Isolée

Infobox musical artist
Name = Isolée

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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Rajko Müller
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Origin = Frankfurt, Germany
Genre = Electronica Microhouse Dance Ambient techno
Occupation = Producer Remixer
Years_active = 1998 to Present
Label = Playhouse Records
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URL = http://www.isolee.de/

Isolée is microhouse artist Rajko Müller. Isolée is a minimalist house producer whose music is reminisent of indie electronic pop music of the early eighties and ambient techno from a decade on. Isolée is credited with creating the very first microhouse record to reach the club charts. Isolée's 2000 album, "Rest", containing the hit "Beau Mot Plage", was arguably the first microhouse full-length.

History

Rajko Müller was born in Frankfurt, Germany but lived with his family in Algeria at the age of 7 to 12 and went to a French primary school. Around this time his parents bought an organ for Christmas and he tried to do some synth-pop with a school friend. They decided to buy a synthesizer and a drumcomputer. Rajko grew tired of synth-pop and EBM in the end of the eighties and listened more to rock music and independent music. Müller's friends made him discover house music, hip-hop and techno in the early nineties and Müller began a second attempt to record electronic music again. Müller gave a tape to his friend and DJ Andreas Baumecker, owner of Freundinnen records, who worked in a record-store where the members of Playhouse Records used to work.

Müller's first Isolée material appeared on the music label Playhouse in 1997. Isolée full-length album "Rest" followed in 2000, also on Playhouse. Müller received a large amount of praise, including being listed as the third best reviewed album of the year on Metacritic for his 2005 album "We Are Monster".

Discography

*"Rest" (2000)
*"We Are Monster" (2005)
*"Western Store" (2006)

External links

* [http://www.isolee.de/ Official website]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Isol%C3%A9e Discogs: Isolée]
* [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:ghdayl1oxpvb Isolée] at Allmusic
* [http://www.ongaku.de/bio.php?id=29&biopage=1&lang=en Isolée bio]
* [http://groovesmag.com/review_detail.php?id=00000285 Review of Western Store at Grooves Magazine]