PROFAN CD 2

NOVAMUTE 2001/2

»Aquarium Eyes« is the second album by the Austrian duo, Ritornell. Their debut, »Golden Solitude«, was released in 2009 on Karaoke Kalk.

Acoustic and electronic sounds merge on»Aquarium Eyes«. Paying great attention to detail, Ritornell recorded at various locations (the studio of Patrick Pulsinger being one of them). The results are gently woven into their very own world of sound. Defamiliarized by subtle electronic manipulation, instruments such as piano, double bass, vibraphone, kalimba, and accordion develop a surprising life of their own, only to be consequently swallowed up by the hissing and buzzing of electronic devices.
Gleaming multi-layered electro-acoustic drones, isolated organic sounds, and sophisticated textures complete the intricate arrangements.

On »Aquarium Eyes«, Ritornell tackle the art of songwriting for the first time: Vienna based vocalist Mimu sings, whispers, and sighs golden threads through some of the fragile sound structures that Gerold and Eigner assembled with intuition. The duo also collaborated with vocal artist Didi Bruckmayer on the track »Tremble«.

»Music Box« is a conceptual piece: Under the direction of Richard Eigner, 20 people simultaneously turn the levers of their music boxes: Melodies of musical history blend into a sparkling confusion of sound.

With their interpretation of »In Every Dream Home A Heartache«, Ritornell finally present their very own version of a Roxy Music song, albeit with a twist: the guitars from the original have been replaced by a string trio.

During live performances, Richard Eigner and Roman Gerold present their music together with Mimu and Gerhard Daurer, occasionally supported by Bernd Klug on double bass and Meaghan Burke on cello.

Since the release of their debut album »Golden Solitude«, Richard Eigner and Roman Gerold have gained considerable attention through a number of collaborations with musicians, film makers, and writers:

They released the single »The Light« with Andreya Triana and the track »Three« with Sam Irl was selected by Kutmah to be featured on the compilation »Worldwide Family Vol. 2« (Brownswood). Richard Eigner played drums with Flying Lotus (Cosmogramma), Patrick Wolf (Magic Position), and Dimlite (Grimm Reality). Additionally, he provided remixes for Douglas Greed (Freude am Tanzen), Clara Moto (Infiné), and Abby Lee Tee.

In 2012, Ritornell, together with Mimu, Gerhard Daurer, and Jona Hoier, developed an audiovisual interpretation of Elfriede Jelinek’s play »Macht Nichts – Eine kleine Triologie des Todes. The DVD, with a duration of two hours, was commissioned by Departure and is Ritornell’s first production in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound.
http://richard.ritornell.at/index.php?show=macht_nichts

Invited by the festival Hörgerede, Ritornell worked with the Austrian writer Bodo Hell. The resulting text.ton.stück was performed in Graz in the autumn of 2012.

Ritornell’s long term collaboration with the noted experimental film maker Robert Seidel culminated in the joint endeavour »Erratic«, which premiered at the Vienna Independent Shorts Festival.
http://vimeo.com/45900969

The graphic designer Katharina Hölzl realised the project »Ritornell for Musicbox«: perforated business cards in the form of long music box paper strips, which generate an individual tune when fed into the instrument.
http://richard.ritornell.at/index.php?show=musicbox_cards

Since 2012, Ritornell has been responsible for the sound design of the new version of Rainer Kohlberger’s iPhone app »Rain«.
http://kohlberger.net/apps/rain

http://www.ritornell.at/

Tracklist

1. The Morning Factory
2. Urban Heartware
3. In Every Dream Home A Heartache
4. Aquarium Eyes
5. Cherry Blossom
6. Ono
7. I've Stolen The Moon
8. Tremble
9. Urban Heartware Reprise
10. As We Swim Against The Tide
11. Musicbox

suppose07

hidden tracks

sheets n blankets (rmx)

Das ist Alkomerz!

When you are happy it makes you more happy - When you are sad it makes you more sad

All songs recorded by Jeans Team at Nadel Eins Studio Berlin. Mixed by Raschad Becker and Jeans Team. Mastered by Frederic Stader at Curve Pusher exept tracks 4 & 8 mastered by Raschad Becker at Clunk. Background vocals by Justine Electra, Gina V D `Orio, Julia Wilton, Doc Schoko, Henning Watkinson and Jakob Karsten. Art direction by Maschines Desirantes Buro feat. Velacoracho.

PI - Raster 4 | Stockwerk 0 (Hörspiel/Hörcollage)
Catalog#: SBHoer001
Es handelt sich bei diesem Audiofile um Auschnitte aus dem Original Hoerspiel welches 15:48 Minuten lang ist:

Label: Separated Beats
LC: 24806
ISRC: DEHE10700216
Katalog#: SBHoer001
Kontakt: pi@separatedbeats.de

Eine Hörspielkollage in 9 Szenen

Inhalt:

1. Intro
2. Das totale Glück
3. Das Rohr
4. Der Kreis
5. Die Erde
6. Wut und Verzweiflung
7. Die breite Masse
8. Pornorausch
9. Lottofee

Spielzeit 15:48 Minuten

Zentral geht es um die Frage: Was ist Glück?
Und was tut der Mensch nicht alles, um diesen Zustand zu erreichen ...

Das Leben von PI ist zunächst eine einzige Fernsehsession. Dann ändert sich alles schlagartig. ACID KING hat einen neuen Werbespot gelauncht. Jeder kann eine Reise antreten, wenn er nur zwei Bedingungen erfüllt: Die Bereitschaft für das totale Glück und den Besitz des Führerscheins. PI ist der perfekte Kandidat. Er will nur rein ins Glück und raus aus der Langeweile. Sekunden später befindet er sich in dem Metallrohr, das ihn aus dem Alltag katapultiert. Was nun passiert ist ein psychedelischer Trip durch alle Gemütslagen und ein nicht allzu freundlicher Blick in den Spiegel. PI hat das Privileg gewonnen, die verzweifelten Versuche des Menschen auf der Suche nach dem totalen Glück im Zeitraffer zu erfahren. Und gegen Ende will er nur noch eins: Die Reise stornieren und ab nach Hause auf den überschaubaren Sessel. Doch dorthin scheint er nicht mehr zu kommen.

