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HIGH 082CD
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This is the third full-length album from Berlin's Tom Clark. Good music can sometimes be as effective as acupuncture. You just have to find the right point and with a tiny needle, it's possible to trigger an amazing result. Tom Clark's Pressure Points is just such an album, knowing exactly the right places to exert pressure and thereby leading listeners by invisible threads into a truly hypnotic and pleasurable experience. It has been some time in the making, for there has been a lot to do, but the time has proven well worth it. This is not a club album, as he says, Pressure Points shows something of Clark's other side, and of his musical background. It is a confident and complex, but perfectly coordinated album that reflects Tom Clark's artistic development and is oriented to the sound of his DJ sets: groovy, deep and full of class. Twelve tracks ranging from downbeat journeys into minimal house, pushing at all the right points of its listeners. The tracks move slowly but constantly forward and enter into your body like a subtle herbal medicine. We can hear that Tom Clark is not interested in an immediate and superficial reaction from his dancers. Here he finds a more relaxed and more permanent effect. You don't have to listen actively, the feeling is automatic. There is no escape. You could call Clark's sound melancholic or anxious, and it's entirely fascinating, especially the tracks with Wareika singer Florian Schirmacher, which emphasize the full, holistic effect. Pressure Points is a timeless and universal album that will reveal more and more on every listen. This is music that gives its audience exactly what they need.
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HIGH 065EP
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Highgrade's Tom Clark needs surprisingly few elements to build a unique atmosphere and his matchless grooves. On the title track "Scorpio," we find a deep, rolling bass line and an exotic vocal combined with synth leads. "Albino" also features sparkling synths and rolling drums that create an impression of fluidity and unhurried beginnings. "Sand Flea" is as lively as a box of fleas, but not nearly as aggravating, with a love for detail and an innate sense for strange sounds.
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"After the acclaimed album release in 2006 Highgrade and Tom Clark proudly presents the first single called 'Service Station,' and this one comes around with the spearhead of the producer guild, Guido Schneider, Phage & Daniel Dreier and Mike Shannon show us their own interpretation of Tom's alluring tune. Guido Schneider starts the round dance, dreary soundscapes meet cabalistic vocal snippets and melancholic analog lines to end the first introducing in a perfect arranged drum work and orchestrally punch line. This remix shows the dazzling array of a guy like Guido Schneider, he is in the position to produce a minimal monster with a straight selected peak time temper, hands up! The first remix on the flip was produced by Phage & Daniel Dreyer, well known for their high class releases and remixes on labels like Highgrade and Klang, tied up to producers like Troy Pierce or Ricardo Villalobos, always minimal but with a very special touch to animate the crowd, another rocket! And if you think that will be enough, no chance dude, the next mania: Mike Shannon came to kick up another fuss and he definitely did it the best way, hard pumping basskicks for hard-minimal freaks, clever arranged hi hat works and an unbelievable sound structure comes to the highest point. A perfect synthesis of seductive sexy grooves and a relaxed monotony which gives this remix package a very warm and special charm."
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"After an excellent album Service Station and a string of very successful 12" releases that silently or maybe we should say silent alarmingly, brought Highgrade to the forefront of Berlin's today school of music institutions, Tom Clark sums up what's been coming up. A thick cut and majorly crackling cross section of Highgrade acts like Todd Bodine, Magnetic Base or Format: B, that became all currently successful on various other labels as well mingles with the label's freshest tearjackers Jens Bond, or Phage and Daniel Dreier to get a full-on sneak preview. Furthermore, tracks from guest acts like Tigerskin or SCSI-9 and of course, tracks by Tom Clark himself round up an intense Berlin sound hour, an appropriate update of Highgrade listening & bodyjack pleasure a la Tom Clark."
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