Abe Duque

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King 05:44 Tools
Acid 06:21 Tools
Love to Ya 04:18 Tools
Cooty Kat 04:07 Tools
Slaves 07:13 Tools
What You Gonna Do 05:56 Tools
Miracle to Fill My Life 05:21 Tools
Give It to Her Good 06:44 Tools
Dream Desires 06:03 Tools
Champagne 04:44 Tools
Champagne Days, Cocaine Nights 04:26 Tools
Ban 07:28 Tools
After Hour Jesus Revealed 06:38 Tools
Trash Acid House 06:22 Tools
Life Is So Good To Me 06:05 Tools
When The Fever Breaks 13:33 Tools
Acid (feat. Blake Baxter) 06:13 Tools
Tonight Is Your Answer 06:33 Tools
What You Gonna Do? 05:56 Tools
What Happened (feat. Blake Baxter) 06:04 Tools
What Happened 06:05 Tools
Outlook 04:17 Tools
Why They Need US 04:13 Tools
Forever Untitled 05:47 Tools
Following My Heart 06:14 Tools
Ofma 04:38 Tools
Life Is Sooo Good To Me 06:47 Tools
Trying To Stay Underground 03:30 Tools
Hypocrisy (John Digweed & Nick Muir Remix) 08:53 Tools
Foremost Poets - Moonraker 05:07 Tools
Richard Bartz - The runner 00:40 Tools
Following My Heart (Oliver Huntemann Remix) 09:15 Tools
Following My Heart (Oliver Huntemann Remix) - Oliver Huntemann Remix 08:22 Tools
You 05:49 Tools
Crack We Are Rock - Animal trap (Tommie Sunshine mix) 01:01 Tools
Salute the Dawn 07:28 Tools
Pounce 02:49 Tools
Consult 06:17 Tools
What Happened? - Abe's Original Mix 06:06 Tools
What Happened? 06:05 Tools
Tiefschwarz - Blow 03:06 Tools
Disco Nights (with Blake Baxter) 06:56 Tools
Let go 03:36 Tools
Abe Duque - What you gonna do 05:06 Tools
Who's Got The Flave Again 10:01 Tools
ADR8 B2 04:46 Tools
Following conditions 03:23 Tools
Bumble Bee 05:56 Tools
Wake Up 06:35 Tools
Elbee Bad - A new age of house (Abe Duque acid mix) 03:15 Tools
Freaks - The creeps 03:10 Tools
Goldstar 05:44 Tools
Psychonauts - World keeps turning (Highfish & Zander rmx) 05:39 Tools
getting there 05:48 Tools
Hell - I am Amanda Le Pore (Abe acid dub mix) 02:19 Tools
Richard Bartz - Symphonies of midnight 03:11 Tools
Abe Duque - ADR8 B2 04:46 Tools
From fire or flame 03:54 Tools
Fantastico (Original Mix) 03:54 Tools
Communista Como Hijo - Diskko 5000 04:09 Tools
I'm Not Your Baby (with Tijana T.) 03:39 Tools
P. Diddy - Jack U 06:15 Tools
David Carretta - Colors 03:57 Tools
The Dominatrix - The Dominatrix sleeps tonight 03:57 Tools
Jeff Mills - Move your body 01:09 Tools
A1 04:38 Tools
A2 05:50 Tools
Fantastico Plastico 05:33 Tools
Turn Down The Lights (with Acid Maria) 06:00 Tools
Ghost Dance 08:54 Tools
Hypocrisy (John Digweed & Nick Muir Dub) 08:59 Tools
Terence Fixmer - I swear 04:21 Tools
Fantastico (The Boring Acid Version) 04:21 Tools
Richard Bartz - Foot taping 08:59 Tools
Following Conditions (with Gennaro Le Fosse) 03:23 Tools
Traxx & Deecoy - Are you saved? 03:22 Tools
Ghost Dance (with Tijana T.) 06:26 Tools
This Ain't Your Momma's Minimal! 06:26 Tools
David Carretta - The rebirth 06:26 Tools
Let's Take It Back 06:10 Tools
Disco Lights 07:10 Tools
Disco Nights (Jay Haze Remix) 08:14 Tools
Take Me To Heaven (with Gennaro Le Fosse) 06:41 Tools
Life is So Good to Me (Original) 06:06 Tools
Diabeto - Original Mix 06:15 Tools
Tonight Is Your Answer (Original Mix) 07:25 Tools
Tonight is Your Answer (Original) 06:15 Tools
