Heiko Laux and Teo Schulte revive Polyrhythm with remaster, unreleased dub

Heiko Laux has spent decades building records that still work in a dark room, and Polyrhythm returned on April 27, 2026 as a remastered revival of a 2012 Rejected release, not as a fresh rewrite. The new version keeps the original Polyrhythm in place and adds Polyrhythm (hlx Dub) and Polyrhythm (The Remains In Dub Gravy), so the story here is continuity, not reinvention. That matters in minimal techno, where a record’s staying power is measured by how well its groove survives another pass through the system.

The original Polyrhythm first appeared in January 2012 on vinyl and digital as rej019, with Beatport listing the release date as 2012-01-09 and the tempo at 126-127 BPM. Those details fit the music: all three versions run in the eight-to-ten-minute range, the length where tiny shifts in percussion, echo, and bass pressure become the whole point. The 2026 remaster does not change the record’s core logic. It exposes it, making the arrangement’s discipline and dub-space tension easier to hear on a fresh listen.

Laux’s catalog gives the reissue real weight. He founded Kanzleramt in 1994, along with Uturn Records, in Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt, and moved Kanzleramt’s headquarters to Berlin in 1999. That trajectory maps neatly onto the German techno corridor that shaped minimal and tech-house in the 1990s and 2000s. Rejected also framed Laux as one of its early key artists with Mirabella / Zeitluke in 2008, which makes Polyrhythm feel like a long-term label relationship being pulled back into focus rather than a stray archival rescue.

Teo Schulte is not a side note here. Kanzleramt identifies THE OSF, or Offshore Funk, as a project mainly made up of Teo Schulte and Heiko Laux, and their December 2011 OSF release Cinematique already showed the pair working in the same stripped-down, dub-informed lane. The tags on Polyrhythm, electronic, electronica, minimal techno, tech-house, trippy, and Berlin, place it exactly where this music has always lived: between club functionality and headphone detail. The 2026 edition preserves that original pressure while adding one unreleased version, which is enough to make a 14-year-old record feel newly relevant without pretending it was ever gone.