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| + artist ........... Antonelli |
| + album ............ The Blackout Quintet |
| + label ............ Italic |
| + cat .............. ITA54 |
| + year ............. 2005 |
| + genre ............ Electronic |
| + sub-genre ........ Minimal |
| + source ........... CDDA |
| + quality .......... VBRkbps / 44,1Khz / Joint-Stereo |
| + release date ..... 01.11.2005 |
| + size ............. 65,5 MB |
| + link ............. www.italic.de |
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|| tracklist |
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| 01.After The Night 05:59 |
| 02.The Morning 07:05 |
| 03.Topaz 02:29 |
| 04.Let's See What We Can Do 07:00 |
| 05.Gespenster 04:15 |
| 06.Playing On The 5th Floor 08:47 |
| 07.The Quiet Night 05:08 |
| 08.The Wave 04:05 |
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| (t!) total 44:48 min |
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| "My (musical) world is a little bit dark... a little bit |
| off-center. I think of it as tragically beautiful. That is how i |
| would describe what i love best: tragically beautiful." (Angelo |
| Badalamenti) |
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| There are 8 new titles on Stefan Schwander's latest album "The |
| Blackout Quintet", all composed by the techno dandy himself. This |
| is Schwander's fourth album (not including the 12" cd compilation |
| "Me, The Disco Machine") under the alias Antonelli. The music on |
| "The Blackout Quintet" is best described not just as haunting but |
| as positively ghostly. It is set in the hours of transition |
| between day and night, in that shadowy no man's land from dusk to |
| darkness or darkness to dawn. This emphasis on time and time |
| passing is reflected not just in the music but in the titles of |
| the tracks themselves: After The Night, The Morning, The Quiet |
| Night, Gespenster (ghosts). and to project day and night metaphor |
| onto the techno or club context, the music could be said to belong |
| somewhere between dancefloor and after-hours, or even to that |
| private zone after after-hours when the party is over and you're |
| floating gently back to reality. Antonelli's dreamy melodies |
| create feelings of abandon and paranoia at the same time. In two |
| pieces (Topaz, The Wave), the intensity of the music is generated |
| by a synphonic, feedback-like wall of sound, which builds up in |
| layer upon insistent layer. Other tracks on "The Blackout Quintet" |
| (e.g. After The Night) recall the music of Angelo Badalamenti, the |
| film composer beloved of David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mullholland |
| Drive) who is also celebrated for his pop music (including songs |
| for the Pet Shop Boys). More than anything in fact, "The Blackout |
| Quintet" does beg to be described as film music, despite there |
| being no film to go with it, nothing to give the music a concrete |
| visual structure and nothing to subordinate it to or put it on a |
| level with images and events. Indeed, "The Blackout Quintet" is |
| intentionally self-sufficient, and as a result achieves that |
| freedom and breadth which enables music to put its listeners into |
| a state of semi-delirium, allowing them, if they are lucky enough, |
| to catch a glimpse of a ghost or two. Stefan Schwander is one of |
| the most versatile producers and live performers on the |
| international electronic scene. His projects, including |
| "Rhythm_Maker"(techno), Repeat Orchestra (house), A Rocket In Dub |
| (dub) and the Bad Examples (exotica) have enjoyed releases on |
| various labels, and his techno venture pop up with J÷rg Burger |
| (The Modernist) has attracted much positive attention. He is |
| currently working, under the alias of Swimmingpool, on a new album |
| with Michael Scheibenreiter (Phoneheads). Antonelli is his main |
| project though, and schwander has spent a lot of time over the |
| last few years taking it live to cities as far afield as Tokyo, |
| Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, London and Copenhagen. He plays a |
| rocking, euphoria-inducing techno set as Antonelli, and his |
| numerous 12"s have provided us with one club hit after another |
| (Automatic Music, The Vogue feat. Miss Kittin, Kung Fuà). he is |
| also very active on the remix front, and has cooperated with |
| Michael Mayer, Freestyle Man, Farben, Lawrence, Steve Bug, Ego |
| Express, Elektro Musik Department, Oliver Hacke, Error Error, |
| Mondo Grosso to name but a few. The vinyl version of "The Blackout |
| Quintet" contains a bonus 12" with remixes from Lawrence |
| (Dial/Mute), Error Error (Italic) and Oliver Hacke (Traum). |
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