Album of the Week: False ‘2007’

Album of the Week: False ‘2007’

15 August, 2007 | 11.51AM

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: audion, false, matthew dear

Texan Matthew Dear is a techno straight shooter – we’ve learnt to trust his music and his instinct for producing dancefloor gems. His third LP ‘Asa Breed’ was released this year to critical acclaim, and whilst it brought forth a new pop sensibility to Dear’s music, it’s clear the Audion man is still very much in love with underground, forward-thinking techno.

His new False album ‘2007’ for Minus [exclusive to Beatport] is the smoothest, most tripped out mix we’ve heard all year and it’s Beatportal’s Album of the Week.

“The material was piling up and I don’t like to leave my tracks collecting dust on some hard drive,” Matthew Dear tells Beatportal. He explains that the False ‘2007’ LP started life with a hard drive spring-clean.

“I’d rather my music see the light of day and it was obvious to me that the material was quickly shaping up to be the next album.

“Upon discussing with Minus, I realized that this could be a great opportunity to try something new, something I’d never done.

“The idea of a continuous mix, and the ability to take it as dark and rhythm-less as I wanted was a big turn on to complete the album.”

The ‘2007’ mix features 14 dark minimal techno tracks seamlessly blended to create an opaque ocean of acidic rhythms, bleep-led grooves and warbling sub basslines.

Think of it as a live set: imagine Matthew Dear playing on his laptop in a dark club in Berlin, the music is dancefloor-focused, sonically expansive and underground, the exact opposite to Dear’s lively accessible ‘Asa Breed’.

Dear explains that the process he went through to create ‘2007’ was almost like creating two separate albums.

He’s never done a mix concept before.

“The first time through, I concentrated on the individual tracks and worked on them as their own entities.

“Then, once that was completed, I sat down to bring them all together.

“This second take was something I’d never done before with my music.

“It was a learning experience to make everything ebb and flow how I wanted.

“I’m very happy with the way it turned out.”

But why call it ‘2007’?

“It’s of the times. I completed it this year, and felt it deserved a stamp of timeliness.

“Also, titles make you think differently about the music.

“False music has always felt very clinical but mysterious to me.

“With a title like ‘2007’, I didn’t have to worry about applying a forced narrative to the music.

“It speaks on its own instead.

“The first False album was called ‘False’.

“Not a vast departure from the simplicity of ‘2007’.”

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