SUPER.TRIGGER is an absolute trove of percussive tensions and frequency driven finesse and deals mainly with the basic principles of any modern music: rhythm.
Frank Bretschneider takes his, never simple, but all the more heartfelt relationship to rhythm and its complexity, to an intense inventory and, this time, works less out of suspenseful abstract sounds, than out of grooves.
There is a real sense of perpetual evolution and coiled tightness to the pulsating rhythmic programming, while the subtle sheets of noise that fill the void behind the beats compete against the rhythm and their own sonic purity for a higher state of energy – a constant flux of tension and release.
SUPER.TRIGGER comes again in Bretschneider’s signature style of ultra-clean bleeps and bouncing machine beats with terseness and precision, and a preference for high-voltage sounds halfway between noise and tone.
The combination of programming, composition and construction is connected with his very idiosyncratic aesthetic of digital sound: controlled and objective. The whole follows simple mechanical states – on/off, up/down, soft/hard, slow/fast, loud/quiet – and is characterized by the absence of any romanticism. Still this return to the elementary, the fundamental, does not diminish the music to dance-floor functionality, instead Bretschneider always stays emphatically musical and manages to generate sophisticated and complex rhythm-structures, which respectively induce minimal deviations in frequency and timing relationships to generate a surplus of funk.
In all, SUPER.TRIGGER is Bretschneider’s most straightforward, clear and compact work yet.
raster-noton r-n 149 | 2013
01. BIG.HOPES
02. FLICKER.FUNK
03. MACHINE.GUN
04. PINK.THRILL
05. SUPER.TRIGGER
06. OVER.LOAD
07. DAY.DREAM
08. BLACK.OUT
09. MEAN.STREAK
Music by Frank Bretschneider
except SUPER.TRIGGER by Frank Bretschneider and Daniel Reisser
Mastered by Andreas (Lupo) Lubich @ Calyx
SUPER.TRIGGER is a previously unreleased remix of MODERN STALKING by Disscoxx (released in 2007 on mini CDr by Stillavailable Records)
OVER.LOAD is a slightly improved version of PARTY OF TWO PARTS (released in 2003 on 10" vinyl by Underscan Records)
OVER.LOAD contains audio samples of AUTSCH by AG Geige (feat. Jan Kummer on vocals)