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greie gut fraktion - Baustelle
'Baustelle' is the debut collaboration between digital sculptress AGF and Berlin lychpin Gudrun Gut. Early in 2009, the pair were approached by the BBC's Late Junction to work on a set of recordings featuring sounds from Berlin's many construction sites (or "Baustelle" in Deutsche). This lead to the pair bundling their knowledge together and creating eleven tracks that make the best of their attributes; AGF's acclaimed programming skills, and Gudrun's post-industrial, avant-pop charms. The preceding single 'Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt' - a cover of an early 80s Palais Schaumberg track - proved that this would be an intriguing project and the full album doesn't disappoint. With 'Cutting Trees' the pair continue their city's fascination with new music, noise and construction, organising spurts of chainsaw into loping dubstep-style patterns, while 'Drilling An Ocean' is much more intimate, featuring Gudrun's close-mic'd vocals blurred into deep, subsonic hums. There's more typical Berlin 4/4 grooves in 'Mischmachine' and 'Make It Work', but it's when they move into more abstract spaces that they're in their element. The uneven stereo balance of the beatless 'Betongiessen' makes great use of the source material, mixing coarse field recording textures with shiny glass and steel digitalis, but equally their beats on tracks like 'Grossgrundbesitzer' retain the grit and essence of the worksite with nods to the industrious rhythms Einstürzende Neubauten. Like Berlin itself, this album feels like a work in progress that the pair could take much further with the benefit of their combined skillsets, this is just the start of something rather interesting...














































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