Browse by Artist: DIGITALINE

Artist:	DIGITALINE
Title:	Rubicube
Label:	CADENZA (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	CADENZA 007EP

"Digitaline are Laurent Bovey aka Laps and Gregory Poncet aka Gregorythme. The two new talents from Lausanne (French part of Switzerland) starting right at the top with releasing their debut 12″ on Cadenza Records. 'Rubicube' is like a doctoral thesis in rhythm, masterfully arranged with quirky wooden percussion improvisations rotating around a bouncy snare swing and occasional organ chords putting some weight on it. 'Belladonna' on the flip even manages to raise the pressure with another maze of tightly interwoven fingersnappin' beats, rhythmical voice snippets and sparse yet effective sound-fx. This will have you shake your legs like you got ants in your pants."

Artist:	DIGITALINE
Title:	Anticlockwise
Label:	CADENZA (GERMANY)
Format:	2x12"
Price:	$25.50
Catalog #:	CADENZA 014EP

"Tick tock, you don't stop: presenting 'Anticlockwise,' the debut album from Digitaline, aka the Swiss duo of Gregorythme and Laps. After their debut single 'Rubicube,' released in 2005 on Cadenza Records (Cadenza 7), 'Anticlockwise' is the label's first attempt towards a more comprehensive view on the creative production of the duo. Digitaline have honed their craft with extensive stage experience. Performing locally at institutions like Zürich's Street Parade and the legendary Dachantine, and internationally at clubs like Panoramabar, Fabric, Rex and Cocoon, the pair has flipped their groovy, minimalist studio experiments into a kick-ass live show that's as 'mega' as its details are 'micro.' It's probably not surprising that Digitaline are Swiss: you don't find timekeeping this diamond sharp anywhere else. But if their structures move like clockwork -- precise configurations of smooth arcs, straight lines and right angles, like a black and white Mondrian -- what they fill in around the grid is anything but rigid. Spontaneity and flux are key. Bright harmonics shower everything in sparks, and tiny plaintive sounds plunge like diving birds. Drum tuning and delay timing are in constant motion; everything modulates everything else. These aren't the ubiquitous clicks and glitches of minimal, but something far more inspired. Fans of Akufen and Pantytec will recognize in Digitaline a similar sense of color: dynamic, chameleonic, iridescent. But it's not just the sound design. Digitaline's beats offer a sense of groove that's frankly irresistible, a classic jacking vibe kitted out in alien tones and melodies that dance on the edge of melancholy. Informed by their live sets, Digitaline's sense of structure balances compact, efficient rhythms and the long, sprawling arc: not so much psychedelic as narrative -- narrative at its most surreal. This is epic house at its most understated: not overblown drama but a modest tale passed mouth to mouth, bar to bar. This is fireside funk."

Artist:	DIGITALINE
Title:	Honolulu
Label:	CADENZA (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	CADENZA 019EP

"Mere months after releasing their Anticlockwise album, Digitaline are back with a big, cresting wave of a tune, 'Honolulu,' backed by an equally massive remix by Luciano himself. Digitaline -- the Lausanne/Berlin-based duo of Laps and Gregorythme -- pull out all the stops on 'Honolulu' -- Digitaline's 'Kamehameha I' version. In surfing, you'd call this one a triple-overhead, fit only for long boards. Make that really long boards, as the track is a 17-minute long thrill ride of choppy white water and tubing smooth as glass. Skewed tribal drumming and scattershot percussion kick things off with a generous intro that grows and grows, building tension with eerie keyboard smears and snatches of murmured vocals. The groove is so cork screwed it's almost, well, screwy, silencing the kick drum and coasting on the off beats before diving back into the fray with a splash of hand claps. An insistent bass bounce is the skeg keeping things on course until, roughly halfway in, the low end opens up and whoosh: smooth cruising through deep blue waters flecked silver and gold, as elements tumble into the depths and surface again, spluttering, borne steadily forward on a pulse as regular as the tide. Challenging? You bet, but that's the beauty of it: the sticker may say 'Don't try this at home,' but you simply can't resist riding this one. On Luciano's 'Liliuokalani Remix,' he wrings things out and brings it all back to dry land, focusing his attentions on sticks 'n' stones percussion and nosing his way into a labyrinth of hand claps and delay. Where so much of Digitaline's 'Kamehameha I' track is about subtraction, sucking out the beats where you expect them to be, Luciano's 'Liliuokalani Remix' is its additive inverse, ever-so-subtly laying down layer after layer of chattering percussion and misty delay, until every molecule in the sound field seems to sparkle with energy. Everywhere you listen, in the space behind every note, something is happening; every sound seems fringed with tiny tendrils."

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