Kelovolt – Diese Fragile Praesenz
Label: Minimood – MINIMOOD027
Format: Vinyl, 2 x 12", LP
Country: Germany
Released: Sept 11, 2026
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Dub Techno, Deep Techno
When cv313 — the alias of Stephen Hitchell, one of dub techno's most revered voices — agrees to contribute two remixes to your debut release, it signals something. Add Anthony Linell of Northern Electronics, the enigmatic Black Merlin, Berlin's Die Wilde Jagd and Voltmar to the picture, and what you have is a remarkable gathering of talent around a single piece of source material from Kelovolt. Diese Fragile Praesenz on Minimood is one of those releases that earns its running time across every one of its eight versions.
At the heart of everything lies Kelovolt's original — a melancholic yet propulsive drone constructed from a field recording and drenched in white noise, around which a vast, shifting, sombre soundscape unfolds: lush, magisterial pads, starry-eyed synth work, cold washes of tape hiss and static melting in and out of the mix alongside crumbling walls of bass, brass-like harmonies and long keening synth notes emerging from the fog. Each remixer approaches this deeply rich source material with discerning reverence from their own distinct angle.
Voltmar deepens the grain with sharper percussion and gales of static. Linell's PM and AM remixes place a low, shadowy pulse at the centre around which mists of distortion swirl. Black Merlin steers toward eerie psychedelia. Die Wilde Jagd stretches the original into drones and heavy fog punctuated by resonant bell tones. cv313's Gravitational Pull amplifies the celestial qualities around a deep bass groove; his Dimensional Dub descends into vast caverns of echo and alien texture. Endlessly contemplative, endlessly exploratory — a trip to its own sonic galaxy that spirals inexorably outward.