Es bleibt das Verdienst unseres Helden und das des omnipräsenten Manipulators ACID KING, dass PI für das Finale sein hässliches Froschdasein aufgibt. Er verwandelt sich in die wunderbare Lottofee Elvira und vermag somit, sein Vermächtnis an die breiten Massen weiterzureichen.



Buch & Regie: Christoph Mainz, Robin Pleil
Musik: Christoph Buntrock, Christoph Mainz, B. Ashra, Robin Pleil
Sounddesign und Produktion: M. Geiges, C. Mainz, B. Olke, R. Pleil

Copyright 2002/2013

Sound Clips/Previews: http://www.separatedbeats.de/html_de/releases_de.htm

similar to the kind of books you have to reread on and on - for with
every reading you keep this uncertain feeling of having catched just
a tiny piece of the huge secret - similar to this kind of books you
wish to listen to a quiet week in the house“on and on. the singing of
regina janssens, sometimes just a whisper but always gentle recalling
memories of likeable ones like isabelle antena, you may took a fancy
to in your youth and the dainty, always modest and tender soundings
and melodies: nearly everything is brighten radiating a lovely
warmth. a quiet week in the house“ is narrating the musical history
of donna regina and about the pleasure donna regina has in telling
this story. they share with us views behind closed meanwhile maybe
just forgotten doors or open so far unknown ones. without being too
melancholic, always with a good sense for our here and now.
exactly this kind of openminded and timeless sensuality made us carry
a quiet week in the house“ always with us - in this little box, where
you keep all of your biggest treasures.

01. why
02. day by day
03. bouge-toi
04. a quiet week in the house
05. shadow of your love
06. i’m walking alone
07. snow is only frozen water
08. big bright star
09. devotional sleeper
10. blue echo
11. star ferry
12. finally

1995 und 1996 veröffentlichten Dr. Motte und Dicabor (Robert Babicz), auf dem sagenumwobenen Berliner Plattenlabel “Space Teddy”, zwei grandiose CD’s: die “Cologne EP” und das bahnbrechende Album “Live at the Interference Festival in Chromapark”. 2011 setzen die beiden Künstler ihre musikalische Liaison fort und präsentieren einen fetten neuen Electro Floor Smasher, “NONO”.
Schon die Orginalversion ist ein Burner! Herrlich brutzelnder Electro-Acid von höchster Qualität, dessen einzige Bestimmung es zu sein scheint, die Party Crowd völlig zum ausrasten zu bringen.
Und als ob das nicht schon genug wäre, steht bei dieser Platte “B-Seite” für “Breitseite”, denn die gibt es voll und vom Feinsten: das brilliante Rework von “NONO” steuerte kein geringerer als die lebende Legende Thomas P. Heckmann bei. Meisterhaft extrahiert er die Essenz des Originals und entwickelt daraus, mit Fingerspitzengefühl und viel Liebe zum Detail, einen technoiden Groover, der die Main Stages dieser Welt erobern will und aus keiner Plattenkiste mehr wegzudenken sein wird.

Karaoke Kalk are proud to present:

the National Jazz Trio of Scotland’s Christmas Album
featuring members of Francois & the Atlas Mountains, Golden Grrls, The One Ensemble.

Bill Wells - piano, keyboards and samples
Aby Vulliamy - vocals
Lorna Gilfedder - vocals
Kate Sugden - vocals
Gerard Black - vocals

It’s a debut that isn’t really a debut, by a Trio that isn’t a trio; a Christmas album that’s unlike almost any other Christmas albums, and very possibly jazz for people with an especially subtle and sophisticated concept of what jazz might be.

Yes – the songs all look familiar, but it’s unlikely you’ve ever heard such a spooked version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, or The Christmas Song (“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…”) sounding so exquisitely bittersweet. Melodies are taken apart and rebuilt with the daring of Anita O’Day or Sheila Jordan, and delicate, looping, sampled arrangements throw frosty new light on lyrics we’ve always taken for granted – or perhaps never properly heard. When asked about the Christmas records he likes, Bill says “there are one or two, but they aren’t relevant - I made this mainly because there are so many that I don't!” When you think of the National Jazz Trio of Scotland, think Moondog plays Bacharach and you’re pretty much there. Oh – there is a Christmas album Bill loves, by the way – Carla Bley’s beautiful bruised blue Carla’s Christmas Carols.

Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat recently won the inaugural Scottish Album of the Year Award for their collaborative album Everything’s Getting Older, released on Chemikal Underground last year. You can hear pre-echoes of this particularly blue Christmas in Bill and Aidan’s brilliantly mournful cover of Bananarama’s Cruel Summer (2011) and this year’s The Powers and the Glory of Love single – a not-for-the-faint-hearted medley of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s The Power of Love, Jennifer Rush’s hitherto unrelated song of the same name and – just for added spice – Pete Cetera’s The Glory of Love.

The National Jazz Trio of Scotland is just one of many things Bill does when not making music with Aidan. Their actual debut was a track recorded with Chris ‘Beans’ Geddes from Belle and Sebastian on vibes, Frozen Vaults, (you can find it on Boomkat), released as (drum roll) the National Jazz Trio of Scotland with Beans. There’s also an undistributed CDR - Standards Vol 1 -from a little while back – but it was early days, and Bill says now they were just learning to play together, and “it wasn’t totally a serious thing - the character of the band hadn't really emerged at that point.”

The seed of this Christmas record was sown back in 2010, when Alasdair Campbell asked Bill to curate a Black Xmas gig at the Tolbooth in Stirling - most of these arrangements were written for that event. The samples are of Bill playing guitar or bass, and Aby playing viola – they were recorded by Bill’s longtime friend and collaborator Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) “ a while back.” The beautiful artwork is by another old friend, Jad Fair – who also did the sleeves for Lemondale and Standards Vol 1.

