out for a while: R.O.S.H. – Will I Make The Turn? [Negative Space Ma]

 

Artist:
R.O.S.H.

 

Title:
Will I Make The Turn?

 

Label:
Negative Space [Ma]

 

Cat#:
NSMA001

 

Release Date:
08th June 2018

 

Format:
vinyl & digital

 

Tracklist:
A.
Will I Make The Turn?

B.
Sorry…I Can’t

 

Press Info:
We’re stoked to release NSMA001, courtesy of our R.O.S.H.

‘Will I Make The Turn?’ sees R.O.S.H. morph whoozy memories of nighttime rituals, from club to car to home, whilst streetlights flicker overhead. A phasing, arpeggiating and mutating synth line twists through this punchy A-Side with a flutter of minimal drum licks and a hammering of distorted breakbeats. AA-Side cut ‘Sorry…I Can’t.’, delivers an infectious and melancholic ode to the realities of seeing someone you are close to suffer from depression.

 

Full Track Streaming:

 

Special:
“Hyp 260”

 

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Negative Space [Ma] @ Bandcamp
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Booking:
Noviton

 

Websites:
R.O.S.H.
Negative Space [Ma]

 

out now: Efdemin – New Atlantis [Ostgut Ton]

 

Artist:
Efdemin

 

Title:
New Atlantis

 

Label:
Ostgut Ton

 

Cat#:
OSTGUTCD45 | OSTGUTLP31

 

Release Date:
15th February 2019

 

Format:
CD, LP & digital

 

Tracklist:
A1.
Oh, Lovely Appearance Of Death

A2.
Good Winds

B.
New Atlantis

C1.
At The Stranger’s House

C2.
A Land Unknown

C3.
Temple

D1.
Black Sun

D2.
The Sound House

 

Press Info (German):
Oh, lovely appearance of death,
No sight upon earth is so fair;
Not all the gay pageants that breathe,
Can with a dead body compare.
– Charles Wesley, A Funeral Hymn for a Believer, 1780

So beginnt New Atlantis, das vierte Studioalbum des langjährigen Berghain-Residents Efdemin alias Phillip Sollmann. Jene Worte, gesungen von der amerikanischen 60er-Kunstikone William T. Wiley und eingebettet in glühend schwellende Drones, setzen einen gänzlich anderweltlichen Ton für Sollmanns erste Soloveröffentlichung auf Ostgut Ton.

Im Lauf von acht Stücken oszilliert New Atlantis zwischen schnellem, kaleidoskopischen Techno, vielschichtigen Drones und akustischer Instrumentierung. Erstmals verschmilzt Sollmann die deepen Dancefloor-Modulierungen seines Alter Egos Efdemin mit den Klangkunst- und experimentellen Musikprojekten unter seinem bürgerlichen Namen. Zu Letzteren zählen seine von Harry Partch inspirierte Performance Monophonie (Volksbühne, Elbphilharmonie / Kampnagel, Ruhrtriennale, 2017) und die EP Panama / Suez, als Trio geschrieben mit den Experimentalmusikern Oren Ambarchi und Konrad Sprenger (A-TON, 2018).

Utopische Musiktraditionen standen schon lange im Mittelpunkt von Sollmanns Denken – für New Atlantis diente ihm Francis Bacons unvollendeter Roman gleichen Titels aus dem 17. Jahrhundert als Inspiration. Darin beschreibt Bacon eine fiktive Insel, die sich ganz der sozialen Entwicklung durch die Synthese der Künste, Wissenschaft, Technologie und Mode verschrieben hat. Im Buch werden futuristische, akustische Werkstätten erdacht – von Bacon ‚sound-houses‘ genannt. In jenen werden Musikinstrumente vorgehalten, die in der Lage sind, die Ganzheit an Klängen des Universums zu erzeugen. Eine 400 Jahre alte Prophezeiung der heutigen digitalen Klangrealität.

