1 2 3, by pole

1 2 3

by pole

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Thibaut Devigne This album is at the frontier of dub and electronica. Ver smooth, with delays and quite textured, but also very smooth and somehow relaxing. If you like either genre, you shold definitively lend it an ear. Favorite track: Berlin.

Trevor Exter A classic. Fascinating on its face. But you can also put this on in the background instead of those inane "lo-fi beats for studying" channels and watch your grades go through the roof. Favorite track: Kirschenessen.

Jon Just chill and dissect this awesome piece of work, a fantastic dubbed out trip that's hard to categorize. There are so many generic dub techno artists that all sound the same today... pole was and is truly original.

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1.	Modul 04:48	info	buy track
2.	Fragen 06:35	info	buy track
3.	Kirschenessen 05:19	info	buy track
4.	Lachen 07:26	info	buy track
5.	Berlin 04:43	info	buy track
6.	Tanzen 05:51	info	buy track
7.	Fremd 05:29	info	buy track
8.	Paula 06:10	info	buy track
9.	Fragen 04:46	info	buy track
10.	Fahren 09:18	info	buy track
11.	Stadt 03:27	info	buy track
12.	Streit 05:57	info	buy track
13.	Huckepack 04:40	info	buy track
14.	Hafen 04:26	info	buy track
15.	Weit 05:47	info	buy track
16.	Silberfisch 06:36	info	buy track
17.	Taxi 07:10	info	buy track
18.	Karussell 06:40	info	buy track
19.	Überfahrt 08:04	info	buy track
20.	Rondell Zwei 07:01	info	buy track
21.	Klettern 08:03	info	buy track
22.	Strand 07:32	info	buy track
23.	Fohlenfurz 03:11	info	buy track

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Taking his name from a defective analogue Waldorf 4-Pole filter, the broken machine’s distinctive crackles gave Pole the starting point for his equally simple and subtle sound layers. Rhythmic textures and warmly pulsing bass lines join in play and, at least from Pole 2, experience a slow shift towards Minimal Dub.

Betke explains, "A common factor in all the releases was that they all originated in a kind of dub continuum. Melodies have never been my motivation – they were always more peripheral. But across those albums, the reverbs and the bass lines were always related and interlinked with each other. By working that way, I didn't feel as if I was under any artificial pressure, and I could allow things to end loosely in order to continue my work."

Pole 1 (1998), Pole 2 (1999) and Pole 3 (2000), originally released as three consecutive albums in their own right, and described by The Wire as “…a set of roadmaps for the soul”, are presented together to highlight Pole’s deliberate statement - reinforced by the titling of the albums and their minimalist monochrome cover art.

Pole’s music has a unique way of oscillating between melody and avant-garde, between pop and experimental. While many of his electronic peers swore off all danceable elements during the latter half of the 1990s, Pole decided to walk the edge, championing both radical reductionism and psychedelic dream states. Tracks like ‘Kirschenessen’ or ‘Hafen’ give ample proof that his music doesn’t limit itself to mere functionalism, but encourages new and poetic associations.

Pole’s classic 1 2 3 trilogy still resonates in contemporary electronic music. The unmistakeable crackles infiltrated both mainstream Pop and the burgeoning Dubstep scene and now, with the reissue of his first three albums, listeners get a chance to experience Pole 1-3 as a coherent entity and explore this defining benchmark in the history of electronic music.

The re-issue of pole´s album releases, 1, 2 and 3, collated as box set (cd and vinyl) were released on Mute records April 24th 2020.

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released April 24, 2020

written & produced by stefan betke, published by scape publishing / universal, p + c pole 2008

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