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ame - primary structures - innervisions - cd

Genre: House

1. Âme - Intro
2. To Rococo Rot - Forwardness
3. NDF/Dorisburg - Since We Last Met/Sinai Hypnosis (Dub)
4. Von Spar - Daddy Longlegs
5. Charanjit Singh - Raga Megh Malhar
6. The Knife - The Seeds
7. Tête - Rotor
8. Ruede Hagelstein - Emergency
9. Lucky Dragons/B.D.I. - Typical Hippies/Industrial Kites
10. The XX - VCR (Four Tet Remix)
11. Âme - Rrose Sélavy
12. Owen Pallett - Red Sun No. 5

Since their spellbinding debut on Sonar Kollektiv some eight years ago, Kristian Beyer and Frank Wiedemann have become an indispensable part of electronic music. The pair embody more than just the memorable tracks that stay with you after a night out; their music is the result of artistic divination, of applying ideas and themes through everything they do, of using their chosen media to explore the realms of the artist. So you know that whether you have a new twelve inch from the pair in your hand or their latest DJ mix, there is going to be something deeper behind it than the elementary tropes that proliferate the majority of electronic music. Check!

Primary Structures is their latest artistic endeavour, a mix that goes beyond the overly familiar, bored to death slapdashery that saturates the market. As the name suggests they have chosen to take things back to beginning, back to a time before technology made mixes too easy. DJ's used to have to work to make a mix; when they DJ'ed it was from reel to reel tapes, they would chop and splice tracks to create new edits and versions of the originals. Paving the way forward sometimes means looking into the past, focussing on the Primary Structures that helped to build the very foundations of the art. This is what Âme have done, tearing apart the fabric of the songs that make up the track list, respectfully reassembling, rearranging and re-editing to create a cohesive, seamless flow of music that emerges not just as a simple collection of tracks mixed together, but as a singular piece of work. Primary Structures drips with the avant-garde psychedelia of krautrock, yet this is no blast from the past or hiding in the shadows of ghosts. Âme forge their way ever forward, tying together an aesthetic of parallel worlds; a timeless mix of music blended with the technology of today and infused with the techniques laid down by their predecessors Working to dispel the lines between the DJ and the producer, the mix and the listener, the art and the music, Âme take us beyond the building blocks in to a space inhabited by inspiration.