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MINIMISE 035EP
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Donnacha Costello takes it back to simpler times with just one synthesizer, one Roland TR-808 drum machine, and some basic effects. "It Simply Is" is an emotive ambient track in which synthesizer melodies and echoes wash over each other and modulations send shivers down the spine. "Trust" is a building, rushing, euphoric dancefloor track. Brought to life with only a few classic elements, it shines in its simplicity and emotion. The first 1000 pressings will come exclusively on clear vinyl.
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MINIMISE 034EP
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Donnacha Costello presents straight-up, highly-refined and irresistibly groovy techno/house music in two different formats: one with a slightly faster development and one that's been stretched out a little. With a hypnotic, rolling synth pattern functioning as both bass line and hook, warm percussion, analog strings and Costello's trademark digital edits, both versions are so completely soaked with groove that one cannot help but lose oneself in their charms. A future classic.
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MINIMISE 031CD
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The Colorseries was a series of ten records released in rapid succession by Ireland's minimal master Donnacha Costello in 2004 and marked the breakthrough point in his career. The original releases were vinyl-only and to date have not been made available for download. This is their first appearance on CD. For this 2007 compilation, Donnacha's favorite selections from the series have been edited and carefully remastered and are now sonically far superior to the original vinyls. In addition, the CD contains some previously unreleased and very special material from the Colorseries sessions. These additions will undoubtedly make the CD of interest to the many fans that enthusiastically collected the original vinyl series. In the intervening years, Donnacha has scored a number of hit releases and has broadened his fan base considerably. To date, his work has been licensed for CDs by the top tier of techno DJs, including among others: Josh Wink, Ricardo Villalobos, Magda and Tiefschwarz. The Colorseries CD will therefore appeal to those who were not around for the original releases and those who have discovered Donnacha's work through the CDs of other DJs or through witnessing one of his famed live appearances. Throughout 2004, the Colorseries consistently appeared in the charts of big name DJs and eventually appeared in end of year top ten lists in many publications, including The Wire magazine and The New York Times. Minimise is proud to present these tracks on CD for the first time, offering the full-spectrum sound-rainbow for your listening pleasure. Colorseries influences include: Farley Jackmaster Funk, Steve Silk Hurley, Inner City, 808 State, Plastikman, F.U.S.E., Aphex Twin, The Black Dog, Lobe, LFO, Maurizio, Basic Channel, Model 500, Baby Ford, Mike Ink, The Modernist, Studio Eins, Thomas Brinkmann.
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MINIMISE 033EP
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Mark Broom and Donnacha Costello first met in 1997 through Dublin's D1 Recordings when Broom first remixed Costello's "Goshdarnit." Costello in turn remixed 2000's "Basement Life." Now the two appear side-by-side once more. Broom turns in a dark and stylish house track where old school piano samples and synths get a modern twist. Costello slows things down while maintaining energy through an interesting arrangement showing traces of Chicago, Plus 8 and even his own Color Series tracks.
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MINIMISE 030EP
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Cornell is from Hungary and has produced this stunning 12" full of masterful arrangements that are filled with tension and suspense. "Polimer" sounds like stumbling endlessly, trying to find your way through the darkness after someone spikes your drink and throws you into the sewers of Berlin. Claustrophobic and unsettling yet totally compelling and exhilarating, "Flounce" features relentless forward motion paired with an unflappable groove, making this track a guaranteed killer on the dancefloor.
