21 Mar 2012 — Henning Lahmann
If you happen to be in Berlin this weekend, this is where you'll want to be on Saturday night. James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas aka Bristol-based avantgarde techno duo
Emptyset celebrate the release of
Medium, their latest EP on
Subtext Recording, at
Horst Krzbrg, supported by
Ancient Methods and
Lower Order Ethics. "Emptyset is the sound of production without any of the content, without any of the music or the instrumentation. It's about reducing the thing I enjoy most about music to its barest form," Ginzburg told
The Wire last month. Correspondingly,
Medium is an excellent yet highly intricate project, entirely recorded in the abandoned Gothic revivalist halls and chambers of
Woodchester Mansion, a place so haunted and obviously perfect for this kind of sonic experimentation that it would've been turned into another techno cathedral long ago were it situated in Berlin and not Gloucestershire. A truly essential release.
Go
here for further infos, and get
Medium now
over here.
Watch the video for the title track below, using single frames shot on location at Woodchester Mansion, and listen to Emptyset's mind-blowing 45-minute mix that might serve as an apt foretaste of what is going to happen on Saturday.
