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PROFAN 039EP
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"Stoicism" (German: "Stoa") is one of the most influential philosophical schools in Western civilization. An essential property of stoic philosophy is the cosmological perspective on a holistic experience of the world, resulting in a universal principle that prevails in all natural phenomena and correlations. The stoic individual is mostly concerned with recognizing and occupying his place in this order -- he does so by embracing his fate through the stoic practice of emotional self-restraint, striving for wisdom by means of serenity and tranquility.
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PROFAN 037EP
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In the beginning God created the bass drum. He had it beat for 8,601 days. Then he dropped it. The greatest work of art is death, said the almighty God. And that one is expensive. Finite. Infinite. That's politics and sciences and arts. The art of omission. The art of refusal. Death is total. Do you want the total bass-drum?
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PROFAN 035EP
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Following the legendary first two, stoically super-minimal records, Profan presents Fremde Hände. The A-side contains a tonally noncommittal sequence ambling across the keyboard in quantized form, reminiscent of the arpeggiator (accompaniment function) function of early '70s and '80s synthesizers. On the B-side, daring and thoroughly unquantized quaver rhythms rock around a bass drum that, as the only straight element, tries to keep the whole thing together. The result sounds a little like a delirious Can live.
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PROFAN 032EP
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2015 repress. Profan (...remember Wolfgang Voigt's abstract techno label from the 1990s) is back from the future. Like his earlier projects, the brand new SOG release combines seemingly familiar and extremely unfamiliar signs, and in the most unusual way bends them around the utterly familiar bass drum. The result is a conspiracy of four sound frescos of peculiar beauty which deserve the title "Abweichung" (trans. "deviance") -- named after Voigt's painting featured on the cover. This is minimal art-techno that raises questions.
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KOM EX053EP
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Sog puts his foot down on the always-the-same magic. Music that knows everything, but expects nothing, music that promises nothing but always keeps its word. Sog is the last loop before you enter paradise.
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KOM EX049EP
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Speicher 49 is scientifically-correct hypnosis with a coolness factor of 10. Music full of dignity. The message comes out of the right mixture of listening and not listening, and the music leaves a lot of room for fantasy. Everything is there, you just have to recognize it. Variety is the enemy of real minimal! Real beauty is timeless.
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