Tresor231 - Cristian Vogel - The Never Engine - Official promo info

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OUT THIS MONTH on Tresor Records: Cristian Vogel “The Never Engine” (Tresor.231): with his first album in five years on the Tresor label, it will be available in CD and vinyl formats. This highly-technological music is self-described as "orgone-driven electronic music" – music for the future. Record release party September 21st!


In 1995 Cristian Vogel caused dropped jaws with his first release on Tresor “Absolute Time”. A Tresor classic was established and a Tresor chameleon as well. Successive albums ensued and Vogel dived deeper into the conceptual, recondite anti-beats territory that aligned his intellectual efforts with the most seminal of electronic composers. His spectrum has been the result of extensive research into electronic and other music mediums, production and remixing, that has earned him international respect. With “The NeverEngine” Cristian Vogel releases his first album on Tresor since “Dungeon Master” in 2003, and embarks on a highly-stylized path that brushes the metaphysical in its scope: the orgonic universal life force (hypothesized by Wilhelm Reich), injected technologically amid linear and audio reciprocity – spellbinding. As Vogel explains:

"The NeverEngine - a collection of recordings synthesised using bespoke sequencing algorithms designed to interpolate between data-states, and so slide beats into bleeps and tones into drones. The first generation of engine, code-named the Xpute (transpute), began to drive itself on, using interpolation to slow down perceptions of time and linear frequency shifts to optimise its own states, tending towards an orgonic singularity, now known as 'The Whoop' - sonic parallels and external references can legitimately be made with a similar strange attractor that emerged from the electronarcosound output at the turn of the 20th century, an intensive and self-replicating human/audio interaction that took place between the years 1994 and 1998 - these references are sometimes taggable as ChiTown, Jack, Bug or Wonky Worm.
Cristian Vogel has been overseeing the refinement and evolution of these interpolating state engines, and presents here the first chapter documenting the sonic results of this concentrated research and development into what could be one of the more important steps into orgone driven electronic music. He has reported further massive refinements to these so-called 'NeverEngines' which we hope will emerge from Station55 as soon as they are fit for human consumption."

Well: if you don’t understand but feel forced to believe it, then just listen to the music. These are electronic science fiction sonnets; aural choreography for other life forms; theorem engineering. Put “XPUTE theWoopWoop“ between your ears: the stark simplicity creates suspicion but you are drawn inwards. Both “rogue PROTOCHI” and “PROTOCHI rearMount” cautiously allow the drone to keep its prominence and you are infected without knowing it. The bass dredges a sublime saturation through many of the tracks (check “SAGA” and “PERCOL ecoDrive”), and even allows for fantastic voyages you can even take with your MP3 player on the go. If this is the first chapter, we can only imagine the futuristic, celestial steps Cristian Vogel will take before his engines are fit for human consumption.

Ordering details will be available on official release date!


Tresor.231: Cristian Vogel – The Never Engine

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first review from our friends at BoomKat

Never one to let an album go without a story, this latest full-length effort from ex Super Collider man Cristian Vogel comes with a particularly difficult accompanying tale. I won't go into great detail because to do so you'd probably lose the will to live but it goes into great depths about 'using interpolation to slow down perceptions of time and linear frequency shifts to optimise its own state'. Get it? Neither do I, so it's probably better to concentrate on the music itself, which just happens to be stunning. His first album on the Tresor label in five years, "The Never Engine" shows Vogel getting back to what he does best. He might have tried his hand at all sorts of weird and wonderful side projects since then but now he's well and truly back making the kind of music we always knew he could. With a patented formula he tries to explain in the press release Vogel manages to produce techno that sounds like no other techno on the planet - I mean Super Collider were unique, but 'The Never Engine' is full of pulsing basslines and the kind of re-synthesized beatwork that only a master can pull off (think SND if you want to know just how precise I mean) this is computer music with genuine soul. Don't think it gets lost in itself either - Vogel never forgets the reason for producing techno and each one of these tracks would work wonders at 6am in the Panorama bar with their rolling high end and uptempo hedonism. His theories might be amusing (and are probably supposed to be) but techno like this rarely comes along, and should be filed next to Pan Sonic and Sleeparchive as music that reaches far beyond the confines of one particular genre. Highly Recommended.