Ever since his 1993 debut, New York-based Abe Duque has been at the fore-front of electronic music and he is still active in the techno scene. One of his latest releases, Hypocrisy, recently got a massive rerub by John Digweed and Nick Muir.
Prins Thomas is now intrinsically linked to the eclectic and often termed “cosmic-disco” sounds emanating from his homeland, Norway. Alongside Hans-Peter Lindstrøm their eponymous debut album and follow up II have opened up their tripped out sounds to a whole new audience of music lovers. Having already garnered international acclaim for his own DJing skills the world over and with a staggeringly impressive remix CV it comes as some surprise that after all that music and after all these years, Prins Thomas releases his debut solo album!
A rich tension has always existed between machine-made sounds and human emotions. One the one hand, there is equipment – exact, untiring, dispassionate, icy. On the other, there is the human heart – hot, messy, inconstant, yearning. This textural disjoint has made for decades of great pop music, from disco through house to Bjork and beyond.