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TOKEN 085EP
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Phase presents two striking, no-nonsense techno cuts for Token with Suspended Animation. Each side of Suspended Animation delivers the special kind of face-melter that manages to remain sincere without being overly self-serious. "Stroke B" favors the sensational approach, with a bright and playful lead playing against a hi-hat frenzy in the breakdown. "Stroke C" is more introverted on surface level, but offers pure chaos instead from its depth.
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TOKEN 071EP
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Following his second album Alone in Time? (TOKEN 057CD/LP, 2015) Ø [Phase] continues his ongoing connection to Token with the Submerged Metropolitan EP. The title track enters with Burchett's own brand of unease; the lead is tense and discordant, moving over a bumpy, rolling kick. Brushing off-beat hats rush overhead and play delicately with this unease above the thunder. Ethereal swells and intense rhythmic play introduce "Fallen Columns", which delves into atonality with keys that add a controlled recklessness to the composition. "This Absent Mind" takes on a hypnotic, dubby form with a confidence that belies its complexity.
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TOKEN 065EP
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This tribute to Ø [Phase]'s 2015 album Alone in Time? (TOKEN 057CD/LP), the second LP on Token, offers remixes of two of its tracks. The utilitarian discord of "R-Mash" is remixed by James Ruskin and Karl O' Connor (Regis) under their O/V/R collaboration. They highlight the rattling percussion of the original and its juxtaposition with the tense and uneasy anti-harmony. Ø [Phase] revisits the album's title piece. "Alone in Time?" originally appeared as a restless arrangement is re-imagined as a solid construction for the dancefloor.
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TOKEN 057LP
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Triple LP version. Includes CD. Take a look over Ashley Burchett's back catalog and you'll find the Greater London resident has played an understated yet influential role in the evolution of British techno. Burchett's Ø [Phase] project debuted on Sheree Rashit and Steve Bicknell's Cosmic Records in 2000 and provided Cosmic ID with its final record in 2002; since 2007, Burchett has helped mold and define Token's sound by becoming the label's marquee artist. In 2013, the Belgian imprint finally coaxed the debut album from Ø [Phase], Frames of Reference (TOKEN 033CD), described in Tony Naylor's 4/5 review for Resident Advisor as "a techno album of real imagination and depth that, when it needs to be, is brutally functional." Now, in 2015, almost two years later, Ø [Phase] is back with Alone in Time?, his second studio album, adding to Token's continuous slew of unrivalled long-players. The music further demonstrates Burchett's deft skill in crafting linear arrangements to fit the warehouse frame, while painting a colorful, Detroit-influenced side to his productions to an unprecedented extent. This uncharted sound of Ø [Phase] can be found in tracks like "Remote," the album's homage to electro; the jittery, alien grooves of "Spacialize"; or "Mo_del" and "Nep-tune." There's big-room domination on productions like "Orbitron" and "R-Mash," while the album's title-track is a journey through Burchett's conceptual references to cosmology, time, and isolation. Burchett reflects, "Frames of Reference was about overcoming personal struggles and challenges, while Alone in Time? is more forward facing." With an extensive back catalog in his wake, Ø [Phase] has become a reliable source for the discerning techno DJ, and these expertly crafted club cuts add to his ever-expanding pool of productions.
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TOKEN 057CD
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Take a look over Ashley Burchett's back catalog and you'll find the Greater London resident has played an understated yet influential role in the evolution of British techno. Burchett's Ø [Phase] project debuted on Sheree Rashit and Steve Bicknell's Cosmic Records in 2000 and provided Cosmic ID with its final record in 2002; since 2007, Burchett has helped mold and define Token's sound by becoming the label's marquee artist. In 2013, the Belgian imprint finally coaxed the debut album from Ø [Phase], Frames of Reference (TOKEN 033CD), described in Tony Naylor's 4/5 review for Resident Advisor as "a techno album of real imagination and depth that, when it needs to be, is brutally functional." Now, in 2015, almost two years later, Ø [Phase] is back with Alone in Time?, his second studio album, adding to Token's continuous slew of unrivalled long-players. The music further demonstrates Burchett's deft skill in crafting linear arrangements to fit the warehouse frame, while painting a colorful, Detroit-influenced side to his productions to an unprecedented extent. This uncharted sound of Ø [Phase] can be found in tracks like "Remote," the album's homage to electro; the jittery, alien grooves of "Spacialize"; or "Mo_del" and "Nep-tune." There's big-room domination on productions like "Orbitron" and "R-Mash," while the album's title-track is a journey through Burchett's conceptual references to cosmology, time, and isolation. Burchett reflects, "Frames of Reference was about overcoming personal struggles and challenges, while Alone in Time? is more forward facing." With an extensive back catalog in his wake, Ø [Phase] has become a reliable source for the discerning techno DJ, and these expertly crafted club cuts add to his ever-expanding pool of productions.
