dub expo
written and produced by marko fürstenberg
the german artist dolby introduces this year for thinner with a dark, yet sinister dubtech 4tracker. "he0r" is a slowly rising gem of seething dark techno. "m1" leads to the classic german school of basic channel and shows how minimal decent dubby tracks can be. the 12 minute long epic "x09" merges experiments of widely reverbed dark fx with familiar structures until it reveals relaxed modulated filtered chordpatterns. "outward" is the experimental choon of this ep with lush crunching wooden knocks grinding onto an almost rubbed out rhythm surface. enjoy 34 minutes of advanced dark surprising dubtech architextures made perfect for secluded afterhours with candles burning on the shelves.text written by sebastian redenz
reviews
denis kolokol | ukraine | 09/2004
the well known basic channel school. pseudo danceable 4x4 with the deepest dub-delay and lots of bass, the classic sound of german minimal-techno. it would hardly imply moving your bums - rather slightly shaking your head following the beat. but it really demands. the music is elastic and tense, its calmness is dummy and delays are not from the sunny jamaica, but from a club in a dark basement, where the buffaloed guys stay quietly following the beat by shaking their heads and scanning an endless psychedelic soundtrack on a big screen.but the release wouldn′t be so good, if it didn′t contain the track named outward, the last one in the track-list. the guys in the club would fall off their chairs in a moment if marko furstenberg (the human dolby′s name) starts playing such an intense hack. well, most likely, the german clubbing history knows such fallings. outward is tougher and more energetic than other tracks; it′s far from minimal-techno and it gets much closer to more schizoid and brisk music.
