Exclusive: ADSR - Haunted (Todd Nickolas Remix)

The third release on Klasse Wrecks sub-label ELEGAL comes from former Canadian artist duo ADSR, consisting of Dominic Paterson and Todd Nickolas, whose musical hey-days date back to the 90s. Besides a handful of EPs on their go-to label Floorshaker Productions, which were out in-between 1992 to 1994, ADSR also released two albums. While their debut was out on Floorshaker Productions too, the sophomore LP followed on Cargo Records. In 2018 another EP from the duo was released on Rising High Record and included the third part of An Angel Passed as well as new mixes of other previously released tracks from Dominic and Todd. The third installment on the ELEGAL label takes on the same route as the duo's release on Rising High, namely that of remastering and reworking older material from ADSR. Haunted, which was originally released on Accelerated Emotions, the duo's debut album, comes – aside from the original – with two remixes: one from ELEGAL label boss Luca Lozano and the other one from original member Todd Nickolas. Addtionally the EP includes a never heard before DAT tape finding called Menace. However, it's Todd's rework that we'd like to draw the attention to. A break-esque bass line with almost dub-ish chords and spheric pads, the latter partly worked with a glitch-sound, and matching yet dreamy and haunting vocals complete the take, whose beauty unfolds in the composition of the intertwining melodic components to make the reworked take one of these tracks you just press press rewind – over and over again.

ADSR's Haunted EP was released on ELEGAL on August 5th, 2021.

Buy here: https://klassewrecks.bandcamp.com/album/haunted-ep

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Klasse Wrecks/ ELEGAL: https://facebook.com/klassewrecks // @klassewrecks // https://instagram.com/klassewrecks

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'Haunted' EP

Haunted (Todd Nickolas Remix)

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EXCLUSIVE: ADSR - Haunted (Todd Nickolas Remix) [ELEGAL]

Todd Nickolas and Dominic Paterson were born and raised in rural South-Western Ontario Canada, an unlikely setting for the kind of leftfield music they grew up with and eventually produced. They had the good fortune of having older relatives into alternative underground music, so much of the late 70s and early 80s were spent plundering record collections and making mixtapes. Todd and Dominic met in high school, geeking out over each other’s Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode shirts. In 1987 they started making music together, which wasn’t easy to categorize as their personal styles and musical tastes were constantly evolving. From synthpop and EBM/industrial, to electro and early hip hop and house music, to post-punk and dub and all points between, whatever the duo encountered was embraced enthusiastically. The transition into the techno and ambient years of the 90s was therefore a natural one, their early influences always finding their way into their productions one way or another in addition to the new sounds they were creating. The rave era was a revelation for them, because there they found their people and scene. The anything-is-possible optimism that went along with it coincided with a general twentysomething feeling of youthful euphoria about a world full of possibilities. Infinities of Life was originally released in 1994 as part of the 12” Universality EP (Floorshaker Productions). This percussive techno-trance track perfectly captures the xtc euforia that swept across warehouse dancefloors back then.

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