Following the excellent collab album by Prosumer & Murat Tepeli, Ostgut delivers its second showstopping long-player of the year with Shedding the Past, an album that toes the line between Techno and House, with hidden squelchy acid lines, dubby rhythms, and other ingredients to further confound genre distinctions. With all the talk about the resurgences of Move D and Rod Modell over the past year, I'm going to say right now that this album trumps all of that recent work. Shed's obviously synthesized a lot of the history of electronic music here and marries it with some of the trends enveloping dance floors around the globe today to create a surprisingly bright future. 90s ambient techno, acid, and detroit techno mix with 00s minimal and dubstep in an dance floor episode of "will it blend?" I have a feeling this album is a defining statement for techno in 2008, and will be remembered not only as one of the best albums of the year, but as one of the key techno records of this decade.

Style: Techno, House

RIYL: Move D, Rod Modell

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2008  House  Move D  Ostgut Tontrager  Rod Modell  Shed  Shedding The Past  Techno  onecaseman 

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