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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Shed
Title......: Shedding The Past
Rip Date...: Sep-02-2008 Cat.No.....: ostgut LP02
Style......: Techno Label......: Ostgut TontrΣger
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 80,0 MB Source.....: Vinyl
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
The older you get, the more there is to look back on, and the more
there is to forget.
And of course, the older you get, the more cynical you become. A
friends older brother once quipped every night out makes a dance
music fan more cynical, their field of vision narrower, until
eventually they just like one four word genre. It was like a
gypsys curse. The fact that it was delivered on some random Sunday
night in summer at about 5am tells me how long ago it was, how
little I probably believed it then.
I still dont think it has to be that way. But sometimes looking
back at years spent listening to dance music. Its like surveying a
smoking battlefield, its hard to tell where there were triumphs
and where there were only wastes of time, or whether it was all a
waste of time. I look back at the last 8 years or so (some of you
may look back even longer) and often wonder what I got from it
all, or what united all that time. Whats the end result of all
those minutes and hours turned into days and nights consuming this
odd functional music voraciously?
Ultimately it is a tiredness of sorts, if not a cynicism. All the
records and parties and sounds are your own journey, and
eventually you feel like youÆve travelled it. Its a mental
weariness, a sort of stoic mechanical feeling. Whats interesting
is that techno itself seems to give birth to sounds that match
this feeling, to vague suggestive records that are less "for those
who know than for those who dont know anymore"
Sheds - Shedding The Past brims with these feelings. Its the dead
eyed sonic shards of a life lived in techno, the story of somebody
elses path, their journey through countless scenes and sounds,
years and days. Its at times ambient, at times anonymous, almost
always ambiguous, brimming with the paradoxically nihilistic
identity that says feeling nothing can still be the most powerful
feeling of all.
From the opening intro drones to the cold techno of "Another
Wedged Chicken", and the rough mechanics of "Flat Axe", this is a
record which makes that inhumanity you ve been feeling feel more
human. "The Lower Upside Down" is a rope ladder from reality to a
dazed dreamworld, before "Archived Document" makes you feel that
sense of subcultural belonging once again, with a set of zpoken
affirmations rhymed off that seem to roll back the years once
again, to make you feel youÆve been here before, you ve never
left. "That Beats Everything" shatters the crystal ball, the only
typical Ostgut-Ton moment on the entire record.
After that, its stepping back into space again with "Ithaw", a
sort of Berghain dubstep which pulses mournfully, a record that
seems a paean to tiredness, to the burn out at the end of the day
or night. Then just when it seems the towel has been thrown in,
"Estrange" explodes. The penultimate track on the record is the
sound of dusting yourself off, of emerging soaked in sweat and
shattered after all those years, all those records, all those
parties, all that information, and finding the path once again.
Its a call to arms, a slice of steely euphoria that makes
electronic music seem like as bold a badge of identity as ever.
You hear this and you know you can doggedly resist the end of the
night, and stave off the end of it all.
Best Techno LP sofar 2008!
www.ostgut.de/ton
www.discogs.com/release/1409818
p l a y l i s t
01 Sweep Dreams 07:48
02 IHTAW 06:55
03 That Beats Everything 09:16
04 The Lower Upside Down 08:07
05 Another Wedged Chicken 07:07
06 Estrange 06:28
07 Flat Axe 08:23
54:04 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl