TOLOUSE LOW TRAX

Parisian-by-choice Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax turns the page again. Always
willing for a new episode, notion, impulse, idea, ideal. Searching for some light out
there. Now Kiosque Versions, a compilation compiled by himself, featuring seven edits
by friends and treasured artists. They renew some rare TLT tunes, as well as hits, that
never took the charts by storm.

There is French legend and Tigersushi boss Joakim, edging the TLT winner Rushing Into
Water from 2016. A guarded stepper, dancy, trippy, with an enchantress on his shoulder, that
haunts your body and soul. The 2020 TLT tune Dawn Is Temporal, taken from his album
Jumping Dead Leafs, comes as an old school hip hop leaning track, re-fashioned by New
York’s Beat Detectives, including Amen-Break and nod-your-head vibes. Producer Ido Plumes
from Bristol took Tristeros Empire home and worked it club-wise. A nervous beating
modification, Detroit machines, motorway funk, cosmic gasps - pure driller killer. Glasgow’s
Dip Friso stays tense too. Echoes, tribal bounce, manic loops. Another driller in dub heaven.
Like Paris based digi-dub explorers Froid Dub, who bring a great wave of warm grooves,
making baroque-esk dub friends with Make Friends, a TLT track from his legendary three
Volume strong 2016 Antinote sampler compendium. Their fellow countryman Simo Cell
nervously metamorphoses A Song and a Photo Novella, a TLT soundtrack for a film by artist
Nicolàs Guagnini. His version has all that bass, vibrates on an experimental
subconsciousness, and aims the dancefloor with a stirring bouquet of rhythmic ideas. The dot
on the I comes from TLT himself, remixing his very own music, translating the Gamelan
melancholy of Subghosts, a tune from his 2010 debut album Mask Talk, into today, refined
with dubby upsetting notes, a speed lift, and a very playful TLT groove. Let’s turn the page.

- Michael Leuffen