Excerpt: “while Portishead mk. 1 cut up old James Bond/funk samples and the like in a hip-hop fashion, much of Sankt Otten’s 1999 debut sounds as if they’re sampling the same sort of stuff Pulp was channelling on This Is Hardcore, and more power to them for it… at their best (‘Tiefgang’, ‘Meter (Heute Anders)’, the Eno-esque ‘Ende Gut’) the band breaks through into a nocturnal wonderland all their own… Otten’s post-trip-hop, sample heavy atmospherics aren’t quite like anyone else out there, and whatever he and Sankt Otten would go on to do, Eine Kleine Traurigkeit (which means ‘A Small Sadness’) marked a solid, promising beginning.”
Hidden Shoal MixTape
