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- Summary: This is the debut full-length release for Berlin-based electronic producer James Whipple.
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- Record Label: Pan
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock
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Aug 5, 2015Whipple's previous PAN release, the Scythians EP, hinted at the greatness to come from this Janus club night co-founder, yet was a little too short to really demonstrate his true power. It took a full-length release to truly suss out the immensity of M.E.S.H.
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The WireAug 5, 2015A range of compositional strategies are succinctly worked through, pivots in structural dynamics executed with an often startling sharpness. [Aug 2015, p.52]
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Aug 5, 2015The album’s subtlety and abstract tendencies prevent it from becoming solely a work of stock collage or pastiche appropriation.
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Aug 6, 2015What does it feel like to be alive in a digital age, overloaded and confused, but excited, too? What perspectives are possible now? Piteous Gate is a captivating attempt at putting those feelings into sound.
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Sep 8, 2015Piteous Gate is an absorbing listen front to back.
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Dec 22, 2015Piteous Gate is a gripping, suspenseful audio thriller, and along with 2015 releases by Fis, Lotic, Rabit, and Amnesia Scanner, it provides an eye-opening overview of how certain corners of the electronic music underground push club-derived sounds into confounding, challenging new directions.
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Aug 5, 2015As part of Berlin's Janus Collective, M.E.S.H.'s work is very much on the hardest edges of club culture to such an extent that it becomes hard to discern any humanity at work here.