Barker — Utility

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Sam Barker is a resident DJ at Berghain, Berlin’s celebrated temple of techno, and as one half of the duo Barker & Baumecker, he has crafted plenty of hard-hitting tracks perfectly calibrated for the club’s cavernous post-industrial interior. On his debut solo album, though, Barker takes a different tack, excising the drums and other outward attributes of conventional techno until all that’s left is a billowing swirl of richly coloured synths. Yet for all the music’s resemblance to the ambient techno of the mid-’90s, <i>Utility</i> isn’t really ambient music, save for the ethereal “Wireheading” and the downbeat closer “Die-Hards of the Darwinian Order”. Pulsing and flickering, filled up with pumping chords reminiscent of the Chain Reaction label’s dubby drift, the end result is a kind of techno by another means, where all the hard surfaces have melted away. Like rushing floodwaters, it carries real force beneath its fluid exterior.

Артист

Barker

Треки

  1. Paradise Engineering 4:08
  2. Posmean 3:54
  3. Experience Machines 3:39
  4. Gradients of Bliss 5:28
  5. Hedonic Treadmill 4:09
  6. Models of Wellbeing 6:03
  7. Utility 4:30
  8. Wireheading 2:19
  9. Die-Hards of the Darwinian Order 9:07