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MINIMOOD 024EP
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Zakmina presents a commanding dark disco release for Minimood with two spellbinding originals filled with unique and captivating sounds. The EP is complemented by compelling remixes from Curses and Rude 66. "Makam" comprises of an alluring array of instruments that create a mesmerizing atmosphere with an oriental mood to it. Curses retains this atmosphere in his remix, albeit with a deeper and darker tone. Unfolding a massive EBM vibe, "Mental Syndicate" forms a dancefloor destroyer that is driven by a vigorous kick and snare. The reimagining from Rude 66 features intergalactic vocals, raw electro sounds, as well as a truly addictive hookline.
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MINIMOOD 023EP
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Sascha Dive is back on Minimood with a simultaneously implosive as well as explosive record. His minimal/tech-ish smashing original is complemented on the flipside by a super stripped-back Black Merlin remix and an uplifting dark-disco Zombies In Miami banger. Vinyl only, one love.
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MINIMOOD 021LP
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The second instalment of Minimood's multidisciplinary fusion series features Die Wilde Jagd with an extensive rework of the neo-romantic "Morgenrot" as well as a vast array of diverse remixes by Ancient Methods, CV313, Luigi Tozzi, Roman Flügel, Rude 66, Steve Bug, The KVB, Vactrol Park, and Variant. This gatefold 3x12" vinyl-only release is visually enhanced with intricate hand-drawn artwork including inlay by Dusseldorf based artist Susanne Giring. Written and recorded by Sebastian Lee Philipp with his Uhrwald Orange studio collaborator Ralf Beck, Morgenrot originally appeared on Die Wilde Jagd's debut album in 2015 (BB 203CD/LP). For this release, Philipp and Beck re-visited the song: the ensuing "Fangschuss Version" enjoys an augmented arrangement, additional instrumentation and a haunting guest vocal by New- Zealand based singer, Nina Siegler. In Philipp's words, the "Fangschuss Version" constitutes "a venture to capture the spirit that has been guiding this fusion release -- a desire to explore the concepts of friendship, time, distance and memory. An attempt to unveil fragments of the unseen and to reveal the surge of a distant remembrance in an embracive listening experience." "Morgenrot" subsequently gets a highly varied remix treatment by a range of carefully selected artists. While Vactrol Park navigate the original audio material into beautiful ambient territory, Ancient Methods showcase an epic masterpiece of enchanting medieval-vibed techno. The KVB turn the track into a dreamy cold-wave trip and Rude 66 dives into a dark, primetime, anthemic dimension. For Roman Flügel, it's a slow, organic, starry-eyed approach and Luigi Tozzi transforms "Morgenrot" into hypnotic and loopy, minimal, deep techno. The rework by Steve Bug plays with the original's melody and a danceable kosmische-infused house cut emerges. The final two remixes are both crafted by legendary Echospace Detroit mastermind Stephen Hitchell: absorbing deep trips into mesmerizing dub techno by CV313 and into foggy lo-fi ambient by Variant.
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MINIMOOD 020EP
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Floating dub techno. Vinyl only. Includes Roger Gerressen remix.
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MINIMOOD 015EP
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Repress of a modern dub-techno classic with remixes by Delano Smith, Tobias., and Steve O'Sullivan.
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MINIMOOD 010EP
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Mysterious dub techno by some metaphysical entity.
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MINIMOOD 019LP
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Minimood introduces a series of fusion releases between cold-wave, gothic, and post-punk on the one hand and ambient, techno, house, and electro on the other. The hope here is that the ensuing synthesis between categories disseminates novel as well as sustained types of inspiration. The first project is Wie Raben by the post-punk band Factice Factory with electronic interpretations by André Galluzzi, Christian Burkhardt, Iori, Reinhard Voigt, and ROD.
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MINIMOOD 018EP
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Conceptual dub techno with a tinge of timelessness.
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MINIMOOD 017LP
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Repressed. Following on from Dimensional Space on Echospace (CV313 001CD, 313 004CD), dub techno legend CV313, aka Stephen Hitchell, offers up his second album, Glass City Sessions on Minimood, featuring five profoundly immersive tracks that come as a double vinyl release only. CV313's signature dub techno sound has been a blueprint for the genre and is created on vintage hardware; all sounds, static, tones, and paranormal occurrences are left in to render it as atmospheric as it is. The five expansive recordings that make up the album are actually based on live recordings from a DEMF after-show night back in 2000 in Detroit. "The music is a bit creepy and so was the experience of this live show," says Stephen Hitchell. "It was an old dingy warehouse about ten miles out of downtown Detroit, right next to the now abandoned Eloise asylum, but there are many stories of it still being haunted." Indeed, that theme of haunted locations around Detroit echoes through the five tracks and makes them a truly cinematic experience. Opening things up on the first record is the brilliantly dark "Belle Isle Symphonics", twelve frosty minutes of hunched-over drums and rattling metal sounds that place you in the center of a large abandoned building. "Masonic Mystic" is much sparser and more eerie, with watery chords and warm static suspending you in an unsettling calm atmosphere, but one that always feel like something strange is around the corner. On the second record the superb "Stars Above Elmwood" lifts the shadowy mood somewhat with more airy dub techno drums and pensive chords rippling out in all directions. It's warm, expansive, and utterly absorbing for more than 13 minutes. "Two Way Inn" continues the trip in fine style with gentle chords and barely there drums, comforting white noise and distant pads all sinking you into a state of meditation before the masterful "Eloise's Theme" arrives, an ambient-ish masterpiece with horizontal chords gently moving up-and-down the scales to trap you in a soothing state, but always with an undercurrent of foreboding. This new album by CV313 is deep, storytelling dub techno of the highest order. Comes on splatter vinyl.
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