Cristian Vogel reprises his NEL alias for his sixth outing on EPM as he presents ‘NEL and The Instrument of Shapes’, an EP featuring two new tracks from the electronic artist. Cristian is a long-term player in the composition, mixing and performance of electronic sounds. Spanning over 30 years in electronic music, his work has been acknowledged as an influence in the fields of stage composition, club culture, and the studio.
His numerous album releases have graced such labels as Tresor, Mille Plateaux, novamute, Shitkatapult, Sub Rosa and more recently his own Endless Process label.
His studio work as NEL is a departure from his more experimental album and sound design compositions and while these will continue, the tracks bear a closer resemblance to Cristian's earlier production style, delivering tougher beats and rhythmic textures primarily using modular synths in a hands-on, improvised live-to-tape process.
‘The Instrument of Shapes’ sees him bury himself back into the deep grooves of dub techno with subtlety and sound craft to create a slow-burning cavern of sound, whilst ‘Stepping Stones’ is a more carefree and loose modular affair that flits across bass and dark electronica.
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