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In cutting up you will get a point of intersection where the new material
that you have intersects with what is there already in some very precise
way, and then you start from there. As to the sequences and rhythms
organizing themselves, well, they don't. The cut-ups will give you new
material but they won't tell you what to do with it.
William Burroughs
On the eve of the release of Akufen's My Way, one could catch whispers of delight uttered by the lovers of techno and house. A sense of collective excitement I haven't felt on this scale since the release of Homework. The "New House" (often named microhouse, a term I seldom use since a lot of this music is just too expansive for the moniker), one almost senses, has been working towards this album, from the innovations of click & cuts, to glitch, to the unexpected return to the dance floor by Force Tracks, to the pop sensibility of the Kompakt label. Those last two influences are essential: Akufen, real name Marc Leclair from Montreal, through a series of releases such as Psychometry, has been expanding the grammar of dance music in an accessible way. On My Way you'll find no humourless glitch clichés or thin beats you can't dance to. No, one hears touches of Derrick May, Herbert, Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, and Todd Edwards — populists every one of them. Akufen effortlessly transcends those influences by creating a unique signature sound built out of short samples of words, gasps, acoustic guitar, static, and radio transmissions that work themselves into the rhythm. On tracks like Deck The House, Wet Floors, and In Dog We Trust he presents a nervous whirlwind of samples in danger of sweeping you off your feet to magically bring everything into focus with a tight-fitting beat. With his characteristic method, Akufen also produces an inspired reinterpretation of the Chain Reaction sound (Installation), the classic Detroit sound (Skidoos) and a spacious opener (Even White Horizons) whose main influence seems to be My Bloody Valentine's melting dream vocals. Infinitely inventive and expansive, My Way presents one of the absolute highlights of the year no matter what genre, a delightful collection of cerebral dance tracks that overflow with a joy for life. An Olympian achievement, certainly, although its influence should probably be more in the area of inspiration than straight emulation. The sound of the now.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/akufen/my-way/1591/
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