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KOM 172EP
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Jonas Bering's overall musical mission is the amalgamation of minimal, deep house, dub techno and ambient. "Can't Stop Loving You" is easily his most disco-style work to date. It's a jolly, well-tempered house tune driven by a disco-ish bass line and euphoric stabs, and it's gonna stick in your ears right after the first listen. It's kitsch, it's pop, there's a true love story behind it, and it's only one of three amazing tracks on this record.
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KOM 139EP
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French techno botanist Jonas Bering cultivates the most wonderful musical style-blooms with Lost Paradise. A striking intonation on the eighth of every beat runs like a root through the rhythmic concept of the record, but Bering remains committed to the dancefloor. Each track has the right dose of harmony and eloquence. Let the party continue.
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KOM 132EP
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With his sixth release on Kompakt, French artist Jonas Bering proves that he is a master of techno romance. Especially in times where techno is defined over technique than over feelings, a heart-controlled beast like Jonas Bering is urgently needed. The title-track "Behind This Silence" is pure vinyl-pressed love. On the B-side are three tender stories from the classic ambient house textbook.
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DFRG 005EP
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"Following his contribution remixing 'Terrae', Jonas Bering does his great return on DSP, now supported by Bern (Traum) too. 'Diva' EP has its title from a really nice French thriller by Jean Jacques Beineix in early 1980's where a man surreptitiously tapes her favourite singer who refuses to have recordings of her performance made in the name of commercialism. On the a side, two tracks, 'Atletico' and 'Diva', by Jonas that moves himself throughout wide and deep techno views, filled with basses, irresistible rhythm lines, and brilliant sounds. On the b side, 'Respect to Diva' by Bern looks like an amazing orchestra moving and playing in a tube while waiting to see back the nightly stars."
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LOG 001EP
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Forgotten 2001 release. "Mauritz Von Oswald, Wolfgang Voigt, and Jiri Ceiver are his main influences. The result: Deep, dub, minimal, ambient. Like them and and Autechre, he is attracted by an internal, hypnotic and obsessing dance. He bases his music on redundancy and the imperceptible, a mix of love and chaos. With Tez, understanding is optimum. 'I have decided to compose my music in a time when medias wanted by anyway to define what was techno. It upset me to always hear caricatures. But I kept this energy for me. What counts today is being able to reward my close relations for the every day confidence they put in me.'"
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KOM 088EP
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2 track 12" version featuring these album tracks: "Out To Out" and "Circus".
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KOMP 028CD
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"Jonas Bering -- the grand seigneur of timeless, beautiful minimalism, knows exactly what he wants: to freeze great moments. A good solid wine needs time to mature, and so does a good album. The first one -- Bienfait (Kompakt 18) -- dates back to 2000. But now, Jonas Bering finally presents his second album: Sketches Of The Next Season with 10 glamorous, cool-cosy jewels full of lightness and grace. He skillfully glides between melodious klicker pop and transparent noble minimalism and makes them a perfect match. And with an almost provocative sangfroid, he defies any kind of music trends, microtrends and hypes: he braves the saw, the rock, the shuffle and keeps on dreaming of the purest, everlasting, timeless minimal techno. Maybe the most global dream ever -- even with a French accent."
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KOM 079EP
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"With his fourth offering on Kompakt this smart Frenchman from Lille intensifies his storytelling style of hypnotising Minimal. Enormous layers, deep and soft like a oriental carpet flying over his trademark digital grooves. On both tracks, Bering puts more stress on the physical aspects of his music. You can call it what you want in the end this record might be closer to the good tradition of Trance than nerdy laptop Minimal. Closer to Manuel Gottsching than to the makings of those pimplefaced wacks around your corner. Epic sounds from old Europe.... enjoy!"
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KOM 048EP
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"Four smart grooving minimal techno sculptures from Lille, France."
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KOM 028EP
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"Great EP between kickin' bassdrivin techtrax and fluffy harmonic stuff. Kompakt invites you to a visit to beautiful small town Lille, next to the Belgian border. This is where Jonas Bering develops his unique warm-sounding techgrooves already impressively shown on his debut album Bienfait in summer 2000. With his new EP Emballages he takes a step further by adding some more catchy melodies and unconventional rhythmic structures to his lovely deep drowning textures. Each of the five tracks is creating a sort of exciting restlessness -- stepping on the gas with the handbrake locked. This is prototype minimal techno for 2001. New economy rave for overcrowded clubs. This is oxygen."
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KOMP 005CD
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Most spectacular album yet on the illustrious Kompakt label, krispy minimalism (as they say), with dubbed out flavor, a theoretical merger of post-Basic Channel filter and some kind of unspoken French elevation "Finest subtle techno from France. Jonas Bering lives and works in Lille. Therefore he's the first French artist on Kompakt, but don't worry: no disco here. With his debut album Bienfait he convinces in all important disciplines of modern 4-to-the-floor music between laidback crackling dub and serious clubanthems. Or, like we used to say: 'Der Bering, Der Rokt!"
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