This is something of a departure for our label, and one we’re very proud of. 
We are happy to say Jules made these 4 outstanding tracks with a lot of soul and passion. A lot of influences have lead to the making of these tracks. His uncle has a recording studio near Frankfurt where Jules spend endless hours, before he started to play in a soul band at the age of 13! His career as a drummer lead to a final show in Berlin in the “Tempodrome club”  and there would be more to add, but let the music speak for itself...

Jules debut record is a steady rocking deep soulful piece of music. No stunts involved here but cool rhythmic patterns shape his a-side track. “Under a Spell“ takes up the feeling similar to that of Chicago legend Chez Damier. No stunts or cheap thrills are involved here but pure love for music. 

Sure his attendance as a clubber of Frankfurt's club Robert Johnson has been a heavy influence on Jules and you can witness this in another way with the flipside track: “Café la Perla “ that he loves people such as Ricardo Villalobos. This track is a joyous celebration of a moody cool house track with lots of voices in the background shaping an atmosphere of euphoria, yet still exercised with a lot of understatement. When finally in the small break the voices rise to the surface to show their real nature, you know the track has that collective spirit a track needs to be played in clubs.

The digital add on track: “La Mistra” takes the idea of clubbing even more serious, putting a beat into action that has a hell of a drive... plunging into a break that lightens up the track with a wonderful warm string that carries a bit of Kraftwerks ”Trans Europa Express” feeling.

The 4th track “Jackson” is a pure DJ tool, which reveals itself when listened to loud in the club, a cool beat track.

Piemont: oh yeah, really feeling this one!

Marco Carola: really good ep!

Chris Liebing: Support

Orde Meikle/ Soma: love the MBF label -cool and dubby- playing

Igor Tchkotoua (pig and dan): Lovely e.p love the the summery feeling that la perla has, will play for sure

Philip Sherburne: "under a spell" is nice, and i'm loving "cafe la perla"... such energy!

Derek Plaslaiko: Really into Under A Spell

Leo Leal: great tracks cafe la perla for me.. thanks a lot..

Axel Bartsch: under a spell witched me

Deepchild: Under a Spell is lovely and dubby! :)

Toni D: nice one!!!

Radio Quintessenz (DE): Wow - great one! Under a Spell is my fav!!

NOICE! Radio (US): Played and charted no 1. 12.05.2010

Tsugi, mag (FR): café la perla is a nice track

Provision mag (JP): perfect 10, give off a strange aura.

Housefloor, mag (DE):
Jules-de-Pearl – ein geheimnisvoller neuer Künstler. Der Hesse hat insgesamt vier Stücke für dieses Release auf MBF ltd produziert, zwei davon gibt es auf Vinyl.
Das A-Seiten-Stück „Under a Spell“ ist sehr atmosphärisch und deep, dabei dennoch sehr rhythmusgetrieben. Der Track scheint sich einfach treiben zu lassen in einem Gewirr aus feinen Geräuschen. Ein verträumtes Stück zwischen Percussions und flächigen Elementen.
Treibender dann die B-Seite mit „Café la Perla“. Percussions und eine hintergründige Melodie treiben an. Dann überrascht der Track mit Kinder-Vocals und schafft damit Wiedererkennungswert. Aus der anfangs diffusen Struktur heraus, entwickelt sich ein geradliniger, leichtfüßiger Sommertrack.