Pole 3

Spin (7/00, pp.153-5) - 8 out of 10 - "...Mines his novel if rather narrow patch of electronica's invisible landscape....if you sink into the tracks, you'll find yourself surrounded by strange moods and stranger images....[His] most eerie and unresolved....lying somewhere between minimalism and mess..." Alternative Press (7/00, p.107) - 3 out of 5 - "...Betke is content to patrol his well-trodden beat of heavy bass and staticky atmospheres....luxuriously placid musical space." The Wire (1/01, p.34) - Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year". The Wire (5/00, p.52) - "...Realises a remix 'grubbiness that recalls the street scurf, stained debris and torn edges of some modern art....This is an (in)distinctly amniotic dub, fuzzy, full of odd fluidities and watery sonorities..." Mixmag (6/00, p.169) - 4 out of 5 - "...Betke's very personal take on Jamaican dub removes the religion, righteousness and ganja smoke, leaving just the spare bones of rhythm, each track matching crackling, minimal techno to great waves of space and light..." CMJ (7/00, p.59) - "...As deep as dub gets....The overall result is of erasure rather than drawing....He's devoted to pushing a narrowly defined aesthetic as far as it will go..." NME (Magazine) (5/20/00, p.43) - 8 out of 10 - "...The quintessential background music....like stepping into aural quicksand...the less one protests, the more blissful the experience becomes....this remarkable, almost infinitely tactile music won't let you down..."