Published: August 31st, 2008
After numerous 12’s on his own imprint Soloaction, as well as Styrax Leaves and Delsin, Ostgut Ton proudly presents Shed’s debut album. And, for the first time ever, Shed is playing live and will support ‘Shedding The Past‘ on tour across europe.
This latest release stands as another stunning example of both Ostgut Ton’s exquisite taste and Shed’s irresistibly intense techno productions. Straying from the stripped down repetition of label mates Dettmann and Fengler, ‘Shedding the Past’ is the culmination of years spent running his own Soloaction imprint and refining his own immersive and inimitable sound.
There is an element of fate to Shed’s success that befits his laid back character. This easiness appears, to those who know him, to be a natural inner trait with East German born, raised and socialised Shed. Both his musical and social career seem profoundly alive with this inner easiness, that finally and logically caught techno institutions’ Berghain and Hard Wax records ears. As with others of his background, Shed took the opportunities of the early nineties techno culture that unfolded after the Wall went down and developed an approach of ‘just doing it’ or DIY. With this easiness in mind ‘Shedding The Past’ is just ‘true techno music’.
Ingredients? Think of a spatter of Saunderson’s Detroit sound, a pinch of Aphex Twin rave and a twist of Manix hardcore – but that doesn’t really seem to be the point. Rather the ‘Archive Document’ is the key - portraying a time capsule recording from the future that reminisces about the period following this records release. The voice announces the intention, emotional feeling and deference to the past without exisiting within it. Shed’s ‘True Techno Music’ is ever evolving, moulding both the best of moments past and the energy of the present, into the shape of things to come.
Release dates: 1.9.08 (physical) | 15.9.08 (digital)
Tracklisting CD:
1. Intro
2. Boose Sweep
3. Another Wedged Chicken
4. Flat Axe
5. The Lower Upside Down
6. Slow Motion Replay
7. Waved Mind/Archived Document
8. That Beats Everything!
9. ITHAW
10. Estrangé
11. Ostrich-Mountain-Square
Tracklisting 2x12’:
A1 Sweep Dreams (Vinyl Exclusive)
B1 ITHAW
B2 That Beats Everything! (Vinyl Version)
C1 The Lower Upside Down
C2 Another Wedged Chicken
D1 Flat Axe (Vinyl Version)
D2 Estrangé
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