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Double LP version. Digital Kabar: Electronic Maloya From La Reunion Since 1980 is a compilation of electronic music from Reunion, an island in the Indian Ocean. Combining tropical sounds, sunny moods, and créole dialect, Digital Kabar features mostly unknown artists from the island. It is the perfect summer-opening compilation for both rare groove diggers and DJs in search of the best tropical beats. Formerly clandestine, today manifest, both sacred but also profane, sometimes meditated, very often improvised, the Kabar transpires in the daily life on Reunion, getting rid with insolence of any label that dares to try to impose itself. The Kabar is a fleeting but bubbling manifestation of an identity and a local culture that is still difficult to define. A moment of life and sharing where handcrafted instruments, neighborhood meetings, ritual dances and lyrical demands are mixed, a meeting. Born from the musical union of maloya and electronic music, Digital Kabar is a compilation at the crossroads of cultures, porous to all sound experiences. It's also the result of a friendship resulting from InFiné heading to the Les Electropicales festival, the fascination of a small team dedicated to the independent musical cause of a musical scene and its diversity. A musical electronic snapshot from an exotic and unknown part of the globe, half of the tracks on the compilation have never been officially released. Features: Patrick Manent, Boogzbrown, Loya, Jako Maron, Sheitan Brothers, Ti Fock, Boogzbrown & Cubenx, Force Indigène & Jako Maron, Agnesca, Zong, Labelle, Psychorigid, Salem Tradition, J-ZeuS, and Kwalud.
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RELEASE DATE: 7/5/2019
Digital Kabar: Electronic Maloya From La Reunion Since 1980 is a compilation of electronic music from Reunion, an island in the Indian Ocean. Combining tropical sounds, sunny moods, and créole dialect, Digital Kabar features mostly unknown artists from the island. It is the perfect summer-opening compilation for both rare groove diggers and DJs in search of the best tropical beats. Formerly clandestine, today manifest, both sacred but also profane, sometimes meditated, very often improvised, the Kabar transpires in the daily life on Reunion, getting rid with insolence of any label that dares to try to impose itself. The Kabar is a fleeting but bubbling manifestation of an identity and a local culture that is still difficult to define. A moment of life and sharing where handcrafted instruments, neighborhood meetings, ritual dances and lyrical demands are mixed, a meeting. Born from the musical union of maloya and electronic music, Digital Kabar is a compilation at the crossroads of cultures, porous to all sound experiences. It's also the result of a friendship resulting from InFiné heading to the Les Electropicales festival, the fascination of a small team dedicated to the independent musical cause of a musical scene and its diversity. A musical electronic snapshot from an exotic and unknown part of the globe, half of the tracks on the compilation have never been officially released. Features: Patrick Manent, Boogzbrown, Loya, Jako Maron, Sheitan Brothers, Ti Fock, Boogzbrown & Cubenx, Force Indigène & Jako Maron, Agnesca, Zong, Labelle, Psychorigid, Salem Tradition, J-ZeuS, and Kwalud.
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Emerging artists rarely exceed listeners' expectations with a complete album right out of the box, but Deena Abdelwahed is the exception that proves the rule. While the young artist of Tunisian origin stood out with her daring DJ sets, it is her surprising first album, Khonnar, released on InFiné (2018), which sealed her status of eclectic producer, guaranteeing her a place among the best releases of the year. Khonnar Remixes compiles a series of remixes in 12", inspired by the unique atmosphere of Deena Abdelwahed's first album. Remixes by M.E.S.H., Karen Gwyer, Ital Tek, and Lord of The Isles.
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From techno to electronic cross-over classical, and now back again -- Carl Craig's Versus project continues to morph and evolve with the release of five beatless versions taken from the eponymous album. These pieces "without electronics" give primacy to the orchestral texture of the instruments and to Carl Craig's close work with Les Siècles during the recording sessions at Davoux studio. With this new take on four Planet E catalogue classics, Carl Craig and Francesco Tristano transport their listeners into a new time space.
