The flip is a bit closer to what we've heard from C3D-E in the past. The excitement is there, but it's more like you're whispering in the queue, nervous if the bouncer will let you in. The come-up tingle of the chords and synth are mixed to sound muted. The other surprise is "Internal Content Generator" which harkens back to the days when trance was just as likely to be fast techno as it was slow and dubby (a period documented recently by Young Marco).
This is what it might have sounded like if Move D and Villalobos linked up for an early Smallville release. It starts with the usual ambient techno sound design before the undulating pads are overtaken by a bright, polyester synth line and the clipped restraint of microhouse. Opener "A Model Of Behavior" pulls a fast one. The references on Scattered Radiation are-of course-to '90s electronica, but it's a different palette than the label typically paints with. In typical Acting Press fashion, C3D-E's latest release materialized out of the ether with some of the label's sharpest and cleanest dance floor cuts to date.Īll four tracks pack a punch, but the A-side has the real floor-shakers. But it's hard to fault the label when their releases are so goddamn good. Between the barrage of new aliases and the shifting collaborations of its founders and their hard-headed, vinyl-only policy, there are moments when the label seems to teeter dangerously close, as Will Lynch suggested in a review last year, to being a bit snobby, maybe even elitist. There are a few things about the Berlin label Acting Press that might frustrate the casual fan.
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