out now: st.raumen – Struktur [straumenmusic]

 

Artist:
st.raumen

 

Title:
Struktur

 

Label:
straumenmusic

 

Cat#:
tba

 

Release Date:
13th May 2022

 

Format:
download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Signifier

02.
Dust
[feat. Ofrin]

03.
Insects
[feat. T.Raumschmiere]

04.
Rausch

05.
Rotor

06.
Particles
[feat. Joy Tyson]

 

Press Info:
st.raumen is marco haas (t.raumschmiere) & st.john mantle.

8 months on from their debut album „ponyhof“, st.raumen bring you the mini-album „struktur“.

brooding and powerful, the album’s 6 songs take the duo’s trademark blend of post-modern heavy electronics into new areas.

recorded between twin studios in berlin and brighton, the songs feature collaborations with guest vocalists joy tyson & ofrin to add layers of meaning.

beats and textures are wrought from modular racks, vintage synths, shortwave radios and found objects, heavily processed through guitar amps and primitive effects boxes.

embracing chaos, decay and disintegration they reflect and amplify the stupidity and pointlessness of the modern world.

 

Snippets:
@ JunoDownload

 

Video:
“Particles” [feat. Joy Tyson]

 

Special:
” live @SUPERBOOTH21″

 

Recommendations:
st.raumen’s “Ponyhof” on straumenmusic
T.Raumschmiere’s “Schaukelstuhl” on Shitkatapult
T.Raumschmiere’s self-titled album on AlbumLabel
“Speicher 111” by T.Raumschmiere | Voigt & Voigt on Kompakt Extra
“Speicher 104” by T.Raumschmiere | Reinhard Voigt on Kompakt Extra

 

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out now: st.raumen – Ponyhof [straumenmusic]

 

Artist:
st.raumen

 

Title:
Ponyhof

 

Label:
straumenmusic

 

Cat#:
tba

 

Release Date:
17th September 2021

 

Format:
download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Naptha Winters

02.
Pray & Work

03.
Keiner Da
[feat. Gudrun Gut]

04.
To Bring You My Love

05.
What Is So Funny?

06.
Dark Webs

07.
Veins Of Lead

 

Press Info:
St.raumen’s first album, PONYHOF, is released on 17th September 2021. This genre defying collection of songs delves into the darker regions of the mind; using cutup and primitive electronics to piece together an irresistible soundtrack of despair and hopelessness.

The album fuses Berlin’s minimal mindset with industrial/power electronics, adding ambient elements to hold it together. The music feels at times as if it has taken control.

Recorded partly in Berlin and partly in the UK and produced by Marco Haas (T.Raumschmiere) the record is, at times, simple and focused but at others multi-layered and complex. Lovers of ‘friendly’ electronic music should look away now – this can get dark!

With a guest appearance from Gudrun Gut (Malaria!, Einsturzende Neubauten) in the melancholic ‘Keiner Da’, St.raumen hint at what lies ahead for the band.

A super limited edition, lathe cut vinyl 7” single is also available via Bandcamp and at Superbooth – only 40 copies remain.

 

Snippets:
@ JunoDownload

 

Video:
“Keiner Da” [feat. Gudrun Gut]

 

Recommendations:
T.Raumschmiere’s “Schaukelstuhl” on Shitkatapult
T.Raumschmiere’s self-titled album on AlbumLabel
“Speicher 111” by T.Raumschmiere | Voigt & Voigt on Kompakt Extra
“Speicher 104” by T.Raumschmiere | Reinhard Voigt on Kompakt Extra

 

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st.raumen

 

out now: T.Raumschmiere – Schaukelstuhl [Shitkatapult]

 

Artist:
T.Raumschmiere

 

Title:
Schaukelstuhl

 

Label:
Shitkatapult

 

Cat#:
STRIKE170

 

Release Date:
03rd July 2020

 

Format:
download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Erich

02.
Edith

03.
Klaus

04.
Bela

05.
Georgia

06.
Isidora

 

Press Info :
After a long silence, T.Raumschmiere reloads his mighty Shitkatapult for another strike.

The title of this 6 track album „Schaukelstuhl“, immediately conjures images of tranquilty, moving back and forward ad infinitum, slowly nodding off to sleep with a book, tea at the ready.

„Schaukelstuhl“ translated into english means „rocking chair“ or just „rocker“, an appropriate double endendre, as buried below the album‘s dreamy haze, the echoes of T.Raumshmiere‘s previous dance floor pyrotechnics still bubble to the surface. This is most clearly evident with album highlights Erich and Isidora. Both are catchy, with an unmistakable underlying TR bounce, certain to move feet, asses and rocking chairs with assured ease.

Though the album was completed in 2019, its release during these strangest of times feels entirely fitting, providing a perfect soundtrack for quiet reflection or isolationists living room dance parties.

