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‘Rodriguez Jr. debuts on Hicky & Kalo’s imprint Plaisirs Sonores this January with a scintillating new remix. He is an artist that needs little introduction. After breaking out over a decade ago on Laurent Garnier’s F-Communications, he has gone on to establish a global reputation at the cutting edge of electronic music, cementing his place among the vanguard with thrilling club cuts on the likes of Mobilee and Anjunadeep.
The French maestro has put his signature touch to ‘Un Rêve Étrange’, an original work from label founders Hicky & Kalo and mesmerising violinist Seth Schwarz. The inimitable producer brings the track into a world of his own, elevating the intensity with a fusion of the emotive melodies and a firm, rolling groove. The sleek rework offers up a captivating journey into a melodic yet melancholic dimension.
2021 couldn’t have started in a better way. Let’s just forget 2020 and move on.’
Mastering by BlackHead Studios
Release Date : January 18th, 2021
Pre-Order “Baobab” here: Mobilee Records
Rodriguez Jr. returns to Mobilee with his evocative album Baobab. Resident Advisor named the French artist in their Best Live Acts of 2016, and in between his famed live shows, he has created a ten track masterpiece that elicits powerful emotions through music.
“Baobab is about roots. It has mainly been written whilst travelling and I needed to re-connect to my roots: the music I used to listen to as a teenager from South Of France, my first parties, this fantastic sense of freshness, enthusiasm and innocence. This is why I decided to call it Baobab: a big tree proud to grow up in a lush surrounding, with it’s roots deep in the floor”.
Rodriguez Jr. understands the importance of empty spaces. The purposeful silences in-between each track enable reflection on what you have just heard. Skillfully using sounds and effects, he creates a masterclass in emotive music.
Collaborating with Liset Alea, the singer and composer from Nouvelle Vague, whose vocals shine through on three of the tracks of Baobab as well as Rodriguez Jr’s own vocals on Heal Me, a track touching on the complexities of being human. Speaking about his collaboration with Liset, Olivier says, “the singer is a key part of this album as her voice is a link between different phases. The interaction in the studio has been extremely spontaneous and emotional”.
An Evidence Of Time opens the album with a heartbeat and steps into the intricacies of Olivier’s mind. “Wake me, shake me, in the middle of the night, surprise me out of a dream” Liset Alea sings with a vulnerability on Waste Tomorrow, a track that is like an awakening, ending as abruptly as it begins. Liset returns in Take A Walk, it’s prolonged introduction heavy in mood and punctured with piano keys.
Radian floats away with a range of cosmic sounds brimming with atmosphere and the enchanting Monticello ramps up the intensity. Liset makes her final appearance in The Heart Is A Woman, bringing richness and depth before the album concludes with the elaborate Ellipsism, and the anthemic Tomorrow Never Comes.
Tracklisting
01. An Evidence Of Time
02. Heal Me
03. Baobab
04. Waste Tomorrow feat. Liset Alea
05. Take A Walk feat. Liset Alea
06. Radian
07. Monticello
08. The Heart Is A Woman feat. Liset Alea
09. Ellipsism
10. Tomorrow Never Comes
Release Date: 02 June 2017
Leider mit etwas Verspätung aber dennoch mit der nötigen Coolness für einen solchen Montag.
Langsam treibend geht es diesmal los. Ein Intro wie für den Club gemacht. Nur um dann alles in herrlichstes KlickerKlacker aufzugehen zu lassen. Nein der Track ist nicht minimal an sich. Rodiguez Jr. spielt aber mit den Elementen dieses Subgenres. Sphärische Soundpattern schieben sich über die Bassline, werden verzerrt, fast zerrissen, um dann wieder in bester Samplemanier zusammengesetzt und weiter über die Arrangementwiese getrieben zu werden. Jedoch fehlt dem Song ein wenig der letzte Biss, wie man es von den etlichen anderen Rodriguez Tracks gewohnt ist. Vielleicht müssen wir aber nur runter kommen und mal vier, fünf BPM runter schrauben.
Der zweite Track “Chicky Chicky” ist da noch solides Techhouse. Bouncend der Bass – irgendwie geht der in die Beine – ein paar Sampleschnipsel. Es passiert nicht viel und das ist vermutlich auch die Schwäche. Aber es ist ja auch nur eine “B-Seite”
Rodriguez Jr. – Esperanza anhören und kaufen (ab 10.01.2010)
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