Artist: Pole
Genre(s):
Pop
Electronic
Easy Listening
Other
Discography:
Steingarten Remixes Vinyl
Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
Steingarten
Year: 2007
Tracks: 9
Showcase
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Pole
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
45-45
Year: 2003
Tracks: 4
R
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
3
Year: 2000
Tracks: 8
2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 6
Raum
Year: 1998
Tracks: 2
1
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
Although you won't come up his name in their catalogue, Stefan Betke has been nearly associated with the Berlin-based Basic Channel soft touch and BC artists such as Maurizio, Monolake, and Vainqueur. Like those artists' bassy, dub-laden reductions of techno and sign, Betke's figure out (coming into court so far on the Kiff SM, Din, and Mute labels under the identify Pole) has been all virtually doing more with less -- snaps, clicks, crackles, and smudgy bass part atmospheres take the solid of Pole 12-inches such as "Tanzen" and "Raum Eins/Raum Zwei," as well as Betke's ably titled series of CD releases issued by Kiff and distributed to American audiences by Matador. Where virtually Basic Channel releases cling dauntlessly to the throbbing momentum of 4/4 minimal art, however, Betke draws complex, intricate rhythms from the crisp analogue fog, layering rich, ghosted melodies over multitracked charismatic tape siss and a barrage of syncopated skips and stutters. Betke's tracks thence share more with off-kilter Kölners such as Oval, Mouse on Mars, and Kandis than with his implied colleagues at Basic Channel studios. Still, his medicine retains the stark dressing table of Berlin post-techno, though it's far more interesting (and far less dance-friendly) than the comparability power hint. Betke's nom de plum derives, as coarse, from a sound-processing device -- the Waldorf 4 Pole-Filter, from which issue the strained creaks and crackles that name and characterise his euphony. In 2003, Betke issued the 45/45 EP (Deaf-and-dumb person), the number 1 installment in a series of releases that would include the single "90/90" and a self-titled album. These releases were a radical departure, incorporating more pronounced beats and appearances from doorknocker Fat Jon.
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