Here’s Bill on the band:
Lorna Gilfedder – “I think it's interesting that her other musical activities have been in more straightforwardly 'indie' bands – as drummer in Park Attack, guitarist in Golden Grrrls - but that neither of these showcase what a great all round singer she is. I truly think that she's capable of singing jazz standards as well as anyone I've heard.”

Aby Vulliamy – “Aby also plays in The One Ensemble and used to play in Nalle, of course she was a big part of the sound of Everything’s Getting Older as well. I just think she's one of the best musicians I ever worked with, she has that rare pairing of technique and emotion. She just has a very honest quality about anything she plays or sings and I think that comes across.”

Kate Sugden: “I first saw Kate play (drums) in a band called Johnny and the Entries, I mean who could resist? Again a very amazing voice, simultaneously conversational and musical.”

Gerard Black – ex-Findo Gask, currently in Francois & the Atlas Mountains, also has his own band Babe. “Gerard is obviously very theatrical compared to the others but it really works for me as contrast and also in harmony with the others (thought to be honest you don't hear that on the record).”

In the last few years, as well as the award-winning Everything’s Getting Older, Bill’s made records in collaboration with Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Tape, Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot), and Stefan, Barbara Morgenstern and Annie Whitehead – quite a few of which have been released by Karaoke Kalk. Last year, Double Six released Lemondale – a labour of love (although all of Bill’s records are labours of love) which featured some of Bill’s favourite Japanese musicians – including Tenniscoats, the extraordinary singer Kazumi Nikaido and Tetsuya Umeda – who plays the electric fan.

Tracklist
1 Oh Xmas Tree
2 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
3 Hark The Herald Angles Sing
4 Carol Of The Birds
5 Winter Wonderland
6 Jingle Bells
7 I Saw Three Ships
8 Good King Wenceslas
9 The Christmas Song
10 In The Bleak Mid-Winter
11 Oh Come All Ye Faithful
12 We Three Kings

Here comes the wonderfull first new JEANS TEAM single Menschen (Sind Zum Träumen Da) from there forthcoming third album. They go on where Stephan Remmler stopped after TRIO 20 jears ago. Folk Music in the sense of KRAFTWERK. Beautiful pop in the sense of ANDREAS DORAU. Go get a beer at the SPÄTI around the corner and listen to it again. Yes Ladies and Gentlemen: THIS IS ALKOMERZ!

Another floor rocking Chris Llopis production with an amazing remix by Joseph Disco released by Audiopirats.

Just over one year after the release of his first vocal album Hello Friends, Goodbye Friends, 23 year old Will Samson presents a brand new album of his own personal fragile blend of experimental folk and ambient electronics.

However, with songs about a surreal overnight boat journey in South East Asia, paintings from a Dutch art gallery, to the simple love of a dear friend, Balance takes a confident step away from its predecessor in both feeling & sound.

The record began its life in Summer 2011, whilst Samson was living in a tiny bedroom in a shared apartment with 5 other people. One of whom was Joel Danell – a wonderful musician from Sweden making music under the pseudonym of 'Musette'. When Joel moved back to Stockholm towards the end of the summer, he kindly left behind a collection of old cassettes, a Tascam 8-track and a cassette deck for tape mastering – it was then that Will set to work on some new songs.

“It didn't take long before I became totally absorbed with the magic of analogue recording and the mysteries to be discovered within these ancient cassette tapes. Numerous nights were spent working through to the early morning, playing quietly so as not to wake up my house mates. On ‘Dusty Old Plane’ you can even hear the birds beginning to sing with the sunrise.” – Samson recalls.

Around September 2011 there were a few rough sketches of songs, but lack of equipment and recording knowledge had become a restriction. Around this time Will happened to receive an email from Florian Frenzel, expressing interest in helping to record some music. Shortly after, they casually met up at Florian's home and became better acquainted over a few cups of tea - soon realising that they shared a mutual obsession/love for the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack, as well as many other musical (and non-musical) interests.

It was in Frenzel's home studio (containing a multitude of vintage equipment such as salvaged organs, analogue tape delays, beautiful old microphones, home-made equipment, and even a reel-to-reel from a former GDR radio) where they began recording new songs, editing earlier cassette demos, drinking more tea, exchanging music & childhood stories, watching Autumn slowly turn into Winter – becoming great friends in the process.

By the beginning of Spring, the album was finally complete and handed over to their mutual friend, Nils Frahm, who lovingly mastered it at his Durton Studio in Berlin.

Floating in a gentle haze of melodies, soft white noise & intimate tape crackles, Balance manages to retain the spirit of the aged cassettes and equipment it was made with, whilst offering something altogether unique & new.

“The recording process of this album was a joyous one, and it is my sincere hope that you may find some happiness within these songs too.” – Will Samson

05th October will see the release of Balance via Karaoke Kalk, followed by a European tour.

http://willsamson.co.uk/
http://soundcloud.com/will_samson

Tracklist

01. Oceans Are Wilder
02. Cathedrals
03. Hunting Shadows
04. Eat Sleep Travel, Repeat
05. Painting A Horizon
06. Music For Autumn
07. Storms Above The Submarine
08. Dusty Old Plane

Bonus Track Digital
DX1. Oceans Are Wilder - Heimer Remix

Ritual Music | Ambient | World | Meditation | Dark Ambient | Drones | Deep Meditative Drone | Floating Music

Monks was composed by B. Ashra in collaboration with Travis McMurphy for a performance of the Kung Fu Academy Berlin.

Monks Part 1 will enchant with its ethereal electronic sounds that are interwoven with overtone singing, gongs, rainstick, Tibetan horns and acoustic guitar sounds.
One feels progressively relaxed is automatically reminded of an East Asian scenery.Only after 26 minutes into the piece a pleasant groove is slowly manifesting.

