Svek was one of the first labels to flirt with dub techno and minimal house. Of course it did this before either thses sub-species had really been invented or defined well enough to be considered as such. So while the label possibly didn’t coin either genre, it became a host for like-minded ideas which pioneered it. I have most of the Svek releases, but it’s the early ones I keep coming back to, particularly those of Alexi Delano, Stephan Grieder and Jesper Dahlback. This track, a joint effort between Dahlback and Jean-Louis Huhta, comes from ‘Midnight Express’, and is one of three untitled, low frequency workouts that examine the dub wise and minimal aspects of house and techno a while before it became the thing to do. The only other label I can think of that was doing something similar is Russ Gabriel’s Ferox, but this is more analytical and specific. There’s nothing to mark this track out, other than a certain ambience and an obvious eye for texture and detail. It’s a pioneering piece of work though, and comes from a period in this label’s life. the influence of which has been far reaching.
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