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- Date Released: September 30, 2002
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Techno
- Label: Kompakt
Techno with texture.
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Thomas Fehlmann boasts a career that's as wide as it is deep. A member of '80s post-punks Palais Schamburg, the Swiss musician helped inaugurate European techno (and introduce Detroit techno to Germany) with the Teutonic Beats label, which he founded in 1988, and over the years he's worked alongside a who's-who of electronic music: among them, Moritz Von Oswald, Juan Atkins, the Orb, Sun Electric and Gudrun Gut, with whom he runs the weekly radio show Ocean Club.
His first album for Kompakt, 2002's Visions of Blah, is a perfect marriage of the label's sound and Fehlmann's singular style, kitting out its polychromatic chug with the artist's unique flair for texture. Employing carbonated synthesizers and diamond-crusted beats, Fehlmann achieves a pneumatic sense of bounce with dub-influenced chord progressions that favor attention to detail — porous, gritty, feathered — over elaborate song-form. "Rainbow Over Stadtautobahn," the album's most colorfuly named track, is also its greyest, with rickety rhythms evoking the back-and-forth clatter of a sun-bleached rocking horse. Cuts like the title track, meanwhile, are all about the woozy, beer-hall bounce of Schaffel, all frozen glassware and creamy foam. -
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| 01. |  |
Streets Of Blah |
5:09 |  |
| 02. | |
Superbock |
6:11 | |
| 03. | |
Rotenfaden |
5:46 | |
| 04. | |
Du Fehlst Mir |
5:28 | |
| 05. | |
Rainbow Over Stadtautobahn |
5:01 | |
| 06. | |
Making It Whistle |
5:56 | |
| 07. | |
Seerosengiessen |
4:27 | |
| 08. | |
Gratis |
6:18 | |
| 09. | |
Decke |
5:34 | |
| 10. | |
Luftikus |
6:05 | |
| 11. | |
Boheme Rouge |
4:21 | |
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