Name: Colonial Patterns
Brand: Huerco S

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

sft0372

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Discs

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2013-09-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0184923203721

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Huerco S

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Mexican Summer

Limited Edition double LP with wide spine jacket with printed inner sleeves. On 'Colonial Patterns', Brian Leeds (Huerco S) treats his Kansas City region as a universe worthy of its own electronic music.To that end, Leeds deconstructs Midwestern techno and house tropes. The pieces are corrugated, rough, and decompositional. Working cheaply, Leeds conscientiously uses low-end software, synths and cassettes so as to subvert the gloss of so much urban dance music, giving tracks an impressionistic, emotive feel.'Colonial Patterns' shares Jon Hassell's hybridized experiments in percussive ambience, as well as William Basinski's strobing melancholia. When tracks subtly veer into house / techno territories, they mirror the no frills dance mechanics of Midwest figureheads Ron Hardy, Omar S and Theo Parrish. Most exemplary of this sonic architecture are 'Struck With Deer Lungs' and 'Angel (Phase).' Both layer subtle rhythmic pulses with broader strokes of deep sustain, creating a pair of intro / outro signals that shape the album's whole sequence and function as main supports to the album's busier core. Bass heavy, Detroit techno leaning 'Linzhiid' and 'Quiviria' deliver foreboding standouts with snappy economy. Stripped of pop devices, discarding utopian delusions, 'Colonial Patterns' is electronic music for the open prairie. Inherently inhabitable, yet strangely dispeopled, it's a fitting universe for this otherworldly debut.

Colonial Patterns

Music GB