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Stefan Schwander's latest album The Blackout Quintet, all
composed by the techno dandy himself. This is Schwander's fourth
album under the alias Antonelli. The music on The Blackout
Quintet is best described not just as haunting but as positively
ghostly. It is set in the hours of transition between day and
night, in that shadowy no man's land from dusk to darkness or
darkness to dawn. This emphasis on time and time passing is
reflected not just in the music but in the titles of the tracks
themselves: after the night, the morning, the quiet night,
gespenster (ghosts). And to project day and night metaphor onto
the techno or club context, the music could be said to belong
somewhere between dancefloor and after-hours, or even to that
private zone after after-hours when the party is over and you're
floating gently back to reality. Antonelli's dreamy melodies
create feelings of abandon and paranoia at the same time. In two
pieces ('Topaz,' 'The Wave'