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PFR 157EP
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Rising stars Pentatones, justly lauded for their distinctive blend of oblique pop, jazz-inflected electronica, and languorous torch songs, receive the full Steve Bug treatment. Distilling the original's haunting noir pop into a deep techno groove, Bug suspends tinkling chimes and tuned woodblocks around a gritty bass stab. Delhia de France's vocals create a heady blend that is deeply involving and instantly memorable. The instrumental gives harder-leaning DJs the chance to focus on the hypnotic riff and crisp percussion, topping off a rich and unforgettable package. The original version of "Karma Game" will appear on Pentatones' 2015 album Ouroboros.
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FREUDE 057EP
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The four-person band Pentatones released their album The Devil's Hand in 2012 on Lebensfreude Records. The special dancefloor-compatible song "Determiner," which has also been solidly remixed from Taron-Trekka as well as Mathias Kaden & Daniel Stefanik, takes care to get a little love from the club landscape. Completely saturated through with two treatments of fully explosive rhythm, featuring varying approaches that make quite a distinction. The dancing throngs will not be able to resist.
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LFC 005CD
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Since 2006, Pentatones have tinkered with their tessellate electroacoustic sound, in whose center the voice of singer Delhia de France is floating. To friends of club music, she might be known from her collabs with techno producers such as Marlow, Douglas Greed or Robag Whrume. With Pentatones, she combines her emotional timbre in various forms with raw bass lines by Hannes Waldschütz and analog and electronic beats and samples by Julian Hetztel aka Le Schnigg. Albrecht Ziepert creates melodic moods on the keys, whose appeal one can hardly elude. Their kaleidoscopic arrangements dance between susceptibility and experiment. Enticing pop structures melt with crackling analog electronics -- a mixture laid out to make you alternately dance or chill. Stylistically, their compositions are never predictable. A touch of organic jazz here, a subtle hip-hop allusion there, accompanied by a moving club rhythm structure and Delhia's captivating voice, which sings, then talks, then whispers in the next moment. This is all reflected in their live shows, applauded at festivals such as Sonne, Mond Und Sterne, the Fusion Festival and Ars Electronica. When they sample themselves during their concerts, they modify their sound in real time and vividly re-interpret their songs. This is twisted pop that gets straight under your skin, without any streamlined grooving. You can dance to it, lose yourself in it or step into new worlds.
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