The second track - Monks Part 2 - is a very deep meditative drone / dark ambient atmosphere with sound collages of nature sounds and Buddhist bells. You're facing a fresh breeze and feel like being transported to places in the icy Himalayas.

Dark Ambient | Drones | Deep Meditative Drone

Style: Electronica, Indietronic, Drum 'n Bass, IDM, Downtempo

„Dialectic Mind“ is the album debut of
„A Certain Value“.
It was produced and mastered @ „Diamondtune“
Studio/Berlin.

The album „Dialectic Mind“ was written by
Cerval in cooperation with the Berlin - based
artist Anna Aly - Labana.
Her vocals created the backbone for a large
part of the tracks.
There, Anna‘s vocal samples cross off - beat
patterns, house organs, cosy and dark subbasses
and more or less distorted guitar
parts.

Especially in the purely instrumental pieces
of „A Certain Values“ album the love of
unbridled rhythm and old school broken
beats shows up.

Clearly similar to programmed electronic music,
classical songwriting is crucial for ACV‘s
work: this is reflected both in the
song structure and in the manner of
the guitar parts.

„Dialectic Mind“ is an album that oscilates
between the poles of drum ’n’ bass, IDM and
Indietronic and combines housy up to
guitar-heavy sound with dark basses and
drumpatterns from downtempo to break
beat.

Three years ago Karaoke Kalk released the debut by Le Rok, fittingly named Hausarbeiten, indoor works - a choice collection of home recorded tracks which may have been produced in the course of six long years but put together resulted in an album with varied themes but a close stylistic connection between tracks. Le Rok and his songs need and take their time. Now, three years later, enough new tracks have coalesced to come to life as Approx Twelve.

Every single track on the new album has an individual history starting out with the idea for a song in the classical sense of the word. Going on from this solid foundation Le Rok rather casually collects than produces the elements from which the tracks are put together like mosaics. This results in a specifically relaxed setting - which not necessarily means slow or quiet - while lots of little things cling themselves tightly around the spine that is the basic song. This method only works when the necessary time is taken for those small pieces to grow together into a whole. In the end everything is one unit comprising all the elements from the initial song to the final beat.

Although the tracks take shape as a construction of digital bits and cuts, the songs never lose themselves inside the technical devices from which they derive. Inbetween all the tight textures remains a slight sense of melancholy which is not hiding itself but needs to be found. All the while the beats may stay up front but they are not consuming what is definitely there to be listened to.

Le Rok is the project of Christoph Döhne from Hanover in northern Germany. And maybe this not exactly urban setting is the reason for a specially relaxed way of looking upon things and time and thus keeping a specific sense of otherness.

http://www.lerok.de/

Tracklist

01. bonsoir 80n
02. cold end
03. choped ride
04. weak textarea
05. dropdown
06. frameset
07. happy apple
08. cheeseball
09. altarboys
10. feierabend

le rok is from hanover, is in his everyday life called christoph döhne, and hausarbeiten is his musical debut. it is not easy to put a definite name to his music, as the twelve tracks on his album are all rather different. sometimes minimal, then again pop-like, sometimes even with a trace of rock;sometimes gloomy, then again cheerful;
twice with vocals and otherwise without. there is one thing all tracks have in common though: the beat is always prominent. this quality provides the album with continuity, forms a bracket to include its diverse parts and turns it into a unified whole.
with this compilation of tracks created between 1997 and today, le rok demonstrates how playful and cheerful music can sound. and this may be the reason why he has found his home on karaoke kalk, which has never been about the pursuit of one particular idea of music but about presenting music in its diversity and confusion.

http://www.lerok.de/

Tracklist
01. puppylove
02. nach dem urlaub
03. tuttifrutti
04. little piece of luck
05. topchic
06. knack
07. 93er
08. glockesong
09. tribute to miroslav
10. pro player
11. standing behind
12. radiowecker

According to the motto “my house is your house” the new Kalk Pets 12inch of Hannover’s finest House export Le Rok features the deep grooving track “Lover & Friend” alongside two remixes by Grinser and Chica Paula. The original mix is a soft burner that hugs you gentle with subtle melodies, touching vocal samples, and a deep absorbing bass line. Chica Paula’s interpretation transforms the original into a dark magical nugget that leaves much space for the listener’s own imagination while delivering slow-motion House deepness. The most up-tempo dancefloor oriented revision comes from Grinser. The resident DJ of Berlin’s Club der Visionäre transforms the original into a magic and funky House gem that is perfect for musical guidance during sunny days and long sweaty nights. Three versions under one groove that need no big speed to lift your spirits!

http://www.lerok.de/


TRACKLIST

A1. Lover & Friend - Original
A2. Lover & Friend - Dark Lover Mix By Chica Paula

B. Lover & Friend - Grinser feat. Random Willson Remix

Previously Guido Möbius has mostly given lyrics a wide berth. On his last album „Gebirge“ Möbius’ strategy to avoid meaning and pathos altogether was the collaboration with Andreas Gogol with his wordless dada-song. And although Gogol's highly musical stuttering is also present on Spirituals, Möbius now goes the other way on his fourth album: this time he's allowing himself to indulge in meaning and pathos.

„Spirituals“ unites crooked humour and dark premonition, apotheosis and kitsch. With each track Möbius highlights another aspect of spirituality, be it religious or another kind. Indeed, maybe one does come close to a feeling of transcendence through hypnotic rhythms. Maybe one can even achieve purification through noise or just take solace in singing spiritual songs. Möbius plays with the neo-pagan spirituality of Black Metal („all evil ways“) as well as with egocentric rallying calls of soul music („the right thing“). He evokes the spirits of the end of days („babylon’s falling“) and harnesses the touching confidence of an amateur choir („though the darkness gathers“). His pleasure in the unexpected is ever present in his music. Just as much as his preference for unusual sounds.

