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THN088 >> BEN BUSINOVSKI - SIMULACRAIC WONDERLAND
      [24.07.2006 | THEMES FROM NEON CITY]

Ben Businovski makes his debut appearance on netlabel Thinner 
with a smooth, sensual techno release showcasing his own unique 
fusion of Detroit Techno and dub-inspired sounds. Influenced by 
the music of the Transmat (Detroit) and Basic Channel (Germany) 
labels, Ben modestly and succinctly characterizes the album as 
"just music to make people feel calm and relaxed". 

An important counterpart to the musical focus of the album is 
the theme of an "Asian megalopolis" as alluded to in the title 
and images. According to Ben, the album tells a story - 
"something of a futuristic, cyber-punk, film-noir anime film." 
The tracks were written prior to his move to South Korea 
(where he presently resides) while at student at the 
University in Australia. Time spent watching Hong Kong action 
movies and Japanese animation inspired the quixotic idea of 
an Asian megalopolis. These tracks were composed while lost 
in a "Simulacraic Wonderland", and there's a bit of naive 
romanticism evident here induced by watching these movies and 
animations as their images created a vague, idealized semblance 
of living the Asian experience.

The first five tracks establish the musical theme for the album 
as the strong techno and dub influences make their presence 
known via an abundance of steady kick drum beats, synthesized 
sounds, minor-scale chords, punctuated stabs, mellow pads, 
accentuated with just the right touch of echo and delay. 
Especially notable is the poignant "Ceiling Fan" whose 
evocatively melancholic tone is carried over into 
"Communication Bridge", "Deception", and "Dissolving". 

"Lurking" continues the techno/dub theme complemented by a 
memorable, rolling bass line. The mostly dub-flavored "Negating"
drops the steady kick drum in favor of some catchy rhythms and 
beats followed by "Once" and "Purge All Levels" which bring 
back the solid techno beats. The dubby and highly rhythmic 
"Song for a Cybernetic Amazon" continues the album's theme 
complemented by some deep bass, soft synths , and soothing 
piano lines. 

"Simulacraic Wonderland" brings the album to a 
bucolic ending by diverging from the tech/dub theme in favor 
of some relaxing sounds featuring an orchestral-like 
atmosphere with haunting synthesized strings and a beautiful 
piano melody.

In retrospect, after having moved to Korea and visiting Japan 
several times, it became clear that the simulacra of the images 
on the television screen bore little resemblance to reality 
and to quote Ben: "Familiarization demystifies everything, it 
sobers you up and in a sad way destroys the deluded romantic 
concepts one can develop. Listening to it brings me back a 
few years to when things were not so familiar, not quite so 
old." 

-Larry Johnson

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:: 10 tracks :: 52min 30sec :: 73.972 MB ::

01: Ben Businovski - Ceiling Fan
02: Ben Businovski - Communication Bridge
03: Ben Businovski - Deception
04: Ben Businovski - Dissolving
05: Ben Businovski - Lurking
06: Ben Businovski - Negating (Orignal Dub Version)
07: Ben Businovski - Once
08: Ben Businovski - Purging All Levels
09: Ben Businovski - Song For A Cybernetic Amazon
10: Ben Businovski - Simulacraic Wonderland

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[THINNER.RELEASES]

