DICTAPHONE M.= Addiction

CD / LP

november 20, 2002

Label: City Centre Offices

Catalogue: Towerblock 010

One of those rare times that a demo has caused consternation within our City Centre Offices family was when Dictaphone s compelling and unbeleiveably complete debut album reached us some time earlier on this year. The main player behind the dictaphone name is Oliver Doerell, a multi instrumentalist originally from Brussels who now resides in the musical heartland of Berlin. The last 3 years have been spent working on the Dictaphone project, assisted by the saxophone and clarinette playing Roger Döring. Their past has been spent in similar fields, Oliver has composed numerous scores for theatre work, and Roger has a film soundtrack for "Alaska.de" which was a major box-office hit in Germany. Their first full length work, M.=addiction is a beautifully crafted work that trancends classification with all its throwbacks to Jazz, Electronica and found sound works. Points of reference ranging from the Cinematic Orchestra through to Boards of Canada and down to a deeply unconscious underground aesthetic, the beauty of this album is in its warmth, its accessability and its undeniably microscopic, home-baked construction. One of the loveliest albums that we´ve released to date, retaining a gloriously widescreen cinematic edge, we are immensly happy that this album is finally available to public consumption, warming up the cockles of any who come in its way. Sublime.