Inigo Kennedy - Techno and Electronic Music Producer and DJ

	Inigo Kennedy & Isodyne Lagrange Point SADIG004 (Stroboscopic Artefacts) Digital (November 2010) www.stroboscopicartefacts.com www.facebook.com/pages/Stroboscopic-Artefacts/105926903632

Featured on Various - Delta Sampler	[1] Lucy & Xhin - LX1 [2] Jonas Kopp - M33 [3] Inigo Kennedy & Isodyne - Lagrange Point [4] Forward Strategy - Inside The Shadows
"A sample is a small part of the whole, selected because it's a premier example of its class. Stroboscopic Artefacts' sampler series returns with the Delta Sampler, four tracks that traverse electronic music possibilities from straight up techno to oblique drone. Opener "LX1" sees Lucy and Xhin teaming up for the first collaboration between two SA core artists. Dark, slightly brooding, the meeting of their minds is mapped out with incisive kicks, knotty dub and hi hat sizzles. It's the start of a collaboration that's going to be worth following. Fresh from his SA006 12" release, Jonas Kopp takes the vinyl's mood and adds menace. "M33" is a 4/4 structure filled with discontent, the track strains with aqueous grumbles and tense peak time techno emerges. Inigo Kennedy and Isodyne's "Lagrange Point " borrows its structure from the observations of physics. Scientifically speaking the "Lagrange Point" is where celestial bodies appear to be stationary despite constantly moving. Their "Lagrange Point" is a baseline that fluxes between a background of reverberating pads and a foreground of slithering chords, but somehow remains constant. From here the sampler closes with "Inside The Shadows", Forward Strategy Group's malevolent slice of drone. The complex sequence of loops builds a reflective atmosphere that revels in the hidden, the hinted at, the latent. It's the perfect soundtrack for an ecstatic afterhours experience. All tracks craftily mastered by Artefacts Mastering, Berlin." Stroboscopic Artefacts Press Release
"Moreso than with most labels, press about Stroboscopic Artefacts draws attention to their mastering process. It's done by Artefacts Mastering, and it's often a creative approach, accentuating gravelly features in the mid-high range to an unusual degree. It's key to the SA aesthetic, displayed in Delta Sampler; that is, greyscale and saturated like the bleached whites of an overexposed black-and-white photograph. Label head Lucy and mainstay Xhin team up on "LX1," where a metallic melange churns in the background and makes a motif with the uber-distorted toms which collapse in at the end of each bar, as a rough kick lollops and skips every so often. It never elevates to pounding, full-throttle territory, instead trudging along, with variations being subservient to its constant plod. Jonas Kopp's "M33," the smasher of the package, is urgent and again industrial. Crashing machines and rumbling bedrock make the background, with a suspended, degraded trance-like synth riff repeating throughout, dropping into a black hole at the track's break, and then building intensity afterwards with its filter opening and closing slowly. With Berghainian tastes having been taken care of in fine style, respected veteran Inigo Kennedy and Isodyne pay attention to the (somewhat) warmer, more harmonic side of things, with dark, round analogue mid-bass sounds echoing around the stereo spectrum as a kick patters along, evading 4/4. Deep bass fills the firmament and morose pads sink again and again. Forward Strategy Group's "Inside the Shadows" is drone, with the desolate hopelessness and post-apocalyptic wastes of Godspeed You Black Emperor! put down in electronic form. Wide pads yawn, moan and quietly bawl, as chattering creatures snicker mischievously under the castle trapdoor. It floats and washes with all the majesty and slowness of a glacier; a dense one, made perhaps of black ice. Like the package, it represents the introspective, spidery and gothic artistry of the label." Daniel Petry @ Resident Advisor
