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└────────┘ 17.10.2010
freshhh!
artist: Donato Dozzy
album: K
label: Further Records
cat: FUR018
year: 2010
genre: Techno
source: Vinyl
grabber: Adobe Audition 2.0
encoder: LAME 3.97 V2 --Vbr-New -V 2
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 74,8 MB
link: n/a
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 12:25 Donato Dozzy - Track 1 and 2
02 05:13 Donato Dozzy - Track 3
03 08:16 Donato Dozzy - Track 4
04 06:34 Donato Dozzy - Track 5
05 06:20 Donato Dozzy - Track 6
06 03:29 Donato Dozzy - Track 7
07 10:15 Donato Dozzy - Track 8
total time: 52:32 min
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│release notes.
Donato Dozzy only plays deep, hypnotic techno that favors a slower
tempo. (Indeed, the only time I've ever seen him DJ in person, the
BPM never fell below 130.) But it's clear that the Italian producer
has a deep, abiding love for music that gives you room to dream.
And his debut album, the limited edition cassette K for Further
Records, will do little to change this perception. As far as I can
tell, the first track on the thing is a delicious, plodding 15
minutes at 60 BPM.
I say "as far as I can tell" because the supposed nine tracks on K
are mixed elegantly into one another, providing two 28 minute rides
into ambience. More than anything else, K resembles the sort of
music found on Pete Namlook's Fax label in the late '90s. But
unlike Namlook and his many (many) friends, Dozzy is never
interested in pursuing abstraction. There's always a beat anchoring
things, just in case you feel like you're floating too far away.
There's always a sweet melody to remind you that you're looking up
at the sky, rather than the Earth from space.
There's a fine line, of course, between sweet and too sweet. The
music that you find labeled New Age instead of electronic. Dozzy
knows this, and always has something to keep it dirty or dark
enough to keep K out of the yoga studio. The aforementioned first
track's droning backdrop is exceptionally creepy once you pull into
focus; the song that ends the first side has a groaning propulsion
along with a kick and a hi-hat. It isn't all dreamscapes, though:
The second side's openerùperhaps the least successful tune on Kùhas
a chorus, looped in time to the awkward and overbearing beat.
It's understandable that Dozzy would shoehorn in a beat-driven
piece onto the second side. He does, after all, have many different
sides to his musical personality. But when an acid line enters
halfway through the second side of the cassette, supported by
little more than itself for several minutes, you hear what makes
him beloved by so many. He's a master at producing music that
sounds both avant-garde (to dance floor enthusiasts) and palatable
(to those uninterested in harder sounds) at the same time. K
represents the finest collection of this particular talent yet.
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