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- Date Released: April 2, 2002
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Leftfield, Synthpop
- Label: Kompakt
One of Kompakt's shining moments.
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We Say...
The duo of Germany's Dirk Leyers and Chile's Matias Aguayo, Closer Musik only lasted for two singles and one album, but the latter is rightly regarded as one of Kompakt's shining moments. There's never been anything else quite like it on the label, or anywhere else for that matter: spindly synthesizer melodies twine like plastic ivy around economical drum-machine rhythms that are as dry-as-a-bone as they are bare-boned. Equally informed by early electro-funk and vintage Detroit techno, the album feels like the only vestige of an alternate future that never came to pass, of low-riders fueled by sour milk and Autobahns that roll up into sticky tubes of fruit wrap. Aguayo's voice, anchoring "Closer Dancer" and "You Don't Know Me," is the very model of downcast sexuality, a perfect fit for the battered bump and grind of the duo's dueling drum and melody lines. The instrumental "Departures," meanwhile, is probably the single most yearning moment of Kompakt's entire catalogue.
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Closer Dancer
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7:22 |
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| 02. | |
Departures
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7:22 |
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| 03. | |
Last
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8:42 |
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Ride
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8:03 |
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| 05. | |
Mir
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8:24 |
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You Don´t Know Me
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8:48 |
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Giganten
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9:12 |
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| 08. | |
You Don't Know Me (Radio Edit)
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3:38 |
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08 Total Tracks, 61:31 Total Length
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