Browse by Label: CADENZA SPLIT COMPOSITION (GERMANY)

Artist:	LUCIANO
Title:	No Model No Tool
Label:	CADENZA SPLIT COMPOSITION (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	CSC 001EP

Mesmerizing double-pack from this new Cadenza subsidiary label, 55 total minutes of sound. "Cadenza Split Composition series: 'An Introduction to Minimal' just got messier. Minimal techno has always been about stripping things down to their essence. Now, with Cadenza's Split Composition series, the opposite approach comes into play: building a new sound, and a new tradition, from the beats up. Each edition will consist of four sides of vinyl broken out into several skeletal rhythm tracks and a handful of supplementary parts: ambient fantasias, shimmering drones, treated vocals, electro-acoustic collages. The series is a riff on the old idea of 'DJ tools' offering stripped-down tracks meant to be mixed in performance. But the Split Composition series vastly expands upon that idea, both in terms of format and the music itself. Drawing not only from techno but also from jazz, musique concrete, and 20th century composition, the individual elements of every Split Composition release are also meant to stand on their own. In addition to being tools, they work as tangible traces of the artists' creative process -- minimalist sketches of a lone idea or a single mood. While their primary purpose is to bring a sense of creativity and a spirit of play back to the DJ booth -- supplying DJs with the raw materials to create dynamic mixes that don't play by the rules of the season's anthems -- the Split Composition series is also a challenge to producers to step outside their comfort zones, playing with timbre, texture and melody in new ways. And for listeners who aren't DJs -- or perhaps are DJs only in the sense that they craft endless playlists in their media player of choice -- the Split Composition series offers a new way for listeners to approach electronic music. Split Composition invites listeners to play, shuffle, and rearrange; it invites them to remix the music not only on their turntables, but in their minds. If the DJ mix is famously described as a journey, the Split Composition series is the map of the back roads and hidden vistas, a map that yields a new route every time."

Artist:	ALEXKID
Title:	Dubs And Echo Tales
Label:	CADENZA SPLIT COMPOSITION (GERMANY)
Format:	2x12"
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	CSC 002EP

Cadenza Split Composition returns with another grab-bag of toys and tools designed to inspire. Alexkid delivers a set of blueprints that begs DJs to get their hands dirty. Both "El Cinco" and "Mocco" offer loose rhythms and dubby delay, "Instrulento," "Lampara" and "Fosforo" are woozy drones, while "Sheiker" boasts supple rhythms. Side D unleashes eerie whistles, banshee sighs and lilting female vocals. Recalling the Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) of early 20th century ghost recordings, they turn easygoing grooves into haunted house.

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