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  • Fischer VS Spassky

    CLUBGREEN20

    Artist: Håkan Lidbo

    Label: Clubstream Green

    Håkan Lidbo is doubtlessly one of the main names when it comes to Swedish techno, with more than 100 released records over the past 20 years. Winning the recent Depeche Mode/Beatport remix contest he proves himself still to be at the top of his carreer. Fischer VS Spassky is some of his best work. Take it to the club or just enjoy it in a pair of good headphones, you will be hooked!

  • Baby, let me be the pig tonight EP

    MITEK10

    Artist: Håkan Lidbo

    Label: Mitek

    Håkan Lidbo returns to Mitek with a foretaste of his new album coming in 2006.
    "Baby, let me be the pig tonight": the title describes it well, here we have music to be played very late in the early morning. These are by far the most powerful, funky and inspired club tracks we have heard from Håkan in a long time -- we just had to get them out on vinyl. This EP forms a convincing counterpart to his earlier mitek release "06.10.60" , which was more like music for the living room (or bedroom) DJ, minimal and crisp, with layers of tiny sounds and glitches atop each other ... This is the next step: just as rich in detail, just as virtuously arranged -- but aiming directly for the dancefloor this time.

  • 06.10.60

    MITEK05

    Artist: Håkan Lidbo

    Label: Mitek

    "What do we have here? A glitch-scape? We have here indeed, ladies and gentlemen, a sixty-minute trip through glitch in all of its aspects, by Håkan Lidbo, the man from Sweden who almost compulsively keeps on reinventing himself once in a fortnight. The glitch is slowly brought to life by slowly creeping ambient-glitch. Then the landscape unfolds with sputtering electro glitch and a light measure of techno-glitch. And we think that at a certain point we were aware of distant dub-glitch echoes and sweet vocoder glitches. You could say: that sure is a lot of glitch. But to be honest: we have been listening to it for about 50 minutes now and boredom has not shown his ugly face yet. Pure night music, that is to be filed next to Chain Reaction, Pole, Vladislav Delay and other soundtracks for movies that exist only in the minds of their makers. A fascinating journey through hypnotizing minimalism that keeps you on edge until the last glitch has died out. And all this time not a single beat in ear-sight.