out now: Gods Mind – 12 Knights EP [Blokk Rec.]

 

Artist:
Gods Mind

 

Title:
12 Knights EP

 

Label:
Blokk Rec.

 

Cat#:
BLOKK001

 

Release Date:
26th January 2018 (Beatport)
09th February 2018 (all stores)

 

Format:
digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
12 Knights

02.
Die Ankunft

03.
Schicksal

04.
Schicksal
(ArchivOne Remix)

05.
Schicksal
(Repressed Mind Remix)

 

Press Info:
BLOKK Rec. hooked up the idea to build up a label inspired by the young and old ones and to point out that a new generation is growing up!

All over the world, the techno and house scene reproduce itself every second to reach all several subcultures and crews and to celebrate the unique “underground-feeling” in the clubs, warehouses and techno churches.
This constant experience and consistent presence as a member of the lovely techno family is the motivation for us to give something back.

The first EP publication by Gods Mind is presented in digital form to represent the art of techno in his interpretation of expression and perception. As part of the new generation, he continues to evolve and focus the club scene as a DJ and producer as a yound and talented member of the scene.

 

Listen:

 

Full Track Streaming:
“12 Knights”

 

Special:
“Blokk Serenades x Gods Mind”

 

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out now: Bad Stream – Already Dark [Antime]

 

Artist:
Bad Stream

 

Title:
Already Dark

 

Label:
Antime

 

Cat#:
ANTIME021

 

Release Date:
12th January 2018

 

Format:
digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
Already Dark
(Radio Edit)

02.
Already Dark
(Felix Primc Remix)

03.
Already Dark
(Kaigy Etix Remix)

04.
Already Dark
(Simon Dübell Remix)

05.
Already Dark
(Dot Remix)

06.
Already Dark
(Unifono Remix)

07.
Already Dark
(Blurred Vision Remix)

08.
Already Dark
(ˆL_ Remix)

 

Press Info:
The first single is the album’s central piece: Already Dark is distinctly post-industrial in composition, commenting in its seven minutes on our accelerating world of face recognition, big data, species extinction, mind hacks and human uploads. It is a psycho collage about a world, where everything seems to be simulated and programmed – digital capitalism, polar icecaps, hypertransparent individuals dazed by systems and total alienation by artificial intelligence. Already Dark an anti-utopian hymn for a posthuman transition into digital slavery. The mechanical beat pulsates and marches, complex acoustic and synthetic sounds melt into each other and shape this powerful but vulnerable construct which swells and swells – just till everything implodes in the peaks of a (post)brutal noise nirvana. In it´s eclectic and transformative artistic language Already Dark defines the main-coordinates of Bad Streams vision of future-facing songwriting and progressive sound design.

 

Full Track Streaming:

 

Video:
“Already Dark”

 

Related Releases:
album “Bad Stream”
EP “Black Weed”
EP “Sex Cries”

 

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Websites:
Bad Stream
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Antime

 

© Photo By Paul Aidan Perry

out now: Kas:st – Cosmic Walkers EP [Informa Records]

 

Artist:
Kas:st

 

Title:
Cosmic Walkers EP

 

Label:
Informa Records

 

Cat#:
INFORMA012

 

Release Date:
12th January 2018

 

Format:
vinyl & digital

 

Tracklist:
A1.
The Future Started Yesterday

A2.
Pathos

B1.
Endless Exodus

B2.
Endless Exodus
(Takaaki Itoh Remix)

 

Press Info:
Cosmic Walkers EP is the 12th release on Informa Records, this time from French Parisian duo “Kas:st” showcasing their emotional, mental and modern take on techno.

Owners of Flyance Records and with an excellent catalogue of releases on labels such as Taapion, Concrete Music & Blocaus Series we are happy to welcome them to the Informa family.

