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FIN AOUT 2021
ATTENTION IL Y A UN PETIT ‘SEAM SPLIT’ (déchirure pochette en haut)
If Shelter swam through the serene side of the Library experience on GBR016, CV Vision blasts off in
the opposite direction, riding an explosion of funk breaks and frazzled synths into the event horizon on
his retro-futurist opus ‘Insolita’.
As contemporary life accelerates way past peak-weird, CV Vision leans into uncertainty and leaves
Earth in the rear-view. Strung out on Simulacron-3, World On A Wire and Omaggio Ad Einstein, the
Berlin-based musician imagines his own Brave New World, an alternate eXistenZ in a secret
simulation.
Using the space age obsession of the Italian libraries as a launch pad, Dennis Schulze slathers a sonic
storyboard with ferocious percussion, psychedelic fuzz and the pastoral electronics of Germany’s
Kosmische movement. But this is less Can, more uncanny – and Schulze perfectly renders the
cognitive estrangement of a simulated reality through his adventurous production. The monolithic live
drums, recorded in a Neukölln garage on a battered Soviet kit are smeared with tape hiss, compressed
to death and fired through LFOs, re-materialising on record in impossible scale. Time slips out of joint
under the wow and flutter of the reel to reel, drum computers add digital interference to organic
rhythms and the unfaltering slew of the 303 lends the hallucinatory thrill of the club sound system to
an already psychedelic affair.
As Schulze’s imagination runs free, we’re taken through epic space battles and narrow escapes,
moments of reflection and affection and a final resolution, all expressed through a dexterous control of
movement and mood. For every explosion of break-fuelled adrenaline, there’s a cruise into cryo-
chamber music and holodeck exotica. For each neck-snapping blast of acid funk, there’s a zero gravity
lullaby waiting just around the corner.
So put isolation on ice and surrender to the strange, this is a trip you don’t want to end.
