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- Date Released: May 7, 1999
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Experimental, Electronic Ambient
- Label: Kompakt
Ambient, as you've never heard it before.
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We Say...
Olaf Dettinger's 1999 album Intershop was only Kompakt's second CD, but it remains one of the label's finest moments. A bit like Oval's Systemisch from five years earlier, the album uses samplers as a sieve, straining gentle drones of uncertain provenance into misty, fizzy clouds of wafting tone. While nominally "ambient," Dettinger's viscous compositions don't lack for a rhythmic backbone: several of the tracks find a compelling pulse in seemingly haphazard arrangements of tumbledown drum hits — especially the hip-hop/dub crossover of the sixth untitled track, which anticipates Dabrye's later experiments in crumpled-styrofoam syncopation. The album is named for East Germany's government-run retail shops, bazaars that were initially intended as a way to tap into West Germans' tourist dollars, but it's hard to ascertain any directly "political" content here, unless perhaps the music is intended to evoke Marx's dictum that to be modern is to inhabit a universe in which "all that is solid melts into air."
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Intershop (1)
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7:52 |
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Intershop (2)
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5:04 |
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Intershop (3)
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6:47 |
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Intershop (4)
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4:06 |
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Intershop (5)
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5:38 |
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Intershop (6)
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9:48 |
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Intershop (7)
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5:01 |
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07 Total Tracks, 44:16 Total Length
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