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Spindermopth 04:50
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Vaporetto 03:09
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Jazzblondine 03:56
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Evaporetto 07:28
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Moth 303 03:10
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Beautiful Music - 2017 Edit 06:55
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Starfished 04:29
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Duventine 04:08
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Kryptonite 08:36
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I Might Be Drowning 02:09
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Sonic Alert 05:48
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Funday Walk 01:22
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Haddouh Hai - Instrumental Mix (Bonus Track) 03:30
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Boss-A-Nova - 2007 Mix (Bonus Track) 05:53
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E-Trap - 2007 Mix (Bonus Track) 04:43
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Beauty Loops (Extra 2017 Bonus Track) 03:55
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about

This album was my first ever attempt at "real" club sound; probably a weird variety of Hardtrance (You see, I'm clearly not a purist if it comes to microscopic sub-genre divisions; on the contrary, I'm a musical omnivore...).

By the end of the 90s I finally had taken more interest in the dance / techno genre (which in former years I used to despise) after friends had initiated me to several albums from more creative and progressive dance artists than I knew from the local parties etc. I had experienced before.

Around the time also the first virtual synthesizers arrived that aimed at dance sounds (like for example the rather popular "ReBirth" by Propellerhead, which I actually used on most tracks of this album) and while I at first only saw that as a budget chance to get"analog" sounds after all (but at first not intending to do "techno") little by little I started to dabble in dance music - and this was the first (but not worst) example of my efforts in the genre.

It was a rather naive and - obviously - also often humorous way to approach the matter; actually I had good fun producing most of this stuff - but some tracks are actually also a bit "deeper" (hopefully).

For the purpose of releasing dance music in the first place I also invented the "fashionable" project name mbp (short for: michael brückner project, but also an anagram of bpm = beats per minute). I used it for the first time here, but dropped it again a few years later...

Speaking of "humorous" - one track, Beautiful Music, was so bizarr and actually quite annoying with all kind of "funny" distorted voices all over it that I decided to replace it by a new version, where those voices are cut well back and the groovy sequences rule instead; the original version still is added - for hysterical, erm: historical reasons ;-)

And: original only meant as a background soundscape for the new version of "Beautiful Music" I also have added a new ambient piece, entitled "Beauty Loops". ENJOY! :-)

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released February 15, 1998

Michael Brückner: keayboards, synthesizer, programming, funny voices

Cilia di Ponte: vocals and voices on track 2, 3 and 4

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Michael Brückner Mainz, Germany

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, later settled down near Mainz.

Earns a living as a graphical designer.

Ambient and other electronica since 1992.

Accumulated an extended back catalogue (more than 90 albums by end of 2011, number still growing).

Since 2007 offers his music in the internet, via the usual platforms.

Sometimes gets reviews + airplay.

Very rarely plays live.

More is to come... ... more

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