THE ART OF ACID

Info Text: Techno-Legends Oliver Bondzio and Ramon Zenker aka Hardfloor are back in style this season! With their beloved machine music that is free from seasonal flares, and artificial flavours. Hardfloor are still true to the core of their 303 platine circuit boards. Electronic music production is nothing less than a bare necessity to these pioneers of the acid groove. Hailed and namedropped by many a young producer™s today, revamped or sampled... acid lines emerge anew in quite a few tracks. But when Hardfloor put Acid in their tank - it is sooo much more and way bigger than a marketable gimmick or the fuel to an otherwise exchangeable battery of loops. It is the motor, the lifeline and the heartbeat to a whole organism offering a whole world of expression and  first and foremost - emotions! From their seminal ‚Acperience 1š track for Sven Väth™s Harthouse label in 1992, on to to their legendary ‚Yeke Yekeš Remix for Mory Kante. From their Big Beat-ish experiments as DaPhreakNoizePhunk and remixes for icons from Depeche Mode to New Order. From almost a dozen albums and countless 12šs - unto today™s new album: The TB 303 remained at the center of their production, whether doubled up, linked like a sixpack and mutated thoroughly, or used alongside other analogue gear, that makes every electronic producer™s pulse go... Hardfloor ride effortlessly once again. Letting us all fly, loosing sense of space and time: on beats, rhythms, melodies, dreams and fantasies manmade. Hand in hand with just the machines. Meticulous arrangements, transcending spheres, sound that travels! That is what they are still about, remaining the experts. Because that™s the way the feel the machines and make us feel them: From the straight push forward of their album-opener ‚Tweakendš to the percussive tripping flow of ‚The Art Of Acidš, the supersweet and chilling ‚Swag My Glitch upš or the raving rough shake and stir of ‚Bubble And Squeakš, to name but a few album titles. When their new album ends with the tongue-incheek ‚TB Continuedš, a homage to the uncompromisable TB-303, they know how to manipulate endlessly, you might ask, ‚what has happend for the last hour?š. Unique original music has happened ... goddamnit! For Hardflloor surely know how to carry your mind away for a good while. With music that is timeless, daring and great and only follows the rules they set up themselves!