Benedikt Frey – Cells

Label: ESP Institute – ESP080
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Stereo
Country: US
Released: Nov 15, 2019
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Acid, Ambient
Condition: Near Mint

Benedikt Frey marks his return to Lovefinger's ESP Institute. After leisurely toying with themes around this fourth release with the label, which follows his 2017 debut album 'Artificial', a dense nihilistic fog seems to have enveloped his creative process and undoubtedly informed his frame of mind.

The approach here is perhaps more minimal than the artist’s previous endeavours — reducing music to skeletal loops, allowing their character to develop and fluctuate over the course of each piece — a confidence that exemplifies an artist hitting their stride, but in no way does he rely on the trope of “less is more”.

Whereas a minimalist embellishes the importance of elements through their isolation and negative space, Benedikt fills every facet with granular measures of sound and sifts them, in a cyclical motion, through his spectral arrangements.

A1. Concrete
A2. Radiation
B1. Devil's Dance
B2. Slow Dance
C1. Dub Hell
C2. Hell Version
D1. Inertia
D2. Vertigo