Trash Acid House (Original) 06:24 Tools
Diabeto 06:14 Tools
Who's Got Da Flave Again (with Blake Baxter) 07:04 Tools
Track 1 07:04 Tools
When The Fever Breaks (Abe Groove Edit) 07:29 Tools
Track 2 07:29 Tools
Forever Untitled (Original) 05:49 Tools
What Happened? (Brabe Remix) 06:39 Tools
Track 7 06:39 Tools
BIS #656 Part 1 with Abe Duque 19:02 Tools
Hypocrisy (Original Mix) 08:52 Tools
Why They Need Us (Original) 19:02 Tools
Following My Heart - Oliver Huntemann Remix 08:21 Tools
Ofma (Original) 08:52 Tools
If You Are Late Make Sure To Wear Your Hat 08:52 Tools
Acid - Original Mix 06:13 Tools
Acid (Original Mix) 06:20 Tools
Hypocrisy 08:50 Tools
I'm not your baby 03:39 Tools
It Moved Me 05:53 Tools
Track 3 07:10 Tools
Paranormal Dejavu 06:46 Tools
Track 5 08:21 Tools
Track 4 08:21 Tools
Track 9 06:14 Tools
Last Night Changed It All 03:03 Tools
when the fever breaks (compiled and mixed by abe duque) 06:14 Tools
Track 6 06:13 Tools
What Happened? - DJ Glen Remix 05:58 Tools
Track 8 06:13 Tools
a1 take me heaven 06:46 Tools
Promise Me Yesterday - Original Mix 05:06 Tools
Leon Se - Attached theory 00:30 Tools
Paranormal Dejavu - Original Mix 06:46 Tools
Take Me To Heaven 00:30 Tools
b1 turn down the lights 06:46 Tools
What Happened? - Original Mix 06:07 Tools
Following Conditions (Original Mix) 06:46 Tools
Turn Down The Lights 00:31 Tools
Bliss (Original Mix) 06:18 Tools
That's It - Original Mix 06:21 Tools
Outlook (Original Mix) 06:46 Tools
Untitled 05:22 Tools
American Gigolo 2 06:46 Tools
I Am Your Man 06:46 Tools
Ghost Dance (with Tijana T) 06:21 Tools
Bumble Bee Feat Virginia 05:56 Tools
Chaos Rules - Original Mix 07:49 Tools
Disco nights 06:56 Tools
Diabeto (Original Mix) 06:14 Tools
Disco Lights - Original Mix 07:11 Tools
Big Bomb 05:16 Tools
Im Not Your Baby (with Tijana T) 00:31 Tools
What Happened? - Max Cooper's Moment Of Madness Mix 06:42 Tools
Whos Got Da Flave Again (with Blake Baxter) 06:20 Tools
V2 06:20 Tools
Black Barbie - Original Mix 06:01 Tools
Champagne Days 04:40 Tools
What Happened? - Marc Romboy's Retro Re-Rub 09:12 Tools
Paranormal Dejavu (Original Mix) 06:45 Tools
With His Music - Original Mix 07:29 Tools
Disco Lights (Original Mix) 07:11 Tools
The Future Is Back Again - Original Mix 06:17 Tools
Promise Me Yesterday (Original Mix) 05:06 Tools
&#%^ 05:51 Tools
Following My Heart (Tigerskin Remix) 05:51 Tools
Darkside (Redone mix) 04:26 Tools
What Happened? (feat Blake Baxter - Vocal Sections) 01:59 Tools
Something To Start With 01:06 Tools
The Truckers Choice 00:00 Tools
I'm Your Man 06:47 Tools
Black Barbie (Original Mix) 06:00 Tools
I Am New York (Original Mix) 09:35 Tools
Champagne - Original Mix 04:43 Tools
No You Can't Have It 06:40 Tools
That's It 06:21 Tools
The Future Is Back Again 06:16 Tools
Come back and dance 06:14 Tools
Chaos Rules (Original Mix) 07:48 Tools
I'm Not Your Baby (ft. Tijana T.) 03:39 Tools
Allegedly The Most Underground As Today? 04:18 Tools
After Hours Jesus Revealed 00:00 Tools
L.O.V.E. - Original Mix 05:57 Tools
I Am New York - Original Mix 09:36 Tools
Live at Planet Rose Special 01 09:36 Tools
What Happened? (Abe's Original Mix) 06:07 Tools
I Am Your Man - Original Mix 06:46 Tools
Disco Nights (ft. Blake Baxter) 06:56 Tools
