ROD MODELL – Captagon (2023 Repress) – 2LP – Vinyl

2LP – 180g Black Vinyl (2023 Repress).

Rod Modell needs no introduction, his various projects render him a master of techno. In repetition and barely noticeable change, Modell resculptures perceptions. His sound-design echoes cinematic ethereality, where ferric artefacts slam against percussion, rusty delays filter observation – the resulting web is a complex, radiating ambience that etches a natural ebb and flow.

Transformative sounds alight from the outset, Triangulation recalls flickering harmonies andgrains, a tectonic swipe. Fast-paced dub techno emerges in Reiki, the disorienting clangs suggesting a step away from his recent ambient excursions. Ito crunches the pulse further with insistent noise, into soaring epiphanies of darkened transmissions. Modell singularly uproots standard sonic hierarchies of techno production, crisp static as forceful as his beats, a provocation of rhythm and noise. Unceasing in its fast tempo, Jade is trademark Tresor business – the seismic sub-sonics underpin a momentous drive, with reverberated vocal inflections disfiguring warped, dancing materials. Scrawler is upfront and direct, a slamming groove and swaying chords diffusing ethereality. Enter vast chambers of smeared minimalism.

Where Modells other releases had indicated a priority for ambient sounds, this album extends Modells essential vision within techno. Closing track Air-Port shows Modell at his most crucial best – an ethereal colossus of sub-bass weight and morphing geometry.

Tracklist:

A1. Triangulation [02:58]
A2. Reiki [05:18]

B1. ITO [05:55]
B2. Riga [05:38]
B3. Jade [06:12]

C1. Tracer [06:19]
C2. Scrawler [05:32]

D1. Qurra [05:44]
D2. Air-Port [07:41]