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out soon: Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok – The Sky Was Out Of Tune [Morr Music]

Artist:
Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok

Title:
The Sky Was Out Of Tune

Label:
Morr Music

Cat#:
MORR209

Release Date:
18th September 2026

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
I

02.
II

03.
III

04.
IV

05.
V

06.
VI

07.
VII

08.
VIII

Press Info:
Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok continue their collaboration with »The Sky Was Out of Tune«. Its eight movements form a long-form ambient piece in constant flux: soundscapes emerge from electronic synthesis and layered textures, while small melodies, rhythmic patterns, metallic noises, or distortions drift through like clouds across the sky. But a sky that is out of tune is still a sky. What shifts is the register in which it speaks.

»The Sky Was Out of Tune« emerges from a live performance for »Festival of Future Nows« at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Its organically tangled sounds mirror the artists’ attention to nature as a system that is never quite in equilibrium. Ecosystems lean, compensate, tip, and recover—balance, in the natural world, is not a fixed state but a perpetual negotiation. Chkheidze and Lippok take this as both subject
Press Info:
Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok continue their collaboration with »The Sky Was Out of Tune«. Its eight movements form a long-form ambient piece in constant flux: soundscapes emerge from electronic synthesis and layered textures, while small melodies, rhythmic patterns, metallic noises, or distortions drift through like clouds across the sky. But a sky that is out of tune is still a sky. What shifts is the register in which it speaks.

»The Sky Was Out of Tune« emerges from a live performance for »Festival of Future Nows« at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Its organically tangled sounds mirror the artists’ attention to nature as a system that is never quite in equilibrium. Ecosystems lean, compensate, tip, and recover—balance, in the natural world, is not a fixed state but a perpetual negotiation. Chkheidze and Lippok take this as both subject and method. Their sounds shift weight between one another, approach resolution and then withdraw from it, hold tension without release—they find form in the unstable. »Preparing something unstable completely changed the method of how we would normally split our skills or roles,« Chkheidze says. »I think in this one looong piece you feel how much we listen to each other.«

Snippets:
@ Deejay

Specials:
Anushka Chkheidze – “Mutant Radio [29.05.25]”

Robert Lippok – “MUTEKLIVE178”

Recommendations:
“Uncontrollable Thoughts” by Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok on Morr Music
Robert Lippok’s “Open Close Open (2024 Remaster)” on Morr Music
To Rococo Rot’s “The Amateur View” on City Slang | Mute
Tarwater’s “Nuts Of Ay” on Morr Music
Isan’s “Lamenting Machine” on Morr Music
Isan’s “Glass Bird Movement” on Morr Music

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Anost
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Red Eye Records
Juno
Decks
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Booking:
Anushka Chkheidze

Websites:
Anushka Chkheidze
Robert Lippok
Morr Music

out now: Hackedepicciotto – Lichtung [Mute]

Artist:
Hackedepicciotto

Title:
Lichtung

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM522

Release Date:
10th July 2026

Format:
vinyl, CD, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A-01.
Lichtung

A-02.
Vogelfrei

A-03.
Wiederbelebung

A-04.
Erntedank

B-01.
Zeitenwende

B-02.
Draussen

B-03.
Einig

B-04.
Der Marschal

Press Info:
Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto – hackedepicciotto – release their latest album, LICHTUNG, today on limited-edition candy coloured vinyl, CD and digitally via Mute.

The new album marks a fresh start for Danielle and Alexander, as they end a period of nomadic life, settling in the outer edges of Berlin. This is illustrated by the tectonic, musical layers of ‘Draussen’, a largely instrumental anthem, underpinned by strings and a pulsating bass line, celebrating the newfound certainty of having arrived.

Their new home is on the outer edges of Berlin, close to nature with fields not far from their garden. They explain, “The album is called LICHTUNG, which means a clearing, a place in which you can suddenly see the light in a dark forest, a place to rest. As the world seems to be spinning ever more quickly into a place of madness, being in this quiet place helps us think about how to deal with it all.”

