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News: Pole announces an August 12″ for Mute; hear the percussive mantra of ‘Rost’

WITH last year’s excellent, enveloping album Fading under his belt, Berlin’s legendary sonic master Stefan Betke, aka Pole, has just dropped a new track, “Rost”, which is taken from a…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Pole – ‘Fading’: an enveloping electronic palimpsest

Fading is a palimpsest, Stefan writing over and erasing, finessing and revisiting all the Poles which make up Pole. Think of Fading in terms of depth, of descending, and exploring what lies within. It'll envelop you.

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TRACK: Pole – ‘Nebelkrähe’: deep Berlin atmospheres tease for next month’s album

STEFAN BETKE, the legendary vinyl masterer, deep electronic dub explorer and all-round sonic wizard who records as Pole, has dropped another fine piece of spacious, textural electronica ahead of his…

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TRACK: Pole – ‘Röschen’: Berlin textural ‘tronica legend is back; new album in November

BERLIN’S Stefan Betke, digidub mastering legend and masterful glitchtronica/deep groove recording artist in his own right as Pole, has announced details of his new album for Mute, and has also…

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