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ARTIST
MATHIEU & EKKEHARD EHLERS, STEPHAN
TITLE
Heroin
FORMAT
LP+12"
LABEL
KEPLAR
CATALOG #
KEPLARREV 003LP
KEPLARREV 003LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/20/2020
Between Christmas 2000 and New Year 2001, producers
Ekkehard Ehlers
and
Stephan Mathieu
recorded an album of warm, soft, delicately crackling electronic music in the space of that week. It was christened with the ambivalent title
Heroin
and was released on CD via the label Brombron in 2001 and later in 2003 re-issued on
Kit Clayton
's Orthlorng Musork on double-LP with remixes the pair had commissioned as expansions. 17 years later
Heroin
sees its first vinyl release to include all 13 tracks from the original CD track list on this LP plus 12" set. The centerpiece "Herz" finally receives its long deserved vinyl treatment (side C, at 45rpm) and on the flip side
Thomas Brinkmann
contributes a mirror in a magnificent remix of that very piece on side D. Ehlers and Mathieu were both highly prolific solo artists during the period 2000-2004, and in just two years after the initial release of
Heroin
each had produced over half a dozen new solo recordings: among them the serial masterpiece Ehlers'
Plays
released as five stunning LPs in a series on Staubgold, while Mathieu's
Full Swing Edits
spread over five 10" records plus his album
FrequencyLib
on Mille Plateaux,
Die Entdeckung des Wetters
on Lucky Kitchen, and
The Sad Mac
on
Atsushi Sasaki
's Headz label.
Heroin
is an album that embraces the happy accident being made up of reduced, often very catchy and very direct micro hooks which seem laser-guided into a space accepting obvious melodic beauty in what feels like an observation of musics unfolding and revealing it's DNA, embed with for a kind of yearning for innocence and naiveté -- as if
Satie
were on the jukebox in
The Crying of Lot 49
. The album not only sounds like that of two producers who are both dreamers and scientists, but that Ehlers and Mathieu chose to work with these means in a dialogue together to reduce pop music to its musical/tonal core, it is not pop music anymore, rather a ghostly pointilistic itteration of song.
Heroin
is located at this transition, around that point at which tracks, that were or could have become pop compositions, irrevocably slip into a static harmonic nirvana. Includes printed inner sleeves and download code; Edition of 500.
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