Trentemøller delivers his debut album on Poker Flat “The Last Resort” – a beautifully crafted, astonishing masterpiece, that will leave you breathless.
The 13 instrumental tracks together form a wordless musical story, almost like the soundtrack of a movie. It manages to capture a whole range of emotions in subtle melodic miniatures, dreamy ambiences, dusty beats, deep dub-tracks and driving groove-excursions. An ever-changing kaleidoscope of colours and moods, “The Last Resort” without a doubt contains Trentemøller’s best work to date.
Although it’s definitely an electronic album, it also incorporates live-drums, some guitars and other acoustic instruments like celesta, glockenspiel, melodica and even DJ scratching to create a more organic feel. “Something I couldn’t manage with just electronica”, according to the producer.
It may come as a surprise that on “The Last Resort” Trentemøller moves away from the dancefloor and instead produces an introspective album that’s especially great for home listening (or listening in the car, or on your i-Pod).
But, as Trentemøller says now, he doesn’t see himself as someone who just produces dance-tech. “Because I have always made all kinds of music. In the studio, I never think about which genre it is or what target group it is for, I just make the music I feel like.” What came out of the recording sessions for “The Last Resort” was a very personal album: “It reflects my life, my thoughts, my needs, my insecureness, my longings.” And it was a challenge, he adds, “to express these feelings and moods without words, only with music.”
The second CD, only available as a limited edition, nicely complements the first one, not only because of the two vocal songs, but also because it contains all the great dancefloor-tracks Trentemøller produced last year for Audiomatique and Poker Flat, like “Physical Fraction”, “Polar Shift”, “Sunstroke” and the “Nam Nam EP”.
Together these two CD’s show the two sides of Anders Trentemøller – the introspective melancholy man versus the outgoing, funky techno-minimalist.
A fantastic accomplishment from one of the greatest producers of this new century.
The Last Resort is available for PreOrder at Amazon.co.uk for £13.99 – This is likely to drop to around £10.99 at release (you will be charged the price at time of dispatch)