Six of the nine tracks on „Spirituals“ use the texts from traditional gospels. Without knowing the originals Guido Möbius gave these lyrics new melodies and used them for his own purposes. This poaching on forbidden terrain was a special joy for Möbius the atheist. But in so doing its not about provocation or any shock tactics. Far more he has re appropriated something that is already firmly anchored in the collective consciousness. The citation alone suffices to expose principles of guilt, angst and humility. Spiritual music can be defined either as humorous, oppressive or double-sided even if it is unintentionally so. But gospels are also good when you want to enter a fully authentic emotional state with no trace of irony. They are sympathetic and when sung in a collective, a source of genuine spirituality.

Following two albums of predominantly chamber music, Möbius finally approached bass and bass drum driven music with „Gebirge“. And the Berlin based musician with his roots in the Rheinland also uses the instrumentation of modern dance music on „Spirituals“. Although stylistically he still can't be pigeon holed. On „godhead appears“ he combines fevered percussion with Kiki Bohemias elegant singing and Andi Otto's cello playing. On „babylon’s falling“ we hear layers, stacked like geological sediment and streaked through with a restless pulse. The rhythmic saws and squeaking sound on „all evil ways“ combine with the morbid groove. Then there's „judgment“ with its dry funkiness and „blessed sleep“ with cutting guitar layers and noises of all kinds. The echo effect on „the reign of sin“ lets loose whispers from ghostly voices. While most of the sounds on „all around me“ come from the automatic tuner on an everyday portable radio.

This album has a light and a dark side. A fact that is most conspicuous in the LP format. The hopeful A-side with „all around me“ to „godhead appears“ could be understood under the motto redemption, whereas the B-side is more dedicated to damnation.

Guido Möbius works as a PR agent and runs the music publisher autopilot. On his 7“ label emphase records he releases records at irregular intervals which are always recorded using only one instrument. Early 2012 the split LP „asper 2“ featuring re-edited concert recordings by Guido Möbius and Centenaire + King Q4 came out on dokidoki / clapping music & guilty by association. „Spirituals“ is Guido Möbius' fourth studio album.

featuring:

KIKI BOHEMIA (lead and backing vocals on 1 and 4)
GO:GOL (beatboxing on 2, lead vocals on 6 and 7)
WUZI KHAN (lead vocals on 3)
JAN THOBEN (hihat on 1, cymbals and pots on 4)
ANDI OTTO (cello on 4)
CHRISTINE JOKERST, SINA KANTOWSKI, SABINE SCHUHKNECHT-KANTOWSKI, UTE MARKGRAF, THE MARBLE MAN, RALF SCHINDOFSKI (choir on 9)
LORENA ATRAKZY (backing vocals on 8)
JANA PLEWA (backing vocals on 8)
DÖRTE BADOCK (backing vocals on 6)
ALMEIRA, BO, DAVID, LUCILIA & TESS (kids voices on 2)

Tracklist
01. All around me
02. Judgment
03. The right thing
04. Godhead appears
05. Babylon's falling
06. The reign of sin
07. All evil ways
08. Blessed sleep
09. Though the darkness gathers

Ambient | Meditation | Didgeredoo | World

Dao Khan

Welcome to the world of Dao Khan!
Jörg Holik (Tabla, Percussions, Electronis und Overtone voices) and Marcus Wichmann (Didgeridoo) lead you to a land full of beautiful world music like ambient sounds   with quiet harmonic electronic soundscapes, relaxed percussionbeats, overtone voices and earthlike Didgeridoo.


Take your time and you will be taken away.
Listen to the spaces in between and you will feel the rhythm.
Open your ears and your heart knows what your body feels.

The music on this production is tuned in a-432 Hz!

Experiments with complex plasmas in microgravity often show a particle-free region in the center of the discharge, which is the so-called “void. We had so much fun on remixing Manuels tracks with our last release digital wormhole – we decided to ask professor Witt to compound the microparticles for our new release enter the void. The cause of this unexpected circumstance is assumed to be the ions streaming outward from the discharge center toward the radio-frequency electrodes and walls, dragging the microparticles with them out of the center - what ever – just listen.

*What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

The End of Music is the second full length album by Swedish group de la Mancha. At the core of the band are two childhood friends Jerker Lund and Dag Rosenqvist who founded the project back in 2003. A shared admiration for groups like Red House Painters, Sigur Rós, Led Zeppelin and My Bloody Valentine set out a general direction for the duo. And the band has stayed true to this tradition of leftfield pop-rock as The End of Music demonstrates most perfectly.

The album dives in at the deep end with a a brief intro, Golden Bells, which flows seemlessly into the straight up rocking number, Ursa Minor. Under A Leaden Sky is an epic orchestral ballad with strong dynamics. Again de la Mancha whose first release was an EP on Crying Bob Records in 2005, show their tremendous musical versatility on Hidden Mountains which quickly melts into a symphonic drone midway before tightening the reigns again at the very end, returning to the main refrain of the song.
There is no other word for Willow Lane than heart breaking. A stripped down arrangement of piano, vocals and organ make for an impact as powerful as any rock number. Equally fragile in its beauty is the sombre composition Erase. The song also relies for the most part on a very sparse instrumentation, but puts this to great effect.
Of course, the name de la Mancha is originally borrowed from Cervantes’ novel El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, perhaps better known as Don Quixote. But unlike the Spanish legend, de la Mancha are well aware of where they are going; they have a clear destination, as the penultimate number At Lands End proves. Clocking in at over 9 minutes, its the longest track on the album and marks our arrival at Til Gupu, a fitting close to The End of Music.

As with the bands first full-length album Atlas (Crying Bob Records, 2008), The End of Music is an album full of contrast and beauty. Each track has a clear identity and both the song-writing process as well as the production have been meticulously executes by Lund and Rosenqvist.
In addition to de la Mancha, Dag also keeps busy with his side project Jasper TX. Since his debut album back in 2005, Dag has been released albums on labels such as Miasmah (NO), Kning Disk (SE) and SMTG Limited (US). Over the years he has also collaborated with artists such as Machinefabriek, Mike Weis (from Zelienople) and Simon Scott (ex Slowdive) and in addition to that he’s done remixes for artists from a wide variety of genres. But its his collaboration with Jerker Lund in the form of de la Mancha that is the focus of 2012.

