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From: "Simon Hindle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 3:41 AM
Subject: Re: (313) 31-03-06 Süd Electronic Present Traum / Trapez / Mbf With
Alex Under , Triple R /Riley Rei
I find Trapez can be a bit hit and miss, and they seem to be going in
quite a proggy direction. Also definitely worth checking out is the
sub-label, Trapez Ltd. Tends to have darker stuff on it. Check out the
Coccopuffs EP by Und, bloody wicked stuff...
http://www.discogs.com/release/344574
Yeah, "Christmas" is wicked, and "Ambivalente" on
http://www.discogs.com/release/442111 is none-too-shabby either. reminds me
of some older Dettinger stuff sort of.
FWIW I lost track of Trapez/Traum for a long time (err... I didn't have much
of a record buying budget when they first hit the shops, so missed all of
the early ones) but have made considerable effort to catch up in the last
couple of years. Thing is I've listened to loads of it but I buy maybe 1 in
10 records, and some of that verging-on-electroclash sutff they started
putting out last year was fairly horrendous, although you can hear bits of
that on the Coccopuffs EP and it *almost* works. For that matter, i find
most of the clickier labels tend to be fairly inconsistent but the good
stuff is defintiely out there, it just requires persistence to find it.
What I find interesting is that a lot of the artists I associate with these
sounds seem to be moving away from the clicks 'n cuts model. I think a lot
of the producers are quite talented and it will be interesting to see what
direction they take going forward. For instance the Thomas Jirku track on
Arbutus 002 sounds an awful lot like Fabrice Lig, and I don't know how you
would characterise the Akufen remix of Brooks! Funk???
Tristan
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