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FIELD 034LP
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Twenty-three years on from its original release, the debut album of American artist Mike Parker stands proud as a blueprint for deep, hypnotic techno in the new millennium. Originally published as a CD-only edition on Parker's own Geophone label, Field Records are now giving Dispatches the full vinyl release it so richly deserves -- spread across six sides and reproducing Parker's distinctive artwork at scale. Charting the course of Parker's career reads like the evolution of deep techno itself -- moving from early collaborations with Donato Dozzy to appearances on seminal labels such as Prologue, Semantica and Spazio Disponibile. The essence of his approach was forged early on, honing techno's propulsion into a raw essence without losing any of the weight. It's an exercise in minimalism, but the sound is still monolithic and engulfing, crystal clear in its intention and devoted to the power of subtle pressure. When the decay on a reverb opens up a fraction, Parker's music leaves enough space for you to notice. Incremental shifts become monumental in his hands and his commitment to subliminal layering reveals hidden depths the further you submit to his hypnotic sound. This definitive edition of Dispatches looks at the vinyl singles which accompanied the album's original release and creates a more complete picture of the area that Parker was exploring at the time. It's the first time that the alternate take of icy depth charge "Copper Variations: CV1" appears on wax, as goes for the pneumatic tension of "Reduction" and evocative miniature sound sculpture "Blue Equals Black." Expanding the album beyond its original CD form, epic rarity "Dissolution 99" presides over the final side, while the standout Voiceprint release is now represented in full with the inclusion of heavyweight stepped techno workout "Voiceprint: Voice Two." Able to sustain his own creative vision without cowing to the trends or expectations of any scene or clique, Parker's music has progressed on its own terms. What this reissue demonstrates is how fully formed his vision was -- even at a relatively early stage. In an era where the deep techno scene is thriving, Dispatches feels all the more relevant, undiluted by time and still unmatched in its immersive perfection.
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TRESOR 289EP
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Tresor Records present Disintegrating Sand EP, the first release by the legendary Mike Parker on the label. Parker has established an arsenal of unique sonic trademarks, produced and modulated with high precision. The EP's title track is evocative of Parker's penchant for analog sound: raw oscillations cascade over a highly reverbed bassline that periodically punctuates the track. The A side intensifies and expands in "Angels In Cages". "Gyroscopic Precession" is perhaps the most driving track on the EP - nuanced in its steady introduction of sweeping effects that arch over heavy kicks and an abrasive midrange.
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BALANS 018EP
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Balans welcomes the mythic Mike Parker for his debut on the label, a four-track EP exemplifying his abstract style of eccentric analog resonance. "Transgression and Punishment" is characteristic of Parker's classic fluctuating rhythms; the hypnotic, driving "Smoke from Burning Fields" conversely opens with a solid, striking bassline highly suitable for a damp and dark dancefloor. "The Freezing Process" dives deep into the unknown where frequencies, submerged underwater, travel through the unfamiliar depths of the deep dark sea. "The Midnight Zone" launches into ceaseless high-pitched oscillations, with a marching beat propelling the mind into a mesmerized state.
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PRG 037EP
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Mike Parker's unique album Lustrations (PRG 004LP) is an extremely good base for killer remixes. After the amazing original tracks, well-known and respected remixers such as Svreca, Edit Select, and Cassegrain have designed three complete new "Lustrations," providing a complete dedicated attitude to the rhythmic, full of the stomping and gyrating patterns of Mike's album. Deepest ritual techno for the mind.
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MOTE 039EP
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Mote039 comes from New York-based Mike Parker, a producer known for his consistent stream of quality work. With this EP Parker showcases his unique sound of dizzying arrays of hypnotica warped in metallic swirls. Parker delivers three tracks that are not only powerful, but also designed to deepen and strengthen the almost meditative nature of techno's outer-end, endlessly evolving with fluidity.
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PRG 004LP
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It's been 12 years since the first and last Mike Parker album called Dispatches. Now, Prologue is very excited to host the second album from Mike and this time it's all about techno performed as a kind of ritual. Let us open the secrets of Mike Parker's Lustrations. The title has multiple meanings and stands also for clarity. Clarity is in general the attitude of Mike's tracks. He has the massive aptitude to bring techno back to the essentials. Mike's music has clarity in sound structures, bass lines, drums and arrangements. Everything is led by puristic sound engineering and exactly this kind of unique and authentic techno can be discovered on Lustrations. Twelve hypnotic, driven tracks designed to be timeless, produced to be played in techno temples in order to hypnotize the audience and to clear the mind.
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