Bei Sollmann schwillt und ebbt Bacons Vision auf 50 Minuten in unterschiedlichen Tempi und Tönen, sind utopische Musiktraditionen ineinander verwoben: wogende Modularsynth-Lines, früher Detroit- Techno, klingbare Holzperkussion, Trance, dröhnende Orgeln, Hackbretter und Stromgitarren, Drehleier, reine Stimmung, Poesie, Hymnen und raunende Stimmen. Mal – wie im 14-minütigen Titelstück – stimmen sie ein in epische Rhythmusreisen; hier entladen sie sich als sich kurz öffnende Klangportale („Temple“), dort fordert eine desolate menschliche Stimme („Oh, Lovely Appearance Of Death“) die Befreiung aus dem körperlichen Gefängnis und ein Übersetzen ins Utopia des Jenseits.

Wie frühere Efdemin-Alben auf Dial Rec. verlässt New Atlantis den Kurs von Techno, um neue musikalische Regionen zu erschliessen. Hier aber lässt Sollmann den Club zuweilen ganz außer Acht, nur um dessen Grenzen mit anderer Instrumentierung, Mythologie und psychedelischer Erzählung neu zu vermessen.

 

Press Info (English):
Oh, lovely appearance of death,
No sight upon earth is so fair;
Not all the gay pageants that breathe,
Can with a dead body compare.
– Charles Wesley, A Funeral Hymn for a Believer, 1780

So begins New Atlantis, the fourth full-length album by longtime Berghain resident Efdemin aka Phillip Sollmann. The words, sung by 60s California art icon William T. Wiley and embedded in glowing drone swells, set an otherworldly tone for Sollmann’s first solo release on Ostgut Ton.

Over eight tracks, New Atlantis oscillates between fast, kaleidoscopic techno, multilayered drones and acoustic instrumentation, fusing for the first time Sollmann’s deep dancefloor productions as Efdemin with his sound art and experimental music projects. The latter include 2017’s Harry Partch- inspired Monophonie performance and 2018’s Panama / Suez EP with Oren Ambarchi and Konrad Sprenger.

Long drawn to utopian musical traditions, Sollmann took inspiration for New Atlantis from Francis Bacon’s unfinished 17th century novel of the same name, which describes a fictional island devoted to social progress through the synthesis of art, science, technology and fashion. In the story, Bacon imagines futuristic ‘sound houses’, which contain musical instruments capable of recreating the entirety of the sounds of the universe; a 400-year-old prophesy of today’s digital sonic reality.

Through Sollmann’s lens, Bacon’s vision ebbs and flows over 50 minutes in varying speeds and colors, emerging as a tapestry of different utopian musical traditions – through billowing synth lines, early Detroit techno, resonant wooden percussion, trance, droning organs, dulcimer, electric guitars, hurdy-gurdy, just intonation, poetry, hymns and murmuring voices. Sometimes they merge into epic, rhythmic journeys like the 14-minute long title track; other times they appear as a briefly open sound portal (“Temple”), or in the forlorn human voice on “Oh, Lovely Appearance Of Death”, calling to be freed from jail of the human body and pass into the afterlife.

Like previous Efdemin albums on Dial, New Atlantis veers off the techno path to explore other musical territory. Here however, Sollmann occasionally abandons the club entirely, returning only to push its boundaries with other instruments, mythologies and psychedelic story telling.

 

Listen:
soon

 

Full Track Streaming:
“New Atlantis”

 

Special:
“Smoke Machine Podcast 111”

 

Recommendations:
Efdemin’s “Wrong Movements” on Stroboscopic Artefacts
Efdemin’s album “Decay” on Dial Records
all stuff on Ostgut Ton

 

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Ostgut Ton Shop
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Booking:
Triangle Agency for Efdemin

 

Websites:
Efdemin
Ostgut Ton

 

© Photo By Yasmina Haddad

out now: Terence Fixmer – Techno Body Archives 1998 – 2008 [Planete Rouge Records]

 

Artist:
Terence Fixmer

 

