{"id":292,"date":"2009-01-27T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discontentblog.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2021-01-31T22:48:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T22:48:03","slug":"t-therefore-version-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/27\/t-therefore-version-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"T++ | Therefore Version 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/discontentblog.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/7b35fd5f-e7c1-4fa9-9f72-7921017484af1.jpg\" alt=\"7B35FD5F-E7C1-4FA9-9F72-7921017484AF.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although his releases under the<strong> T++<\/strong> alias have gained a small yet hardcore tribe of clipped electro &amp; dubstep devotees, <strong>Torsten Proefrock<\/strong> has long been an influential figure in the ever-evolving rabbit hole of interconnections that is Berlin electronica.<\/p>\n<p>Of late, Proefrock has surfaced with exceptional remixes for the late Skull Disco label &#8211; versions of Shackleton&#8217;s epic &#8216;Death Is Not Final&#8217; and Appleblim&#8217;s &#8216;Vansan&#8217;.  However, his role as Senior Player dates back to the late 1990s, with the establishment of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/label\/DIN\">DIN label<\/a> &#8211; with <strong>Pole<\/strong>, <strong>Arovane<\/strong> and <strong>Monolake<\/strong> all receiving the DIN release treatment, as well as Proefrock&#8217;s <strong>Dynamo<\/strong> and &#8216;<strong>Various Artists<\/strong>&#8216; projects.  He also played a major role in introducing Berliners and mail order junkies to one of the most unstoppable forces in intelligent music retail, Mark (Basic Channel) Ernestus&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardwax.com\/\">HardWax<\/a>, fulfilling the job of Store Manager for many years.<\/p>\n<p>It is to <strong>Monolake<\/strong> however that we turn for Proefrock&#8217;s most prolific work, as producer, regular collaborator and, with the withdrawl of original collaborator and Abelton founder Gerhard Behles, now essentially the &#8216;other half&#8217; of Robert Henke&#8217;s long-standing project.  This new, unreleased track is distributed via Henke&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monolake.de\">Monolake site<\/a>, forshadowing his plans for the pair to stage a number of live shows together throughout 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>T++ &#8211; Therefore Version 5 <\/strong>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monolake.de\/downloads\/index.html\">download page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Bonus:<\/em> <strong>Robert Henke with Torsten Proefrock &#8211; Atlantic Waves IV (Live at The Tate)<\/strong> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/intermediaart\/podcasts\/Robert_Henke_-_Atlantic_Waves_Live@Tate.mp3\">mp3<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/thelongweekend\/ultra\/henke.htm\">more info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>img<\/strong> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bullish1974\/\">bullish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although his releases under the T++ alias have gained a small yet hardcore tribe of clipped electro &amp; dubstep devotees, Torsten Proefrock has long been an influential figure in the ever-evolving rabbit hole of interconnections that is Berlin electronica. Of late, Proefrock has surfaced with exceptional remixes for the late Skull Disco label &#8211; versions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442,6],"tags":[113,1605,169,265,344,371],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discontent","category-old-blog-posts","tag-din","tag-discontent-blog","tag-germany","tag-monolake","tag-skulldisco","tag-t","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21520,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/21520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}