Modeselektor: Monkeytown – review

(Monkeytown)For much of the past decade, Modeselektor have functioned as the jokers in the austere Berlin techno pack, their IDM-to-crunk genre-hopping playfulness a useful counterpoint to the serious minimalism that surrounded them. This scattershot eclecticism sits a little more easily in 2011 – as does the latest sound they appropriate, the woozy synths and slowed tempos of the UK bass scene. Despite their titles, Berlin and German Clap could both have conceivably come out of London; Miss P...

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