Tag Archive: Marko Fürstenberg

Luke Hess, Ignite The Dark Remixes

The first batch of remixes from Luke Hess’s debut long player, Light In The Dark are predictably a dub heavy swag retouched by some of the leading lights of dub-based techno. Stephen Hitchell adopts his cv313 guise for a sublime, spatial meander through Hess’s “Reel Life,” opening up the reverb gates and giving the track a solid drenching in ambient white noise. The fragments borrowed from the track are chilled down to an icy freeze, sounding like they’re contracting and cracking in the grainy, sub zero atmospherics. He largely leave the decaying chords that drove Hess’s original alone, shaping instead a droning, dub landscape floating in the weightlessness of space.

Luke Hess & Marko Fürstenberg, Campfire Dialogue

[Echocord Colour] While no proper affiliation exists between Detroit’s Echospace and Denmark’s Echocord, there is certainly an interesting volley of ideas taking place between the two like-minded labels. Both champion a sonorous mid-tempo dub style, and, with the recent launch of the sub-label Echocord Colour, both please collectors with lush transparent records. But while the […]