{"product_id":"skee-mask-resort","title":"Skee Mask - Resort","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor a young talent like Munich producer Bryan Müller (aka Skee Mask), a challenge emerged: how to engage with the beloved, vast ’90s dance canon of hardcore music, Amen breaks, and ambient techno, without resorting to facile nostalgia. \u003c\/span\u003eMüller has spent the past decade combining dance-music histories in all sorts of beguiling ways:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edubbed-out hardgroove techno,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efleet-footed drum ’n’ bass and bone-chilling ambience,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epsychedelic and minimalistic IDM.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eResort\u003c\/em\u003e, the electronic producer’s latest LP, may be his most potent distillation yet. Here, he makes his club-ready approach to historiography clear, crumpling up timelines and sketching out a universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of the thrill of \u003cem\u003eResort \u003c\/em\u003eis in watching Müller stretch out a bit, exploring new territories by revisiting old traditions. In doing so, he offers up some of his warmest and most inviting music to date, giving his always-precise drum programming a sepia-tinged hue. In its best moments, the LP sounds beamed in from a slightly different universe, one in which Warp and Rephlex never left the mid-’90s and every sample arrived blanketed in a thin layer of dust. “BB Care,” thanks to its ramshackle drums, dreamy synth pads, and barely there vocal samples, feels like a forgotten bonus track from Music Has the Right to Children. “Hölzl Was a Dancer,” a house-music stomper with shuffle-and-skip drums and an acrobatic bassline, might have lit up dancefloors in 1992. The hazy synth workout “Hedwig Transformation Group” recalls GAS at his most blissed-out, while “Waldmeister” displays Müller’s ambient-techno chops, with sun-dappled synthesizers gleaming amid groaning bass. \u003cspan\u003eFor all its retro-leaning references, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eResort\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is hardly shackled to the past. It is a series of clever and subtle reimaginings, fusing new-school and genre-agnostic approaches to electronic music with vintage textures. \u003cem\u003eResort\u003c\/em\u003e, with its blissed-out breakbeats, lucid-dream techno, and gauzy downtempo, is both a quiet flex and an ode to umpteen dance-music histories. — (via Pitchfork)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2016710804\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Ilian Tape\u003cbr\u003eFormat: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 2024\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Techno, Ambient, Breakbeat, Drum n Bass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: House \/ Electro \/ Techno\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ilian Tape","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44455340376222,"sku":"ITLP19","price":48.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/a1230128187_10.jpg?v=1730202393","url":"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/products\/skee-mask-resort","provider":"The Analog Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}