Press (selection):
English:
DJ Broadcast, NL, May 2010
"Glitterbug is one of the best live techno outfits I've seen in a long time. Great visuals and some true emotions between the beats. Go see Glitterbug live if you are into melancholic techno with some serious kick! Till Rohmanns Glitterbug project reaches full potential on his new double album Privilege. It offers a wide range of crystal clear electronic melancholica." - Rene Passet, DJ Broadcast
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De:Bug, May 2010
What a celebration: the glitterbug Till Rohmann was busy contriving in his studio for a year long, bringing in the sounds of Norway, India, China and Israel, melding field recordings from his long travels. (...) Glitterbug can’t be held back, his tracks only have one anchor, and that is the introverted version of Techno (...). It may sound a bit pathetic, but when one listens to Glitterbug’s music, it feels like listening to a better world, a utopia without words.
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Intro May 2010:
Album Charts place 11
(...) ‘Privilege’ is a concept album, but that is nothing that the listener needs to bare in mind with all this floating and being floated. One may suspect this already, but once listening you get the final confirmation: this doesn’t have anything to do with emotionless, cold dance music- these are highly sensitive tracks, that fulfill their destiny both in all of its epic length at home as well as melted out of the greater context as single tracks in the club.(...)
What remains is an album that over time only continues to grow and is thus destined for nothing less than eternity.
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Review in Groove 124, May / June 2010
(...) And exactly that happens in ‘Privilege’: The chilly melancholy of classic Detroit techno embarks on a 140 minute long journey, encountering ambient, field recordings, chamber music and non-european musical worlds, warmed by dub and refreshed by Gamelan, yet always finds its way back to its source, altered and new, yet completely distinctive. A slightly muffled euphoric cornucopia. The tracks’ consistency and their subtle depths are some of the elements that substantiate that the enthusiasm regarding Rohmann’s first album ‘Supershelter’ was no hype. This is music for the long way ahead. Music that remains.(...)
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DJ Broadcast, May 2010
Double albums are scarce. Real double albums that is. Not the ones that slip in a bonus dvd or a disk with crappy remixes. No, we mean the whole nine yards. Or in this case: 140 minutes of new music. (...) Rest assured, Privilege may be a long trip, it doesn’t feel that way. Like the sparkling Glitterbug debut Supershelter (2008) the new album offers a wide range of crystal clear electronic melancholica. But it’s by no means a carbon copy. Most tracks on Privilege make wider circles around dancefloors and only occasionally hit the hands-in-the-air area. It’s an album that’s all about the mood and the mind. (...) When Glitterbug does crank up his four cylinders, it is more than a reminder of his sensational live sets we’ve seen him play in recent years. Privilege works on many levels. A strong, extensive return. 5/5 (Rene Passet)
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Allmusic, USA, May 2010
“Till Rohmann’s 2010 album under his Glitterbug name is nothing if not ambitious — a full-to-the-brim two-CD release, described by him in the liner notes as inspired by both his worldwide travels due to his musical success and his reflection on how that’s a chance few people get to enjoy. (...) The Glitterbug approach of ambient loops and understated rhythms is both familiar and possessed of its own character, almost a gentle trust in letting each core melody or rhythm become something close to a mantra. Even when the beats gain in volume, as on “After All,” the effect is of serenity thanks to the arrangement of simple, entrancing tones.” Ned Raggett
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Resident Advisor, May 2010
The double-disc package shows Glitterbug further developing his style of moody, atmospheric techno, as heard on his 2008 debut Supershelter and his numerous EPs on c.sides. Much of the album was inspired by his expansive 2009 world tour, during which he produced many of the tracks and collected a number of field recordings. On a more personal level, the album, and in particular its title, was influenced by the global perspective Glitterbug gained during his travels.
"'Privilege' deals with the fortune of living out a dream in a world that does not grant all people with the same opportunities," he says. "Over the last year I had the fortune to visit places around the globe in which I felt the obscene wealth of opportunities I have in life. It's hard to bear that the majority of humanity will never have the chance to even dream of who and what they could have been."
The album will be supported by a newly devised live act, complete with visuals by Israeli artist Ronni Shendar, who also designed the booklet accompanying the CD release of Privilege.(...)
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About Glitterbug’s remix for Mathias Schaffhäuser & Friends’ ‘It’s Just Flesh’ (Ware81) in Groove Magazine Germany, September 2009:
“Glitterbug takes a tightly focused selection of the original elements, incorporates pads that lay somewhere between Dial and Planet E and condenses it more and more to a stealthily evolving anthem. Monstrous!”