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Double LP version. Includes a bonus track: Philip Glass's "Etude n°5". Inland is Vanessa Wagner's continuation of the exploration of the minimalist composers register to complete the solo continuum of the Statea released in 2016 with the Mexican producer Murcof. Inland highlights a set of pieces, mostly rare or unavailable to date (Moondog, Nico Muhly, William Susman, Bryce Dessner, Gavin Bryars...) and some other well known (Philip Glass, Wim Mertens, Michael Nyman) that Vanessa Wagner performs with her classic pianist background and velvet sound. The title of the album refers to John Cage's Imaginary Landscape (1939), one of the first works to use electronic devices. Making more with less, the album turns long harmonies into multicolored prisms, miniature detailed embroidery, sighs and breaths, syncopated or restrained chants. The choice of works and their sequencing was dreamed up as a sort of storytelling. Between familiar melodies and unknown rarities, the pianist dug deep to find previously unreleased pieces. Within the cornucopia of Wagner's career, Inland stands as a hitherto unknown intimate and dream-like space. The album is both the fruit of her maturity and a new temporality that she is now exploring -- a secret conversation between her spirituality and the deep connection she maintains with nature, the elements, and living matter. The Inland journey begins with the vision of iconoclastic Moondog, who claudicates over a modest ritornello, and continues with French composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch's "Louella", like a volatile caress. On the way, you come across familiar figures like Philip Glass, and rediscover Michael Nyman's "The Heart Asks Pleasure First", as Wagner's fingers transfigure the cult piece, rendering it with delicate sensuality. At the origin of the source, German composer Hans Otte plays entrancing magic tricks with the fluids that spring henceforth; on the horizon, the inescapable Meredith Monk draws you into her hypnotic circles; elsewhere, Bryce Dessner is takes you on a dream-filled odyssey with characters who guide you to boundless territories, and William Susman breaks down boundaries under the harmonic mists and mute rhythms of "Quiet Rhythms". At the end, you find a blank canvas of quiet nature, a clearing in which Latvian composer Peteris Vasks invites you to listen to the suspended silences. When the album is over, the spirit of Inland continues to stir inside the listener's mind, in hazy reverie, clouds of nostalgia emanate from Vanessa Wagner's piano.
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Inland is Vanessa Wagner's continuation of the exploration of the minimalist composers register to complete the solo continuum of the Statea released in 2016 with the Mexican producer Murcof. Inland highlights a set of pieces, mostly rare or unavailable to date (Moondog, Nico Muhly, William Susman, Bryce Dessner, Gavin Bryars...) and some other well known (Philip Glass, Wim Mertens, Michael Nyman) that Vanessa Wagner performs with her classic pianist background and velvet sound. The title of the album refers to John Cage's Imaginary Landscape (1939), one of the first works to use electronic devices. Making more with less, the album turns long harmonies into multicolored prisms, miniature detailed embroidery, sighs and breaths, syncopated or restrained chants. The choice of works and their sequencing was dreamed up as a sort of storytelling. Between familiar melodies and unknown rarities, the pianist dug deep to find previously unreleased pieces. Within the cornucopia of Wagner's career, Inland stands as a hitherto unknown intimate and dream-like space. The album is both the fruit of her maturity and a new temporality that she is now exploring -- a secret conversation between her spirituality and the deep connection she maintains with nature, the elements, and living matter. The Inland journey begins with the vision of iconoclastic Moondog, who claudicates over a modest ritornello, and continues with French composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch's "Louella", like a volatile caress. On the way, you come across familiar figures like Philip Glass, and rediscover Michael Nyman's "The Heart Asks Pleasure First", as Wagner's fingers transfigure the cult piece, rendering it with delicate sensuality. At the origin of the source, German composer Hans Otte plays entrancing magic tricks with the fluids that spring henceforth; on the horizon, the inescapable Meredith Monk draws you into her hypnotic circles; elsewhere, Bryce Dessner is takes you on a dream-filled odyssey with characters who guide you to boundless territories, and William Susman breaks down boundaries under the harmonic mists and mute rhythms of "Quiet Rhythms". At the end, you find a blank canvas of quiet nature, a clearing in which Latvian composer Peteris Vasks invites you to listen to the suspended silences. When the album is over, the spirit of Inland continues to stir inside the listener's mind, in hazy reverie, clouds of nostalgia emanate from Vanessa Wagner's piano.
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Frieder Nagel's first solo work Distract Robots on French label InFine. This 12" has become an album in miniature with a final polish by mastering guru Zino Mikorey, known for his work for Nils Frahm's All Melody (2018). This EP offers up a mystical world, full of warm synths and detailed sound clusters morphing into each other to form utterly dark and dystopian ballads. Distract Robots is rooted with one foot in the basement of an underground club featuring loops building up with unescapable pressure, majestic voice samples, and analog sawtooth wavefronts. Features Mima.
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With her debut Self Fulfilling Prophecy (2018), French producer La Fraicheur closed the loop on the first sequence of her life. With the necessary hindsight and application, La Fraicheur has created an opus that blends raging techno with more atmospheric moments. Self Fulfilling Prophecy Remixes recasts the techno of La Fraicheur´s original album with four reworks, which condition the dancers to unstoppable footwork as much as they open the listeners' minds up with contributions from VTSS, Noncompliant, Scalameriya, and Fritz Windish & Nayan Soukie.
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The flamboyant and off-kilter title track from Rone's latest album, "Mirapolis". With this new four-track EP, combined with a new video by Aurélie Castex, Rone extends the carnival of electronic cultures of his latest musical citadel to the dancefloor. Johannes Brecht offers a refined reading throbbing with cerebral pulsations. Matias Aguayo provides a playful and wild take, sweeping in with a ritornello of chiptune sounds and orchestral arrangements. French techno scene boss Laurent Garnier embraces the original piece in all its meticulousness and its psychedelic lifeblood. Coincides with the release of a new video by Rone's sister Aurélie Castex.
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Labelle has laid the foundations of an electronic maloya, modern and deeply rooted in its home territory: La Réunion. Labelle releases a fascinating EP of introspective trance music with Post-Maloya. You'll find the maloya stamp, which is Reunionese traditional music, both in the rhythms and the instruments used, like the valiha. This traditional tubular harp from Madagascar is played by Vola on the track "Jaojoby". Vola was taught by Rajery himself, who is widely considered as a master of this instrument. The hypnotic sounds evoke distant dimensions and resonate like shamanic incantations, gently leading you towards the trance.
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InFiné hand-picked a clutch of up-and-coming producers to remix tracks from Carl Craig for the Versus project. Jazzy-house renaissance man Henrik Schwarz brings his horn- and piano-heavy world music influence to "The Melody". French producer Antigone lightens it up with his version of "At Les", built on a vintage beat reminiscent of the early days of IDM. Benedikt Frey brings a half-driving, half-ambient rendition of "Domina" that retains enough strings to keep fans of Tri Repetae-era Autechre (1995) blissing throughout. Tom Trago provides another version of "The Melody" -- a harder slice of functional, dancefloor-ready techno by Dutch producer.
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Standout track taken from Don Nino's album In the Backyard of Your Mind, "Beats" is a freaky and well-balanced piece of folk music. Its lyrics are about body transportation and spiritual dematerialization. But in the hands of Chloe, Turzi and Cubenx, the beat boxes substitute the drums, the vocals get distorted, and the track deconstructs itself as the walls fall between the genres.
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Double LP version on 180 gram vinyl; includes an A2 poster and mp3 download card. Rone is one of the most acclaimed young French musicians on the electronic scene. His videos have spread all over the World Wide Web with the speed of light and his powerful live set has been appreciated from the Sònar Festival to Panorama Bar. Three years have passed since the release of his debut album Spanish Breakfast. In the meantime, he relocated to Berlin, and fully adopted the peacefulness and laid-back attitude of the city. Not so surprisingly, a feverish calm emerges from the 10 tracks of the album, which elegantly and consistently navigate between dream-like electronica, hypnotic ambient and melodic techno. Peering through here and there are also rhythmic elements borrowed from hip-hop, and organic parts from classical, with High Priest of Antipop Consortium and Gaspar Claus making two remarkable appearances on the record. The album will be massively promoted with several videos, directed by a promising new generation of directors (Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka, Studio Fünf, Filip Piskorzynski, Dimitri Stankowicz). No doubt, it will be one of the standout electronic albums of 2012.
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Tides of Mind (IF 1018CD/LP), the second album by Oxia, turned 2012's cloudy springs into a shining early summer. "Housewife," featuring Miss Kittin, is a standout track taken from the album, and this EP includes two new versions signed by the originators of the track. Miss Kittin turned the track into an electro vintage delight while Oxia boosts the original element to lengthen dancefloor pleasure. On the flip-side, Society Of Silence brings darkness and minimal sweat to make of it a perfect pick for afterhours.
