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Artist:	JIRKU, TOMAS
Title:	Weltschmerz/All You Need Is Love
Label:	DEFRAG SOUND PROCESSING (ITALY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	DFRG 017EP

"Weltschmerz/All You Need is Love is sequenced ideally for listening, DJs will have to do a little bit more work if they're only looking for most rockin' parts. The recording starts with a transmission from deep space by a satellite that has smoked too much grass and strayed from its orbit around Detroit. The message in the broadcast is sent to all major science agencies around the world, but only after Brussels and Cologne join forces that it is decoded and the sound of asses shaking on a concrete dance-floor can be heard. The message is eventually leaked to all media outlets and becomes an anthem for all concrete floors from Tokyo to Istanbul and Constantinople. After some time, kids in black trench-coats get fed up hearing the message infiltrating even *their* favorite radio shows and construction equipment rentals reach an all-time high when all available jack-hammers are used to break up all the concrete that covers the globe. The populace of every town and metropolis everywhere cower in their sheds until the ruckus subsides and then stay there for a year or two beyond that just for good measure."

Artist:	JIRKU, TOMAS
Title:	Bleak 1999
Label:	NO TYPE (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	IMNT 0311

"5th solo album from Canadian electronica boy wonder Tomas Jirku following various CD & 12" releases on Force Inc, Alien8/Substractif, Intr_version, Onitor, Traum, Klang Elektronik, Tigerbeat6 & many more. Tomas Jirku is one of Canada's best known electronica exports, & his music has been favorably compared to Pole, Vladislav Delay & Thomas Brinkmann, among others. 16 tracks, 73 minutes: 100% unreleased material. This CD is recommended to all lovers of quality electronica."

Artist:	JIRKU, TOMAS
Title:	Immaterial
Label:	SUBSTRACTIF (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	SUBSF 002CD

"Immaterial embodies headphone minimalism through a blend of very subtle and quiet passages constructed from field recordings, drones and loads of stereo effects, combined with layers of his signature minimal-click dub sound. Tomas Jirku has truly managed to create his own sound in a school that is overloaded with copycats and wannabes. Elements of what he is doing can be compared to the likes of Vladislav Delay, Pole and Thomas Brinkmann. The idea behind Immaterial was to work with fewer tracks and give them more time to develop, allowing the repetitious rhythms to really infect the listener. It includes four tracks and runs just over the sixty-minute mark. The tracks merge into each other, creating a single composition with 4 movements."

Artist:	JIRKU, TOMAS
Title:	Rychnov
Label:	TRAUM (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TRAUM 031EP

"If there is such as a figurehead of the new evolving Canadian /American clicks & cuts techno scene, it could be Tomas Jirku. His unique sounding tracks are based on samples culled from his favorite funk and pop tunes, and then processed to such an extreme degree that the original is indiscernible. Jirku combines dub elements with haunting rhythms to reconstruct a sound which is influenced by Cologne's minimalism, English pop culture and US house music. His quality relies heavily on his clever and fast programming and his experience in club culture resulting in tracks almost indeterminable for listeners. His newest release on Traum highlights this quality, nevertheless concentrates on the more smooth, stable, and bass-y tracks opposed to his more clickery tracks."

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