Artist: Ribé
Title: Las Tres Puertas
Format: 2x Vinyl 12″
Label: Pole Recordings
Cat nr: POLEGROUP074
Genre: Techno
Tracklist:
| A1 | Las Tres Puertas | 4:50 | |
| A2 | La Rabia | 5:16 | |
| B1 | Itinerario | 5:53 | |
| B2 | El Sutil Arte | 5:53 | |
| C1 | Ellas | 5:30 | |
| C2 | El Sigilo | 5:45 | |
| D1 | 100215 | 5:48 | |
| D2 | El Nuevo Mundo | 4:25 |
The master of dynamic modular synthesis returns strongly to Polegroup and with nothing less than a complete album under his belt. Alberto Pascual defines with his alter ego Ribé what contemporary techno should be, direct, precise, aggressive and mental all in one.
In these twelve cuts that make up his new album, the producer based in the mountains of Madrid puts into operation all his knowledge of electronic machinery to develop a discourse that bears his own signature and places him among the greatest exponents of peninsular techno at the moment.
Unlike previous works, this time we can perceive greater harmonic and emotional content in his productions, as can be heard in the first of the album’s songs, which also gives the title to the double vinyl. Here the floating synthetic strings are combined with rhythms borrowed from the motor city in an exquisite way.
But things quickly change context in the second of the exercises, La Rabia, whose title perfectly defines the sensations perceived when listening. Here the roots in the British tradition are clear but always under the personal prism that he always brings to his inimitable works.
The extreme sounds continue in Itinerario sin Click and when we are hot, we return to calm with El Sutil Arte, where crunchy textures and broken rhythms combine to create an experimental and corrosive theme, but relaxing at the same time.
Ellas pick up the pulse slowly, with precision scifi details to give way to El Sigilo, which definitely sounds like the best of the Birmingham sound.
100215 returns to outer space and galactic funk as a prelude to El Nuevo Mundo, a superlative exercise in emotional electronica.
Inercia returns to the frenetic dance and the machine slows down again in El Aire, dragging and dense the concept, flirting with the industrial sound of the pioneers of the genre.
The end of the sound journey is approaching with one of the most outstanding pieces of the album, Avenidas, which is a perfect minimalist tool for risky mixes.
We Finish the trip with El Entusiasmo, a perfect techno anthem with all the necessary ingredients to demolish any qualified dance floor.
