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out now: Marcel Dettmann – Fear Of Programming (Remixes) [Dekmantel]

Artist:
Marcel Dettmann

Title:
Fear Of Programming (Remixes)

Label:
Dekmantel

Cat#:
DKMNTL097

Release Date:
14th February 2025

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Suffice To Predict
(L.B. Dub Corp Remix)

02.
x12
(Sherelle’s X160 Remix)

03.
Fear Of Programming
(Dopplereffekt Remix)

04.
Water
(Interstellar Funk Remix)

05.
Fear Of Programming
(JASSS Remix)

Press Info:
Dekmantel return to Marcel Dettmann’s celebrated 2022 LP Fear Of Programming for a remix package featuring five of the biggest names in contemporary club music. Dettmann’s unmistakably sleek, focused production style is the perfect springboard for all kinds of imaginative interpretations that touch on techno, footwork, electro and ambient.

Donning his L.B. Dub Corp alias, Luke Slater kicks off the A side by paring ‘Suffice To Predict’ down to its fundamentals and rebuilds a taut, punchy version out of the component parts. SHERELLE explores a sweet spot between techno and footwork in her natural 160 BPM zone on her angular, reverb-heavy version of ‘x12’.

On the B side, Dopplereffekt supplement the cascading arpeggios of album closer ‘Fear Of Programming’ with their inimitable strain of dystopian electro. Interstellar Funk turns album centrepiece ‘Water’ into an atmospheric techno voyage shaped out by melancholic pads and fluttering leads. JASSS takes ‘Fear Of Programming’ further out through billowing clouds of ambience and dislocated vocal impressions, arriving at a bold and pensive closing statement to this heavyweight clutch of remixes.

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Special:
“BBC Essential Mix”

Recommendations:
Marcel Dettmann’s LP “Test-File” on Ostgut Ton
Marcel Dettmann’s EP “MDR 019” on MDR
compilation “Dekmantel 10 Years 08” on Dekmantel
Matrixxman’s “Sector III: Polyphony” on Dekmantel

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out now: Marcel Dettmann – Fear Of Programming [Dekmantel]

Artist:
Marcel Dettmann

Title:
Fear Of Programming

Label:
Dekmantel

Cat#:
DKMNTL095

Release Date:
25th November 2022

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Coral

02.
Suffice To Predict

03.
Renewal Theory

04.
Transport

05.
Water
[feat. Ryan Elliott]

06.
Pxls

07.
Reverse Dreams

08.
x12

09.
(Batteries Not Included)

10.
Picture 2020

11.
Selective Dissolution

12.
Tone

13.
Fear Of Programming

Press Info:
Nearly 10 years on since his last solo LP, Berlin techno icon Marcel Dettmann arrives on Dekmantel with an expansive album captured in a flash of inspiration.

In many ways Fear Of Programming is a reflection on the artistic process – the critical hurdles one has to overcome, the constant strive for originality, the ability to capture inspiration in its pure moment of inception. Bar the closing title track (and we all know Marcel loves a surprise closing), these 13 tracks came together during a period in which our hirsute host was able to immerse himself in studio practice and set the intention to record an album’s worth of material every single day. From the resulting mass of work there were many options to choose from, and Fear Of Programming stood out as one of the most complete statements on Dettmann’s approach in the here and now.

Unconcerned with an overarching concept, it was the work in the studio which drove the musical direction. No labouring over knotty arrangements, no painstaking mix downs – just honest expression, a moment caught, a groove locked, a stroke of synth sent pirouetting over a cavernous bed of texture. The results are varied, and while you might well hear plenty of bruising machinations in line with the techno Dettmann has made his name on, there are plenty of other shades expressed across the album.

Ambient sojourns, beatless epics and angular electronica have equal footing with strident, floor-friendly workouts. Standout piece ‘Water’ offers an icy ballet of swinging minimal and drip-drop melodics fronted by Ryan Elliott on lesser-spotted vocal duties, urging, ‘give me a sign, just a little something to let me know that you’re mine’. It’s playful, but still underpinned with the sincerity that comes with Dettmann’s work.

