Fokus

Berghain resident Marcel Fengler's debut album, Fokus, inverts the polarity of his singles. This isn't an innovative move in itself—the expansive medium seems to demand it. But in his hands, the results are particularly rewarding. Instead of leading with sounds immediately recognizable as techno and letting his personality emerge between the hits, Fengler leisurely builds tracks up around darkly reverberant atmospheres. From the sound of an early track like "Mayria," one would guess ...

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