Florian Filsinger vs Tarkatak, "Re:" (Dachstuhl)

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Very much worth the attention of anyone with a keen interest in ambient electronics and the gentler realms of techno is a handsome set of three, 3" CDRs, "Re:01", "Re:02" and "Re:03", in which Tarkatak (Lutz Pruditsch) and colleague Florian Filsinger both remix and collaborate with one another.

After a fine start with the first of the batch, the second volume features a very pretty piece evoking Eno´s classic "On Land", followed by what sounds almost like a computer-generated, faux field recording - a helicopter hovering over the distant horizon of some abandoned wasteland. The third consists of an achingly-slowly evolving, lower-case, and beautiful straight collaboration in much the same spirit of impossible landscapes, lasting nearly twenty-five minutes.

Each track is a different variation of the theme of weightless, floaty electronica, some dabbed at with irregular but attractive percussion.