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Artist:	BUS
Title:	Westen
Label:	SCAPE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	SCAPE 010EP

"After a sneak preview on Staedtizism 2, the Scape compilation assembling a wide range of well-known electronic artists touched by jazz harmonies and dub approaches, Bus, a project by Daniel Meteo and Tom Thiel, has devised a unique formula to expand this medium. Like a chemical reaction they have synthesized a brand new alloy from pop and dub, leaving no obvious traces of the original input. Bus deal in subtleties: you won't find direct stylistic references or even discernible samples on either 'Westen' or 'Spanish Techno'. Preferring the file to the crowbar dub marks the boundaries of soundscapes where slickly grooving, atypical noises adopt the rhythmic patterns of a hiphop beat and undoubtedly reggae-based guitar picks merge into subliminal streams. This is music which, as Meteo suggests, would feel at home on a club's second dance floor -- a place less concerned with forced exhilaration or the need to dance, but with fresh and open listening approaches. AG Penthouse's (aka Jörg Burger & Antonelli Electric aka Popup) HDR-remix, too, is reminiscent of a chemical treatment: the recovery and isolation of elements. While Bus prefer to hide pop references, AG Penthouse do no shy away from experimenting with its heart-wrenching qualities, creating space pop more than a Cologne-Düsseldorf divide away from similar approaches favoured by the likes of Air."

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