Noche de Luna (Etihad Records 2001, Puerto Rico)
I love Puerto Rico. The exceedingly hospitable guys running this label invited me to PR twice - each time was fantastic. The first time was when I was living in Minneapolis, the second time was from Berlin. Talk about 180 degrees of culture difference, and about 90 degrees of temperature difference. I love eating fish for breakfast. Unfortunately, Etihad’s too-short life ended after just two releases. This is their first (ET-001). You gotta admire the two extra zeros - that’s the beauty of ambition.
Full EP download after the jump!
All of these tracks were written in Berlin in November/December 2000. I had just moved to Berlin a few weeks prior - even going to the supermarket was still exciting. Well, maybe exciting wasn’t the right word: I saw the same grungy produce each time, and milk was sold in room temperature tetrapaks. I was living in Moabit at the time - an out of the way pseudosuburb with cheap rent and more than a dozen flourescent Turkish Imbisses (what is the plural of Imbiss? Imbi?) per block.
The tracknames were inspired from these German children’s books I was plodding through to teach my self that twisted tongue:
Equipment: I used my 300 Mhz G3 Powerbook, held together with duct tape and a little glue. The software, same as it was since around 1995, was Logic Audio. I used a Waldorf microQ for the strange quasi-string sound in Virtu Hunting. I had just met the developer of Native Instruments’ Spektral Delay, so that is heavily featured in these tracks as well, especially The Storyteller.
The last track is a remix of Die Kleine Hexe by Supersoul.
Jake Mandell - Die Kleine Hexe
These links don’t appear to be working?
they’re working now… darn flash player giving me headaches….
Hey Jake yes Etihad Was set to rest or maybe in a hiatus, i know run Amalgama Records. And who knows the label might re-emerge to more dance Floor oriented techno in many forms.