The neighbourhood is close to where Alexander grew up and, crucially, where age 14, a mere 12 months before he joined Einstürzende Neubauten, he began experimenting with electronics. In a perfect circle, this being the first music he’s released since departing Neubauten, both he and Danielle found themselves experimenting with electronics as well as with their usual composition structure, and language. These eight new songs are characterised by a new, elegiac form, with long, interconnected pieces that suggest a larger composition, and the album’s lyrics, written by Danielle, are entirely in German for the first time.

For Danielle, an American who had already lived in Berlin for several decades, (co-founding the city’s famed Love Parade) before setting off on her world tour with Alexander, this was a deliberate challenge that forced her to engage intensively for the first time with the German language and its historical connotations – a stark contrast to the freedom she had grown accustomed to in writing in English. Danielle explains, “I usually read and write in English, but this time I told myself: you have to make it happen: an entire album in German language and syntax. A suite of songs in the language of my adopted home.”

Alexander expands, “I’ve revisited electronic elements, moments of experimental electronic music, just like back then in my childhood bedroom in Lichtenrade, when I was still Alexander von Borsig. And once it was clear that Danielle would be writing lyrics and singing in German, I subsequently moved beyond many of those Anglo-American conventions that we had worked with in the past quite naturally, almost without ever questioning them.”

A sense of place has always been important to the duo, and their nomadic life is marked by each release: Menetekel was recorded in a medieval church in Krems on the Danube; The Current was recorded in Blackpool, on the northwest coast of England; Keepsakes was recorded at Europe’s first recording studio in Naples. Silver Threshold broke from this pattern, and was instead associated with a historical phase – namely, the pandemic.

Alexander goes on to explain, “Back then, we called it ‘the principle of liminality’ – a phase of transformation in which the everyday order, its values, and symbols are temporarily destabilised, suspended, or turned on their head. Without the journey – the trip around the world, the nomadic life – arriving at the clearing, and thus the new album, would never have been possible.”

Looking back, it becomes clear just how much hackedepicciotto, since their inception as a duo, have dedicated themselves to a larger narrative that is as personal as it is romantic, and at the same time worldly and introspective.

hackedepicciotto have announced a series of German and Portuguese dates for spring. The tour will include a celebration of LICHTUNG at Berlin’s Silent Green on 27 June, with very special guests – details below. In addition, Alexander’s biography, BLAST: Distorted Memories from Einstürzende Neubauten to Symphonic Drone has been translated to Polish and he will be presenting the book at Festival Inne Brzmienie (Different Sounds) in Lubin on 4 July and at Poznan on 27 August.

Snippets:

Videos:
“Wiederbelebung”

“Draussen”

Recommendations:
all stuff on Mute & sublabels we featured

Buy CD:
Mute Bank
Hackedepicciotto @ Bandcamp
WOM
Decks
Juno
iMusic
Flight13
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Mute Bank
Hackedepicciotto @ Bandcamp
WOM
Deejay
Decks
Juno
iMusic
Flight13
HHV
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Hackedepicciotto @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
Boomkat
Bleep
7Digital
iTunes
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Deezer
Audiomack
Anghami
Apple Music
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Websites:
Hackedepicciotto
Mute
Mute Germany

out now: JBS – Zweitausendfünf [RBK / Vertigo / Universal Music]

Artist:
JBS

Title:
Zweitausendfünf

Label:
RBK / Vertigo / Universal Music

Cat#:
tba | tba | 199957348966

Release Date:
24th April 2026

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
Orkan (Intro)

A2.
Manchmal

A3.
Nur Bei Mir

A4.
Kalt Gemacht

A5.
Meer

A6.
Liebeslied

A7.
Stern

A8.
Du Fehlst

B1.
Vier Wände (Interlude)

B2.
Angst

B3.
Chaos & Krach

B4.
Spiegel

B5.
Vermissen

B6.
Gewitter

B7.
Gegend

B8.
Bernstein

Press Info:
…

Snippets:

