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Brendon Moeller is an artist that needs no introduction. The South African born living in the US, like few of his generation constantly challenges himself with new concepts and ideas, has incorporated techno, dub, jazz, ambient, sound design, to his works throughout the years. Never chased the limelight, but instead the work, one idea after the next, one project after the other, restless. He has collaborated with labels like Echocord, Third Ear, Electric Deluxe, Prologue, Mord to name some. "Materialize" is his first work for Vibrant Music.
From his early days in various bands in the 80's and 90's, Brendon liked indie, shoegaze, ambient, moody, cinematic scapes.
With Materialize he came full circle, reaching out to his early influences, but with the knowledge and experience of many years of exploration of modular synths, to create a concept space that feels intimate, and at the same time vivid evoking visual imaging.
It explores the time space through a minimalist, stoic approach.
It tells the story of how we are all linked into this tree of music we call electronic music, wherever each one is coming from.
A celebration of life through the mind of one of today's scholars of electronic music.
A liberation from the strictness of tempo and metronomes, to reach to a more creative state.
Vibrant Music continuous the quest, to bring to you unique collaborations and sides of artists that we like.


Tracklist:
A1. materialize
A2. ghost strand
A3. there can be no true beauty without decay
A4. circles guaranteed
A5. summon
B1. staying in
B2. dusk
B3. dunes
B4. colorful donation



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Whetting appetites for 'Works'-Brendon Moeller's ninth studio album and his first full-length for Speedy J's compound techno stable-Electric Deluxe present the 'Wanderer EP', with remixes from CLR's Tommy Four Seven and Argentine vanguard Jonas Kopp. Since relocating to New York from South Africa, Moeller has spent the last twenty years cultivating his dub techno legacy. As Beat Pharmacy and Echologist he has employed jazz, afrobeat and psychedelic semblances to redefine Basic Channel foundations, whilst producing a stockpile of records under his own name for labels like Echocord, Mule and Third Ear Recordings. In 2009 Moeller launched Steadfast, which has continued to be a platform for his more diverse projects-including the deep house collaboration with Chicago-based Area, as Lightness, and his last Echologist album, 'Subterranean'. Taken from 'Works' scheduled for release in April 2012 -Moeller's idiosyncratic reflection upon "the spirit of techno"-"Wanderer" nods to the genre's dark and industrial side, whilst it's crashing hats and surging bass allude to Berlin and the artist's fomented Berghain affiliation. Growling, guttural strata and robotic peals further cement it as one of Moeller's more dystopian creations and most driving effort to date. Jonas Kopp toughens "Wanderer" into one of his signature marching workouts, sliced with urgent stabs. Tommy Four Seven on the other hand picks up the track's shimmering melody-at the fore in its pre-mastered state, made available here in digital form-and tousles it with his distinctive bone-crushing beatwork and crunchy, field-generated padding. More

Electric Deluxe are proud to announce Works, the ninth studio album from dub techno purveyor Brendon Moeller. Conceived in late 2010 and inchoately developed during a spell in Amsterdam with EDLX head Jochem Paap overseeing the project, Works flaunts Moeller at the height of danceabilty whilst remaining true to his steeped lineage as a maker of textured, atmospheric and subaqueous electronic music.
"I began thinking hard about what kind of album I was trying to make. After much pondering I decided the best way forward would be to make an album that reflects both my own idiosyncrasies as well as try and capture what I believe to be the spirit of techno."
After the experimental Subterranean-a near beatless record comprised from a single live mixdown of sounds collated over the course of a year-under his Echologist moniker, Works shifts focus back to the dance floor with a collection of propulsive techno tracks, saturated with the visceral groove that has come to define Moeller's discography. From the submerged and spacious "Writing Wrongs" and bleepy, strung-out antics of "Far Out" to the house-kissed "Take A Dive Into The Sound" and darker, chugging cuts that close Works, the album pools together the threads of a prolific production history, spanning almost two decades, into a single succinct long player.
"It was the final stages of putting together the album where I went into a sort of manic obsessive behavior. I knew the clock was ticking and I desperately wanted to be sure that every track, every mix of every track was as good as it could be. Jochem's feedback and tactful suggestions helped shape these tracks into what they are now. I'm super proud of these and simply cannot wait to hear them on different sound systems all over the world."
With a particular nod to his other Beat Pharmacy alias-affiliated exclusively with Francois K's Deep Space Media label and New York party- Moeller's expansive output has fused dub and techno with jazz, afrobeat and psychedelic pastiches to carry on as much as refashion Basic Channel heritage into his own distinctive patois. But what makes Works a truly unique product of his is Paap's influence over the record. "Off The Grid", "Wanderer" and "Adjust To The Fading Light" are as some of the toughest bass-driven efforts from Moeller to date, balancing some of the album's brighter tracks like "In Pursuit" with techno's pounding industrial heartbeat. The result is an eclectic imagining of the genre-showing the many sides and emotions of techno, and Moeller himself.
Tracklisting:
1.Welcome
2. Spice
3.In Pursuit
4.Far Out
5.Writing Wrongs
6.Shuttle to Oblivion
7.Take a Dive into The Sound
8.Off The Grid
9.Wanderer
10.Adjust to Fading Light


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Brendon Moeller's long player homage to "the spirit of techno" 'Works', Electric Deluxe taps two of the album's polar moments for remixes to deliver Work Ethics.

Selecting one of Works' toughest tracks for the A-side, "Adjust to the Fading Light", the EP opens with a rare vocal refix from Berghain resident Ben Klock. Whilst difficult to pin Klock's productions to any particular style, as a remixer he's proven even more versatility and vision, reworking artists as diverse as Martyn, Kenny Larkin and Depeche Mode to Emptyset and Steve Bug. Meanwhile Moeller mutes the hats and brings the track's whirring dystopian bed to the fore with his Echologist version, jettisoning its original surge for more swollen and experimental terrains.

On the flip, Works' luscious dubbed out number "Writing Wrongs" is pulled further apart and dragged to dark subaqueous depths by Echospace duo Rod Modell and Stephen Hitchell as cv313. Melbourne-based producer Craig McWhinney on the other hand takes "Writing Wrongs" in the other direction entirely, soaring past Moeller's original to conclude Work Ethics on a hazy sun kissed dub trip that's altogether soothing, light and mesmerising.
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