{"title":"Perel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDJ \u0026amp; producer from Berlin, Germany. Perel is a talented artist known for her unique blend of electronic music genres. With influences ranging from disco to techno, she creates captivating and energetic tracks that keep the dance floor moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerel has gained recognition in the music industry for her innovative sound and captivating performances. Her live sets are a combination of DJing and live singing, creating an immersive experience for her audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a growing discography and collaborations with artists such as Curses, Lauer, and Dina Summer, Perel continues to push boundaries in the electronic music scene. Her distinct style and ability to seamlessly merge different musical elements make her a standout artist in the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"real","title":"Real","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome Perel to the \"Real\" Kompakt Mothership! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a first major statement since her 2018 debut album Hermetica, Perel, the newest addition to the Kompakt family, delivers her startling new single “Real”. Perel gets face to face with the world as it is now: “Has the world always been that gloomy?Or is it just a cataract? Maybe I’ll just wake up tomorrow from a deep sleep and then all of this isn’t real.\". Tellingly, Perel deals with this the best way she knows how, essaying a lush, melancholy paean, wrenched from the soul, and lit up by her unabashed love of synth pop and electronic music. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerel broke cover when she was signed up to James Murphy’s legendary DFA label, with whom she released a string of lovely singles and her debut album, Hermetica, a gorgeous, deeply dreamy collection of songs, some featuring her Nico-esque smoky singing voice. Balancing her singular productions with a career as an in-demand DJ, Perel’s come a long way from her early years, growing up in Saxony as a youth in love with the sounds of new wave and gothic pop. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecent EPs “Karlsson” (Uncanny Valley, 2019) and “Star” (Running Back, 2021) consolidate an impression of an artist with a singular, unswayable vision. But “Real” is something else. There are hints here of Moroder-esque disco, in the pinprick arpeggio that percolates through the song, and of the Berlin School of electronic music, in the lush synths. You can still hear touches of post-punk and Neue Deutsche Welle, too, in “Real”’s moody countenance, and Perel’s vocals, but it’s all delivered with the knowing insouciance that’s fundamental to any great pop moment. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kompakt","offers":[{"title":"Red | 12\"","offer_id":50464929153355,"sku":"1142321","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8ac18c43-7993-4514-97dd-68da746c8e18_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727280277"},{"product_id":"jesus-was-an-alien","title":"Jesus Was An Alien","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe dance floor as devotional is a trope as old as the club itself. But, with her new album, \u003ci\u003eJesus Was An Alien,\u003c\/i\u003e Perel subverts the stakes of our collective communion: Who are our arms raised to? Who are we seeking salvation from?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jesus Was An Alien is a discourse about whether Jesus was an actual alien,” she explains, “but also a social debate about what is and implies religion today.” She offers up her provocative second record – her first on Kompakt – as a soundtrack for the listener’s own journey through the intricacies and ironies of modern belief.\u003cbr\u003ePicking up on the themes she brought to her debut, the 2018’s LP Hermetica on DFA, Perel has created ten tracks rich with spirit and allusion. Her influences are myriad, from the indie dance hitmakers of the early 2000s – Hot Chip, Simian Mobile Disco, Justice – to rave compilations that predate her ascent to the DJ booth, to more abstract inputs. Living with synesthesia, she says, “I feel emotions and colors piling up inside me, then there’s a triggering sound or event that opens a valve. My tracks are color streams that tell a story.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJesus Was An Alien\u003c\/i\u003e is not just multicoloured – it’s multi-lingual too, slipping in and out of tongues in a single track, sometimes dispensing with words altogether (the ecstatic breakdown of “The Principle of Vibration”). The album features Perel’s voice almost entirely but for her special collaboration with Canadian songwriter Marie Davidson on the title track.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jesus Was An Alien” stirs like a late-night revelation, a heady discovery awakened in the dark. Perel lays out a fiercely disciplined electro pulse, with Davidson’s proclamations growing more fervent over the song’s sensual stride. “I already said everything with my synthesizers and the melodies I created,” Perel explains of the collaboration, but “somehow she gave the song a voice I couldn’t.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerel drives further not only spiritually but sonically across the ten tracks, taking thrilling production risks: standouts include her breathy vocals atop a melodic piano strut on “Matrix;” the delirious blur of ghostly chimes and disembodied voices of “Religion;” and the retro radiance of “The Principle of Vibration,” in which Perel exhorts us to “come on and vibe” over an athletic riff and shuffling percussion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kill The System,” meanwhile, hits the listener with tense acid pulses, building to only an imagined release and calls out the end of patriarchy. Album closer “Am Kanal” starts as a pensive cloud of a track, finally breaking into a rich textural rain of synths and stabs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe variety throughout \u003ci\u003eJesus Was An Alien\u003c\/i\u003e underlines Perel’s purpose in this latest project; she’s experimenting her way to answers – or maybe just more questions. After all, she says, “questions are the beginning of something new.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kompakt","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50476459000139,"sku":"1152144","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/acf21d53-8f02-408b-82ba-34e8d13ae0ca_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727459837"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_3675d72f_thumbnail_4096_816c880a-7aba-4720-ac34-c6ba10e8503b.jpg?v=1727280258","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/perel.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}