Videos:
“Liebeslied”

“Manchmal” [feat. Karina Rose]

“Gewitter”

“Meer”

Recommendation:
MilleniumKid’s “Dystopie” feat. JBS on Warner Music

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JBS store
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JBS store
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Qobuz
Beatport
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Tidal
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Booking:
JBS

Websites:
JBS
RBK
Universal Music

out for a while: Andrew Blick, Peter Gregson, Land Observations, Simon Fisher Turner – One Day Band Session 14 [Trestle Records]

Artist:
Andrew Blick, Peter Gregson, Land Observations, Simon Fisher Turner

Title:
One Day Band Session 14

Label:
Trestle Records

Cat#:
OBD14

Release Date:
30th March 2018

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
ODB14 1

02.
ODB14 2

03.
ODB14 3

04.
ODB14 4

05.
ODB14 5

06.
ODB14 6

07.
ODB14 7

Press Info:
ODB 14 was curated by James Scott Brooks who records under the monicker Land Observations, a London based artist known for minimalist, looped electric guitar compositions that progressively layer into propulsive rhythmical instrumentals. He has released two albums to date on Mute Records and is currently completing the third. The session features Land Observations leading the way with repetitive finger picking bringing to mind the guitar style of 60,70,s American primitivists such as Fahey and Basho and more recently Six Organs Of Admitance. The 12 string guitar flows ever forward setting the mood and rhythm.

Gregson’s cello complements with a range of duties from melodic leads to textured dragging, drones and stacatto. The trumpet is also often played in long droning notes, mourneful and with additional effects creating delays and reverb resulting in an atmospheric quality that is beautifully symbiotic with Simon Fisher Turner’s electronic contributions.

“Having received the invitation to curate and record a one day session for the endlessly interesting Trestle Records, I realised it was an opportunity for me to finally improvise with the musicians, Simon Fisher-Turner, Peter Gregson, & Andrew Blick, who I had initially come into contact with during the recording and performing of SFT’s Ivor Novello award winning film soundtrack The Epic of Everest. Gathering together at Holy Mountain studios, our intention for the improvised one day session was to explore the various timbres of a ‘cello, trumpet, guitar, and drone ensemble’ through a series of cyclical drum-less patterns of varying rhythmic and atmospheric densities.” Land Observations

Full Track Streaming:

Video:
“ODB 14 Studio Session”

Recommendations:
Peter Gregson’s “Touch” on Sono Luminus
Peter Gregson’s “Flow” on Cabinbaggage
“Cello Multitracks” by Gabriel Prokofiev + Peter Gregson on Nonclassical
Peter Gregson’s “Gregson Richter Jóhannsson” on Mute Song
Peter Gregson’s “Terminal” on Cabinbaggag | Mute Song
Land Observations’ “Roman Roads IV – XI” on Mute
Land Observations’ “Roman Roads EP” on Enraptured

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Trestle Records @ Bandcamp
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Websites:
Peter Gregson
Land Observations
Simon Fisher Turner
Trestle Records

out now: Punchbag – I Am Obsessed And I’m Not Your Punchbag [Mute]

Artist:
Punchbag

Title:
I Am Obsessed And I’m Not Your Punchbag

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
NERD07

Release Date:
10th April 2026

Format:
vinyl

Tracklist:
A1.
Fuck It

A2.
I’m Not Your Punchbag

A3.
Pretty Youth

A4.
You Used To Be So Sexy

B1.
What’s In My Bag

B2.
Pile Of Clothes

B3.
Playing God

B4.
I Love This!

B5.
I Am Obsessed

Press Info:
South London sibling duo PUNCHBAG (Clara and Anders Bach) pair their new EP ‘I Am Obsessed’ with their debut EP ‘I’m Not Your Punchbag’ in one combined record, marking their first-ever physical release, arriving as a Dinked Early Doors Edition.

Snippets:

Videos:
“Fuck It”