Iktus
stadt019 | stadtgruen045 date: 27/04/2009 |
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8 tracks / 46:34 min / 86.06 MB
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06:18 min (11.07 MB) |
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| 2. | Thrust 2 |
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04:45 min (08.09 MB) |
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| 3. | Thrust 3 |
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05:22 min (10.00 MB) |
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| 4. | Thrust 4 |
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07:24 min (13.07 MB) |
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| 5. | Thrust 5 |
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05:36 min (10.04 MB) |
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| 6. | Thrust 6 |
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06:03 min (11.03 MB) |
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| 7. | Thrust 7 |
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05:30 min (10.02 MB) |
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| 8. | Thrust 8 |
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05:36 min (10.04 MB) |
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Poignantly, Processually, Personally
Iktus is the second sgnl_fltr album Stadtgruen has released and the third release to feature Danny Kreutzfeldt, the Dane behind sgnl_fltr. The 8 tracks we received from Danny were attached with this message, in which he announces the end of the sgnl_fltr project, but also more sgnl_fltr netreleases:
There's three obvious ways for me to describe Iktus.
Poignantly; Iktus is eight pretty straight techno tracks. Each track is a remix of the previous one, and each track contains a filtered sampling of an old blues song as baseline. The name of that song is not important. Iktus is definitely inspired by a (late) 90's conception of techno, just as I've tried not to do 'retro' techno by avoiding the worst clich�s of that period's productions.
Processually; Iktus was made in the Fall of 2006 as a result of playing around with my sgnl_fltr sound library in the sequencer program Fruity Loops. As a rule, I didn't touch the default tempo setting of 140 BPM, which is easily 50 % faster than most sgnl_fltr tracks. This made the process a question of inducing some thrust into the sgnl_fltr samples, which have usually been moulded into 'interesting' but otherwise dark and sleepy structures.
Personally; Iktus should have been a form of re-entry into doing rave music, which I spent a lot of my teen years on. But instead it left me unreconciled to the point of disillusion. In the process I realized I was practising an approach in a lot of my productions, that results in safety, nostalgia and irrelevance rather than an honest pursuit of fulfilling experimentation - which was probably the main reason I started doing 'experimental techno' as sgnl_fltr. Since the production of Iktus I've tried other approaches within the sgnl_fltr project, but the notion of nostalgia surrounding the use of rave as a material or a point of departure hasn't left me. Long story short, and despite a bunch of positive experiences with the project, I'm sure there wont be any new sgnl_fltr activities in the studio or at concert venues.
For reasons that still escape me, I have made a lot of unreleased sgnl_fltr tracks over the years - and at a certain point, I made the decision to forget about them. But just as I was about to rent a safety deposit box to store them in, I thought there probably was a bunch of people not half as disillusioned as me. The kind of people, who would think it was a nice gesture, if I found a way to put the tracks to some use - especially one that involved free downloads. By this line of thought, Iktus is one in a short series of netlabel releases featuring some of these unreleased sgnl_fltr tracks. Have a look at kreutzfeldt.dustopper.dk to keep track of the others.