It’s the end of the year and I’ve decided to include here one of the Ep’s of 2009… “La Mezcla”. The track has been spread more than the H1N1 virus during the year, and was/is played by a lot of different artists, from house Dj’s like Danny Tenaglia or Dennis Ferrer, to techno minimal ones like Luciano, Ricardo Villalobos, Radio Slave, Loco Dice, Koze, Reboot, Guy Gerber, Sis, Rhadoo, Raresh, 2000 and One and M Tanzmann and all of them have had a tremendous feedback from the crowds. Now, in the end of the year, this music still shakes my heart and Minimaland couldn’t pass by such an enormous track! And this release that we present is a very special one because it contains a remix from Mr. Paul Kalkbrenner, who has also been spreading some euphoric moments in the dancefloors, since his enormous hit, Berlin Calling… movie and soundtrack!
Michel’s roots will be easy to find when you listen to his music, his tracks are full of joyful and vibrant ethnic electronic beats and full of instrumentals and in Kalkbrenner’s remix nothing was lost, he kept the main tools of the original “La Mezcla”and added some special features to it. I confess that this is not the kind of track that I enjoy in the first glance, but after a while and some dancefloor appreciation I can tell you that this is, in fact, a HUGE track and remix. Released by Strictly Rhythm Germany that have bought the property rights of “La Mezcla” to Cadenza records a while ago.
a1 – La Mezcla (Paul Kalkbrenner Remix)
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b1 - La Mezcla
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SR#09812
Release Date: 28.11.2009
3 Questions to Luciano about La Mezcla:
Like Michel Cleis ‘La Mezcla’ – you waited months and months to release that track.
Luciano: I always try to go against what people tell me.
Like with ‘La Mezcla’, I had people everywhere saying ‘release it, release it’, but I told them ‘no’.
That’s fun, because it works against what the industry does. It goes against what you’re supposed to do as a label. I wanted to create a buzz around the track, so that everyone knew it, without it being on the market already. That’s a fun way to create buzz.
How much did Strictly Rhythm pay for ‘La Mezcla’? I heard there was a bidding war.
Luciano: Ah, that is unofficial information. I can’t tell you that.
OK, were you surprised then, that the buzz you created around ‘La Mezcla’ led all the way to the door of one of the UK’s biggest dance labels?
Luciano: Yeah we were surprised. We thought about not giving it to Defected, but in the end if they can push a track and an artist more than us because they have a bigger distribution network, then that’s a good thing. They can make it bigger than we can, and that’s better for our artists like Michel.