Denzel & Huhn, Time is a Good Thing (side C)

2002 was the heyday of German avant-techno, and City Center Offices was one of the best labels in the genre. Denzel & Huhn are a great example of what made the genre good, and this is a strong album. Side C of Time is a Good Thing does include one track with a more analog New Order-y palette that sounds a bit dated, but the rest of it contains crazy looping clicks & glitches that twist the techno palette to unrecognizable bounds. The idea of repetition is abstracted away from the dancier idiom where it began, and it's turned into something new and daring. The use of low-frequencies is particularly impressive, and the lo-fi digital sound is more murky and Apogee-ish than harsh or brittle.