To close the release we have the return of “Takaaki Itoh” who has provided a more stripped hypnotic take of Endless Exodus

 

Listen:

 

Special:
“Prior Act #012”

 

Recommendations:
Kas:st’ EP “Dysphoria | Euphoria (Chapter 2)” on Flyance Records
Deepbass’ album “Campello” on Informa
Deepbass’ EP “Gateway To Hyperspace” on Informa

 

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Websites:
Kas:st
Informa Records

 

© Photo By Henri Coutant

out now: Below Surface – On The Run [Be Sure]

 

Artist:
Below Surface

 

Title:
On The Run

 

Label:
Be Sure

 

Cat#:
BESURE012

 

Release Date:
02nd February 2018

 

Format:
digital

 

Tracklist:
01.
Gravitational Change

02.
On The Run

03.
Abyssal Plain

04.
Sometimes

05.
Shifted Value

 

Press Info:
Below Surface kicks off 2018 with another five track EP on his very own Be Sure imprint. The release contains three spacey ambient tunes and two dancefloor bangers, providing decent sounds to trip out or to shake the dancefloor with.

 

Listen:

 

Full Track Streaming:
“Abyssal Plain”

 

Special:
Below Surface – “@ Tresor Berlin – NEXT 31.05.2014”

 

Recommendations:
Below Surface’ “Escaping The Void” on Be Sure
sampler “Selected Vol. 2” on Be Sure
ablum “Tension” by Tension on Be Sure
EP “Advanced State” by Below Surface & Tension on Be Sure

 

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Websites:
Below Surface
Be Sure

 

out now: Schlammpeitziger – Damenbartblick Auf Pregnant Hill [Bureau B]

 

Artist:
Schlammpeitziger

 

Title:
Damenbartblick Auf Pregnant Hill

 

Label:
Bureau B

 

Cat#:
BB276

 

Release Date:
19th January 2018

 

Format:
CD, LP, download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Ekirlu Kong

02.
Bock Bounceburg

03.
Damenbartblick

04.
Smooth Motion Kaukraut

05.
Kandierter Jammerlochlappen

06.
Angerrestbay

07.
Wasserstopf

08.
What I Got

 

Press Info (English):
Swallowing air and farting it out, that’s the main life skill of the weatherfish. But what’s best about him is his evocative German name: Schlammpeitziger. When German electronic artist Jo Zimmermann launched his solo career in the early 1990s he chose to be identified with this creature living in the flat muddy waters of the European and Asian plains. Unlike the fish, Schlammpeitziger’s early reputation was built on his inventive use of cheap Casio synthesizers and composite nouns, such as Erdrauchharnschleck, Burgfensterrhythmuskuckloch, Freundlichbaracudamelodieliedgut, Spacerokkmountainrutschquartier or Augenwischwaldmoppgeflöte, to name but his first five albums. This here is his eleventh, and while Schlammpeitziger’s art has moved on, true to his nature it does contain some colourful references to farting.

As one of his many celebrity fans, Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars, knows all about the ins and outs of Schlampeitziger’s work:


When I first met Schlammpeitziger he shouted across the room: “Incredible, the young Andreas Dorau!” Was this strange man in possession of some extrasensory abilities of visual time radiation? Could he see things and beings that nobody else was able to detect? His congenial companion, Uli the Bear, pinched my cheek so as to convince himself that I was a real person. It must have been a sort of initiation ritual. I was x-rayed by two shamans of multiple association, and from that point onwards it all went off: Living, shouting, forest, dancing, music, without dogma or stage directions, a vibrating melancholy mythology that was entirely new to me was incessantly being extracted through filter sweeps and claps. French fries were as much a part of it as synthesizers, farts, earthworms, iPads, pubic hair and fish (by the way, Schlammpeitziger knows all of the domestic species by their full names).

In this forest of mysteries, his schematic, fastidiously executed drawings function as explanatory systems that are funny but at the same time complex and occult. They map out a non-physical world that is being triggered by events in the common world, but initially only takes shape in Schlammpeitziger’s perception by means of impressions buffered in Schlamm-RAM and decoded in quick succession using enormous flows of incoming and outgoing catalytic energy. From time to time, the world around him will experience these moments of transportation in an intense way. Schlammpeitziger will then declaim out loud abstract or explicit formulas that have been tapped from a parallel world to be disgorged into the here and now. Like his paintings, these formulas appear similar to seismographic studies: invisible vibrations are recorded and translated into new alphabets. Constellations of parallel worlds that bear names such as “Wuthaltebucht” or “Hydraulicmeistershalbtagstanz”, but which you can also simply behold and put up on your wall because in the end what Schlammpeitziger produces is proper art. Everybody should have at least two of his works at home because his art is the kind that will protect you from being constipated with reality.

