![]() Hopefully it hints at more work from Hassell to see light on the label in the near future. Hassell’s piece is the odd one out here, but its flickering electronics and gorgeous piano and trumpet twinkle like lights on the far shore. Recently, Hassell’s groundbreaking work has been getting a long overdue reassessment, and more and more new artists are drawing on his reimagining (and inverting) of indigenous and ambient sounds for their own work. Most curious is the inclusion of fourth-world composer (and Brian Eno compatriot) Jon Hassell to the mix. ![]() It’s the shortest track on the comp, but the haunting voices that float across the spine-tingling keys of “Direction Asymmetry,” from Gerald Donald’s post-Drexciya project, Daughter Produkt, might be the most affecting, sure to pique Drexicya fans wondering what’s to come. Recent signee Marcelus lets live, loose-metered drums skitter beneath the floorboards of the haunting “Odawah Jam.” Newcomer Claudia Anderson gives “Phase” a buoyant stutter step, and Terrence Dixon slips in some saxophone breaths and a beat that seems to just gathering loose marimba tone bars together like firewood. Donato Dozzy, a longtime master of such chasm-like techno in Italy, also recalls that type of sound but with more nuanced results. Where the set fares best is in breaking from the merciless sound of techno and having its artists worm into the spaces between the beats. Shao’s “Sensi (edit)” fidgets and slowly ratchets up a sense of dread on the track, but at times it feels like an echo of the old Tresor sound. It segues into a track from newcomer Shao, who released his first single on Tresor in 2015. Those chords that mimic exhalations from the void that sense of serenity cut with the prickly buzz of cicadas-it remains intact here, save that its ethereal nod now lasts a precious three minutes longer. It’s a bit difficult to tell just how much has been tweaked on this version from the original. One of the first surprises is the opening track, Vainquer’s now-legendary “Solanus (Extracted 2).” Originally a B-side on the Chain Reaction label, it’s one of the defining beatless dubs to drift out in the mid-90s. Veering from woozy ambience to clanging techno and back, it shows the label to be in a transitional space of sorts. To help celebrate, the label presents Dreamy Harbor, a twelve-track assortment of older artists that helped establish the label, a few newcomers from the far corners of the globe, as well as a legendary composer not previously associated with the label. Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of the forest and uncover its hidden secrets today.While perhaps no longer at the cutting edge, twenty-five years in Tresor continues to stay relevant, tapping newcomers like Objekt and providing a home for the likes of Detroit’s Terrence Dixon.
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