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minerve repleased
Artist: Minerve
Title: Repleased
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 30th September 2011
Label: Echozone


Album Review

It's just a good year since MINERVE have released their last album 'Pleased' that a collection of remixes by the name of 'Repleased' comes out. Spreading across 2 discs the track list in parts reads like a who-is-who of the electronic music scene. Rather unknown acts are being featured here too though. The first step is being made though by a cover version of the band themselves. It's EURYTHMICS 'Here Comes The Rain Again'. This one's really amongst the enjoyable takes on an original. The next one 'Hold Me Tight' as 'Celluloide Remix' delivers solid if not extraordinary club fodder before 'Everyday' bleeds melancholy. Quite a moody remix by DISTAIN. 'Life Is An Illusion' has been broken into pieces and rises from its ashes as meld of precise machine beats and subdued atmospheres, while the 'Babylonia Remix' of 'You Don't Know Me' has a folkloristic touch to it. One of the more sophisticated mixes is placed close to the end of the first disc with LIQUID DIVINE's reconstruction of 'Please' with complex beat patterns and noise incursions.

The second disc opens with 'Down To The Ground' which turns out a kind of indie synth pop track with a stellar chorus. The mix of it that follows afterwards is rather keeping an eye on the dance floor. 'I Welcome The Rain', a heart-rending ballad features SPEKTRALIZED's Richard Björklund on vocals who fills the track with a sad grace. 'Hold Me Tight' is not outstanding but still has a good vibe and strangely reminds me of early DISTAIN! material. The track is included another four times in different variation, one more club affine; the other utilizing rather old-school sounds. DREHER & SMART know how to give a song a good twist. Their version of 'Life Is An Illusion' sparsely uses any vocals but thick textures and cold beats to create an eerie atmosphere. The end is made by a collaboration with Frank M. Spinath of SEABOUND/EDGE OF DAWN, resulting in a track that is a perfect fit for a rainy day in autumn. For me one of the highlights on this collection. Version 2 favours noise and more clubby beats instead of dense melodic layers.

As is always the case with a vast collection of remixes there's light & shadow to be found. Shadow mostly in the fact that too many of the same tracks appear offering little to no exciting new perspectives while others virtually reverse-engineer the tracks which would be the light on this collection as are the original tracks and especially the collaborations. Maybe it would've been better to put the best tracks on a single disc. Would've made for a more cohesive impression!


Tracklist

CD1:
01. Here Comes The Rain Again - 5:14
02. Hold Me Tight (Celluloide Remix) - 5:27
03. Every Day (Distain Remix) - 5:26
04. Down To The Ground (Stum Remix) - 4:28
05. Life Is An Illusion (For A Space vs. Destroid Remix) - 4:32
06. You Don't Know Me (Babylonia Remix) - 3:43
07. Don't Ask Me Why (Midnight Resistance Remix) - 5:18
08. Phoenix (Dsx Remix) - 6:03
09. Read In My Memories (Lakeside X Remix) - 5:24
10. Forbidden Love (Exes Remix) - 4:35
11. Please (Liquid Divine Remix) - 3:44
12. Save me (People Theatre Remix) - 6:27
13. Under My Skin (Mechanical Apfelsine Remix) - 5:00

CD2:
01. Down To The Ground (Radio Edit) - 3:46
02. Down To The Ground (Priorshift Mix) - 6:28
03. I Welcome The Rain (feat. Richard Björklund of Spektralized) - 4:30
04. Down To The Ground (Demo Version 2007) - 4:35
05. Hold Me Tight (Single) - 3:31
06. Hold Me Tight (Club Mix by O.Wollschläger) - 5:48
07. Hold Me Tight (Blind Vision Mix) - 7:32
08. Hold Me Tight (Evvilking Mix) - 5:07
09. Life Is An Illusion (Blind Believer Mix by Dreher & Smart) - 7:57
10. Hold Me Tight (Demoversion 2007) - 4:44
11. You don't know me (Radio Edit) - 4:29
12. You don't know me (AndyK Mix) - 4:50
13. In love with an open end feat. Frank M. Spinath of Seabound - 4:06
14. In love with an open end feat. Frank M. Spinath of Seabound Mix - 4:34


Line-Up

Daniel Wollatz - Vocals
Andreas Wollatz – Keys, Vocals
Mathias Thürk – Programming, Keys
David Kewitz – Live Drums


Website

http://www.minerve.de/ / http://www.facebook.com/pages/Minerve-official/104954206201966


Cover Picture

minerve repleased


Rating

Music: 7
Sound: 7
Extras: -
Total: 7 / 10

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