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Dieb: Modules Ep

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Artist: Dieb (@)
Title: Modules Ep
Format: 12"
Label: False Industries
Distributor: What People Play/PIAS (http://test.differentrecordings.com/en)
Rated: * * * * *
The release number 1 (generally standing as a sort of framed definition of stylistical boundaries and possible directions... call it "concept" if you prefer!) of the new born (sex undefined) baby label from Tel Aviv, False Records, has been signed by the 31 yrs old sound-morpher Til Kerlin aka Dieb, whose production skills borrowed to visual art (he collaborated mainly with esteemed visual performers such as Tomi Paasonen and Tom Neubauer) and some vinyl releases on the Italian label Citymorb – ... and he gained a certain respect in the ultra-indipendent electronic scene through them even if almost uknown... - seem to have been refined further one so that you could appreciate on this ep everything but a playset on Traktor. There are just two "Modules", the first one (numbered 0) is a deep techno movement (very close to ambient), reminding to us a sort of dance-ization of a record by Origami Galaktica remixed by Robert Hood or Akufen (!), rich in subtones, diving basslines, reverbs having a different rate of viscosity with the percussive set so as you could easily compare sounds and rhythm acting like the liquids inside the glass missile-shaped capsule of a Lava Lamp!!! The second Module (numbered 4) hold more tickling and foggy sounds, silently swarming on a 4/4 (with irregular accents disappearing just by the end of the track... ) gummy basslines... it sounds almost scary, but really atmospheric as well. This 001 release is spiced by the presence of two remixes as well: one by the Israeli producer Yair Etziony – drawing a sort of electronic shadowy dub mixing clinging and liquid sounds with a peaceful set of "muted" drones and slow sordid drums – and one by the renowned Uk electronic musician Tim Martin aka Maps & Diagrams, which obtained a rainy and luminous aggregate of ambience frequencies disassembling Module 4, something you could appreciate after a fatiguing work day. There’s some abstract tones reminding to us the era of Staedtzisism (you’ll better understand what I’m speaking about if you remember some releases issued in the beginning of the century by labels such as ~scape... ), but this first release is a good way to start a pot-purri of brand new musical scents... Enjoy it!

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