Refill the tea, grab another long forgotten favorite novel off the shelf, head out to the porch, and keep on rocking.

 

Snippets:
@ JunoDownload

 

Full Track Streaming:
“Klaus”

 

Special:
“Brave New Rave Guest Mix”

 

Recommendations:
T.Raumschmiere’s self-titled album on AlbumLabel
“Speicher 111” by T.Raumschmiere | Voigt & Voigt on Kompakt Extra
“Speicher 104” by T.Raumschmiere | Reinhard Voigt on Kompakt Extra
Shitkatapult stuff that we featured

 

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Websites:
T.Raumschmiere
Shitkatapult

 

© Photo By Mara Von Kummer

out now: T.Raumschmiere | Voigt & Voigt – Speicher 111 [Kompakt Extra]

 

Artist:
T.Raumschmiere | Voigt & Voigt

 

Title:
Speicher 111

 

Label:
Kompakt Extra

 

Cat#:
KOMEX111

 

Release Date:
26th June 2020

 

Format:
12″ & digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
T.Raumschmiere
Bass Ballert Vom Balkon

02.
Voigt & Voigt
Basstard

 

Press Info:
That old saying goes

Punks jump up to get beat down

So in times of no voice or reason

Why not welcome back three techno delinquents

Who know how better than most

To throw a hard left to the bass-drum punch

T.RAUMSCHMIERE has soared on our SPEICHER eagle some few times past

And returns with a hearty swill of his signature romper room liberation techno

Drink it up and let the BASS BALLERT VOM BALKON

Take you to oblivion

Brothers VOIGT & VOIGT are no strangers to our series

And their new episode is unlike any show you have seen

Starring BASSTARD – that low slung, deep bass minstrel

2 Part Erdinger and 4 Part Absolut.

 

Listen:

 

Specials:
Reinhard Voigt – “…@ DGTL Festival 2014 – Amsterdam – 19.04.2014”

Wolfgang Voigt – “RA.570”

T.Raumschmiere – “Kompakt Advent Drop”

 

Recommendations:
“Speicher 104” by T.Raumschmiere | Reinhard Voigt on Kompakt Extra
album “T.Raumschmiere” by T.Raumschmiere Album Label
EP “You Are A Blade” by Rex The Dog on Kompakt

 

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Kompakt @ Bandcamp
Kompakt Shop
Deejay
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Kompakt @ Bandcamp
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Booking:
Kompakt Artist Agency for T.Raumschmiere
Kompakt Artist Agency for Wolfgang Voigt
Kompakt Artist Agency for Reinhard Voigt

 

Websites:
T.Raumschmiere
Wolfgang Voigt
Reinhard Voigt
Kompakt

 

out for a while: T.Raumschmiere | Reinhard Voigt – Speicher 104 [Kompakt Extra]

 

Artist:
T.Raumschmiere | Reinhard Voigt

 

Title:
Speicher 104

 

Label:
Kompakt Extra

 

Cat#:
KOMEX104

 

Release Date:
July 2018

 

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
T.Raumschmiere
Augen Zu

02.
Reinhard Voigt
Drei Millionen Kölsch

 

Press Info (English):
Dear Friends,

25 years of KOMPAKT is no reason to get hysterical. Then again, it’s a nice occasion to have a laid back look at the situation in electronic music today. Minimal techno in all it’s varieties is now established as the worlds best dance music, as you may know. So far, so good. What’s next? Nothing. Dance on!

I’ve gain two essential insights with the passage of time. First off, that music which over the years only knew “faster, better, stronger” and “forwards ever – backwards never” can constantly repeat, quote and loop itself without killing itself. A music that suspends the meaning of time and eventually can set a parallel, better universe of fantasy against the twisted grimaces of reality. Again and again.

And secondly, that getting older living in/with this music is a quite relative term to which ideally a serenity of age can ring a bell. This shows that 25 years after 1993 so many protagonists, enthusiasts, DJs, musicians, relentlessly rave fighters – with all personal advancement – are still there and still celebrate, play or produce this/theirs music; and compete themselves and their music just with that.

Two such heroes of the neat and tidy bass drum culture are with no doubt T.RAUMSCHMIERE aka MARCO HAAS and REINHARD VOIGT. From day one, those two figureheads have given live-techno the glam of stage-diving rock ‘n’ roll, long before vodka and beer prevailed as alternative lube for ecstatic dancefloors.

Even better they both now raise the glass at the longest techno-bar in the world named KOMPAKT EXTRA/SPEICHER. With DREI MILLIONEN KÖLSCH, Reinhard Voigt continues to establish his savvy “way into sound”, which he’s pursued for a few years now on his many releases. He’s turning genre clichés into a very personal take with his defiant mix of the deepness of a lonesome cowboy and his implicit faith in the dancefloor and gives the music a very personal touch of ennnoblement of the faith in itself. Technos dignity shall be inviolable.

