The SiBERiA team presents:
Nick Hoppner - Makeover / Foundling
Release Info:
Artist ...... Nick Hoppner
Title ....... Makeover / Foundling
Type ........ EP
Label ....... Ostgut Tontrager
Cat.Number .. O-TON21
Genre ....... Techno
Style ....... Minimal
Street date . 23-03-2009
Rip date .... 06-04-2009
Source ...... WEB
Url ......... http://www.boomkat.com
Encoder ..... Lame 3.98
Ripper ...... dedmoroz
Quality ..... 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
Tracks ...... 2
Size ........ 36.56 Mb
List Of Tracks:
Track Title Time
01 ... Makeover 7:25
02 ... Foundling 7:46
Total
15:11
Release Notes:
My My are nothing if not subtle. The same goes for their solo work. One
of the few criticisms that was leveled at Lee Jones' excellent
full-length last year was its unrelenting consistency in quality and
tone. You'd be hard-pressed to pick a highlight because, well,
everything stood out if you listened long and hard enough. Nick
Hoppner's second 12-inch for Ostgut follows this same path: It's an
unassuming record that doesn't announce itself as a classic upon first
listen, but moves you to continue playing it until you realize you've
been playing it longer and harder than anything else.
"Makeover" could have been a lost My My B-side, interlocking a
spooked-out pad and a spot of lightly syncopated house drums. It's
understated, yet strangely hypnotic in the way that the synth floats
along with the drums, pushed along by a see-sawing harmony line that
emerges a few minutes in. Lightly tribal it flies in the face of what
listeners have perhaps come to expect from Ostgut over the past few
releases, falling somewhere between Berghain and Panorama Bar.
"Foundling," on the other hand, is Hoppner getting about as epic as his
sensibility will let him. It still boils ever so slowly ala My My, but
the delayed synth pinging melodies around like sonar punctuated by
silence make room in the imagination for this tune to soundtrack a
minor crowd meltdown or two. Like Tony Lionni's upcoming track for
Ostgut, the rotating synth line is the key, locking you into place
figuratively, while your feet will presumably do the rest.
look @
www.myspace.com/nickhoeppner
www.ostgut.de/ton
www.berghain.de
www.myspace.com/berghainpanoramabar