MUTEKLIVE 010 goes back eight years to an ultra-rare live recording of Matias Aguayo and Dirk Leyer's Closer Musik, who were an early highlight from the Kompakt roster that has since set the template for how to bring techno's blood to a boil. Closer Musik may have only lasted for one album - 2002's After Love - and all of two singles, but this Aguayo and Leyers duo's impression has been felt in the work of many producers ever since they broke up. Listening back to this 44-minute set, it's easy to hear why. Closer Musik embody all the early aspirations of the Kompakt sound; they were full of personality and brimming with sexual agitation. The pair have since gione their own ways, with Aguayo continuing the sound the duo first got underway on their singles, and Leyers moving deeper into the dark, atmospheric textures that made up the duo's album tracks and b-sides. Listening back, it's a wonder how this set still holds up as well as it does. The production values are tight and controlled, and nothing here reflects the date of the music's making, other than the recording's date. Even in 2001, Closer Musik were in a worl dof their own. It's a world well worth revisiting.
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MUTEKLIVE 010 goes back eight years to an ultra-rare live recording of Matias Aguayo and Dirk Leyer's Closer Musik, who were an early highlight from the Kompakt roster that has since set the template for how to bring techno's blood to a boil. Closer Musik may have only lasted for one album - 2002's After Love - and all of two singles, but this Aguayo and Leyers duo's impression has been felt in the work of many producers ever since they broke up. Listening back to this 44-minute set, it's easy to hear why. Closer Musik embody all the early aspirations of the Kompakt sound; they were full of personality and brimming with sexual agitation. The pair have since gione their own ways, with Aguayo continuing the sound the duo first got underway on their singles, and Leyers moving deeper into the dark, atmospheric textures that made up the duo's album tracks and b-sides. Listening back, it's a wonder how this set still holds up as well as it does. The production values are tight and controlled, and nothing here reflects the date of the music's making, other than the recording's date. Even in 2001, Closer Musik were in a worl dof their own. It's a world well worth revisiting.
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