You Are Here

You Are Here

Nathan Fake [Border Community]

17 October, 2007 | 1.20PM

• Section: Music Recommendations
• Written by: Richard Brophy

When 20-year-old Nathan Fake emerged two years ago, he was championed as the producer who would drag UK electronic music out of the doldrums.

At the time, it didn’t seem like such an outlandish claim: there was a dearth of British acts who were making genuinely forward-thinking music, and for a while, Fake’s mixture of trance, shoegazing indie and techno — interestingly, Germany’s Pantha Du Prince is only now receiving acclaim for a similalrly-minded concoction — did sound fresh.

Fast forward two years, and the situation is very different: German techno has invaded UK’s clubs, even the most unimaginative prog producers have ‘gone minimal’ and producers like Du Prince and Brazil’s Gui Boratto are riding a wave of indie-techno popularity.

It’s to Fake’s credit then that this re-issue still sounds fresh: the glitchy breaks, dark bass and evocative keys on ‘Casio Triangle’, and the way that the album version of ‘You Are Here’ suddenly explodes into a wall of electronic melody shows that Fake isn’t limited to techno for inspiration, and that My Bloody Valentine’s blissed put pop were also an influence.

The only lowlight is the live version of ‘You Are Here’ - its humming, building bass sounds suspiciously like Underworld’s ‘Cowgirl’.

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