Artist : Springintgut
Title : Park And Ride
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2007
Date : 03/2007
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 11
Label : City Centre Office CD038
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 45:52 min
Size : 63,3 MB
Tracklist:
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01.day off 04:29
02.colossos 04:06
03.cousteau 03:56
04.precastor 04:52
05.seoul drops 02:05
06.damokles 03:38
07.a few words on bright nights 04:08
08.day echo 00:49
09.whistleblow biker 05:17
10.everything in focus 07:22
11.outpost 05:10
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45:52 min
Whilst most artists cite love, loss and loneliness
as key components in their creative process,
Andreas Otto (aka Springintgut) has an entirely
different explanation for what ignited the genesis
behind 'Park and Ride'.
"I live in a forest next to rail tracks with 3 commuter
trains passing by each day - apart from one or two
occasions per year when the tracks are being used
to transport nuclear waste to a high-security shelter..."
That'll do it then. Having commenced his musical
career through the tried-and-tested route of rock
bands, Otto left his native Cologne to attend the
University of Luneberg - an institute famed for its focus
on electronic music and therefore a key component in
galvanising his newfound digital direction. Now pushing
27, Otto's latest album under the Springintgut moniker
seems to thrive on contradictions - with a sense of
genuine spontaneity existing alongside the carefully
considered and intricately plotted digital machinations.
Having recorded alongside Mouse On Mars, Otto's
aural family tree can certainly be traced back to similar
foundations; as the rural and urban create a spark that
runs throughout the album with moments of sugar-rush
euphoria buffeting against each other for caustic effect.
Recorded in the aforementioned house with the
aforementioned train tracks, 'Park and Ride' is quite
tidily summed up by the calm of a forest suddenly being
punctuated by a locomotive en route to some sprawling
urban conurbation. Opening with the rubbery electronica
of 'Day Off', Otto manages to inject some funk into the
often austere silicon genre, before 'Colossus' lurches
in with ripped modems and expulsive samples trailing
in the wind.
For those in search of something altogether more subdued,
Otto delivers on the beautifully elegant 'Cousteau' - in which
a simple acoustic guitar melody is gradually cloaked in a web
of waterlogged percussion, electronic stitches and supine
atmospherics. Featuring Otto on cello, bass and production
and Max Fey on guitar, the twin components of the organic
and electronic suffer from now friction and instead come
together in perfect union.
Elsewhere, 'Precastor' drafts in Kazumi for sultry vocal duty,
'Day Echo' gets F.S. Blumm to provide guitar on the staggering
(and short) 'Day Echo', whilst 'Everything In Process' uses
field recordings to startling effect. Double yellow!
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