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                      Shed - Shedding The Past
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Artist...............: Shed
Album................: Shedding The Past
Genre................: Techno
URL..................: https://www.discogs.com/release/1449316

Released.............: 1 september 2008
Label................: Ostgut
Label-URL............: https://www.ostgut.de/
Catalog#.............: CD06

Source...............: CD
Ripper...............: CDex / LAME 3.97 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.97
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 250kbps)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3

Ripped by............: tripwire on 26-12-2008
Posted by............: tripwire on 26-12-2008

Included.............: NFO, SFV
Covers...............: Front 

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                       Tracklisting
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   1. (00:01:08) Shed - Intro
   2. (00:07:06) Shed - Boose-Sweep
   3. (00:07:09) Shed - Another Wedged Chicken
   4. (00:07:23) Shed - Flat Axe
   5. (00:08:07) Shed - The Lower Upside Down
   6. (00:07:22) Shed - Slow Motion Replay
   7. (00:04:12) Shed - Waved Mind
   8. (00:05:51) Shed - That Beats Everything!
   9. (00:06:58) Shed - ITHAW
  10. (00:06:33) Shed - Estrange
  11. (00:02:52) Shed - Ostrich-Mountain-Square

Playing Time.........: 01:04:41
Total Size...........: 116.76 MB

NFO generated on.....: 26-12-2008 19:45:08

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The work at hand presents yet another stunning release in the lines of both 
Ostgut Ton's fine aquisition of thoughtfully selected club music producers and 
Shed's irresistible intense techno sound manufactures. The former reflects an 
almost obvious and logical addition to Ostgut Ton's allover objective to deliver 
nothing else but pure club music, just proofed by recent works as of 
Dettmann and Fengler - although "Shedding The Past" does not follow their 
art of straight, stripped down and raw repetitiveness. For the latter - Shed's 
irresistible intense techno sound - this first album represents a first 
culmination point of years of continous Soloaction research. The recordings 
fully unfold the total variety of his outstanding crafts of sound.

So, what's in here? One could think of Saunderson Detroit sound, Aphex Twin 
rave and Manix hardcore - but that does not seem to be the point. Rather 
the "Archive Document" - making one believe to present an archaeological 
finding of media of an epoch far ahead - is the key. The voice announces 
"Shedding The Past" as a paradoxon, because "[à] it fuels so much the 
emotional feeling of the intensity and purity of club and rave in the early days 
without resembling those gone moments. Rather it creates a new virgin 
moment in us built upon and leaving our past at the very same time." Further 
it sees the irresistibility of the recordings when characterizing "[t]he new in 
his sound - full of energy and vigor, not yet touched, used or exploited. 
"Finally the document's conclusion delivers both its own argumentation's and 
"Shedding The Past"'s concentrate: "true techno music".

There is a sheer easiness founding the attractiveness of all of his musical 
productions. This easiness appears to be a natural inner trait with eastern 
germany born, raised and socialised Shed. Both musical and social carreer 
seem to profoundly live from this inner easiness, finally and logically catching 
techno institutions's Berghain and Hard Wax ears. As others of his social 
provenience, Shed took on the opportunities of the early nineties techno 
culture, which unfolded after the Wall went down, and developed an 
approach of "just doing it". With this easiness in mind "Shedding The Past" is 
just "true techno music". (text by JB) 
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