Minimal

Taken from the latest Mika Vainio (1/2 Pan Sonic) album 'Life (... It Eats You Up)'
..which is available here:
http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+124

Mika Vainio - Mining

Mike Huckaby - The Tresor Track

Mike Huckaby - The Upstairs Lounge

Mika Vainio - It's a muthang

Ø aka Mika Vainio - tila fns edit

[p*dis] distribution sampler for January 2013

Mika Vainio - Oleva - Koituva (Sahko Recordings)

Mika Vainio - Oleva - S-Bahn (Sahko Recordings)

Yasmina Dexter aka Pandora's Jukebox's playlist for the designer's Paris Fashion Week show

Ø (Mika Vainio) - U-bahn

Artist: Sleeparchive
Release: A Man Dies In The Street Pt.1 
Label: Tresor Records
Cat No: Tresor.260
Release: 01.04.13

“Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbs and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.”

Like Brassaï, Roger Semsroth has spent the last decade trawling the shadows and writing in the dark. But where the seamy streets of nocturnal pre-WWII Paris provided the canvas for Brassaï’s widely heralded photography, it’s the sonic sluices of post-war Berlin and from the self-contained netherworlds of the city’s underground techno nexus that Sleeparchive derives from. After spending five years stealthy developing the project through a series of bi-annual and hand-stamped set of releases, eked via his eponymous imprint, in 2011 Sleeparchive joined Tresor with ‘Ronan Point’—an EP of tracks constructed directly from material from Semsroth’s live set. Now comes more fresh works from the master of haunting, compelling minimalism in this first instalment of a two-part EP for the label.

Taking its title from one of Brassaï’s famous sequence of prints, ‘A Man Dies In The Street’ translates the eight snapshots of a man collapsing on a Parisian sidewalk (captured by Brassaï in 1932) into a chilling storyboard of subtle fluctuations, ebbs and monochrome tones. As ever the genius is in the reductive palette, that here Semsroth paints into a rich splay of emotions mimicking the initial anxious discovery of the body, the curiosity of the gathering crowd, the excitement and building anticipation through to an aggressive and pummelling sense of realisation on the close. But is it at the loss of life, or the loss of spectacle? As Brassaï toys with ambiguity in his photographs, Sleeparchive’s music is just as hazy, deep and full of shady nuances that, like treasure, only appear if you’re willing to keep probing.

A1. Sleeparchive - 1

A2. Sleeparchive - 2

B1. Sleeparchive - 3

Artist: Marcelus
Release: Emerald EP 
Label: Tresor Records
Cat No: Tresor.261
Release: 06.05.13

After last year’s dystopic debut on Tresor with the ‘Super Strength EP’, rising Parisian Cédric Bros aka Marcelus returns to Tresor with something a little more deep and shiny in ‘Emerald’. Once again Marcelus conjures up the spirits of Detroit and Berlin techno, moulding them here into dreamy modern house incantations—an inspired blurring of the lines the well-versed Frenchman has been rehearsing over the last decade. It was two astounding first releases for DJ Deep’s Deeply Rooted House imprint that made the underground dance community sit up and take notice, records that emitted an unprecedented level of craftsmanship for a fresh-faced newcomer.

Marcelus has continued to impress on follow up releases over the last few years, meanwhile proving to be a flexible and intriguing sound designer, playing with numerous styles and yet always turning in something distinctly ‘Marcelus’. ‘Emerald’ is no different, but instead of tough and rushing euphoria, he delivers something altogether warm and frothy, revealing yet another side to this prismic producer, as well as adding a lighter node to the Tresor catalogue.

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