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out now: Planetary Assault Systems – Function 4 (Remixes Episode 2) [Mote-Evolver]

Artist:
Planetary Assault Systems

Title:
Function 4 – Remixes Episode 2

Label:
Mote-Evolver

Cat#:
MOTE030

Release Date:
09th July 2012

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Function 4
(Lucy Remix 1)

02.
Function 4
(Marcel Dettmann Base Dub Remix)

03.
Function 4
(Shifted Remix)

04.
Function 4
(Lucy Remix 2)

Press Info:
Mote030 is the second remix package to reinterpret Planetary Assault Systems’ seminal record ‘Function 4’. Originally released on the influential Peacefrog label in 2000, Luke Slater now hosts ‘Function 4’ on his Mote-Evolver imprint and invites three of the finest minds in electronic music to tease the original apart and reconfigure it anew: Lucy, Marcel Dettmann and Shifted.

Lucy opens the record with a structural re-imagination of ‘Function 4’ where the beats become broken and the layers dense. Amid hisses and snarls Lucy skilfully reweights the elements and splinters the vocal, giving rise to a stunning, hypnotic atmosphere.

Marcel Dettmann, who appeared on the first episode of the remix package, is back with a new agenda. His ‘Base Dub Remix’ revels in swung beats, taking the material and submerging it into a space that is deep and aqueous, with euphoric results.

In Shifted’s hands ‘Function 4’ becomes galvanised. Shifted takes it hard, ratcheting the pace up-a-gear and accelerating into industrial terrain. Persistent and pernicious, this track sounds less like it was made by human hands and more like the product of a complex industrial process.

The record closes with Lucy once again rethinking ‘Function 4’. He mines the twisted beats of the original and moves them into hybrid dub territory. And in spite of the pounding bass line, the track manages to reach out into the realms of ecstatic ambience.

This package sees Lucy, Marcel Dettmann and Shifted highlighting the disparate facets of ‘Function 4’. The EP contains industrial, broken beat, dub and ambient elements; a multiplicity of ideas to move not just the body but also to provoke the mind.

Snippets:

Videos:
“Function 4 (Shifted Remix)”

“Function 4 (Marcel Dettmann Base Dub Remix)”

Videos created by the29nov films.

Review (5/5 stars):
yes… package number 2.

Dubby Marcel is great. My fav.

Shifted. Typical. Industry-influenced beeping stuff. Perhaps this my fav?

Lucy is solid techno. Also nice.

As always Luke provides a very nice package on his label.

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out now: Bas Mooy | Chris Finke – Parallel Series 3 [Mote-Evolver]

Artist:
Bas Mooy | Chris Finke

Title:
Parallel Series 3

Label:
Mote-Evolver

Cat#:
MOTE029

Release Date:
28th May 2012

Format:
12″ & digital

Tracklist:
01)
Bas Mooy
Howl

02)
Bas Mooy
Wesp

03)
Chris Finke
Sleep When You’re Dead

04)
Chris Finke
Euphemism

Info:
Mote-Evolver pushes electronic music into new territory once again with the Parallel Series, where each release hosts two formidable artists on one vinyl.

This third edition, ‘Parallel Series 3’, comes from two well respected reference points in the international scene: Bas Mooy and Chris Finke.

Their sound identities compare and compliment, contrast and challenge each other, creating a wordless dialogue across the two sides of the record.

Bas Mooy opens the record on no uncertain terms, ‘Howl’ is a force to be reckoned with. A1 is built on a deep bed, fortified with industrial clanging and layered with off-kilter asides. The atmosphere that emerges is brilliantly sinister. On A2 ‘Wesp’ – which translates from the Dutch to ‘wasp’ – Bas Mooy has adopted the ruthless focus of this insect, the track swoons in and out but the intent is clear, to create music capable of destroying a dance floor.

