Review: MARCELUS Shine EP TRESOR269

This is the third EP by Marcelus (French producer Cédric Bros) Marcelus returns with the ‘Shine EP’, third 12" to be released on Tresor, which is increasingly coming to seem like a natural home for him.

Opener 'Red Dance' innovatively re-works the classic techno-minimalist sounds of Pacou's late 1990s Tresor releases. It's centred on brittle sounds with a metallic edge that produce a strong impact without sacrificing complexity.



'Worship The Bass' gradually intensifies and accumulates power and packs a strong punch, but is misleadingly-titled as it's not actually a massively bassy track. Instead Marcelus'  cold, filtered sounds compete thoughtfully with a muffled kick.



The B-side tracks (for vinyl listeners) are much more atmospheric and abstract, reminding us of the ambient side of Tresor's vast back catalogue. A filtered, metallic sound circles through 'Shine', accompanied by gauzy sounds and a disembodied female voice in a digital fog. It's certainly not a typical track and all the better for it.



'Astral' is suitably ethereal and makes for a graceful end to the EP. It's a deep and beat-less outro with a trace of the ambient textures of Harold Budd.

Unternehmen Codex mix on April's Klub VEBcast for Ill FM

Unternehmen Codex Eins – Maximal Post-Minimalism

This was the first studio recorded mix by my previous incarnation (Codex Europa materialised in July 2001). A mix of industrial, minimal techno, electronica and my own shortwave recordings. Listen to or download the mix here. Choose part two. The mix is followed by the bonus conclusion to the VEBcast: an archive recording of a speech by Tito.

Codex UKV 9.31 Mhz, 15/10/00

Die Form - Mask of Noise

Noto – noto.wave+hertz

Diversion Group – Shirts & Skins

Karl O’Connor/Peter Sutton – Guiltless

Erosion – 1

+ Inanna – signal/or/minimal 3

+ Fennesz – Superfeedbacker

Kouhei Matsunaga/Masami Akita – S-Boy

Olga + Josef – Olga + Josef 4 B1

Starfish Pool – Centripetal

+ Codex LV 148 Khz 15/10/00

Chris Liebing – Stigmata B1

Unit Moebius – Phonetics Q2

DISX-3 – I’m not a DJ

Robert Görl – Scoops

Jeff Mills – Revolt

Chrislo – Fils d’Orion

Goem – Comp Vier

+ Codex UKV ‘Unbekanntes frequenz', 15/10/00

Kraftwerk – Transistor

Codex UKV 6.25 Mhz, 15/10/00



Recorded at Studio Schrank, 15/12/00.