Vintage Love Ep

Catekk & Patrick Pulsinger (Houztekk Records)

Release date: 07.12.2010

Music Style: Techno

Article No.: 10022458

Techno speaks its own language: in the cosmos of electronic music ?Vintage? does not represent shallow retro-style, but rather is one of the most precious adjuncts concerning electronic sound producers. Of course, it centres on the intrinsic values of the equipment. Christoph Abele aka caTekk is very young but nevertheless an adept. For years not only resident-DJ of the legendary Club ?Flex? in Vienna but also Live-Act, sound engineer and together with his colleague Christopher Groove a promising producer-duo. Even though caTekk and Christopher Groove have only been working together since early 2010, they already produced for international scene headliners such as Felix Da Housecat, Gregor Tresher or Marco Bailey. However, caTekk not only produces thrilling pieces for the just named heroes ? his own releases on record labels such as Flex Schallplatten, Fountain Music or Estrela can be found in countless vinyl bags and DJ-charts.Now the label Houztekk Records is releasing a long hidden jewel from caTekk?s live-repertoire. ?Vintage Love? is created for the peak-time ? it is not an overheating masher with cheap razzmatazz, but a deep Techno-bassmonster with pulsating breaks in a prodigious organic gown, which sounds as being tailored in Chicago or Detroit. Another caTekk-treasure named ?Cogwheel Dancing? also managed to get on the EP. This track easily teaches worn out, cranked out minimal-tracks, imposed on us everywhere, how to cite such aesthetics indeed but to revaluate them via incredible groove and splendid subtile modulations. Forcfully both pieces show the magnitude of caTekk as a producer. Every sound is rich in detail and powerful, has sufficient room and all traces are perfectly layered. So the love in the title is absolutely to be taken literally.Patrick Pulsinger is the second act in league and as producer an unerring pass. A man, who as Cheap Records-legend and international Techno-star (M-Plant, R&S, Disko B, Compost, etc.) does not need an introduction. His remix of ?Vintage Love? deals with the subject from a completely different view. Pulsinger?s concentration on studio work during the last years is explicitly to hear. Here engines steam in heaps which the Austrian Techno-figurehead already used for own tracks and remittance works. Not only acts such as Hercules & Love Affair or Elektro Guzzi were produced with it. Major focus is put on impressive jazzy vintage-organ-chords and firm percussions ? delicate sounds and vocals are drawn in. All breathes in a deep, organic and ?rough? way, in a positive sense. Definitely something for gourmets.The mastering of Dubplates & Mastering (Berlin) additionally improved the three tracks. The bouquet of these releases is like that of good wine: you positively taste the single flavours and feel the endorphins bubble.