Shadow Boat EP
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Following a seventeen year hiatus since the release of 'Symbiotics' on Mille Plateaux in 1999, Porter Ricks returned with a new EP on Tresor in 2016.
During the duo’s silence, Thomas Köner has been working extensively as a sound designer and artist – exhibiting at among other places the Centre Georges Pompidou and The Louvre. Andreas Mellwig’s other projects include collaborations with Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, Pete Kember of Spacemen 3 and former Monolake member Gehrard Behles. Porter Ricks is undoubtedly the central item in their musical careers, setting a high-water mark for experimentally tinged pulsating techno.
Shadow Boat is deeply nuanced in its perception of space, using complex layers to add depth, detail, and density to non-formulaic techno compositions: buoyant dub, hazy ambience, and colorful sound design renders the project a diving platform at the intersection of club music and art.
Though perhaps more focused on rhythm and melody than their experimental touchstone Biokinetics released on Chain Reaction in 1996, this more recent installment employs equally subtle artistic sensibilities that transcend the styles that typify contemporary electronic music. Shadow Boat, as if carried by a current, drifts in cadence with Porter Ricks’ earlier releases as though pulled by a gravitational force spanning the stroke of time.
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