Elevator1 review

New album after the success of his compilation series Easy Listening Vol. 1-5 and the transformation of Richard Wagner sounds on Switched On Wagner. This new release is not hi concept art, it is electronic mood music for listening or even electronic cool jazz and it is more complex than the Easy listening series. Elevator also contains the effort to build up rhythm without drum machine and sampled grooves and the samples are not integrated in a rhythmical framework. Every sample used by Curd Duca's music has its own quality and sounds totally different in the original context. It is about sounds and textures and Curd Duca's music stands for the purity of timbre. Important are not the cultural context and some significant associations, every sample has its own rhythm and timbre combined with metallic 'Rauschen' and low frequency basslines. The tracks on Elevator cannot be separated --- they are creating a beautiful context. Elevator shows Curd Duca as the perfect cut-up artist.