The Coldest Season

DeepChord Presents Echospace - The Coldest Season

The Coldest Season
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Artist: DeepChord Presents Echospace
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Modern Love
Soundtracks:
  1. First Point of Aries
  2. Abraxas
  3. Ocean of Emptiness
  4. Aequinoxium
  5. Celestialis
  6. Sunset
  7. Elysian
  8. Winter in Seney
  9. Empyrean

Music reviews of The Coldest Season

Music Review: A rich tapestry of wintery landscapes
Rating: 5 Stars

Echospace is a brilliant collaboration between Rod Modell (of DeepChord), Steven Hitchell (Soultek), and a whole lot of vintage audio gear including 8-bit samplers and all sorts of echo units. "The Coldest Season" is sometimes barely even "music" in the traditional sense, but rather enveloping sound environments - and I mean this in the best possible way. They push the boundaries of ambient techno to a breaking point where subtle groove meets near stasis.

Above all, "The Coldest Season" is incredibly evocative. This is sometimes a problem for electronic music for a variety of reasons. If the music is too digitally rigid, it can lose a sense of humanity, and while this is sometimes the desired effect, some people tend to associate all forms of electronic music with the cold precision of machines. Echospace is one of the most organic-sounding electronic albums I've heard in a long time - some tracks actually sound like they went out to a field, recorded a snowstorm, and put it on the album unchanged. That's not to suggest an overly minimal sound, but rather to emphasize the extent to which they were able to make something that sounds like it came from nature, not a synthesizer.

Each track has a rich ambience that evokes a wintery landscape something like what we hear from Pan Sonic, but not as sparse. The texture is dense, as is typical with dub techno artists. It is the density more than anything that shows the strong ties to the famous Basic Channel sound. Some of the tracks that have a faint beat or pulse in the background are reminiscent of Basic Channel's more abstract music such as "Radiance."

"The Coldest Season" is a great CD and worth checking out if you like any of the following: ambient music, dub techno, electronic music, or adventurous music in general. I'm looking forward to what Echospace does next.

Description of The Coldest Season

Echospace is the collaborative venture of DeepChord's Rod Modell and Soultek's Steve Hitchell, and this is their first full-length release on the Modern Love label. Detroit's Rod Modell is one of the most noted producers operating in the dub-infused aftermath of the Basic Channel axis and all its myriad offshoots. His series of 12"s on his own eponymous imprint were released at the tail-end of the '90s and the beginning of the new century, and are considered by many as the natural progression from the effervescent, super-dense techno of Berlin's Chain Reaction. Following an extended hiatus, Rod Modell has re-wired his studio again and is once again receiving great acclaim for his low-end techno variations. Chicago's Steve Hitchell is a longtime DeepChord cohort and a noted producer in his own right -- most notably under the Soultek moniker. The Coldest Season was produced using nothing but vintage analog equipment: Roland Space Echo, Echoplex, Korg tape delay, vintage signal processors, noise generators, Sequential Circuits 8-bit samplers & numerous analog synthesizers. This project goes back to the heady days of Berlin-based proto dub/techno variations, recorded and produced in Detroit and Chicago. Three of the world's most important techno cities colliding to form a whole that perfectly bridges the gap between The Motor City's emotive arrangements, The Windy City's percussive robustness, and Berlin's life-altering Basic Channel continuum.

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