DE9 - Closer to the Edit (full lengh/ pauseless)

Consider DE9: Closer to the Edit Richie Hawtin's turntablist record. Freed from the (only relative) constraints of his Decks, EFX & 909 setup, Hawtin applied Final Scratch technology, a system which pipelines any digital sound elements -- from CD, MiniDisc, an effects box, practically anything -- directly into the needle of a special turntable. (Needless to say, no digging through the crates on this one.) Hawtin spins through 30-odd tracks of moody minimal techno, including tracks -- or, to be more precise, elements -- from Basic Channel, Thomas Brinkmann, Stewart Walker, Carl Craig, Theorem, and Sutekh, plus his own F.U.S.E. and Plastikman guises. Most of these tracks are present in such wildly different versions, however, that listeners may not even recognize a usually familiar track; when all that's taken is a bassline and an effect here or a scratchy percussion line there, and each track includes elements of three or four different originals, the results are much closer to either remixes or a wildly eclectic turntablist album than a techno mix album -- thus the title. Instead of a hip-hop DJ's wild spinbacks, Hawtin uses only momentary pauses and beat disruptions to mark time and open new chapters in the mix. The result is a clean, precisely constructed mix, and one that ironically isn't especially evocative of the immense work involved in constructing it. All the better for the headphone and chill-out listening this record was made for, much more so than Decks, EFX & 909.

1 Range/Smart Card?/10 Strikes to 2001
Lowtec / Steve O'Sullivan 0:00
2 Smart Card?/10 Strikes to 2001/Monostatic/Diminishing Returns (Special
Steve O'Sullivan 3:05
3 Monostatic/Dimishing Returns /Concept Loop U:1
Jacek Sienkiewicz 5:10
4 Green Apple/Stereo Virus/Spastik
Erik Besier 7:00
5 Dada EP A2/Stereo Virus/Talk to Me
Akufen 7:51
6 Stereo Virus/Talk to Me/Dimishing Returns
Jacek Sienkiewicz 8:19
7 Orph/Diminishing Returns 9:44
8 Silent Treatment/Diminishing Returns
Pascal F.E.O.S. 12:31
9 Vacuum Cleaner/Silent Treatment/Into the Duster/Freek
Baby Ford 13:48
10 Forever Love/Bredow
Peter Ford / Thomas Melchior / Ricardo Villalobos 15:04
11 Forever Love/Courtesy Car/Into the Space/808 Loop
Richie Hawtin 16:03
12 Courtesy Car/Flibkà Top/Las Rambias (Forever Love) /No Milk Today
Sergej Auto / Baby Ford / Peter Ford / Thomas Melchoir 18:36
13At the Front
Steve Bug 20:54
14Untitled/Slacker Jack/Divisible/Muff Diver
Markus Nikolai / David Wulle 22:50
15 B1/Optical Way/A1
Rino Cerrone 25:32
16 Optical Way/Panna/B1/Too Distant Images/Clinicalism
Nick Rapaccioli 27:31
17 Luna /Clinicalism/Panpot Spliff
Ricardo Villalobos 28:12
18 Panpot Spliff 29:13
19 Gelb/Tea Party/Different View/Life Force/Plasticity/Krikot/Tracks ... 29:51
20 Tea Party/Tracks on Delivery, Pt. 2 (Pattern 7) /Gelb/The Climax
Carl Craig 30:54
21 Tracks on Delivery, Pt. 2 (Pattern 7) /Grown 32:59
22 Grown/Tracks on Delivery, Pt. 2 (Pattern 7) /Loplop B1/Distortion Man 33:46
23 Loplop B1/Anyway I Know You/Edit Blue 34:41
24 Edit Blue/Süizgürtel/Diminishing Returns 36:37
25 Edit Blue/Süizgürtel/Diminishing Returns ... 37:06
26 Formenverwandler/Friday Night With B. Reynolds/Chemistry/Octagon/A ...
Richie Hawtin / Steve O'Sullivan 39:06
27 Octagon/Edit Blue/Contain/The Super/The Climax /For My ...
Carl Craig 42:45
28Snatch/Lifeforce/Lfo Drive
John Beer / Steve O'Sullivan 45:41
29 Trinkets/Snatch/Does Ronda Know?
Sutekh 47:41
30 B1/Snatch/Discount Baby /Distortion Men/Flibkà Top
Rino Cerrone / Bodo Elsel / Stephan Lieb 48:24
31 Range/Dekommpression/Amenity 50:53