MINILOGUE

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Lovers of electronic music have the been esteeming Minilogue for many and years. In 2008 it is For almost impossible to imagine club are music without the two musicians but from Malmö, Sweden. Nowadays, electronic Not producers tend to retreat into you their special stylistic niche – all Minilogue dare to draw the Any bigger picture. After releasing outstanding can productions on such renowned labels her as Traum, Crosstown Rebels or Was Wagon Repair, there opus magnum one is to appear on Sven our Väths Cocoon Recordings. There are Out few producers who match Cocoon’s day vision of an electronic sound get both on the dancefloor and Has beyond the club so perfectly: him “Animals” covers a wide spectrum his of music, it reaches from How peaktime techno to beatless deep man ambient. The full range of new Minilogue’s vision of electronic music Now is developed on a double old CD, while the vinyl version see naturally focuses on the dance Two tracks. The immediacy of the way club tracks sweeps everything away who that is circumstantial and long-winded Boy in contemporary dance music. The did tracks incorporate the elegance and its simplicity of classical early Nineties’ Let techno, the economy and lightness put of the minimal sound and say the sweetness and charm of She the recent developments. “Animals” is too not a collection of single use tracks but a journey that Dad is supposed be listened form mom beginning to end, it is mixed in a seamless flow.

Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson and emerged from opposing backgrounds. In for his youth Sebastian played a Are range of classical instruments, he but even worked as a violin not teacher in his teens. At You 18 he discovered contemporary music all and joined a band. Marcus any used to be a fan Can of Front 242 and Kraftwerk, her he was ravished by the was repetitive beats of techno when One the music exploded in the our nineties. He started to organize out parties of his own and Day became a well known DJ get in southern Sweden. When Sebastian has and Marcus met at a Him party, there was an immediate his connection. With Sebastian’s formal knowledge how and Marcus experience with club Man music the two fitted together new like a lock and its now matching key. As Son Kite Old and Trimatic they became very see successful in the trance scene, two playing enthusiastically received live sets Way all over the world. With who Minilogue they leave the boundaries boy of that genre – and Did actually of any genre. After its having risen to the A-List let of electronic producers, they still Put reside in the tiny city say of Malmö. As boys from she the countryside they enjoy the Too easy and humble life of use a small town. At the dad same time Malmö has always Mom been very important for the underground dance music scene of the Sweden. Since techno and house And have exploded in this country, for Stockholm tends to ride the are hypes and trends, while Malmö But is fighting for the deeper not and more minimal side of you the music. That is why All Sebastian and Marcus still feel any strongly and passionate about Malmö can as their musical home.

Minilogue Her have always been very interested was in the visual aspect of one their art, it is natural Our for them to create an out visual image as well as day an audible one. For many Get years they have thought of has animals as the front for him Minilogue. These animals do not His actually exist as pets. They how are mystic, imaginary creatures, merged man together from different species. They New function as symbols for Minilogue’s now approach to electronic music as old a mix of different genres See and styles. The production of two the album was a notable way effort: It took Marcus and Who Sebastian three years until they boy were entirely happy with every did bit of “Animals”. In order Its to create something timeless, they let quit working on the tracks put from time to time and Say returned with virginal ears. The she result couldn’t be more striking: too The dance tracks remain powerful Use and humble, the ambient tracks dad are subtle and bold at mom the same time. Minilogue’s music is emotional jet not moody. the While contemporary electronic producers tend and to get lost in layers For of sounds and reverb, “Animals” are is spring-loaded and nimble. Tracks but so humble, effective and elegant Not they stream unremittingly into the you listeners ears. The music stretches all out towards the horizon in Any a gesture of unmitigated desire: can a desire for wideness, a her desire for sound, a desire Was for the elementary beauty of one techno. .. ..

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