Wooden

Wooden (Guido Schneider Remix)

Seph [Phonocult Records]

29 January, 2008 | 2.40PM

• Section: Music Reviews
• Written by: Ben Raven

There are a select few names in minimal techno that can claim to truly have a sound of their own.

In a scene often overpopulated by sound-alike producers often rinsing the same plug in techniques, Guido Schneider is a standard bearer.

He’s been releasing records long before the German led minimal renaissance made minimalism one of dance music’s most currently relevant styles.

And it’s his spaced out, trippy productions that have helped ease the genre into fifth gear, via tracks and remixes for labels like Pokerflat, Raum, Trapez and his ‘Focus On’ album for Pokerflat (his remix of Dub Kult’s ‘On and On’ is one of this decade’s most landmark techno records).

His latest remix of Argentinian producer Sebastian Galante’s 2006 club throbber ‘Wooden’ is another typically on point piece of production.

While some producers excel at creating signature hooks, Schneider’s talent is based on creating signature soundscapes.

His retake on ‘Wooden’ takes the original elements and builds a reverb heavy, hallucinogenic three dimensional sonic space propelled along by alien sounding percussive elements.

Put it more simply, for the geeks among you, it’s like tripping out in a corner of the cantina bar in Star Wars.

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