Isolée

Isolée
Isolée in 2005
Background information
Birth name	Rajko Müller
Origin	Frankfurt, Germany
Genres	Electronica Microhouse Dance Ambient techno
Occupations	Producer Remixer
Years active	1998 to Present
Labels	Playhouse Records
Website	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)
• October Nightingale EP (2009)

External links

• Official website
• Discogs: Isolée
• Isolée at Allmusic
• Isolée bio
• Review of Western Store at Grooves Magazine