In his search for inspiration Schlammpeitziger is the eternal pedant, following up the most inconspicuous leads to find different ways of making sense of reality. A magnetist’s curiosity drives this folklorist of the self deep into the thickets of the world. Where others get caught up in well-worn symbolisms or cling to new age rituals with their drones and flickering lights, Schlammpeitziger is taking it easy. He turns his toes inwards, rotates his hips and beams light signals up into the dark. Jo Zimmermann has the primal funk, a beat that can thread anything together. That certain clap, the short gaps between accents, not to mention the physicality of the bass taking care of the lower levels. In all of this, Schlampeitziger’s own movements are an invitation to join his parade of mysteries. When the train comes to a stop the doors open so wide that anyone who is present will come on board as if they were mesmerised. And once the train leaves the station, trees, earthworms, wild women and mirror balls alike will go into a mad spin as if they’d only just unleashed. Hydraulicmeistershalbtagstanz.

The fact that, following releases on Entenpfuhl, A-Musik, Sonig and Pingipung, Schlammpeitziger’s new album is coming out on another great German idiosyncratic label such as Bureau B should not be overlooked by historians. Asmus Tietchens, Monoton, Conrad Schnitzler, Harmonia, Neu!, Richard Wahnfried, Der Plan, Schlammpeitziger, it all goes together perfectly. For those looking for a future that doesn’t reach back into the past but is searching for access to engrossment, Schlammpeitziger’s radiation therapy of sound should be just the ticket.

 

Press Info (German):
Luft schlucken und sie wieder auszupupsen – das ist die Hauptbeschäftigung des gemeinen Schlammpeitziger. Als der Elektro-Künstler Jo Zimmermann seine Solokarriere in den frühen 1990ern startete, entschied er sich für diesen Namen – Schlammpeitziger, eine Kreatur, die in den schlammigen Gewässern des europäischen und asiatischen Flachlands vorkommt. Im Gegensatz zu dem Fisch begründet sich sein Ruf allerdings auf der innovativen Nutzung billiger Casio-Computer und zusammengesetzter Nomen wie zum Beispiel diesen: Erdrauchharnschleck, Burgfensterrhythmuskuckloch, Freundlichbaracudamelodieliedgut, Spacerokkmountainrutschquartier oder Augenwischwaldmoppgeflöte – um nur seine ersten fünf Alben zu nennen. Diese Platte nun ist seine elfte, und während Schlammpeitzigers Kunst sich weiterentwickelt hat, ist er sich doch auch treu geblieben, zum Beispiel in ein paar lebhaften Referenzen zum Pupsen.

Einer seiner vielen prominenten Freunde, Jan St. Werner von Mouse on Mars, über die Besonderheiten von Schlammpeitzigers Werk:


Als ich Schlammpeitziger zum ersten Mal traf, schrie er durchs Zimmer: “Unglaublich, der junge Andreas Dorau!”. Beherrschte der fremde Mann Zeitvisionsstrahlung, sah er Dinge und Wesen, die niemand anderer wahrnehmen konnte? Seine damals wie heute kongeniale Begleitung, Uli der Bär, kniff mir in die Wange, um sich vom Echtheitszustand meiner Person zu überzeugen. Es war wohl eine Art Initiationsritual. Ich wurde von zwei Kölner Multiassoziationsschamanen durchleuchtet. Ab da ging es los, leben, schreien, Wald, tanzen, Musik. Ohne Dogma, ohne Regieanweisungen. Mit Filtersweep und Clap wurde unaufhörlich aus einer für mich völlig neuen, schwingend melancholischen Mythologie geschöpft. Pommes kamen hier ebenso vor wie Synthesizer, Fürze, Regenwürmer, iPads, Schamhaare, Fische (Schlammpeitziger kennt übrigens alle Heimischen beim vollen Namen).

