Black Swan album cover
Black Swan

Cristian Vogel

2010
Sub Rosa

Over 25 plus albums plus untold EPs and collaborations with everyone from Neil Landstrumm to Radiohead, Cristian Vogel has become known as a “producer’s producer” in techno, constantly pushing the form forward and using it as a vehicle for complex imaginative processes (as it was always meant to be done!). But he also has a huge body of work made and directed well away from club environs, including a series of ballet scores for the Swiss dancer-choreographer Gilles Jobin. Black Swan, made in 2009, is the only one of these to be released in album form to date, but it is a masterpiece of abstract sound. It hints at Karlheinz Stockhausen and David Tudor, but its precision of sound manipulation is entirely 21st century — perhaps only Autechre rival Vogel for high resolution abstraction, in fact — and the physicality and sublimated rhythm of these three long pieces are beautiful in their own right.

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