Version Train, by Mapstation feat. Ras Donovan

Version Train

by Mapstation feat. Ras Donovan

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1.	Gravity Feat. Ras Donovan 03:35	buy track
2.	Wake up Feat. Scallo 03:33	buy track
3.	Effects of My Haste 04:48	buy track
4.	Be True 04:43	buy track
5.	Uncentral 03:43	buy track
6.	Gravity a Capella 02:38	buy track
7.	Wake up Version 03:31	buy track
8.	La Reprise 02:42	buy track

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Version Train is the latest excursion from the consistently engaging Mapstation, featuring some beautiful new pieces and a couple of abstractions / developments from the previous set, "A Way To Find The Day" (staubgold 29, 2002). These cuts, "Wake Up" and "Gravity", are wryly cited as "versions" (in the Jamaican tradition), and in particular show off the understanding that the main collaborators, Stefan Schneider and Ras Donovan, now have for the drift of this music: creating pretty patterns, then breaking them up, moving forward as one, and then contradicting each other.

On "Be True" we hear Donovan sounding at his sweetest, tossing off his lines like it's a super-warm Jamaican production with a gorgeous melodic base, instead of Schneider's rather colder North European design. Other times the roles reverse, and we remember Schneider's role in To Rococo Rot is usually to bring the melody. "Version Train" also introduces two new elements to the Mapstation equation: DJ singer, Scallo, from Donovan's group (both also perform live with Tikiman), and Martin Brandlmayr from Vienna-based unit, Radian.

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released January 1, 2002

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Founded in 1998 by DJ, musician and journalist Markus Detmer, Staubgold is an acknowledged and acclaimed brand for experimental and electronic music from around the world.

Its roster can boast internationally known names like Vivien Goldman, The Flying Lizards, Faust, To Rococo Rot, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Ekkehard Ehlers and Rafael Toral. ... more

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