Info Label: Ai Records Rel. date: 14th Apr 08 Cat No: AI021CD Reviewer: Sebastian Napora Reviewed: 16th Mar 08 Format: CD Rating: Tracklisting Vapour Trails Worms Minus Fourteen Running Away Pluck Remains Fallblattanzeige Box Damage Report Melting Faces Player

The times when electro house, electroclash and electropop were at the top of their popularity are fortunately gone now, but the etiquette "electro" may still call up backhanded associations. Let's then go back to the roots of this genre. Classical electro is a breakbeat styled paraphrase of hip hop composed using drum machines and the robotic sounds generated through analogue synthesis.

Datassette is a continuer of the movement started by the German band Kraftwerk in the 70's which was followed by artists like Anthony Rother, who became one of my favourites in the previous decade. Datassette's debut album perfectly conveys the atmosphere of then composed electro records, but he's also managed to intersperse the music with elements of contemporary pieces of minimal and breakbeat. Deeply compounded drum patterns in combination with the once majestic, other times frolic, dancey themes hit the heart of my musical relish. Out of the 10 amazing compositions, I'd like to point out the baroque-esque 'Pluck', superior and hymnic "Remains" and the pleasing and frolic 'Minus Fourteen'.

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