Browse by Artist: LANDESVATTER

Artist:	LANDESVATTER
Title:	Nome
Label:	BRUT! RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	BRUT 008EP

"Following our quest for inventive approaches within the sometimes tired and highly commodified house/tech/house/techno/minimal or whatever you call it scene, we've gone this time for Landesvatter. Regardless of having already signed a few full-length LPs on the highly-esteemed Normoton as well as on Under_Line and others, Joachim Landesvatter prefers to keep a low-key attitude. He offers us two great tracks, each one followed by a very special remix. The original of 'Nome' is a highly bouncy digi-tech house track for the dancefloor, with an infectious sinewave to keep you hooked from beginning to end. The remix of 'Nome,' in charge of Arp Aubert (Marco Niemerski aka Tensnake & Stephan Lorenz) who runs the great Mirau Musik, comes on the form of a hysterical dub-house track that literally puts 'the roof in the air.' We recommended for full effect to keep the volume on the red. As usual, the second half of the release follows at a quieter pace. 'Hausse' is a track on a Out to Lunch tradition, greatly influenced by Detroit but at the same time, distancing itself from the current plethora of nostalgics. In-house duo Taron-Trekka closes the package with a deep remix, rich on freaky jazz touches. We lack words to describe it."

Artist:	LANDESVATTER
Title:	Lava
Label:	NORMOTON (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NORM 008CD

"After two techno 12" EPs on Salo and Normoton Landesvatter now shows more atmospheric facets. The 10 Lava tracks are a soundtrack for the urban night. Groping eats that hesitantly comply in deep pulsating basslines, frayed guitar sounds and jazzy samples. The music on Lava can be called repetitive but never monotonous. Even tempered and reflective, Lava is a CD for your head and your feed. You can't help but simply nod your head to it. Landesvatter lives in Berlin, Germany."

Artist:	LANDESVATTER
Title:	Lax
Label:	NORMOTON (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	NORM 017CD

Second full-length release from Berlin-based electronic artist Landesvatter. Landesvatter's pleasingly soft, clicky and minimalist tracks are so thickly woven that you have to listen closely, even as it draws you closer and closer to the dance floor. Born in lower Franconia, he came in touch with techno for the first time in 1991 and has lived in Berlin since 1995. As a producer, his electronic music spans minimal techno, abstract jazzy clicks and cuts, to hip hop-influenced tracks. Lax is a thrilling release: the tracks meander surprisingly, never taken for granted and individually speaking for themselves. The samples are like tiny quotes which flow with the silver of jazz, pop guitar riffs and various other flotsam of music history. The beats have become more melancholy and the music more heavy duty.

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