Artist: Deru
Title: Pushing Soil
Label: Delikatessen Records
Catalog #: Plate 8
Release date: February 2004
Tracklisting
a1 Lusine Soulik_Remixed
a2 Lo Grey Beam Din_Remixed
b1 Xela You_Haunt_Me_Remixed
b2 Ginormous Flux_of_Humor_Remixed
"Basically, carrots are like peanut-butter and jelly, they are so dependable
and always in the fridge; without them I would probably starve to death." Deru
Have we got a farm fresh offer for you! Toss out all your stale veggie
trays and head on over to the Delikatessen for a vitamin packed vinyl plate
of tasty new carrots, erm, cuts from Deru - Pushing Soil!. Right on the
heels of a critically renown LP for Neo Ouija, Pushing Air, Deru digs up
this spanking new collection of four remixes by fellow sound farmers
guaranteed to be the perfect garnish for any listening environment. First
up is a Delikatessen regular, Lusine ICL, who takes a no frills route,
spreading his special kind of down tempo techno butter all over Soulik,
delivering the perfect late night post-party snack. Logrey Beam shaves off
little bits and pieces of Din to add flavor to a beefy bass main dish
simmered in rich glitch melodies - talk about a fun way to get your
minerals! Next up is Xela, who youll remember from Metamatics Remixes
(that spicy Plate 3), chopping up big chunks of brash sound from You
Haunted Me and fashioning a hearty atmospheric stew for all you
ambience-starved customers. And dont forget to save room for Ginormous
tantalizing Flux of Humor, where diced guitar and harp are laid out on a
bed of luxuriant orchestral tones that takes Derus music to a new depth!
Getting back to your roots never tasted so good!
About the Chef: Derus Ben Wynn, our resident tuber trooper, hails from New
York by way of Chicago, and currently farms out commercial sound design in
L.A. through the company he co-founded, The Track Team. About two years ago
Wynn began using the name Deru, a proto-Indo-European root word indicating
strength and interconnectedness, with modern derivatives such as tree,
trust, and endure, he explains. I like the idea that when you release art,
it grows roots with each person who experiences it. These new people have
their own relationship to it that is entirely theirs, and they become the
roots to the object that is your art, but entirely separate as well. When
not crafting music for The Man or for himself as Deru, Wynn indulges a
fascination in the TelleTubbies - they intrigue me, and scare the shit out
of me all at the same time - and in DJing a wide variety of music in L.A.,
including early 90s hip-hop. But Ben assures us hes hard at work in the
fields of Deru, diggin up another batch of organic electronic goodness to
follow up on his success with both Pushing Air and now Pushing Soil. Give
that man a spade!
Delikatessen is proud to have such a bountiful connection with the talented
Deru.
About the Deli: Delikatessen opened its first shops in the US and Germany
last year, and its owners are proud to offer up the best in electronic,
experimental, and wicked-bad sonic foodstuffs this side of a piece of
vinyl. Delikatessen promises each Plate will be chock-full of all the
delicious electronics your turntable can handle, and that the choons will
fill you up like Thanksgiving at grandmas. Come back to the Deli
(www.delikatessen-records.com) often because you never know whats gonna be
on the menu!
deli-europe : chocolate@delikatessen-records.com
deli-u.s. : enchilada@delikatessen-records.com
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