THN001 VA - "Thinnerism.01"
THN002 deleted*
THN003 Karsten Hammer Hansen - "Elektric.01 EP"
THN004 Curse - "Resolved EP"
THN005 Rktic - "Northern Lights LP"
THN006 Nulleins - "Cyclism EP"
THN007 Benfay - "Carbon EP"
THN008 Dolby - "Dub Expo EP"
THN009 deleted*
THN010 VA - "Thinnerism.02"
THN011 Rktic - "Northern Lights Remixed" 150 Copies CDR!
THN012 Benfay - "Nitron EP"
THN013 Blamstrain - Kavel EP"
THN014 Digitalverein - "Zu Hause²"
THN015 Dolby - "Midnight EP"
THN016 PVO - "Protolith EP"
THN017 Digitalverein - "Zu Hause² Remixes"
THN018 Digitalverein - "Zu Hause² Variationen"
THN019 deleted*
THN020 Nulleins - "Freeway EP"
THN021 Falter - "Taumelflug EP"
THN022 Digitalis - "Sin:Ergy EP"
THN023 Selffish - "Eenas LP"
THN024 Danny Kreutzfeldt - "Re:Core 2CD"
THN025 Pete Larsen - "Berlin Calling EP"
THN026 Benfay - "Bergflanke EP"
THN027 Christian Bloch - "Young American LP"
THN028 Niels Jensen - "77 LP"
THN029 Kazooo - "Palermo Beats EP"
THN030 VA - "Montrealers"
THN031 Marko Fürstenberg - "Option EP"
THN032 deleted*
THN033 Digitalverein - "Internal Course LP"
THN034 Curse - "Wet Springtime Sessions EP"
THN035 Breitbannt - "Back from Exile EP"
THN036 And.Id - "After 5 EP"
THN037 Lufth - "Tendenzen EP"
THN038 krill.minima - "Zwischen Zwei Und Einer Sekunde"
THN039 VA - "Silent Season Dub"
THN040 Surphase & Rktic - "Norddeutsch EP"
THN041 Chronolux - "The Manila Context EP"
THN042 Eloi Brunelle - "Montréal Night Grooves EP"
THN043 Pheek - "Tabisuru Kokoro LP"
THN044 Mateo Murphy - "The Rising EP"
THN045 Dick Richards - "Costa Daurada EP"
THN046 Sectorchestra - "Fault n'Roll EP"
THN047 Marko Fürstenberg - "Gesamtlaufzeit LP"
THN048 Paul Keeley - "Sussex Blue EP"
THN049 Baier/Box - "Boxing/Unboxing EP"
THN050 VA - "I Like To Listen!"
THN051 deluge - "Departure In Affection And New Noise LP"
THN052 Paul Keeley & Dennis DeSantis - "Transatlantic Nightclub EP"
THN053 Holger Flinsch - "The Watcher And The Tower EP"
THN054 Benfay - "One Touch Button Music LP"
THN055 Selffish - "Ena LP"
THN056 Brian Kage - "Eight Ways EP"
THN057 Jason Corder - "Microcosmos LP"
THN058 Mikkel Metal - "Cassini Pieces MLP"
THN059 Theodor Zox - "Pastels 1-4 EP"
THN060 VA - "One Touch Button Remixes"
THN061 Johan Skugge - "Skyddsnisch EP"
THN062 T-Polar - "Tonal Soul EP"
THN063 Jeff Bennett - "Lowdown EP"
THN064 Swat Squad - "Lunática EP"
THN065 Holger Flinsch - "Discovery EP"
THN066 Vladislav Delay - "Demo(n) Cuts EP"
THN067 Digitalverein - "Changes LP"
THN068 Alice Mackay & Benfay - "Lighthouse EP"
THN069 deluge - "The Metapop complex LP"
THN070 VA - "Crossways 3LP"
THN071 Lomov - "Mounting Stags"
THN072 Veer - "Where Nothing Ever Happened"
THN073 Timm Kawohl - "Cascades"
THN074 VA - "Thinnergy"
THN075 Christian Bloch - "New Age"
THN076 Pheek - "Consortium"
THN077 T-Polar - "Red Machine"
THN078 Marko Fürstenberg - "Classics"
THN079 Digitalis - "Zeitraum"
THN080 Bern - "Just Married"
THN081 Sectorchestra - "No Morchestra"
THN082 Thinner & Epsilonlab  - "Silence Is Presence"
THN083 Alta Infidelidad - "Cactus Y Volcanes"
THN084 Nulleins - "Seven Spaces"
THN085 Das Kraftfuttermischwerk - "Eingang Nach Draußen"
THN086 Gate Zero - "Radio overBoard"
THN087 Unit 21 - "September-October"
THN088 Ben Businovski - "Simulacraic Wonderland"

* for deleted releases check if you can find them in SoulSeek 
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Christian.Dittmann....................................[THN083]
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Ghislain.Poirier......................................[THN030]
Gurtz.................................................[THN074]
Gustavo.Lamas.........................................[THN070]
Hieronymus............................................[THN070]
Holger.Flinsch...................[THN053+THN065+THN070+THN079]
Jacek.Sienkiewicz.....................................[THN072]
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Jean.Michel...........................................[THN070]
Jeff.Bennett...................................[THN043+THN063]
Johan.Fotmeijer.......................................[THN050]
Johan.Skugge...................................[THN050+THN061]
Karsten.Hammer.Hansen.................................[THN003]
Kazooo.........................................[THN024+THN029]
Kenneth.Kirschner.....................................[THN070]
Kevin.Krebs...........................................[THN024]
L.O.D.................................................[THN074]
Lomov.................................................[THN071]
Lowfour...............................................[THN072]
Lufth.....................[THN037+THN039+THN058+THN060+THN070]
Marko.Fürstenberg...........................[too.much.to.list]
Martin.Jarl....................................[THN050+THN070]
Mateo.Murphy..............[THN030+THN043+THN044+THN060+THN073]
Mikkel.Metal............................[THN058+THN060+THN070]
Mondfabrik............................................[THN070]
Mossa.................................................[THN082]
Niels.Jensen..............[THN024+THN028+THN030+THN060+THN068]
Nulleins................................[THN006+THN020+THN084]
Off.The.Sky....................................[THN039+THN058]
Pat.Cantin............................................[THN030]
Paul.Keeley........[THN048+THN052+THN056+THN060+THN073+THN082]
Pete.Larsen...........................................[THN025]
Pheek.......................................[too.much.to.list]
Rasmus.Møbius...........................[THN017+THN024+THN039]
Receptor..............................................[THN083]
Rktic............................[THN005+THN018+THN024+THN040]
Ruben.Andersen........................................[THN075]
Rx....................................................[THN017]
Sean.Byrd.............................................[THN050]
Selffish....[THN010+THN023+THN039+THN050+THN055+THN060+THN070]
Sensual.Physics................................[THN050+THN071]
Si-Cut.DB.............................................[THN070]
Swat.Squad............................................[THN064]
Sub.q.vs.Th0ke........................................[THN010]
Taho...............[THN034+THN039+THN043+THN049+THN056+THN073]
Theodor.Zox....................................[THN058+THN059]
Timm.Kawohl...........................................[THN073]
Tlon...........................................[THN069+THN070]
Transient......................................[THN070+THN085]
T-Polar...................[THN050+THN060+THN062+THN076+THN077]
Tsaikkonen............................................[THN010]
Unit.21...............................................[THN087]
Veer..................................................[THN072]
Vladislav.Delay.......................................[THN066]
Undacova..............................................[THN024]
Xoki..................................................[THN070]
Zen.Savauge...........................................[THN070]

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Marc.Schütz.............................................[2005]
Ronny.Pries...........................................[mentor]
        
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