HouseMouse
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Stane Spegel aka Housemouse, is a well known electronic music producer, songwriter, remixer and multimedia artist. Releasing five solo albums and another five with different groups Bionet, Amfibia), Stane is constantly evolving with both his studio and live performances. He has held the top position of the Raw42.com chart for a year and half and his music can be bought on Amazon as well as most of the Digital Download Stores.Band/artist history
Biography
Add half a century to Arthur C. Clarke's (A Space Odyssey) birthday and there comes Stane Špegel a.k.a. HouseMouse. He marks the end of the seventies with the punk band Dildoes and proceeds as a board member, guitar player and composer of the Šank rock, which eventually becomes one of the greatest spitrock bands of his homecountry.
YU foreign legion forces him to leave his position in free-funk-punk-jazz band Untergrunt. He celebrates the end of the brainvoid with the first and only real free-minder of Slovenian techno culture PIN (selected compositions are to be released in 2004). He wallows in different directions of digital ARTs till middle nineties when he takes part in electronic lounge DIG, together with Mario Medvešek and Vojko Šinigoj. In 1996 ejaculated CD CyberGrunge foresees a series of brave performances in SLO clubs that lead to cyber dust MD TrashTrance and culminate in past-abandoner Worm, which exserts BioNet and DopeControl art fractions. Five-foot triplet disconnects few clubs (K4, Max, Teater, Palma, Ambient) and old PowerPlant in Velenje - its Squaw is the only techno track on Lignit compilation.
As mastermind of the BioNets 2000 release Artistic Disagreements (StudioCitys album of the month and Bumerang Music Award nominee) Spegel shows-off his skills at the biggest Slovenian, Austrian and Croatian tech events: Space Night, Alien Night, Obsession, Taotech, Design Of Love, Connection. As a member of MicroTrip Crew HouseMouse performs live with, Carl Cox, Mousse T, Spiller, Chris Liebing, Trevor Rockliffe, DAZ Sound, Thomas Schumacher, Monika Kruse, Christian Smith, Umek, Supa DJ Dimitrij, Christian Varela, Der Drite Raum, Roberto Q Ingram...
Preparing BioNets new summer 2001 release he contributes importantly to DopeControls second album PeaceMaker and combines main pieces of his own artwork on december 2000 release TransFormArs, an hour long hi-speed techno mix presented as a part of same-titled multimedia project. Using music, creature-like installations and digital paintings TransFormArs is telling a life story of Mouseterrians.
His third solo project comes to life in July 2001, after six remixed versions of Buy Me (original is to be released on Clarks 200th anniversary in 2164). Called Disco Biscuits it feaures more than an hour of original house music, exploring almost every aspect of modern club-house electronica: ambiental, hard house and everything between. Ten of its twelve songs are selected by French agency musicprod.com to be presented on their web site. At the end of 2001 a 70-minutes house&techno mix by HouseMouse & DopeControl (both members of Slovenian Microtrip label) is released for prosperous international fashion label EK fashion.
Stane Spegels creative year 2002 brings more than 40 new compositions and 27 of them are released in March 2003 on double album Osnove elektrotehnike (Basics of the Electrotechnics). Warmly accepted in his home country and abroad Osnove elektrotehnike LP is soon addopted by biggest UK/American on-line agency Raw42.com. Stane holds his position on the top of Raw42.com chart of more than 500 artists for almost two years and is choosen for the artist of the month in April 2003. Osnove elektrotehnike is also among a few Slovenian music products that can be bought on Amazon.com.
Remixing is Stanes another scope of action. He remixed some of songs of the funky-jazz band Elevators, Lucky and Unhappy of famous French couple AIR, several songs of Dutch trance artist Jamez and German techno DJ Chris Liebing, the TV of domestic rock band Šank Rock and Eurovision song Samo ljubezen from notorious band Sestre. His vision of Erik Saties creation Gymnopedie No. 1 was one of top three arrangements of international contest of classical music interpretation in September 2003.
Two more of his albums were released by Matrix in year 2004: Party Monster, completely authorial, presenting 70 minutes long uplifting house mix, and Amalgam, which features a combination of pop, etno, trip-hop, blues, jazz and electronics, put together in cooperation with multiinstrumentalist Boštjan Leben, female singer Anita Kay and some other eminent guests (Lado Jakša, Cveto Polak), under Amfibia project. At the end of 2004 Stane contributed two songs for compilation albums Global Chilled and Machinations v.42 by USA/UK label Raw42 and confirmed yet another 2004 release, Clublander LP (also by Raw42), that came to life on November 15th. Clublander features the best of his mellow and deep house music with chilled flavouring. It can be bought at most of Digital Download Stores (iTunes, Napster, MSN Music Service, Beatport, Nufonix, Liquid, SonyConnect.)..
In year 2005 Stane Špegel plans to release two new albums. The first is already recorded and will be published as a part of multimedia project Odsevi in odmevi (Reflections and echoes) in fall. Second is still under construction and will be presented as initial project of the Neurobic, a fresh enterprise founded by two experienced and most versatile producers HouseMouse & Arsov. Dressed up by Sara Js fine vocalizations it is mainly oriented in composing vocal led urban pop dance music. Blending elements of early 20th century dancehall, jazz, rock and electronic music, Neurobic guarantees a stunningly memorable dance sound experience.Have you performed in front of an audience?Yes! Anywhere.
Your musical influences
Beatles, Frank Zappa, James Brown, Miles Davis,Kraftwerk, Yello
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