Curd Duca, a musician from Vienna sojourning in sunny Florida during the cold Austrian winters, might be called a slow burner. Since 1992 he’s been releasing his »Easy Listening« series of electronic space-lounge exotica for the disco 2000, but it was not until now that the one-time outsider, who had always been regarded as a quirky eccentric, has been acknowledged as one of the major electronic musicians of the nineties.

Active at the cutting edge of digital music culture, combining old practices with novel techniques, and meeting with international acclaim, Fennesz has come up with the finest, purest music as his answer to today’s myriad and multiplying techno- and ideo-logies. It is high time that we portrayed former Maische guitarist Christian Fennesz.

Harder, faster, farther or the principle of »total submission«: one nation under one groove; shiny happy people gyrating to 150 bpm and beyond. Hans Kulisch as surf instructor through the Austrian techno jungle.