Tyler Friedman returns to Kontra-Musik with a series of immersive wax maelstroms, adorned with the mind-melting artwork of Rafaela Drazic. Every track on CCC: BB: BBB: JJ is a controlled experiment in lysergic dance music, an examination of how far you can warp the constitutive elements of techno without loosing it s essential spine. The result is four evolutionary techno suites full of movement and life that make your brain move just as vigorously as your body. As the personal work of a composer creating soundtracks for artist projects - most notably as a long-term collaborator of The Otolith Group, the filmmaker collective spearheaded by pioneering Afrofuturist theorist Kodwo Eshun - CCC: BB: BBB: JJ sums up everything Kontra-Musik is about: dancefloor celebrations challenging the boundaries of expectation and genre.
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Daryl Keating (Exclaim) - Sounds like my brain waking up
Oliver Lamm (The Dron) - captivating release
Jean-paul Deniaud (Trax Magazine) - very nice !!
Stefan Wagner (Radio Z) - quality production, cool, unique sounds, radio play
Thomas Romana (Local Suicide) - The whole EP is really really sweet
Michael Leuffen - great fine-particle tunes
Andreas Bruening (HHV) - Great sounds
Nicola Phillips (KALTBLUT Magazine) - Great!
Norihiko Kwai (club AIR Tokyo) - Sounds really great!! Lovely groove.
Alberto Scanmode (DJ Mag Spain) - nice one!
Philip Neeson (Louder Than War (Beats & Pieces)) - very minimalist 'brain techno'. first track here astounding
John Bittles (titel blog) - An inspiring electronic journey which I will be happy to review.
Oli Warwick - Lovely unusual sounds from Tyler Friedman here - has a very loose and natural feel to it while being wonderfully weird. Fully backing this!
Martin Lampitt - Interesting and beautiful tracks
Jake Hulyer (Dummy) - Really like this! Textural sounds remind
me of Call Super LP from last year.
Mitch Davis (Numb Magazine) - Brilliantly out there. BBB is my stand
out cut.
Philip Sherburne - This is really good, really interesting.
Claude Young - What a beautiful release. Haunting rhythmic
madness. Love it.
Guillaume Galuz (Spring Theory) - Kontra Music never disappoints (Jonsson/Alter - 2 is still one of the best LP I've heard in a while). This is definitely weird but so surprising, just had a blast listening to it. It keeps you on your guards, you know something unexpected is going to happen, you just want to close your eyes and let your mind wander, it's challenging. BBB is my favorite, reminds me of some Plaid tracks. Great stuff!! Guillaume
Martin Dust (the black dog) - Really like this one
