Karl Zeiss — Currency
“New York’s Red Antenna is one of the few North American labels to tap in to the Tuetonic strain of minimal Techno. Still, despite the crystaline ring of project alias Karl Zeiss – the duo of brothers Tee and Dan – Currency views the world through a lens that’s been irreparably gunked up, and Zeiss’s sound draws as much from the dirty urban grind of downtown New York as it does the clockwork mechanics of Berlin.’Guilder’ sets up a chirpy, faux-naif arpeggio in opposition to a woodblock strut. “Markka”, with a huge, flanged bassline, beats out of a sluggish electro patter flecked with backwards hi-hats and ghostly little whippoorwill cries. ‘Drachma’ is a rumbling, almost Trance-oriented shredder, with open hi-hats wheeling like knife toothed blades, and ‘Lira’ rounds out the coin-op quartet with a clunky, grimy lo-fi House chug.”
- Philip Sherburne. The Wire, 2004
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