The/Das

Exit Strategies

• wydawca: Life And Death
• nr katalogowy: LAD033CD
• format: CD (digipack)
• PŁYTA NOWA, ZAFOLIOWANA

T R A C K L I S T A

01  Put Castle

02  Divine Voices

03  Loveboat

04  Moon

05  Ischias

06  Fool You

07  Brace For Landing

08  Dog Sled

09  Eso 3

10  Nano Spinacio

11  Group Meditation, Late Reflections

12  Drug Dilling

Berlin duo The/Das are to release their sophomore album, Exit Strategies,

on Life And Death in September 2017, with a first EP from it,

›Drug Dilling‹, coming in July. The absorbing 12-tracker is the result of

a period of searching that finds the new line-up of Fabian Fenk and

Philipp Koller combine multiple ideas, layers, fragments and sounds

and refine their distinct idea of techno tenderness. It makes for a

soothing and escapist 60 minute listen that works as well at home, on

headphones, as it does loud in the club.

The new album is a perfect blend of the pair’s Berlin techno roots with

a devotion to organic sounds and cinematic details that makes it a real

trip for the head, heart and heel from start to finish. More house

influenced than their previous works on labels like Sinnbus, Krakatau

and DJ Tennis’s Life And Death, their artistic vision ties it all together as

the duo continues to push each other, bounce ideas back and forth

and eventually distill them into something fresh and new.

The album itself was an unhurried affair made from various sketched

starting points collected over three years of research. Influenced from

their travels, a decade of DJ gigs and shared musical experiences,

they then headed into the studio for three intense months to arrange,

rework, jam out new material, edit and collate all their sounds and

ideas. Finally, they spent three weeks behind the mixing desk,

shaping the whole lot into one complete form. Made using an array of

drum machines and with a new focus on sampling, the album has

experimental loops, sounds and rhythms imbued within, and lyrics

that act as textural and emotive interventions, adding to the overall

flow.