About Recue

Recue is the musical outlet of Riku Annala, a producer/musician hailing from Helsinki, Finland. Musically Recue is exploring the deeper, atmospheric left field of electronic music, regardless of genres. The music is often referred to as having heavy influences of dub, ambient, idm and even techno but it’s better to leave it for the listener to place the tag.

Something which started as a home studio project, manifested as the first Recue release titled “Between Stations” in 2006 on the Louisville based electronica netlabel One. The release was well received and resulted in the bedroom project to move on-stage. Since then Recue has performed in live events here and there ranging from club nights and small lounges to large outdoor festivals.

In 2008 the second Recue album titled “All the Wrong Places” was released on London based label Rednetic Recordings. The album’s CD edition was sold out quickly and the release was featured extensively in the soundtrack of the TV-series Madventures, which opened the music to a wider audience.

In the end of 2010 a fresh Finnish record label Audiobaum, set up by the frequent collaboration partner Jolea, released a freely downloadable collection of Recue live tracks and studio experimentations under the title “Leftover Love”. The album is a good cut out of the variance of genres and moods that his music has to offer.

In addition to the album material, remixes for other artists have been featured on other labels like Civil Music and Recue has been fortunate to be getting support from DJ’s like Kid Kameleon and  James Zabiela featuring a track on his 2010 Renaissance Compilation. Recue has also contributed comissioned music and sound design for other works, such as a recent score/soundtrack for a theatre play.

Contact

Booking: bookings@audiobaum.com
Everything else: riku@recue.net

About the site

In the age of social media and sites ”homepages” as they used to be are ufortunately becoming obsolete. Regardless of that recue.net is here, not just to gather the scattered information into a one convenient place, but also as a vent for sharing thoughts, ideas, production tips, heads-up or basically anything interesting! Updates will be regularly irregular.