Philippe Petit delivers three hypnotic techno tracks. In addition, he invites Terrence Dixon back on Knotweed so that Terrence can give his own minimalistic interpretation of Stars.
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Aurora Halal – Passageway [MD001]
Passageway is the debut solo EP by Aurora Halal, producer, video artist and creator of Brooklyn’s Mutual Dreaming party series. Four shadowy and intimate dance landscapes of shifting subterranean textures, backed with a hallucinatory remix by Detroit Techno legend Terrence Dixon. Minimal, metallic and pulsing with hazy sensuality, these tracks offer an exciting first glimpse into a unique emotional world.
Population One – Where A Function Of Some Systematically Changing Variables Is Calculated [REDUCTIONFOUR]
Population One serving it up cold and reduced… another totally heavy offering from Terrence Dixon, on his own imprint.
Hipodrome’s 2013 Review (Part 3 of 3)
Here is the third and final part of my 2013 review, featuring my favorite albums released last year. In the first part of the review, the preferences of hipodrome followers are shown, according to the number of click and stars. In the second part, I presented some of my favorite events and performances from last year.
Now here it comes the serious business. Because there are so many good albums and different genders, I took the same approach as in the 2012’s review.
The list is covering all the genders that I like and post on The Hipodrome Of Music, so I came up with no more than 20 gender lists, going from house to techno, disco and funk to electro and new wave …
Here we go.
Terrence Dixon – Badge Of Honor [SFTDXLP001]
Badge of Honor pushing the envelope of techno with quirky, Detroit-infused abstractions that only the masterful Dixon could conjure up. Far removed from his Population One moniker, this is Terrence Dixon’s fourth LP in an illustrious 20-year career. The album hits us with raw, all-encompassing techno cuts alongside some choice left-field experiments (View From A Lighthouse, Radio Room and Light Years), cementing Terrence’s reputation as the free-form producer of choice, not unlike a modern day Sun Ra. From the P-Funk basslines and melodies of Operation Acoustic and Incoming, to the dark, undulating Mills-esque sound of The Atlantic, this is a release that seemingly covers all the bases. Over a year in the making and already doing the rounds with those in the know, Badge of Honor represents techno from a future age, conceptualised to go well beyond the surface…
VA – In The Dark: Detroit Is Back [STILLM3LP011]
The ever-loving team at Still Music present yet another unmissable selection of East side beats, this time shifting focus from Chicago to Detroit to shine the light on some of the less celebrated talents operating in the city. There is boundless quality at every turn here, from the jazzed out tones of Craig Huckaby to the raw chemistry of Marcellus Pittman. Terrence Dixon does an excellent demonstration of wormhole techno with “The Fall Guy (Part 1)”, and DJ 3000 brings a demonic brand of slow-chugging house to the table. Alex Israel also reminds everyone that he truly is one of the most slept-on gems the Motor City has to offer, so get busy and connect with this utterly essential selection.
Population One – Random Variables [REDUCTIONTHREE]
Terrence Dixon turns it up even higher with the third release on his own Reduction label. Chiming, melodic and magnificent abstractions from the depths.
Terrence Dixon @ Boiler Room (NYC) 07.05.2013
Population One – Untitled [MSR007]
New release on Minimal Soul Recordings with 4strong minimal Detroit tracks from Population One aka Terrence Dixon.
Population One – Reducible Expressions [REDUCTIONTWO]
Terrence Dixon aka Population One – Giant Robot [MM011]
After last years spectacular return to our airwaves and the world of techno with the release of the excellent album From the Far Future Pt. 2, the Detroit veteran Terrence Dixon is back with a new release entitled the Giant Robot EP on Monique Musique imprint, while that enigmatic and experimental British producer Actress has been brought in on remix duties.
Terrence Dixon – Lost At Sea [SFTDX001]
Although Michigan is well inland from the North Atlantic Ocean, it doesn’t mean Detroit can’t make techno for the high seas or uncharted waters. Terrence Dixon’s Lost At Sea 12″ for the Surface label founded by Nick Dunton and the late Richard Polson sees four tracks of “Untitled” Detroit techno traverse through a sonic field of Joey Anderson and DJ Qu house drums, while saw-wavey Drexciyan qualities and Jeff Mills techno loops also circulate the EP. A deep and heady 12″ of U-boat rhythmics for the techno underground.
