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Exactly 20 years after its very first release, the legendary Force Inc. label is re-launched. This finally reunites it with its original sister label, Mille Plateaux and together with Force Intel completes the family of three labels covering the entire range of innovative electronic music. Force Inc. will handle the rather dance-oriented releases of the label group. Force Inc. presents an album by Berlin-based Marow. Yes, this album has tracks with a 4/4 beat, but it is still far from being commercial or club music. However, the subtle melodies, the distinct Marow sound and the crystal-clear production make +-0 (pronounced: "Plus Minus Null") a pleasure to listen to even for advanced listeners. Mille Plateaux's A&R Marcus Gabler continues to follow his idea of "more substance by more musicality." A must for Yagya, Monolake or Thinner label fans.
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FIM 249EP
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With his debut on Pokerflat Recordings, the world saw instantly that Limaçon has what it takes to push the dancefloor, yet maintain a "listening" quality which lacks so often in dance music. His subsequent releases let him flex his tech-funk muscle and take on deeper late-night vibes. Force Inc. now steps up with three tracks of grinding, jacking electronics. "That Hard" takes you on a trip torn with funk, "Step-Up" is a pumping, techy terror which you won't want to miss and "Mantra" takes elements of electro, trance and microfunk to bring you something truly unique.
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FIM 248EP
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Frankfurt-based Max Wendling has released records under the name Paradroid on labels like Mille Plateaux, Orac, Overdrive and Friends Of Tomorrow. Monster Waves Revealed is four tracks of pure abstract techno -- or call it minimal grooving techno. Paradroid combines molecular sounds and splatter with deep, earthy grooves which move forward in whirling sequences. Paradroid functions on extreme dancefloors and the dancefloor is given a stunning digital set up. Similar to Akufen a few years ago, this is funky micromusic for different ears and bodies.
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FIM 247EP
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Frankfurt-based Max Wendling, who has released records under the name Paradroid on labels like Mille Plateaux, Orac, Overdrive and Friends Of Tomorrow, starts the new Force Inc series with his partner Tobias Lorsbach. Four tracks of abstract techno and hypergalactic jazz involve Paradroid's molecular sounds and soundeffects, which intensify the grooves. Elco Park's coolness is functional, and the dancefloor is given a nice digital set up. Similar to Akufen, this is funky micromusic.
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FIM 243LP
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FIM 065CD
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"For the past 5 years, K-Led has been one of the key contributors to South France's techno community. K-Led's respect of and influence from the Detroit legends ring through this full length. From the lead single 'Detroit City', you hear K-Led's homage to the city that spawned it all. Comparable to the early sounds of Kenny Larkin, Tomorrow In The Morning is some of the deepest, soulful, underground techno this label has had the privilege of releasing. Definitely an old school education resonates throughout the album, but K-Led succeeds in painting a musical portrait that sounds as fresh as the morning mountain dew."
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Double LP version; CD version is deleted. "It's hard to categorize this Seattle Techno veteran, but let's give it a shot. Codebase is a versatile blend of Electro, Detroit-influenced Techno, and Deep House. Part Drexciya, part Juan Atkins, part Global Communications, Tom Butcher aka Codebase's melodics and electronics are at once starkly futuristic and gloriously timeless. Rather than so much so called Electro out there, Codebase goes for the jugular revitalizing the roots of the movement without sounding redundant. Along with label mate Mike Shannon, Butcher is one of a new generation of electronic artists more interested in the revisionary, as opposed to visionary, aspects of Techno. A solid offering of memorable music that seeps with energy and funk. Codebase has already released singles on Swayzak's 240 Volts imprint and the legendary but now defunct Orbit Records plus has recorded under a variety of alias that include Betamax, Heatsync, .x09, and Induction."
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FIM 218EP
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"Reinhard Voigt aka S.R.I. follows up his last Force Inc. release with the second installment of his punishing techno series. 3 unnamed tracks of ferocious club floor fillers that are truly set to release all the senses."