Running on instinct, Dettmann presents an honest version of himself in the here and now, speaking through the sonics and not over-thinking the results. His decades of experience helming a thousand techno parties speak for themselves, while his evolution as a musical entity through collaboration and his own BAD MANNERS label demonstrate his appetite for change. Indeed, the working method which resulted in the album also spurred him on to create a live set beyond his well-established DJ practice. Without resorting to a conceited overhaul, Fear Of Programming opens up the idea of what Dettmann represents in the modern techno landscape.

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Video:
“Suffice To Predict”

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out now: Julien Bracht – Apocalypse (Marcel Dettmann Remix) [System Records]

Artist:
Julien Bracht

Title:
Apocalypse (Marcel Dettmann Remix)

Label:
System Records

Cat#:
SYS014

Release Date:
13th May 2022

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist :
01.
Apocalypse
(Marcel Dettmann Remix)

Press Info:
“Julien Bracht’s music is an exquisite sonic hybrid of communal revelry and profound introspection” (Earmilk, US)

His first solo album Now Forever One under his own namesake is cut with surgical precision for the shoegazing astral sound travellers who long to break out of their pandemic quarantines, and reconvene for techno-induced ascension. He Intersperses with improvisational one-takes, submerges the listener in polyrhythmic meditations and soars on vaulted synth melodies.

Now Forever One Remixes features new remixes from Daniel Avery and Marcel Dettmann.

Daniel Avery‘s version of the dance floor favourite “Melancholia” and Marcel Dettmann‘s take on the “Apocalypse” are the perfect adds on to the triumphant and exploratory album.

Julien Bracht states: “I’m so excited about these remixes. This techno blade runner version of “Melancholia” is an absolute beauty. It’s a beast on the dancefloor and a warm shelter while travelling through your wildest memories. An overall bomb. And I couldn’t be more happy that Marcel confirmed to do a remix for my debut Album. He’s one of my favourite names in the game and even surprised me with several remixes of my tracks. “Apocalypse” was both of our favourites in the end. He put the sounds really into a different world and changed them to a timeless techno house rhythm, that I would love to hear in the sun whilst it’s getting darker.”

Full Track Streaming:
“Apocalypse (Marcel Dettmann Remix)”

Special:
“Prima Lux”

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out for a while: Marcel Dettmann – Command EP [Seilscheibenpfeiler Schallplatten Berlin]

Artist:
Marcel Dettmann

Title:
Command EP

Label:
Seilscheibenpfeiler Schallplatten Berlin

Cat#:
SSPB018

Release Date:
11th June 2021

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
Command

A2.
Enter

B1.
Return

B2.
Control

Press Info:
A Marcel Dettmann record? On Seilscheibenpfeiler? Yes, we know that some folks out there probably figure that Marcel and the boys from Modeselektor exist in totally separate universes, but they’ve actually all been friends for more than two decades now. Moreover, they’ve also been studio neighbors for many years, so hanging out together and playing music for each other has long been part of these guys’ regular routine. And while Marcel is best known for his Berghain residency and his many releases on Ostgut Ton (not to mention his own eponymous label), he did contribute a handful of tracks and remixes to 50Weapons back in the day—including a full EP back in 2011—and more recently, he’s done a couple of reworks for SSPB too. Simply put, he’s part of the family, and it was only a matter of time until we convinced him to do another record for us.

SSPB018 has been in the works for quite some time, and one of its tracks (we’re not going to tell you which one) dates all the way back to 2008. While putting the EP together, Marcel was in the mood to do something totally focused on the club—which explains why all four of these tunes are primed to do some dancefloor damage—but the record also reflects (or at least hints at) his lighter, more colorful side. “Command” pairs its thundering kick with a slithering, sci-fi melody, while “Enter” dials up the mayhem with buzzsaw synths and hair-raising, larger-than-life vocal that could have been lifted from a local haunted house. “Return” is a booming techno rumbler, but it’s also one of the most infectiously bouncy tracks we’ve heard all year, and then there’s “Control,” a club smasher that also sounds like a trip to an 1980s arcade.

If all this sounds like a lot of fun… well, that’s because it is. It’s not often that Marcel does a record for us, so when it does happen, we’re obviously going to make sure that everyone has a good time.

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