Colliding Contours, by Driftmachine

Colliding Contours

by Driftmachine

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Tolujin Deep, ever-shifting, mesmerising electronic dub. This is the music I wanted to hear when I first explored Monolake 15 years ago. I'll be playing this for a long time to come. Favorite track: Lost Travelers.

BLAKDOT25 Driftmachine without any doubt is making a solid statement by creating unique modular synthesis. Umor Rex Records delivers another gem for our listening pleasure. Favorite track: Dogov Godov.

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1.	Radiations 05:28	buy track
2.	Sans Soleil 05:09	buy track
3.	Observant Sirens 05:49	buy track
4.	Gaukelwerk 05:14	buy track
5.	Dogov Godov 07:39	buy track
6.	Lost Travelers 07:01	buy track
7.	Ambler 06:34	buy track
8.	Nunc Stans 02:36	buy track

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Berlin-based duo Driftmachine returns with another striking piece of music. “Colliding Contours” is a shape-shifting album made from kosmische, dub, Industrial and Avant-garde elements. It’s all held together by tense grooves and a post-club, eerie electronic atmosphere.

The latest work of Driftmachine offers a complex dialogue between genres and music styles, transcending the familiar by generating a peculiar mood through its unique take on modular synthesis and its obsessive bass-structures and detailed rhythmic patterns. Within the haunted electronic spaces of “Colliding Contours” one can find a geometry made of dub, jazz and industrial techno lines, intersecting at ominous intervals; an unsettling companion for a late night trip or a tangled state of mind.

The album opens with “Radiations”, a crawling piece with a slow rebound of electronic shocks fractioning into echoes and reverberations which could be heard as an initial dialogue between operator and machine (an idea Driftmachine formerly explored in their “Eis Heauton” EP). “Sans Soleil”, the second cut, introduces the perpetual motion sound sculptures that will be prevalent throughout the rest of the album. Terminal velocity is achieved as they hit the mark inside “Observant Sirens”, where the hard shapes drawn between the ‘riddim’ and the bass reveal the signature style of Driftmachine (formulated in their debut LP “Nocturnes”). Going up and down, with longer suites of meticulous, systematic assembly and darker dub patterns, we reach “Gaukelwerk” diving deep into cosmic space, followed by “Dogov Godov“ and its heavy post – industrial steps which are contrasted by ethereal layers of analog oscillation. With “Colliding Contours” Driftmachine, the duo comprised of Andreas Gerth (Tied & Tickled Trio) and Florian Zimmer (Saroos), have built an exhilarating new vehicle to deliver their vision. Go deep into the elegant menace of their sound through the unpredictability of modular synthesis.

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released May 6, 2016

All songs produced by Andreas Gerth & Florian Zimmer, Berlin 2015
Josef Linschinger: keyboard on Radiatons
Mastered by John Tejada
Artwork by Daniel Castrejon

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Driftmachine Berlin, Germany

Modular synth duo Driftmachine started as workshop where Andreas Gerth and Florian Zimmer, producers of an extensive back-catalog of records and projects, focused on synth exploration and searched for a new approach for groove and bass-driven music.

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