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out for a while: Robert Lippok – Open Close Open (2024 Remaster) [Morr Music]

Artist:
Robert Lippok

Title:
Open Close Open (2024 Remaster)

Label:
Morr Music

Cat#:
MORR202

Release Date:
01st March 2024

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Open
(2024 Remaster)

02.
Close
(2024 Remaster)

03.
Open (Pt.2)
(2024 Remaster)

04.
Licht

Tracklist Bandcamp:
01.
Open
(2024 Remaster)

02.
Close
(2024 Remaster)

03.
Open (Pt.2)
(2024 Remaster)

04.
Licht

05.
Licht
(640 nm)

Press Info:
In 1998, Carsten Nicolai, also known as Alva Noto, visited a sound installation created by Robert Lippok for a group exhibition in Weimar, Germany. Soon after, he invited Lippok to release music on his label raster-noton. »Open Close Open« was released in 2001 and marked the beginning of Lippok’s solo career. Before, Lippok had already played in Ornament und Verbrechen (with his brother Ronald Lippok) and To Rococo Rot (with Ronald Lippok and Stefan Schneider).

The title of the EP is a linguistic reference to the instructions found on everyday objects. In fact, the sound of birds or a closing door can be heard. Besides field recordings, cultural fragments were used – including the sample of the famous Adagietto from Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. – and integrated into three loop-based pieces, that have been praised by Fact Magazine as »a masterclass in collage, looping and tactile processing.«

The source material for »Open Close Open« initially served as a soundtrack for a video by Takehito Koganezawa, a visual artist from Japan. For this remastered vinyl reissue, Lippok revisited the original sound material and produced a new track called »Licht«.

Snippets:
@ Deejay

Special:
“Phase Transition Mix”

Recommendations:
To Rococo Rot’s “The Amateur View” on City Slang | Mute
Isan’s “Lamenting Machine” on Morr Music
Isan’s “Glass Bird Movement” on Morr Music

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out for a while: Recoil – Bloodline [Mute | Sire Records]

Artist:
Recoil

Title:
Bloodline

Label:
Mute | Sire Records

Cat#:
STUMM94 | 926850

Release Date:
13th April 1992 (original release date)
09th Jul 2007 (digital re-release)

Format:
CD, vinyl, cassette, download & streaming

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
Faith Healer
[vocals by Douglas McCarthy]

A2.
Electro Blues For Bukka White
[vocals by Bukka White]

A3.
The Defector

B1.
Edge To Life
[vocals by Toni Halliday]

B2.
Curse
[vocals by Moby]

B3.
Bloodline
[vocals by Toni Halliday]

Tracklist CD & Cassette:
01.
Faith Healer
[vocals by Douglas McCarthy]

02.
Electro Blues For Bukka White
[vocals by Bukka White]

03.
The Defector

04.
Edge To Life
[vocals by Toni Halliday]

05.
Curse
[vocals by Moby]

06.
Bloodline
[vocals by Toni Halliday]

07.
Freeze

Tracklist Digital “Bonus Tracks” Edition:
01.
Faith Healer
[vocals by Douglas McCarthy]

02.
Electro Blues For Bukka White
[vocals by Bukka White]

03.
The Defector

04.
Edge To Life
[vocals by Toni Halliday]

05.
Curse
[vocals by Moby]

06.
Bloodline
[vocals by Toni Halliday]

07.
Freeze

08.
Faith Healer
[vocals by Douglas McCarthy]
(Trance Mix)

09.
Faith Healer
[vocals by Douglas McCarthy]
(Conspiracy Theory)

10.
Faith Healer
[vocals by Douglas McCarthy]
(Disbeliever Mix)

11.
Faith Healer
[vocals by Douglas McCarthy]
(Deformity)

12.
Faith Healer
[vocals by Douglas McCarthy]
(Barracuda Mix)

13.
Faith Healer
[vocals by Douglas McCarthy]
(Conspiracy (Double Bullet) Theory)

14.
Faith Healer
[vocals by Douglas McCarthy]
(Healed Mix)

Info:
For the digital release the remixes of “Faith Healer” were added.

