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01. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Rough Tide
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02. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Acid Camouflage
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03. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Alaska Flip
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04. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Trojan Robot
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05. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Undulata
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06. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Atlas
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ARTIST
ELEKTRO GUZZI
TITLE
Observatory
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
MACRO RECORDINGS
CATALOG #
MACROM 039CD
MACROM 039CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
6/10/2014
Live "techno-tanzband" trio
Elektro Guzzi
are set to release their third studio album
Observatory
via Berlin-based record label Macro. From their 2010 self-titled debut album ("hauntingly beautiful" --Resident Advisor) and 2011 follow-up
Parquet
("hypnotic, near kosmische reverberations" --Clash), Elektro Guzzi have taken their man-machine live show of bass, guitar, and drums around the world, from landmark clubs like Fabric and Berghain to major festivals such as Roskilde, Sónar and Mutek. With
Observatory
,
Bernhard Hammer
,
Jakob Schneidewind
and
Bernhard Breuer
shift everything anyone could expect from a live band. Tellingly, instrument credits have been wiped off the record sleeve. Still, a string and a drum skin at the source, the sound emanating from the speakers seems to have travelled light years. Utterly alien,
Observatory
unfolds into a paradigm for both the performance of music and the music performed. Despite advances in software, ironically it is this live band that initiates a redesign of how techno could leap into the future. There is nothing retro about it. No citations of historic moments. The album resembles a party on the edge of the solar system, with scraps of distant sound memories -- a shocking abandonment of anything an instrument was supposed to do. The recordings' warmth is in stark contrast to the music's Skynet thrust: a time capsule of techno projected into the dark unknown. Metallic and human at the same time, a love-cry miles from home...
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