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MITEK 019CD
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[deleted] This is Swedish minimal techno artist Johan Skugge's second full-length album under his own name. Containing ten vocal and instrumental tracks, including two tracks featuring vocalist Laura Delicata, this album reveals Skugge's ambition to examine and elaborate the intricacies of the club music genre as it hedges towards the borderlands of tech-house with a disco twist. The result is a well-produced and coherent album, yet full of curious turns and unexpected creative elements. Musically, Volume connects to well-known and classic genre experiments such as Thomas Brinkmann's project Soul Centre and Vladislav Delay's Luomo, while still remaining true to it's distinctive anti-traditionalism, which is also sustained by Delicata's peculiar and beautiful voice. His prior release Objects and Buildings established him at the zenith of the Swedish minimal techno scene associated with internationally renowned Swedish artists such as Andreas Tilliander and Mikael Stavöstrand. Skugge also has a thick list of collaborations within the Swedish experimental
techno/art/experimental music scene. In addition, Skugge was a member of Swedish rock bands Yvonne, Rockmonster and Harlem before he started to focus on his solo music.
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SOURCE 040CD
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"Johan Skugge from Sweden. Another Debut on Source Records. This is some of the finest 21st century processor-funk around. Digital minimal Tracks, shuffling, shifting, grooving. Sounds from a different world. Building, layer by layer, carefully arranged, drawing you into the depths of a software-generated world of sound. But, possibly more important, 'buildings and objects' preserves the warmth and emotional depths of the analog world. Clicks, Cuts, Crackles and digital fragments create irresistible grooves, underlining all of the tracks. Musical and rhythmical elements blend seamlessly in Skugge´s music. Solid grooving four to the floor backed tracks alongside deep experimental pieces. All swinging -- as if the source codes had started a life of their own. Following the album title 'buildings and objects', Johan Skugge´s tracks are buildings of striking clarity, reduced, focused and balanced in their structures, minimal and futuristic in fabric. The buildings outline and external shape are defined by their internal concepts rather than being masked by a facade."
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