Slab Note, a label of the Jarring Effects constellation dedicated to all facets of techno.
In the language of surfing, "slab wave" means a mutant wave. And yes, Slab Note is committed to producing sonic tidal waves from which you won't come out unscathed. The name inevitably evokes the sea. In the Germanic-Nordic myths, water is born from the violent meeting of fire and ice. This idea of contrast, of oxymoron, qualifies the label which will produce and promote cold and dark textures, hard rhythms but also warmer and more modular sounds. Finally, from water also comes life. And for Slab Note, the celebration of life is at the heart of the party, like the original spirit of the rave parties.
Slab Note remains faithful to the pioneering spirit of audio-activism of its parent company Jarring Effects. The label remains driven by the conviction that music is an art and not a commercial product like any other. Its key words: freedom and tolerance.
Through these notions, we find the very essence of techno. Much more than a music, techno is a real movement, a state of mind. It draws its inspiration from the difficult social and economic context of Detroit in the 1980s and the Black Power movement of the 1970s. This heavy cultural, social and economic baggage translates into an emotional electronic music that conveys a message of peace and equality, of abolishing barriers and pre-established rules. At the beginning of the 1990s, the techno movement crossed the Atlantic and landed in the very liberal England of Thatcher. It is the birth of the rave parties. Techno inculcates a change of perspective and imposes itself as a real movement opposite to arrivism and individualism. This militant idea of festive communion and freedom is what Slab Note defends.