Laurent Garnier : "Another great release on the Stroboscopic Artefacts. Will play for sure." Surgeon : "Great work again on Stroboscopic Artefacts." Peter Van Hoesen : "Strong release. Lagrange Point is the one for me. Inside the shadows is perfect as the intro to a long, intense dj set." Chris Liebing : "5 out of 5" Perc : "5/5 Yes, yes, yes. Great EP. Maybe one of the best overall EP's of the year. All tracks are very strong and the M33 track is especially savage. Love it, full support." Terence Fixmer : "All track have something. I like it and good atmosphere." Technasia : "5/5 Stroboscopic is one of my favourite labels. Excellent release as usual. Full support." DVS1 : "Thank you! Lucy and Xhin for the win on this one. Kopp for a close second. Nice one!" Dave Martin : "great stuff as ever! Can't wait to play M33 and LX1" Edit Select : "M33 is shakin , thanks" Pfirter : "5/5 Great package, challenging sound as usual!" Drumcell : "5/5 LX1 is FIRE! good work guys" Alex Bau : "Nice and dark again, however not sure yet what works best in my sets. thank you, cool label!" Brendon Moeller : "Lagrange point doing it for me." Audio Injection : "5/5 more amazing stuff, keep em coming!" Norman Nodge : "Good techno tracks. thanks." Bas Mooy : "5/5 Great release! Full support!!" Dino Sabatini : "Awesome!!!!" Electric Indigo : "Really like inside the shadows as well. will play m33 most. many thanks!" Darko Esser : "Very good as always on SA!" Eric Cloutier (The Bunker) : "Pretty killer collection of tracks here! lucy + xhin sure knocked it out of the park, its great to see inigo kennedy back on production, and the fsg drone track is fantastic. not reall feeling the jonas, though - a little too industrial for me." Jeff Derringer (Oktave) : "Love the release. Will definitely play. Particularly inspired by LX1. Nice work again SA!" Dave Twomey aka TR NCH : "5/5 Holy shit... this is headed for the front of my box right now. LX1 is absolutely massive... jonas track is a useful tool but a little dry and predictable for me personally. Lagrange back to the quality. could be either very Berghain, or very Labyrinth...or a bit of both! like it a lot.. final track is very cool indeed." Max Bacharach COLONY, London : "Jonas's piece is heavy (Berghain material methinks), and FSG's addition is scary as fuck. I'm a big fan of doomy ambient (KTL, Yellow Swans, Xela, etc), so it's right up my street. Will be sure to use it in a mix at some point :-)" Truss : "Very difficult to pick a fav here, feeling them all, although Jonas Kopp is always on point for me. Nice to see Innigo Kennedy, Isodyne and FSG on SA" Obtane : "5/5 Amazing !" Samuel L Session : "Good dark techno stuff, will play!" Claudio PRC : "5/5 Ultra quality sampler! Love Inigo Kennedy & Isodyne Track!" Luis Flores : "Deep Cavernous Industrial Techno!" Arnaud Le Texier : "Nice ep as usual! My favorites are M33 and Lagrange point nice vibe in the last one." Joseph Capriati : "Phat release! will support it! thanks." ROSSELLA : "5/5 lagrange point is for me tnx." Tom Bonaty (Prologue) : "5/5 No light at the end.... Wunderfull and full support for this awsome EP!!" Tom Verhoeven (Curle) : "Inigo Kennedy is my choice here, tnx" Leonard Posso (Thema) : "Hot DAMN son!, i cant get me enough of SA, Full on proper TECHNO! M33 for me all the way" Donor : "5/5 Keep 'em coming... All tracks are great! Thank You." Markus Suckut : "5/5 Beautiful sampler! M33 is my favourite here!" Toni D : "All the ep is very nice my favorite is lucy and xhin track i will play tomorrow @ fabric birthday..." Promo Feedback
De:Bug : "Review to follow" FWD Entertainement : "5/5 Awesome release - maybe my favorite sampler yet. full review on FWD" LittleWhiteEarbuds : "Thanks, will make this available to LWE staff for potential review." Resident Advisor : "Thanks. We will let you know if an RA writer pitches a review." Tsugi Magazine : "Nice EP" Nightcode Magazine : "Love Lagrange Point!" TEA : "Great to see SA keeping to their ethos of previous releases. LX1 sounds and looks very exciting, M33 is proper no nonsense cut, Lagrange Point is dub techno gem and Inside the Shadows continues SA's intelligent, forward thinking approach to electronic music." Illectronic : "5/5 Killer offering of tough tonal techno. Jonas Kopp & Indigo Kennedy / Isodyne cuts are particularly impressive." Smoke Machine Taipei - Ssxmm Blog : "HUGE WORK!!" Proton Radio (Harry Avers) : "5/5 wow Lucy... well done.. love the Collab with you and Xhin..." Berlin Mitte Institut : "5/5 Great compilation of powerful and intelligent industrial techno." The-Zone Radioshow : "5/5 Love it! another massive ep by SA!" Bln FM : "for radio play, thanks." Promo Feedback