Captagon

Tresor Records welcomes Rod Modell to it's catalog with the release of his new album Captagon. Rod Modell needs no introduction, his various projects render him a master of techno. In repetition and barely noticeable change, Modell re-sculptures perceptions. His sound-design echoes cinematic ethereality, where ferric artifacts slam against percussion, rusty delays filter observation - the resulting web is a complex, radiating ambience that etches a natural ebb-and-flow. Transformative sounds alight from the outset, quot;Triangulationquot; recalls flickering harmonies and grains, a tectonic swipe. Fast-paced dub techno emerges in quot;Reikiquot;, the disorienting clangs suggesting a step away from his recent ambient excursions. quot;Itoquot; crunches the pulse further with insistent noise, into soaring epiphanies of darkened transmissions. Modell singularly uproots standard sonic hierarchies of techno production, crisp static as forceful as his beats, a provocation of rhythm and noise. Unceasing in it's fast tempo, quot;Jadequot; is trademark Tresor business - the seismic sub-sonics underpin a momentous drive, with reverberated vocal inflections disfiguring warped, dancing materials. quot;Scrawlerquot; is upfront and direct, a slamming groove and swaying chords di using ethereality. Enter vast chambers of smeared minimalism. Where Modell's recent releases had indicated a priority for ambient sounds, this new album extends Modell's essential vision within techno. Closing track quot;Air-Portquot; shows Modell at his most crucial best - an ethereal colossus of sub-bass weight and morphing geometry. CD version includes three bonus tracks; includes DAL remix.

Captagon