“Glaskin” and their album “Klaftertief” – Munich

What kind of factor the depth can be in electronic music can easily be read from genre names such as “Deep House” or the artist name of an old master such as DJ Deep. While the smooth and comparatively slow pumping Deep House is a time-honored variation of house music and is characterized above all by a certain bass-massed comfort, the Munich brothers Jonathan and Ferdinand Bockelmann alias see the matter with depth Glaskin then it looks completely different. “Klaftertief”, her debut album recently released on her own label Yael Trip, brings with it pretty much everything that a techno record boldly conceived of for the future can contain. Alone: ​​There can be no talk of bass-massaged comfort here.

In fact, the depth of the two resident DJs of the Blitz Club lies in the sheer inexhaustible possibilities of electronic genre crossings, which is what the old German title from a time when people believed in dangerously deep holes in the ground alludes to. And so you rush through an album from the filigree creaky intro to the formidable breakbeat-balled final miniature “Forms”, which can be many things at the same time: on the one hand floating, ambient and expansive atmospheric, on the other hand also night black, dirty until it stops and nasty in the best sense of the word.

So sometimes you can hear proto-techno thundering forward, from which a lot of melody and elegance still shine out (“Stalactite Cave”), sometimes high-voltage electrics that are perfectly polished (“Galan”). Sometimes you can hear real great moments in terms of plasticity and space (“Hydrogroove I”), sometimes downright vicious musical acid trips of refreshing and popping nature (“Fine Silver”). In short: an album in whose eleven highly entertaining and lively tracks you can really let yourself go, not least against the backdrop of the clubs that have been closed again. Gladly also deep down.

“Fathom low” is via glaskin.bandcamp.com/album/klaftertief available on vinyl.

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