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Cane - Teknotest / Fall - 10-Apr-08 08:07 PM
Oh wow! What an awesome release, this is cane at their very finest. just 2 tracks on offer here but the quality far far out weighs the quantity. Both tracks offering up an underlying acid style, the A side is more in the 'in your face' dancefloor brilliance style with crushing squelchy glitched up ecstatic beats, building and building to a fantastic acid/techno cresendo. Side B starts of slower but is a real 'builder'. Starting with off-kilter beats and industrial style noises that slowly become more 'together' then give way to an almost trance style synth to bring the track to the edge of a high before releasing the killer bass and beat. Truly brilliant stuff from the Funken brothers. Cane seems like a real outlet for them, somewhere they can have some real honest fun whilst showing of their creative brilliance. Highly recommended!

Kettel - Volleyed Iron - 31-Jul-07 06:16 PM
Simply beautiful. Ambient sounds intertwined with haunting classical piano, long flowing synths and all the time the comforting sound of life going on around you. Sometimes noticable as the chatter of people, at other times barely heard except for the faint sound of a car in the distance.

Intricate - 18-Jun-07 12:30 PM
Intricate indeed. One of those artistic collaborations where you know they've chosen exactly the right name. Their sound is is a little hard to pin down, IDM for sure but often breaking out into sweat filled dance floor techno or perhaps lulling you into ambient melodies, but always intricate. A sound is never wasted with these guys. You know how sometimes you can hear a track and there's really no need for that little extra drum beat or that extra synth, well never with intricate. They sound as if every tiny sound has been thought out for months and added just where it's needed. I'm no doubt completely wrong, as is the way with brilliance, they probably piece these tracks together in no time at all, but it certainly sounds as if they took their time. Some of their tracks start off down beat and reassuring yet a few minutes later the same track has you wishing you were hearing it live and dancing like a mad man. For me Intricate are one of the best electronic acts around at the moment, they've produced tracks such as 'Efforts' which for me describes the whole IDM home listening movement in one track, and yet hint at dance floor brilliance too. I say 'hint at' as I'm yet to see them live, but i will....i surely will.

Loess - 3D Concepts Part 2 - 13-Nov-06 10:47 AM
One of my favourite releases ever. Certainly the best release by Loess, the tracks are as warm sounding as the orange vinyl looks. The entire 3D concepts series is excellent though I think Loess takes top place, closely followed by Miles Tilman. If you've heard Loess before then you'll know what to expect (warm and building ambient sound), yet more so on this 12".

World's End Girlfriend - Farewell Kingdom - 23-Apr-05 04:24 AM
this is one of those albums that makes you sit up and take notice, it's truly fantastic stuff. unfortunately it's very difficult to get hold of (japan only release i think) though a few copies did manage to get over to the UK. it's got everything from classical guitar, violin and piano etc to glitched up noise and fast paced beats, usually all in the space of just one track. the tracks tend to start of with minimal sounds, progressing through electronic bits and bobs and classical instruments to work up to a cresendo of beats and noise and then fall back to ambient sounds. it's a beautiful album that has spread widely on p2p programmes just through recommendations and word of mouth, i've yet to meet someone who hasn't instantly liked this album, a real winner.

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