Genre: Glitch / breaks / IDM / Ambient

01 Min/Max
02 Cntrl
03 Easy Money
04 8k
05 Butter & Tea
06 Dead Zone
07 High Gear
08 Demix

Wolfgang “Fadi”Dorninger is no stranger to the electronic music scene, since nineteen eighty-three he has been actively involved in composing music for films, dance and theatrical productions as well as various sound installations. Since then he has released close to ninety recordings and set up Base Records as well as composing music for the band The Smiling Buddha and being part of the band WIPEOUT with members of the radical music/extreme body performance-avant-garde band FUCKHEAD whose live events have to be seen to be believed.

He is someone who is constantly covering new ground with each project. His most recent release was inspired by the geoglyphs and kilometre long lines and numerous gigantic trapezoidal planes in southern Peru (200 BC - 600 AD). Entitled “Nasca, On Perspectives”, a conceptual piece utilizing audio and video juxtaposed with lines and shapes to create an abstract (in the broadest sense) Nasca of sorts. So It should be no surprise then that after almost one year of relative quiet that we find Dorninger embarking on another ambitious project, once again it is a multi-faceted piece that leaves plenty of room for experimentation and creativity.

The tracks flow quite well from beginning to end forming a coherent body of sounds that take you on a wild ride where you will find traces of ambient, techno, electronica gliding along and morphing into tense atmospherics which shift, and are mangled into something entirely new and at the end of the day; pleasing.

All of the tracks on 8K can be taken at face value so to speak and enjoyed as they are, but the bigger picture is that this cd release is but phase one of a larger project, and the loosely connected tracks serve as a base if you will that is intended for manipulation, reconstruction, experimentation and remixing.

On 8K we find Dorninger not merely touching on the glitchy banging Techno that is reminiscent of the early days of Tresor and Harthouse, but surpassing it as he discards anything that could remotely be considered formulaic and explores new territory as he draws on the past but heading straight for the future and pushes the scene forward.