Alva Noto
Transform

THE REVIEW

After learning that a new one will soon be released, I brought this album by Alva Noto, aka Carsten Nicolai, within reach again, one of the few artists who can be defined as "360°".
Owner of Raster-Noton, a production house for emerging artists on the "electrodubchillout" scene (forgive me), in some releases he acts as a co-producer, and he can be found as a DJ in chill-out rooms of some raves between London and Berlin. A highly acclaimed designer (some of his works have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale), in 2001 he produced this Transform, an extremely unique record that reflects the artist's vast musical experience.

Very difficult to find, except in cities like Milan, Zurich, Berlin, and naturally London. More easily found online on LP; I personally opted for the illegal single track, and it was really worth it even with a 56k.
The content can serve as a soundtrack for any moment of the year or day, as it spans almost all electronic genres of recent years. It is presented as a sound wave that starts off slowly, rises significantly (in bpm) towards the middle, and then crashes onto the shore and spreads out calmly on the shoreline.
To help you understand what kind of electro I'm talking about, I can only compare it to something more well-known, but that doesn't mean there are banal copies or sad reinterpretations.
It starts with a "Moon Safari" sound at times "Mirror Conspiracy" (Thievery Corp.), similar to the soft tracks of the old Unkle (DJ Shadow), as the minutes pass, memories of Richard D. James and his protégé start to descend more substantially in the middle, leading to something approachable on the dance floors of some club (not vile discos like "Gimme Love"), until a sudden stop to return to things à la "Boards Of Canada" (especially Geogaddi, reviewed on De-B) with a touch of ambient, a genre that becomes much more pronounced in the last 4-5 minutes, "minimalizing" gradually until silence.

For me, it's a good album, but nothing fantastic, for those who love the groups listed above it could be a 4/5, I'm a bit more of an extremist.
Keep an eye on his next release.