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A Cooler World

by Strategy
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JLP
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JLP A sonic portal to the sublime glacial geographies of outer or inner space that await us in future voyages or in dreams. Gentle and captivating music. Favorite track: The Rabbit Hole.
yourcolleague
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yourcolleague I really like the inclusions of percusions/drums on this album. Favorite track: The Abandoned Outpost.
Miles Egan
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Miles Egan Nice range of textures and moods that works in the foreground or background. Perfect for watching a rainy day. Favorite track: The Rabbit Hole.
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ghosttropics Paul is one of the very few artists I know of who’s next move is impossible to predict, aside from the fact that it is going to be incredible at a success rate of literally 100% as far as I am concerned. This one is immediately a new favourite, an ultra hands on approach to his liquid pulsating dub, where you can really sense the hands at the wheel so to speak, steering us in fascinating new directions. Track 2 is an especially nice surprise, reminding me of Returnal era OPN.
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about

Portlander Paul Dickow, as Strategy, presents his latest album— A Cooler World. Fascinated by the unfamiliar limitations and inherent playability of a hand-me-down, 1989 model sampling keyboard, he played these pieces by hand, mostly abandoning the sequencer driven framework of sampling based music; he plays the sampler here the way a guitarist approaches the guitar. A Cooler World is a deep dive into glacial, pensive soundscapes that navigate the boundaries between experimental, ambient, and dance music. The pieces unfold with deliberate intention, expressed in a sound vocabulary that originates in the futurism of ambient techno, yet they open to the serendipitous outcomes of his instrumental experimentation. One of his few albums that fully commits to ambience, with this new album, everything is slowed down, gesturing towards stillness, and transformed into something otherworldly under a blanket of snow.

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released March 25, 2025

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