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TRESOR 316LP
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Throughout his career, Roger Semsroth has followed a deep intuition for experimentation in sound, wrapping club music around eerie microtonal motifs and industrial sensibilities. This new work for Tresor takes a step forward, as the first true techno album from Sleeparchive, where his previous LPs have exhibited themselves more conceptually, or under different names and his Nord Vest label. Semsroth has been active in electronic music since the late '90s. He received initial attention first for his electro productions under the alias Skanfrom and the '80s minimal synth inspired Television Set. These projects echoed his love for these sounds, which the East Berliner had steadily immersed himself with after the end of the GDR. Upon hearing the bleeps of Mika Vainio and Plastikman, he began to engage with his strain of techno. Over the last decade, he has focused on his Sleeparchive alias, which dates back to 2004. Alongside close friend DJ Pete, he performs live techno as TR-101. His relationship with Tresor began in 2011, first releasing the Ronan Point EP (TRESOR 243EP) and following up with the crucial A Man Dies In The Street series in 2013 (TRESOR 260EP, TRESOR 264EP). With this new album, Sleeparchive's impact on the techno sound is ever more relevant. Awaking in constant locomotion, locked-in, unrelenting, and dry. Sleeparchive's churning loops etch visions of tight minimalism at times densely frenetic and others serenely galactic. This predilection continues throughout the four sides on the album, eschewing conventional arrangement styles with gradual probabilistic change. Tracks such as "Needle" and "Peccant" offer up precise, sinewy techno. "Leave" recalls the Detroit sound of Terrence Dixon, with its cascading synth tones and droning atmospheres. The album closes with a different version of "Trust" to that found on 2019's Revised Recordings EP released on Tresor (TRESOR 309EP), with its now-familiar nerve-inducing pizzicato strings even more at the fore with its mechanic delivery. 180 gram vinyl; includes download code.
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TRESOR 309EP
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Six years have passed since Sleeparchive, aka Roger Semsroth, produced the phenomenal A Man Dies In The Street EP series for Tresor (2013). Semsroth then went on to produce under this and other aliases (Nordvest, Civil Defence Programme) on his own eponymous imprint. With the Revised Recordings EP, Sleeparchive continues to research and master the dense constructed rhythmic textures that have become his signature sound. The three titles are magistral demonstration of Semsroth's high-hand at designing such labyrinthine structures, ever so strongly rooted in an exalted past, yet always thrusting forward. Includes six tightly locked grooves cut on the A-side.
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TRESOR 264EP
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The second installment of a two-part EP for Tresor. Taking its title from one of Brassaï's famous sequence of prints, A Man Dies in the Street Part 2 presents the second round of the eight-track project developed by Sleeparchive (along with three secret locked grooves). As ever, the genius is in the reductive palette, that here Semsroth paints into a rich splay of emotions, mimicking the initial anxious discovery of the body, the curiosity of the gathering crowd, building anticipation through to an aggressive and pummeling sense of realization on the close. But is it at the loss of life, or the loss of spectacle? As Brassaï toys with ambiguity in his photographs, Sleeparchive's music is just as hazy, deep and full of shady nuances.
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TRESOR 260EP
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Sleeparchive, the master of haunting, compelling minimalism, presents the first installment of a two-part EP for Tresor. Taking its title from one of Brassaï's famous sequence of prints, A Man Dies in the Street Part 1 translates the eight snapshots of a man collapsing on a Parisian sidewalk (captured by Brassaï in 1932) into a chilling storyboard of subtle fluctuations, ebbs and monochrome tones. As Brassaï toys with ambiguity in his photographs, Sleeparchive's music is just as hazy, deep and full of shady nuances.
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TRESOR 243EP
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At the urging of Jeff Mills, the Tresor label has added Sleeparchive to their esteemed roster. "The tracks on Ronan Point developed from parts and loops I had created for my live set and always wanted to make tracks from." Sleeparchive's live sets have graced the dancefloors and sound systems of Berghain, Arena Club and Bloc Weekend, so it's fair to say that these 4 tracks were not just tried and tested, but actually born on the dancefloor.
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