Komet

Rausch

Catalog No.:: 12k1010
Release:
Format:: CD
Edition:: 1000

Licht
Plus
Rund
Rausch
Blank
Loop
Band
Sog
Hub
Ring
June

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Komet, aka: Frank Bretschneider, is one of the founders of Germany’s Raster.Music label and has become an important contributor to the world of microscopic sound and digital sonic art. Recently, he has been releasing material on labels such as Raster, 12k, and Mille Plateaux, among others.

Rausch (roughly: white noise, or, distant noise) is a very organically composed blend of clean sinetones and faint echoes of melody and air with a subtle dub aesthetic and intensely polyrythmic microbeats. It is Bretschneider’s most engaging album since 1997’s Flex.

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Alternative Press (US)

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

Ambientrance (US)

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…

Boston’s Weekly Dig (US)

It’s an exquisite disc.

Blow Up (IT)

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

Vital Weekly (NL)

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

XLR8R (US)

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