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CADENZA 098LP
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Double LP version. Ernesto Ferreyra's 2010 debut album for Cadenza, the intricate and balanced El Paraiso De Las Tortugas (CADENZA 007CD/056LP), was something of a landmark release, not only for the Argentinean DJ and producer, but also for the minimal electronic dance scene, taking the micro-techno genre out of the clubs and into a full-length listening experience. Four years on, and Ernesto has certainly lost none of the magic and spark that made his debut album a "keeper." On Some Kind of Sign we find the producer seriously in his element, with his production aesthetics at his peak, brimming with ideas, melodies, killer hooks and wonderfully playful percussion across the 11 tracks. Aiming to go somewhat deeper and darker than his debut album, on Some Kind of Sign Ernesto endeavors to go beyond the obvious and easily-clichéd elements of an electronic LP, capturing the world within the spaces, using otherworldly modulars and field recordings to take the listener to the outer reaches of the album's very heart and soul. This is an album full of elastic beats and liquid electronics, every track built around highly inventive drum programming and micro-samples. Album opener, "Still Waiting" sets the tone with bustling, yet understated, percussion, the soaring strings unfurling at the end of each phrase. It's an album filled with color; "Cristal Clear" feels like a Middle Eastern travelogue, the track awash with an almost street scene-like ambience, the purposeful percussion really transporting the listener to another space and time. "Astral" chugs along at almost a skanking pace, the shakers and drum fills keeping it a dancefloor piece while the modular synths bend and worm around the kicks. On tracks like "Underwater Lies," the synths rain down onto a dubbed-out & sultry female vocal, while the propelling electro beat and huge sub-bass carve out a most enjoyable aural (subaquatic) ride. Ferreyra really shows what he is capable of in the deep melancholy of "The Friend I've Lost," the saddest of pianos riffs grips your heart and gives it a good tight crush, douses you in reverb and pins you up against epic, taut strings -- releasing you after its two short minutes to get back to the dance on "Hide No More." The album closes on "Beluga Dance," a riotous and infectious space ride, and a fitting end to an album that most certainly finds Ferreyra stepping up another level with his highly-accomplished and polished original dance music, designed not only for the feet but for the head as well, the true hallmarks of great electronic music.
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CADENZA 014CD
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Ernesto Ferreyra's 2010 debut album for Cadenza, the intricate and balanced El Paraiso De Las Tortugas (CADENZA 007CD/056LP), was something of a landmark release, not only for the Argentinean DJ and producer, but also for the minimal electronic dance scene, taking the micro-techno genre out of the clubs and into a full-length listening experience. Four years on, and Ernesto has certainly lost none of the magic and spark that made his debut album a "keeper." On Some Kind of Sign we find the producer seriously in his element, with his production aesthetics at his peak, brimming with ideas, melodies, killer hooks and wonderfully playful percussion across the 11 tracks. Aiming to go somewhat deeper and darker than his debut album, on Some Kind of Sign Ernesto endeavors to go beyond the obvious and easily-clichéd elements of an electronic LP, capturing the world within the spaces, using otherworldly modulars and field recordings to take the listener to the outer reaches of the album's very heart and soul. This is an album full of elastic beats and liquid electronics, every track built around highly inventive drum programming and micro-samples. Album opener, "Still Waiting" sets the tone with bustling, yet understated, percussion, the soaring strings unfurling at the end of each phrase. It's an album filled with color; "Cristal Clear" feels like a Middle Eastern travelogue, the track awash with an almost street scene-like ambience, the purposeful percussion really transporting the listener to another space and time. "Astral" chugs along at almost a skanking pace, the shakers and drum fills keeping it a dancefloor piece while the modular synths bend and worm around the kicks. On tracks like "Underwater Lies," the synths rain down onto a dubbed-out & sultry female vocal, while the propelling electro beat and huge sub-bass carve out a most enjoyable aural (subaquatic) ride. Ferreyra really shows what he is capable of in the deep melancholy of "The Friend I've Lost," the saddest of pianos riffs grips your heart and gives it a good tight crush, douses you in reverb and pins you up against epic, taut strings -- releasing you after its two short minutes to get back to the dance on "Hide No More." The album closes on "Beluga Dance," a riotous and infectious space ride, and a fitting end to an album that most certainly finds Ferreyra stepping up another level with his highly-accomplished and polished original dance music, designed not only for the feet but for the head as well, the true hallmarks of great electronic music.
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CADENZA 094EP
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Argentinean DJ and producer Ernesto Ferreyra returns to Cadenza with the Insight 12" -- a precursor to a full album for the label. "Voltage Poem" displays a stomping, elastic backbeat, peppered with live percussion, shakers and micro glitches around the mechanical funk of the bass line. Ernesto really dubs out various elements and creates a real trip of a track. "There Is No Answer" is another playful slice of tripped-out dance. A solid groove and frenetic drum pattern is tied down with deep and melodic chords, and radio frequencies hum in the background while the hi-hats keep the energy levels up.
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CADENZA 058EP
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Born in Argentina, Ernesto Ferreyra has since called such diverse locations as Mexico City, Montreal, Berlin, and Ibiza home at one time or another. His performance schedule both as a DJ, solo live act, and as half of the celebrated duo Chic Miniature with Guillaume Coutu-Dumont has been hectic enough. Things aren't likely to slow down anytime soon. Here is the remix EP of El Paraiso De Las Tortugas, including a remix from Luciano and Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts.
