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    Artist description
    http://www.alphawezen.com/
    Music Style
    electronic, ambient, micro house, space pop, dope beatz, home techno, drum'n'bass, trip hop, headz, elektronik, breakbeats, lounge, chillout
    Similar Artists
    alphawezen, asu, aeric, sk-1, sensorama, pierre henry, j.s.bach, calafuria, theo parrish, basalt, plastikman, robert hood, miles davis, squarepusher, aphex twin
    Group Members
    http://www.callasong.de/alphawezen/
    Albums
    L'Apres-Midi d'un Microphone [MOLE Listening Pearls / UCMG Germany]
    Press Reviews
    "Allow me to unreservedly recommend Alphawezen's l'apres-midi d'un microphone. I know nothing about Alphawezen, except that it's the nomenclature of German artist Ernst Wawra, and that he's made one of the loveliest home-listening techno albums I've heard this year. This fact is cognisable almost immediately, as opener System1 rises out of ghostly water samples, developing into a spectral groove lost somewhere between Aphex Twin's glacial ambient phase (a resonance heightened on its sequel, System2) and the discreetly clicking micro-house of the Force Tracks roster. So it's another one of those minimal house albums Tim likes, you're thinking. Well, no, because the next track Into the Stars is a full-on ballad: all jittery rhythms, searing guitar and gentle vocals courtesy of Asu, Wawra's occasional partner in crime. Wawra is 'eclectic' in the best sense of the word, moving between genres in an unselfconscious manner and with a certain sense of continuity. That said, he does delve into a number of different styles over the album, from the spaced-out Kruder & Dorfmeister style trip hop of Maimouna to the dramatic drum & bass of Frost, to the opaque minimal techno of Fern (Sonar). Throughout, he switches between stilted-sounding programmed rhythms and fluid breakbeats with consummate ease. It's Wawra's melodic sensibility, however, that is his real strength; it's also what gives his different approaches a level of consistency and unity necessary to make a strong album. Nearly all the tracks here are possessed of gloriously gloopy, chiming melodies, making the album's closest point of reference Aphex Twin's first Selected Ambient Works album, albeit with sad, sounding dub basslines drifting underneath. Unlike most of my attempts at rave reviews, it's difficult for me to find a selling point in terms of innovation with Alphawezen. Simultaneously warm and cool, tracks like the mournful Wald1, with its papery-sounding breaks, plinky-plonky synth sounds and impossibly heavy bass, are not so much futuristic as strangely evocative of a lost past, like walking alone through an eerily empty ancient Greek ruin." [ by: Tim Finney, Skykicking, see http://www.geocities.com/tim_finney/july2001.html ] [ Deutsche Texte: siehe http://www.alphawezen.de/ ]
    Additional Info
    http://www.mole.de/eng/Artists/alphawezen.html
    Location
    Bad Aachen, NRW - Germany

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