Chaos Rules 07:49 Tools
Black Barbie 06:01 Tools
Following My Heart (DJ Hell Remix) 07:32 Tools
Diabeto (Karel Goldbaum Acid Remix) 06:50 Tools
60/40 [Original Mix] 05:48 Tools
Promise Me Yesterday 05:06 Tools
60/40 (original mix) 05:48 Tools
Live At GOA Fabulous Lunch Party 06:46 Tools
when the fever breaks (compile 09:35 Tools
With His Music (Original Mix) 07:28 Tools
Ghost Dance (ft. Tijana T.) 06:25 Tools
The Future Is Back Again (Original Mix) 06:16 Tools
That's It (Original Mix) 06:20 Tools
I Am New York 09:35 Tools
Cooty Kat - Original Mix 04:07 Tools
Sound Is A Vibration 06:00 Tools
Dreams Desires 04:43 Tools
P.O.W.E.R. 07:45 Tools
What Happened? (Feat. Blake Baxter) 06:05 Tools
Unknown 06:05 Tools
Who's Got Da Flave Again (ft. Blake Baxter) 07:04 Tools
With His Music 07:29 Tools
L.O.V.E. (Original Mix) 05:56 Tools
Smiling 01:05 Tools
You Are Special 01:26 Tools
Afterhours Jesus Revealed 06:42 Tools
Who's got da flave again 01:26 Tools
Rollerskating 01:26 Tools
L.O.V.E. 05:56 Tools
When The Fever Breaks - Original Mix 05:56 Tools
Hypocrisy - John Digweed & Nick Muir Dub 09:01 Tools
Al Go Rhythms 04:42 Tools
Clear 01:20 Tools
Stupid 06:05 Tools
Paranormal Dejav (Original_Mix) 09:35 Tools
Who's Got Da Flave (With Blake Baxter) 06:42 Tools
Following My Heart (feat. Virginia) (Tigerskin Remix) 09:19 Tools
Bliss - Original Mix 06:19 Tools
Lisa Cadena Volume 2 (Live Adaptation) 07:32 Tools
Give It To Her Good - Original Mix 06:45 Tools
Take Me To Heaven - Original Mix 06:56 Tools
BeatsInSpace-12.18.12 Part1 with Abe Duque 19:02 Tools
Last night changed it all (A1) 19:02 Tools
Miracle To Fill My Live 05:21 Tools
King - Original Mix 05:54 Tools
Last Night Changed It All (B1) 06:00 Tools
Hot Box 06:07 Tools
What Happened? (A1 Mix) 06:00 Tools
Bliss 06:18 Tools
What Happened Feat. Blake Baxter 06:05 Tools
Salute the Dawn (Feat. Tijana T) 05:06 Tools
Ain't No Man Gonna Beat Me With No Stick 06:00 Tools
Diabeto - K.A.S.H's Insulin Trip Remix 06:41 Tools
A Windowless Wall 06:45 Tools
It Moved Me - Original Mix 06:05 Tools
Diabeto - P-Lask Deep Dub 04:35 Tools
Porn Star at Night 05:38 Tools
Track 13 06:05 Tools
Track 10 06:05 Tools
Disco Nights / with Blake Baxter 06:56 Tools
Following My Heart (Feat. Virginia Nascimento) 06:05 Tools
What Happened - Original Mix 06:05 Tools
Acid Feat. Blake Baxter 06:05 Tools
What Happend (Main Mix) 06:05 Tools
What Happened (Feat. Blake Bax 06:05 Tools
Track 11 06:05 Tools
Meat Is Just Protein 02:22 Tools
Following My Heart - Tigerskin Remix 09:18 Tools
Miracle To Fill My Life - Original Mix 01:49 Tools
Can You Hang? 04:35 Tools
Untitled A1 04:35 Tools
Dream Desires - Original Mix 06:02 Tools
Disco Nights (feat. Blake Baxter) 07:34 Tools
Disco Nights - Jay Haze Remix 08:24 Tools
Last night changed it all (B2) 05:38 Tools
Miracles To Fill My Life 06:07 Tools
Track 12 06:07 Tools
I'm Not Your Baby / with Tijana T. 03:39 Tools
Champagne Day's 04:26 Tools
I'm Not Your Baby - Album Edit 04:26 Tools
Ghost Dance / with Tijana T. 06:25 Tools
Turn Down The Lights / with Acid Maria 06:00 Tools
I V'e Got You (Original Mix) 04:26 Tools
Cheese On The Crackers 04:26 Tools
For A Different Reason 04:26 Tools
