Where The Wind Blows

Label: Bpitch Control
Catalog#: BPC263
Release date: 2013-03-29
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 243 mb
Genre: Electronic / Tech / Deep / House

Tracklist:
1. Ellen Allien – Gate Of Light (4:24)
2. Telefon Tel Aviv & Dillon – Feel The Fall (4:32)
3. Eating Snow – Siamese Twins By Choice (3:56)
4. Joy Wellboy – The Movement Song (2:46)
5. Jahcoozi & Barbara Panther – Rainbows (3:18)
6. Mr Statik – Lighthouse Feat. Beatrice Ballabile (7:43)
7. Camea – Love On The Balcony (5:23)
8. Tomas Barfod – Sullen Fire (5:44)
9. Chaim – Summer Rains (6:45)
10. David Kemoun – Last Touch (5:03)
11. Aerea Negrot – Stop My Cravings (5:56)
12. Viadrina – Fallin (6:57)
13. Amirali – No Strings (5:56)
14. Kiki & Jaw – Mama Magic (3:30)
15. Thomas Muller – She’s A Woman (5:15)
16. Cormac Mcadam – Find U (4:54)
17. Apparat – Borodino (3:36)
18. Knox – Decrescens (3:27)
19. System Of Survival – Stones (5:26)
20. Fabrizio Maurizi – Mama Club (6:53)
21. Shinedoe & Christina Wheeler – Romantique (5:18)

In the early nineties the world began taking a shine to a quite curious phenomenon which was still regarded in many places as part of the even more curious genre label IDM. Its protagonists such as Richard James and Autechre created grandiose and bewildering (or bewildered?) cosmoses of sound whose exponential complexity could only be escaped by departing in the opposite direction minimal techno as an escape route to the future! While these two extremes were played off against one another for the next decade and deconstruction was pushed to its limit, now the time finally seems right for something new for a removal of strict genre boundaries, for a joint exploration of form and colour, for a combination of function and emotion. BPC meets this current transition with an ambitious compilation album bearing the fitting title Where the Wind blows. The name requires little interpretation: seventeen striking and all previously unreleased tracks from as many artists reveal where the wind could be blowing at BPC in the future. On board, alongside numerous BPitch veterans such as Kiki, Thomas Muller, Jahcoozi and label boss Ellen Allien herself, are renowned remixers from the BPC network, including the Polish DJ duo Viadrina and the Irish-Canadian Amirali, a London resident and newcomer to the Crosstown Rebels label. Interested BPC fans got a taste of their superb remixes for artists including We Love last year. Of course, a fresh wind means completely new input as well. So it comes as no surprise that the BPitch circle has been expanded to include a few more illustrious names: Tomas Barfod, with releases on Get Physical, Kitusé and Gomma, is not only one of the stars of his native Danish club scene, he is also the drummer and producer for the exceptional band WhoMadeWho. Still an inside tip (for now) are Douglas Greed and Mooryc, hailing from the Freude am Tanzen crew, who have combined to form Eating Snow and are serving up modern electro pop featuring first-rate vocals. There is a compelling performance from another gifted vocalist, Joy Adegoke, who is riding a wave of success with producer Jim Janssens as Joy Wellboy in their home city of Brussels. She adorns Where the Wind Blows with a cool, soulful-electronic, down-tempo gem. The transition from highly structured minimalism to atmospheric, song-oriented alternative electronica is noticeable as a strong thread running through the entire album. It offers Telefon Tel Aviv’s dramatic soundscapes just as much room as Dillon’s distinctive, almost painfully intense singer-songwriter sketches. Filled with a broad, liberating anything goes attitude, the artists involved appear to have forgotten all constricting genre boundaries: the label boss delivers a surprise with a very uncharacteristic cerebral cinema soundtrack, almost rocky in its driving rhythm; Chaim combines house and space-disco elements with a wink of the eye; mechanical sound specialist Thomas Muller serves up a piece that could almost be interpreted as tech-house parody; and Hercules And Love Affair singer Area Negrot takes us by surprise by revealing a naive-poppy side that no one would have previously suspected. The high proportion of vocal tracks on Where the Wind blows underlines the commitment to colour and the shift towards a new emotionality. The musical diversity of the album and the year that BPC boss Ellen Allien spent actually compiling the tracks in no way impede its consistency and conviction. On the contrary: Where the Wind blows simultaneously takes stock of where a successful label stands and points to a vision of the future of electronic music.