Neuropolitique

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Mind You Don't Trip 04:32 Tools
Cuban Timewarp 08:27 Tools
Lost In The Supermarket 07:30 Tools
Bananagate 06:25 Tools
Can't Get Off The Slide 06:58 Tools
Untitled - 1 07:30 Tools
No Feet On Stage 04:36 Tools
Express Triangle 05:54 Tools
Nervous 06:51 Tools
Report 09:15 Tools
Idiotic Lantern 07:14 Tools
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Large Spoon 07:25 Tools
This Gnome Came Up To Me... 04:31 Tools
Faze 08:09 Tools
Arhythmatics 07:59 Tools
Now The Screens Were 06:46 Tools
Gene Pools 04:59 Tools
Artemis 06:01 Tools
In The Mix 03:44 Tools
Facility Junction 01:39 Tools
Mind Mirror 07:22 Tools
Turnaround Touch the Ground 06:10 Tools
Box 04:10 Tools
Remote Phrases 05:32 Tools
Fusion Neu 04:29 Tools
Thanx 05:32 Tools
1494 Backslash 48207 00:00 Tools
Menage a Trois 00:00 Tools
365 Fellatio 06:52 Tools
Ad Nauseum 04:55 Tools
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Neu Arena 06:03 Tools
Animated Data 06:26 Tools
Are You Now Or Have You Ever B 06:03 Tools
Artemis (Derrick May Mix) 05:58 Tools
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Re-scan 05:21 Tools
Politique Theme 05:21 Tools
60 Second Stereo Party 04:18 Tools
The Importance of Selling Pins 05:30 Tools
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been ? 07:16 Tools
Fish Market 05:30 Tools
Seek Him Yourself (In the Other Place) 05:42 Tools
Menage Trois 05:30 Tools
Freaky Face Required 04:11 Tools
Naughty Sisters in Rio 04:11 Tools
Neuarena 08:17 Tools
Menage à Trois 08:17 Tools
Mined You Don't Trip 08:17 Tools
Turnaround Touch The Ground-Neuropolitque 06:10 Tools
Sigur Ros - ( ) - Untitled 1 06:10 Tools
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been? 05:18 Tools
Bananagate Re-Edit 06:34 Tools
Prawn Sandwich TV 05:18 Tools
Mind You Don’t Trip 05:18 Tools
Fusion-Neu 05:18 Tools
Psycho Politique 05:42 Tools
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Ex Post Facto 05:42 Tools
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Neuropolitique is Matt Cogger, a London-based producer whose influential records on the ART, Peacefrog, and New Electronica labels were some of the first examples of U.K.-bred techno exploring a distinctly Detroit aesthetic. A mixture of steady, pulsing rhythms and melodic and harmonic phrasing with a slight experimental edge, Cogger has made no secret of the influence artists such as Juan Atkins and Derrick May have had over his music. But he has also managed to sidestep the relentless accusations of plagiarism which have plagued U.K. colleagues such as Kirk Digiorgio and B12. Raised in a London suburb where his exposure to electronic music began early on (he bought Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells at the age of seven), Cogger nonetheless received no formal training, his complex arrangements a function of his engineering experience and a commitment to mastering his gear. To date, that commitment has sealed a pair of full-lengths for New Electronica and a current contract with noted experimental imprint Irdial. Cogger's first exposure to dance music was (not uncommonly) electro and early hip-hop, which he helped promote as a member of a sound system which also included Lee Purkis (aka Insync of 10th Planet). As hip-hop became more commercial, Cogger became increasingly interested in the emerging acid house movement, picking up the legendary House Sound of Chicago compilation in 1986 and immersing himself in the club scene. Drawn to the bizarre experiments of early Detroit techno, Cogger met up with Derrick May at a party in 1989 and made offhanded plans to visit the producer at his Detroit home. Two months later, Cogger was knocking on May's door, having left London to dry out from acid house's drug-addled "summer of love" and learn something about this music he couldn't leave alone. Cogger began working at May's studio, engineering a number of popular records, and soon began cutting tracks with Marty Bonds, including "Mind You Don't Trip." His first solo work was the "Artemis" single, later released on Kirk Degiorgio's Applied Rhythmic Technology (A.R.T.) label (Cogger met Degiorgio at May's studio when Degiorgio was over from London on a record-buying trip). A.R.T.'s assocation with the New Electronica label led to Cogger releasing a number of influential tracks and a trio of full-lengths on the label as Neuropolitique (derived from a book by Timothy Leary). He lived in London and became a tour manager for major artistes. Sadly, Matt passed away after a long illness on Christmas Day, 2014. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.