Mute U.S.
2005
DE9 : Transitions
About This Album
Extending the concept behind 2001's DE9: Closer to the Edit, a project that utilized Final Scratch, DE9: Transitions takes advantage of the increased possibilities brought forth by the software Ableton Live. Richie Hawtin further distorts the notion of a standard selection, combining often-treated elements from several tracks at once, to such an extent that he gives the amalgams his own titles. The Detroit Grand Pubahs' "Dr. Bootygrabber," False's "River Camping," Galoppierende Zuversicht's "Linguini al Denta," Heartthrob's "Golum," Ricardo Villalobos' "A5," Sleep Archive's "Elephant Island," and three of Hawtin's own productions are swept into this brand-new vortex and come out as "Minimission," throwing off the common response to hearing a track on a mix and desiring to hunt it down on its original state. In other words, you won't be able to obtain any of the commercially available tracks within that track and hear them the same way, and playing them all simultaneously would be as pleasant on the ear as several sets of baby booties flopping around in a dryer. Another way to observe the extreme otherness is to scan the track credits and spot the repeat contributors, like Villalobos, who shows up over 20 times (thus potentially giving a mixtape traditionalist like Nick Hornby a heart attack) and probably wouldn't be able to identify all of his appearances; while the reverberant rhythm of Stewart Walker's "Lakewalking" and the ambient vocal wash of Pantytec's "Micromission" can be sniffed out without much difficulty, a lot of sources are used for a single note or blip.
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Disc 1 (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,12,13,14,15,16 and 17)

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