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Cio D'Or专辑介绍：Sometimes the twists of fate in the music industry can baffle even the most attentive observers. A case in point is Cio D’Or, the dub-drone techno producer turned experimentalist who, in her 2009-2011 heydey, was both collaborator and competitor for public notice with Donato Dozzy, co-producing an EP for Time to Express and a deservedly celebrated mix for the sadly defunct mnml ssgs blog. Then, almost without warning, she seemed to mostly vanish from the scene, even as her name continued to hold currency. It turns out Cio didn’t disappear entirely in that long interim but simply retreated to her home turf in Cologne, to her studio where the ideas debuted on the last Prologue EP were beginning to take form into something even more interesting. In the meantime, a pair of widely-separated 10″ EPs for Traum Schallplatten sublabel Telrae quietly appeared, probably the highest profile artist ever to release there, and two remixes, a front on which she had never been very active. Three years of studio silence is enough in contemporary time to damp almost any producer’s career, and while the sound made famous by Prologue peaked commercially well after its creative peak around 2012, Cio was producing her most interesting music yet. Now emerging on Semantica is All in All, an ambitious three part album, with a bonus ambient mix CD that blurs the lines between mixing and production by rearranging the material and bringing in new music. The time away from touring turned out to be time well spent. Throughout the first 8 years of her production career, Cio D’Or’s music had been consistently interesting if reserved, often pushed under other umbrellas, and, for much of the time, took a back seat to her DJ career. The situation only righted itself with her first Prologue album, Die Faser, a record still deeply indebted to techno convention but imbued with her unique, still-recognisable personality. Taken together, the three parts of All In All are deeply more experimental and, at their most dancefloor-leaning, trade in extremes of minimalism, but they also move into gorgeous ambient portions that don’t bring easy comparisons to mind. ‘Tomorrow Was Yesterday’ is a striking example, the string swells recalling Gas until a keyboard melody line suddenly takes off at midpoint, all the time urged on by explosions of reverb and subtly propulsive, repeated drum lines.