lunes, marzo 09, 2009

The Grandfather Paradox: a trip by Schwarz, Ame & Dixon

Choose any way you can, through the results or the makers, but there's very little margin of error when it comes to music signed by these three sorcerers. Further more if you stop to think how their primary source of inspiration and elevation maintains a firm believe in the wonders of minimal techno. A hypnotizing, cold and abstract exploration of early electronic music such as tecno-pop, transfigured into a 21st century danceable shape. Once the ultimate underground electronic scene, now a connoisseur flavour for alternative souls.

If you have had the chance to experience any of these three names live (Ame equals two more, being a duo) you will surely agree they offer some of today's most accurate and sharp electronic sounds, ranging from futuristic ambient strokes to robotic trancendental house music. Their productions and recent collaborations have caused a regular conmotion in the club scene, and every new release is expected with almost religious anticipation. And here's another example.

Apart from the spot on choice of the tittle (as taken from the science-fictional paradox about time travel ellaborated by the writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent (The Imprudent Traveller), this compilation of minimal music inspirations and masters (great praise for choosing Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint) shows and tells the intriguing, fascinating and illuminating possibilities of an obscure but irresistible genre for anyone with a minimum (ha!) love for chips and robotica.

The call comes in two options: a duoble cd with an enjoyable non stop mix plus the original tracks in an additional cd; or the luxurious beautiful lay out doube lp whre you can only find  five of the selected tracks, such as O's "Atomit" (Niels Bohr edit), Robert Hood's "Minus", La Funk Mob's "Motor Bass Gets Phunked Up" (Richie Hawtin's Electrophunk mix), I:Cube's "Acid Beatless" (A Critical Mass edit), and my own persoanl favourite: Yusef Lateef's "TheThree Faces Of Bala".

Get complete information at label BBE's website

Or the video EPK: 



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