(09.16.07) Deepchord are Rod Modell and Mike Schommer. Since 2000, the pair have been
releasing their own brand of minimal dub techno. Their sound has been
compared to that of Maurizo and Basic Channel, also similar to the tech
ambient releases on Amploule. The partnership formed their own sound, taking
influences from dub techno and elements of their native Detroit. In 2000
they established the Deepchord label to get their unique sound out.
Deepchord put out a few releases on some small independent labels such as
SYNTH, Octal and Hierophant Records. The duo’s found new ears with their
welcomed ‘Vantage Isle’ on Echospace[Detroit], another self created imprint.
Recently the guys have been picked up by Modern Love, part of the Boomkat
recordstore. Now the Deepchord has an audience with Deepchord presents
Echospace: The Coldest Season.
The album decompresses into sound, Deepchord opening their shuttle bay doors
and hazily gazing over a new world of ambient sound. “First Point of Aries”
is the premier sound to hit the explorers. Ebbs of electronics slowly rise
and shimmer. Echoes are reverberated, resonance repeated before a slight
beat enters this abstract encounter. The same showered fuzz makes its way
into “Abraxas,” yet the minimal techno aspect plays a greater role than in
the first piece. The terrain changes with “Ocean of Emptiness.” Deepchord
drop spirals of sound into chasmic pits, recording the knocks along the way.
The sounds are claustrophobic and amazingly subterranean, a sonorous odyssey
across uncharted caverns. Deepchord lead the listener ever further into
unknown territory, mixing ambient tones with minimal beats. “Aequinoxium” is
a thirteen minute work of scratched echoes stumbling over one another,
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