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SHED | SHEDDING THE PAST GENRE | DANCE NOT DANCE VERDICT | WHOLESOME MUSIC RELEASE | 9.2.08 LABEL | OSTGUT OSTGUT.DE The best thing about dance music? It’s always new. Not a week goes by I am bored by the thing; it just keeps progressing. Shed is not new, but people are talking a lot about him, and it’s mostly due to this. Shedding the Past is his appropriately titled full-length debut—a beacon of hope that house music (love, urban, black) and techno music (sex, urban, white) can live together in perfect harmony. He does this mainly by being neither. There are congas and handclaps (house) alongside synths and machines (techno), but rarely a slamming four-four beat. From the album’s short spoken-word piece: “The new sound, full of energy and vigor, brought us all back to where we all were coming from: true techno music.” Like Detroit producer Carl Craig (black), Shed (white) perfectly halves the difference and ends up with a whole. Can’t we all just get along?
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Shedding the Past
By ADA HUTCHINSON
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SHED | SHEDDING THE PAST GENRE | DANCE NOT DANCE VERDICT | WHOLESOME MUSIC RELEASE | 9.2.08 LABEL | OSTGUT OSTGUT.DE The best thing about dance music? It’s always new. Not a week goes by I am bored by the thing; it just keeps progressing. Shed is not new, but people are talking a lot about him, and it’s mostly due to this. Shedding the Past is his appropriately titled full-length debut—a beacon of hope that house music (love, urban, black) and techno music (sex, urban, white) can live together in perfect harmony. He does this mainly by being neither. There are congas and handclaps (house) alongside synths and machines (techno), but rarely a slamming four-four beat. From the album’s short spoken-word piece: “The new sound, full of energy and vigor, brought us all back to where we all were coming from: true techno music.” Like Detroit producer Carl Craig (black), Shed (white) perfectly halves the difference and ends up with a whole. Can’t we all just get along?