Demdike Stare - Erosion of Mediocrity
"Demdike Stare #39;s music is concerned with opposing forces: decay and resurrection, loss and discovery, past and future, beauty and ugliness. It #39;s almost inevitable, given that it #39;s informed by the duo #39;s previous work in two ostensibly opposite musical fields. Miles Whittaker has spent years making grainy and often abrasive techno as MLZ and one half of Pendle Coven, and more recently has been responsible for a series of hybrid dancefloor tracks that unite dubstep #39;s sprawling sense of the urbane with dub-techno #39;s rickety intensity; Sean Canty works for the Finders Keepers label, unearthing ancient and lost recordings and giving them a new lease of life. So while one half of the duo appears defiantly futurist, tapping into a lineage that began with Detroit techno #39;s obsession with dystopian future worlds, the other #39;s work is concerned with tunneling backwards into the past. Their records teem with the sounds of that apparent contraction, but reconcile its two halves into a form that #39;s strikingly coherent." thequietus.comFrom:Alexander WolfeViews:2 0ratingsTime:07:11More inMusic
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