The flip side of Mote029 is in the very capable hands of Chris Finke. The UK veteran’s B1 ‘Sleep When You’re Dead’ begins with all guns blazing and to the driving bass line he adds swung beats, insistent hats and the result is six relentless minutes that are optimised for peak-time club listening. B2 ‘Euphemism’ is techno that’s both dark, hard and harbouring a background haunted with subtleties. Chris Finke fills ‘Euphemism’ with such fine details that it’s impossible not to reach for headphones. And it’s exactly this tension that the Parallel Series explores, electronic music that demands to be heard not just loudly, but also very closely.

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out now: Shifted – Crossed Paths [Mote-Evolver]

Artist:
Shifted

Title:
Crossed Paths

Label:
Mote-Evolver

Cat#:
MOTECD01 | MOTELP01

Release Date:
2nd April 2012

Format:
CD, vinyl & digital

Tracklist CD:
01)
Yearning

02)
Out Of Tune

03)
Bleeding Through

04)
Coax

05)
Leather

06)
Colour Of The Fall

07)
Suffocate

08)
Relict

09)
Lexis

11)
More Static
(Reduction)

11)
Disconnected

Tracklist LP:
A1)
Bleeding Through

A2)
Out of Tune

B1)
Leather

B2)
Colour Of The Fall

C1)
Suffocate

C2)
Relict

D1)
Lexis

D2)
More Static

Info:
Shifted’s ‘Crossed Paths’ is a record which pushes the formal possibilities of techno. ‘Crossed Paths’ is the first full length work to be released on Mote-Evolver and the scope of the album format takes Shifted’s vision to the next level. Shifted furthers his exploration into ominous resonances which he began in 2011 on Mote-Evolver by the ‘Control EP’, a vinyl that seamlessly housed the unabashed peak-time ‘Control’ and the spatial ‘Structure’. On ‘Crossed Paths’ the breadth of Shifted’s ideas is both subtle and devastating. As a producer Shifted’s methodology is like that of a sculptor, he works principally with textures knowing precisely when to leave edges raw and fault lines exposed. ‘Crossed Paths’ is constructed of 11 ominous cuts carved with precision and poise.

The identity of the man behind the Shifted moniker is shrouded in question marks and his album opens just as mysteriously with the fearlessly oblique ‘Yearning’. Setting out an ambitious internal architecture, ‘Yearning’ expands and contracts creating a sense of euphoric menace. This atmosphere pervades, crystallising in the strange swelling loops on ‘Coax’ and the stunning pads of ‘Colour Of The Fall’. Shifted creates hypnotic and persistent music that’s perfect for the confusion of the afterhours. He refuses to stick to polarised ideas of tracks falling neatly into the categories ‘dance floor’ or ‘ambient’. Shifted toys with the norm. ‘Bleeding Through’ is a case in point: it imperceptibly veers from one territory to another with far-off ringing and torn wooden fragments invading an almost industrial landscape.

Equally ‘Lexis’ is flooded with urgency as sharp, angular corners are created by bleeps which cut into the track’s icy exterior. However, ‘Crossed Paths’ has no shortage of ideas to devastate big club rigs. ‘Leather’ is fully loaded techno with a disorienting top line spurting and sparking over grinding bass. On ‘Suffocate’ the deviant tones persists constructed out of the friction between a swung undercarriage and rock hard beats. ‘More Static’ pushes deep only to be fractured by clanging metal and inister wisps of conversation. The record closes with the glacial ‘Disconnected’, a track that is perfectly in harmony with the album’s haunting, greyscale artwork. Having travelled the length and breadth of techno’s possibilities the final track brings unity to the release, suspending the listener once again in the abstract dimension where ‘Crossed Paths’ began.Shifted envelops the listener in a subtle world of form and variation.

‘Crossed Paths’ sets out to further techno’s remit and situates itself precisely where electronic music deviates from expectations. Shifted skilfully creates an album in which no sound is over-produced, it’s a record where textures interact with each other on their own terms and the result is deep, atmospheric and ultimately, something new.

