The SiBERiA team presents:
T++ - Audio 1995#8
Release Info:
Artist ...... T++
Title ....... Audio 1995#8
Type ........ EP
Label ....... Apple Pips
Cat.Number .. PIPS004
Genre ....... Electronic
Style ....... Dub Techno, Dupstep
Street date . 00-12-2008
Rip date .... 16-02-2009
Source ...... WEB
Url ......... http://www.beatport.com
Encoder ..... LAME v3.97
Ripper ...... dedmoroz
Quality ..... 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Full Stereo
Tracks ...... 2
Size ........ 30.72 Mb
List Of Tracks:
Track Title Time
01 ... Audio 1995#8 6:53
02 ... Audio 1995#8_2 5:46
Total
12:39
Release Notes:
Resident Advisor:
It seems like both Appleblim and Shackleton have taken quite a shine to
Torsten Pro"frock, AKA T++, over the past few years. Pro"frock is the
only artist to be commissioned to do two separate remixes on the now
defunct Skull Disco label, and here he appears again on Appleblim's own
Apple Pips label for his only solo release of 2008. As the titles would
suggest, both tracks that appear here were originally live jams from
1995, but Pro"frock has revisited and re-edited them in Ableton Live
before sending them over to Dubplates & Mastering to add the final
touches. (It's little surprise that he's using the now ubiquitous
Ableton to chop and change these recordings, seeing as his Monolake
partner-in-crime Robert Henke had a major hand in engineering the
software.)
"Audio1995#8" is the closest that T++ has come to straight up techno in
quite a while, as mechanical delayed stabs fuse with fluttering
sub-bass and a stern reverberated snare. It's quite a functional
record, which doesn't exactly do much apart from modulate the more
trebly percussive sounds, but will go down well in dark techno sets
favoured by Berghain's acolytes.
The b-side, again with the imaginative title of "Audio1995#8_2," offers
a much different insight to Pro"frock's output during the mid-90's. At
a time when boundaries were still being pushed in drum & bass,
Pro"frock was taking inspiration from those sounds, using a flailing
junglist breakbeat that he's pitched down here to a more
dubstep-compatible 140bpm. Closer inspection reveals numerous detailed
touches, such as the subdued skittering percussion that mutates and
modulates throughout the entire track's duration, but make no
mistakeùthis is a dark and dirty slab of breakbeat techno that's custom
made for cavernous warehouses and grimy basements.
It's not exactly the best material that Pro"frock has offered us in the
last few years (it's no "Space Break"), but even a good track from him
easily surpasses the best efforts of many current techno producers. And
for that, Torsten, we salute you.
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