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INS 12024EP
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"MSK's peculiar brand of floor-packing techno is gloriously relentless, quite dark, even claustrophobic. After an innocuous bass 'n' beat prelude, 'Side Story' launches into the build-up to end all build-ups, a seething, snarling beast ostensibly in search for some innocent people to maul, for some buildings (hospitals and nurseries, preferably) to destroy. And when Das Glow shows up and reports for remix duties, whose side do you think he chooses to be on? Not ours. He's right up there with the demon-beast, taunting us puny humans with his own style of deft programming, acid synth lines and abrupt breaks."
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INS 10002EP
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"We put out Let's Go Bobmo! a couple of months ago, Bobmo's début 12". Went over really well. The kid is touring, playing everywhere, getting thrown out of Berlin clubs for lewd behavior, remixing Jape and Scenario Rock -- good times. One track of the single stood out and got lots of plays: 'To the Bobmobile.' And lo and behold we received a great remix from our friends Kazey & Bulldog. This is what we had to say on the original Bobmobile: 'The track will appeal to the kidult lurking behind your polished techno connoisseur facade. Drums pumping and shuffling, a cute two-note organ riff, filters opening and closing spasmodically, vocal stabs heckling and cackling, climaxing at some point into a little percussive solo, like a sugar-addled kid breaking into a tap dance routine in the middle of his bar mitzvah.' The new remix brings to the fore the Baltimore components of the original. Parisians Kazey & Bulldog took Bobmo's version of Baltimore club and brought it closer to fancy footwork-worthy reality."
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"Institubes' latest record is a debut 12" coming straight from the deepest pit in hell -- Brooklyn. Curses is not a total rookie, though. Wrapped in this elegantly engineered cloak of mystery, is bass heavyweight champ, Drop The Lime. Under this new guise, he's all about reigniting the excitement of early '90s dance music. But he's so not retro. His peculiar brand of mutated house defies everything you think you know about 'proper club music.' He makes evil records that challenge you to play them out, LOUD, and then amply reward you for doing so."
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INS 12020EP
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"In their native Australia, they are the next big thing: the Melbournians sent ripples across the world with airplay on BBC1 and MTV2 UK/Europe, and back home on Triple J radio. For its first non-French release, Institubes couldn't be prouder. They've remixed tracks for !!!, Kim, The Presets, Dragonette, Electric Six and Damn Arms, while Juggernauts' tracks have been remixed by Sebastian, Cut Copy, Popular Computer and The Presets. Lead single 'Road To Recovery' is a dizzying array of stomping disco beats, spiraling synths and effervescent guitars, a sonic mission through laser-soaked corridors and rainbow-lit roller derbies. It's the perfect intro to Midnight Juggernauts' debut album. On the flip, 'Tombstone' is a surefire party starter, so full-on, so anthemic when the drums and guitars emerge from the vocoderized incantation, the kind of indie synth-rock beast that the electro kids love. 'Popular Computer,' courtesy of Kitsuné and fresh out of a splendid New Young Pony Club remix, turns the synths way up and pours lush melancholy into the mix. Heart-breaking and hard-hitting."
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INS 12022EP
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"New signing form the Institubes family. Killer big room daft-ish dancefloor stormer. David Rubato lives in Paris. He's in his 20s. Former rave kid. Not a DJ. He studied composition and musicology, but dance music is something of a calling. Got into techno very young. At 15, Rubato writes to French techno legend Laurent Garnier to ask him how to use a TB 303. Garnier calls him up and invites him to come and meet him at Rex Club. 'Circuit' was recorded live in one take and edited down to 5- and 8-minute versions. It's house and electro fighting for track domination, with disco providing treacherous air support to both."
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INS 12017EP
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"In just a couple of months, thanks to explosive live shows, radical remixes for Daft Punk, Trabant, Teki Latex and most recently Bloc Party, Para One turned from pioneer of the so-called New French Sound to rising dance star. His debut album Epiphanie is starting to come up in 'Best of 2006' lists and the first single off the album, 'Dudun-Dun,' was clearly one of the biggest indie dance hits of the year. After the massive electro onslaught of 'Dudun-Dun,' this second single showcases a somewhat softer side. 'Midnight Swim' is almost a song, it's a hymn to some strange, elegiac version of Ibiza, shuffling in silicon sand. It's Balearic, affecting; it swells and engulfs. We know somebody who used it as a wedding song and it makes perfect sense." Includes remixes by Riton, Surkin and Beckett & Taylor.
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INS 12011EP
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"Remixed by the mighty Zdar from the mighty mighty Cassius! We've never seen Tacteel so in love with the club. Righteous anger. It's Tacteel's most violent track ever, far less controlled than anything he's done. This is what happens when crisis management fails. It sounds like a blindfolded Chi-Town maniac running to the dancefloor waving a huge double-bladed axe."
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