I know he's been discussed before, but I'm still amazed by this guy's shift in taste / territory. I just checked out his new CD, 'At the Controls', and it's got .. well, alongside technerrrds like Plastikman and Stavostrand it has a track by Harmonia (you know, that Cluster + Neu! collab) and one CD ends with Fennesz's perfectly titled 'Rivers of Sand'!? All beatless, shimmering noise.
Compare the track lists of 'At the Controls' and 2001's 'Fear of A Silver Planet":
http://www.discogs.com/release/188326
http://www.discogs.com/release/638428
People have suggested on here that territory being mined by producers on eg. Kompakt and by prog house producers has pretty much become indistinguishable, but the above seems like a marked shift in style and mood to me. And I'm happy about it.
Compare the track lists of 'At the Controls' and 2001's 'Fear of A Silver Planet":
http://www.discogs.com/release/188326
http://www.discogs.com/release/638428
People have suggested on here that territory being mined by producers on eg. Kompakt and by prog house producers has pretty much become indistinguishable, but the above seems like a marked shift in style and mood to me. And I'm happy about it.