Isolée

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Isolée
Background information
Birth name Rajko Müller
Origin Frankfurt, Germany
Genre(s) Electronica
Microhouse
Dance
Ambient techno
Occupation(s) Producer
Remixer
Years active 1998 to Present
Label(s) Playhouse
Website http://www.isolee.de/

Isolée (born: Rajko Müller) is a Microhouse artist . 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 createing the very first microhouse record to reach the club charts. Isolee's 2000 album, Rest, containing the hit, was arguably the first microhouse full-length.


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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 syntheziser 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 Freunfinnen 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.

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