Strategy

A task of Portland, Oregon-based DJ and multi-instrumentalist Paul Dickow — also an associate of Nudge and Fontanelle — Technique fuses dub, funk, home, disco, ambient, and pop right into a uniquely shimmering, free-flowing, genre-defying sound. Dickow started working as Technique in 1999, using an elaborate and deeply split strategy that he debuted with 2001’s Counter-Clangs one on Archigramophone. He released his initial full-length, Strut, 2 yrs down the road Outward Music Firm, and in addition remixed a monitor for Superstars as Eyes in the Tigerbeat6 label. Singles and EPs on ORAC and Shockout implemented. In 2004, Technique debuted on Kranky with Drumsolo’s Joy, which had a far more organised experience than his debut. Dickow also founded the city Library label with David Chandler, aka Solenoid; the label released Strategy’s 2005 12″ one World Home. Remixes for Fine Fine, the Blow, as well as the Juan Maclean implemented, alongside 2006’s Areas of May one. Future Rock and roll, Strategy’s most organic yet accessible function to date, premiered in 2007. Ambient recording Music for Lamping showed up on Sound Dregs early the next yr. This was adopted the by Krautrock-influenced Electric powered Soup EP on Low Stage and blown-out dub 7″ Sound Tape Reggae on Entr’acte. Technique kept peaceful for another couple years, just issuing two limited 3″ CD-R produces in ’09 2009. The task came back to vinyl in 2011 using the EP Super Consciousness Is Fruits on U.K. label Beneath the Spire. Deep home solitary “The Fixer” made an appearance on Japanese label Endless Airline flight soon after. 12″ EP Boxy Music surfaced on Not really Not really Fun sub-label 100% Silk in early 2012. 7″ solitary “Dub in my own System” made an appearance on ZamZam Seems that summer, alongside another 12″ on Limitless Airline flight, “Luna.” In Sept, Strategy’s ambitious self-titled LP, offering appearances by visitor music artists including Thomas Meluch (Benoit Pioulard) and Fred Thomas, was the first released on Los Angeles-based Maximum Oil. Cassette IMAGINE IF? was released by Boomarm Country from the year’s end. 2013 noticed Strategy nod towards the U.K. home scene using the 12″ solitary “Return from your Celebrities” on Idle Hands. Another dub-influenced 7″ on ZamZam Seems, “Clocky Guy,” appeared by the end of the entire year. Strategy came back to Peak Essential oil in 2014 using the rave-influenced Pressure Wassure 12″ EP. Cassette produces also made an appearance on 100% Silk (Boxology) and Field Hymns (Cerebral Hut aka From the Grid) that yr. 2015 noticed the discharge of three full-length Technique LPs: related albums Seed products of Heaven (on Idle Hands) and Pods of Consequence (on Entr’acte) both found its way to March, and Sound Tape Personal (comprising tape loop items documented between 2008 and 2010) premiered by Further Information in June. Exactly the same label also released Strategy’s following album, Details Pollution, in Feb of 2016.