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MCR 051CD
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"Like its predecessor, RE:2 compiles remixes by Mathias Schaffhäuser that were produced in the recent past. If 'RE:1' was already considered an artist album, then RE:2 is even more so. Just about all mixes were produced over the previous 12 months, i.e. the album is not just a collage of various work periods but almost completely from one single production flow. One result of this remix collection is its cohesiveness but also its definite club affinity. Over the last years Mathias has been DJing non-stop, travelling from Cologne to Istanbul via Basel and Moscow, Bilbao, Paris, Belgrade and back to Berlin. RE:2 also reflects the ever continuing differentiating and refining of the various types of minimal, in Schaffhäuser's own interpretation." Artists include: Pan-Pot, Stefan Tretau, Frankie, Dapayk + Padberg, Novox, Mathias Schaffhäuser, Good Groove, Misc., Crane A.K., And.Id, Laub.
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MCR 111CD
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[no longer available for the US] This is the CD reissue of Señor Coconut's debut album originally released in 1997 on his own Rather Interesting label. El Gran Baile, released after he moved from Frankfurt to Santiago, Chile, is where the world first got a taste of the electrolatino mayhem that is Señor Coconut (Atom Heart, Uwe Schmidt). This record is a collection of tracks that reveal the scope of Schmidt's classic Latin records, cut-up and mixed-up with electronic fizz and pop. Frenetic electronics jut against hyperspeed Latin rhythms on some tracks, while mambo lounges with German coolness on others. Uwe Schmidt has crafted entirely new genres -- Nova Raro, Jive Eclectico, Samba Virtual -- that previously only existed in his expansive imagination. The results sound like a fusion of Perez Prado and Raymond Scott, tinged with triple-time breaks. Along with his rearrangements of Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra, this debut release marks the first evidence of Schmidt's genius in rudimentary form. As Schmidt himself reveals, "[El Gran Baile]...became the prototype of the Electrolatino genre. Latino samples fused with the track logic of European electronic music."
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MCR 126EP
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"Could one imagine a more perfect musical accompaniment for this exceptional summer 2003 than a sophisticated, yet passionately performed Señor Coconut version of the Sade classic 'Smooth Operator'? Of course, namely two versions. The combo treats this hit from 1984 with highest respect. Still the song is equally urging to flirt on the dance floor and to refresh oneself at a fashionable cocktail bar with the latest drink creations. First the Señor offers a perfectly arranged adaptation in original swinging Cha Cha acoustics, then he supplies a bonus of a cool midnight 'Version Suave'. Its enchanting atmosphere excorts the evening society on a warm breath of wind to the marble terrace where couples, who have found each other freshly, make a promise of love under the twinkling of millions of stars."
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