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Various Artists - Delta Sampler

ARTIST: Various Artists
ALBUM: Delta Sampler

LABEL: Stroboscopic Artefacts
CAT#: SADIG004
BARCODE: 4025858549842

GENRE: Dance/Electronic
RELEASE: 2010-11-11

DESCRIPTION:
A sample is a small part of the whole, selected because it's a premier example of its class. Stroboscopic Artefacts' sampler series returns with the Delta Sampler, four tracks that traverse electronic music possibilities from straight up techno to oblique drone. Opener "LX1" sees Lucy and Xhin teaming up for the first collaboration between two SA core artists. Dark, slightly brooding, the meeting of their minds is mapped out with incisive kicks, knotty dub and hi hat sizzles. It's the start of a collaboration that's going to be worth following. Fresh from his SA006 12" release, Jonas Kopp takes the vinyl's mood and adds menace. "M33" is a 4/4 structure filled with discontent, the track strains with aqueous grumbles and tense peak time techno emerges. Inigo Kennedy and Isodyne's "Lagrange Point " borrows its structure from the observations of physics. Scientifically speaking the "Lagrange Point" is where celestial bodies appear to be stationary despite constantly moving. Their "Lagrange Point" is a baseline that fluxes between a background of reverberating pads and a foreground of slithering chords, but somehow remains constant. From here the sampler closes with "Inside The Shadows", Forward Strategy Group's malevolent slice of drone. The complex sequence of loops builds a reflective atmosphere that revels in the hidden, the hinted at, the latent. It's the perfect soundtrack for an ecstatic afterhours experience.

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