Trying To Stay Underground - Original Mix 08:52 Tools
Nobody Noticed 09:18 Tools
Who's Got the Flave 08:52 Tools
Rabbits 08:52 Tools
From Side To Side 08:52 Tools
Ghost Dance - Original Mix 08:52 Tools
Cartoon Figure 08:52 Tools
Chapagne Days, Cocaine Nights 04:26 Tools
Following My Heart - Original Version 06:16 Tools
Following My Heart - DJ Hell Remix 07:34 Tools
kooty kat 07:27 Tools
Ghost Dance - Album Edit 06:15 Tools
Untitled 2 01:49 Tools
Following My Heart (Feat. Virginia) 01:49 Tools
Then After That... 07:25 Tools
Ear Killers And Sloppy Seconds 01:41 Tools
What Happend (Deep House Mix) 01:41 Tools
What You Gonna Do? - Original Mix 05:56 Tools
What Happened (Feat Blake Baxter) 04:29 Tools
Nutzak 06:48 Tools
Distinctive Weapon 06:02 Tools
Taboo - Matt Law Remix 04:43 Tools
In Game 06:02 Tools
A2 - Original Mix 06:02 Tools
Cooly Cat 06:16 Tools
Live...continuous mix 06:16 Tools
She Is Yours (Corbett Mix) 06:16 Tools
Wake Up (Original) 06:16 Tools
Turn Down the Lights (feat. Acid Maria) 07:27 Tools
Dumb 02:46 Tools
Boy 05:54 Tools
Following Conditions / with Gennaro Le Fosse 03:23 Tools
Who's Got The Flave Again? feat Blake Baxter 03:23 Tools
Who's Got Da Flave Again / with Blake Baxter 07:04 Tools
Slaves - Original Mix 07:11 Tools
Love To Ya - Original Mix 04:18 Tools
Live at The Storm Kassel 10-01-2006 06:00 Tools
Bullshitter 06:00 Tools
King Remix 04:29 Tools
Wake up (feat. Blake Baxter) 05:56 Tools
Following My Heart (Extended Version) 07:34 Tools
Disco Nights (Feat. Blake Baxter) (Jay Haze Remix) 07:34 Tools
Following My Heart (Original) 07:34 Tools
Getting There (Original) 07:34 Tools
A1 - Untitled (ADR001) 03:39 Tools
01. Cooly Kat 03:39 Tools
Futureshock 03:39 Tools
B2 - Untitled (ADR001) 05:04 Tools
Short 06:25 Tools
Nobel Life 06:25 Tools
Take Me To Heaven [feat. Gene Le Fosse] 07:52 Tools
What Happend (Old School Mix) 07:52 Tools
When The Fever Breaks - Album Edit 05:55 Tools
Moonraker 07:52 Tools
Disco Nights (with Blake Baxte 07:27 Tools
A1 (It moved me EP) 07:27 Tools
adrb b2 07:27 Tools
Planet 05:04 Tools
Chocolate Delight 05:04 Tools
Life Is So Good To Me - Original Mix 05:04 Tools
What's Brewing 04:56 Tools
Hollywood Shuffle 10:08 Tools
B2-Porn Star at night 05:54 Tools
B1 - Untitled (ADR001) 05:48 Tools
A1-Last night changed it all (Chica Boom RMX) 08:53 Tools
Take Me To Heaven / With Gennaro Le Fosse 06:41 Tools
13. What Happened 08:53 Tools
Kooty Kat - Original Mix 04:13 Tools
Nature 04:13 Tools
What Happened? - R.E.C. Remix 06:15 Tools
Lisa Cadena Volume 2 - Original Mix 04:18 Tools
Champagne Days - Original Mix 04:43 Tools
Igloofest Mutek, Montreal - 19.01.2008 04:18 Tools
Lisa Cadena Volume 2 04:43 Tools
The Runner 04:18 Tools
Turn Down The Lights feat Acid Maria - album edit 05:55 Tools
Tonight Is Your Answer (Vocal Version) 05:55 Tools
I Am Your Man (Original Mix) 05:55 Tools
Toy 04:43 Tools
Goldstar - Album Edit 04:43 Tools
Scorpions Snakes And Indians 07:27 Tools
Following My Heart (Radio Edit) 07:27 Tools
Following My Heart (Original Version) 07:27 Tools
What Happened? (B1 Mix) 07:27 Tools
Ghost Dance (feat. Tijana T) 04:43 Tools
07. Acid 02:46 Tools
ABE DUQUE - ABE DUQUE RECORDS [GTC150] 02:46 Tools
Outlook - Original Mix 07:04 Tools
