Michel Cleis
Michel Cleis is minimal techno producer from Lausanne, Switzerland.
Michel grew up with soul and jazz music and for four years had piano lessons. He lived for some time in Berlin, Barcelona and Madrid where he assembled sound material which he often use for his productions nowadays. In the past he has worked on some electro pop projects, but now he increasingly active as a techno producer.
In September 2008 he released “Dixie on Monday / Deconstructed” on label My Best Friend and recently, in February 2009, together with Salvatore Freda he released “Uva Fragolina EP” on Cadenza Records (Cadenza32).
But his most successful track is “La Mezcla” due to release also on Cadenza Records (Cadenza34). For sure you have heard it in the last few months as the track is played by various dj’s such as Radio Slave, Ricardo Villalobos, Loco Dice or Luciano and Pete Tong recently named “La Mezcla” as Essential New Tune in his radio show Essential Selection.
Original sample for this amazing track is from “Curura” by Colombian singer Toto La Momposina (it was also used in Timbaland & Magoo track “Indian Flute”), but the vocals come from the song “El Pescador” also by Toto La Momposina. This amazing facts I found on the blog of Chris Vaughan where you can also listen and compare “La Mezcla” and “Curura”.
But my personal favorite track from Michel Cleis is his remix on Eric Polaire “Polar Bear“, I fall in love with this track from the first time I hear it!
Mp3: Michel Cleis – La Mezcla (Mediafire)
Mp3: Michel Cleis – Dixie On Monday (Mediafire)
Mp3: Eric Polaire – Polar Bear (Michel Cleis Remix) (Mediafire)
Single: Michel Cleis & Salavatore Freda – Una Fragolina (via 0daymusic.com)
Michel Cleis – Deconstructed
[...] Polar Bears Never Cry (Yogzatot Video 012) Posted in Video by Yamamayoo on July 10, 2009 Drowning Polar Bears became one of the symbols of climate change, so we decided to find out what really happens with these magnificent creatures and created this video to share with other interested in. The key danger posed by global warming to Polar Bears is malnutrition or starvation due to habitat loss. Polar bears hunt seals from a platform of sea ice. Rising temperatures cause the sea ice to melt earlier in the year, driving the bears to shore before they have built sufficient fat reserves to survive the period of scarce food in the late summer and early fall. Reduction in sea-ice cover also forces bears to swim longer distances, which further depletes their energy stores and occasionally leads to drowning. Thinner sea ice tends to deform more easily, which appears to make it more difficult for polar bears to access seals. Insufficient nourishment leads to lower reproductive rates in adult females and lower survival rates in cubs and juvenile bears, in addition to poorer body condition in bears of all ages. Other risks to the polar bear include pollution in the form of toxic contaminants, conflicts with shipping, stresses from recreational polar-bear watching, oil and gas exploration and development, as well “potential risk of over-harvest” through legal and illegal hunting. In this video we decided not to use graphic images of trophy hunters from The Humane Society of the United States but still must inform you that about 500 Polar Bears are killed by American and Canadian hunters every year. In this video we used footage from BBC documentaries “Blue Planet” and “Polar Bear” (Wildlife Special), as well CBC Doc Zone documentary “Battle For The Arctic”. As audio we used Eric Polaire song “Polar Bear” in remix from Michel Cleis. [...]
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