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KK 047EP
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12" vinyl version, including exclusive tracks not available on the CD format. Going on from this solid foundation, Le Rok rather casually collects the elements from which the tracks are put together like mosaics. This results in a specifically relaxed setting (not necessarily slow or quiet) while lots of little things cling themselves tightly around the spine that is the basic song. This method only works when the necessary time is taken for those small pieces to grow together into a whole. In the end, everything is one unit comprising all the elements from the initial song to the final beat. Although the tracks take shape as a construction of digital bits and cuts, the songs never lose themselves inside the technical devices from which they derive. In between all the tight textures remains a slight sense of melancholy. All the while the beats may stay up front, but do not consume.
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This is the second full-length release by Christoph Döhne, aka Le Rok. His debut, Hausarbeiten, was a choice collection of home-recorded tracks which may have been produced in the course of six long years, but put together, resulted in an album with varied themes and a close stylistic connection between tracks. Le Rok and his songs need and take their time. Now, three years later, enough new tracks have coalesced to come to life as Approx Twelve. Every single track on the new album has an individual history, starting out with the idea for a song in the classical sense of the word. Going on from this solid foundation, Le Rok rather casually collects the elements from which the tracks are put together like mosaics. This results in a specifically relaxed setting (not necessarily slow or quiet) while lots of little things cling themselves tightly around the spine that is the basic song. This method only works when the necessary time is taken for those small pieces to grow together into a whole. In the end, everything is one unit comprising all the elements from the initial song to the final beat. Although the tracks take shape as a construction of digital bits and cuts, the songs never lose themselves inside the technical devices from which they derive. In between all the tight textures remains a slight sense of melancholy. All the while the beats may stay up front, but do not consume. Döhne hails from Hanover in northern Germany, and perhaps this non-urban setting is the reason for his relaxation.
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"Le Rok is from Hanover, is in his everyday life called Christoph Döhne, and Hausarbeiten is his musical debut. It is not easy to put a definite name to his music, as the twelve tracks on his album are all rather different. Sometimes minimal, then again pop-like, sometimes even with a trace of rock; sometimes gloomy, then again cheerful; twice with vocals and otherwise without. There is one thing all tracks have in common though: the beat is always prominent. This quality provides the album with continuity, forms a bracket to include its diverse parts and turns it into a unified whole. With this compilation of tracks created between 1997 and today, Le Rok demonstrates how playful and cheerful music can sound. And this may be the reason why he has found his home on Karaoke Kalk, which has never been about the pursuit of one particular idea of music but about presenting music in its diversity and confusion."
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KK 027LP
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