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Once again, Cadenza comes on
strong with a powerful and unconventional floor-filler, proving that "minimal"
music needn't be a predictable affair of plug-ins, gratuitous reverb, and
garish bit reduction.
In its first limited-run, one-sided single, Cadenza revisits last year's "Max
Binski" EP from NSI (Non Standard Institut) - the duo of Tobias Freund (Pink
Elln, Sieg Über die Sonne) and Max Loderbauer (Sun Electric) - with a 13minute
edit by Freund and Luciano.
The edit takes "Clara Ghavami," a sleeper cut off the B-side of the NSI EP, out
of the isolation tank and into a crazy, heaving landscape of fluid shapes and
odd angles. Underpinning it all is an irresistible rhythm that's pure
Luciano - powered by a stuttering kick drum and some antennae-like,
hypersyncopated squiggles, it pumps away like a legion of army ants, carrying
exponentially more than its own weight. All those shuffling feet are joined by
a woozy churning in the middle distance, tumbling over and over like a carousel
come unhinged. And soaring magic-carpet style through the stratosphere comes
the hook, a Middle Eastern melody line that works the dance floor like the Pied
Piper leading a conga line. Hip-shakingly hypnotic, the tune builds and builds
and builds, breaking open around the five-minute mark with quietly riotous
hi-hats and an insistent snare marking time until total meltdown. Groovy and
not a little bit sinister, Cadenza 5.5 is like a circle dance for the
apocalypse, a soundtrack for communion amidst the great unraveling.
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