De la Mancha's new album is a highly charged emotional record. The band is clearly at ease embracing the moody turbulence that other artists and genres try to avoid at all costs. There is a resolute depth and profound truth to all the songs on The End of Music; each contains a level of authenticity and honesty seldom found in pop these days. The album title itself bears something of an apocalyptic tone. But let's hope we haven't heard the last from de la Mancha.

http://www.delamanchamusic.com/

Anthrazit EP

Records EP 2012

Pruduced by Suzi Suzuki from Cologne. House at its best!

The Deepness enterprise continues: Cologne artist ZIGGY KINDER is renowned for his distinct and crystal clear minimal funk, but already in 2007 he created his own personal parallel house universe with “Que Pasa Maria” on Souvenir Records. Since then he has systematically worked his way into the soul of his machines and cut back on speed and actions. First highlight of this development was his slowmo slapbass slammer “Assbomb”, though his second new album “Barboom” takes deepness and moodiness considerably further. Instead of satisfying mainstream tastes trying to attract attention with common sounds and samples, Kinder returns to a wholesome “less is more” without being pigeonholed as purely minimal. He confidently leans back for he has found his perfect spot: “Barboom” is cool house, club, party, outside-the-box while being a comfy-groovy home in the swirl of triviality.

Elektro, Techno and House from munich.
Just intime for 2012.

One day patrick came up with a new young talented dj & producer out of the soundcloud universe - Manuell Witt! We really like manuals productions, a straight and clean approach to techno. After scanning Manuels soundcloud portfolio we finally decided to ask Manual to contribute some work to our new release. He provided us two really superb masterpieces - Digital wormhole and Lost in Amsterdam. We decided to uprgade the release and remix Manuels material to put our own special es_capish touch on his tracks. We had a lot of fun doing this and finally distilled two remixes out of our jamming material - Escobar lost in Amsterdam Remix and the Digital Wormhole Columbian Remix. All bundled up for your enjoyment - the digital wormhole ep.

Electronic, Experimental, Music from Mexico and Japan.

The man in the crowd is a wonderer with relaxed habits. In him the course of things and movement of the city is reproduced. The Düsseldorfer Detlef Weinrich is such a man in the crows. Some one who is constantly listening to future winds through rushes of the past. He loves the night for its free will. And his music tells stories about it. You might know him as a member of the band Kreidler. As a solo artist he goes under the name Tolouse Low Trax. And he's already got three Eps and two albums under his belt. His first solo album „Mask Talk“ thrives on a feathery beat frequency and cool new-wave-strength. His recently released piece „Corridor Plateau“, which appeared as a limited edition to accompany the exhibition „Corridor Plateau“ contains percussive electronics and Industrial sounding like its from the second industrial revolution. His third album „Jeidem Fall“, is also not from here. It sounds like music brought down to earth from the heavens. But its a dark cosmos in which there are only fleeting glimpses of light. All eight tracks were composed in a short space of time over the period of just a few months and fit together perfectly atmospherically. With a musical expressiveness that undoubtedly twists your emotions, „Jeidem Fall“ attacks the subconscious and clouds the mind. The drums have more movement that on „Mask Talk“. Along with the constant tapping of drumsticks goes melodical arpeggios dancing dark and dirty. At times longing vocals drift abstractly through the room, as on „Sa Seline“ or „Geo Scan“, without telling any obvious story.
To sound like stylistic cross references from the present and past is all just speculation for nothing on „Jeidem Fall“ really sounds like anything that has gone before. You could compare the dark minimal timbre of the drum computer aesthetic with Craig Leon's first reductive album „Nommos“. There is also a hint of the minimallist industrial of the Spanish band Esplendor Geometrico in the bubbly textures. But Tolouse Low Trax is still looking from the present into the future and filter and filters all his personal preferences through his MPC and his small synth setup to make them come alive here and now in a new way. Again Tolouse Low Trax has created a truly mysteriously vibrating drum computer music which offers hypnotic magic for the shadowy dance floor. Only a little light should illuminate the whole thing and the bodies that move above them should have no fear from threatening percussion which are displaced into a misty trance. A dark swaying shadowy mass, ideal for a journey at the end of the night and all those non-places where longing sleeps and the last romantics dance while getting drunk.

http://soundcloud.com/detlefnet

For the latest release on Karaoke Kalk the Berlin label introduces us to another exciting new artist. J.R.Plankton is a collaborative project by Jens Strüver and Robert Ohm.

Strüver also manages the M=minimal label which has been responsible for releases by people such as the late great Krautrock legend Conrad Schnitzler. With his Project Borngräber & Strüver (Transkontinental, Freispiell) he released in 2011 the Album “Urlaub” and also a collaboration with Schnitzler titled “Con-Struct”, not to forget his “Kreuzberg“- release. His first collaboration with studionerd and multi-instrumentalist Robert Ohm was an hour lasting radioplay-soundcollage about the legendary composer Moondog, repeatedly broadcasted on german radio nationwide.

Now their own pure musical work on Neon is nothing less than a tour de force.

From the word go, the album sets an incredibly high standard. The french titled Musique Electronique is without a doubt a nod to the founding fathers of German electronic music, Kraftwerk. The highly charged electro style laid down in this opening track sets the pace for what follows over the remaining 37 minutes of the album.
Clocking in at a massive 8 minute City Jungle is equally epic in length. Musically the track changes down a gear though entering a more atmospheric world of ambient oscillations and arpeggiated synth sounds, while the tune moves towards a more driving industrial feel towards the end.
Sundance kicks in with a throbbing slap bass part, soon to be followed by wah-wahed guitars, all of which make for a surprise disco-funk track on this otherwise electro orientated album. This is clearly a feel good track and is sure to have any room jumping in seconds.
The penultimate track Nakamura starts as another downbeat foray into ambient but again builds to reach a powerful minimal crescendo. The track makes powerful use of textures to paint a sonic landscape which is a world unto itself. And this superb album draws to a close with Regen (trans. Rain), which is another masterpiece of arpeggio action. The tune teasingly implies that it might kick off at any moment, but the beat remains absent, creating instead a hypnotic tension.