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MINIMISE 028CD
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Announcing the CD archive version of Donnacha Costello's 6x6=36 project (which was initially issued as 3 separate 12"'s). Six tracks, each of six minutes duration were written/recorded/edited in just six exhausting days as Costello locked himself in his Dublin studio. Get all tracks here: "6.1": Sounds like the hyperactive bastard child of a threesome between Studio Eins, Richie Hawtin's Concept sound and the modern sound of Costello himself, along with loops and whirrs. Random elements rub like sandpaper against the precision for a mathematical yet groovy and exhilarating ride. "6.2": Machines loop and fall all over each other as a snarling, gnarly twisted modular synth growls over the top, bass rumbles beneath and the percussion swings furiously. "6.3": Weaves a dirty, gritty, digital, bass-heavy groove. Simple yet devastatingly funky, the repetition builds to a looping, swinging climax. Simply killer. "6.4": The aural equivalent of someone spiking your drink and pushing you backwards down a helter skelter into a cartoon world of hypnotic bass, twisting modulations, swinging rhythms and hyperactive snare drums that work the crowd into an all-out frenzy! In all the hot crates for all the right reasons. "6.5": This track is pure, beatless ultra-stripped super-dub. "6.6": Totally unhinged with its undulating bassline, filtered beats, snippy clicks, whacko hook, and insomniac spoken vocal line. Housed in a beautifully designed 3-panel digipack, this CD compiles the six tracks featured on the 3 vinyl releases of this outstanding conceptual project. Despite the expense of the sleeve production, this one reaches fans at mini-album price -- a very nice surprise.
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MINIMISE 026EP
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"Third volume in this series (following 6x2 & 6x4). This volume is either available separately, or included w/ the box (to hold all 3 volumes) as MINIMISE 027."
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MINIMISE 027BOX
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A limited edition collector's box to house all three records in this series. This also comes w/ the 3rd 12" record in the set (MINIMISE 026). Ideally, you buy MINIMISE 024 & 025 individually, and then buy this box to complete the set. Or all 3 12"s will be available separately and you can save a small piece of a tree.
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MINIMISE 024EP
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"Announcing a special new project of Donnacha Costello: 6x6=36 six tracks, each of six minutes duration were written/recorded/edited in just six exhausting days as Costello locked himself into his Dublin studio. They will appear over six sides of vinyl to be released over a period of six weeks. 6X2 -- The first installment in the 6X6=36 project. Housed in a beautifully designed and spot varnished sleeve, and sounding equally impressive, this is exactly the type of high quality release people have now come to expect from Minimise. '6.1': sounding like the hyperactive bastard child of a threesome between Studio Eins, Richie Hawtin's concept sound and the modern sound of Costello himself, '6.1' loops, whirrs and spins a constantly shifting, energetic and pushing groove which tears floors apart as the opener in his new live sets. Random elements rub like sandpaper against the precision for a mathematical yet groovy and exhilarating ride. Like life itself, just when you get a handle on it, it shifts. '6.2': intensity in ten cities! Machines loop and fall all over each other as a snarling, gnarly twisted modular synth growls over the top, bass rumbles beneath and the percussion swings furiously. Costello's trademark edits round out the picture. The whole track is awash in paradox; devilishly dark yet completely ecstatic, claustrophobic yet liberating. Costello is lashing us with sound and we love it!"
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MINIMISE 023EP
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"Minimise is very proud to announce the signing of Alejandro Lopez to our artist family. Alejandro is a native of Gijon in northern Spain and although he has now been producing music and collecting drum machines for ten years, this is his debut release. If evidence were ever needed that patience is rewarded and practice makes perfect, here it is. Like many other Spanish producers who have burst on to the scene in recent times, Alejandro Lopez is one name you are going to see and hear again and again and again in future. In digital form, this release has already taken a favoured place in the 'crates' of some of the world's best known DJs. And now as it finds its way to vinyl, you can expect to hear this record everywhere this summer. A: 'Kernel': touch percussion and bubbling basslines meet sinister, anthemic, soaring melodies in a modern minimal style. One for DJs who like to play longer tracks to packed out, spaced out dancefloors. B: 'Pisces': percussion rich, constantly evolving track whose dark synthesizer passages at times recall Plastikman or perhaps Matthew Jonson all put together with Alejandro's unique sense of style. C: 'Fir(s)t': No-nonsense, looping, storming, frenetic yet still intricately detailed and carefully controlled. Think of the most powerful moments of a great set from the likes of Richie Hawtin and you'll be on the right avenue."
