Isolée

In the story of 21st century club music, isolée, the German artist born Rajko Müller, has been a kind of scampish poet, testing the limits of the artform, his records glowing with playfulness and human emotion. The surreal aura of his sound made 1998's “beau mot plage" a mega-hit, forever earning him credit as an architect of microhouse—a style he'd long outgrown by his second album, the critically acclaimed "we are monster", and its follow-up, "well spent youth". After a decade of hiding in the rafters between scattered EPs on Pampa and Maeve, isolée returns with "resort island", his fourth album, and the first on his new label of the same name. Arriving more than 20 years after his seminal early records, "resort island" shows isolée's talent completely unbound, his ineffable sound hitting yet another dizzying peak. "resort island" will be released in May, the first single "rumour" is out now.