Neon has all the elements one might wish for from a modern electronic record. The experimental nature of some of the more protracted interludes should appeal to fans of Kraut and electronica: these moments are ideal for losing oneself in the trance inducing intimacy of ones headphones. While at the same time there's plenty on the album to interest all you Djs out there who would do well to drop some of the more uptempo tracks on Neon. Debut albums don‘t come any stronger than this and one can only hope there will be a chance to hear more from J.R.Plankton before long.

http://m-minimal.com/

Tracklist
01 Musique Electronique
02 City Jungle
03 Sundance
04 Nakamura
05 Regen

Klangwirkstoff Records | Catalog: KW008
Special High End Mastering for mp3 from 24bit version (you can't found this in other shops).

Akasha Project „Solar System“ (KW008)

Format: CD / Digital
Artist: Akasha Project
Titel: Solar System
Label: Klangwirkstoff Records
Catalog#: KW008
LC: 16011
Releasedate: 12.02.2012
Total Playtime: 76:40 h
EAN: 4036067312738
Distirbution: www.silenzio.de
Style: Ambient, Electronic Music, Meditation, Cosmic Octave

Tracklist:

1.Earth 136,10 Hz 08:15 Min
2.Moon 210,42 Hz 10:45 Min
3.Mercury 141,27 Hz 12:01 Min
4.Venus 221,23 Hz 12:04 Min
5.Jupiter 183,58 Hz 11:06 Min
6.Saturn 147,85 Hz 15:41 Min
7.Pluto 140,25 Hz 06:48 Min

total playtime: 76:40 min

A kind of invocation!
A beatport bestseller here with special cover!

Techno at its best!

Electronic art at its best!

Our weather experts from Blaues Licht forecast a violent storm. The prime twister ep is sighted on the radar. This minimal techno hurricane comes with a magnificent Mentalic Remix and on top there is with funnel cloud a dance floor burner which destroys every wind jacket. So then, set Sails and hold on for dear life.

After the neon nylon ep, ronan inhaled deeply and dived deep to a uncompromising mission. Back on surface he left us 2 dry rocking minimal Tracks.

Scalk is the first harvest of the collaboration of Ronan Dec and Nic Rausch. A let's do something together - thing between groove and noise. Brute!

For ages nighttime was said to be the time of ghosts and spirits. Creatures of the night were believed to gain special powers between midnight and dawn. In latin this shrouded in mystery lapse of time was called intempesta - time without time.
Detlef Weinrich, alias Toulouse Low Trax, too, seems to have lingered in the irrational universe of frozen continuity quite frequently within the last two years. Everyone who drifts to the sound of his first solo album Mask Talk will soon sense the musical intensity boding a different dancefloor.
Cool, atmospheric new-wave-sharpness, and a cushioned beat rate between 107 and 116 bpm call out a mechanical functionality that doesn't bow to any contemporary doctrine. Mask Talk: urban music, club album. Big city lights in Africa. Chilly neon-sounds made in Dusseldorf.
As a member of Kreidler, Weinrich just recently participated in the trio's newly found cosmic vibes, as well as in their album Mosaik 2014. Now, with his solo project, he is demonstrating that a MPC and a small synthesizer-ensemble are enough to bring alive futuristic dance music in the here and now.
Bedroom-recorded under tense creative circumstances, the ten tracks invoke, mostly instrumentally, an eerie atmosphere that would fit in perfectly with an early John Carpenter movie. The tracks' volume sounds as if a whole band had been at work in Weinrichs own four walls. With plenty delay on the bass figures, compact analogue effects, percussive dabs and a rough blend of layers, Weinrich has, without any digital support, created quivering drum machine music, whose dancability he was able to test regularly as a resident DJ and co-owner of the Dusseldof-based club/ bar Salon Des Amateurs. His new tracks breathe the hypnotic power of his DJ sets, where he arranges diverse rhythms between krautrock, cosmic, electronic and acid. They also remind of analogue-electronical pioneers such as Cluster or Peter Baumann. Also 1980s avant-gardists Cabaret Voltaire or Zazou Bikaye have left their mark, without Toulouse Low Trax explicitely referring to them.
All tracks are committed to experiment. They leave room for every sound without neglecting rhythmical clarity. A dark, urban solanum, full of reverb, whose melodies are never prankish, but whose minimal nonchalance is sure to help not only the dark creatures through the night. Form is essence brought to the surface Victor Hugo wrote 150 years ago. Mask Talk is reasserting this theory as a destillate of an operating procedure seeking to subvert ingrained listening habits and to resharpen the contours of the audible. Electronic music beyond any categorisation, whose sounds and rhythmics grow to an emotional atmosphere that far exceeds the immediately hearable.

Elektro Phunk - Techno Phunk

Another exhausting Weilheim-Session builds the Basement for our new relase. Some words about the naming: After Patrick was working late night on the final arrangement of the track expression_noir_mix, some how he thought it´s bedtime now, but those little white fast molecules would´nt let him sleep - he turned on the TV and was trapped in an old black&white movie with Humphrie Bogart out of the film noir-genre --- FREEDOM OF COLOR---FREEDOM OF FORM---DIE BRÜCKE---DER BLAUE REITER - The Name for the EP was found.

The Tracks:
beast to beat:A mean pumping bass ending into a hyper thrilling break --- sirens are singing --- heavy breathing dark stomping monster.
expression noir mix: A energizing baseline is driving four to the floo --- dark, spuki & nerve scratching.
expressionist: Earth shacking bass leads and atmospheric jungle breaks take you on a trip thru darkness.