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Dark, powerful, hypnotizing, magnificent, and raw, Spitzer's debut tests the boundaries in its own way, just like InFiné. The Call perfectly captures the spirit of our movement-revering age, and turns the alt-rock energy into club monsters. The album includes the American vocal wonder, Kid A (Agoria) and Fabrice Gilbert of Parisian electro-punk band Frustration (Born Bad Records). Their previous EPs have been supported by A-list DJs such as James Lavelle, Dave Clark, Ewan Pearson, Joris Voorn and Trevor Jackson and electronic experts like Resident Advisor, Data Transmission and De Bug. With this first-class first chapter, the Spitzer revolution does appear to be under way. This "call" -- at once outraged and restrained -- will resonate on many levels with its audience.
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2LP version on 180 gram vinyl. Almost eight years after the release of 24 Heures (on Goodlife), Oxia, pioneer of the French techno scene, is back in 2012 with a surprising new LP entitled Tides Of Mind. Deep, melodic, soulful and irresistibly groovy. For Tides Of Mind, Oxia put aside the trendy electronic patterns and moved back to his earliest influences. With this said, the album is not shy of a deep and melodic sound that ventures to the dancefloor with a stamp of the Oxia groove.
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Here are three tracks from the two brothers that comprise Spitzer, in anticipation of their upcoming debut full-length. "Sergen," here packaged in its extended version, puts together a metallic bassline and a hypnotic loop of synth, enlightened by a hardened steel guitar riff. "Serpentine" is infected by some venomous loops and an oppressive rhythm. More intimate and almost Lynchean, "Delenda" concludes the EP with the gothic poetry of ice-cold xylophone and ethereal waves.
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Two tracks remixed from Cesar Urbina aka Cubenx's On Your Own Again (IF 1017CD/LP). When Urbina heard that Cocteau Twins' mastermind Robin Guthrie was up to rework "Grass" and that remixes by Telefon Tel Aviv and Douglas Greed would complete this 12", there was another earthquake in Mexico. Douglas puts a spell on Cubenx's voice and slow-dives the guitar. Telefon Tel Aviv delivers a no-frills version, enlightened by celestial synth notes and androgynous verses. "These Days" is remixed by mysterious post-dubstep combo Downliners Sekt.
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This is the debut album from César Urbina aka Cubenx. "Cubenx's music ... made an intoxicated first impression on me some months before when his demo tracks arrived at my doorstep. A couple of those tracks later appeared on his debut for my Static Discos imprint in 2008, The Cold Swells, a collection of music that was previously released on the Synergy Networks, Cyan and I Need It net-labels. One of the tracks was 'Glandula,' a passionate and epic techno track that caught the attention of Alexandre Cazac and Agoria during the pre-planning stages of InFiné, who immediately requested a full album. Cubenx's debut would have to wait, as only a couple of EPs (Glándula EP in 2007 and Can't Throw A StoneEP in 2008) on InFiné were the stop gaps before On Your Own Again could be completed some years later. But there was also a new factor that slowed down his recording process, as Cubenx was moving further away from producing dance music and wanting to focus on songwriting with real instruments and voices -- a task that has resulted in a fertile tapestry of electronic-based songs that may have more to do with English post-punk and shoegaze than with the British minimal techno he is most known for. While songs like 'Adrift At Sea,' 'Sierra Madre' and 'Lovebirds' retain Cubenx's lush sound design and carefully planned dynamics, they are spread out in a broader palette of songcrafting. Only 'Wait And See' sees Cubenx going back to his clubbing ways, a melodic and colorful banger that stands out when placed beside any classic Kompakt outing. The songs on On Your Own Again also retain a psychedelic taint that Cubenx links to his Mexicanity, especially on the acoustic fullness of 'Sueña Con Venados' and 'Mist Over The Lake,' where he wanted to evoke the ritualistic ambiance of a virtual Mexican desert. Or as the piano-based 'Grass' narrates, a psychoactive out-of-body experience under the effects of salvia divinorum -- a search for the inner non-spirituality much in tune with Latin American psychomagicians like Jodorowsky. This strong sentiment is explored further on 'Noir,' an atonal instrumental ambient piece filled with cosmic musings and psychedelia. On Your Own Again also marks Cubenx's first collaboration with Chicago musician and singer Alfredo Nogueira, a close associate of Telefon Tel Aviv, L'Altra and Apparat, on the song 'These Days.' Francisco Rosas of Flight Attendants, the downtempo duo he shares with Cubenx, co-wrote 'Sierra Madre' and laid some guitar licks on 'Sueña Con Venados.' On Your Own Again is Cubenx's coming-of-age album, where his creative impulses reach for his own true voice." --Ejival, Director of Static Discos
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2008 release. Vinyl re-issue of The Melody, including remixes by Balil (aka Plaid) and Carl Craig.
