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Dopplereffekt's sound combines mechanistic Detroit techno with an uncanny pathos: their synthscapes “fetishize science” and suggest abandoned futures. Its founder Gerald Donald (Rudolf Klorzeiger) who has long been known as one half of <a href="spotify:artist:3KcV1kKG7Y0Gq7xPAGVjkZ" data-name="Drexciya">Drexciya</a> has spent the past two decades departing from the submerged mythology of <a href="spotify:artist:3KcV1kKG7Y0Gq7xPAGVjkZ" data-name="Drexciya">Drexciya</a> into his own cosmotechnical praxis. Dopplereffekt (with To-Nhan) debuted with Fascist State EP in 1995 on Donald's own Dataphysix Engineering label and Gesamtkunstwerk in 1999 through <a href="spotify:artist:4WgFczZafuUFBvsCuSK44C" data-name="DJ Hell">DJ Hell</a>'s International Deejay Gigolo Records. Intended to be a “total work of art” of abstract science and techno-politics, Dopplereffekt's titles and music draw from theoretical physics on early albums like Linear Accelerator in 2003 and Calabi Yau Space on <a href="spotify:artist:6kBDZFXuLrZgHnvmPu9NsG" data-name="Aphex Twin">Aphex Twin</a>'s Rephlex in 2007.
Leisure System’s revival of Dopplereffekt in the 2010s continued this arc, forming a clear continuation of Donald’s post-<a href="spotify:artist:3KcV1kKG7Y0Gq7xPAGVjkZ" data-name="Drexciya">Drexciya</a>n myth-science. The 2017 album Cellular Automata stripped away beats to expose algorithmic fragments of harmonic progression, while Neurotelepathy in 2022 explored brain-computer fusion borrowing track titles like “Epigenetic Modulation” and “Neural Impulse Activator”. Metasymmetry, the duo's 2025 debut on Tresor Records continues this lineage.
Leisure System’s revival of Dopplereffekt in the 2010s continued this arc, forming a clear continuation of Donald’s post-<a href="spotify:artist:3KcV1kKG7Y0Gq7xPAGVjkZ" data-name="Drexciya">Drexciya</a>n myth-science. The 2017 album Cellular Automata stripped away beats to expose algorithmic fragments of harmonic progression, while Neurotelepathy in 2022 explored brain-computer fusion borrowing track titles like “Epigenetic Modulation” and “Neural Impulse Activator”. Metasymmetry, the duo's 2025 debut on Tresor Records continues this lineage.
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