For me, AUGEN ZU by T.RAUMSCHMIERE is one of the most beautiful masterpieces of bass-heavy “Umta Umta” techno. A few strikingly brilliant vocal lines from the master himself, put through the machines and combined with a relentlessly sequencer that says it all. This cheers my heart and we will always need such tracks to remind us of ourselves. And to forget about ourselves. Smash hits of unreason! Or the prettiest declaration of love to a music which gets its magical moments from what’s happening between the bass drum-beats. But only by this when the bassdrum remains linear and will do so forever. Both Marco Haas and Reinhard Voigt know that. Because after techno comes always techno.

 

Press Info (German):
25 Jahre KOMPAKT sind kein Grund sich aufzuregen. Aber dennoch ein schöner Anlass, einen gelassenen Blick auf die Lage der elektronischen Musik zu werfen. Denn der globale Minimal-Techno, in seinen unterschiedlichen Spielarten, hat sich bekanntlich längst als beste Tanzmusik der Welt etabliert. Recht so. Was nun? Gar nichts. Weitertanzen.

Zwei essentielle Erkenntnisse haben sich bei mir im Laufe der Zeit durchgesetzt: Erstens – dass eine Musik, die über Jahre nur ein »Höher, Schneller, Weiter« oder ein »Forwards Ever – Backwards Never« kannte, sich ständig wiederholen, selbst zitieren und loopen kann, ohne daran zu ersticken. Die Bedeutung von Zeit und Vergänglichkeit im besten Sinne außer Kraft setzen und der hässlichen Fratze der Realität eine parallele, bessere Welt der Fantasie entgegensetzen kann. Immer wieder.

Und zweitens: dass »Altern in/mit dieser Musik« ein sehr relativer Begriff ist, dem bestenfalls Altersgelassenheit etwas sagt, Alter. Das zeigt sich immer wieder im schönsten Sinne, wenn 25 Jahre nach 1993 so viele Akteure, Enthusiasten, DJs, Musikanten, unkaputtbare Kampfraver, bei aller persönlichen Weiterentwicklung, immer noch da sind und immer noch diese/ihre Musik abfeiern, auflegen oder eben produzieren und sich und ihr Tun auch nur daran messen lassen müssen.

Zwei solche Recken der gepflegten Bassdrumkultur sind zweifelsohne T.RAUMSCHMIERE aka MARCO HAAS und REINHARD VOIGT. Zwei Rampensäue der ersten Stunde, die Live-Techno den Glam des Rock’n’Roll Stagedivings gegeben haben, lange bevor Vodka und Bier sich als alternative Gleitmittel eines ektatischen Dancefloors in der Breite durchgesetzt hatten.

Umso schöner, dass sich eben diese Beiden mal wieder an der längsten Techno-Theke der Welt, genannt KOMPAKT EXTRA/SPEICHER über die beiden Seiten einer Schallplatte hinweg musikalisch zuprosten. Mit dem Track DREI MILLIONEN KÖLSCH setzt REINHARD VOIGT seinen smarten »way into sound« fort, den er schon seit ein paar Jahren auf diversen Veröffentlichungen konsequent verfolgt. Mit einer trotzigen Mischung aus lonesome cowboyhafter Deepness und dem unbedingten Bekenntnis zum Dancefloor schafft er es, den Klischees des Techno eine sehr persönliche Note der Veredelung des Glaubens an sich selbst zu geben. Die Würde des Techno ist unantastbar.

Der Track AUGEN ZU von T.RAUMSCHMIERE ist für mich eines der schönsten Meisterstücke in der Tradition des oktavbassgeschwängerten Umta-Umta Techno. Einige wenige markant brilliante Textzeilen, vom Meister selbst in deutscher Sprache durch die Maschinen geschickt, gepaart mit einem Sequenzer der keine Gefangenen macht, lassen keine Fragen offen. Da geht mir Herz und Rucksack auf. Solche Tracks werden wir immer brauchen, um uns an uns selbst zu erinnern. Um uns immer wieder selbst zu vergessen. Smash-Hits der Unvernunft! Oder die schönste Liebeserklärung an eine Musik, die ihre magischsten Momente immer aus dem gezogen hat, was zwischen den Bassdrumschlägen passiert. Das funktioniert aber nur, wenn die Bassdrum gerade ist und es für immer bleibt. Und Marco Haas und Reinhard Voigt wissen das. Denn nach Techno kommt immer noch Techno.

 

Snippets:

 

Specials:
Reinhard Voigt – “…@ DGTL Festival 2014 – Amsterdam – 19.04.2014”

T.Raumschmiere – “Kompakt Advent Drop”

 

Recommendations:
album “T.Raumschmiere” by T.Raumschmiere Album Label
EP “You Are A Blade” by Rex The Dog on Kompakt

 

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Kompakt @ Bandcamp
Kompakt Shop
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