Rod Modell - Captagon
Label: Tresor – TRESOR.312
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress
Country: Germany
Released: Jun 25, 2019 / Nov 27, 2026
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub Techno, Techno
Few producers command such worldwide respect as Rod Modell — the Detroit producer behind Deepchord has spent years synonymous with smoked-out ambient dub techno of consistently exceptional quality. Captagon on Tresor is recognisably his work and simultaneously worlds apart from recent endeavours: blisteringly fast at 150-160bpm, Modell fractures his more peaceful paradigms into myriad colours across nine tracks, the introductory mood-setter Triangulation hurtling through the void into Reiki — the Japanese term for spirit — and barely letting up from there.
Each track is a purpose-built exocet with the express intention of devolving the dancefloor into frenzied limbs strapped to close-eyed bodies shunted into inner space. Clamouring syncopation drives the record throughout, panned FX jostling for attention, the effect mesmerising and sufficient to fill voids to the brim with bustling life. Riga moves with a two-step quality through sombre pads; Jade shimmers through whispered vocals and dub-techno claps; Tracer delivers a superpowered bass-powered blitz. Club highlight Qurra hypercharges the methodology over a warp-speed five minutes — ricocheting Basic Channel claps, oscillating ambience and quivering white noise launching into a loop-based trance state caught somewhere between peak-time mayhem and the outer reaches. Modell’s specialism in minor fluctuation, just-perceptible changes evolving through time-lapse production tactics, has never been more thrillingly deployed. The future is fast.
