Don't listen to this now.
Go out. Run around all day then end up in the pub. Drink too much beer, stagger into a club and down some redbull. When your body starts to ache, fall on to the nightbus and then into bed. Your eyes are red, cemented shut from the harsh electric light and you're surrounded by the silence of night.
Now listen to this album. Only then will it make sense.
Pole emerged from the secretive Berlin based Basic Channel outfit in the late '90s. His first single was a gargantuan leap, pushing forward the dub-techno model pioneered by Basic Channel in the first half of the decade.
Amid sub basslines, the clicks, pops and sounds on records became the record. And it sounded like heaven.
Then for the rest of the '90s Pole decided to release the same lp three times - the debut ['LP1'], the melody-less one ['LP2'] and the one with the voices ['LP3']. Thankfully, however, this mix lp 'Komfort.Labour' breaks that mould. Released on Pole's fine ~scape imprint, it takes the gentle sound-as-music line and wanders, blurring it and lines between live and electronics.
Only to electronica 'spotters and techno fans, might names like Vadislav Delay, Cinematic Orchestra, Dr Rockitt, Kit Clayton and Flanger be familiar.
But to many, their electronic and increasingly jazzy approach might be a complete revelation, especially given how well Pole mixes and programs this selection.
So go out, get tired and come home. Let Pole soothe your eyes.
