Sigha [hotflush two / medium | london - uk]
IZC* [dubsquare / Sub FM | wien]
Sci-Fi Trackers live [dubsquare / temp~ | wien]
El Rakkas [echodub / cotn | graz]
Feelipa [disko404 / cotn | zagraz]

Sigha's combination of cavernous soundscapes and stoically forward-skanking beats happens to be pretty much at the edge of dubstep/minimal-crossover, which has become so popular over the past years. Musical influences come from artists such as Shed, Marcel Dettmann, and Pole, as well as dubstep masters Martyn and 2562. With his debut release on Hotflush Two he delivers a brilliantly executed realisation of Minimalism without resorting to clichéd effects. His ostensibly calm and fragile productions turn out to be hitting dancefloors ultra-hard once they're played on a big system.

www.myspace.com/sigha

Originally coming from Experimental/Techno, Ca.tter first attracted attention as one third of 550 Rondy and their 2001 release on Vienna's legendary Cheap Entertainment imprint, with two more EPs subsequently following on temp~records. In 2004 however, Catarina Pratter's first solo-release came out on Berlin-based label SueMi, contributions to Gudrun Gut's Monika Enterprise and Electric Indigo's Female Pressure Compilations followed. Being strongly infected by Dubstep, Catarina Pratter's productions started to embrace a newly found darkness around 2006, with 4x4 schemes being steadily abandoned. As she returns as Ca.tter in 2008, her roots are still clearly audible not least in form of a endlessly skanking hi-head, while the structure of her sounds has immersed into the infinite darkness of bass-culture.

www.myspace.com/cattter

Ausreichend verzweifelt ueber den ewiggleichen minimalkram, ausgeruestet mit gruenem tee, einer passablen espressomaschine (2 heizkreise), diversen alkoholika und SuperCollider - dem schweizer-messer fuer computermusik - ueberlassen Christoph Kummerer und Martin Stepanek (aka Sci-Fi Trackers) den maschinen die trivialen probleme um sich selbst ganz den interessanten aspekten des funcStep zu widmen. Dark - aber nie ohne augenzwinkern, detroit - weil's so schoen ist, fett - obwohl man das nicht mehr sagt und reverbtails wie ein salto vom 10er. Und dann meinte ueber die beiden das magazin fuer elektronische lebensaspekte de:bug bereits 2000: "...(natürlich um Meilen besser als die ganzen eingebildeten Engländer)...".

www.de-bug.de/reviews/10306.html

* covering for Ca.tter

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