RELEASED ON 20.9.2024 ON KOMPAKT VIA SRD
CATALOGUE NUMBER KOMPAKT478
Dettinger’s ‘Intershop’ and ‘Oasis’ have long been held, by many fans of ambient and electronic music, to be some of the
finest albums in their field. Produced by the mysterious Olaf Dettinger, about whom not much is publicly known, they
were some of the earliest full-lengths released by the then-nascent Kompakt, and in many ways, they both articulated
and defined the sound that would come to be known as Pop Ambient, while also existing, somehow, to the leftfield of any
clearly recognisable genre.
Beautiful, sui generis works, it is a rare pleasure to see them being reissued on vinyl for a new generation of listeners to
embrace. Originally released on CD only in 1999, Intershop was Kompakt’s first artist full-length. The music here
simmers and broods, with opulent banks of tone marking out territory for rhythms that seem to be built from the clacking
detritus of technology – hisses, thunks, knocks. Bass is deployed carefully, each drop a dubbed-out depth charge;
drones spin and spiral, warping and weaving between the beats.
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Oasis, released in 2000, refined the palette that Dettinger had explored on its predecessor. A blurred crusade of ambient
texturology, its unassuming patterns, and subtle, incremental dynamics, admit to real beauty, and a kind of abstract
sensuality that you don’t often experience with music that is, perhaps, similarly tooled, but not as poetic. Through
seemingly simple gestures – whether lushly expansive repetitions, hyper-acute tremolo tones, or ear-tickling rhythms – it
builds complex emotional resonance. It’s no surprise to discover Oasis is held in high esteem by artists like Panda Bear
of Animal Collective, who once said of Dettinger, “For us, he was the dude.”
There is, of course, other music to know Dettinger by, too – his three excellent EPs for Kompakt, Blond (1998), Puma
and Totentanz (1999), the latter of which, Michael Mayer once argued, “invented dubstep.” There is also a small, yet
graceful run of compilation contributions, many of which can be found on Kompakt’s Total and Pop Ambient series.
Tracklisting
A1 Dettinger Intershop (1) (Remastered 2024) 00:07:47
A2 Dettinger Intershop (2) (Remastered 2024) 00:04:57
A3 Dettinger Intershop (3) (Remastered 2024) 00:06:43
A4 Dettinger Intershop (4) (Remastered 2024) 00:04:01
B1 Dettinger Intershop (5) (Remastered 2024) 00:05:34
B2 Dettinger Intershop (6) (Remastered 2024) 00:09:40
B3 Dettinger Intershop (7) (Remastered 2024) 00:05:01