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TOKEN 052EP
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London-based Ashley Burchett aka Ø [Phase] follows an impressive slew of EPs and his meticulously crafted debut LP Frames of Reference (TOKEN 033CD/LP, 2013), all released via Token, with Tunnel Vision/Internal Conflict. "Tunnel Vision" surges forward with pummeling low-end and jagged percussion, operates at whirlwind speeds -- the combination of Burchett's twirling, ethereal chords and steadily intensifying percussive work is almost overwhelming. On "Internal Conflict (Acts 1-3)," reverberating drum machines cut sharply alongside the incessant stomp of 4/4 kicks, a tortured acid-riff chugging forward relentlessly. This is techno for the small hours -- frantically paced, disorientating, and charged with adrenaline.
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TOKEN 040EP
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Ø [Phase]'s debut album Frames of Reference (TOKEN 033CD/LP) earned him outstanding reviews at Resident Advisor ("a display of real power and finesse" 4/5), in DJmag ("a calculated masterpiece" 9.5/10), at XLR8R ("sticks out as an alternate route to the heart of machine music's appeal" 8/10), Groove Magazine ("pulsating techno in which every sonic details fits") and more. Token now presents the last segment of the series with two remixes. Rødhåd delivers an epic 10-minute interpretation of the first single "Perplexed," while Robert Hood delivers a second, more minimalistic take on "Dirtro II."
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TOKEN 037EP
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2014 repress. After the double A-sided first single from Frames of Reference (TOKEN 033CD/LP), Token now brings you the second single. "Dirtro II" is definitely one of the album's standout cuts and shows Ø [Phase] in his darkest and deepest mood. On the B-side he is joined by one of his biggest inspirations and one of techno's most legendary innovators, Robert Hood. The result is a carefully-executed yet explosive peak-time cut. Ø [Phase] x Robert Hood x Token. It had to happen one day.
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TOKEN 033LP
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Double LP version. Comes with a CD of the album. Frames of Reference is the some-12-years in the making debut album from UK-based techno producer Ø [Phase]. Best-known by his work on the Belgium-based Token Records, his style ranges from gritty minimal techno to Detroit-influenced material. His debut Module Overload was released on London's Lost/Cosmic records in 2000 and was followed by a string of productions for London's Surface/Inceptive Records and Ben Sims' Ingoma imprint. The move to Token came in 2007, and he shortly after began DJing professionally and has since performed at parties across the globe while becoming a regular guest at Berlin's techno Mecca, Berghain, performing alongside esteemed peers and supporters such as Marcel Dettmann, Len Faki, and Ben Klock. His continued works have seen constant support throughout the techno world and have featured in CD mixes by Dave Clarke, François Kevorkian, and Fumiya Tanaka, amongst others. Alongside his production work, Ø [Phase] is also a mastering engineer and on/off artwork designer. Starting out at London's prestigious Sony Music/Whitfield Street Studios, he has cut records for numerous underground dance acts as well as working on projects for mainstream artists. Now after a string of acclaimed releases on Token and a selection of remixes for the likes of Robert Hood, Mark Broom and Peter Van Hoesen comes Ø [Phase]'s debut album. Opening with the brooding and building swirl of "Binary Opposition (Process 3)," Ø [Phase] sets out his template of evolving, richly-textured atmospheres underpinned by shards of dark and light. "The Bwiti Initiate" revolves around a bouncing techno rhythm that could most certainly traverse the house/techno divide, while "Distracted" and "Misaligned" are the kind of unadulterated, pummeling, cavernous techno tracks that have made Lost such a party institution. Then we have tracks like the soft-beating "Just Another Dance," providing a lighter edge, embellished with warmth and strings and the thick, densely-woven tapestry of "Shadow Caster," which goes from experimental to dancefloor and back again with consummate ease. The off-kilter lilt of "Perplexed" drags us further into the dark before keys and a hint of a melody draw us back upwards for air while the fat, driving bass of "Dirtro II" and funkier-edged menace of "On the Edge" show a virtuoso producer at the top of his game. The closing introspection of "Self Deceit" wallows in subtle nuances before a mid-section synth and string intervention pulls us back from the brink before finally descending into the void.
