- Samuel André Madsen is a Danish producer with a monk-like devotion to his craft. He works full-time at his studio in Berlin, slowly shaping the sleek and subtle club tracks that are now his trademark, releasing just a few each year on Delaphine, a label dedicated to his own music. His careful effort is clear in his productions, which are near-perfect in terms of both mood and groove, their propulsive rhythms placed within richly imagined atmospheres. Madsen's latest, Delaphine 006, is less of a statement than his last two records—the still unsurpassed Delaphine 007, and his criminally overlooked LP, Dream State Of A Bellmaker. Like all his records, though, it brings a rare level of artistic flair to functional club tracks.
The A1 and the B1 show two key sides of Madsen's sound—one moody and subaquatic, the other bright and crisp, both with velvety textures and irresistibly pumping rhythms. These are glue tracks more than anything else—neither is a climax the way "Pour Aisha" was—but they serve this purpose very well. The other two are subtler sketches. A2 is a silky drone that's over in less than two minutes. B2 is the kind of delicate experimentation we heard on Dream State Of A Bellmaker—a fluttering, weightless groove which shows that, while deep house and tech house might be Madsen's main thing, he's not limited to those forms.
TracklistA1 Untitled 1
A2 Untitled 2
B1 Untitled 3
B2 Untitled 4