Artist : DeepChord
Title : Hash-Bar Loops
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2011
Date : 07/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 01
Label : Soma Quality Recordings
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 79:44 min
Size : 136,6 MB
Tracklist:
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Hash-Bar Loops
01.DeepChord - Spirits
02.DeepChord - Stars
03.DeepChord - Sofitel
04.DeepChord - Merlot
05.DeepChord - Tangier
06.DeepChord - Electromagnetic
07.DeepChord - Balm
08.DeepChord - Oude Kirk
09.DeepChord - City Centre
10.DeepChord - Crimson
11.DeepChord - Black Cavendish
12.DeepChord - Neon And Rain
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79:44 min
In our 20th anniversary year we count
ourselves truly fortunate to be able to
release music we love this much. Soma
proudly welcome Deepchord to release
Hash-Bar Loops on Soma Quality
Recordings!
Rod Modell (a.k.a. Deepchord) is a
sound-designer with 25 years involvement
in electronic music and over 50 releases
under various aliases and styles.
Beginning with more "industrial" and
"ambient" forms of sonic
experimentation, he worked with Kim
Cascone and his -then- record label
Silent, and performed along-side notable
industrial acts such as Chris & Cosey
and SPK. While attending Art School for
Photography, Rod lived in Detroit's
Eastern-Market area, the location of the
infamous "Techno Boulevard", and home to
Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin
Saunderson during that time. Submersed
in the blossoming Detroit Techno scene
(early 1990's), a journey from a more
experimental sound into Detroit's
techno-world was inevitable. Modell then
co-founded the Deepchord record label in
Detroit during the mid-90's. Many
consider Deepchord to be the second wave
of the "Basic Channel sound", and came
years before the onslaught of imitators.
After 16 releases on Deepchord, Rod went
onto co-found Echospace. Echospace
released two full length albums and five
12" singles on Modern Love (Boomkat),
and a slew of releases on their
Echospace imprint. 2007's "The Coldest
Season" and 2010's "Liumin" are
critically acclaimed electronic music
classics, and were on top-lists of
prestigious resources such as The Wire,
xlr8r, and Resident Advisor (who wrote
of The Coldest Season: "in terms of
sheer quality, it rivals Basic ChannelÆs
vaunted catalog. Put down that ultra-
rare Basic Reshape 12ö and check out
whatÆs going on now. This album is bound
to be one of the most fully realized
listening experiences to grace your
stereo this year, and is proof positive
that DeepChord and Echospace are the
rightful heirs to the dub techno
legacy"). Rod also operated an audio-
mastering facility in the Detroit area
from 1995-2005, employing his services
to many electronic record labels,
including Richie Hawtin's M-NUS imprint.
RodÆs idea of an album revolves around a
concept that isnÆt always followed in
modern day electronic long players. A
chain of feelings and emotions emanate
from his work and flow in a manner that
has been very carefully considered.
Buzzing in atmospheric warmth and
layered with mesmerising rhythms, Hash-
Bar Loops tells the tale of a hazy
extended stay in Amsterdam, where the
album was in the most part formed.
Starting from deep and dreamy
soundscapes the album warms from the
outset with the opener, Spirits. The
underlying atmosphere is somewhat
disconcerting, but balances perfectly
with soft, distant chords and ever-
evolving percussion. The album
progresses through turbulent synths and
outlying melodies in Sofitel & Merlot.
On Tangier, stabs and textures melt into
one another adding tension and dynamics
in true Deepchord style. The swirling
air of Electromagnetic then conveys a
dizzying and hypnotic feel in which
budding chords emerge from a white-
washed DC soundscape. Balm steps into
another world, with beautiful hovering
chords that pulse throughout the track,
forming a delicate and emotive shape.
The climactic Oude Kerk sits at the peak
of this album and deserves its crown.
Arguably the most exposed of all tracks
in the album, Oude Kerk fizzles end to
end, letting the deep low frequencies
and advancing percussion take over. City
Centre then reels the synths back in,
with contemplative pads that are
underpinned with arguably the heaviest
sub-bass on the album. Field recordings
can once again be heard, hidden deep in
the layers of sound in Crimson and Black
Cavendish, where their dense sonics
slowly swell behind metallic clangs.
Closing the circle, Neon and Rain steps
back into the deep and wistful
soundscapes heard at the opening of the
album where the familiar sense of unease
and contemplation toy with one another.
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