Jensen Interceptor & DeFeKT – Free Your Mind (EP – Tresor)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Technoid.
Format: Digital, Vinyl.
Background/Info: This is a collaborative work between two prolific artists. Jensen Interceptor (Australia) and DeFeKT (Ireland) joined forces and delivered five tracks.
Content: The work is a mix of different influences, but mainly appealing for lovers of Minimal-Electronics and styled Techno music. The rhythm is slow, but danceable while the electronic treatments are driven by retro elements. One of the cuts even sounds like a wink to Kraftwerk.
+ + + : I’m more familiar with the work of Jensen Interceptor, but it all sounds like there’s a perfect harmony between both artists. There’s something to say about each song and that’s because of the intelligent fusion of vintage electro sounds and Techno elements. I also enjoyed the icy strings running through the last track. The work also features cool, fragmented, sampled vocals.
– – – : I can’t say this EP features one hit, but we get 5 cool songs instead.
Conclusion: There’re collaborations which we can only encourage to renew. Jensen Interceptor and DeFeKT are reinventing the past…
Best songs: “Leisure Machine”, “Broken City”, “Free Your Mind”.
Rate: 7½.
Artists: www.facebook.com/thejenseninterceptor / www.facebook.com/DeFeKTelectro
Label: www.facebook.com/tresorberlin
About Jensen Interceptor & DeFeKT
Jensen Interceptor is the alias of Mikey Melas, an electro and techno producer based in Sydney, Australia. He has released more than fifty records, mostly singles and EPs, and also records as Interceptor.
DeFeKT is the alias of Matthew Flanagan, an electronic producer from Dublin, Ireland, who also works as E.S.S. and Octal Step. His discography runs to close to thirty releases, again mainly singles and EPs.
“Free Your Mind” brings the two producers together for five tracks, released by the Berlin label Tresor on digital and vinyl.
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