Description
A spectre is haunting the clubs — the spectre of ancient rhythms that have been wandering over this planet for millions of years. Jay Ahern and Stefan Schneider summoned this spectre, and now it will not let them be. The truth is, they don’t want to part ways. Together they are Hauntologists, and together they unchain the ghosts in the machines. Coarse and physical, dark and sexually-charged updates of ancient rhythms — and motorik, driven like a drummer in a time loop, improvised just like African street music. Actually: Africa. High up on Hauntologists’ list of references. In 2011 Schneider started to do ethnological recordings in Kenya; and older Hauntologists covers feature African statues. But most of all it is an Africa of the mind, an imaginary place (a refuge, an idealized space, a haunt), marking difference, the otherworldly. From that faraway place emerges this analogue, rumbling Techno, shifting and layering meticulously, simultaneously forward-looking and ancient, idiosyncratic and deeply-rooted.
