Trentemøller
The Last Resort (Vinyl Edition)
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album, Remastered, Stereo
- Label
- Poker Flat Recordings · PFRLP18
minimal-techno
Electronic AbstractIDMMinimal
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Plastikman Musik Plastikman's Musik is the minimal techno end of the spectrum that Trentemøller's Last Resort bridges from — Poker Flat is Steve Bug's Berlin label, adjacent to the M_nus world. -
Symmetry Yes / Jackie's Eyes The drowned, melancholic film-scoring quality Trentemøller developed on The Last Resort is what Italians Do It Better later codified — Symmetry's imagined-soundtrack aesthetic runs from the same 2006 moment.
The Last Resort (2006, Poker Flat) sits at the bridge between two aesthetics its moment was connecting for the first time. Poker Flat is Steve Bug’s Berlin-by-way-of-Mannheim label, adjacent to the minimal techno world, but what Trentemøller was building here had more in common with film scoring than with dancefloor minimalism: drowned, melancholic, wide spatial arrangements, a deliberate slowness.
2006 was the year European electronic music collectively figured out it could be melancholic without being chillout-fluff. Burial’s debut appeared the same year. The Last Resort arrived at the same cultural moment by a different route — minimal techno slowing down and going inward, discovering that the negative space had a mood in it. The connection forward to the Italians Do It Better aesthetic is direct: this record is one of the things that showed it was possible.