Maria Minerva - Cabaret Cixous

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A1 - These Days
A2 - Pirate's Tale
A3 - Lovecool
A4 - One Upon
A5 - Honey Honey
B1 - Laulan PÃ¤ikse KÃ¤es
B2 - Soo High
B3 - I Luv Ctrl
B4 - Favourite Song (Italo Interlude)
B5 - Spiral
B6 - Ruff Trade

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4...according to our Ant on Thu 11 Aug, 2011.

This young Estonian/Amazonian lady (currently residing in London) has had a cassette out on NNF and also a 12". Business Lady and I are just discussing how the bassline on opener 'These Days' recalls Adamski's all-time classic 'Killer'. That's where the similarities end though as this is basically some super dreamy chilled pop with tropical/tribal and disco flourishes. Occasionally I'm reminded of a way more low fidelity 'Songs Of Love & Lust'-era Chris & Cosey crossed with Matrix Metals. She has a very sultry vocal which really compliments the bedroom production aesthetic. Some tunes are really kind of poppy and more instantly accessible but I prefer the stranger tracks like 'Laulan Paikse Kaes' which is a wired dubby Balearic offering with indecipherable vocals. Those that enjoyed the Matrix Metals and LA Vampires collaboration should check this out.

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Highly anticipated debut album from Minerva: Maria Minerva is Maria Juur (b. 1988) from Tallinn, Estonia. Maria Minerva's debut cassette "Tallinn At Dawn" and the 12" "Noble Savage" were released in February 2011 by Not Not Fun / 100% Silk. Bedroom dance from a London flat where the wanker walls throb with the echo unlimited drone of a pretty pulse. Amazonian/Estonian goddess and self-professed hippy chick Maria Minerva builds the bump 'n' bass bricks for a real Bloc Party. The sounds of Side A play like a simpler-times-ode to the early 90s with touches of tribal trance, jungle-not-jungle hacker boy beats, layers upon layers of loopy lyric love, and the bubble-blowing atmospheric long walks we used to take down dark PM Dawn hallways. But the hit here is Side B's "Disko Bliss," where Maria's brand of coke-coke-a-choo disco could chill out even the hottest of Donna's summers while the SILK vinyl goes sizzle and crack. If Blondie was weirder, if Giogio Moroeder traded pasta marinara for boiled potatoes, if Madonna's post-rave bedtime stories actually went deeper and deeper, you'd have Ms. Minerva. But would she have you?

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