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About the previous album, 'Supershelter' (October 2008):
Groove Magazine (Germany), January 2009:
Track on the Groove magazine CD, full article in the magazine
"(...) Dance music as a protecting shelter from the outside world- and at the same time as a world-embracing gesture. It is this sparkling clutter of emotions that is so fascinating about glitterbugs music: mourning and euphoria and humor and pathos are becoming one. (...)
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Intro Magazine (Germany), October 2008:
"Since this release, one can take electronic music serious again in its claim to want to create parallel universes, a shelter from daily live, a better world, an utopia. (...) Regular black and white schemes don't work to describe this record. Your can better imagine 'Supershelter' like a super complex Japanese manga, in which pathos, humor, mourning and great happiness are intertwined in the most charming matter. (...) The plurality of genres and aesthetics in his music are pure adornment, and one thing is most apparent: Glitterbug fulfills, what for some of his Cologne Kompakt buddies became a bit sterile in the routine of the production process: the 4/4 bass drum is drumming everything together for the really huge longing music. What remains is confusing yet uplifting- and leaves you with a certainty that it still is possible to create an utopia" (Arno Raffeiner)
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Groove Magazine (Germany), Album of the Month November 2008:
" (...) 'Supershelter uses the the vocabulary of 15 years of techno... (...) There is almost nothing out there that can surpass this album in its musical complexity- and at the same time it is stringent in a way that is barely ever heard. (...) Despite its epic length of over 77 minutes, it never feels lengthy and even if you listen to this album over and over again, it won't loose any of its magic and intensity (...) 'Supershelter is full of heart-rending moments, and is in the next moment partying close to the edge. (...) We take our hat off before this fantastic music which eludes itself from all current musical stereotypes. (Holger Klein)
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Sound&Recording Magazine (Germany), January 2009:
"Till Rohmann aka glitterbug dares things that nobody else before him ever dared, which absolutely eludes him from the masses of producers and productions out there. (...) For example a breakdown like in the track "The Things I Long To Do": the track develops over three minutes abstract-minimal, to then take off into an excursion into expressionist E-Music, as if Debussy and Ravel were hanging out in the studio as well.(...)"
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Nowamuzika Magazine (Poland), January 2009:
Place 6 in the 10 best albums of 2008
"Epic techno flirting with totally different genres, from city folk to classical music. Big, powerful sound and incredible atmosphere.”
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Keys Magazine (Germany), December 2008:
(...) A firework of ideas wich Till Rohmann aka glitterbug lights in front of our eyes! (...) A magical allurement shines through this unbelievably thought through and elaborated music, based on a stable and springy bass fundament. (...) Sound: 10 of 10 points. Music: 10 of 10 points. Grab it!!!"
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Sce:Nite Magazine (Germany), October 2008:
"Melodies like the long longed for fire that is warming from the cold, multi layered sound scapes that almost make you drunk, music that can't be cornered, but always is primarily one thing: beautifully melodic. The album of glitterbug aka Till Rohmann is full of intense beauty, whithout leaving the right grooves out of sight. Dreamy years on the dancefloor are guaranteed. An album like greatest cinema in Cinemascope!!!"
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Radio Beton, France
Un voyage entre les atmospheres liquides de Lawrence et un feeling tre`s deep’n’space proche du label Dial. Sublime !!!!
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Contrabande Radio Show, France
C’est mignon, c’est touchant, c’est cozy, c’est poe ?tique, c’est relaxant , c’est panoramique, c’est supa love , lovely emotions !!!!!! Bravo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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DJ quotes (selection):
Laurent Garnier, France
Beautiful, nice and organic deep techno.
Dave DK, Germany
Full support!
Electric Indigo, Austria
The 'Dim Flares EP' is amazing! Love it!
Krede, Denmark
Beautifull productions.. and complimentary arrangements. Will play this out and private... lovely stuff!
Phillip Sherburne (The Wire, Pitchfork Media), US / Germany
This is quite nice... ”so much more” is particularly lovely, and doesn’t really sound like anything else right now. also really like ”be content”.
Shir Khan, Germany
This music makes we wanna dream in my hotelroom now - Sweet music - hypnotizing. Will play ”so much more” at radio fritz.
Tobias Stab, Groove Magazine, Germany
so dark and beautiful... rock songs in a way. Glitterbug is the biggest story teller in these techno days.
Giorgio Gigli, Wagon Repair, Italy
Great ep! Deadpan is the perfect hypnotic track! Will play out many times!
Darko Esser, Wolfskuil, Netherlands
I am blown away by this release... stunning!!
Pawel Gzyl, Nowa Muzika, Poland
Great! I praised the previous album of Glitterbug and I was right. His new EP is brilliant!
DJ Kayhat, Australia
This is what I’ve been waiting for, a new tech album that evokes emotive qualities in its composition, and retains and progresses all the new sounds of techno. Multi-layered and very very beautiful. This is the way it should be done.