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Altstadt Echo Miracles and Dust SEMANTICA109
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Support the label, buy it here: • https://semanticarecords.bandcamp.com... • Artist: Altstadt Echo • Title: This Work Contains Lead • Label: Semantica Records • Catalogue: SEMANTICA 109 • Format: Digital • Genre: Electronic • Style: Techno • Release date: May 24, 2019 • Tracklist: • 1. Miracles and Dust • 2. Nothing Can Happen • 3. An Early Death • 4. Watch a Moth Drink Tears • 5. Buried in Ash • 6. Unbearably Radiant • 7. And Then I Want It To Be Over • 8. We Feel Like Rust • 9. Concrete Turns to Gold • This Work Contains Lead is the debut album by Altstadt Echo, a techno and ambient artist whose career began in Detroit and has lead him to Berlin. It will be released on the Semantica label in May 2019. • As a concept album, the atmospheres and melodic elements used are entirely constructed from a single 16th-century choral acapella recording. While this is sometimes explicit (as in An Early Death ), other times the recording is entirely transfigured by effects and meticulous processing. The selection of this sound source reflects an ongoing theme in Altstadt Echo’s work: a tension between feelings of reverence manifested by religious art and his own gradual abandonment of spiritual belief following a religious upbringing. The album's title, This Work Contains Lead, is taken from a warning text at the bottom of an art museum description plaque. It’s a reflection of Altstadt Echo’s beliefs about religion and the art that arises from it—while both can be powerful to observe, they can ultimately be toxic to come into contact with. • Individual tracks explore the nuances of this theme. Starting with Miracles and Dust and Nothing Can Happen, the artist sets the pace of the album by combining driving techno percussion with lamenting atmospheres, creating tension through contrasting traditionally beautiful harmonies with dissonant elements. An interlude is then created by An Early Death, a short piece that plays with how the core elements of the album's construction (choral recording and brief noise samples) can establish a sense of space. Temporarily leaving behind techno, Watch a Moth Drink Tears begins with with colossal broken-beat drums that are gradually usurped by a calm yet unsettling central melody. It is given geographic context by a field recording (made by the artist on Cass Avenue in Detroit) that continues in the next track, Buried in Ash. This track returns to a more upbeat techno format, given weight by a somber melodic centerpoint. As a second vignette within the album, Unbearably Radiant combines explosive percussion with urgent choral drones, foreshadowing the album's conclusion. In the next two tracks, And Then I Want It To Be Over and We Feel Like Rust, a somewhat bleak or hopeless mood is shaped by decaying atmospheres and broken percussive patterns. The work then concludes with Concrete Turns to Gold, an anthemic, high-energy techno track that builds into scintillating, cathartic choral reverberations. • The album art features photography by the artist, taken in midtown Detroit during the winter of 2014. • The release coincides with the fifth annual Detroit afterparty organized by Altstadt Echo and collaborators. Held at the Tangent Gallery (the now legendary venue that hosts both No Way Back and label events for Tresor and The Bunker), the Eden afterparty series has grown from a concert-style live show experience into a multi-room, cathedral-themed kick-off for the biggest weekend in Detroit techno. • All tracks written produced by Altstadt Echo. • Mastered by Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering, Berlin. • Cat. No. SEMANTICA109 – all rights reserved. • ℗ © Semantica 2019 • www.semanticarecords.com • Follow Altstadt Echo here: • / altstadt-echo • / altstadtecho • / altstadtecho • / altstadtecho • https://www.discogs.com/artist/432687... • https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/al... • ___ • DISCLAIMER: All tracks are uploaded in a low quality for promotional purposes only and with buy links to respect label and artists. • / hatecollective • or via email: [email protected] • Follow us on SOUNDCLOUD for exclusive podcast series: • / hate_music • Follow us on INSTAGRAM for releases previews and news: • / hate_collective
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