Nicolas Bougaieff and Marcus C. Maichel deliver Projections, a three track techno collaboration EP on Denkfabrik.
Projections brings together a crystalline production aesthetic and unusually slow bpm, with retro-modernist harmonies carefully tucked underneath clean and hypnotic drum loops. The titles allude to impossible geometries as a metaphor for impossible relations, an imaginary world where parallels can meet and orthogonal planes of reality can interact.
Opening track 'Orthogonal' contrasts carefully distorted bass and breakdowns where processed orchestral brass outline tense yet otherworldly chords. Precisely phasing synth loops create an evolving hypnotic structure in 'Oblique', while 'Parallel' showcases a gentle thunder of filtered orchestra samples emerging from subterranean grooves.
Nicolas Bougaieff is a Canadian producer based in Berlin. His Cognitive Resonance 12', a distinctive amalgamation of brutal noise and playful melodies, marked the 2017 relaunch of legendary British label NovaMute. Prior to forging his own style, Bougaieff completed a PhD on minimal techno, designed the controllers for Richie Hawtin's Plastikman Live tour, and co-founded Liine, the company behind the landmark music app Lemur used by astronaut Alexander Gerst on the International Space Station in a live jam with Kraftwerk.
Marcus C. Maichel is a Hamburg based producer who has been a central figure of the global trance scene since the mid-90s. His projects X-Dream and The Delta, the latter often in collaboration with Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe of Extrawelt, are notable for pioneering a surgically precise, atmospheric and oft-imitated tech-trance sound.
Artwork by Colin Droz
Mastering by Chris McCormack (Blacklisted Mastering)
Projections brings together a crystalline production aesthetic and unusually slow bpm, with retro-modernist harmonies carefully tucked underneath clean and hypnotic drum loops. The titles allude to impossible geometries as a metaphor for impossible relations, an imaginary world where parallels can meet and orthogonal planes of reality can interact.
Opening track 'Orthogonal' contrasts carefully distorted bass and breakdowns where processed orchestral brass outline tense yet otherworldly chords. Precisely phasing synth loops create an evolving hypnotic structure in 'Oblique', while 'Parallel' showcases a gentle thunder of filtered orchestra samples emerging from subterranean grooves.
Nicolas Bougaieff is a Canadian producer based in Berlin. His Cognitive Resonance 12', a distinctive amalgamation of brutal noise and playful melodies, marked the 2017 relaunch of legendary British label NovaMute. Prior to forging his own style, Bougaieff completed a PhD on minimal techno, designed the controllers for Richie Hawtin's Plastikman Live tour, and co-founded Liine, the company behind the landmark music app Lemur used by astronaut Alexander Gerst on the International Space Station in a live jam with Kraftwerk.
Marcus C. Maichel is a Hamburg based producer who has been a central figure of the global trance scene since the mid-90s. His projects X-Dream and The Delta, the latter often in collaboration with Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe of Extrawelt, are notable for pioneering a surgically precise, atmospheric and oft-imitated tech-trance sound.
Artwork by Colin Droz
Mastering by Chris McCormack (Blacklisted Mastering)
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