Jurek Przezdziecki Biscuit Symphony

Nice Review for Jureks Album on Pulseradio

http://pulseradio.net/articles/2011/08/jurek-przezdziecki-biscuit-symphony

Polish producer Jurek ‘Jerzy’ Przezdziecki has been involved in music since the tender age of ten, taking piano lessons and drawing his inspiration from Chopin, Beethoven and Bach. Since then he has studied at Warsaw College of Art and acquainted himself with the best of industrial and new beat music, notably Front 242, SPK and Coil. So have his myriad influences translated into a similarly varied album?

Definition specialise in a certain type of music, the name of which I almost baulk at spelling out should it summon some sort of appalling demon. Minimal. Or is it minimal? It’s certainly techno, with a deep minimalist edge, but it doesn’t quite delve the plink plonk ploop depths of certain labels. In many ways in fact, the kind of music that label owner Christian Fischer specialise in is closer to the (real) trance of artists like the young Sven Vath, Marc Spoon and other residents of Frankfurt’s notorious Dorian Gray club. By it’s nature it is stripped down and uplifting. With almost ten years to their name Definition have seen the scene evolve, and have stuck to what they believe in. Good for them. It is though difficult to see how this music fits without a good knowledge of Germany’s provincial techno world. This is in many ways a national sound, at times beautiful, reminiscent, but always hypnotic and designed for raves that go on for days in fields and disused barns where people take hallucinogenic drugs that went out of fashion in the 90’s but are nevertheless very fun.

So with all this in mind, Biscuit Symphony is a difficult album to review. It’s not quite of the calibre of Fischer’s own work, but it does have a distinctly melodic, musical quality. Vera Vitalia is my personal pick, a ‘sun coming up’ moment that pairs an addictive lead with deep drums and driving bass. For fans of the genre,  a solid work.

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