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FUMIYA TANAKA (OP.DISC/TOKYO) IS BACK IN EUROPE
AVAILABLE FROM OCTOBER 31ST - NOVEMBER 16TH
New Releases...
CABANNE "QUAND Y EN A MARRE Y A MINIBAR EP"
Minibar . August 2008
After his last release on hello?repeat, Cabanne is back to make the room and refill the minibar. One year of sailing from bar to bar helped him to distill new unexpected liquors. Jesse garonne is an absinthe mix, while f.key would be some good old rum… The flavor is stupendous and unusual at first but effect is guaranteed, hot dose of deep groove “à ma facon” that brings a crazy, jazzy hot spirit which lifts of the tunes to the insane! It includes a great rmx from John Thomas and his wife Barbara. A great opportunity, after releasing “Funky Time” on the MilkShake compilation, to bring minibarians a new dose of strong funkster. The hatched sounds and voice brings perfectly the groove…
DAZE MAXIM "ONE MILLION SHAKERS EP"
Hello?Repeat . August 2008
Daze Maxim is back on Hello?Repeat. With a big bang he proves once again how versatile he is. The a-side opens with “Tube People", a deep and intense house track, that builds into a mind bending groove. As this is not enough we get with “Jat” an unstopable rollin percussion lesson where we asked ourself if Daze has 15 more arms to play this stuff. We’re speachless. Right after this impressive monster Daze returns again to his deeper side and delivers with “Mudhole” a reduced up building disco caterpillar.
CABANNE "KEEP GOING"
Hello?Repeat . July 2008
Sooo here it is the long awaited 12" by Cabanne. It’s a while ago since he released the last 12" on his own imprint “Minibar Music” in 2006, so we’re more than happy to present his follow up on Hello?Repeat. With “Keep Going” and “Trés Chold", the french confirmed jazzmann delivers two funky, bleepy, tracks and goes a little deeper again. Can’t Stand? Keep Going!!!
SAMMY DEE "PURPLEHUMMERULTRASTRETCH"
Perlon . April 2008
After several collaborations over the last 15 years (Moonside Playground / Pantytec / Schneider & Radecki / Half Hawaii), Sammy Dee presents his solo debut through Perlon. He's picking you up with a Purple Hummer Ultrastretch, so buckle up!
BRUNO PRONSATO "WHY CAN'T WE BE LIKE US"
Hello?Repeat . February 2008
„If archetypal rock music claims „Satisfaction” then the rhythmachine requieres emotion” wrote Kodwo Eshun in his 1998 book „More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction.” Today, almost ten years later, his theory is still correct, and it shows that his idea is explosive when the rhythmachine is programmed against the common sense. Steven Ford aka Bruno Pronsato knows all of this, because he knows rock music and its creative dead end street. He knows because he played in several rock bands in his hometown of Seattle, trying time and again to play the same songs, and the same rhythms in new ways. But that's a long time ago. Now, more than five years later, he generates music via synthezisers and computers - emotional rhythms far beyond any kind of cliché. His new longplayer „Why can’t we be like us” embodies his old passion for playing the drums as well as his addiction to ones and zeros. Instead of creating streamlined minimal, he has more of an abstract sound on his mind - one that lives on a dark, organic and percussive note. Nothing really new, he has always been unpredictable and funky with an organic twist between the beats. His tracks often rely on devious turns, flickering sounds, warm basslines and some free riding vocals. They still do, but more importantly now, they are more musical, more space filling and above all, much more percussive.His intention here is to provide you with a long player - not a compilation of danceable clubtracks. He wants to tell a story and he does it with nine long, grooving compositions that are full of rhythms that twist around bubbling
sounds that seem to launch out of his very own inner space: sometimes a piano melody is dancing in space, then an undefinable vibrancy chirps out of the background, and in the next moment some unheared buzzing sighs in time and space. The only real red threat you can feel deeply is a soulful climax towards the last track „Why Can’t We Be Like Us”. A story-arc that makes his album look like a book that releases emotions via rhythms from chapter to chapter. An experimenting, playful
track-architecture that never reacts too apparent with our nervous systems. This album feels like a locigal progression from his E.P.’s for labels like Orac,Philpot, Hello?Repeat and his creative powers as one part of the duo Half Hawaii on Perlon. Musical suspense that processes feelings and soul through electronic vibrations. Everything sounds like Bruno Pronsato plays it himself on his machines and follows the „I am an instrument”-dictum of the spacy free jazzer sun ra. He still maintains his own inner sound and translates it into unheard arrangements. To quote Kwodo Eshun ones more: „Drum and electronica converge in a new space of rhythmatic and syncussion!”
VARIOUS ARTISTS (AGNÈS, ULTRAKURT, JOHN THOMAS...)
"MILKSHAKE Ep2"
Minibar . January 2008
Let’s have a minibar refill and listen to this MilkShake EP2 compilation! The best occasion to present new groove makers and keep track of the minibarians’ latest sweet refreshments. Agnès, Ultrakurt, Ditch as unyielding minibar bedrocks, offer new deep and shaky cuts. Inviting John Thomas & Barbara Goes for an exceptional funky time that will surely sparkle this new year!
VARIOUS ARTISTS (CABANNE, SEUIL, SPASM...)
"MILKSHAKE Ep1"
Minibar . December 2007
Four exclusive tracks by Cabanne, Spasm, Seuil and Linc. Cabanne and Seuil, as unyielding Minibar bedrocks, offer new deep and shaky cuts. Digging up the woods on Zip and Dan Bell’s lands, they met amazing inhabitants. You’ll love Spasm and Linc’s fine and striking funksters. It’s all about house, minimal twists and tricks we all do love so much!!!
BRUNO PRONSATO "At Home I'm A Tourist"
Hello?Repeat . November 2007
LIMITED TO 500 COPIES WORLDWIDE!!! After the overwhelming success of last year’s singles ‘Wade In The Water Children’ and ‘There’s Galaxies Better, the irrepressible Bruno Pronsato presents ‘At Home I’m A Tourist’ as a taster in anticipation of his new album `Why Can’t We Be Like Us, out in January 2008 on Hello?Repeat.
AUDIO WERNER "Getting Up After The Day Before"
Hello?Repeat . November 2007
After some breathtaking releases on Perlon, Circus Company and his own label Hartchef Discos we’re very happy to present two new master pieces of Audio Werner on Hello?Repeat. On this 12″inch Mr. Werner approves again, that there are still enough fresh rhythmical twists possible even in a 4/4 pattern and that his infinite soundpalette goes far beyond the scope of typical formalistic minimal music. „Before“ overflows with good old funk in a brand new space robe: funky cut up vocals and a freaky sequence like made all over a driving percussive boogie beat playing tricks on your mind. „Getting Up“ on the b side will drive your circulation right up and get your juices flowing like the classic Kneipp cure with it’s bassline getting bend and strangled in every direction. To make it simple – this record is a pure and elegant dance hypnosis. So, don’t miss it and GET UP AFTER THE DAY BEFORE!!!