Produced by the mysterious Olaf Dettinger, about whom not much is publicly known, Intershop was one of the earliest full-lengths released by the then-nascent Kompakt, and in many ways articulated and defined the sound that would come to be known as pop ambient.
The music here simmers and broods, with opulent banks of tone marking out territory for rhythms that seem to be built from the clacking detritus of technology -- hisses, thunks, knocks.
Bass is deployed carefully, each drop a dubbed-out depth charge; drones spin and spiral, warping and weaving between the beats.
