Jennifer Cardini and Man Power himself. Moscoman remixes the baggy splendor of "Beilsteiner", creating a rolling and belching extended opus more focused toward the peak time dancefloor. Suade replaces the Balearic leanings "TEN" with an IDM sensibility, yet still retains the optimism of the original track. JMII takes "Hunting Swan" and turns it inside-out, exploring space with a cerebral, schizophrenic quality. Alternatively, Pale Blue (Mike Simonetti) takes "Boys Beware" and re-imagines it as an aggressive drum workout.
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CORR 043EP
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The Planet Cock EP represents some of Man Power's most dance-floor directed work to date, veering from the arpeggiated big room techno-funk of "Stunt Cock", to the stuttering analog stomping of "The Temple", and rounded off by some breaked-up-neo-electro-with-a-middle-eastern-twist (?) as displayed on "Pig Baron".
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CORR 001LP
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Man Power presents his self-titled debut album, the first album on Correspondent. Since first appearing as an anonymous online presence in 2013, Man Power has released original music and remixes on a wide range of labels including Hivern Discs, Throne of Blood, Voyeurhythm, Ene Tokyo, and, of course, Correspondant, the home of the majority of his original musical output. While his work to date has displayed a notable range of tempos and textures, his eponymous debut album sees him take a step further away from the dancefloor and offers a deeper exploration of his left-field influences, with an almost-pop sensibility that manages to swing back and forth between doleful and playful over the course of the album's compact 50 minutes. Citing touchstones as diverse as Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, and Tangerine Dream, as well as dealing in shades of jazz, techno, and balearica, the album manages to speak in a number of voices, but still ultimately communicates as one singular whole. This is not merely a collection of club tracks, hastily compiled and capable of living in abstraction, but instead a true album wherein each element services the finished document, and in which each track provides further context for that which precedes it. "Bielsteiner" features M.Rolfe.
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CORR 026EP
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Man Power delivers the Kiloton EP for Correspondant's 26th release. The 12" opens with Balearic beats and chugging 303 acid, summoning a soca-style saxophone intervention, then stirring discordant synths into a sonic whirlpool. In his outerworld rework, Hardway Bros' Brit Sean Johnston pitches down the original, swerving into low-slung '80s styling and leaving behind galactic static. "Parenthesis" is built around samples from a '71 conversation between critical philosophers Chomsky and Foucault and features escalating, acid-drenched pulses, distorted echoes, and distended synths. Raudive turns out a cold-blooded, high-octane rework of "Parenthesis," his minimalist composition placing a driving kick drum at the core.
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