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Track Review: Ulrich Schnauss - "Stars"
Ulrich Schnauss "Stars"
Berlin producer Ulrich Schnauss gained fans outside of the insular techno world by warmly embracing 90's shoegaze on his 2003 record, A Strangely Isolated Place. If the finest compliment rock centric reviewers could think to bestow on Schnauss' efforts was that they could slip seemlessly into a Slowdive mix tape, let me go a step further. "Stars", from his almost released new disc Goodbye, blows those guitar band influences out of the water.
As the genre name's allusion to eye averting suggests, the problem with shoegaze was a lack of direct connection. Only a few visionary artists could produce sounds alien and alluring enough to make up for the buried vocals and the preference for place shuffling over really moving. Schnauss takes from the best of all worlds, providing the sun warped and swirling textures underneath, but never obscuring the lovely ethereal female vocal at the forefront. As his dance music pedigree mandates, the rhythm is never an afterthought. As a result, the dense melodies are given the slightest bit of dance floor traction. Like Gui Boratto's "Beautiful Life," it's a line of uncut bliss. Don't let this record falls into the hands of ecstasy soused teens, lest we be plagued by a series of tragic mass huggings.
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You're right, there's a propulsive energy that isn't usually there in shoegaze. Thanks for posting this. Oh - there's absolutely no way I can say this without sounding like a pathetic, pedantic jerk (and it's probably just a typo, but just in case) - there's a compliment/complement issue there. Damn, I sound like a pathetic, pedantic jerk.
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Stars is simply epic. Words cannot describe it - it is probably the only piece of music that completely blows my mind. Absolutely my favourite tune ever - but only for some reason when I listen to it on a specific (cheap) pair of earphones? Yeah, I know, I'm an audiophile and spend too much money on headphones etc.....
Simon
...it's such a mess sonically (in a good way)
you love it if you first heard it on the right stereo - and probably very loud
it is often unlistenable on other systems which don't do it justice compared to the one you like.
i like it best in my car, just a crappy car stereo. loud.
longjohns