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TOKEN 072EP
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Routing is Ctrls ninth solo EP. "The Shortest Path" starts with flitting high-end precision accompanied by a gracefully deviating tone. It takes on new life with a sparse and ultra-synthetic groove. "Rush Hour" is gripped by an acute yet almost-imagined drone that builds intensity before going all in. The oddball break takes it down and whips around to shuddering effect. "Crash" is a full-scale collision: strange and discordant percussive details, a fierce bass teased by semi-conscious accents. "Highway" comes in on a half-step, straightening up with a muted klaxon crescendo into hypnotic transit. Routing includes two staggering, driving locked grooves.
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TOKEN 060EP
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Token's 60th release comes with Ctrls's seventh exclusive EP on the imprint. The EP opens with "Vocabulary". A rigid percussive framework provides the perfect, albeit heavy backdrop to the track's distorted, detuned pads and tightly enveloped, morphing lead. Nonuser's title track takes dancers into slightly more bizarre territory. It's unrelenting kick drum propels staccato, cut up hi-hats alongside a sporadic melody that falls slightly outside the grid. The release ends with "The Wave", a subtler track. Timbre rich chords fade in and out over a thick and rolling low end.
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TOKEN 055EP
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Ctrls, who has released all of his records to date on Token, continues to meld turbo-charged rhythms with celestial synth-work on this ethereal two-tracker. "Two Worlds" gracefully builds elysian synth-soundscapes before glitched-up drum loops arrive at the opportune moment, stumbling alongside a simmering reduction of the opening section. The flipside ventures into harder territories, with thumping low-end and biting melodies showing a similar mix of timbres. "Onto Them" is laced with close-cut delays and groaning spring reverbs, adding a characteristic layer of roughness to Ctrls' precisely engineered production.
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TOKEN 050EP
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Formerly a drum and bass producer, Ctrls has fully embraced the old school, high-tempo aesthetic championed by Token; since debuting in 2012, Ctrls has crafted high-intensity style of minimal techno combining super-sized beats, basslines, and synths. Users delivers non-conformist beats designed to fuel the industrial club night: both "Externalizer" and "Incoming Data" draw inspiration from the same acidic synth-line that is made to fit the rock solid 4/4 beat of the former and the frenetic rhythms of the latter. "The Disparates" focuses on box-cutting percussion and a caustic vamp of synthetic stabs wrapped in a thin layer of industrial atmospheres.
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TOKEN 044EP
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The new Ctrls record is a peak-time affair, powered by a rhythm that is lean and functional. "Charge" has a pacey funk bass line in the foreground, but whirring and clicking away in the left field are shards of glitchy percussion and unexpected stops and starts. The B-side has the innovating minds of Rrose & Rich Oddie (one-half of Orphx) providing powerful workouts both for the "heads" and for the floor.
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TOKEN 039EP
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Danish Token representative Ctrls returns with three fierce new tracks. Mechanical rhythms, whip-crack electronic riffs, insistent robot vocals: Ctrls proved to master these sounds very well on his past EPs and he only seems to perfect his skills on this fourth installment. Conventional? Never. Powerful? Always.
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TOKEN 034EP
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After two EPs, one remix, one track licensed to Norman Nodge's Ostgut compilation, support from Blawan, Luke Slater, Marcel Dettmann, Untold, and others, gigs at Fabric, Berghain and other clubs across Europe, Ctrls delivers his third EP on Token. On the A-side he ups the intensity once again with pure, squealing machine-funk in the form of "Modular Framework" and "Displacer." The flip contains two menacing remixes of "Displacer" by Sleeparchive, an inspiration to both Ctrls and Token.
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TOKEN 026EP
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Token's Danish resident returns. Ctrls upgrades his formula but stays close to his very distinct sound: menacing grooves, rattling drums & twitchy synths. Pure machine funk.
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TOKEN 022EP
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Token now presents its third release for 2012, introducing Ctrls from Copenhagen, Denmark. Troels B-Knudsen is an ex-drum & bass head and has earned his producer stripes throughout the years. He slowly made his transition to techno, and last year, he and long-time friend Lasse Buhl formed Northern Structures. His debut for Token is called Interface EP and features three powerful pieces in Ctrls' own style: hard-edged, stripped-down, metallic sounds, detailed drum programming and a mean low-end.
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