Rod Modell - Captagon

Tresor Records is delighted to welcome Rod Modell to its catalogue, with the release of his new album Captagon. Rod Modell needs no introduction, his various projects render him a master of techno. In repetition and barely noticeable change, Modell resculptures perceptions. His sound-design echoes cinematic ethereality, where ferric artefacts slam against percussion, rusty delays filter observation - the resulting web is a complex, radiating ambience that etches a natural ebb and flow.

Transformative sounds alight from the outset, Triangulation recalls flickering harmonies and grains, a tectonic swipe. Fast-paced dub techno emerges in Reiki, the disorienting clangs suggesting a step away from his recent ambient excursions. Ito crunches the pulse further with insistent noise, into soaring epiphanies of darkened transmissions.

Modell singularly uproots standard sonic hierarchies of techno production, crisp static as forceful as his beats, a provocation of rhythm and noise. Unceasing in its fast tempo, Jade is trademark Tresor business - the seismic sub-sonics underpin a momentous drive, with reverberated vocal inflections disfiguring warped, dancing materials. Scrawler is upfront and direct, a slamming groove and swaying chords di using ethereality. Enter vast chambers of smeared minimalism.

Where Modell’s recent releases had indicated a priority for ambient sounds, this new album extends Modell’s essential vision within techno. Closing track Air-Port shows Modell at his most crucial best - an ethereal colossus of sub-bass weight and morphing geometry.