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STATLER 012CD
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This is the third full-length release by Lars Pellarin (Printer, Pellarin & Lenler), and his tribute to the vanished name of his Danish birthplace. Following the same format as his first album on Statler & Waldorf, 2004's Athen, it seems a series of albums with a city theme is developing. This time it's Gundsø -- the area north of Roskilde where Pellarin grew up, not far from the only nuclear power plant in Denmark as well as the strange hill Bolund, which sits in the muddy fjord like a giant grass turtle, still asleep since its birth during the last Ice Age. Pellarin had his first job in the cafe at Vintappergården -- a rebuilt farm where huge buses full of elderly Germans arrived to look at dried/plastic flower decorations exhibited in the large quiet barns. Mozart would blast out at hearing-aid volume during the few hours of the visiting stampede, while the rest of the time it was silent: just Pellarin and the mice. As a child, Pellarin and his friends used to build caves in the foggy moors of Gundsø, and many of the pieces that ended up on this album suit his memories from that time. Now that the municipality reform of 2007 merged Gundsø with Roskilde, the name has disappeared. The CD version of the album comes with a video created by Stefan Mylleager for one of the pieces. The long-term audio-visual collaboration of the two has developed into an expansion of the "band" Pellarin with a confident visual aspect. Contrary to previous Pellarin albums, Gundsø features two tracks with vocals -- one of them a traditional song performed by Jesper Henriksen, who previously worked with Rasmus Møbius. The other vocal element on the album is a Middle Eastern chant-like section in the track, "Iran."
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STATLER 012LP
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Extended 4-track vinyl version of the Gundsø album. Some of the deepest minimalistic grooves you will hear in 2008, this record is stunning.
Gundsø is the area north of Roskilde where Pellarin grew up, not far from the only nuclear power plant in Denmark as well as the strange hill Bolund, which sits in the muddy fjord like a giant grass turtle, still asleep since its birth during the last Ice Age. Pellarin had his first job in the cafe at Vintappergården -- a rebuilt farm where huge buses full of elderly Germans arrived to look at dried/plastic flower decorations exhibited in the large quiet barns. Mozart would blast out at hearing-aid volume during the few hours of the visiting stampede, while the rest of the time it was silent: just Pellarin and the mice. As a child, Pellarin and his friends used to build caves in the foggy moors of Gundsø, and many of the pieces that ended up on this album suit his memories from that time. Now that the municipality reform of 2007 merged Gundsø with Roskilde, the name has disappeared. These tracks represent the sounds of Pellarin's lost childhood world.
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STATLER 006EP
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This is the first release in Statler & Waldorf's new techno-based 12" EP series of more or less experimental dance music, called "Oil on Aluminium." The series is ushered in by Lars Pellarin from Copenhagen who co-runs the label Statler & Waldorf, along with Stefan Mylleager of Effekt. Tango features warm, textured, dubby techno which is highly focused on consistent groove and timbre rather than concept and sound. Long tracks with modulating delay variations make good mixing tools for DJs but also work well for more chilled-out listening situations. Quietly rumbling beats act as gentle undercurrents for subtle clicks and melodic, thudding bass groans. The effect is simple and trance-inducing. For fans of Basic Channel/Chain Reaction releases.
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STATLER 003CD
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"Pellarin's second full-length sees him taking a whole different direction from his 2002 debut on Couchblip. Over the course of 6 deep, dubby, techno-ish tracks he explores the possibilities of a custom-built delay setup and one single sample. Always skimming around genres, it's never quite dub, never quite techno, but definitely deep and engaging. Nods towards Pan American and Porter Ricks' or Vladislav Delay's work for Chain Reaction are audible, but Pellarin's sound is also very much it's own. All tracks are recorded 'live', ie. not a predefined sequence, creating an evolving structure to the album and making it work more like a whole entity than a collection of individual tracks. It's the perfect soundtrack for a very hot day. The CD also contains a 10-minute video 'The Peace of Video', created by Stefan Mylleager of Effekt, using similar techniques of resampling and feedback."
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