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     r e l e a s e  .  i n f o



     Artist.....: Shed
     Title......: Shedding The Past


     Rip Date...: Sep-02-2008    Cat.No.....: ostgut LP02
     Style......: Techno         Label......: Ostgut Tonträger
     Quality....: VBRkbps        Type.......: Album
     Size.......: 80,0 MB        Source.....: Vinyl



     r e l e a s e  .  n o t e s



     The older you get, the more there is to look back on, and the more
     there is to forget.

     And of course, the older you get, the more cynical you become. A
     friends older brother once quipped every night out makes a dance
     music fan more cynical, their field of vision narrower, until
     eventually they just like one four word genre. It was like a
     gypsys curse. The fact that it was delivered on some random Sunday
     night in summer at about 5am tells me how long ago it was, how
     little I probably believed it then.

     I still dont think it has to be that way. But sometimes looking
     back at years spent listening to dance music. Its like surveying a
     smoking battlefield, its hard to tell where there were triumphs
     and where there were only wastes of time, or whether it was all a
     waste of time. I look back at the last 8 years or so (some of you
     may look back even longer) and often wonder what I got from it
     all, or what united all that time. Whats the end result of all
     those minutes and hours turned into days and nights consuming this
     odd functional music voraciously?

     Ultimately it is a tiredness of sorts, if not a cynicism. All the
     records and parties and sounds are your own journey, and
     eventually you feel like you’ve travelled it. Its a mental
     weariness, a sort of stoic mechanical feeling. Whats interesting
     is that techno itself seems to give birth to sounds that match
     this feeling, to vague suggestive records that are less "for those
     who know than for those who dont know anymore"

     Sheds - Shedding The Past brims with these feelings. Its the dead
     eyed sonic shards of a life lived in techno, the story of somebody
     elses path, their journey through countless scenes and sounds,
     years and days. Its at times ambient, at times anonymous, almost
     always ambiguous, brimming with the paradoxically nihilistic
     identity that says feeling nothing can still be the most powerful
     feeling of all.

     From the opening intro drones to the cold techno of "Another
     Wedged Chicken", and the rough mechanics of "Flat Axe", this is a
     record which makes that inhumanity you ve been feeling feel more
     human. "The Lower Upside Down" is a rope ladder from reality to a
     dazed dreamworld, before "Archived Document" makes you feel that
     sense of subcultural belonging once again, with a set of zpoken
     affirmations rhymed off that seem to roll back the years once
     again, to make you feel you’ve been here before, you ve never
     left. "That Beats Everything" shatters the crystal ball, the only
     typical Ostgut-Ton moment on the entire record.

     After that, its stepping back into space again with "Ithaw", a
     sort of Berghain dubstep which pulses mournfully, a record that
     seems a paean to tiredness, to the burn out at the end of the day
     or night. Then just when it seems the towel has been thrown in,
     "Estrange" explodes. The penultimate track on the record is the
     sound of dusting yourself off, of emerging soaked in sweat and
     shattered after all those years, all those records, all those
     parties, all that information, and finding the path once again.

     Its a call to arms, a slice of steely euphoria that makes
     electronic music seem like as bold a badge of identity as ever.
     You hear this and you know you can doggedly resist the end of the
     night, and stave off the end of it all.

     Best Techno LP sofar 2008!

     www.ostgut.de/ton
     www.discogs.com/release/1409818



     p l a y l i s t



     01    Sweep Dreams                                      07:48
     02    IHTAW                                             06:55
     03    That Beats Everything                             09:16
     04    The Lower Upside Down                             08:07
     05    Another Wedged Chicken                            07:07
     06    Estrange                                          06:28
     07    Flat Axe                                          08:23

                                                             54:04 min



     g r e e t i n g s



     agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
     def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
     jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
     mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
     sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
     uki - xtc - yard - zi

     respect to music lovers worldwide




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