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Member Since: Mar 16, 2004 Rank: 119 Rated 642 releases, average: 4.39 Location: Seattle Profile: techno, house, electro and acid, noisy experimental. somewhat varied tastes spanning a fairly broad cross section of the dancefloor oriented tunes. love: sleeparchive, monolake, mika vainio/ panasonic, fairmont, surgeon, alexi delano, lawrence/ sten, lusine, john tejada, shawn rudiman, patrick chardronnet, the black dog, regis, richie hawtin, lekebusch, funk d'void etc. sahko, dial, downwards, logistic, dust science recordings, novamute, plus 8, sandwell district. interesting, beautiful, strange. lunacy, humor, music, art. not at all interested in your ebay sales. 
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Portion Reform - The Supreme Negative - 29-Mar-08 09:45 PM
The quintessential Downwards album. Lots of punishing techno here, pounding loops that reveal subtle little melodies and changes after repeated listening. There is a lot going on in the background that is not immediately obvious. Sounds rhythmically weave in and out of the loops, oscillating, growing louder, quiet. This is techno of the highest order. It is hard, loopy techno, but it is MORE than that, there is a complexity and beauty in the raging monster tracks. Interesting percussion patterns and loads of compressed sounds, Karl O' Connor and David Sumner, both giants of dark, hard techno with industrial elements teaming up to kick a dancefloor square in the ass. And as usual the track titles are a hoot.
Jegor Teplow - L A C / Russia - 18-Nov-07 10:06 PM
I nominate this one of the best tunes of 2007. Roger Semsroth (Sleeparchive, Skanfrom) moving into new realms with his take on dubstep here. Lots of bleeps and spookiness as you would expect, with Russia sounding a bit like an evil ice cream truck in parts. It is the better track on the 12", very powerful. LAC has an astronaut saying 'Yes sir I read you loud and cleeeeaaaaarrrrrrrrr' with distortion/ effects on his voice. Fat, deep bass all over and a total absence of the 4/4 beat are the most obvious departures from the Sleeparchive sound, but otherwise many Sleeparchive elements are present ie the vaguely sinister, driving power, the cracks and pops, the perfectly placed pauses and reprises. This gets classified as dubstep but it is only because of the percussion pattern. There is no crackling atmospherics, nothing remotely reggae influenced, he's doing his own thing here and it's really good. No foolin' I think this guy is as talented as Mozart or Coltrane.
While this is officially listed as a collaboration it is really basically a Roger Semsroth piece.
Richie Hawtin - The Tunnel / Twin Cities - 27-Aug-07 10:01 AM
The tunnel samples/ borrows very heavily from Sleeparchive (Elephant Island and Research), Philus and Ø (Rongten E.P.).
So much so that it is hardly an original piece, more like a remix-mash-up. Being very familiar with the works of Mika Vainio and Sleeparchive I find it a bit disappointing to hear those artists' trax basically being played over a different beat.
Twin Cities is a fun drawn out dancing around a bonfire vibe kind of trippy percussion heavy track.
Argy - La Pasion - 06-Aug-07 02:26 PM
pffft. lame. shame on Steve Bug. what happened to the quality control at poker flat? this record is so unimaginative, so boring, so lame. when people talk about boring minimal techno, this is what they mean. not a redeeming quality on any of the tracks. a record to be used for beatmatching practice only.
usually a poker flat record has at least one excellent track, not the case here; no luciano remix on this one to save it.
next.
Various - Keep The Faith - Dust Sampler 1 - 26-Jun-07 09:30 PM
This is a great example of why i love the Dust Science label, which i have followed from the beginning. A collection of some serious veteran producers as well as some new talent. The Richard H. Kirk track 'Toned', though previously released on 'Fear No Evil' is a driving, hard-ish techno beast. The Dan Curtin track, 'Shining' is a deep, minimal, kind of mysterious piece with long chords and off-key bells. Derailleur, a more recent talent brings a jackin' piano-synth melody techno cut sounding Swedish. The Fred Gianelli track, also previously released is a beautiful laid back emotional, almost melancholy piece. The Shawn Rudiman track, which i have been eagerlay awaiting since 'Second is First' does not let down, it's another deep, driving piece with beautiful melodies and chin-stroking complexity. Sean Deason, another Detroit guy comes with my favorite track on the comp, 'Icicles', a fitting name for this cold sounding tune with long tapering synth lines and trippy bubbling background sounds. And it goes on like this, one great tune after another, the Jaguar Woman and Carl Tatlor tunes being strong showings. I only wish it was released on vinyl. Really there's no stinkers or disposable tracks that you find on SO MANY comps. A++++++ i love this!