Isolée

Isolée is a pseudonym of the German musician Rajko Müller . He is considered one of the pioneers of the microhouse .

Life and musical career

Rajko Müller was born in Frankfurt am Main , but from the age of seven to twelve lived with his family in Algeria , where he attended a French elementary school. At that time Müller received an old-fashioned home organ from his parents for Christmas, on which he and a school friend began to make synth-pop music. Then they decided to buy a synthesizer, a drum computer and a sequencer.

In the late 1980s, Müller moved away from synth-pop and electronic body music in order to turn to the rock and independent genre. Müller's circle of friends aroused his interest in house , hip-hop and techno in the early 1990s , which eventually led him to record electronic music again. He gave his friend and DJ Andreas Baumecker , owner of the Freundinnen records label , who worked in a record store with employees of the Playhouse Records label, a demo mixtape.

Then Müller's first works appeared under the name Isolée on the Playhouse music label in 1996. He became known to a larger audience in 1998 with his single Beau Mot Plage . His first album Rest was also released on Playhouse in 2000. His album We Are Monster , released in 2005, was listed on Metacritic as the third best album of the year.

Discography

Albums

2000: Rest (Playhouse)
2005: We Are Monster (Playhouse)
2011: Well Spent Youth (Pampa Records)

Singles and EPs

1996: System (Playhouse)
1997: Single room (Playhouse)
1998: Beau Mot Plage (Playhouse)
1998: Initiate (Playhouse)
1998: Western Store (Playhouse)
1999: I Owe You (Playhouse)
2002: It's About (girlfriends)
2003: Can't Sleep All Night (Playhouse)
2003: Brazil.com (Classic)
2006: Hermelin (Playhouse)
2006: The Western Edits Pt. 1 (Playhouse)
2006: The Western Edits Pt. 2 (Playhouse)
2009: October Nightingale EP (Diynamic Music)
2009: Albacares (Mule Electronic)
2010: The Fantastic Researches Of Yushin Maru (Dial)
2013: Allowance (Pampa Records)
2019: Gorse (Mule Music)

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personal data
SURNAME	Isolée
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Müller, Rajko (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musician
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century