Acid (ft. Blake Baxter) 07:04 Tools
Taboo 07:04 Tools
What Happened? (Deep House Mix) 04:43 Tools
03. Slaves 06:15 Tools
White Noise-CABLE-09-20-2009 06:15 Tools
I-Lite 05:55 Tools
After Hours Jesus Revealed - Original Mix 05:55 Tools
Following My Heart (feat Virginia - Oliver Huntemann remix) 00:00 Tools
06. Elbee Bad - New Age Of House (Abe Duque Acid Mix) 05:55 Tools
What Happened?(Original Mix) 04:43 Tools
ABE DUQUE – ABE DUQUE RECORDS [GTC150] 05:55 Tools
Move Your Body 05:55 Tools
Who's Got The Flave Again? feat Blake Baxter - Original Mix 04:43 Tools
B1-Hot Box 05:58 Tools
What You Gonna Do ? 05:56 Tools
10. Ban 05:56 Tools
08. King 05:56 Tools
What Happened (Deep House Mix) 05:56 Tools
In The Blink Of An Eye 05:56 Tools
Abe Duque Besame Mucho 06:41 Tools
Lets Take It Back 04:43 Tools
DJB.066-AbeDuque 06:41 Tools
SNTA - Original Mix 06:41 Tools
What Happened? - Zied Remix 06:41 Tools
07. Psychonauts - Word Keeps Turning (Highfish & Zander Remix) 04:43 Tools
09. Freaks - The Creeps 04:43 Tools
01. Richard Bartz - The Runner 04:43 Tools
Miracle To Fill My Live - Original Mix 04:43 Tools
What Happened? (DJ Glen Remix) 04:43 Tools
What Happened? (Max Cooper's Moment Of Madness Mix) 04:43 Tools
Acid (feat Blake Baxter) 04:43 Tools
Miracle - Original Mix 04:43 Tools
B2 04:43 Tools
Let Go - Album Edit 04:43 Tools
Diskko 5000 04:43 Tools
I'm Not Your Baby (with Tijana T) 04:43 Tools
04. Abe Duque - What You Gonna Do 04:43 Tools
Pounce - Album Edit 04:43 Tools
Blow 04:43 Tools
it moved me - a1 - unknown 04:43 Tools
60/40 04:43 Tools
Colors 00:00 Tools
10. Hell - I Am Amanda Le Pore (Abe Acid Dub Mix) 00:00 Tools
05. Tiefschwarz & Eric D. Clark - Blow 00:00 Tools
Im Not Your Baby (with Tijana 00:00 Tools
Stiff Jazz (Remix by Richard Dorfmeister) 00:00 Tools
What Happened (Main Mix) 00:00 Tools
Last Night Changed It All (Chica Boom Remix) 00:00 Tools
What Happened (Old School Mix) 00:00 Tools
Ghost Dance (feat. Tijana T.) 00:00 Tools
Excerpt 1 00:00 Tools
What Happened? (Main Mix) 00:00 Tools
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The surname is pronounced “Du-kay”. He jokingly describes himself as one of the "few producers still licenced to use the 303". But with a career that started in the early days of house at the notorious Limelight in New York, Abe Duque has been at the head of the acid house and underground techno table since his earliest releases way back in 1993. His first tracks were influenced by the madness of the Limelight's club-kid audience, later publicised by films and books like Party Monster and Clubland Confidential. But despite jokey titles like Fantastico!!!, Truckers Choice and Vodka, you sweet companion, his early tracks had the sophistication of his serious keyboard skills and a get-in-and-do-it-yourself aesthetic learned as a kid growing up in the suburbs in Hollis in Queens, New York. From muscular and melodic techno to cocktail jazz and ambient interludes, his early tracks on his own labels Tension and Hollis Haus, his releases under pseudonyms like Kirilan, Super Secret Symphony and his releases on others' labels like Disko B, Rapture!, Morbid, and Tresor captured a particular period of clubbing history