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ECHOECHO 003EP
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Echocord's Echo Echo sub-label continues with its third releases, courtesy of German producer and Alex Bau and his Zenstory EP. "Clouds" starts with pulsating low-end tones, hissing analog noise, and dusty drums samples all flowing in unison with ethereal chords and sweeping pads. "Contour" follows, tipping the focus over to bubbling delayed stab hits, fluttering sub bass, and evolving white noise bursts throughout. The "Prelude" of "Zenstory" is a cinematic build up to the title-track featuring tension-building, expansive atmospherics ahead of the original mix which features a thumping muted kick, stuttering atmospheric echoes, and spoken word vocals.
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COR 142EP
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Welcome the Bavarian producer head Alex Bau with his first single 12" on Cocoon Recordings. After he set his heavy warehouse techno track "The Whip" on 2016's Cocoon Compilation P (COR 039CD/LP), Bau provides two strong techno tracks. "Illuse" delivers crispy drums and percussion, mixed with his punchy low end and some industrial sounds. On "Etah", Bau offers deep, compressed drum programming pushing the listener forward to the middle of the club, and ends up in a hypnotic synthesizer sequence.
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MBRLTD 013EP
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Germany's heavyweight champion, Alex Bau lands on Marco Bailey's MBR Limited with his tremendous Organic Deformation of Oz. Expect nothing less than high-octane techno through two intelligently lethal originals and an extra-terrestrial remix by the superhuman Developer. Be sure that this package will definitely stay in your bag for a long, long time.
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CLR 022EP
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"In 'Diabolika,' the bass drum stumbles skillfully into the break, and the sounds patter down like a load of gravel when a digger unloads the shovel. A brief backpedaling and the bass drum marches on -- with double intensity. The flipside 'Gusts' shows how the bass drum can cooperate perfectly with diverse static noises. Later on it will be vexed by a clap with an imperative that has not been heard in a long time. Alex Bau in top form."
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