- It's strange to think that Remute's Denis Karimani was once labeled a "minimalist." Sure, Karimani spread his wares thinly over various minimal labels like Einmaleins and Trapez, but Areal's been his most regular and fitting home, his cranky, clanking rhythms sitting comfortably alongside comrades Basteroid and Ada. "Condensated," though, is something else altogether. It's positively obese.
There's always been something quirkily old-school in Remute's gruff and overbearing tones, and on "Condensated" they're married to a structure which also reaches back for its impact. It's similar in spirit to Len Faki's "Death by House," the clear highlight of Cocoon's Compilation H, with less kitsch and more trance, surging where Faki stuttered. There's a rusty acid squelch front and centre, clanging hats from 'ardkore and a jackhammer kick driving six to the bar, but it's the breaks that make you sweat: vast caverns of hissing space, ramping to infinity, and a payoff drop that delivers. It's all rather ridiculous, with Karimani's corroded palette of sounds keeping this from becoming the kind of slick preset piffle of a Tiësto set (John Digweed, however, is apparently quite a fan).
We also get "Comma," two minutes of pleasant, aqueous Moog gurgling, but this is mere frothy punctuation, the drool that follows succumbing to the title track.
Tracklist 01. Condensated
02. Comma