Ein Kleiner Schelm - Your Move EP

[Andrez]

EIN KLEINER SCHELM

'YOUR MOVE' EP

(Hypnotic Room)

This one's fresh out today, as an online-only release.

BEATPORT:

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/artist/detail/84259/

JUNO DOWNLOAD:

http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1359766-02.htm

This is a newbie through prolific Sydney label Hypnotic Room, run by DJ Hi-Shock, Ein Kleiner Schelm is an old mate of mine (we used to play live together here in Japan before he moved back to Germany), and this is what they say in their press-release propaganda sheet thingy:

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"Ignore the bizarre penchant for masks that this crazy German producer tends to dabble with in his scintillating live sets – in the studio it’s his music that grabs your attention, and sustains a somewhat Teutonic iron grip right up to the final moments of most tracks – even at its more serene and laidback.

First track 'Your Move' kicks off proceedings with a sensationally lazy, swirling patter of deep - minimalistic techno breaks and an equally mesmerizing chime, ever deepening, until they finally unravel and remake themselves into crisp tech-house, bordering on dubstep and subtly cut-up breaks, at the 3:20 mark. With the journey only half-way complete, the track winds on from there in serenely beautiful fashion.

Dedicated to Ein Kleiner Schelm’s late-lamented pet poodle, herself named after a character in his favorite Russian novel, 'Nikita Nezvanova' is playful, funky, eclectic tech-house that weaves in and out of moments before finding a scorching club groove at 2:20, with no sense of a rush whatever.

'Caesar' goes all dark, melodramatic and orchestral, shades of Isao Tomita – sustained by restrained breakbeats, and an undercurrent of jazz/electro inflections. Thinking person’s techno under any other name, it’s assured and hypnotic stuff.

The final track, a Little Nobody remix of 'Oddly Automobile', is also the most up-for-it: a funky, simple, jazzily banging number that could be called a post-modern take on Detroit techno shaken and stirred with disco, but in reality otherwise defies classification and teases the listener as it slowly settles into a wonderful locked groove.

The 'Your Move' EP is techno house music that’s been constructed outside the confines of the contemporary dance music ring, then unmasked for all to see, hear – and feel."

And so on. Anyway, it's definitely worth checking out if you have time, for a bit more left-of-centre tech tangents.

TRACKLIST

01. Your Move (Original Mix)

02. Nikita Nezvanova (Original Mix)

03. Caesar (Original Mix)

04. Oddly Automobile (Little Nobody Remix)

MORE INFO + SAMPLE SOUNDS @ HYPNOTIC ROOM:

http://www.hypnoticroom.com/HRoom017.html

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[Andrez]

There's now a new interview with our Germanic mate, Ein Kleiner Schelm, online at Beatportal here - lots of guff about being an heir to Bavarian beer brewers, as well as muzak:

http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/removing-the-mask-ein-kleiner-schelms-new-move/

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