Superlongevity 4: Perlon All-Stars
By DJ M on May 30th, 2006
In Electronic Music
Perlon’s stable of artists features the best minimal techno/tech-house musicians in the game today. These electronic wizards know how to channel an enticing minimal sound by balancing repetition and change with an extra bit of booty-shaking funk.
Here’s the track-list for Superlongevity 4, a compilation of exclusive tracks by an all-star cast of electronic artists:
01 Pantytec - Maybe Not
02 Melchior Productions ltd - In The Shadow
03 Baby Ford & Zip - Morning Sir
04 Luciano - Blake Purple Frase
05 Dandy Jack and the Third Leg - Ixchel
06 Kalabrese - Skamel
07 Dimbiman - First Laki
08 Stefan Goldmann - Darkstar
09 Cabanne - Smiling Papers
10 Soul Capsule - International Party People
11 Ricardo Villalobos - Balacharde
12 Narcotic Syntax - Raptors' Delight
13 Markus Nikolai - Wheelsucker
14 Matt John - Landing
15 Soulphiction - Her (JMS Dub)
16 Horror Inc. - The Absent
PERLON label site
PHONICA RECORDS has sound samples
STYLUS MAGAZINE has a good review
RESIDENT ADVISOR has a brief review
FORCED EXPOSURE lists most of Perlon’s releases
I LOVE MUSIC 1, I LOVE MUSIC 2 has Perlon related threads
PITCHFORK writer Philip Shereburne opines on the current state of minimal techno - “Sound design lends some credence-- or at least convenience-- to the term [minimal]. Much current minimal favors the truncated samples, reduced bitrates, and general proclivity for clicks and pings that characterized the flourishing of a ‘microhouse’ sensibility six or seven years ago….The problem, insofar as there is one, is that no terms have come along to supplant ‘minimal,’ and it's come to mean as little as 'progressive,' a genre misnomer if ever there was one."