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MINIMISE 022EP
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"Troy Pierce out-does himself here as he puts his spaced out twist on Donnacha Costello's 'Bear Bounces Back.' Neither producer seems to be able to do any wrong right now and the combination of the two results in something even stronger than the sum of its parts. Paranoid, moody, subtle, spaced out, groovy. We think it's so special we decided to turn it into a collector's item. Only available in one pressing of strictly limited, one-sided red vinyl!"
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MINIMISE 021EP
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"Educution takes your mind, twists it into string, ties it in knots and leaves you begging him to do it again. As the ominous, warped, stacked vocal chant of 'Man Versus Man Beast' blasts forth from the turntable from the first moments of this release, it's clear that Educution is in control and he's probably the one who spiked your drink. The title track twists and turns in all directions, scrambling your brain with weird vocals and raspy synths. It's intense, it's psychedelic, it's Educution! Flip over and discover swinging, skipping loops splitting, twisting and caving in on each other while layers of idiosyncratic percussion build and warp above them. Extremely claustrophobic and intense with layers of feedback and noise but also somehow very lovely, manifesting many of the contradictions at the heart of the man beast himself. So, who is Educution? An Irish producer and DJ with many years of experience, already the owner of such unlikely aliases as 'Booger' and 'Ting Chuggy.' Get set to hear more from him in the months ahead as it looks like he's going to become a household name. The phrase 'instant classic' was coined for records like this."
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MINIMISE 020EP
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"Hypnotic, symbiotic man-machine-computer mind control experiment aimed to entrance and ensnare all whom cross its sticky path. We dare you not to buy it. Being caned in digital promo form by the usual suspects for some time now. A: 'Ok, That's Great, Start Over' -- randomly modulated bassline, snare drums twisted with dsp to become more like synthesizers, groovy swinging bleeps subjected to detailed edits, spoken word elements. These things combined with a devastating and totally unexpected ending ensure that this record will be in all the right boxes and on all the right hard drives for a long time to come. It's clear that Costello is working hard in the studio and has found a new energy in his new approach. B: 'Rusty Sticks' -- unbreakable groove backed up with space-out synthesizers, thumping kick drum and an extremely hooky bassline. Round and round we go, getting sucked in further with each rotation. Computer/machine hybrid hypnosis."
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MINIMISE 019EP
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"Although undeniably great records that were universally acclaimed, by the end of 2004 Donnacha Costello's 'Colorseries' on Minimise had left both artist and label open to accusations of being too 'retro,' which was never the intention of either. However, with his old machines in storage since January and with a handful of brand new machines and a full Protools setup now residing in Donnacha's studio, such accusations should be banished forever. Thoroughly excited about techno's current period of accelerated growth and discovery he has been working hard on a new computer/machine hybrid sound, with fresh and compelling results. This new release has been available to DJs in digital promo form for some time and is currently receiving heavy play from luminaries such as Troy Pierce/Magda and Steve Bug to name just a few. A: "No Matter What I Do" dark, moody, energetic, highly accomplished production borrowing from the future and the past in equal proportion, twisted snippets of spoken word sharing space with sophisticated digital edits, swinging crunchy rhythms, jerky computerized synths and emotive strings. B: "Bear Bounces Back" a current favourite of Troy Pierce, this is a swinging, loopy, chaotic track that gradually descends into madness over the course of its seven minute duration. Simultaneously reminds of Daniel Bell, Run Stop Restore, Plastikman. Innovative, inventive, tripped out."
