Manuel Tur releases his long-awaited debut album '0201' on Freerange this coming Monday (22nd June).  The album is already causing a bit of a stir in the press with impressive reviews from DJ Mag (5/5 and July Compilation Of The Month), iDJ (10/10), De:Bug, Raveline, Tsugi and RA amongst others. Not only that but the first 2 singles from the album have also been receiving some high praise indeed...

Sebo K: dope release! full support!

Mark Farina: great stuff! rocking , funky groove!

Karizma: I love this guys work!

Steve Bug - totally into the original and pepe's reef breaks mix of golden complexion, just great music!

Will Saul - Pepe's reef breaks mix is divine as is Manuel's Live Dub. Overall I think this is one of the strongest things that Manuel and freerange have released. Full support.

Read on to find out more...

0201 marks a departure from the more dancefloor friendly productions Manuel is known for; instead downtempo and abstract sounds sit happily alongside broken beat infused deep house and filtered French disco. Avoiding the classic dance music trap of creating an album of hastily thrown together 12” highlights, this is beautifully constructed slice of deeply atmospheric delights, with a beginning, middle and end your English Lit. teacher would be proud of.

The album harks back to other great ‘bedroom house’ albums such as Etienne de Crecy’s Super Discount or Cassius’s 1999. Dramatic sounding piano keys on the opening track quickly give way to a bassline and chords with echoes of French filtered disco at the height of its powers. Woven in with the darker and more emotive deep house sounds of now, Manuel has managed to create something that feels both fresh and nostalgic. There’s no denying the strong US influence on the album too, as Manuel does his bit for intercontinental relations – marrying soulful house vocals with a more European sound.

The rich atmosphere and at times soundtrack-esque qualities to the album may be partly down to the huge variety of sounds that Manuel brings together on 0201. He explains that:

“The whole album was made up from samples that I've been collecting for almost 10 years now and that I've put together like a jigsaw or ‘patchwork’, as is the title of the first track.”  Obviously a true sound collector with one ear on the past and one eye on the future.   The last track of the album Final Layer has the finality of the end of the road, or at least the end of the night, but you know you haven’t heard the last of this one.

Track-listing

01) Patcvhworks
02) Stay feat. Lariassa Kapp
03) Rubicond
04) Golden Complexion feat. Blakkat
05) Such A Dream
06) Fade And Away
07) Passtelise
08) Shady Trees
09) Will Be Mine feat. Alexander East
10) A40
11) On the Radio
12) Radial
13) Final Layer

0201 is out on Beatport from Monday 22nd June.