{"id":611,"date":"2024-10-29T12:16:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.phonopoly.de\/?p=611"},"modified":"2024-10-29T12:16:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:16:43","slug":"press-review-about-phanton-in-exo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Press Review about  phanton in EXO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sonic Trips: Jake Horwitz wrote <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up from the ashes, Sonic.Trips returns for a special post to highlight our old friend from Germany \u2014 Phanton. Way back in August of 2021 we wrote of the enigmatic artist that his songs \u201care typically lengthy odysseys merging world-music sounds with tight production, samples, and dance beats,\u201d and all of that is, somehow, built on and expanded with his latest record In EXO. The record is an abstract sonic adventure that fuses seemingly every style of music you have ever heard. Sparse, dynamic percussion often forms the foreground whereafter seemingly anything is possible. Abstract tech and synth experiments may layer over in one moment, Spanish guitars another. Hypnotic vocals often add to the trance experience of the tracks as they seamlessly blend elements primarily from electronic and world music genres. The simple fact is: there is absolutely nothing like this record. Having produced music since the 80s in Cologne, Germany, Phanton has perhaps seen, er, well, heard it all at this point \u2014 and he channels that into this record which is as much an exploration of his sonic consciousness as it is any sort of outward expression. Stand out tracks include the 9-minute opus \u201cHeartbreath,\u201d and our personal favorite \u201cMehr Zeit.\u201d The latter is an enchanting psychedelic track that ranges from funky to outright avant-garde in a manner that only an artist of Phanton\u2019s stature could achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.phonopoly.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-612\" width=\"371\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Cover-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Cover-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Cover-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Cover-1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.phonopoly.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ich.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-610\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ich.jpg 888w, https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ich-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ich-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Groove Franck Eckert<br><br><br>Die M\u00f6glichkeit einer \u201enat\u00fcrlichen\u201d elektronischen Tanzmusik mit den M\u00f6glichkeiten der Welt-(Musik) ist f\u00fcr den K\u00f6lner Toningenieur und Produzenten Michael Springer alias Phanton ein Langzeitprojekt. Es hat ihn nach Afrika, letztens nach Daressalam in Tansania und zur\u00fcck in die hiesigen elektrischen Avantgarde-Achtziger und die Kraut-Siebziger gef\u00fchrt. Trotzdem bleiben Techno, House und Dub keineswegs au\u00dfen vor. Auf In EXO (Phantonstudio, 7. September) der j\u00fcngsten Manifestation dieses weit offenen Ansatzes, findet Phanton zu eher straighten Rhythmen in organischer Produktion balearischer W\u00e4rme. Zwischen den nachgerade hittigen Tracks gibt es auf ebenso selbstverst\u00e4ndliche Weise experimentellen Ambient und krautlurchige Soundexperimente mit geloopten Vocal-Snippets. Am Ende kommt es immer zusammen zu etwas ultimativ Freundlichem.<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonic Trips: Jake Horwitz wrote Up from the ashes, Sonic.Trips returns for a special post to highlight our old friend from Germany \u2014 Phanton. Way back in August of 2021 we wrote of the enigmatic artist that his songs \u201care typically lengthy odysseys merging world-music sounds with tight production, samples, and dance beats,\u201d and all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonopoly.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}