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- Date Released: April 25, 2000
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Experimental
- Label: Mille Plateaux - Force Inc. / IRIS
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We Say...
Sampling early 20th Century classical composers Charles Ives and Arnold Schonberg on his debut album, Germany's Ekkehard Ehlers loops, layers and processes select bits to create tracks that seem impenetrable on first listen, but gradually reveal an emotional core driven by tension and anxiety. As with fellow traveler Curd Duca, getting the loops just so is extremely important to Ehlers, and he has no compunction about abruptly ending a track mid-bar once he's had his say. Ehlers has a knack for getting at an overlooked aspect of a passage and finding new meaning — by focusing and amplifying the scrapes and wood sounds of the woozy strings on "Auf," he creates an aural portrait of a troubled ship at sea; "Innen" borders on melodrama, with competing orchestra melodies at times reaching for a discordant swoon. At this early stage, Ehlers was very much in the grip of his theoretical studies, and while the music on Betrieb impresses, it does so from an icy remove.
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They Say...
Judging by the well articulated liner notes, Frankfurt, Germany's Ekkehard Ehlers instills a load of theoretical thought on the concept of minimal music into his Betrieb album. The Autopoieses member writes of how "in historical works of music one can recognize a desire for boundlessness" and how his album "deals with movements within closed systems." This idea gets fleshed out rather well on Betrieb, as the German artist often samples fragments from turn of the century compositions by artists such as Arnold Schönberg. Each song will use a particular fragment as its "closed system" and then manipulate the fragment in every conceivable manner for the duration of the song; actions such as looping, stretching, phasing, and distorting are just some of the ways that Ehlers manipulates these sounds. While the result may not be very soothing to the ear or something listeners will find themselves listening to over and over, curious listeners will be a bit fascinated by what Ehlers does with snippets of classical compositions, transforming sedate string sections into cacophonous maelstroms of swirling sound with no clear beginning, zenith, lull, or conclusion. In the end though, intellectual stimulation is the primary attribute offered by Ehlers on Betrieb, limiting its overall appeal.
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| 01. |  |
Auf (On) |
0:49 |
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| 02. | |
Innen (Inside) |
3:52 |
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| 03. | |
Offen (Open) |
4:33 |
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| 04. | |
Langsam (Slow) |
3:16 |
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| 05. | |
Weit (Wide) |
4:39 |
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| 06. | |
Schneller (Faster) |
1:20 |
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| 07. | |
Aussen (Outside) |
4:05 |
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| 08. | |
Fruher (Earlier) |
6:09 |
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| 09. |
Rund (Round) |
0:43 |
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| 10. | |
Wieter (Wider) |
2:29 |
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| 11. | |
Spat (Late) |
1:41 |
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| 12. | |
Spater (Later) |
3:47 |
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| 13. | |
Unten (Down) |
6:29 |
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| 14. | |
Tief (Deep) |
4:46 |
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| 15. | |
Danach (After) |
1:47 |
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| 16. | |
Immer (Always) |
1:15 |
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| 17. | |
Zu (Shut) |
2:58 |
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17 Total Tracks, 54:38 Total Length
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