Artist:
Various
Title:
VA.02
Label:
Cogo
Cat#:
COGO003
Release Date:
07th June 2024
Format:
vinyl, download & streaming
Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
Jeroen Search
Observer
A2.
Border One
Contour
B1.
ORBE
Wolheim
B2.
Tonske
Droid
Tracklist Digital:
01.
Jeroen Search
Observer
02.
Border One
Contour
03.
ORBE
Wolheim
04.
Tonske
Droid
05.
Border One
Contourv
(Tonske Remix)
06.
ORBE
Wolheim
(Tonske Remix)
Press Info:
The Slovenian label Cogo is back for another unmissable 4-tracker vinyl compilation with the heaviest hitters in the scene who represent the most artistically driven hypnotic techno to date.
Jeroen Search, Border One, ORBE, and Tonske all lend a hand to provide an understated and deep vibe to this release full of music actively attempting to remove your mind to otherworldly places hitherto unknown.
Jeroen Search kicks off the release with “Observer” expertly drawing you in with a very simplified but polyrhythmic staccato synth and kick combination that slowly builds with modulating and swirling pads until it reaches a climax with a tightly regulated drum track and disorienting LFO sequenced synth patch.
Border One continues the theme of the release of minimalistic aesthetics with “Contour” featuring polyrhythmic ideas and evolving dissociative synths. The release culminates in a very simplified and restrained drum track that opens up the doors to a massive sonic environment where you’re lost completely within the music, sitting somewhat awestruck by passing elements unfolding in front of your mind’s eye.
Not to be outdone, ORBE takes a different tact with “Wolheim” by introducing the groove elements first and bringing in his deep understanding of setting the sonic stage with his signature atmospheres and scintillating synth hits. The track also echoes the thematic choices previously laid down by Border One and invites you into this strange alien world full of sonic curiosities and audio biology.
Tonske buttons up the release with “Droid.” A track that has an overall sense of pulling the sonic environment toward you while you travel as a listener in your mind’s eye. Outward synth blips are constantly coming from the outer periphery into view as if they are passing stars while traveling forward at a deliberate and determined pace.
For our digital release, we have featured Tonske’s remixes of Border One’s “Contour” and ORBE’s “Wolheim.”
Tonske takes Border One’s “Contour” and restrains the wild nature of Border One’s big warbly synths and takes on a straightforward linear approach, pulling you into the sweet spot of the track and keeping you locked in while the drums wash over you.
Tonske’s reimagining of ORBE’s Track is no less stellar than the original as he draws from ORBE’s starry synths and emphasizes the textures, shorter looping elements, and Tonske’s distinct sense of conceptual hypnotic ideas.
– Sean Ocean
Full Track Streaming:
Specials:
Jeroen Search – “Vault Sessions #130”
Border One – “Sounds From NoWhere Podcast #191”
ORBE – “Reclaim Your City 583”
Tonske – “IA Podcast | 177”
Recommendations:
Border One’s “Strange Attractor EP” on Token Records
Border One’s “Light Trail EP” on Token Records
Border One’s “Morph EP” on Border One Records
Border One’s “Apex EP” on Voltage
Border One’s “Cyclone EP” on Token Records
Border One’s “Radon EP” on Token Records
Border One’s “Host EP” on Border One Records
Border One’s “Samadhi EP” on Knowledge Imprint
Border One’s “Restless EP” on SK_Eleven
Border One’s “Bygone EP” on Voltage
Border One’s “Abyssal EP” on Border One Records
Border One’s “Insight EP” on Wolfskuil Records
Border One’s “Restive EP” on Escapism
Border One’s “Unspoken Voices EP” on Invite Records
Border One’s “Despair EP” on Form And Function
Border One’s “Throw EP” on Ressort Imprint
Jeroen Search’s “Shadow Dimensions” on Token Records
Jeroen Search’s “Enigma EP” on Reclaim Your City
“Atonal EP” by Psyk & ORBE on Mote-Evolver
ORBE’s “Andromeda EP” on Token Records
ORBE’s “Transhuman EP” on Token Records
Tonske’s “Anatman EP” on Cogo
compilation “VA.01” on Cogo
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