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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Matias Aguayo - Minimal (DJ Koze Radio Edit Remix)

If you flipped through many techno producers' CD collections, I'd bet you'd find more than a handful of Depeche Mode albums. (Hell, Booka Shade probably has their entire discography twice over.) There's no doubting Matias Aguayo is a big fan as well, as revealed in his work as the vocalist of the moody Kompakt duo, Closer Musik with Dirk Leyers. The reference point survived the duo's 2004 demise and carried into his solo work, wherein Aguayo's love for spontaneous parties serves as a light-hearted counterweight. (He even "performs" as Bum Bum Box with two friends who take boomboxes into the night and gets passersby to shake it.)

Unorthodox and dark would be a good way to describe "Minimal," Aguayo's newest single for Kompakt. Laden with organic percussion and sudden shards of guitar, the bumpy tune finds Aguayo excoriating minimal techno for having "no groove, no balls, no man." But it's the DJ Koze remix which will get minimal crowds to overlook the lyrics, sliding the vocals over a breezy, guitar-led house beat. Kompakt was kind enough to offer us an exclusive download of the radio edit of Koze's good natured remix, so get on it!

EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Matias Aguayo - "Minimal" (DJ Koze Radio Edit Remix)

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