Terje Saether - Breed EP

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  • You can never have enough Norwegians called Terje making dance music, can you? Rather than cosmic disco, this Terje makes house with a techno underbelly (rather than the other way around). The dubby lead track "Breed" is built around skeletal percussion and tough synth stabs. It's the sort of record Hipp-E and Halo would have made if they had transplanted to Europe at the height of their career. And at ten minutes plus, it's a great comfort break tune for the DJ whose helped himself to too much of the promoter's champagne. The first of the Klartraum remixes decorates it with a snappy percussive tech groove and purring bassline. "The Ripper" is a more strident, bouncy affair—albeit with an emotive piano breakdown—although with that extra urgency is lost some of the atmosphere that hangs above "Breed." There are hints of breakbeat in the 4/4 spacey tech-disco assault of "Full Focus," with its Balearic piano-style middle-eighth. Klartaum then take a warm, fuzzy deep house segment of the original "Full Focus" and wrap it in a cotton wool blanket of techno, that ebbs and swells like the tide—but it's that original that elbows its way to the front of your consciousness of an EP of rich promise.
  • Tracklist
      01. Breed 02. Breed (Klartraum Remix) 03. Full Focus 04. Full Focus (Klartraum Remix) 05. The Ripper
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