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Throughout the nineties Stacey Pullen manifested himself alongside Carl Craig and Claude Young as one of Detroit techno's biggest talents. Since his debut album (The Theory of) Silent Phase was released back in 1995 it became apparent there is a divide between Pullen's energising DJ-sets and most of his recorded output. Like his debut, Today Is The Tomorrow You Were Promised Yesterday is often haunted by an elusive character. This time the dense rhythms in which one sometimes got lost make room for a pleasurable lightness on which it is hard to get a firm grip. Opener 'Tsunami' uses the sort of hammering loops of Waveform-era Jeff Mills, but instead of machinelike friction the loops evolve with pure elegance. One notices more subtle references to Detroit's finest: the sharp melodies on 'Juke' echo early Model 500 while '1011' sounds like a cousin of Carl Craig's 'Galaxy'. The middle part of the cd consists of a number of tracks, which utilise jazzy breaks overlaid with blissful melodies not unlike Photek's lighter material (maybe not coincidentally they nowadays share the same record label). Only 'Powershot' remotely seems to be built for the dance floor, indeed Today Is The Tomorrow You Were Promised Yesterday is the sort of music you could drink a cocktail to in your private lounge whilst dreaming of futuristic cities or reminiscing about hard party nights now nothing more than a distant memory. Melancholy, surface, optimism and memories: the stuff of which classic Detroit techno is made.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/stacey-pullen/today-is-the-tomorrow-you-were-promised-yesterday/676/
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