Gillette - S/T

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5...according to our Business Lady on Thu 12 May, 2011.

I have absolutely no idea who Gillette is but, as with the majority of these 100% Silk 12"s, this is top quality business. A-side 'I' takes the listener to the advance stages in the development of minimalist, Vangelis inspired cinematic Techno. This is a simple yet totally reliable formula for all you synth heads out there. 'I' is in no rush to get you up on the dancefloor, on the contrary, it almost encourages you to talke a breather, head to the chill out room, spark up and get in the zone. The bass lines bubble, the soft synths drift by like a cool evening breeze and the beats are as so laid back they almost don't exist. Flip it and you get the imaginatively titled 'II' and 'III'. 'II' is paced at clock ticking speed and is an ultra minimalist affair rooted in a deceptively simple motif that rumbles along like Neu after a couple of Valium... it's a sleepy lad. 'III' is the shorty of the bunch and tinkers with Carpenter-esque skeletal beats and a so-subtle-it's-almost-inaudible bassline. Pleasing stuff.

Utopian cities aren't built in a day, but obelisk-o discos high-rise and fall during a Gillette night. Ladies and gentlemen, we're not floating through space, we're riding the Gillette monorail through a black-lit, airbrushed metropolis where 'cussive keys are cold currency. It's Gattaca enacted, Tommorowland for the modest techno fan, lullabies for the liquid metalhead, a Blade runner for your money. Dualities are dueling for yr ear-space: melancholic yet uplifting, picturesque while bleak, indefinite but somehow fated. Remote with control. When Gillette plays you're the ping pong, the dance floor's yr game table, and those hand claps you hear are the sounds the fans make when you cross the line. Now dance humans, make your kraft work

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