A sample is a small part of the whole, selected because it’s a premier example of its class. The Gamma Sampler sees Stroboscopic Artefacts collect together four cuts that take you from the dance floor right into the ether. It starts resolutely from the dance floor, as Dino Sabatini and Gianluca Meloni under their Modern Heads moniker open with the brilliantly constructed “1969”. The track forms a perfect arc. It begins with pared-down bass, opens out as melody surfaces from deep below, stretches upwards as synth patterns bubble into being, before the other side of the curve elegantly returns to the origin. Despite such attention to detail, “1969” refuses to be dainty and remains utterly raw techno. The second track “Fade” comes from New York’s Donor. Full of offkilter, swung bass lines, its distinctly strange sound seems to harbor more than a drop of contempt. There’s a definite dub influence and sticky, molasses sub sounds lend a deep, deep undercarriage. “Abstract Souls”, the collaboration between Claudio Mate and Roberto Bosco, unleash Abstract Subway full of swishing, swooping patterns. As if sampling, the act of perception itself, is blurred, charcoaled black but flecked with color. The result is a sooty and club-ready serum. The sampler is closed by Claudio PRC’s “Aphelion” which seems to transpose the sound of a planet when its orbit has curled far from the sun. The sounds are icily elliptical and somehow impossibly celestial. “Aphelion” is stunning IDM and concludes the sampler with the definite need to pause for thought.
Artist: Modern Heads, Donor, Abstract Souls, Claudio PRC
Title: Gamma Sampler
Label: Stroboscopic Artefacts
Released: 22.04.2010
Tracks:
01. Modern Heads – 1969 (Original Mix)
02. Donor – Fade (Original Mix)
03. Abstract Souls – Abstract Subway (Original Mix)
04. Claudio PRC – Aphelion (Original Mix)
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