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After the huge success of his albums ‚The Last Resort‘ and ,The Trentemøller Chronicles‘, Trentemøller graces the Audiomatique catalogue
once again, featuring four timeless and accomplished remixes of his haunting track, ‚Miss You.‘ The original is a deeply musical study showing off Trentemøller’s unique composition skills, and for this release he presents a cut up re-rub full of classic texture and warmth. One of two more club friendly remixes on the release, his remix adds sharp hi-hats and even more hypnotic layers of melodies, creating an energetic track which sits in the ever-smoky borders between techno, house and electronica. Climbing up from deep within his unique and unmistakable river of sound, Scape‘s legendary producer Pole is next to provide a remix. Bass heavy dub-steps close around a tripped out abstraction of the original theme, allowing 7 minutes of glorious analogue experimentation to unfold. A rich cloud of defined and considered noise surfaces to very meniscus of the track, before sinking away back into the depths... One of Germany‘s longest serving figures in Techno, Pascal F.E.O.S, chooses to remain true to the musicality of the original with his drifting techno slow burner. The remix introduces melody as its central focus, but is still underpinned by the Level Non Zero figurehead‘s tough but reduced rhythm track, that drives persistently, without distorting one‘s view of the stirring melodic happenings. Finally two talented musicians from Copenhagen‘s electronic underground, Lulu Rouge and Asger Baden, take the stirring beauty of the original‘s piano melody and create a filmic, beatless interpretation. Gentle washes of warm strings and atmospheres glide subtly through the pale ether of this wonderfully restrained
remix.

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Fredo Viola's sublime music grew from an inspired marriage between 21st century technology and the oldest of musical instruments, the human voice. His songs have an innocent, romantic, almost mystical quality that seeks out the magical in the everyday. They feel like dream soundscapes, alien but strangely beautiful.
Fredo's debut album 'The Turn' combines traces of singer-songwriter pop, ambient electronica, classical, religious hymns and even mediaeval folk ballads. He cites a broad range of inspirations including Harry Nilsson, Bartok, Kate Bush, Bach, Belle and Sebastian, Shostakovich, Boards of Canada, Stravinsky, Odetta and Alfred Schnittke. But his mesmerising music clearly has a strong and singular voice that is entirely his own.
Many tracks on The Turn feature abstract vocals rather than recognisable words, a rich tradition that Fredo shares with Sigur Ros, Cocteau Twins, early REM and other left-field innovators. Clearly defined lyrics, he explains, can be too confining whereas music is "ambiguous, exciting, terrifying, heart-breaking, joyous." The words are far less important than the deeper emotions beneath.
'The Turn' is certainly a highly emotional album full of sunshine and sorrow, playful humour and sombre beauty. The euphoric rush of childhood memories on 'Robinson Crusoe' has the grainy, flickering quality of old Super-8 home movies. The pulsing techno-folk ditty 'Friendship Is' conjurs up a similar nursery-rhyme feel, with Fredo's intertwined harmonies bouncing off an electronically manipulated version of his voice. Meanwhile, 'Red States' is a breezy parable of love and war carried aloft on warm currents of Beatle-ish melody.
The more experimental tracks on 'The Turn' inhabit the same free-floating realm as Radiohead or Sigur Ros at their most adventurous. A creamy swirl of spectral voices drifting through an electrical storm of science-fiction sound effects, 'K Thru 6' could almost be a lost track from 'In Rainbows'. On 'Death of a Son', the melding of choral chants with crisp electronic percussion strikes a bold collision of ancient and modern.
Fredo has further ambitions to bring magic back to owning an album, with interactive applications and digital artwork planned for future releases. But in terms of dazzling originality and spine-tingling beauty, 'The Turn' is already the sublime debut of the year. Listen and dream.
Tracklisting:
1. The Turn (a pagan lament)
2. The Sad Song
3. Friendship is…
4. Red States
5. The original man
6. Risa
7. Robin Crusoe
8. K Thru
9. Moon after berceuse
10. Puss
11. Death of a son
12. Umbrellas


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