hauschka Salon des Amateurs Remix EP 1 (12", £6.75)

Brand new remix EP of Hauschka’s ‘Salon Des Amateurs’. EP1 sees two serious heavyweights of minimal techno delivering very different, yet complementary remixes. · April 2011’s ‘Salon Des Amateurs’ album saw the critically-acclaimed pianist / composer utilising the percussive qualities of ‘prepared’ piano. · This 12” is the first of two vinyl-only EPs, running in advance of a full album of electronically-angled remixes of ‘Salon Des Amateurs’. · Chilean-born minimal techno heavyweight Ricardo Villalobos again teams up with experimental producer Max Loderbauer for a glitchy and fractured remix of ‘Cube’. · Cologne-based Michael Mayer - co-owner of the massively influential Kompakt label - turns in a hugely impressive floor-friendly reversioning of ‘Radar’. · “Another gem on FatCat that falls somewhere between the cracks of classicism and pastoral electronica” - Plan B · “Clacking, scraping and hammering amid chilly piano and forlorn strings [that] creates, as if by magic, a factory of percussion” - NME · “Electronic music from an acoustic instrument... Nothing short of astonishing” - Mojo · “Deconstructs most preconceived notions of music yet manages to create something astounding and accessible in the process. Brilliant” - The Fly