Terrence Dixon – Minimalism Remixes Part. 2 [SINO027]
Native-Detroiter Terrence Dixon‘s longtime alliance with Godfather of Techno Juan Atkins has helped forge his own powerful sound in the world of minimal Techno. Originally released on Claude Young’s Utensil Records in 1995. Both Sino (Hong-Kong) and Thema (New-York) join hands to re-release this classic which many consider as one of the early foundation in the minimal techno movement. Thema presents part.1 featuring remixes by Mike Huckaby, Silent Servant and DVS1 Sino presents part.2 featuring two remixes by Ben Klock and one by Edwin Oosterwal
Population One – The Rewriting Of An Expression Into A Simpler Form [REDUCTIONONE]
New Population One material, on Mr Terrence Dixon’s own label Reduction. Seriously classy, abstract techno, excursions that sound-clips cannot really do justice
Terrence Dixon – Life Events [10050681]
Terrence Dixon – Minimalism Re:Vision [THEMA033]
Thema announce Minimalism Re:Vision, featuring remixes of Terrence Dixon’s groundbreaking Minimalism Part 1 from 1995. Revising it is a tough task to tackle, thus, Thema present three equally reverent mixes by today’s finest techno figures on a full EP, Mike Huckaby, Silent Servant, and DVS1.
Terrence Dixon – From The Far Future Pt.2 [TRESOR256LP]
Twelve years ago Tresor Records released Terrence Dixon’s debut album ‘From The Far Future’ – a personal homage to the art and ancestry of techno, culminating in a discursive and dream-like course through the genre’s many tomes, complete with subtle nods to key protagonists such as Kraftwerk, Derrick May and Juan Atkins. After a string of stylistically rich releases, the Detroit native returns to Tresor Records with ”From The Far Future Pt.2” – an ambitious, scopey and deeply personal sequel. A masterful and extensive techno album that alludes to Dixon’s Detroit heritage and affinities, deploying recognizable tropes of techno past, spun into a unique and inherently modern Dixon vernacular.
Terrence Dixon – Escape [KW008]
Debut release on the french Knotweed imprint from this pioneer in Detroit Techno, Terrence Dixon. “Beat” powers itself from a prominent set of hats and cymbals while intricate layers of jazzy melodies interlope in an atonal fashion lowed down in the mix in true pile-driving fashion. “Escape” is a creepier affair, holding back on the percussion and letting intriguing keys clash in a measured way that breeds new scales for that quintessential Dixon otherworldliness. “Another Space” is yet more stripped back and haunting, focusing on lavish pads and the space they have to roam free.
Terrence Dixon – Untitled 1,2,5 [SUB009]
Subspec presents Terrence Dixon’s latest EP ‘Untitled 1,2,5′ featuring three all new tracks in the inimitable style you’d expect from Detroit’s Master of Repetition, which call back to his Utensil releases and Minimalism series. All three tracks delve deep into minimal spaces that he has developed since his early 90′s beginnings. Progression through repetition and close attention to nuance and detail underpin Untitled 1,2,5.
Population One – Midnight Hours / Two Sides To Every Story [X-DSR003]
Terrence Dixon is the man behind sporadic production alias Population One, serving up dark and heavy, intense and ravey records. Delsin’s re-issue arm has sought to get some of the old tracks out there once again on this double a side 10″ outing with ‘Midnight Hours’ and ‘Two Sides To Every Story’. ‘Midnight Hours’ bangs hard and fast with an unhinged melody line squirming about like an untethered hose. Every surface is frayed and rusted, frosty and splintered making this some of the most primeval warehouse techno you will likely have heard for a while. ‘Two Sides To Every Story’ is just as tough and unruly, with myriad synthesized sounds rushing about in side a framework of incessant hi hats and solid kicks like a bee trapped in a bottle. A controlled frenzy, you might say, but certainly the sort of abrasive and arresting techno that works perfectly in the darkest of basements.
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