Patrick Gräser has released a new album as Answer Code Request on esteemed Berlin label Ostgut Ton, arriving four years after his full-length debut for the imprint, Code. It’s been in heavy rotation...
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Barker & Baumecker: Turns (Ostgut-Ton)Barker & Baumecker have consistently produced reliably good techno, and Turns marks an expansion on their style. Fans may be thrown by the...
Virginia: Fierce For The Night (Ostgut-Ton)Virginia’s first full-length album for the esteemed Ostgut-Ton imprint (affiliated with Panoramabar in Berlin, perhaps the epicenter of all...
Terence Fixmer: Beneath the Skin (Ostgut-Ton)French EBM veteran Terence Fixmer tilts his productions fully toward the Ostgut-Ton/Berghain camp with this four-track EP for the label. Much...
Margaret Dygas: “Quintet” (Fünf, Ostgut-Ton)The first of Margaret Dygas’s two contributions to the 5th anniversary celebratory compilation on Berlin’s Ostgut-Ton label feels like musique concrete...
Ear Influxion’s Favorite Albums of 2015: #11-2011. MATRiXXMAN: Homesick (Ghostly) Read our review12. Duane Pitre: Electric Bayou (Important) Read our review13. Anna Von Hausswolff: The...
Answer Code Request: Code (Ostgut-Ton) I was only heretofore familiar with Patrick Gräser’s ACR via a 12” on Marcel Dettmann’s MDR imprint (I posted a clip recently), not realizing...
Marcel Dettmann: Dettmann II (Ostgut-Ton) Marcel Dettmann’s second album continues his trajectory of deep, slick minimal techno. It starts off with a murmur in “Arise,” a...
Marcel Fengler: Fokus (Ostgut-Ton) French producer Fengler shows off his chops yet again with his first full-length album for esteemed techno institution Ostgut-Ton. His singles in the...
Marcel Dettmann & Ben Klock: “Dawning” (Ostgut-Ton, 2006) I completely missed this one when it came out, so I purchased a copy recently. It’s nice to hear a tinge of melody and...
Function: Incubation (Ostgut-Ton) The first track of Incubation comes into focus like a dream sequence. “Voiceprint” is an ambient introduction that showcases Function’s...
Barker & Baumecker: Transsektoral (Ostgut-Ton) Being a great techno producer can have its downside. When you are so consistently good at tightly crafting techno tracks that are both...
Barker & Baumecker: A Murder Of Crows (Ostgut-Ton) This one’s been in irregular rotation on my headphones since the spring. I’ve been trying to figure out what to say about...
Steffi: “Piem” (Yours & Mine, Ostgut-Ton) I’m late to the party on Steffi’s last full-length which came out sometime in 2011… but better late than never as I...
The Traveller: A 100 EP (Ostgut-Ton) The Traveller is an alias of techno producer René Pawlowitz, and the tracks herein are a little ruder, less taut and refined than his usual output as...
Marcel Fengler: Thwack & Thwack Remixes (Mote-Evolver) Fengler is sort of a dark horse in the European minimal techno circuit. He runs with the Ostgut-Ton crew but his releases always...
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