bought to a sudden halt when the Limelight was closed down by the cops. It was, Duque says, a great time for musical experimentation. Each month bought radical new types of music kit - much of which Duque still keeps in use in his underground studio "the Cave" - alongside an amazement of now classic tracks and new acts. And as techno was almost exclusively made by working musicians, a lot of it was performed live. At Duque’s night at the Limelight night, Abuse Industries, he was part of regular performances with the live techno "chillout supergroup" the Rancho Relaxo Allstars, freeform jams which included now famous techno producers like Duque himself, John Selway and Deitrich Shoenemann. For a short spell, Duque was also the keyboard player for Program2, a techno band signed to Warners for an advance Duque still describes as “insane”. Abuse Industries itself, meanwhile, was Abe's collaboration with the artist Andy Orel, a night so strikingly visual and challenging that its visuals were exhibited in European museums, given page after page in Germany's Raveline magazine, and used in shows by Helmut Lang. But when the Limelight closed, that roughly marked the end of New York as a clubbing mecca. New mayor Rudolph Guiliani was determined to drive the freaks, the gays and the wasted out of his town, and he mostly succeeded. Duque by then had a thriving European and worldwide touring schedule, and musicially he still had roots in the underground. Abandoning the glossy, high-fashion style of Tension and Abuse Industries, Duque’s next sets of releases were on anonymous, vinyl only stamped with catalogue numbers like "ADR40" (Abe Duque Records 40) and etched on one side at the pressing plant with strange, hand-drawn messages from the man himself. In some ways Duque was turning his back on the New York style, and on his previous successes. As he describes it, "I wanted to prove that my music spoke for itself". It did. Despite the secrecy about who had actually written the ADR releases, this second part of Duque's career was a run of increasingly massive 12" hits like Champagne Days, Cocaine Nights; Acid, Disco Nights, and in 2004 his monster smash with Blake Baxter, What Happened?, the track that launched Duque and Baxter out of the underground and into the spotlight. That track's call for a turn away from safe, unchallenging clubbing sold 25,000 copies on vinyl alone and in 2009, it was the focus of a rare remix competition on ResidentAdvisor - despite Duque and Baxter's refusal to market the track by signing it to any the 100s of compilations on offer. Having been dragged out of the underground, Duque found himself feted by the mainstream, delivering hugely successful remixes of acts like the Chemical Brothers and Pet Shop Boys while continuing to work right across the techno world. There, his brutally funky basslines and acid influence were – and still are - hugely in demand for remixes of acts such as Miss Kittin, Remute, Chloe, Savas Pascalidis, Knart IV and Daniel Meteo – as well as DJ Hell, with Duque becoming a regular on Hell's International DJ Gigolos label. The two had met having moving in the same German and NY electronic circles since the Abuse