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Vinyl reissue of "Speechless" featuring the voice of Carl Craig and La Scalars. One-sided release.
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Francesco Tristano released his third solo album for InFiné Idiosynkrasia (IF 1012CD), recorded in the Planet E studio in Detroit. "Idiosynkrasia": an aesthetic manifesto livened up by the search for an idiosyncratic language between acoustics and electronics, a musical odyssey permeated by the peculiarity of the town, which originated the rhythm and blues as well as the techno genres. The eponymous track is reinterpreted here by Ben Klock, Ark, Tom Taylor & Paul Woolford and Fumiya Tanaka.
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The title track to Francesco Tristano's Idiosynkrasia (IF 1012CD) is a nod to more upfront dancefloor fare. Pressed on one-sided clear vinyl in a plastic bag. Limited to 300 copies.
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This is a full-length album by Luxembourgian pianist and composer Francesco Tristano, recorded in Detroit with Carl Craig. A close musical encounter of the third kind: that might be the most appropriate way to describe what the people at The Space on July 18, 2010 were lucky enough to experience. That night, a grand piano had landed in the illustrious Ibiza club. At its helm, Francesco Tristano -- a long-distance adventurer in sonic space. Also on board, in the DJ booth, was Carl Craig, controlling Ableton with the help of his iPad. Carried away by the fervor of an audience in perfect osmosis, the duo flew higher and higher, eluding the borders between musical genres and giving a performance that has already gone down in The Space's history. A few months earlier, in Detroit, a similar sighting had been reported: a grand(iose, of course) piano had settled for a week amidst an impressive number of machines and a no less impressive number of records, virtually filling the studios of Planet E, Carl Craig's label. For it was precisely there, in that stronghold of Detroit techno, that Francesco Tristano had chosen to record Idiosynkrasia, his third solo album for InFiné. As the artist himself explains, "This record is the fruit of a quest for an idiosyncratic language that is somewhere between acoustic and electronic, a quest that spans time and space, and I want to bring the piano into the 21st century. My ambition is to provide the piano with a new identity, because it is often associated with classical music and viewed as an instrument of the past, while I genuinely see it as an instrument of the future." Fundamentally polychromatic, evolving ceaselessly from one mode to the next, Idiosynkrasia proves to be perfectly coherent and reveals an extra-large conception of music.
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This is the debut full-length release by Clara Moto. On Polyamour, Clara provides ample proof of her allegiance to electronic music. Her affection for the genre comes in many forms, each imbued with her unique brand of femininity, and she embraces it in all its diversity and spontaneity. Clara takes life snapshots, fragments of emotions and her daily -- and nightly -- perceptions and turns them into sounds. So it is quite appropriate that the opening track should be named after a character in The Crying Of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. Clara Moto is polyamorous: the full-on intensity of simple little love stories moves her more than relational exclusivity agreements of epic proportions. Nor are we surprised that her friend Mimu should feature on three of the album's tracks. On stage, together, they have acted as the ears and eyes, the speakers and spotlights of a single live set. In the studio, ever since "Silently," Clara has seized every opportunity to line some of her poppier productions with Mimu's tantalizing tales of everyday life. She imbues the sentimental narrative "Deer & Fox" and the Welsh laments of "Joy Of My Heart" with the same bewitching, sensitive and refined precision. When she ventures into more introspective, magical waters, she does so with an attention to detail that a goldsmith would envy. She weaves her sound textures with cinematic tropes, galactic synthesizers and sound effects so understated they are at times almost imperceptible. Cat-like, conquering, and hypnotic, Clara's productions alternate between pressure and release, matters of the mind and matters of the flesh, motion and contemplation.
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