Cristian Vogel - The Never Engine

October 28, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Labels, Releases |

In 1995 Cristian Vogel caused dropped jaws with his first release on Tresor “Absolute Time”. A Tresor classic was established and a Tresor chameleon as well. Successive albums ensued and Vogel dived deeper into the conceptual, recondite anti-beats territory that aligned his intellectual efforts with the most seminal of electronic composers. His spectrum has been the result of extensive research into electronic and other music mediums, production and remixing, that has earned him international respect. With “The Never Engine” Cristian Vogel releases his first album on Tresor since 2003’s “Dungeon Master” and embarks on a highly-stylized path that brushes the metaphysical in its scope: the orgonic universal life force (hypothesized by Wilhelm Reich), injected technologically amid linear and audio reciprocity – spellbinding.

As Vogel explains:

“The NeverEngine - a collection of recordings synthesised using bespoke sequencing algorithms designed to interpolate between data-states, and so slide beats into bleeps and tones into drones. The first generation of engine, code-named the Xpute (transpute), began to drive itself on, using interpolation to slow down perceptions of time and linear frequency shifts to optimise its own states, tending towards an orgonic singularity, now known as ‘The Whoop’ - sonic parallels and external references can legitimately be made with a similar strange attractor that emerged from the electronarcosound output at the turn of the 20th century, an intensive and self-replicating human/audio interaction that took place between the years 1994 and 1998 - these references are sometimes taggable as ChiTown, Jack, Bug or Wonky Worm.

Cristian Vogel has been overseeing the refinement and evolution of these interpolating state engines, and presents here the first chapter documenting the sonic results of this concentrated research and development into what could be one of the more important steps into orgone driven electronic music. He has reported further massive refinements to these so-called ‘NeverEngines’ which we hope will emerge from Station55 as soon as they are fit for human consumption.”

Well: if you don’t understand but feel forced to believe it, then just listen to the music. These are electronic science fiction sonnets; aural choreography for other life forms; theorem engineering. Put “XPUTE theWoopWoop ” between your ears: the stark simplicity creates suspicion but you are drawn inwards. Both “rogue PROTOCHI” and “PROTOCHI rearMount” cautiously allow the drone to keep its prominence and you are infected without knowing it. The bass dredges a sublime saturation through many of the tracks (check “SAGA” and “PERCOL ecoDrive”), and allows for fantastic voyages you can even take with your MP3 player on the go. If this is the first chapter, we can only imagine the futuristic, celestial steps Cristian Vogel will take before his engines are fit for human consumption.

01. CYK movingHigh (4:54)
02. XPUTE theWoopWoop (4:53)
03. rogue PROTOCHI (5:09)
04. BOPX_BOCX (variant1) (4:56)
05. SKX engineUndercover (6:16)
06. SAGA (9:36) <-- CD EXCLUSIVE
07. BOPX_BOCX (variant2) (5:11) <-- CD EXCLUSIVE
08. PROTOCHI rearMount (4:19) <-- CD EXCLUSIVE
09. CYK sprintSparks (4:33)
10. SKX engineUnderwrap (8:01) <-- CD EXCLUSIVE
11. PERCOL ecoDrive (5:08)

Artist - Cristian Vogel
Title - The Never Engine
Label - TRESOR
Format - CD / 2 X LP
Catalog No. - TRESOR 231
Release Date - 19/11/2007

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