FEATURES EXCLUSIVE, UNRELEASED TRACKS FROM: SND, Frank Bretschneider, Andreas Tilliander, MRI, biss-circuits, Geeez'N'Gosh, Alva Noto, Rob Acib, Claudia Bonarelli, Boris Polonski, DAT Politics, Deru, Luomo, Antonelli Electr., Mikael Stavöstrand, Swayzak, Donnacha Costello & David Donohoe, Rechenzentrum, Robin Judge, agf, Tim Hecker, Ekkehard Ehlers, Pommassl.

The muse was in the mistakes. Then the mistakes became music. You could reduce the short history of minimal techno’s infatuation with error-driven, “glitch” compositions to those two sentences. But in a field of electronic music where even progression is delineated at an accelerated, microscopic level, the past three years have not only seen the emergence of a nascent, often misconstrued, rhythmic unessentialism, but also the consequent flourishing of ideas and individual signatures. “Clicks & Cuts” was that emergence, and its successor was that rhizomatic flourishing. After all, who by now would mistake originators like Alva Noto or SND for anyone else? That said, “Clicks & Cuts 3” marks a maturation for many of the artists involved, a departure for some, an integration for others.
The concept of “clicks and cuts”, as a template, as a purely phenomenological entity, has developed in truly Deleuzian fashion as a bastardized offspring of capitalist output. What began with Oval, during the last remaining trickles of the industrial age, as a post-structuralist product of mass production, has been integrated into the coalescence of a paradigm shift into the virtual age. Every system inevitably produces excess. Just as Einsturzende Neubauten and Throbbing Gristle once used industrial excess for creative ends, this generation of techno minimalists has found inspiration in the excess of a media-driven economic structure.