Tuesday, February 8, 2011

RA.245 Traversable Wormhole


The New York techno veteran enters the wormhole.
Adam X is pleased with himself, and rightly so. While every man and his dog were extolling the virtues of minimal during the last decade, the US veteran producer was sitting quietly on the sidelines with only his tastes for company. That may sound overly dramatic, but let's just say that Adam Mitchell stood firmly by the harder techno and industrial he was pushing during the '90s and is now reaping the rewards. That said, it did take an adroit name change to properly reconnect with the scene. Traversable Wormhole was established to put an anonymous front on his music: Mitchell felt that DJs and music buyers harboured preconceptions over his '00s "industrial/EBM" output. The TW limited pressings flew instantly off shelves. Mitchell remained tight-lipped, however, releasing five parts of the series in the second half of 2009 before casually unveiling himself in an interview with us at the start of 2010. Chris Liebing's CLR imprint picked up the releases for a five-part remix project—Surgeon, Marcel Dettmann and Funtion were among the talent—before compiling the originals to CD.

Mitchell started out in Brooklyn during the early '90s, running the Sonic Groove record store before founding a label of the same name back in 1995—his years of experience are brought to bear on this assured encapsulation of his range: from murky ambient textures to hostile industrial, right through to straight-up techno bangers.

Tracklist:
The End Of All Existence - The End Of All Existence - The End Of All Existence
Xhin - Seed - Stroboscopic Artefacts
B12 - Static - B12
CUB - CU - Cub01
The Secret Initiative Vol 2 - Playing God - The Secret Initiative
Claudio PRC - Clear Depths (Obtane Remix) - Prologue
Traversable Wormhole - Traversing The Asteroid Belt (Function Remix) - CLR
Unknown Artist - Defeating White Brotherhood - Unknown
Sendai - Northeast - Time To Express
Sawf - Slim - Perc Trax
Sascha Rydell - Rude - Fachwerk
Traversable Wormhole - Closed Time Like Curve (Marcel Dettmann Remix) - CLR
Alter Ego - Lycra (Luke Slater Remix) - Harthouse
Smear - Lito - Singularity Recordings
Perc - Antifunk - CLR
Northern Structures - Plus Minus - Sonic Groove
Dino Sabatini - Ciclope - Sonic Groove
Northern Structures - Self Similarity - Sonic Groove
Isomer Transistion - On Verge Of A Breakdown - Race Car Productions
Substance - Gestalts - Ostgut Ton
Ben Klock - Static Test - Ostgut Ton
Adam X - Outflow Boundary - Prologue
Luke Slater - Boom Tang Schwuck - Ostgut Ton
Aubrey - Dark (Mike Parker Remix) - Mowar
Samuli Kemppi - Quantum Mechanics (Planetary Assault Systems Dub edit) - Mote Evolver
Dipole - +Pole - Sonic Groove
Function - The Balance Of Power - Substance
Orphx - Anima - Hands
Traversing The Wormhole - Exiting The Milkyway (Surgeon Remix) - CLR
Rhythmatic Continuation Part 9 - Unknown
Adam X - Wind Shear Detection - Prologue
O/V/R - Post Traumatic Son (Ben Klock Remix) - 12" - Blueprint
Redshape - Dark & Sticky - Delsin
Emptyset - Altogether Lost (Original) - CLR
Norman Nodge - Convergence - MDR
Milton Bradley - The Path To Mathematical Truth - Do Not Resist The Beat
Conrad Van Orton - Panic Room - Key Records
Lucy - Eon (Truss Remix) - Stroboscopic Artefacts

RA245 110207 Traversable-Wormhole-residentadvisor.net by kikokt

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