Shedding the Past - Shed

Shedding the Past

Shed [Ostgut Ton]

#02 in this month's The 20

• Written by: Ryan Keeling
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When describing ‘Shedding the Past’ it’s difficult not to eulogise over the album’s significance in a shift back towards the raw techno sound on which the genre was built.

Along with Shed, the movements of fellow Berghain cohorts Marcel Dettmann and Ben Klock etc., have been well documented so all that’s really necessary to report is the sheer brilliance of this album.

Moments of unwavering techno might are sat happily alongside rhythmically awkward electronica, all characterised by the same sense of sparseness that made last year’s Deepchord album ‘The Coldest Season’ so essential.

The range spans from ‘Ostrich Mountain Square’s’ beatless excursion into synth-lead atmospherics, right through to the almost industrial ‘That Beats Everything!’

This is by no means an album that is easy to listen to, but give it some time, and the sheer undiluted will of its ideas will become crystal clear.

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