Listen:
here

Video:
“Lexis”

Video “Lexis” was created by the29nov films.

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out now: Shifted | Samuli Kemppi – Parallel Series 2 [Mote-Evolver]

Artist:
Shifted | Samuli Kemppi

Title:
Parallel Series 2

Label:
Mote-Evolver

Cat#:
MOTE028

Release Date:
20th February 2012

Format:
12″ & digital

Tracklist:
01)
Shifted
Gates

02)
Shifted
Spire

03)
Samuli Kemppi
Trans Neptunian

04)
Samuli Kemppi
Detached Object

Info:
After launching in fine fashion with Luke Slater wielding his L.B. Dub Corp alias against textured cuts from ASC, the second instalment of Mote-Evolver’s Parallel Series presents more forward-thinking sets this time from Shifted and Finish vanguard Samuli Kemppi.

2011 witnessed an exciting renaissance for UK techno, Shifted being one of several British acts to ascend to prominence. His Mote021 Drained and Mote024 Control EP’s, introduced and cemented the Briton’s taut production capabilities, marked by hypnotic rhythms and a rich bassy pallet.Connected to his much anticipated debut album in April, Shifted’s tracks on the Parallel Series surge over a sunken heartbeat, but where searing hats steer “Gates” into an entrancing floor workout, “Spire” knits industrial resonances into a penetrating auralapocalypse.

This is Samuli Kemmpi’s third outing on Mote-Evolver, having released a couplet of stand-out 12″s—Dark Matter / Wormhole and Quantum Mechanics EP—back in 2010. “Trans Neptunian” matches a tough and punchy pulse to cheeky hat hisses, laden with urgent piano stabs to deliver a perpetual piece of techno, as anxious as it is infectious. “Detached Object” on the other hand is more progressive. Here a choppy, tumultuous melody gathers momentum over a deep and rolling sub before gentle crashes carry it into a bass-heavy descent.

Listen:

Video:
Samuli Kemppi – “Trans Neptunian”

Shifted – “Gates”

Video “Trans Neptunian” created by VJ Group Random Doctors.
Video “Gates” created by the29nov films.

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out now: Planetary Assault Systems – Function 4 (Remixes Episode 1) [Mote-Evolver]

Artist:
Planetary Assault Systems

Title:
Function 4 – Remixes Episode 1

Label:
Mote-Evolver

Cat#:
MOTE027

Release Date:
28th November 2011

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Function 4
(Marcel Dettmann Remix)

02.
Function 4
(Chris Liebing 2011 Rework)

03.
Function 4

Press Info:
Luke Slater’s coveted Planetary Assault Systems project continues its explorations into the outer limits with this first remixes package of the classic ‘Function 4’. Episode 1 features interpretations by two of Germany’s techno-leviathan’s; Marcel Dettmann and Chris Liebing.

Originally released through Peacefrog in 2000, the tracky, tripping metallic thump of ‘Function 4’ is a great early example of Slater’s pioneering droning, mesmerising musings as P.A.S. With its chattering hi-hats, gated snares and humming kinetic energy, the original is included here in all its re-mastered glory.

Berghain resident Marcel Dettmann turns in an urgent and driving remix, led by a meandering synth theme that modulates teasingly as the track build. The distinctive voice sample is transformed as if played through a interplanetary P.A, and Dettmann uses expert restrain in introducing the stuttering percussion lines and static FX.

The much loved Chris Liebing delivers a nononsense mix that stays true to the original while enforcing a heavy four-to-the-floor pump throughout. Engineered to excite with its dirty beats, hissing punctuation and subtle builds, Liebing is on form with this heavily functional reshape.

And a message from Luke: “Chris sent me over a version of Function 4 he did earlier in the year, which I really liked and have been playing out a lot. As it turned out Function 4 was an old school favourite among other artists. At the time it was quite different not being a straight 4/4 record, so it’s great to bring it out into the open in a way in 2011.”

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