Seine schematischen, akribisch ausgearbeiteten Zeichnungen, fungieren in diesem Mysterienwald als Erklärsysteme, die lustig sind, aber genauso komplex und okkult. Sie kartographieren eine Welt des Unphysikalischen, die durch die Ereignisse der allgemeinen Welt gertriggert wird, sich aber erstmal nur in seiner Wahrnehmung abbildet. Eindrücke zwischengespeichert im Schlamm-ram und sukzessive ausgewertet, mit enormer katalytischer Energiezu- und abfuhr. Die Umwelt erlebt diese Transformationsmomente bisweilen intensiv mit. Schlammpeitziger gibt laute Formeln von sich, abstrakt oder explizit, die in der Nebenwelt gezapft und in der hiesigen Welt ausgespuckt werden. Wie seine Bilder, gleichen diese Formeln seismographischen Studien: unsichtbare Vibrationen werden aufgenommen und in neue Alphabete übersetzt. Parallelwellenkonstellationen, die Namen wie Wuthaltebucht oder Hydraulikmeistershalbtagstanz tragen, die man aber einfach auch anschauen und sich an die Wand hängen kann. Schlammpeitzger produziert nämlich richtige Kunst, von der jeder unbedingt ein bis zwei Exponate im Haus haben sollte, denn sie schützt vor Realitätsverstopfung.

Bei seinen Inspirationsrecherchen geht Schlammpeitziger stets pedantisch vor, mit detektivischem Ehrgeiz spürt er selbst unscheinbarsten Hinweisen auf eine andere Deutungsmöglichkeit der Wirklichkeit nach. Seine magnetistische Neugier treibt den Idiofolkloristen ins Dickicht der Welt. Wo sich Andere aber in abgekauten Symbolismen verheddern oder sich mit Dronemusik und Flackerlicht an esoterische Rituale klammern, bleibt Schlammpeitziger locker. Er dreht die Füße nach innen, läßt die Hüfte kreisen und beamt Leuchtsignale ins Dunkel. Jo Zimmermann hat ja nicht nur einen unglaublichen Afro, er hat auch den Urfunk, den Beat, auf den er alles auffädeln kann, den Clap, den kurzen Abstand zwischen den Akzenten, plus Körperbass für die tieferen Ebenen. Schlammpeitzigers Bewegungen sind dabei eine Einladung, in seine funky Mysterienparade mit einzusteigen. Wenn der Zug anhält, gehen die Türen so weit auf, dass jeder Anwesende wie hypnotisiert mit einsteigt. Und wenn der Zug losfährt, drehen sich Bäume, Regenwürmer, wilde Frauen und Discokugeln wie entfesselt mit. Hydraulikmeistershalbtagstanz.

Dass Schlammpeitzigers neues Album nun mit Bureau B, nach Entenpfuhl, A-Musik, Sonig und Pingipung auf einem weiteren grandiosen deutschen Idiosynkratenlabel erscheint, soll für die Historiker nicht unerwähnt bleiben. Asmus Tietchens, Monoton, Conrad Schnitzler, Harmonia, Neu, Richard Wahnfried, Der Plan, Schlammpeitziger, das alles passt sehr gut zusammen. Wer eine Zukunft ohne Rückgriff, sondern Zugriff auf Entrückung sucht, der liegt mit einer Schlammpeitziger Soundbestrahlung genau richtig.

 

Full Track Streaming:

 

Videos:
“Damenbartblick ”

“Bock Bounceburg”

“Kandierter Jammerlochlappen”

 

Recommendations:
album “Vorausschauende Bebauung” on Sonig
album “What’s Fruit?” on Pingipung Records
EP “What’s Fruit? (Remixes)” on Pingipung Records

 

Special:
“Pingipung Podcast 47 – Twisted Dancing On An Infected Dancefloor”

 

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Websites:
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