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Touch

by Michael Mayer

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Touch 05:59
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Privat 05:54
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Heider 05:37
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Slowfood 10:38
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Lovefood 04:55
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Amabile 06:33

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Michael Mayer. You know him. Since years he is djaying through the clubs of Cologne / Germany / Europe / the world untill he gets the autarchy of all the happy faces on their feeble bodies. During his work over ten years Michael created himself his firm position at Techno´s top of the world due to his constant quality, compromiseless and dedication. Now, 2004, after several music projects such as Cologne´s MinTech-Boygroup "Forever Sweet" (with Tobias Thomas and Reinhard Voigt, that released the album "Geben and Nehmen" in 1998), scores of solo-maxis for KOMPAKT - among the instant schaffel classic LOVE IS STRONGER THAN PRIDE - and uncounted remixes, finally there is the flawless Michael Mayer LP. TOUCH. It´s high time for the touch. No more than now, because that guy precipitates nothing. As he is prudent. TOUCH opens up with the homonymous monstertrack. Moving closer unshrinkingly: The bombastic intro which is as disinviting as inviting could just as well be in a David-Morales-Pet-Shop-Boys-Remix or a Blank&Jones-Set at Mayday, foments the expectations till you can´t stand it anymore, so he can free the way for OUR HOLY BASSDRUM. Reliable and after the whole intro-bluster only with its best girlfriend - in league with the very tight sequencer-bassline. And there it is, our world. The one that nobody can take us away. The travel continues through the vocal-free zone of luck - even if the chant might be very en vogue in technoland at the moment, it had been sent home already at the door in a very polite and competent way. We want to be alone with the SOUND, that is himself message enough. PRIVAT, HEIDEN and NEUE LUTHERSCHE FRAKTUR keep on celebrating the necessary longing in all euphoria. And also it´s not being abhored from Benassi-"Satisfaction" - 1:1-citations. BECAUSE IT SOUNDS. IT SOUNDS WICKED. In the centre of the record: the elegiac SLOWFOOD. Because you can´t feed only on amphetamins and alcohol. You need a detergent tempest, that´s how the track starts. This Slow-Funk "encourages to think" (scary:). And it grooves. Like wood. And then again spin cycle program at the club and of course the inevitable schaffel, AMABILE. We disavow that the lights are already turned on at THE TOUCH... We want more of that Mayerish maximaltechno!

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released November 8, 2004

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Michael Mayer Cologne, Germany

Michael Mayer is one of the leading German tastemakers in dance music and his DJ sets have influenced a
generation (or two) of musicians and fans. Mayer remains tirelessly dedicated to his work as a DJ, in the studio or
behind his desk at KOMPAKT, the label he co-owns. His recording career spans four albums, 23 EP’s, nearly 170
remixes and the legendary DJ mixes for fabric and Immer.
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