Tolouse Low Trax
Tolouse Low Trax
12"-Vinyl
„Well recommended for the freaks“ the Manchester based independent music
specialist Boomkat once finished a review about a release of Düsseldorf
based DJ and producer Tolouse Low Trax aka Detlef Weinrich (also known
as one fourth of the German avant-band Kreidler). What a freak
distinguished we do not really know - we just assume he walks this world
on a different path. Tolouse Low Trax surely does! The latest evidence
of this fact are four tracks of whom two are remixes by befriended
artists, and two are coming right out of the middle of Tolouse Low
Trax’s very own sense for odd and catchy grooves. His friend Miles, also
known as one-half of the experimental industrial techno and dark
ambient duo Demdike Stare, puts hand on the track “Sussing”, originally
released on Tolouse Low Trax’s latest album “Jeidem Fall” in 2012. He
covers it with an enigmatic, shadowy veil in terms of sounds, space, and
obscure driving arpeggios in order to give the track a “brighter haze”
feeling. A subliminal hypnotic transformation that swings with a unique
dark and demanding drive. The second remix was done by Wolf Müller, a
Düsseldorf based musician that released two highly acclaimed EPs on the
German DIY label Themes for Great Cities. His profession as a
percussionist calls the tune as he mutates the original track “Jeidem
Fall” into a tribal celestial dance tune that jacks with an Afro-Baroque
elegance. Also the two EP contributions of Tolouse Low Trax himself
move on very different terrains but seem to come out of the same
experimental laboratory. With “Vindeland” he delivers a track full of
dark synthlines and drunken shuffled patterns that morphs into a nervous
soigné sensation. In contrast his arrangement “Eisenbahnzunge” starts
with a celestial arpeggio until a strange alienated voice appears and
everything melts layer by layer into an elliptical ambient experiment
beyond the usual definition.