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01. MARTIN BUTTRICH - Tripping In The 16th
02. MARTIN BUTTRICH - Back It Up
03. MARTIN BUTTRICH - I'm Going There One Day
04. MARTIN BUTTRICH - Hoochie Mama
05. MARTIN BUTTRICH - Enough Love To Hate It
06. MARTIN BUTTRICH - Song Six
07. MARTIN BUTTRICH - Blackouts Non-Stop
08. MARTIN BUTTRICH - You Must Be This High
09. MARTIN BUTTRICH - Everyone Else Is Already Taken
10. MARTIN BUTTRICH - Stop Motion
11. MARTIN BUTTRICH - You Got That Vibe
ARTIST
TITLE
Crash Test
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
DESOLAT 002CD DESOLAT 002CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/13/2010

This is the first full-length album on Desolat by renowned German composer and producer Martin Buttrich. Whether listened to while driving on the highway or on a massive speaker stack at next summer's festivals, one thing is for sure: Crash Test will splinter preconceptions. The album is a compilation of tracks, picked from among many works the artist has created over the last 15 months at his Hannover studio and various spaces and places worldwide. Each song pays testament to this Grammy-nominated artist's fluid approach to music composition -- an ability to converse with machines, and dive deep into the circuitry of a song. Buttrich has spent recent years developing a sound that appeals to both sides of the brain: having dropped records on labels such as Planet E, Four:Twenty, Cocoon, Poker Flat and Desolat that encompass the entire spectrum between dreaminess, intuition, warmth, melancholy, and highly-calibrated dancefloor precision. Meanwhile, his catalog stretches round some of the most influential dance tracks heard around the globe since 1992. Crash Test is a long-player, a four-to-the-floor album that can be listened to from start to finish; an organic sequence of shifting moods to sublimate existing minimal house or techno paradigms. The album is shaded with bass weight: a reflective, meandering interpretation of the grooves that have always inspired Buttrich: echoes of hip-hop, jazz, reggae and soul. Emotive tangents hover, punctuated with found sounds and textures recorded in public spaces. This album is intended as an expression of a certain time and space: a collection of tracks that could only have been woven together at this turbulent point in history. The album contains more acoustic and analog instruments than Martin Buttrich usually uses, and attempts to bridge a gap between imagined and audible worlds. A bridge from the cozy confines of a studio to the outer spaces, in which each tune is re-contextualized.