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MINIMISE 013EP
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"Donnacha Costello's Colorseries reaches its tenth and final installment. As the sun goes down on the Colorseries, it has now become clear that it will take its place in techno history alongside some of that genre's finest series. It has been favourably compared with Wolfgang Voigt's 'Studio Eins' and Richie Hawtin's 'Concept'. In a recent interview with Go magazine, Michael Mayer of Kompakt even went so far as to declare Costello 'today's Basic Channel'. 'Cocoa', the a-side contains a classic, dark, driving string laden acid track; 303, deep bass and silky strings... Plastikman meets Jon Carpenter in a disused warehouse outside Detroit and gets down! The B-side finishes the series in true style with a pensive, melancholic and touching ambient track, the type for which Costello is well known since his landmark 2001 album Together is the New Alone and his contributions to Kompakt's Pop Ambient series."
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MINIMISE 010EP
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"Donnacha Costello continues to push what he can out of his machines and comes up with the most direct record of the Colorseries since min007, 'Grape'. On the A side, this results in euphoric acid with strong connections to Plus8, early 90s trance and even the disco-tech of Giorgio Moroder. On the B side, Prince meets Plus8 and Chicago trax in the operating theatre and gets down to some serious jacking. With an ear on the past and an eye for the future, Donnacha continues to push on in his own unique direction."
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MINIMISE 017EP
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"Complex, multi-layered, epic and romantic hardware/computer hybrid tracks from one of Ireland's top electronic producers with previous releases for Minimise, Force Inc, Mille Plateaux and D1 recordings. A side: 'Hail Holy Light': analog bass and bleeps meet muted dub guitars meet film soundtrack strings in extended, complex and deep arrangements. B side: 'Eyes On My Eyes': similar themes to a side develop in quite a different direction, muted guitars with delicate melancholy chords, haunting strings, analog bleep melodies and driving rhythms. Epic, hypnotic, dreamlike. David Donohoe is a close friend and long-time collaborator of Donnacha Costello. He has released many records to date. His first release on Minimise was 2000's 'Try To Make You Love Me' [min002]. Since then he has recorded for Dublin's D1 recordings, for Force Inc, as 'Nost', and in collaboration with Donnacha for Mille Plateaux."
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MINIMISE 016EP
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"It's as if clickhouse and the computer revolution had never happened, while the rest were hacking, one man kept on jacking. Sometimes one has to take a step backwards to move forwards. For some time now, Donnacha Costello has been offering an alternative to the palpable entropy of the click, the glitch and the tricky, skippy, flippy rhythms all too common at present. So far, this is the closest he has come to a mission statement, urging us to remember the past and try to imagine an alterative future. With its sublime melody, classic synths and big strings, 'Infinite Now' (Leeds warehouse mix) is a joyful celebration, a wide open, sublime composition, a manufactured memory of a moment on a huge dancefloor when you just couldn't smile any harder. Flip to the b for 'Into Tomorrow' and you can almost feel the heat and smell the sweat of an old school basement party in full swing. This record was too big to be confined to the colorseries and has it's own message to spread, hence its own release outside of the series. Soon to be joined by more extra-series releases. Of course, the title is a reference to the classic 'lfo' (Leeds warehouse mix) and the spirit of that record and of that time."
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MINIMISE 006EP
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"Donnacha Costello's Colorseries continues with the release of 'Rubine Red', bringing a tight yet playful a-side and a hands in the air b-side. The a-side recalls Costello's debut album Growing Up In Public [Force Inc]. The dub element is removed however and in it's place is the early sound of acid house, 303 mixing with 101, trapped in Costello's tight and formalized grid. The b-side maintains links to the a-side but takes the acid reference further, blending Chicago with the early Sheffield bleep sound and the early 90s UK sound with it's repetitive chord hook. Overall, another strong record of trend bucking hardware music."
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MINIMISE 007EP
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"Donnacha Costello's Colorseries continues with the release of Grape. Taking a more relaxed and altogether European look at the American Midwest acid sound of the early 90's, Costello explores this territory while stamping it with his own individual style. The a-side presents a solid, sophisticated groove, with clever interaction of elements over a hissy 303 pattern which remains insistent but buried, almost unseen at the heart of the track. The B-side brings the 303 to the front as the track builds steadily until it achieves meltdown. Overall, an energetic yet tasteful record."
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