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TOKEN 033CD
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Frames of Reference is the some-12-years in the making debut album from UK-based techno producer Ø [Phase]. Best-known by his work on the Belgium-based Token Records, his style ranges from gritty minimal techno to Detroit-influenced material. His debut Module Overload was released on London's Lost/Cosmic records in 2000 and was followed by a string of productions for London's Surface/Inceptive Records and Ben Sims' Ingoma imprint. The move to Token came in 2007, and he shortly after began DJing professionally and has since performed at parties across the globe while becoming a regular guest at Berlin's techno Mecca, Berghain, performing alongside esteemed peers and supporters such as Marcel Dettmann, Len Faki, and Ben Klock. His continued works have seen constant support throughout the techno world and have featured in CD mixes by Dave Clarke, François Kevorkian, and Fumiya Tanaka, amongst others. Alongside his production work, Ø [Phase] is also a mastering engineer and on/off artwork designer. Starting out at London's prestigious Sony Music/Whitfield Street Studios, he has cut records for numerous underground dance acts as well as working on projects for mainstream artists. Now after a string of acclaimed releases on Token and a selection of remixes for the likes of Robert Hood, Mark Broom and Peter Van Hoesen comes Ø [Phase]'s debut album. Opening with the brooding and building swirl of "Binary Opposition (Process 3)," Ø [Phase] sets out his template of evolving, richly-textured atmospheres underpinned by shards of dark and light. "The Bwiti Initiate" revolves around a bouncing techno rhythm that could most certainly traverse the house/techno divide, while "Distracted" and "Misaligned" are the kind of unadulterated, pummeling, cavernous techno tracks that have made Lost such a party institution. Then we have tracks like the soft-beating "Just Another Dance," providing a lighter edge, embellished with warmth and strings and the thick, densely-woven tapestry of "Shadow Caster," which goes from experimental to dancefloor and back again with consummate ease. The off-kilter lilt of "Perplexed" drags us further into the dark before keys and a hint of a melody draw us back upwards for air while the fat, driving bass of "Dirtro II" and funkier-edged menace of "On the Edge" show a virtuoso producer at the top of his game. The closing introspection of "Self Deceit" wallows in subtle nuances before a mid-section synth and string intervention pulls us back from the brink before finally descending into the void.
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TOKEN 031EP
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The two tracks on this single -- a double A-side -- are both featured on Phase's new album and should give you a taste of what flavors to expect. "On the Edge" and "Perplexed" complement each other perfectly. The first is a raw peak-time cut, while the latter is a more atmospheric and hypnotic piece for the afterhours. Both pieces display strong and intense techno with an incredible sense for depth and detail. Few seem to master these qualities like Phase does.
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TOKEN 025EP
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Phase strikes back with two tracks on two different sides of the spectrum. One takes you to the sun, the other one to the dark side of the moon. Astral traveling at its best.
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TOKEN 020X-EP
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Ashley Burchett aka Phase caused quite a storm in techno's landscape with the release of Binary Opposition. Both versions, "Process 1 & 2," fierce pieces of relentless yet deep techno, got on heavy rotation by Blawan, Ben Klock, Surgeon, Marcel Dettmann, Dave Clarke, etc. Here is Binary Opposition Reprocessed, a remix package from noted fans Sigha and Peter Van Hoesen.
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TOKEN 020Y-EP
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Second in a series of three 12" EPs from Ashley Burchett aka Phase's Binary Opposition Reprocessed, a remix package from noted fans Luke Slater aka Planetary Assault Systems and Ctrls.
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TOKEN 020Z-EP
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Third in a series of three 12" EPs from Ashley Burchett aka Phase's Binary Opposition Reprocessed, a remix package from noted fans Ben Klock and Inigo Kennedy.
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TOKEN 007EP
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"Phase delivers a double A-side, with each a different feel. 'Ryder's Return' is a peak-time club track, with Phase's typical 909 percussion and effective stabs. 'At First Light' shows a different side of Phase which is more intimate & dreamy. It's a melodic ride which teases the dancefloor over & over again: the perfect soundtrack to an afterhour dream. Check out the engravings to find out more about the id's behind the tracks. Phase confirms again with his unique & uncompromising sound."
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