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COR 112EP
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Minilogue are known for their larger-than-life electronic music adventures, and "The Island of If" comes with a slightly reduced play-time that manages to stop the clock at 11 minutes and 49 seconds. The track is a bit like a winter version of "Knights of the Jaguar" and offers big potential to be one the first hits of 2014. "Nothing Is Lost" features the duo hammering out a breathtaking epic monster that is reminiscent of the highly-acclaimed remix by The Mole of Minilogue's "Hispaniola." Everybody who fell in love with Mole's remix back then will hear pure heaven again with this masterpiece.
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COR 033CD
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Since their foundation in the year 1997, Marcus Henriksson and Sebastian Mullaert aka Minilogue emerged to one of the most respected and hard to pigeonhole electronic music acts world-wide. House, techno, ambient, trance, and lately jazz, are equal parts in their creations. The most effective proof for their musical universalism was marked in 2008 with the release of their debut album Animals (COR 016CD/LP) on Cocoon. Since then, a string of EPs on labels like Mule, Wagon Repair, Traum Schallplatten, and their own imprint Minilogue continued their story in sound in which everything is made out of the present moment. Also the jazz-infused album Bring Out the Imps that they recorded under the alias IMPS with two jazz musicians and a heartfelt collaboration album with the Japanese producer Kuniyuki entered their discography. And between all their work they constantly performed their intense improvised live shows all around the globe. Privately they formed themselves a life far beyond the big city lights, out in the Swedish woods in the north of Malmö. In the past five years they meet every now and then when they felt like hooking up in the studio, jamming on their equipment without a clear goal in mind and recording each unique moment that was guided by the experience of the single day of life that marked their souls when they came together. They went through the archives from these sessions and their second album Blomma emerged. The Swedish word "blomma" represents two meanings in one: to bloom and the flower -- this heterogeneous album does not work like a regularly formatted club music album. It comes in two parts that both have two faces that are constantly shifting: dance-oriented rhythm parts and airy, layered ambient atmospheres -- always intensely tuneful, musical, and shapely. No ego can be heard and all grooves, melodies, field-recordings, samples, and chords work like a single color of a musical painting that is full of versatile electric elements and unnatural sounds. Nothing you hear on the album is edited or post produced -- it all sounds exactly like it was when the atoms of these two individuals danced together. The result is a record with no real beginning or end. Six-panel digipak with 20-page booklet.
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TRAUM 147EP
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Traum presents some top remixes of tracks from Minilogue. The "Drop The Mask Of Self Protection" remix of Dominik Eulberg is a bit of an adventure, kicking off a relaxed percussive and deep house groove and undergoing quite an explosive transformation. With a lot of skill and finesse, Mr. Eulberg pulls the strings with accuracy and makes the transfer of what unfolds to be a heavy, big-pounding techno rocker. Other remixes from Microtrauma and Spada.
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TRAUM 146EP
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Minilogue's "Let Life Dance Thru You" reveals itself as a "safari" of live played percussion, instruments and sounds. The duo create here a biotope of sounds that interact with each other -- like a live band would do -- at times almost Arabesque-sounding, this track is full of mysterious soundscapes, like a spiritual "voodoo session" from the '70s. "Drop The Mask Of Self Protection" could be described as a soundtrack for Apocalypse Now -- haunting, hallucinatory, and evolving into deep acid.
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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 056EP
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After the success of their new project Imps, Minilogue return to Mule with two fantastic tracks. "My Teenager Gang" is a bit new-style of them: abstract, percussive house-beat with ethnic voices. It's a perfect tune for spring-time. "Hundraelva" is strong, trippy, hypnotic, minimal-style house. High-quality as always!
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WAG 043EP
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Malmö duo Minilogue present a release with the kind of warped sounds and dense textures that have become their signature. "Snake Charmer" incorporates ghostly Eastern flute sounds into a tribal, percussive drive. Wisps of synth and pulsed tones encircle the central beat, recoiling into dreamy ambience before biting back with bass kick. "Urban Slough" is a deep techno gem driven by droning synth and reverberating percussion. This mix of industrial beats and howling tunes is a melancholy masterpiece.
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TRAUM 099EP
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This Traum 12" includes a Radio Slave and Bukaddor & Fishbeck remix of Minilogue's most successful track of 2007, "Space." Radio Slave's remix has a monster beat and an epic dub touch. Bukaddor & Fishbeck's remix is equally stripped-down but with a different sound aesthetic, taking its time with a gentle, slight swing. The drastic break in the middle of the track pulls down the dynamic to the absolute minimum and lets the hands fly up in the air.
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TRAUM 089EP
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This is Minilogue's fifth release on Traum, and giant step into Space. "Space" is an intergalactic voyage and a symphonic firework of melodic stabs and rhythmic build-ups. Psychedelic flourishes, '70s sound color and analog sound make it a big tune. "Star Command" is more ambient, more linear, quiet and introverted, revealing Minilogue's interest in experimental electronic music. Forget space disco, this is space heaviness.
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TRAUM 080EP
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The A-side track "The Leopard" of Minilogue's recent hit record on Traum has now been remixed by the well known Hamburg-based duo Extrawelt and by newcomer Roel H. from the Netherlands. Extrawelt's remix was produced in the fantastic, emotional and powerful style for which they are well known. Their track is a passionate one that works more on the melodic side than turning up the tempo and percussions. A wonderful voyage of floating music. On the B-side, Roel H.'s remix works through different melodic layers underpinned by roaring and linear beats.
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TRAUM 073EP
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Minilogue is Sweden's own Marcus Henriksson and Sebastian Mullaert. On the borderline between minimal techno and modern trance, this duo defines a new kind of dance music that fits perfectly with Traum's vision of the future. Leopard EP is powerful in its melodies and panoramic analog sound, while still remaining sensuous and fragile. Minilogue are masters of the build-ups, making their music an adventurous trip from powerful synth melody to seconds of silence. "The Leopard" puts emphasis on live energy, while "Seconds" creates a stunning, slow crescendo, taking the expectations of what will happen to the limit. Minilogue will give you goose-pimples.
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TRAUM 064EP
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"Minilogue are a curiosity. The two Swedish producers from Malmö are socially completely different. In 1996 the traditionally trained musician Sebastian Mullaert meets Marcus Henriksson the autodidactic artist. Mullaert & Henriksson are both passionate DJs, who have been active in the trance scene for a long time, and have been established under the name Son Kite since 1998. They started their side-project Minilogue which revealed their love of house music. Meanwhile they have reached a point where their side-project has taken over and become their main interest and want to make it more public. The debut record on Traum, Certain Things EP comes with two different tracks which link onto earlier releases on Traum. There is also a special bonus track on the record, a remix by Steve Barnes."
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