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LI 009EP
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After their first full-length collaboration called Superstructure, Berlin-based Christopher Dell and Roman Flügel (Alter Ego, Eight Miles High) release Study For A Skyscraper EP, featuring two Superstructure CD cuts not included on the vinyl version. Clearly designed for the club, the bright bumping techno of "4 Door Body Cell" and the infectiously grooving title track are exquisite dance floor material. Best of all, A Guy Called Gerald (Gerald Simpson) contributes what he calls a "drop-tech infusion" of Dell & Flügel's entire album. This UK acid house pioneer alchemizes the album's sonic particles into a fabulous slab of driving electro-techno.
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LI 008LP
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LP version. This is the premiere collaboration between Christopher Dell and Roman Flügel (Alter Ego, Eight Miles High). Brace yourself for Superstructure, an incredible poly-stylistic fusion of jazz, hip-hop, glitch, dub and techno. Flanger devotees will be drawn to the pair's like-minded genre-defying approach, with Dell's sparkling vibes a recurring focal point throughout the album's nine adventurous tracks.
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This is the premiere collaboration between Christopher Dell and Roman Flügel (Alter Ego, Eight Miles High). Brace yourself for Superstructure, an incredible poly-stylistic fusion of jazz, hip-hop, glitch, dub and techno. Flanger devotees will be drawn to the pair's like-minded genre-defying approach, with Dell's sparkling vibes a recurring focal point throughout the album's nine adventurous tracks. The wild, vibes-drums duet "Miniaturisation" suggests the playful outcome of a lost Frank Zappa-meets-Thelonious Monk session, the mysterious "Wolkenbügel" marries clip-clopping tom-tom rhythms with Hancock-flavoured Rhodes ruminations, and "4 Door Body Cell" offers bright minimal techno bolstered by lashing handclaps and frenzied cymbal patterns. Distinguished by a rich array of soft gamelan tinklings and burnished trumpet musings, the jazz-tinged stuttering hip-hop of "Urban Practise" is equally arresting, with Dell's cascading vibes detouring into an oblique solo that would do Monk proud. Bookended by the glitchy soul-jazz and clipped syncopations of the warm opener "Superstructure" and the darker, hypnotic glitch-dub of "Dirty Realism," this remarkably assured album inhabits a unique computer-enhanced interzone of futuristic sounds.
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