Karmarouge Records No.7 - Alex Multhaup 'Snapdragon EP'

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ALEX C. MULTHAUP - SNAPDRAGON EP

How maximal can minimal techno be produced? This question arises to Alex C Multhaup on the Karmarouge No.7 'Snapdragon EP'.

The title track 'Snapdragon' opens promising with reserved twitter on acid, dominant basslines, smacking sound chips and an unyielding beat occasionally broken by abounded cymbals and perfectly accented minimal breaks. Like a foggy cellar full of sweating and twitching bodies celebrating the unbending power and hardness of intoxication. A snake pit, a wormy and biting crush, Snapdragon!

The B-side track 'Pollination' cant hold back to roar out a straight pumping beat and threateningly resounding drums - a whole army of inexorable duracell bunnys. Only to be slowed down by discreet implanted shuffle breaks in order to prevent you from death by heart disease.

'Sluices up' the second B-side track 'Garcia deep Cut' seems to murmur deeply satisfied and pumps snuffling and smacking muddy waste water across chrome-flashing steel tubes. Gargling sound fragments screw themselves with circumspectly acid sequences, detroit flavoured elements and even a buzzing and whispering clicks'n'cuts track, that almost longs to flush the bleary-eyed crowd with delightful harmony.

Alex C Multhaup celebrates a fusion of extremely wooden and dry beats with well fed sounds a long time not seen in 'Snapdragon EP', its a hard but genial mixture of functionality and insanity. Have a very pleasent flight!

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[Militikie]

nice tracks, Pollination is a real nice one

[Ben]

I checked it yesterday on decks-records, really good EP, as usual on karmarouge...

[Daniel Logikal]

I'm looking forward to release no.8 by Artificial as heard on the Gabriel Ananda Tweak FM mix. Soo deep, so techy, can't wait to buy it