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COMPILATIONS/MIXES
AudioArt 03
Cumulous
Dubstep Allstars Vol. 4
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Katapult VA Vol. 3
Let's Lazertag Sometime
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3"/7"/10"/12"/EPs
Gabriel Ananda
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DAT Politics
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Fenin
HL
I Make This Sound
Zoë Irvine
Kyriakides and Moor
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Ljud. & Piloten / Kama Aina
Jacob London
Sam Mcqueen
Miskate
Ryo Miyashita & Hiiragi_
[nara]
New Faces
Of / Greg Davis
Charlemagne Palestine
Phon.o vs Litwinenko
Portable
PostPrior
Samarah
Nicholas Sauser & Ditch
Someone Else
Hannes Teichmann
Tractile
Andy Vaz

IMAGES
F.S. Blumm

Denzel + Huhn: Paraport
City Centre Offices

Long-time CCO contributors and one-time Ornament & Verbrechen members Bertram Denzel and Erik Huhn return after a four-year break with Paraport, their third Denzel + Huhn release on City Centre Offices (preceded by Filet and Time Is A Good Thing). The album's fifteen rich tapestries merge textural micro-detailing and clinical electronic rhythms with warm melodies and analogue instruments. In the opener “Kleiner Bruder,” strings swoop loudly into view over high-pitched pulsations before acoustic guitar picking takes over. Listening to each piece is equivalent to studying agitated organisms under a microscope, and the amount of detail packed into a three-minute track like “Dorian”—burbling keyboard loops, eruptive lava showers, string tones, syncopated percussion rhythms—is remarkable. So thick is its crackle and so deep its dub bass, “Treibel” wouldn't sound out of place on Pole's debut album. Equally evocative, “Targo” layers smeary chords over rapid-fire clicks and a scurrying shuffle while “New Kerwe” arranges gaseous emissions, insistent chords, and hydraulic noises into an orgy of factory machines. Apparently Paraport was recorded over fifteen 2003-2006 sessions with Denzel and Huhn ‘shattering' and reassembling the live material into what we now hear as the album's ultra-vivid miniatures.

January 2007