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                 [: ARTIST..... :] VA
                 [: TITLE...... :] The Future Is Not What It Used to Be [BR200]
                 [: GENRE...... :] House
                 [: RIP DATE... :] 2022-12-01
                 [: LABEL...... :] Brique Rouge
                 [: CAT NR..... :] BR200
                 [: TRACKS..... :] 15
                 [: SIZE....... :] 192m
                 [: QUALITY.... :] 320kbps 44.1kHz
                 [: CODEC...... :] MP3 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer III)
                 [: ENCODER.... :] LAME
                 [: URL........ :] https://www.deezer.com/album/375188117

                          [ ::..    Tracklist    ..:: ]
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             01. Jules Wells - Breathe (Original Mix) ......... 04:48      
             02. ModelSon - Cyprination (Original Mix) ........ 04:14      
             03. Loloman - Liberation (Original Mix) .......... 08:15      
             04. G-Prod - Something About You (Original Mix) .. 04:23      
             05. Alex Noto - Gravitational Forces (Original Mix)  05:26      
             06. Laurent Chanal - Another Day (Original Mix) .. 05:47      
             07. Xaric - Domingo (Original Mix) ............... 04:33      
             08. Christophe Bailleau & BENE LUXE - Ereignis Zweihundert (Original Mix)  04:00      
             09. Arocas - Supernova (Original Mix) ............ 07:31      
             10. Franck Bouly - HighLighter (Second Coming Edit) (Original Mix)  05:04      
             11. Traffic Beats - Bom Dia (Original Mix) ....... 05:23      
             12. Fred H - Chi-Town Flavours (Original Mix) .... 04:14      
             13. David Duriez & Mazi & Laurent Maldo - This Is Not a Follow-Up (Laurent Maldo Ne 04:00      
             14. Jihell - Chance (Original Mix) ............... 06:07      
             15. David Duriez & Arno Gonzalez - The Nice View (David Duriez Maisonloup Wonder Em 09:45      

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              When i started making music in the 90's and therefore when i 
             started the label i could not imagine where all of this was 
             leading. It was easy to see and live electronic music on the 
             moment, as an underground phenomenon surrounded by episodic 
             commercial activities but it was hard to think about how it 
             would be 20/30 years from now.

             It was hard to realize that Electronic music would follow the 
             path of any other musical genre that has created a revolution at 
             one time before fading into a mainstream aseptized feel good 
             music.

             The fight we have fought is now part of the past. The music with 
             (almost) no faces, the blurry stories, the incertitude of how it 
             was done, the magic... Everything has been explained and 
             demonstrated. Some people that were once leading the movement 
             have been forgotten, some have been defaced and shamed for being 
             a fraud, some have taken all the glory.

             The music itself has been abused, by people jumping on the 
             bandwagon creating music with no soul, using affordable 
             softwares, cheap looping tools so easy to use that they have 
             stolen what was once the basis of House : finding the right 
             groove, mutate the right sample and above everything making 
             something new.

             Nowadays it's all about fun, fame and money. The advent of 
             social networks has been the nail in the coffin. The music i 
             love and make does not go well with that concept as it has never 
             been about popularity or anything else surrounding the music 
             itself. We make Electronic Music tracks. Nothing else. We can 
             make visuals, we can write stories, that would help to shape a 
             future for our music. Posting a video a day showing how cool you 
             are is not helping at all.

             * And now that we are celebrating the past at every occasion, it 
             seems that the future is not what it used to be. *

             On my side i want to keep doing it that way it was meant to be 
             done, not by preaching that it was better before because it 
             wasn't, it was just different, but by keeping it real. And by 
             that i mean thinking to the music first then embracing the new 
             ways of spreading it.

             New ways for me, for us. Not for the new generation that comes 
             in line, releasing more music every day that we could ever 
             imagine. And that's a good thing because in those masses, there 
             are the ones that will fight the right fight tomorrow.

             Here are the people i have gathered on Brique Rouge, the old 
             guard, the new guard, the forward thinkers, the inventors of a 
             future that would give a new interpretation of the past while 
             mastering the present. 

             [David Duriez]

             

              I discovered Brique Rouge in 1999 when I bought Now We Are 
             Doing Our Own Thing EP at Gramaphone Records here in Chicago. No 
             Time To Lose on that record got in my head immediately. With 
             it's relentless rhythm and smoky female vocal samples, No Time 
             To Lose became one of my go to weapons for when a dance floor 
             was heating up. I still love the track.

             A few months before I'd bought that record I'd started working 
             as an AandR at Afterhours Records a label that released a 
             variety of underground house music mostly by Chicago and other 
             US based artists. My boss had asked that I look into licensing a 
             European track or two for domestic US release. So, I looked at 
             the email address on the Brique Rouge record and sent an email 
             asking if the fine folks who had released No Time To Lose would 
             be interested in licensing the song to Afterhours. David Duriez 
             wrote me back and said he'd be happy to license the track to us. 
             We sent over a deal, an advance, and in a short time we received 
             a DAT (no time right now to explain what a DAT is) of the master 
             and stems. 

             This was how I discovered Brique Rouge and how I became friends 
             with one of the most creative and driven people in electronic 
             dance music.

             David Duriez is a label boss. He is a DJ, a producer, a 
             musician, an engineer, a label owner, an event organizer, an 
             entrepreneur, a mentor and one of the most hard working people 
             I've met. I'd guess he would probably describe himself as a 
             soldier in the struggle to bring quality and soulful electronic 
             music to the world. From my vantage point, David has spent the 
             last 23 years pushing the music he loves, making the music he 
             loves, and supporting the art, the artists, and the music with 
             every ounce of his spirit. 

             Through it's 200 releases, Brique Rouge has debuted and 
             propelled artists from across the underground house and techno 
             spectrum. Some of these people have become mainstays in their 
             respective styles. You can Google it, there's no need to name 
             names here. 

             The label has never tried to recreate a specific success or 
             repeat a formula. The creative policy, to put it simply, is to 
             release what David loves and what he believes in. This ethos has 
             formed a catalog that does not age, is not in vogue, and does 
             not fall out of vogue. Like the handful of great record labels 
             before it that have nurtured music culture at large, Brique 
             Rouge has thundered forward with little regard for how many or 
             how few people support any single release. The point to this 
             project is the journey. It's not about the highs or the lows. 
             It's not about an end result, or even respect, or admiration. 
             David and his record label are on a singular mission and that is 
             to always move forward, to keep breathing life into the 
             imaginations of like minded creatives, and to keep the soul of 
             the music alive.

             Mazi Namvar (6 February 2022)

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