Mike Parker
Dispatches
Boomkat Product Review:
Future-proofed by its tensile, fluid minimalism, Mike Parker’s fetêd 2001 debut album is finally cut to vinyl by Field Records, expanded with two new cuts to remind keen heads and prompt new dancers to his sleek brilliance.
A true cult figure of minimal techno since the late ‘90s, Mike Parker’s music was long the preserve of those in the know, until the groundswell of minimal techno in the late ‘00s cottoned on to his works with Donato Dozzy and certified his status as one of the best to do it. A visual arts professor in Buffalo, New York by day, Parker’s parallel life as musician distinctly draws from his visual practice, quite literally on artworks of his label, Geophone, and more subtly in the keenly hypnotic aesthetic he’s developed and stuck to with exacting force over the decades. With that in mind, it’s almost difficult to distinguish the styles of his late ‘90s-inot’00s phase that surface in ‘Dispatches’, and his contemporary tekkerz, such is the holistic quality and future-proofed nature of his brand of minimalist, insistent sound design.
While effectively a collection of hard-to-find vinyl singles and EPs produced between 1998-2001, ‘Dispatches’ adds up to an ideal large form canvas to immerse in Parker’s work. The two exclusive cuts hail him at his hardest in the bullish trample of ‘Voiceprint: Voice Two’, and going long and deep in the new, 10’ closer ‘Dissolution 99’, with the rest framign him at his submerged best. The likes of ‘Triceratops’ can be heard as blueprints for the sort of sinewy gristle that fed into Sandwell District, and ‘Copper Variations: cv1 (Alternate Take)’ is pure sleep walker warehouse techno for the biggest hangars. His elemental tekkerz are in mesmerising effect on the 9’ of ‘Drain Hum’, and the hydrodynamic pulse of ‘Amalgamated’ even echoes late Drexciya functions, whilst ‘Voiceprint: Voice One’ is surely comparable with the most concentrated Plastikman.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Future-proofed by its tensile, fluid minimalism, Mike Parker’s fetêd 2001 debut album is finally cut to vinyl by Field Records, expanded with two new cuts to remind keen heads and prompt new dancers to his sleek brilliance.
A true cult figure of minimal techno since the late ‘90s, Mike Parker’s music was long the preserve of those in the know, until the groundswell of minimal techno in the late ‘00s cottoned on to his works with Donato Dozzy and certified his status as one of the best to do it. A visual arts professor in Buffalo, New York by day, Parker’s parallel life as musician distinctly draws from his visual practice, quite literally on artworks of his label, Geophone, and more subtly in the keenly hypnotic aesthetic he’s developed and stuck to with exacting force over the decades. With that in mind, it’s almost difficult to distinguish the styles of his late ‘90s-inot’00s phase that surface in ‘Dispatches’, and his contemporary tekkerz, such is the holistic quality and future-proofed nature of his brand of minimalist, insistent sound design.
While effectively a collection of hard-to-find vinyl singles and EPs produced between 1998-2001, ‘Dispatches’ adds up to an ideal large form canvas to immerse in Parker’s work. The two exclusive cuts hail him at his hardest in the bullish trample of ‘Voiceprint: Voice Two’, and going long and deep in the new, 10’ closer ‘Dissolution 99’, with the rest framign him at his submerged best. The likes of ‘Triceratops’ can be heard as blueprints for the sort of sinewy gristle that fed into Sandwell District, and ‘Copper Variations: cv1 (Alternate Take)’ is pure sleep walker warehouse techno for the biggest hangars. His elemental tekkerz are in mesmerising effect on the 9’ of ‘Drain Hum’, and the hydrodynamic pulse of ‘Amalgamated’ even echoes late Drexciya functions, whilst ‘Voiceprint: Voice One’ is surely comparable with the most concentrated Plastikman.
Boomkat Product Review:
Future-proofed by its tensile, fluid minimalism, Mike Parker’s fetêd 2001 debut album is finally cut to vinyl by Field Records, expanded with two new cuts to remind keen heads and prompt new dancers to his sleek brilliance.
A true cult figure of minimal techno since the late ‘90s, Mike Parker’s music was long the preserve of those in the know, until the groundswell of minimal techno in the late ‘00s cottoned on to his works with Donato Dozzy and certified his status as one of the best to do it. A visual arts professor in Buffalo, New York by day, Parker’s parallel life as musician distinctly draws from his visual practice, quite literally on artworks of his label, Geophone, and more subtly in the keenly hypnotic aesthetic he’s developed and stuck to with exacting force over the decades. With that in mind, it’s almost difficult to distinguish the styles of his late ‘90s-inot’00s phase that surface in ‘Dispatches’, and his contemporary tekkerz, such is the holistic quality and future-proofed nature of his brand of minimalist, insistent sound design.
