Dictaphone Vertigo II

CD / LP

March 20, 2006

Label: City Centre Offices

Catalogue: Towerblock 032

Barcode (UPC): 880918081021 (CD) 880918081014 (LP)

File under: Electronica - D

- Second album after highly acclaimed debut "M.=Addiction"
- Toured extensively throughout Europe and Japan
- Doerell just finished producing the upcoming album by Raz Ohara
- Doerell is a member of SWOD
	

Background:

"Vertigo II" is the second album from Oliver Doerell and Roger Döring under the Dictaphone tag, 
further honing their delicately homespun tape loops and jazz emissions into a new kind of midnight 
effervescence that has won them a sizeable following and a dedicated audience for their hugely acclaimed live shows.

Vertigo II:

As anyone who has had the indignity of using one will know, Dictaphone's tend to be awkward little 
buggers that happily tape the conversation across the room whilst rendering the intended subject incomprehensible. 
Thankfully Dictaphone have taken this appellation as a starting point only and whilst there is undoubtedly something of the 
'overheard' about 'Vertigo II', at no point are you compelled to readjust the contrast and bring the foreground into focus. 
The serendipitous coming together of Oliver Doerell and Roger Döring, 'Vertigo II' marks a clear evolution from the sound
on 'M.=Addiction' (towerblock010); whilst diluting none of the spirit which made it so irresistible to begin with. Laying down a
membrane of mealy clicks, glitches and sliced digitalis, 'Vertigo II' at times resembles the intricate bedrock of artists such as
Jen Jelinek or Angelo Badelamanti. Yet whereas many would be happy to leave it at that, Dictaphone then go about building 
layers of aural sediment atop this foundation; producing a sound which is always ambitious, perfectly judged and downright addictive. 
Very much enraptured by sonorous bass, 'Vertigo II' happily indulges this predilection and in doing so allows the loose-limbed horns 
and digital detritus to roam the spectrum without becoming detached from the guiding core. 
Peppering the LP with snatches of shortwave-interference (most memorably a snooker match), found-sound snapshots 
and soundtrack conventions (including a haunting nod to Ed Wood), Dictaphone manage to massage an astonishing amount of 
material into an end result that feels as light as a feather and refreshingly clean, whilst avoiding the inherent sterility this can often imply. 
Littered with a vault full of lost memories and escaped snatches of conversation, "vertigo II" reads like a montage of recollections torn 
and cellotaped by david lynch in a smokey room in an unmarked hotel room..someplace in the middle of nowhere.

Promo-contact:
Berlin:
Thaddeus Herrmann
c/o debug
Schwedterstr. 8 / 9
Haus 9A
D ­ 10119 Berlin
cco@city-centre-offices.de

Manchester:
Shlom
c/o pelicanneck
Unit 101, Ducie House
37 Ducie St,
UK - Manchester m1 2jw
shlom@city-centre-offices.de