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Andrew Duke "Highest Common Denominator"
Piehead Records
A variety of remixes and collaborations spanning multiple genres.

"Andrew Duke has been around since 1987, but it seems that he gets more and more attention (and releases!) since this year on such fine labels as Bip Hop, Dial, Tsunami Addiction and Bake. Here he works on six tracks together with like minded artists and he remixes six other people, like Aaliyah and Pink Floyd. In the remixes he dwells around samples taken from the original and they are set in a bunch of rhythm stuff from Duke. Nice short tracks of up and down tempo techno music. The collborational tracks (with Monolake, Kim Cascone, Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks, I8U) are in general more of an experimental nature, with microscopic loops, drones and beats. For me this is the side of Andrew Duke I like better, but maybe that's because I am a sucker for the experiment in music. As a display of the various qualities of Andrew Duke's music, I think this is a fine release."

Frans de Waard - Vital Weekly

"Highest Common Denominator sees the return of Andrew Duke with a great assortment of ideas."

Neural

"Andrew Duke makes two broad categories on this recording, designating a ‘Vs.’ to denote a reinterpretation or a ‘+’ to denote a collaboration. What's interesting about Duke's approach to this body of work is that he decides to retain enough of the contributors' style for the listener to get an appreciation of the bricks or fabrics that Duke chooses to work with. Highest Common Denominator is a veritable who's who of leading electronic artists selected to ensure quality and Duke, a foremost producer himself, adheres to these standards no less."

I. Khider - Exclaim!