Captagon, by Rod Modell

Captagon

by Rod Modell

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audiophilist The high tempo seemed a bit unsettling at first but that’s probably me. The feeling quickly vanished a couple of minutes into the album and I got lost in the details and groovy nature of most tracks. I have the feeling this will be one of the landmark LPs I’ll come back to frequently. Great work. Favorite track: Scrawler.

rooneze this goes hard Favorite track: Jade.

elias. my favorite album ever. Favorite track: ITO.

sebastien_nibaudeau It's for persons who like the underground techno. Favorite track: Jade.

timesnewpaulie pulsating rhythms, hazy and immersive soundscapes... a classic of the genre? Favorite track: Riga.

asck I love just finding something else you've made and having it become, inevitably, indispensable listening. Thankyou man.

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1.	Triangulation 02:56	buy track
2.	Reiki 05:17	buy track
3.	ITO 05:55	buy track
4.	Riga 05:37	buy track
5.	Jade 06:12	buy track
6.	Tracer 06:19	buy track
7.	Scrawler 05:32	buy track
8.	Qurra 05:44	buy track
9.	Air-Port 07:41	buy track
10.	Jade (DAL Remix) - Digital Bonus 06:43	buy track
11.	Sukra - Digital Bonus 04:36	buy track
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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 diffusing 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.

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released June 2, 2023

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When Tresor opened on March 13th 1991 in a shack on Potsdamer Platz, beneath which the vault of the Wertheim department store lay, no one would have thought that from there would arise an institution that one day would celebrate 33 years of existence.

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