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01. Rex The Dog - Change This Pain For Ecstasy (Extended Version)
02. Rex The Dog - Moto
ARTIST
TITLE
Change This Pain For Ecstasy
FORMAT
12"

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CATALOG #
KOM 464EP KOM 464EP
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RELEASE DATE
6/9/2023

The formidable Rex The Dog returns with his first single for Kompakt in three years, Change This Pain For Ecstasy, a slow-burning disco-glitter stomp that's charged with analog energy. Pushing his self-built modular hardware set-up to its limits, "Change This Pain For Ecstasy" is taut and thrilling, stripped-back and pulsating, with sweeping chords shimmering through a classic Moroder arpeggio, as a delirious voice sings out a psychedelic raver's plaint for liberation, pleading for you to "take away my sorrow and this pain". Deeply emotional, it's also a masterwork in tension and release, dizzy with snare-rush peaks, and dark, humid valleys where Rex is bound to the patch bay. On the flipside, Rex gives us "Moto", which tickles your ear with cymatic phenomena, its gentle vibrations building, beautifully, into a monster-piece of stealth techno. Rex's DIY synths work overtime as he chases patterns and phases through circuitry, wielding the tones until they erupt into a spray of pointillist pizzicato. The sounds here crackle and corrode, the textures so tantalizing, so sensual, you can almost grab hold of them with your hands. It's great to have Rex The Dog back, making livewire, yet deeply human techno, alive and bursting with electricity.