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Rückverzauberung, coded from German into English, translates as ‘Reverse Enchantment’. In a way, that phrase describes the fundamental mechanic of loop-based music: an endless returning which, over time, becomes hypnotic and beguiling. ‘Reverse Enchantment’, however, also implies disenchantment, an act of demystification: the princess turned back into the frog. Rückverzauberung as pleasure principle, Rückverzauberung as disaffection – Voigt knows a fair bit about both. Over many years and countless aliases, Voigt has devoted himself to the loop: whether operating under his austere Studio 1 guise, or turning out ambient techno as GAS, Voigt’s minimal compositions invariably transcend the sum of their parts. And yet,it’s worth also remembering that, as well as tending to the loop, Voigt has spent a lot of time out of it. As the head of Cologne-based powerhouse Kompakt, he’s diverted much of his energies over the last decade to shepherding other artists rather than traipsing after his own muse. TheRückverzauberung series is a self-styled ‘label-travel-project’, an exercise in transplanting a mood into different environments. “Narcotic brass loops, almost imperceptibly modulating, reel towards infinity. A 70's kraut electronics sequencer feeling coquets with James Last's muzak sound and Cheb musicians on valium. Stoic, infinite, limp. Programmatic boredom as rhetorical device of befuddled bliss. Only the occasional cloud of atonality suggests the abyss behind the blue skies of (pop)ambientish other-worldliness. “