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Minilogue
Animals
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Yesterday Bells
2. Cow, Crickets, And Clay
3. Hitchhiker's Choice
4. Loud
5. We All
6. 33000 Honeybees
7. Jamaica
8. View Of A Juggling Ball
9. Giant Hairy Super Monster
10. Hypnotized
11. Animals
12. In A Distance
Track Listings (14) - Disc #2
1. Old Water
2. Windows
3. City Lights
4. Six Arms And One Leg
5. Swamp Op
6. In The Shade Of The Sun
7. Stations I
8. Stations II
9. Stations III
10. Even The Wind Seemed In Deep Sleep
11. Europhonia
12. Feeling In Spring Beside The Dressing Table
13. Seconds (Colour & Sound)
14. Outro

CD Details

All Artists: Minilogue
Title: Animals
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Cocoon
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 5/27/2008
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop
Styles: Electronica, Dance Pop
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 807297109528

Synopsis

Album Description

Malm", Sweden's Minilogue (Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson) present Animals, their debut full-length release for Sven V?th's Cocoon. Nowadays, electronic producers tend to retreat into their special stylistic niche -- Minilogue dare to draw the bigger picture. After releasing outstanding productions on such renowned labels as Traum, Crosstown Rebels and Wagon Repair, this opus magnum covers a wide spectrum of music, reaching from peak-time techno to beatless deep ambient. The full range of Minilogue's vision of electronic music is developed on a double CD -- one devoted to dance music, the other devoted to ambient, while the vinyl version naturally focuses on the dance tracks. The immediacy of the club tracks incorporate the elegance and simplicity of classic early '90s techno, the economy and lightness of the minimal sound and the sweetness and charm of their recent developments. This is a journey to be listened to from beginning to end, mixed in a seamless flow. As Son Kite and Trimatic, Mullaert and Henriksson became very successful in the trance scene, playing enthusiastically-received live sets all over the world. With Minilogue, they leave the boundaries of that genre -- and actually of any genre. The result couldn't be more striking: the dance tracks are powerful and humble, the ambient tracks are subtle and bold. While other producers tend to get lost in layers of sounds and reverb, Animals is spring-loaded and nimble. Tracks so humble, effective and elegant, they stream unremittingly into the listener's ears. The music stretches out towards the horizon in a gesture of unmitigated desire: a desire for wideness, a desire for sound, a desire for the elementary beauty of techno.

CD Reviews

Better than smart, just plain clever & way cool

Russell E. Scott | Austin, TX | 07/02/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Why is it that the Icelandic nations have a monopoly of sorts on all most of the minimal electronic music that sounds fresh, inventive, creative, and clever? Take bands Sigur Ros, Kings of Convenience, Mum, Bjork, BOC, Vladislav Delay, Luomo, Ralph Myerz, Royksopp, Erlend Oye and so on. Minilogue is no exception and double down the stakes with their excellent new Animals CD (I hear they have another great CD coming called IMPS).

For us simple folks, us day players in the world of drudge and doom, this double disc release is supposedly broken down into one giant journey - disc one is the dance floor side, with disc 2 being the ambient - techno thing. Neither title really applies since the rules go out the window with note one. These 2 guys, Sebastian & Marcus, have a silent third entity in Rob Zohrab from Henge Design who came up with all the imagined, dreamed, and other worldly animals that serve as the inspiration for all the clever tunes. They also penned most of the videos which add another yet celestial dimension to matters beyond the normal scope of top 40 anything. This is the most unusual and exciting CD out this year. No joke. Nothing else like it.

If you like adventure, risk, delight, and discover, make it a mystery and adventure to find one and nestle it down into your personal private world of super cool listening parties. Invite some one special to join you.

It sounds passe, but these dudes are true originals. The packaging is also superb and runs congruent with everything else this wondrous whole is about. Some of you will understand what I say and will copt to this like a speeding train to an Asian airport. You want release and escape? I did. I found it too. All 2 plus hours of it.

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