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Contrary to what you might think, 'R' is not the successor to Stefan Betke's much acclaimed Blue-Red-Yellow series of full-lengths released under the name Pole. Rather, it is a remix album featuring reworkings of two 12"-only tracks dating back to 1996 and 1998, 'Raum 1' and 'Raum 2'. Four of these reworkings are by Mr. Betke himself, two come courtesy of Kit Clayton, and two have been produced by Burnt Friedman. The tracks that Stefan Betke himself contributes present further variations on the "new dub" theme he's explored before on previous Pole releases. If you are familiar with these releases, you'll know that this means carefully demolished snippets of sounds, collected from various unlikely sources, pasted together in a framework that borrows the hypnotic mellowness, delayed zaniness, and sheer playfulness that marks classic dub, without sounding like a pastiche or coming off as derivative. The reworkings by the other two artists on this album, Burnt Friedman and Kit Clayton, depart from the strict dub of the originals. Kit Clayton turns the raw material offered him into his trademark left-field crackling techno - it's rather uptempo too. Burnt Friedman, on the other hand, takes this material on a journey that's - if it needs to be reminiscent of anything at all - reminiscent of DIN electronica such as that produced by Monolake or Arovane: long sequences of sound allowed to wander along freely over a seemingly very loose structure that never once sounds disjointed or aimless. Overall, the quality of the material on this album is quite high, and 'R', though not essential, comes highly recommended to all of you who have more than a fleeting interest in left-field electronics. Or non-derivative modern dub.
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