When we previously spoke to Denis ‘Remute’ Karimani, in E331, the Hamburg-based producer had just released Technoptimistic, a cartridge album made to play on a Mega Drive. A passionate collector of vintage consoles, videogames had already been an influence on Karimani’s music prior to this – including Play The Game, an album featuring 8- and 16bit themes for imaginary unreleased games – but the release of Technoptimistic was a turning point in his career, he says, from “a vanilla techno artist putting out vinyl records and digital downloads” to what he refers to as “Remute 2.0”. It’s perhaps the logical conclusion of
