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The Future Is Not What It Used to Be [BR200]

Various Artists

Brique Rouge
BR200 | 2022-12-16  
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Cyprination
Original Mix (4:14)
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Liberation
Original Mix (8:15)
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Supernova
Original Mix (7:31)
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Chi-Town Flavours
Original Mix (4:14)
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The Nice View
David Duriez Maisonloup Wonder Emporium Edit (9:45)
" When i started making music in the 90's and therefore when i started the label i could not imagine where all of this was leading. It was easy to see and live electronic music on the moment, as an underground phenomenon surrounded by episodic commercial activities but it was hard to think about how it would be 20/30 years from now.

It was hard to realize that Electronic music would follow the path of any other musical genre that has created a revolution at one time before fading into a mainstream aseptized feel good music.

The fight we have fought is now part of the past. The music with (almost) no faces, the blurry stories, the incertitude of how it was done, the magic... Everything has been explained and demonstrated. Some people that were once leading the movement have been forgotten, some have been defaced and shamed for being a fraud, some have taken all the glory.

The music itself has been abused, by people jumping on the bandwagon creating music with no soul, using affordable softwares, cheap looping tools so easy to use that they have stolen what was once the basis of House : finding the right groove, mutate the right sample and above everything making something new.

Nowadays it's all about fun, fame and money. The advent of social networks has been the nail in the coffin. The music i love and make does not go well with that concept as it has never been about popularity or anything else surrounding the music itself. We make Electronic Music tracks. Nothing else. We can make visuals, we can write stories, that would help to shape a future for our music. Posting a video a day showing how cool you are is not helping at all.

* And now that we are celebrating the past at every occasion, it seems that the future is not what it used to be. *

On my side i want to keep doing it that way it was meant to be done, not by preaching that it was better before because it wasn't, it was just different, but by keeping it real. And by that i mean thinking to the music first then embracing the new ways of spreading it.

New ways for me, for us. Not for the new generation that comes in line, releasing more music every day that we could ever imagine. And that's a good thing because in those masses, there are the ones that will fight the right fight tomorrow.

Here are the people i have gathered on Brique Rouge, the old guard, the new guard, the forward thinkers, the inventors of a future that would give a new interpretation of the past while mastering the present. "

[David Duriez]

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" I discovered Brique Rouge in 1999 when I bought "Now We Are Doing Our Own Thing EP" at Gramaphone Records here in Chicago. "No Time To Lose" on that record got in my head immediately. With it's relentless rhythm and smoky female vocal samples, "No Time To Lose" became one of my go to weapons for when a dance floor was heating up. I still love the track.

A few months before I'd bought that record I'd started working as an AandR at Afterhours Records; a label that released a variety of underground house music mostly by Chicago and other US based artists. My boss had asked that I look into licensing a European track or two for domestic US release. So, I looked at the email address on the Brique Rouge record and sent an email asking if the fine folks who had released "No Time To Lose" would be interested in licensing the song to Afterhours. David Duriez wrote me back and said he'd be happy to license the track to us. We sent over a deal, an advance, and in a short time we received a DAT (no time right now to explain what a DAT is) of the master and stems.

This was how I discovered Brique Rouge and how I became friends with one of the most creative and driven people in electronic dance music.

David Duriez is a label boss. He is a DJ, a producer, a musician, an engineer, a label owner, an event organizer, an entrepreneur, a mentor and one of the most hard working people I've met. I'd guess he would probably describe himself as a soldier in the struggle to bring quality and soulful electronic music to the world. From my vantage point, David has spent the last 23 years pushing the music he loves, making the music he loves, and supporting the art, the artists, and the music with every ounce of his spirit.

Through it's 200 releases, Brique Rouge has debuted and propelled artists from across the underground house and techno spectrum. Some of these people have become mainstays in their respective styles. You can Google it, there's no need to name names here.

The label has never tried to recreate a specific success or repeat a formula. The creative policy, to put it simply, is to release what David loves and what he believes in. This ethos has formed a catalog that does not age, is not in vogue, and does not fall out of vogue. Like the handful of great record labels before it that have nurtured music culture at large, Brique Rouge has thundered forward with little regard for how many or how few people support any single release. The point to this project is the journey. It's not about the highs or the lows. It's not about an end result, or even respect, or admiration. David and his record label are on a singular mission and that is to always move forward, to keep breathing life into the imaginations of like minded creatives, and to keep the soul of the music alive."

Mazi Namvar (6 February 2022)

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