Alex Smoke (Soma / Vakant) - Glasgow
"Too Long On Venus is fucking excellent.... somewhere in the new Detroit sphere but with the essential modern touch.... really strong."
Quarion (Drumpoet Community) – Berlin
"This is proper Techno: shuffling, elevating and most of all soulful. Full support!"
Marcel Janovsky (TREIBSTOFF / WIR) – Cologne
“Mike, your remix on H001 does it for me! Wish you good luck with the new label and hope to get more good stuff a such on HAUL001. Original and your remix are mine!”
Simon Flower (Pokerflat / Dessous / Curl Curl) – Auckland
"The original totally bangs, a dancefloor burner. Remixes are great too,
total support."
Jamie Stevens (Dieb Audio / Infusion) – Australia
“Awesome release fellas! Love this tough sound of Vance's- surprising! Didn't know he was a Skinny Puppy or Front 242 fan ;)” Both remixes are wicked too. Best of luck with this label, boys! :)
Nicole Foote (Triple J Mix Up) – Australia
Hi Mike, loving your remix on this track. Nice work. I've played your remix on The Club and Dan Mangan has played Vance's original on Mix up.
Darius Bassiray (Dieb Audio / Proton Music) – Australia
“Mike your remix is the one for me out of this package - I like how it goes from deep as fuck to epicness. Wikid!”
Mark Dynamix (Long Distance Recordings) – Australia
“For me it’s all about the bassline sequence in the original mix. Great stuff fellas… Mike, i’m liking your mix too, but the swing on the original got me!! 8/10”
Mark Briais (Junkbeats / East Point Sounds) – Australia
“Good release, the variety of mixes makes sure the at punters have a choice...good. Vance orig is something I would play in a deep house set. Your mix is the most accessible, good arrangement.”
Lance Harrison (Pinksilver) – Australia
“Craig’s is the standout for me, his production is so clean and crisp and the structure of his remix is brilliant. His lead ins, quirky clangs and glitches and melody all combine beautifully.”
HAUL MUSIC presents:
Mike Callander – “Drone” – HAUL002
With remixes by Craig McWhinney & Christian Vance.
Beatport release date: Tuesday 17th February
As the mad Aussies at Haul Music shift into second gear on the outback tractor, Mike, Craig and Christian look back on a great year in which their unique brand of TECHNO music was supported or charted by the likes of Alex Smoke, Quarion, Simon Flower, Marcel Janovsky, Anthony “Shake” Shakir and Jamie Stevens… but was at the same time labelled “melodic” and “progressive”, which shocked the techno kids no end, and heralded the dawn of a new era in genre-confusion. Surely TECHNO can have a melody?
This made us laugh and cry. And in hindsight we suppose that’s a beautiful thing in the world of modern music, when many others have merely made us cringe.
So, without further ado, we offer you significantly LESS MELODY, and yet another exciting opportunity to laugh and cry with us… Mike Callander’s dark epic, “DRONE”.
Mike chops himself in two and gives in to the dark side. Sailing his slow-paced techno pirate ship somewhere off the coast of Tasmania, he drops his anchor DEEP. Drone is all about the late-night cruise into the abyss and trying to dance your way out.
Mike thinks it’s techno.
Craig thinks it’s techno.
Christian KNOWS it’s techno.
In any case: It is dark. It is emotive. It shares an equal measure of groove and evil, in a controversial hybrid that we like to call “GROOVIL”.
The remixes are undoubtedly techno. Craig McWhinney serves up perhaps his hardest and hottest offering yet, with a remix that blew the roof off the open air disko stage at Melbourne’s first Solar Festival. (Yes, we’re aware that blowing the roof off an open-air stage is problematic… but this is testimony to the unusual and compelling power of TECHNO, is it not?). Craig’s sonic assault is serious and intense.
Meanwhile, Christian Vance demonstrates why he has been touted “the future of Australian techno”, having caught the attention of Ripperton’s Perspectiv label, and Chateau Flight’s Versatile imprint. His Detroit-inspired but Australian-crafted techno-soul is lighting up dancefloors across the southern hemisphere, and setting tongues wagging in the north. In an unusually dark outing, we wonder how he sleeps at night.
Upon listening to each of the three epic mixes, you’re likely to dance, or run for cover. Either way, we’d love to hear about it.
Please email feedback to mike@dataondub.com
Mike, Craig & Christian @ HAUL MUSIC
www.myspace.com/haulmusic
HAUL MUSIC:
OUR VEHICLE FOR CONNECTIVITY & COMMUNICATION
HAUL MUSIC is the heart-child of Australian electronic musicians Christian Vance, Craig McWhinney and Mike Callander.
Australia, and our home city Melbourne, forms an integral and recurring theme that inspires our electronic music. Yet we are equally influenced by the cultural history of the world’s music capitals, and acknowledge the importance of a city’s history to its inspiration of musical and artistic output.
As such we have chosen to respond directly to the need for a vehicle of connectivity between our isolated island continent and the greater electronic music world.
HAUL MUSIC is this vehicle.
And at the core of our label name HAUL is our country code “AU”.
As lovers of techno and house music and the expressive spirit underpinning these art forms, we are a long way away from the ‘action’. We are isolated, sometimes ostracised. Our cultural battles are fierce, and our travels uphill. At best reckoning we are a long HAUL from any city in which we might be better understood. We must work long and hard to communicate with the world to which we so desperately want to be connected.
And so, we have created a vehicle for this connection and communication:
HAUL MUSIC is the avenue along which we transport our ideas from Australia to the greater music world, and by which we travel to the hearts and minds of those who are just like us in many ways, but who live and dream and dance far beyond the borders of our isolated island continent.
Look out and listen up for our first releases:
HAUL001 – Christian Vance – “Too Long On Venus”
– featuring remixes by Craig McWhinney and Mike Callander
HAUL002 – Mike Callander – “Drone”
- featuring remixes by Christian Vance and Craig McWhinney
HAUL003 – Craig McWhinney – “Deep in the Hurt Locker”
- featuring remixes by Christian Vance and Mike Callander
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