Es ist ja nun auch nicht so, dass sich Drexciya vom ersten Takt an eingängig jedem Gehör erschließt. Am Anfang ist es hier und da mal ein Track, der vielleicht ganz okay ist. Aber meistens fragt man sich wahrscheinlich schon, was jetzt diese Detroit-Nerds und Blogger so antreibt. Mich hat einst Water Walker auf Tauchstation geschickt – damals im Tresor. Wahrscheinlich ist es meistens einer dieser ganz besonderen Drexciya Tracks, die zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt in einem DJ-Set alles in eine neue Dimension verschieben.

Bis die Tracks auf Clone Classic Cuts erscheinen bleibt erstmal noch genug Zeit für Vorfreude. Dafür und für jene, die mit Drexciya noch nichts anfangen können, habe ich hier ein kleines Youtube-Feature zusammen gestellt. Das ist ca. eine Stunde lang und beginnt mit 7 Drexciya Tracks und am Ende kommt noch mal das Drexciya-Interview, das wir hier letztes Jahr schon hatten… Wer dann noch mehr wissen möchte, dem empfehle ich das Drexciya Research Lab.

Christian Löffler

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• Ki-Records

Tracklist:

One Touch
Museum
SH-101 (unreleased)
Rhythm Of Vision
Unix
Ride
Station Rider E
Self Powered (previously on test pressing only)
Sleep Cycle
Rhythm Of Vision (original)

• Robert Hood

Speaking in Code is an intimate account of people who are completely lost in music. A heartbreaking and lighthearted documentary, it’s a vérité glimpse into the world of techno. Captivating and entertaining, the film takes you around the world, following the people who make electronic music … their lives.

Starring:
Modeselektor, Wighnomy Brothers, Monolake, Philip Sherburne, David Day & Amy Grill

• Speaking in Code – Official Homepage

Infolgedessen läuft hier schon seit Stunden mein Myspace-Music-Player mit diesen drei Variationen in beachtlicher Lautstärke und heavy rotation.  Mr. Worthy hat mich mit dieser Platte voll erwischt. Ich kann gar nicht genug davon bekommen und schon gar nicht abwarten, bis sie endlich rauskommt. Klickt mal rein.. aber nicht alles weghörn!

• Aesthetic Audio auf Myspace
• Keith Worthy auf Myspace

The Moritz Von Oswald Trio have already made several live appearances, but this summer London’s Honest Jon’s label will release their first recorded effort, an album entitled Vertical Ascent.

The Trio (pictured above) is led by Von Oswald, easily one of the 20th century’s most important musicians – founder of Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound, Main Street and Chain Reaction with Mark Ernestus, and producer of the seminal M-series as Maurizio, Von Oswald helped revolutionise techno as well as re-activating and re-interpreting dub for a new age. Not content with being a mercurially gifted producer, Von Oswald is also a renowned mastering engineer – and it’s in this capacity that he’s enjoyed a very fruitful relationship with the Honest Jon’s label over the years, offering his mastering and restoration expertise to HJ re-issues of reggae, dub and dancehall classics by the likes of White Mice and Selah Collins, as well as hi-life and afrobeat recordings by Tony Allen amongst others. One can scarcely underestimate the fresh life that he’s brought to the vintage tracks on compilations like Watch How The People Dancing and London Is The Place For Me.

The Moritz Von Oswald Trio finds the Berlin-based chap helming an electronic, improv-based group orbiting his own synth and sampler experiments. He’s joined by Max Loderbauer (formerly of Sun Electric and now one half of minimal techno iconoclasts NSI. with Tobias Freund) on analogue synthesizers and Sasu Ripatti (better known as Vladislav Delay and Luomo) on drums and percussion. Often all-star collaborations such as these don’t really work, but from what little we’ve heard of The Moritz Von Oswald Trio, there’s a chemistry between its personnel that results in a sound that’s subtle and refined, yes, but also organic and palpably impassioned.

What FACT has heard so far is excerpts of four tracks: ‘Pattern 1′ is a low-slung but expedient progession of clipped drums and arcing, lyrical synths, while ‘Pattern 2′ is more abstract – Lodebauer’s work volubly to the fore. ‘Pattern 3′ is characterised by its faintly African-inspired percussion and deep blue keyboard licks and the juddering ‘Pattern 4′ has an almost industrial burnish to it. It’s difficult music to describe, but there’s no doubting its brain-busting quality.

We’ll have more information about the album, including a full tracklisting, in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, hold tight…

via FACT Magazine
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• Honest Jon’s
• Basic Channel

Smallville Partys @ Uebel & Gefährlich, Hamburg

• 04.04.2009: Smallville pres. Keith Worthy (Aesthetic Audio, Detroit)
• 15.05.2009: 4 Years Smallville with DJ Jus-Ed, Efdemin & Smallville Allstars

• Reinhören @ Wordandsound
• Stephan Laubner
• Smallville
• Smallville Records.com