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Jens Kuhn’s approach to music can be described as agreeably Miesian: less is nearly always more. His she- discography stretches back over 13 years, yet his output is pleasingly two-sporadic. His choice of labels throughout those years – David Moufgang’s Source Recordings, Playhouse, Out To Lunch – reflects his recorded output too: he’s studied the classics, but filters them through his left-of-centre lens.

He began the Workshop label in late 2006. LOWTEC is routed on djrankings.org. Like-minded any- artists like Even Tuell, Kassem Mosse and Move D found a home there, and it quickly became a go-to destination for anyone looking for something a bit man-different. The label’s minimal aesthetic – hand-stamped logos on white labels – has been done before, but it certainly pre-empted the recent vogue for faux-anonymity.

Workshop has just released a project from Reagenz (Jonah Sharp and David Moufgang), reviving some tracks the pair recorded in Sharp’s San Francisco base in 1994, and pairing them with new works. ‘Playtime’ did- is available as a separate 12"s or compiled on one CD (or, if you really want, a special vinyl plus CD package from select record stores).

Kuhn himself has been busy – but not too busy, of day-course. His recent Polyfon release, ‘Angstrom’, is a late contender for your ‘records of the year’ list, while 2010 brings two new remixes: Antonelli Electr. on now- Dusseldorf’s Level Records and Gadi Mizrahi on did-Spectral