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CLR 092EP
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In 2013 Drumcell debut his first full length album Sleep Complex on CLR (CLR 013CD/LP). Around the time of the album release Drumcell invited three of his close label mates Luis Flores aka Truncate and Raíz from Droid and Lucy from Stroboscopic Artefacts to create their own interpretations of his music. The unreleased tracks were constant dance floor tracks used within the teams DJ sets and it's about time to release these tracks to the public.
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CLR 085EP
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Drumcell has put together an excellent package of three heavyweight remixes of "Departing Comfort," a track from his acclaimed 2013 debut full-length Sleep Complex (CLR 013CD/LP). Planetary Assault Systems' remix is elegantly driving, straightforward, deep techno. Orphx's remix remains faithful to the broken-beat structure of the original and creates a suspenseful atmosphere with distorted rhythms and acidic sequences. Material Object's remix is characterized by a big, hypnotic bassline, slowly building with a variety of well-chosen rhythmic elements and textures.
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CLR 074EP
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Good news for exigent techno lovers, here comes another deep and mesmerizing release by the Californian techno ambassador Drumcell, with remixes by three highly-inspired co-conspirators. The slow and haunting beat, the hypnotizing poetry of the vocals, the incredibly well-defined bass and the dark, enthralling atmosphere characterize the work of this restless sound designer and make it clearly irresistible. Remixes by Slumberman, Brian Sanhaji and Francesco Tristano.
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CLR 069EP
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This EP features three remixes of the first single "Disturbance" from Drumcell's debut album Sleep Complex. A couple of them by Pfirter, which have already become two of Chris Liebing's undisputed summer anthems and a third one by Tommy Four Seven, which once more shows his outstanding production skills as well as his love for unusual rhythms and deep, haunting atmospheres. Drumcell is one of the most intriguing and unconventional characters in the North American techno scene and his noise, punk, and industrial roots can still be heard in everything he is doing. His total disregard for genre-limitations manifests in a clearly unique mixture of mind-bending, suspenseful and hypnotic techno.
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CLR 013LP
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3LP version. The debut album from Drumcell is an emotionally-profound, open-minded approach to current techno with a variety of influences and a complete disregard for any limitations musical genres could possibly represent. Drumcell was still just young Moe Espinosa, a local East L.A. kid who was heavily into listening and playing rock and industrial music, when he coincidentally found some of the heroic synthesizers of the first hour of techno in the closet of a recording studio where he had been hired for a job. From this very minute on, things just gelled. If you imagine a technology geek/science-fiction-movies-loving teenage-outsider with a yearning, punk rock soul, together with a TR-909, a TR-808, and a TB-303 in the back room of an old Latin house label in Hollywood, then you are pretty much imagining the humble beginnings of the man who started calling himself Drumcell around the year 2000 and who has dedicated his life to the search and creation of mind-expanding, glorious sounds. His first vinyl record was hand-pressed and hand-wrapped in an L.A. garage, and when he handed out some copies of it on the following Detroit Electronic Music Festival, it was played on various festival stages the very next day. This immediate enthusiasm gave him enough power and endurance to go all the way and follow his dream uncompromisingly. On the one hand, Sleep Complex pays respect to the root-element of techno, the raw, dirty and hypnotic vibe that goes back to early Detroit techno; on the other hand, it almost has some kind of a rock attitude, especially when it comes to the beats, making it stylistically independent and impossible to pigeon-hole. It also makes very little sense to talk separately about individual tracks on the album, as each single piece of music is a sophisticated, complex sonic landscape, which is interconnected with the others and ultimately forms part of a bigger entity. As it was meant to be a bass-heavy record, and he thought that no one could treat a bass like Chris Liebing, his dear Frankfurt-based friend eventually had the great pleasure to do the final mixes, giving the tracks a beautifully-shaped bass sound and incredible presence and clarity. The album is an experimentation with analog modular synthesizers and a variety of digital tools. By working within the limitations of an individual instrument, it inspired each single song to have its own unique feeling or sound.
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CLR 013CD
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The debut album from Drumcell is an emotionally-profound, open-minded approach to current techno with a variety of influences and a complete disregard for any limitations musical genres could possibly represent. A few basic facts about the life of this dedicated techno activist will help you understand the absorbing atmosphere of this exceptional record even better. To cut a long story short, Drumcell was still just young Moe Espinosa, a local East L.A. kid who was heavily into listening and playing rock and industrial music, when he coincidentally found some of the heroic synthesizers of the first hour of techno in the closet of a recording studio where he had been hired for a job. From this very minute on, things just gelled. If you imagine a technology geek/science-fiction-movies-loving teenage-outsider with a yearning, punk rock soul, together with a TR-909, a TR-808, and a TB-303 in the back room of an old Latin house label in Hollywood, then you are pretty much imagining the humble beginnings of the man who started calling himself Drumcell around the year 2000 and who has dedicated his life to the search and creation of mind-expanding, glorious sounds. His first vinyl record was hand-pressed and hand-wrapped in an L.A. garage, and when he handed out some copies of it on the following Detroit Electronic Music Festival, it was played on various festival stages the very next day. This immediate enthusiasm gave him enough power and endurance to go all the way and follow his dream uncompromisingly. On the one hand, Sleep Complex pays respect to the root-element of techno, the raw, dirty and hypnotic vibe that goes back to early Detroit techno; on the other hand, it almost has some kind of a rock attitude, especially when it comes to the beats, making it stylistically independent and impossible to pigeon-hole. It also makes very little sense to talk separately about individual tracks on the album, as each single piece of music is a sophisticated, complex sonic landscape, which is interconnected with the others and ultimately forms part of a bigger entity. As it was meant to be a bass-heavy record, and he thought that no one could treat a bass like Chris Liebing, his dear Frankfurt-based friend eventually had the great pleasure to do the final mixes, giving the tracks a beautifully-shaped bass sound and incredible presence and clarity. The album is an experimentation with analog modular synthesizers and a variety of digital tools. By working within the limitations of an individual instrument, it inspired each single song to have its own unique feeling or sound.
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