Industries days, and so Duque was asked to produce Hell's infamous album NY Muscle in 2003 and in 2006 to helm the well-recieved American Gigolos II compilation. The highlight of this period, though, was Duque's first album under his own name, So Underground It Hurts. The title was yet another example of Duque's ambivalence about succcess and its trappings, but the album was undeniably a techno event. Reviewed in the fashion press as influenced by Gigolos' German electroclash style, but the album was understood by the music press as something quite separate and self-contained. Duque was again striking out along his own path. Part wild acid, part dark house and all leavened with Duque's dry, quiet stoner humour, the album also provided a launchpad for Duque's return to wild live performances – a whiskey bottle in one hand and a 303, drum machine, two PCs and a microphone operated by the other. It was the start of Duque’s second, endless round of watching the world through the windows of a hotel and moving restlessly between a temporary flat in Berlin and his spiritual home in Queens. Several years on the road with his stable of vocalists – Blake Baxter, Tijiana T, Acid Maria, Virginia, and occasional appearances by Abuse collaborator Andy Orel as “Sin” – meant that Abe released only intermittently on his own label, Abe Duque Records. There, new tracks like the darkly funny It Moved Me, Whose Got the Flave, and a singles collection on CD When the Fever Breaks added to Duque’s reputation as the producers’ producer. Eventually, though, Duque had had enough of continual touring. By 2008 he said he had been doing live sets for so long that he "was thinking about DJing again for a change, just as everyone else was going live”. Returning to the studio, he wrote the album Don’t Be So Mean, its title an oblique reference to the Iraq war and US foreign policy. The cover? Duque on the front brandishing a machine gun - and the same machine gun pointing straight at Duque inside. Released in 2009, the album offered optimism about Obama (“Tonight is your answer”), let Blake Baxter loose on the dance scene in a response to What Happened? called Let’s Take It Back, and also marked Duque’s return to leftfield electronics with tracks like OFMA and Salute the Dawn, which threw together Debussy with lyrics by 1800s American revolutionary and moralist Thoreau. Don’t Be So Mean was also the stepping stone to Abe’s three new projects in 2010. The first, due Aug 2010, will be a compilation LIVE AND ON ACID: two CDs, one of his live show, and one a wrap-up of Limelight acid-house classics. The second, under the broad church of Abuse Industries, is the return of the Abuse Industries night, and a series of sinner-themed Abuse 12”s in collaboration with Andy Orel – see abuseindustries.net for more. And finally, Duque's third new project is a secret performance project that leaves the dancefloor world entirely ... Last year, Abe Duque was in the mood for love, and he said "Don’t Be So Mean". But as he enters the third part of his long, strange musical career, that’s all going to change… www.abeduque.net | www.abuseindustries.net Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.