Thomas Brinkmann - Isch

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  • Sometimes people we like to call mavericks make pieces of art that prove that they could do what everyone else is doing. And often it's much better. That's what "Isch" sounds like to me. In one fell swoop, Thomas Brinkmann annihilated most of the minimal techno that was going on around him in 2004 with a monster of a track that was plopped smack dab in the middle of an otherwise fine album. (DJ Koze, being the keen selector he is, picked it up for his All People Is My Friends.) Slow, funky, hypnotic, beautiful and in Koze's words "timeless," it rocks just as hard as it did five years on. Appearing here for what I believe is the first time on vinyl courtesy of the album-deep-cut-rescuing Curle Petite imprint, "Isch" is backed by a remix from another house maverick, Soulphiction. Smartly softening things, he adds a dreamy harp loop to the proceedings and cranks up the funk. Spacing things out nicely, there's now room to breathe the fresh air that Brinkmann was exhaling in this tune. Techno on one side, house on the other and all of it's pretty damn brilliant. Essential.
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      A Isch B Isch (Soulphiction Remisch)
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