Reviews of Rausch [12k1010]

Rausch is clearly one of the most spectacular albums of the year.

Proving that less can indeed be more, Komet’s tiny bleeps and beats are strung together in patterns which evoke warmth. Oftentimes tropical zones are hinted at, as if Rausch were documenting a micro-excursion deep into the untamed depths within the silicon heart of a computer…

It’s an exquisite disc.

Glacial microrhythms, sinewaves and crystalline tones, smoothed tappings, stylized pop and dub echoes of lunar chill-out

More then dance music, this is relax music for the moden living room. Excellent stuff.

Rausch pulses with unusual vitality, partly due to the merging of all 11 tracks into a single, arcing form.

This delicate, silvery toned minimalism from Raster-Noton’s Frank Bretschneider begins like techno constructed out of litle glass chimes.