Snippets:

Full Track Streaming:
“Faith Healer”

Video:
“Faith Healer”

Recommendations:
Recoil’s “Hydrology” on Mute
Recoil’s “1+2″# on Mute
Recoil’s “Unsound Methods (Re-issue)” on Mute
Recoil’s “subHuman (Re-issue)” on Mute
Recoil’s “Liquid (Re-issue)” on Mute
Recoil’s “A Strange Hour In Budapest” on Alfa Matrix
all stuff by Depeche Mode & related artists we featured
all stuff on Mute & sublabels we featured

Buy CD:
originally released in 1992

Buy Vinyl:
originally released in 1992

Buy Cassette:
originally released in 1992

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Bleep
Boomkat
Beatport
iTunes
more soon

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Apple Music
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Websites:
Recoil
Mute
Mute Germany
Sire Records

out now: Cosey Fanni Tutti – 2t2 [Conspiracy International]

Artist:
Cosey Fanni Tutti

Title:
2t2

Label:
Conspiracy International

Cat#:
CTI2T2CD2025 | CTI2T2LP2025 | CTI2T2DD2025

Release Date:
13th June 2025

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist CD / Digital:
01.
Curæ

02.
To Be

03.
Stound

04.
Never The Same

05.
Stolen Time

06.
Respair

07.
Threnody

08.
Sonance

09.
Limbic

Tracklist Vinyl:
A01.
Curæ

A02.
To Be

A03.
Stound

A04.
Never The Same

B01.
Stolen Time

B02.
Respair

B03.
Threnody

B04.
Sonance

Press Info:
Cosey Fanni Tutti has announced details of a new album, 2t2, released on the artist’s own imprint, Conspiracy International, on 13 June 2025 on vinyl, CD, and digitally (including Dolby Atmos / Spatial Audio).

Composed, performed and produced by Cosey Fanni Tutti, the 9-track album moves between propulsive beat constructions and expansive electronic explorations, continuing themes from 2019’s acclaimed album TUTTI. It is a personal reflection; a sonic realisation of her life, drawing on her powerful inner resolve and expressing it through music.

The album finds Cosey making sense of some very tough years, dealing with personal bereavements alongside swingeing world events that have impacted us all. Centring on her own strength and self will, the album’s two distinct sides – one rhythmic, one more meditative – are connected by an overwhelmingly positive mood.

She explains, “My overtone chanting on the track ‘Stound’ was part of that, tapping into the inner self, to the core of your being, emotionally, physically, allowing the sounds to permeate and soothe as well as create a sense of power, resistance and resilience to what we face.”

Even in the more melancholic moments, there’s a lightness that she explains is an “acknowledgement that it’s alright to be sad, that’s part of life, but there is so much joy too in our memories of people we lose and in the moments we share with each other. Joy is our resistance.”

There are also threads from her most recent projects running through 2t2. Her latest book RE-SISTERS and the score she wrote for Caroline Catz’s film Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes are acknowledged, most directly on ‘Threnody’ which is dedicated to Delia Derbyshire and Andy Christian, an artist friend of Delia’s. He sent Cosey an abstract drawing of the same name, created one night from an improvised evening where he drew while Derbyshire intoned and sang softly as she looked at the drawings, as if reading a score expressing how they made her feel.

Cosey’s process and the different strands that make up her work form a totality of vision. She goes on to say, “Once you get creating and listening, weaving, collaging sound it’s a wonderfully fulfilling feeling that takes you both out of yourself at the same time as essentially deep within.”

The artwork reflects this idea that the album is a “sound cameo”, reflecting the light within the music, and the buzz of life that exists within all of Cosey’s work.

Musician, artist and author Cosey Fanni Tutti has continually challenged boundaries and conventions through her work. As a founding member of the hugely influential avant-garde band Throbbing Gristle, one half of electronic pioneers Chris and Cosey, and as an artist channelling her experience in pornographic modelling and striptease, her work on the margins has reshaped the mainstream.

Her first solo album, Time To Tell (1983) was followed by 2019’s Tutti and 2022’s Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes. Her debut book, the Penderyn Music Book Prize shortlisted Art Sex Music, was published in 2017, followed by RE-SISTERS in 2022 (both Faber), which will soon get a Spanish edition.

Full Track Streaming: