At Home I'm A Tourist

Bruno Pronsato
At Home I'm A Tourist
hello? Repeat


Year end charts will be up soon, and hello? Repeat will most certainly be on there, partially due to this track alone [also due to Bruno's full-length from which this track comes; also amazing].

To put it mildly, 'At Home I'm a Tourist' is one of the best singles of the year. Right now the big fuss is over 'Mumbling Yeah', which is a great track, but this stands miles ahead of most techno releases this year.

Techno is usually atonal and focuses heavily on rhythms rather than melodies. Melodies may be there, but they usually serve a more rhythmic function than anything and are rarely in the limelight. This, like Gaiser's 'Withdrawl' earlier this year, however, let's the melody take center stage. However, the first five minutes feature little to no melody. The rhythms are extremely captivating; a combination of dry drum-machin patterns with acoustic recordings of drums, handclaps, etc. [Bruno was a drummer for a long time before he got into techno] all build on each other, yet hint of something coming.

Then the melody hits. Extremely simple yet devastatingly effective, it shows what you almost knew was coming. Then the rhythms come back in, culminating in the greatest climax of any release this year. It's short, with the rest of the track focusing on rhythm again with the melody making an appearance once of twice. However, this is the track that any DJ set works its way through hours to get to; that one minute of pure techno bliss.

Preview here.