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For Mayer, it’s partly a critique of the way the industry boxes in both producer and listener, focuses them on genre, on market, on the next new thing: “Being a free minded spirit that transcends genres has become an uphill battle.” A battle worth fighting, though, and with \u003ci\u003eThe Floor Is Lava\u003c\/i\u003e, the result is an album that’s varied, quixotic, idiosyncratic, charming, and deeply, addictively listenable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kompakt","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50383288074571,"sku":"2221841","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50383287746891,"sku":"2221840","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/The_Floor_is_Lava_d3ee128d_thumbnail_4096_19234c4a_thumbnail_4096.webp?v=1726266765"},{"product_id":"yp","title":"\u0026","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnyone interested in electronic music knows Michael Mayer. As a producer, DJ and remixer, as well as co-founder, co-owner and A\u0026amp;R of the Cologne label institution Kompakt, Mayer has been creating tasteful house, minimal and techno tracks for almost two decades. He is responsible for over 20 singles and 12\" albums as well as around 170 remixes. The \"Immer\" and \"Speicher\" series as well as \"Fabric 13\" are legendary mix CDs. \"\u0026amp;\" is Mayer's third album after \"Touch\" (2004) and \"Mantasy\" (2012). As the title suggests, it is based on collaborations: \"\u0026amp;\" comprises a dozen tracks, and Mayer produced each one with a well-known name from the electronic dance music scene. In addition to Miss Kittin, the other participants include Joe Goddard from Hot Chip, Roman Flügel (Alter Ego), Gui Borrato, Hauschka, Prins Thomas, Barnt, Agoria, Ed Macfarlane, Kölsch, Jörg Burger as well as Reinhard and Wolfgang Voigt. Although the majority of the participants belong to the Kompakt universe or represent the \"Sound of Cologne\", \"\u0026amp;\" is extraordinarily multi-layered and testifies to an unbroken passion, creativity and curiosity for attractive club music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"!K7","offers":[{"title":"3LP - Black","offer_id":52753283154251,"sku":"R1291-8153","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0730003733710-0600px-001.jpg?v=1752052024"},{"product_id":"the-floor-is-lava-remixe","title":"The Floor Is Lava Remixe","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Mayer, aka Mr. Lava Lava asked a bunch of his absolute favourite artists to have a go at some of the tracks from his recent album \u003cem\u003eThe Floor Is Lava\u003c\/em\u003e. First up is Barcelona's brightest flame, Raxon, who is melting 'Brainwave 2.0' into a stompin fun-filled primetime banger. Longtime collaborator Dave DK is a masterful producer and remixer that appears regularly on Pampa and Kompakt. His take on 'The Solution' feels like a road trip to paradise and back. Montreal's Priori is one of the hottest names in showbiz right now. His ability to bridge genres and create pristine sound designs is fully on display in his remix for 'The Solution'. Last but not least, the legend that is Sebastian Mullaert took a moment off from his revered Circle Of Life jams to transform the albums deepest cut 'Ardor' into an extraordinary musical journey. Oldschool Border Community vibes in the rebound!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kompakt","offers":[{"title":"12\" - Black","offer_id":53177379258699,"sku":"R5683-0082","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/KOM_502_front_3000px.jpg?v=1755178231"},{"product_id":"speicher-137","title":"Speicher 137","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Mayer returns to the Speicher series for his first release since last year’s brain-bursting \u003cem\u003eThe Floor Is Lava\u003c\/em\u003e album. And yes, the floor is indeed lava when Mayer is on peak form, as he is here, with three tracks that oscillate, effortlessly, between the twin poles of Mayer’s music: dancefloor detonation and heart-wrenching beauty.\u003cbr\u003eTo be fair, there’s more of the former here, but there’s beauty in generous discipline, too, and the unrelenting “Cry Me A Raver” feels, somehow, like it brings together decades of Kompakt pleasure in six giddy minutes – disco-fied arpeggios, glistening and hand-burnished textures, abstruse patterns that fall in and out of step. “Don’t Sync With My Tag” stomps with destructive glee, a beat as undeniable as the shaker cross-rhythms are silkily sexy. There’s always been something practical, functional, and utilitarian about Speicher, but it doesn’t get more everyday DJ-life than this: Mayer tells us the title is “a super-annoying message that pops up every time you open Rekordbox. Nobody knows what it means. It’s a DJ mystery.” But who needs answers, anyway? By the time you’ve started to get close to solving the riddle, Mayer’s taken you to Detroit via Cologne with “It Isn’t What It Isn’t”, a little doffing of the cap to Rhythim Is Rhythim. “You’re May, I’m Mayer, I used to tell him,” Michael chuckles. This made one of our cats almost jump out of its skin, with its stealthy slyness – creeping, amorphous electro noise; percussives that just won’t quit; the whole thing flooded with twitchy strip-light energy and silver-machine flare-\u003cbr\u003eouts. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpeicher is as Speicher does, and this is a damn good one. Make Mine Mayer!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kompakt","offers":[{"title":"12\" - Black","offer_id":56231593017675,"sku":"R6831-4385","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/KOMEX_137_Label_A_3000px.jpg?v=1767620171"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/michael-mayer.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}