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DOC 009
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"Pure has been producing a wide variety of electronic music over the last decade, spanning from minimal and conceptual electronics to ruff drum'n'bass to speedcore, much of which have become classic in its respective fields. The year 2003 sees several compilations offering a chance to catch up with some of these gems, originally released in limited editions on vinyl and mostly unavailable now, as well as containing added unreleased tracks. Current 909 is Pure's project for electronic music that lives in the grey area between dance music and movie soundtracks based on a combination of pattern oriented production techniques and techniques of collage. The music of Current 909 can be seen as a transition between his much rougher and more aggressive earlier works and his beatless mostly improvised works of the last years for labels like Mego, Staalplaat, or Doc."
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DOC 004
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"Dieb13 plays (in the truest sense of the word) turntables like no other: his music is reduced, exceptionally musical, and can be described as anything but merely moving records around. He produces ambient soundscapes, often plunderphonic, but never just a patchwork. For many years now, Martin Siewert has been exploring the electronic guitar's possibilities for sonic abstraction, from jazz to distant electronic-electroacoustic soundscapes and more often recently, concrete sound (cf. the hatHut CD, Trapist.) Pure comes from the world of techno, where his beats became more and more abstract and in the meantime even elusive. A wonderful example of his bleak sound fantasies (fed from his work in techno, industrial, musique concrete and ambient) is his last CD, Noonbugs (Mego). For several years, dieb13 and Martin Siewert have regularly collaborated (including in EFZEG (whose most recent CD is Boogie on Grob). Here, their primarily analogue sound experiments are added to and complemented by Pure. After collaborations between Siewert and Pure in the area of production, in late 2000 the three found themselves more or less coincidentally working together on two completely improvised concerts, and have now collected the results of their first joint musical project on this recording. Each detail of the sonic landscape is precisely modulated, analogue amplitudes with digital peaks and abysses. The warm, gently pulsating sound of Siewert's guitar forms the primary basis for the abstract grooves and sounds of Pure's laptop (with its own software) and dieb's turntable experiments (such as adding piezoelectricity to the sound pickup). Many levels overlap, shift, and almost imperceptibly reform. Since repetitive structures dominate, there are no breaks, but plenty of sonic surprises."
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DOC 003
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"Consisting of two recordings of Pure´s live appearances in winter 2001/2002. The first track is the entire recording of a gig at the Hörbar, a monthly club in Hamburg, Germany that takes place in a small old cinema. Playing in the movie room created a very intense atmosphere as compared to other venues. The 38 min improvised piece interweaves low frequencies with orchestral sounds into dense, unsettling structures, only to dissolve them in its peaceful finish. The second track is an excerpt of a concert given at Aniki Bóbó, Porto, Portugal. Its minimal algorithmic patterns slowly evolve into a swaying string figure that is finished by processed vocal parts."
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