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CADENZA 056LP
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2x12" version. Ernesto Ferreyra, born in Cordoba, Argentina, he has called such diverse locations as Mexico City, Montreal, Berlin, and Ibiza home at one time or another over the past decade. His performance schedule both as a DJ, solo live act, and as half of the celebrated duo Chic Miniature with Guillaume Coutu-Dumont has been hectic enough to make mere mortals give up in disgust just trying to determine their current time zone. Things aren't likely to slow down anytime soon with Luciano increasingly wanting Ernesto at his side to open or close his own epic sets. Yet despite all these comings and goings, he has somehow managed to craft an album that sounds less the soundtrack to some lonely wandering vagabond's tale, then that of a wise and well-travelled man reflecting on the diverse experiences and places that have shaped him, anchored by an ever-present, ass-moving low-end pulse. For Ernesto, El Paraíso De Las Tortugas is a paradise of the mind, you see, and what good would paradise be without a little dancing to forget your troubles here and there? From the swirling aerial disco maneuvers of the album's opening and closing, heart-wrenching laments to chronic pain and a father lost along with 30,000 others to the Argentinian dictatorship, shuffling deep pocket house, the peak-time bass acrobatics at the album's core, through the psychedelic jazz meanderings of the title track, Ernesto proves himself to be a master craftsman of both moods and grooves as diverse as the experiences he has lived. If this is what the turtles are partying to in paradise, we'd all do well to find a shell. Features 8 of the 12 tracks from the CD.
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CADENZA 007CD
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Ernesto Ferreyra, born in Cordoba, Argentina, he has called such diverse locations as Mexico City, Montreal, Berlin, and Ibiza home at one time or another over the past decade. His performance schedule both as a DJ, solo live act, and as half of the celebrated duo Chic Miniature with Guillaume Coutu-Dumont has been hectic enough to make mere mortals give up in disgust just trying to determine their current time zone. Things aren't likely to slow down anytime soon with Luciano increasingly wanting Ernesto at his side to open or close his own epic sets. Yet despite all these comings and goings, he has somehow managed to craft an album that sounds less the soundtrack to some lonely wandering vagabond's tale, then that of a wise and well-travelled man reflecting on the diverse experiences and places that have shaped him, anchored by an ever-present, ass-moving low-end pulse. For Ernesto, El Paraíso De Las Tortugas is a paradise of the mind, you see, and what good would paradise be without a little dancing to forget your troubles here and there? From the swirling aerial disco maneuvers of the album's opening and closing, heart-wrenching laments to chronic pain and a father lost along with 30,000 others to the Argentinian dictatorship, shuffling deep pocket house, the peak-time bass acrobatics at the album's core, through the psychedelic jazz meanderings of the title track, Ernesto proves himself to be a master craftsman of both moods and grooves as diverse as the experiences he has lived. If this is what the turtles are partying to in paradise, we'd all do well to find a shell.
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LMHO 009EP
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"Right in the trails of the past month's releases, Andreas Jornvil's splendid OMG EP and the deep warm ethnic La Boca EP by Gonzales comes this proper stomping business from Ernesto Ferreyra. The first cut has this irresistible good times feel and disco-like flavour thrown in for good measure with those rumbling congas. 'Bakana' is the name of the game here. Taking you back to the mid '90s cut up techniques of Cajual Records and exactly the track that someone like Derrick Carter would kill the floor with. Flip over the record and you get the bonus bouncer of 'Ground' which is a slow builder that has something like an Italo Disco synth in the distant deep space and all of a sudden explodes in cascades of soundwaves."
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CADENZA 033EP
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Berlin-based Ernesto Ferreyra shows off his uniquely grooving, percussive style. Shakers and noisemakers fall in a steady stream over carefully tuned percussion of every shape, size and caliber; with his slippery rhythms and swerving syncopations, this sounds like a drum-parade, marching in lockstep down Berlin's slick cobblestones. "Hunted" lays out a rollicking groove punctuated by hiccupping toms; choppy vocals, and rushing waves of reverb. A simple, repeated chord provides the final one-two punch. Perfect for any hour.
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CYN 024EP
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"Hailing from the midlands of Argentina's Cordoba, Ernesto Ferreyra's musical past is fruitful with many years under his belt as a DJ. Holding down residencies from Mexico City to Montreal, Ernest is no stranger to the mix and makes it very clear on the Éxodo EP. One half of Montreal's Chic Miniature, Ferreyra wields the right combination organic southern hemisphere style percussion with synthesized drums and a volley of monophonic madness that will surely activate the floor. The last 'Shooter' uses mind-bending funk to tell the story of three people ending an epic day/night in a blaze of Jagermeister glory. The most descriptive element of this tracky adventure would be the misguided, off-kilter synth twists that give the listener the illusion of drunkenness and vertigo. Backed with a spine of Latin percussion and tweaked low rez hi-hats this A-side packs a punch that can be only compared to 'the last shooter' of the night. Funk flows on when you flip it to side B. 'Fongtom' rides along with a thick walking bass line that weaves grinds with some of Ferreyra's signature percussion. A playful melody serves as the memory game hook that won't fade away even after a post joint meltdown or a night of MTV Top 40 abuse. Smoother than silk, sweeter than honey, Ernesto Ferreyra's Éxodo shines a new light on the Argentine minimal sound."
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