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01. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Affumicato
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02. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Pentagonia
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03. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Absorber
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04. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Panier
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05. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Vertical Axis
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06. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Redford
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07. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Reserva (CD-only)
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08. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Moskito
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09. ELEKTRO GUZZI - Slide Dandy
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ARTIST
ELEKTRO GUZZI
TITLE
Parquet
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
MACRO RECORDINGS
CATALOG #
MACROM 027CD
MACROM 027CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
12/6/2011
Elektro Guzzi
deliver one of the most thrilling live performance models for techno and an innovative leap in the art of band performance at the very same time. It's almost the antithesis to what a band is supposed to be. While they use guitar, bass and drums only, they take the most unusual playing techniques and put them together into a rigid mechanical form where it all makes instant, evident sense. Yet, if they had not performed live extensively, becoming audience favorites from Mutek to Sónar or Berghain to Fabric, it would be hard to believe this is really how the music is created.
Parquet
, their second studio album, sees them in an unprecedented monomaniacal techno mode. Throughout the nine tracks, the distinctions between instruments and roles are totally vaporized. While their instrumental approach is at the core of their aesthetics, it really doesn't matter anymore if one sound comes from a guitar or bass or drum -- it has all been merged into one sonic unit and all there is, is the music as a unified entity. While all the qualities of live performance are at hand -- real-time interaction, visual plausibility, instant miniscule adaptations -- it is a radical break with what group performances have been about so far.
Parquet
is as much a straight-up club music record as it is rich with nuances and details. Astonishingly, while being their most rigid and dance-centered work to date, it also holds outbursts of beauty with tonal lines, ringing overtones and warm resonances. The rhythms are stripped down to the core and structured for affecting longer stretches of perception. Every track comes with a distinctive, almost "branding" feature -- like the hypnotic meter-shifting line of "Affumicato," the gated chords of "Pentagonia" or the abridged rhythm of "Absorber." Actually, it all was recorded directly to analog tape. No edits, no overdubs. It's the man-machine in real time and a hint at the love Elektro Guzzi put in the process.
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