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BNR 195EP
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The famously unconventional Djedjotronic is back with more of his unpolished brilliance on Boysnoize Records. Frenchman Djedjotronic always cooks up dystopian drama with a tangible physical aesthetic that rips dancefloors apart. He does so on CPU, Zone, and this label and is in his element in a sweaty low-ceilinged basement as much as he is the iconic techno hub that is Berghain. A master of dark and uncompromising grooves, he has more than ten years in the game behind him but still serves up the unexpected. This most thrilling of EPs opens with "Boish", a twisted electro tune with dark drums and coarse synth textures crashing down all around you. It's haunting and haunted and brilliantly unrelenting. Next up is "Global Surveillance", a more quick and slick electro track with big, busted kick drums powering along the crisp boom bap of the analog percussion. Paranoid synths add a wonderful sense of tension to this standout production. Slowing down the tempo is closer "Rusted" with its corrugated bass and jittery metallic hits. It's the sound of a ruined warehouse late at night at some point in the future, long after humans have left. These are high powered, high impact tunes once more from one of the best in the game.
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BNR 182EP
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Remix package of Djedjotronic's "Take Me Down" featuring Nitzer Ebb's vocalist Douglas McCarthy including remixes by Obscure Shape and SHDW and Broken English Club. An additional track features Djedjotronic himself as the remixer for a techno mix of "Avatars Have No Organs".
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BNR 174LP
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Techno has a long legacy of channeling the future through aural exploration. It's always been a time traveling genre with a specific focus on the interface between man and machine -- or perhaps the replacement of the former by the latter. These cross-temporal experiments continue on Djedjotronic's LP R.U.R., where cold machines are sequenced by a warm heartbeat, unless of course it's the other way around. There are lots of nods to the great techno-futurist producers of the distant and recent past, from Cybotron to I.F. to The Hacker to sounds of the legendary Thursdays at Pulp in Paris when Ivan Smagghe helmed the decks. In the album's most aggressive, dancefloor-focused moment, Nitzer Ebb's Douglas McCarthy lends vocals for an industrial-arpeggiated monster of a track. Much of the album, however, explores lower BPMs. From the ambient opening of "Dr. Rossum," to the OG electro styling of "H+," to the aptly jacking "Cockring Robot," the album serves as a haunting time-traveling trip temporally and through genres. It rightfully ends with the titular track "R.U.R.," Djedjotronic's own vision of the future. The past's own prophecies of technology usurping humanity are all but coming true, and this album is Djedjotronic's call to arms.
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BNR 152EP
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Djedjotronic presents Strapon. "Strapon" is a sweaty pulverizing tech jam with all the subtlety of a jet black 15" double ender, its sweeping bass riff sways back and forth guaranteeing the essential climax every time. "Solar Bird" takes us deeper into the Frenchman's psyche as he takes us on a trip through techno past, present and future. Further into the EP we strike electro gold as Djedjotronic guides us through a maze of classic breakbeats with lavish metallic ripples, squelching acid flurries and industrial strength textures before we're bid a passionately paranoid adieu on "System".
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BNR 023CD
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U.S. Route 101 is an important highway running through California and Mexico. It is sometimes called El Camino Real (The Royal Road) as its route closely follows the old route used by the Spanish missions. In some parts of California, it's known as the Pacific Highway or the 101. Over the years, pieces of this road have been renamed and restructured, and partially replaced by the more recent Interstate 5. Like U.S. Route 101, electro is a music genre that connects different countries and different people. It has also been truncated, changed by technology, and often renamed. Nevertheless, this royal road that has been influencing the world of electronic music for more than 30 years persists on its path in the margins of a crowded and commercial junction. This is what Jérémy Cottereau, aka Djedjotronic, wanted to illustrate in this compilation. Most of the tracks have been composed exclusively for the album, by some of the most renowned names of the genre: The Hacker, Maelstrom, Glass Figure, Jensen Interceptor, Mikron, Defekt, SCNTST, Hoshina Anniversary, CWS, Noob, Voiron, Miss Kittin, Pip Williams, Atom TM, Automat, Tessla286, Commuter, Nehuen, and Djedjotronic himself. All the artists featured have come across his path at some point. They form, as he likes to say, his musical extended family.
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BNR 126EP
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Djedjotronic returns with the EP called Drum Program. Uncompromising recording sessions in his Berlin-based laboratory transformed into five dancefloor tools, which shows Djedjo's nonlinear vision of techno music. In other words, it's an ode to synthetic music, resulting in cold landscapes, dystopian atmospheres, a mechanical feel and with obvious references to Detroit electro and warehouse techno.
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