Der heute in Paris lebende Produvcer und ehemalige Salon Des Amateurs-Resident Detlef Weinrich, besser bekannt als Tolouse Low Trax, veröffentlicht Ende November sein neues Album “Fung Day”. Es ist sein erstes Album mit komplett neuem Material seit “Leave Me Alone” (Bureau-b 2022). Über zwei Jahre hinweg entwickelt und aufgenommen, spiegelt “Fung Day” Weinrichs typischen Ansatz wider: hypnotische Grooves, ungewöhnliche Arrangements und verspielte Elektronik, die langsam fortschreiten und mutieren. Der Titeltrack, bereits vorab verfügbar, vereint stilvolles Scratching, subkutane Melodien und hypnotische Kraxelrhythmen zu einem stimmigen, gleichwohl nie ganz zu einer Einheit verklebten Ganzen. Das Album erscheint als LP und digital beim Label TAL.

“He pretended he was in exile from Germany but he was a French lover like all of us; his MPC Sampler was smoking hot, an Enigma machine, an ashtray full of ghosts. I had left Paris for the same reasons he came. I could strangely relate. We’d met before he left Düsseldorf, and I knew of him through his oeuvre, his art over words (they were few) and piercing blue eyes. He was now texting me on a night train from Warsaw going East, as in a Greene novel, asking me to go over his file. He sent me a spontaneous, fun, brave and bold record which is his new album – one that curiously smelled of mechanical grease – machinery of the soul, broken transport rhythms, samples like memories, noise at peace. Referenced yet uncoded. I don’t believe in ulterior motives and complex explanations.  Not here at least. On the other hand, I do believe that works can be exposure – especially with the silent type or mistaken identities – and I knew about these too”. (Ivan Smagghe)