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- Date Released: November 3, 2004
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Ambient
- Label: Wagon Repair / Zebralution
A none-too-subtle shot across electronic music's studio-obsessed bow.
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We Say...
Wagon Repair — founded in 2004 by Matthew Jonson, Todd Shillington (aka Konrad Black) and Jesse Fisk (aka Loose Change) — didn't waste any time in establishing its idiosyncratic identity. Its first record, the Missing Link's Screw Loose EP, released in the last week of December — hardly an auspicious time to bring out a vinyl single by an unknown artist — staked the label's claim to a neglected parcel of techno terrain, emphasizing rough-hewn machine rhythms and grumpy electronic tones that were neither obviously analog nor digital, sampled nor synthesized. From the beginning, Wagon Repair was not an either/or proposition, but an and/but one.
Next up was Jonson's "Marionette," which helped to quickly raise the label's profile. Jonson had already released a number of successful singles for labels like Perlon, Itiswhatitis and Minus; his Decompression EP for the latter, in fact, was a major hit in techno circles. "Marionette," with its mournful arpeggios and melting pads, further suggested that the label was onto something special, while the flipside's "Marionette (Live Edit)" was a none-too-subtle shot across electronic music's studio-obsessed bow — a reminder that some of the most moving techno comes not from pushing little colored blocks around a screen, but from triggering sequences and twisting knobs in real time, and allowing the momentum of the moment to sculpt the track's shape and flow.
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