While effectively a collection of hard-to-find vinyl singles and EPs produced between 1998-2001, ‘Dispatches’ adds up to an ideal large form canvas to immerse in Parker’s work. The two exclusive cuts hail him at his hardest in the bullish trample of ‘Voiceprint: Voice Two’, and going long and deep in the new, 10’ closer ‘Dissolution 99’, with the rest framign him at his submerged best. The likes of ‘Triceratops’ can be heard as blueprints for the sort of sinewy gristle that fed into Sandwell District, and ‘Copper Variations: cv1 (Alternate Take)’ is pure sleep walker warehouse techno for the biggest hangars. His elemental tekkerz are in mesmerising effect on the 9’ of ‘Drain Hum’, and the hydrodynamic pulse of ‘Amalgamated’ even echoes late Drexciya functions, whilst ‘Voiceprint: Voice One’ is surely comparable with the most concentrated Plastikman.
Boomkat Product Review:
Future-proofed by its tensile, fluid minimalism, Mike Parker’s fetêd 2001 debut album is finally cut to vinyl by Field Records, expanded with two new cuts to remind keen heads and prompt new dancers to his sleek brilliance.
A true cult figure of minimal techno since the late ‘90s, Mike Parker’s music was long the preserve of those in the know, until the groundswell of minimal techno in the late ‘00s cottoned on to his works with Donato Dozzy and certified his status as one of the best to do it. A visual arts professor in Buffalo, New York by day, Parker’s parallel life as musician distinctly draws from his visual practice, quite literally on artworks of his label, Geophone, and more subtly in the keenly hypnotic aesthetic he’s developed and stuck to with exacting force over the decades. With that in mind, it’s almost difficult to distinguish the styles of his late ‘90s-inot’00s phase that surface in ‘Dispatches’, and his contemporary tekkerz, such is the holistic quality and future-proofed nature of his brand of minimalist, insistent sound design.
While effectively a collection of hard-to-find vinyl singles and EPs produced between 1998-2001, ‘Dispatches’ adds up to an ideal large form canvas to immerse in Parker’s work. The two exclusive cuts hail him at his hardest in the bullish trample of ‘Voiceprint: Voice Two’, and going long and deep in the new, 10’ closer ‘Dissolution 99’, with the rest framign him at his submerged best. The likes of ‘Triceratops’ can be heard as blueprints for the sort of sinewy gristle that fed into Sandwell District, and ‘Copper Variations: cv1 (Alternate Take)’ is pure sleep walker warehouse techno for the biggest hangars. His elemental tekkerz are in mesmerising effect on the 9’ of ‘Drain Hum’, and the hydrodynamic pulse of ‘Amalgamated’ even echoes late Drexciya functions, whilst ‘Voiceprint: Voice One’ is surely comparable with the most concentrated Plastikman.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Future-proofed by its tensile, fluid minimalism, Mike Parker’s fetêd 2001 debut album is finally cut to vinyl by Field Records, expanded with two new cuts to remind keen heads and prompt new dancers to his sleek brilliance.
A true cult figure of minimal techno since the late ‘90s, Mike Parker’s music was long the preserve of those in the know, until the groundswell of minimal techno in the late ‘00s cottoned on to his works with Donato Dozzy and certified his status as one of the best to do it. A visual arts professor in Buffalo, New York by day, Parker’s parallel life as musician distinctly draws from his visual practice, quite literally on artworks of his label, Geophone, and more subtly in the keenly hypnotic aesthetic he’s developed and stuck to with exacting force over the decades. With that in mind, it’s almost difficult to distinguish the styles of his late ‘90s-inot’00s phase that surface in ‘Dispatches’, and his contemporary tekkerz, such is the holistic quality and future-proofed nature of his brand of minimalist, insistent sound design.
While effectively a collection of hard-to-find vinyl singles and EPs produced between 1998-2001, ‘Dispatches’ adds up to an ideal large form canvas to immerse in Parker’s work. The two exclusive cuts hail him at his hardest in the bullish trample of ‘Voiceprint: Voice Two’, and going long and deep in the new, 10’ closer ‘Dissolution 99’, with the rest framign him at his submerged best. The likes of ‘Triceratops’ can be heard as blueprints for the sort of sinewy gristle that fed into Sandwell District, and ‘Copper Variations: cv1 (Alternate Take)’ is pure sleep walker warehouse techno for the biggest hangars. His elemental tekkerz are in mesmerising effect on the 9’ of ‘Drain Hum’, and the hydrodynamic pulse of ‘Amalgamated’ even echoes late Drexciya functions, whilst ‘Voiceprint: Voice One’ is surely comparable with the most concentrated Plastikman.
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