Version
Scape
ELECTRONIC
Techno is at its best when it is simultaneously archaic and totally futuristic Like the music of ALAN ABRAHAMS, born and raised in South Africa, now a resident of London and, as his alter ego PORTABLE, an avid explorer of the fringes of Techno and House
Version, Portables second fulllength album, is based on field recordings that offer blurred glimpses of the jungles tribal rhythms or a crackling campfire Abrahams has taken these beats, preserved for posterity, and used modern audio software to digitally rework and filter them, thus lending them new shine, but preserving their old heritage, their lore Like genetic material he has imbued even the tiniest slivers of this album with both futuristic & archaic elements
The resulting sound is far from the world music techno some may have feared Instead, Abrahams Version represents a truly unfettered variant of techno that elegantly and serenely circumnavigates any prevalent beats, subscenes and trends Often enough Abrahams allows syncopated bass drums, like dancehall riddims, to mess with the static matrix of conventional 4/4 signatures and adds a polyrhythmic flow to the proceedings, a humane sensitivity beyond the obvious and often superficial spirituality of deep house Nevertheless, Version, too, is deep, soft, round and organic And Portables Version also highlights an often forgotten hapter of Technos heritage: its African roots, a true afrofuturism, which no one pursues and represents as well as Alan Abrahams
MUSIK \"Portable\'s music possesses a stunning hypnotic quality Unlike most laptop\'s producers\' music, though, Portable\'s translates into a sleekly organic and sexy vernacular of tonalities and beats THE WIRE The longer you listen to Portable\'s recordings and the eeper you\'re led into their particular vortex, the more the line blurs between source and sample, precedent and perversion
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Ebb And Flow
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Notions Of Slow And Fast Are S
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All Eject
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Down Stream
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Thought In Action
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Temporal Distrotion
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Tempura
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Typhoon
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The Opened Book
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