Klangwirkstoff Records | Catalog#: KWDIGI002
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Artist: B Ashra
Titel: Psychonautic DJ Mix Giger Museum 08


Label: Klangwirkstoff Records
Format: Digital Release
Titel: Psychonautic DJ Mix Giger Museum 08
Release date: Jan 5, 2012
ISRC: DE-HE1-07-00111
available exclusiv at Klangwirkstoff Records MP3 Shop
Total Playtime: 31 min.

This especially psychonautic DJ Set was live created for an exhibition and event in honorary to Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Giger Museum Switzerland - 19.10.2008. Contributor: Stanislav Grof, Nana Nauwald, Hans Ruedi Giger, Trigger.ch und B. Ashra.

Tracklist:

01. Morphon - Venus 08
02. Brain Entertainment Laboratory - Solardrifting
03. Brain Entertainment Laboratory -LSD
04. Morphon - Trip
05. B. Ashra - Om Meditation

Caution! This music contains hemisphere synchronisations (hemi sync), these can activate epileptic seizure if you're an epileptic.

Klangwirkstoff Records | Catalog#: KWDIGI001
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Format: Digital Release
Titel: LSD Tuning - Pure Sinus Session
Label: Klangwirkstoff Records
LC: 16011
ISRC: DE-HE1-07-00102
Releasedate: 30.09.2011
available exclusiv at Klangwirkstoff Records MP3 Shop

This sinus waves and hemisphere synchronisation are based by the calculations of spectral analysis: http://www.planetware.de/tune_in/lsd.html

Caution! This music contains hemisphere synchronisations (hemi sync), these can activate epileptic seizure if you're an epileptic.

First Part of BOMBERJÄECKCHEN Maxi!
With the Original Version and two Instrumentals.

Second Part of BOMBERJÄECKCHEN Maxi!
With Remixes by Marc Acardipane and Rework.

the new album
mp3 version + 2 additional tracks
mp3 download exclusive in this online store!

Anders is finally back with a new CD album on Level Records following the casette only release ‚Vidare‘ on Further Records in July and the recent CD ‚Stories of Old‘ on Yard Rec, making this his third album of the year 2010 and in fact his tenth album since the debut Everdom in 2003 (Shitkatapult).
Even so Wavefunction Formula has a two-part storyline wich takes the listener on a journey through a maze of dancefloors, catacombs and deep vast oceans of mystery, and then finally discovering and entering a secret back door that quite unexpectedly leads you out to a completly new secret magical place under the wide open skies.
The story starts with ‚Ineptitude‘ which sets the mood with its deep cavernous yet minimal beats and atmospheres interjected with random analog bleeps and wierd arpeggios. Setting the stage for the first seven tracks wich could be seen as an expanded version of last years Cellular Memories EP.
Then comes the plot-twist. The last four tracks of the album can almost be enjoyed as a separate EP in itself.
Where the previous tracks are primarily aimed for the dancefloor this final quartett is more focused on beauty in melodies and harmonies interlaced with laidback downtempo rhythms. A real surprise ending for this album.
The CD cover with a somewhat menacing picture of a Shanghai road cluster seems to be a good metaphor for asking the questions, where are we coming from and where are we going? As we‘re all riding that propability wave of quantum reality the trick is to find those secret magical doorways and dare to step through. And
transform to a different level.

here it comes: the second release on kalk pets. this time with remixes from lo soul, pascal schäfer and tonetraeger.
they are mixing various tracks from roman‘s forthcoming album so ghost? which will be released on karaoke kalk 14th november 2005.

lo soul is famous as a musican, remix artist and dj associate of the frankfurt based playhouse label. he‘s giving us his very own interpretation of
the track „true love owes us shit“.

pascal schäfer is well known from his releases on karaoke kalk and kalk pets. in his charming manner he gives ample evidence how a straight bassdrum‘s stirring in an atypical surrounding. that‘s for the remix of roman‘s track „skiver“.

tonetraeger are torsten mauss and volker bertelmann. they‘re presenting their interpretation of „unbroken smile“. they point up the vocals and turn the original track into a deep and floating mix.

A revival that we’re wishing for
Today’s maniac bigger-stronger-faster attitude in music makes them almost vitally indispensable as a contrast and a rest: Deep, subtle House-tracks. Music that draws upon its own magic. Tracks full of warmth, depth and substance. Like the new tracks by Düsseldorf-based producer Antonelli that are now released on Kalk Pets.
Antonelli and Kalk: Sounds as familiar together as if it had been growing (up) together. (In fact they spent quite a long time together eating at one table - though not off one plate)
Kalk and Antonelli: A step that wasn’t planned – but all the nicer it is to considerately take it now. Meanwhile one authorizes to dance, the other proves more playful and
melodious than ever before.
Antonelli on Kalk: Three sparkling tracks that are danceable without being constraining. Listenable without having to intellectualize. Tracks that neither play to the gallery nor need breaks to bring about suspense. Three little tales from the country of minimal monoliths.
Of course I’m A Clicktrack’s only simulating a ‘real’ track. At any rate it’s clicking more distinctly than a whole genre of music has in the last few years. In a beautifully soft manner it builds itself up, bass and beat providing the necessary amount of grounding. The courses of two melodies float-up like soap bubbles, dancing and bobbing around each other, entwined, spaced out.
Surrender doesn’t waste any time, nervously it’s rushing forward soon as it’s let out. Sounds a little darker but without getting sinister. Swelling, Harmonia-like sounds arise hazy notions. However certainty will not be gained – the next moment’s already past.
Esplanade gets explicit. But only after a while: It takes more than a minute before the first bassdrum, the most intense on the EP, starts and another minute before the bassline comes in – detroitish? The dancefloor opens its arms, the pretty little head gently swaying between its shoulders.