Closely linked with a style of house that has garnered much attention lately and been given an extremely stupid drug-related name which I won’t dignify by repeating here, Dominik Eulberg is one of those artists who make records so distinctively their own that they justify themselves without needing a scene or a movement. Full of everyday noises such as equipment clicking on and off, doors opening and closing, clipped vocal bits, and the sounds of wind and nature, he makes a music which melds organic and inorganic worlds. Co-conspirator Gabriel Ananda is along for the ride this time, and both sides of this single (both called “Harzer Roller”) are dance floor tracks as much as they are environments in which to become lost and found. “Harzer Roller” combines the best of ambient music’s concentration on pure sounds with the propulsive movement of minimal techno.

Traum / 070
[Mallory O’Donnell]