get Out of the classical concert hall and into the Club: Laurel Halo only needs a Minute for this route. Because the prepared piano figure that sounds almost like a dulcimer , is quickly displaced by a Beat, the the beat for pretending to be what we will hear in the next hour. It is a high-energy Set, inciting them to dance, and so it is not the feel-good zones and sofa landscapes controls, so, as was often the case in the nearly 25-year history of the CD-series. Rather, Laurel Halo emphasizes why it is one only in the electronic Club scene of the most interesting figures of the present.
Laurel Halo is for DJ Sets that are characterized by sharp Sounds: “The music must sound a bit mean and tough,” writes the 33-year-old American by E-Mail. “But the radio is ultimately the driving force.” And a Groove must also be of a, non-repeated, always the same sounds and rhythmic shifts of genre borders. You can hear in your Mix, for example, how South Africa go niche Gqom-club music, jazz infected House and hard techno beats imperceptibly. This diversity, which was recently heard in the context of the Taktlos Festival, to one that is always looking for new Sounds and lose yourself on this journey ungeläufiger and unusual music. But thanks to this curiosity, you even can install in the strictest Technoset Surprises. Laurel Halo writes: “It has to have any breaks in it; you can’t your ass yeah shake nonstop Techno.”
experiment with Popstrukturen
but There’s another side to it, at the beginning of your “DJ-Kicks”-contribution, and in those passages in which the pulse returns for a short time and instead of mysterious, creepy sounds to the centre back. Laurel Halo live 2013 in Berlin, is known for music that works off of the dancefloor On their debut album “Quarantine” (2012), for example, by listening to the song similar to the ambient tracks, the ghostly had and as a comment on her ruined home city of Detroit read. Two years ago Dust “appeared”, on the Halo with Popstrukturen experimented – even though you decidedly your music beyond Pop . And she played with the cellist Oliver Coates and percussionist Eli Keszler, the lurks, both between the various musical forms of commuting, the almost meditative looking Mini-Album, “Raw Silk Uncut Wood”, in which a dark force.
It is a force, the Laurel Halo unleashed on your hour-long “DJ-Kicks”Mix. It is part of the reason that you hear this through, even if it is completely remote from the Club . Fatigue is not, because it spans the arc of never – and so the Moment by the Beat for the last Minute, disappears, almost too early. But Instead of silence a ritual percussion leads the music back into everyday life.
Laurel Halo: DJ-Kicks (!K7 Music)
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 22.03.2019, 19:45 PM