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BPX 014EP
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Detroit selector, producer, and label owner (Pure Sonik Records) DJ T-1000 lands once again on BPitch Berlin with The Dirrty Underground EP, a dirty, percussive and pounding back-to-basics techno four-tracker. DJ T-1000 aka Alan Oldham is a central figure in techno history. Detroit born and based in Berlin, he began his career in the early '90s with Underground Resistance, and is a prolific producer whose music has appeared on many labels including BPitch and Tresor. Behind the scenes, he runs legendary Detroit labels like Generator, Pure Sonik, and Detroitrocketscience, and also works as a graphic artist and illustrator, producing iconic cover and merch artworks for Djax-Up-Beats, +8, Transmat and many more. On The Dirrty Underground EP, Oldham utilizes the timeless techno fundamentals -- pummeling hardware percussion, tight loops, and chopped humorous samples, resulting in tracks quite different from his usual fare. "Clitfuck" and "Think You Can Handle It" are a pair of fast and loose hardware jams inspired by Ellen Allien's recent sets. As the name implies "I Love It In My Acid" is a murky, tunneling acid weapon, and "I Fucking Love Berlin", with its raw, sleazy groove, pays fitting homage to the Detroit-Berlin axis.
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PURE 017CD
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"The follow-up to 1999's Progress album on Tresor Berlin, Neutra (named after 1950's west coast avant-garde architect and Frank Lloyd Wright contemporary, Richard Neutra) finds producer/composer Oldham again committing his worldwide DJ travels and life experiences to music, ranging from full-stereo, DJ-friendly, bangin' techno ('Neutra', 'Karma 2') to moody ambience ('Cold Sleep') to his first drum-and-bass experiment ('The Five Fighting Styles of the Four Elements') to industrial ('Contempt'), all packaged in a provocative and professional manner, as you've come to expect from Pure Sonik."
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