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CHRISTIAN BLOCH - YOUNG AMERICAN LP (THN027) Release date: 10.02.2003 | Emotional Clickdub album by Christian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I guess Christian Bloch is a more than familiar name to most of the techno addicted people who are into downloading mp3s. Christian is a very active head since years with a huge archive of his works downloadable off his mp3.com page. So it's a great pleasure for Thinner that we may continue supporting the Aalborg/Kobenhavn axis aside Curse, Danny Kreutzfeldt and Rasmus Møbius with the, meanwhile emigrated to Detroit, Christian. The album entitled "Young American" is a first chart of experience and events that took place since Christians emigration. Unlike most of his available works on mp3.com these songs stick together and need to be listened in full album context to get a proper entry to his passion and emotionality deep inside the songs. It's cold and minimal shaped, yet intelligent and romantic deep inside. "Enter DTW" starts as solid dubby track, and carries already the main elements of the album, the very clacky closed hihats and overall clean and shaped sounds. "2030 memory" is very clean, with tidied-up patterns and subtle portion of dubfunk behind. "Urban DK" is on the borderline between dubbed click experiment or idm electronica, with a sneaky filtered centipede-string which appears and disappears. "Pontiac Arrest" distant dubby stabs and a big echoed snare subtley builds up until the dominant hihats appear in the spotlights and fade out again. An ode to the once flowering vehicle production in Detroit until it went all down? "Immigration Nation" sounds emotional through the dust of structured and unstructed hisses, pops and clicks. "Old Soul" sounds decent and carries a bit lonelyness through the delayed pads i think. Maybe its the result of reviewing the timeline, wandering around the vast city of Detroit with its old and historical theatres where nowadays big car parkings are situated in. "Arizona Fall" builds a clean bridge between experimental and intelligent techno. "Random Angel" is explained by Christian himself: "It is a subtly self modulating pad, you don't notice the changes, but they are there. Most of the time very subtle, but other times very sudden. There's two reasons I wanted to put it on the album. First of all it cleans you mind before "Night Drive". It is a long lonely walk in the cold winter night before you get to where you're going. Secondly: It's minimal to the extreme. It's a mindtool, flushes out distractions, something I personally really need." Talking about "Night Drive", this song might be a surprise to many people indeed ... sweet, tender and very melancholy. Uncovers strong reactions from most. Sebastian: "The artwork is new to Thinner - human beings aesthetically photographed being naked. Related to the state of your album, and trying to get the message, is it for the sake of learning from almost zero there and now delivering a current analysis in musical form?" Christian: "Exactly. A rebirth, a new life, new friends, new customs and a new culture. I wouldn't call it an analysis, rather a response. An outburst of provoked feelings, an outlet for frustration, anger and fear. Most of all it's a reaction, not an analysis. I don't make music according to cold analysis, it's not calculated like that. To quote the late Bill Hicks: "Play the f**king music from the f**king heart". True. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 tracks :: 45min 34sec :: 64.19 MB 01: "Enter DTW" 05.30\7.74MB 02: "2030 Memory" 05.27\7.67MB 03: "Urban DK" 03.51\5.42MB 04: "Pontiac Arrest" 06.09\8.64MB 05: "Immigration Nation" 05.24\7.61MB 06: "Old Soul" 05.37\7.91MB 07: "Arizona Fall" 04.54\6.90MB 08: "Random Angel" 04.59\7.03MB 09: "Night Drive" 03.44\5.27MB Christian Bloch http://christianbloch.com http://mp3.com/bloch http://www.mp313.com/christianblochmp313.htm Tresor/LL/Ungleich/AudioRiot/Restructured/Deep Night Essentials/Simple Muzik/Funque Droppings