Title:
Techno Body Archives 1998​-​2008

 

Label:
Planete Rouge Records

 

Cat#:
none

 

Release Date:
22nd December 2018

 

Format:
digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
Electrostatic

02.
Out In the Space

03.
Always Through

04.
Body Pressure

05.
Electric Vision

06.
Armée Des Tenebres

07.
Rage

08.
Oops

09.
Red Section

10.
Hold Me

11.
Under Soul

12.
Cerveaux Sans Âmes

13.
Warm

14.
Danse Avec Les Ombres

15.
Watch This!

16.
Under The Rain

17.
Peplum

18.
Aktion Mekanik Theme

19.
Let’s Take A Ride

20.
Out Of My Head

21.
Passion

22.
Running After Time

23.
She Said Destroy

24.
Hypnose

25.
Impulsion

26.
Rupture

27.
Flex

28.
Kick! Kick! Kick!

29.
Talk To Me

 

Press Info:
Selection of Tracks made between by Terence Fixmer 1998 and 2008. Techno Body music oriented with some few unreleased tracks.

 

Full Track Streaming:

 

Special:
“Boiler Room”

 

Recommendations:
Terence Fixmer’s album “Through The Cortex” on Ostgut Ton
Terence Fixmer’s EP “Dance Of The Comets” on NovaMute
Terence Fixmer’s album “Depth Charged” on CLR

 

Buy Digital:
Planete Rouge Records @ Bandcamp

 

Booking:
On Board Music for Terence Fixmer

 

Websites:
Terence Fixmer
Planete Rouge Records

 

© Photo By Sven Marquardt

out now: Hioll – Essays EP [Take More Music Records]

 

Artist:
Hioll

 

Title:
Essays EP

 

Label:
Take More Music Records

 

Cat#:
TMM234

 

Release Date:
20th December 2018

 

Format:
digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
Clinical Essay

02.
Biometric

03.
Guerrilla L36

04.
X

 

Press Info:

 

Listen:

 

Special:
“Tentacles Recordings presents …”

 

Recommendations:
Hioll’s “Phobia EP” on Flash Recordings
Hioll’s “Desorden EP” on Trau-Ma
Hioll’s “Signals EP” on Suara
Hioll’s Fisura EP” on DRVMS Ltd.
Hioll’s “Hioll 002” on his own imprint
Hioll’s “Paranormal Activity EP” on Knowledge Recordings
Hioll’s “Lights EP” on Abstraction
Static Plate’s “Destructive EP” on Take More Music Records

 

Buy Digital:
Take More Music Records @ Bandcamp
Beatport Classic
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Booking:
Fracture Agency

 

Websites:
Hioll
Take More Music Records

 

out now: Various – Backyard Romance [SOPTIK]

 

Artist:
Various

 

Title:
Backyard Romance

 

Label:
SOPTIK

 

Cat#:
SPTK-D001

 

Release Date:
05th January 2019

 

Format:
digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
My Blurry Vision
Backyard Romance I

02.
Objection
Backyard Romance II

03.
Optics
Backyard Romance III

04.
Visum
Backyard Romance IV

 

Press Info:
Deep and soulful feelings in the backyard. The first compilation contains four musically and one artistically individual interpretations of Backyard Romance. Our artists reflect a deep and ethereal side of electronic music in the darkest time of the year.

 

Listen:

 

Full Track Streaming:
My Blurry Vision – “Backyard Romance I”

 

Specials:
My Blurry Vision – “Soptik Podcast 001”

Objection – “Oscillation Field Podcast 09”

Optics – “Pitch of Love Podcast 05”

Visum – “Con.trol Podcast 13”

 

Recommendations:
Visum’s “Kraft EP” on Monocline Records
Objection’s “004” on Distorted Perception
Objection’s “005” on Distorted Perception
compilation “Various Artists” w/ Optics track on Format

 

Buy Digital:
SOPTIK @ Bandcamp
Beatport Classic
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Websites:
SOPTIK