UPC: 827170506961 // Release: 30.08.2013
Tracklist: A1. Mind A2. Disturbance A3. Forgotten Guilt B1. Behind You B2. Speak Silence C1. Rooted Resentment C2. Fragmenter D1. Frame Shifter D2. Dispatch E1. Empty F1. Departing Comfort F2. Wonder Back
After celebrating Rebekah´s label membership with several memorable appearances at CLR events and her excellent edition of On 30.08.2013 CLR will release the debut album of our new label member Drumcell entitled "Sleep Complex", an emotionally profound, open-minded approach to current Techno with a variety of influences and a complete disregard for any limitations musical genres could possibly represent. A few basic facts about the life of this dedicated Techno activist will help you understand the absorbing atmosphere of this exceptional record even better. To cut a long story short, Drumcell was still just young Moe Espinosa, a local East L.A. kid who was heavily into listening and playing rock and industrial music, when he coincidentally found some of the heroic synthesizers of the first hour of Techno in the closet of a recording studio where he had been hired for a job. From this very minute on - things just jelled. If you imagine a technology geek / science-fiction-movies-loving teenage-outsider with a yearning punk rock soul, together with a TR-909, a TR-808 and a TB-303 in the back room of an old Latin House label in Hollywood, then you are pretty much imagining the humble beginnings of the man who started calling himself Drumcell around the year 2000 and who has dedicated his life to the search and creation of mind expanding, glorious sounds. His first vinyl record was hand-pressed and hand-wrapped in an L.A. garage, and when he handed out some copies of it on the following Detroit Electronic Music Festival, it was played on various festival stages the very next day. This immediate enthusiasm gave him enough power and endurance to go all the way and follow his dream uncompromisingly. By now his restless endeavors and the unheard amount of hours in the studio and the booth have paid off and he has become highly skilled and successful in what exactly matters most to him in life - the manifestation of truthful emotions in futuristic sonic concepts. On the one hand "Sleep Complex" pays respect to the root-element of Techno, the raw, dirty and hypnotic vibe that goes back to early Detroit Techno, on the other hand it almost has some kind of a rock attitude, especially when it comes to the beats, making it stylistically independent and impossible to pigeon-hole. It also makes very little sense to talk separately about individual tracks on the album, as each single piece of music is a sophisticated, complex sonic landscape, which is interconnected with the others and ultimately forms part of a bigger entity. As it was meant to be a bass-heavy record, and he thought that no-one could treat a bass like Chris Liebing, his dear Frankfurt based friend eventually had the great pleasure to do the final mixes, giving the tracks the beautifully shaped bass sound and the incredible presence and clarity we can enjoy now.
The album is an experimentation with analogue modular synthesizers and a variety of digital tools. By working within the limitations of an individual instrument it inspired each single song to have its own unique feeling or sound. Drumcell is really laying it down here and you should definitely pay attention to this state of the art Techno album. May "Sleep Complex" now speak for itself.
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