Karsten Pflum - Love Canticles (Touched Music)

Artist : Karsten Pflum

Title: Love Canticles

Label: Touched Music

Cat no: TM37

Format: CD/Digital

Country: U.K.

Artwork: Hagar Faibish

Style: IDM/Electronica

Release Date Oct 24th Nov 2017

It's hard not to be biased when you get to listen to artists that you know and love but there's a reason you love them and this only adds fuel to the fire. Hot on the heels of the recent release from 'Ariande's Labyrinth', comes an offering from one of Touched Music's favorite artists, Karsten Pflum.

'Love Canticles' is a solid collection of squelch, rattle and drop - guaranteed to please our followers and make your feet tap. Kicking off with a dissonance that plays with your expectations of melody, the whole thing is solidified with a strong mix of conventional and broken rhythms.

There are things you can't escape, notably the ethereal quality and a definite analogue feel that could easily be mistaken as Cornish in origin. Don't let this fool you however, this is the best of Danish through and through, although the keen- eared amongst you will hear the cat escaping the bag.

Other nice touches include a peppering of vocoder, robotically enhancing certain tracks that already felt mechanical and industrious.

Technical precision marks many of the tracks, 'I Am Ice' being a perfect example with ambience and crisp sounds aplenty, living up to its name. Not being satisfied with throwing a well-styled reworking into the mix to finish off the release, much- loved UK producer Ochre steps up and has offered his mastering & remixing skills to polish this great album. They're welcome bonuses that add to the already- delightful experience.

Ochre's not the only remixer here, with contributions from Isan (Morr Music) & Humanoid (Aka Brain Dougans - One Half Of The Future Sound Of London) in the final stretch, the change is noticeable but well within the bounds of what Pflum has set out to do.

All in all this is a spacious & thoughtful piece of work that carries on Karsten Pflum's tradition of style melding and refusing to sit in one box. It's great to know he's not going anywhere soon and even better to have him on the Touched roster.

Support Touched - Music for Macmillan Cancer Support and get your copy from the 24th

cool is there going to be a vinyl release as well? 

Oh nice! Been hoping for new Karsten! I can’t sleep without his Sleep Concert these days!

YAY!!!

Awesome, looking forward to it. Was just playing Dode on mushrooms last weekend. 

Dode would be a good shroom album. I love the first track. Super excited for this too, Karsten is the best. Still bump Vigilax on the regular

*Exclusive* Karsten Pflum - Squid Dream

Taken From Love Canticles

(Released On Touched Music) November 24th

Cool! Love the vid too :)

What's the release date? URL?

Squids are thought to be the most intelligent invertebrates.

its Digital & CD

YAS

  On 11/11/2017 at 4:10 PM, psn said:

What's the release date? URL?

Release date is at top of first post and it will be available at https://touched.bandcamp.com

Thanks! It says Oct 24th Nov, though.

  On 11/11/2017 at 9:15 PM, psn said:

Thanks! It says Oct 24th Nov, though.

Ha, I didn’t even notice that

very much excited for oct 24th nov

Going to have a Karsten Pflum Mixlr night on the 23rd, loads of unreleased matterial and remixes and a play of the album in full before release.

Lovely to have Isan, Humanoid, and ochre on board

Ochre Mastered the album too

*Exclusive* - Karsten Pflum - I Am Ice Ochre​ Remix)

Taken From Love Canticles

(Released On Touched - Music for Macmillan Cancer Support November 24th

good one!

Sounds very nice.

Album Launch and Mixlr Show Tonight From 8 UK Time

3 Hours Of Pflum Goodness.. After That The Album Drops ..

http://mixlr.com/touched-music/events/karsten-pflum-showcase-album-launch/

Yuss!

Humanoid remix Of Borg Acid

Ah cool! I didn’t figure KP did that Borg Acid track. Quality track.