this song is flippin' beautiful. especially the last 30 seconds.
i sent a bigger mail about it but it seems to have disappeared.
anyways- here's the link:
http://turbine.slackworks.com/robots/blair/ALongWalk.mp3
and here's a review from www.Music.for-Robots.com
Jesus, sometimes when I've been listening to a lot of different kinds of music
for a while, some new techno music comes along and grabs my attention like
nothing else can.
In this particular case it is some truly beautiful organics-meets-electronics
work by Germany's Apparat, aka Sascha Ring. Sascha has been playing music since
he was 7 years old, starting with the drums. He moved to Berlin in the late-90s
shortly after he'd gotten into electronic music production, and has since
released work on the Berlin-based BPitch Control and $hitkatapult labels.
In Berlin, c. 2000, Sascha connected with Marco Haas, aka T.Raumschmiere, and has
been helping him run $hitkatapult ever since.
Sascha was apparently a huge fan of John Peel and the Peel Sessions, and he
actually appeared on the show in May of 2004. Unfortunately, as many reported
(including myself, here), Peel passed away a few months later while on holiday
in Peru. The new EP, Silizium, is Apparat's dedication to the huge mentor that
Peel was for him and other $hitkatapult folks. This song comes off the new
EP,
available here - its loaded with five beautiful new songs and four remixes,
courtesey of Bus, Rechenzentrum, Telefon Tel Aviv, and an Apparat-rework. The
strings, the violin and cello of Kathrin Pf nder and Lisa Stepf, aka Complex
cord, plus the vocals of Raz Ohara, and the clarinet/sax of Hormel Eastwood,
all meld perfectly with the buzzing bass and crunching beats throughout,
producing techno music that's just loaded with this beautiful, heavy emotional
content - it is really quite outstanding as a kind of techno-pop eulogy.
I like this very much, and hopefully you folks will too.
