Description:	CD on Kranky
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Electronica / IDM
	Label:	Kranky
	Price:	£10.29
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

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...according to our Mingus on 10 May 2007.

Strategy: "Future Rock" on Kranky, like the label this set encompasses various elements that make up modern music production values, techniques and hardware. It also covers the variety of styles and genres most eclectic music lovers embrace, from headphone ambience, drifting dub-like sound-scapes, dance, the dreaded IDM field with influences from rock and beyond. In short a typical Kranky release, if there is such a thing! So, disco-not-disco, dub-not-dub, funk without the sweat and roll without the rock. Hang on a minute isn't this a hitchhikers guide to early 21st century music. Why are Kranky so prolific? How have I got through my reviews this week without the usual Norman towers type dick banter...Anyways, adios for this week my friends, happy listening

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What their label says...

*Paul Dickow aka Strategy releases music on his Archigramophone imprint and
curates monthly Community Library nights at the Dunes club in Portland, Oregon.
Strategy has released dance singles (with Seattle's ORAC label), remixes and a
debut album, Strut, on the Portland-based Outward Music label in summer 2003.
*Strategy wires together Dickow's programming and performing experience via
a hodgepodge of table top electronics, computers and realtime musicianship.
Combining a granular ambient aesthetic with an abstract, percolating rhythmic
sensibility, Strategy unites small parts into complete melodies motivated by
complex pulsations. The Portland Mercury described Dickow as "Portland's
laptop prankster/meister of disquo."
*To date you've heard Strategy dabble in everything from headphone-oriented
ambient music to house and dub; this is the work that brings it all together.
*Tracklisting: 01. Can't Roll Back 02. Future Rock 03. Running On Empty 04.
Windswept (Interlude) 05. Stops Spinning 06. Phantom Powered 07. Sunfall
(Interlude) 08. Red Screen 09. I Have To Do This Thing (Fantastic Planet
Mix)