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Resident Advisor Label Feature:
soundcloud.com mix-october-2010

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Album Release:

Live at Robert Johnson Vol.4
Thomas Hammann & Gerd Janson



"House House And More Fucking House" is printed in bold capital letters on those infamous T-shirts, the ones reminiscent of Katherine Hamnett's sloganeering and still very much in fashion in 2009. The sound we are talking about, of course, has had quite a striking return and it seems like there's no end in sight. Old heroes resound throughout the land and new ones appear on a daily basis; the-know-it-alls knew it all the time and new disciples have been converted in droves. The thing is: Those shirts don't fit everybody. Legions of once dubious characters are grinding their teeth. And the same goes for their music. Ex-minimalists try to evoke richness; former trance heralds strive to substitute kitsch with euphoria; ex-big-roomjocks attempt to transform sacred basement tracks into anthems; past sound-dogmatists seek to turn voices into sounds. To put it simply: A struggle for cultural resources dominates the picture. Traditions in opposition to progress, invaders against natives, art versus commerce, truthfulness opposed to a pack of lies, house versus house.