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Click
(ITA16) Italic 2000
08 Tracks. 51mins14secs.
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Stefan Schwander, the man behind German act Antonelli Electr, has been around for a couple of years, and Click is the follow up to his first album, Me, The Disco Machine.
According to the label’s press release, the most important attribut of this album is its modernity. Unfortunately, the whole thing sounds like it was recorded in the early nineties. Effectively, while pretending to look forward, Schwander displays all the attributes of early house: the rigid and repetitive tunes, the tiny piano sounds, the synthetic strings… And he is pretty good at it too. Takeuchi, a piano-led track, is rather good, evoking early acid house, while Same Player, Again & Again, with its funky bass, is a smashing number, although slightly too slow to really kick off. The minimalism with which Schwander treats his music is most obvious in Time Destroying Machine and Chrome Vanadium, a track that would fit marvellously in a Mark Broom mix. The high-speed funky piano of The Needle & The Record is anecdotic, while, Dragon, the closing track, is certainly the best moment of this otherwise slightly dull record.
As a tribute to the early house and acid era, Click works most of the time. Unfortunately, Antonelli Electr sees this as the future of electronic music, and, with this statement, is in big danger to be pushed aside by the true creators of today.
TRACK LISTING - PERFECTO PRESENTS ANOTHER WORLD
01 The Strings 05 The Man With The Golden Hands
02 Takeuchi 06 Chrome Vanadium
03 Same Player, Again & Again 07 The Needle & The Record
04 Time Destroying Machine 08 Dragon
 
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