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"Stockholm, Sweden's Mikael Stravöstand represents the first of many new Scandinavian talents that will emerge in the Force Inc. family over the course of 2001. Stravöstand is a key figure in the Swedish electronic scene as a long-time event organizer, sound installation artist and label manager of the underground Mitek label. Over the past year, he has performed continuously that included a successful 32 date North American tour. He has releases and contributions on labels Tigerbeat6, 12k and Mitek. Reduce continues Force Inc.'s development of click-techno, where the unessentialist sounds of glitches, crackles and skips infiltrate the structure of minimal techno's 4/4 drive formula. Stravöstand emanates a unique approach to compositions, taking interest in the use of randomness and the unexpected towards his methods of working. Reduce is a very visual and natural project; deep, dubby techno mingles with the glitchy pulses and beats. The result is a perfect order of balance and harmony for the listener. Stravöstand presents a new platform for dance music. Essential for fans of Chain Reaction, Clicks & Cuts and SND. Reduce crosses between dancefloor techno and experimental electronic music."
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FIM 046CD
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"Metamusic is release #200 of Force Inc.. Force Inc. focuses on Techno in association to virtuality, machinism and digitality. Force Inc. tries always to bring innovations into dance music and continues to change concepts, style and genre. Digital Techno simulates something that does not exist as a reality, it generates something new. It is the result of the teamwork of numerous authorities such as the 'musician', the programmer and the authority of the program. Digital music has to open the given program structures, the internal ramifications and program hierarchies are to be discovered. Essentially the new genre Clickhouse or Clicktechno is where the apparently random series of glitches that have replaced beats on albums like Oval etc. formulate themselves into more bouncy rhythms. Clicks, scratches and glitches get organised. Where Mille Plateaux introduces electronics into the 21st century, Force Inc on the other hand is infiltrating new sounds into clubs. Clicks, glitches, so called digital errors, become sound. The Cut-Copy-Paste-Funk of the actually most irrelevant sounds, the clicks, emerges, the movement of zero and one are made audible. Brittle rhythms and rocking hyperfashionable software are giving Techno a new face. Again the new scene of American digital techno, like Sutekh, Kit Clayton, Stewart Walker, Twerk, Jasper etc. meet the German minimal techno movement (S.R.I., Wolfgang Voigt, Atlon Inc, Auch etc.). All tracks are exclusive."
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FIM 191EP
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Third maxi of *G*, aka Gez Varley. Two massive clubstompers that will amaze." The first mix is also found on the Autopoieses La Vie A Noir album on Mille Plateaux, the second is brand new.
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FIM 036CD
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"Quondam Current is Jake Mandell's second album and his first for Force Inc. He has been creating electronic music since he was a freshman in a suburban Boston high school during the early 90s. After having had lessons in classical piano and free jazz, Jake studied both Biochemistry and Japanese history. After receiving a grant to study enzyme structure, he was inspired by the advanced computer modeling of proteins and the interconnectedness of biological systems. He takes the same awareness for structures and applies it in his studio.Using a network of three computers, a combination of software he wrote himself and commercial software, Jakes music draws at will from the atmospheres of film music, the joy of 80s pop, and the structure of techno, but creates a soundscape many levels deeper. His first release in '97 surprised many with its quirky drum & bass. Lucky Kitchen released the Midwest EP, and Worm Interface followed suit with the acclaimed album Parallel Processes in early '99. EPs on Pitchcadet and an enigmatic 74 minute ambient track on Kodama were also released this year. His new album, Quondam Current, is an impressive example of new minimal techno. Minimalism provides an ideal framework upon which to hang convoluted computer techniques. The album constructively combines the ossature of minimal rhythms with the potential of advanced software to create simple and intricate sound plexuses. After each time through, the subtly musical and exquisitely textured sounds of Quondam Current will simultaneously engage and reveal themselves to the listener."
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