Douglas J McCarthy, co-founder of the legendary Nitzer Ebb, released his first solo album “Kill Your Friends” on CD and vinyl via Pylon Records a few months ago. Now there is also a digital version via Shaboom Black including some new remixes.
CD2 is only available with deluxe edition. Digital-01 is exclusive for iTunes preorders of the deluxe edition.
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Depeche Mode have announced they will release their highly anticipated 13th studio album, entitled Delta Machine, on March 26th worldwide via Columbia Records. The album, recorded over the last year in Santa Barbara, California and New York City, was produced by Ben Hillier and mixed by Flood. In addition to the album announcement, Depeche Mode have also confirmed that the video for the first single “Heaven” will debut on VEVO next Friday, February 1st. Alongside a standard CD format, Depeche Mode will release Delta Machine in an exclusive Deluxe Edition with four additional new tracks and accompanied by a 28 page hardcover book including photos by longtime artistic collaborator Anton Corbijn (please see track listing, as well as album and single configurations below).
Martin Gore said of the release, “Writing this album was incredibly daunting as I wanted the sound of this collection to be very modern. I want people to feel good about listening to this record, to get some kind of peace. It’s just got something magical about it.”
Dave Gahan added, “With this release we’ve completely shifted our idea of how to create an album. When we hit a wall where we realize the album is beginning to sound too normal, we’ll mess it up and really give it that organic Depeche Mode Sound. Delta Machine is no different, and I can’t wait for all of our fans to hear it.”
Following the release of their new album, Depeche Mode will embark on a European stadium tour, kicking off in Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park on May 7th. They will perform 34 shows in 25 European countries, featuring appearances at Milan’s famed San Siro Stadium, the Stade De France in Paris, and Moscow’s Locomotive Stadium before wrapping up the European leg of their tour in Minsk, Belarus on July 29. A full North American tour will follow, with details to be announced in the coming weeks.
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CD, vinyl+CD, limited edtion vinyl+CD & digital
Tracklist CD: 01)
Atomium
02)
Nachtfahrt
03)
International Velvet
04)
Without A Trace Of Emotion
05)
The Binary Code
06)
Musica Ex Machina
07)
The Tuning Of The World
08)
Instant Bayreuth
09)
Vox Humana
10)
Rhythmus
11)
Silence
12)
Hausmusik
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OFF THE RECORD – THE NEW ALBUM FROM KARL BARTOS, EX-KRAFTWERK
Karl Bartos’ new album is an audio-visual sensation! Lost for many years, some of his early music has been reconceived and re-contextualised in a thrilling modern setting. Here’s the story: during Kraftwerk’s heyday Karl Bartos wrote – off the record – a secret acoustic diary. Based on his musical jottings – rhythms, riffs, hooks, sounds, chords and melodies – this is what he has come up with today: twelve brand new, exciting, timeless songs.
KARL BARTOS – THE MELODY MAKER
Karl Bartos is well-known as one-quarter of the “classic” Kraftwerk line-up. Many of their most influential rhythms and memorable melodies were actually conceived in his home studio. They would later be used on an unstoppable succession of hits from the Düsseldorf band as they ascended to the lofty heights of popular music culture.
As a major contributor to The Man-Machine (1978) and Computer World (1981) Bartos has had a decisive influence on Kraftwerk’s music. Rolling Stone author Mike Rubin says of this years: “there’s something timeless and universal about their songwriting of this period.”
The Kraftwerk team went on to achieve worldwide success and cult status: in 1982 The Model became a UK number 1. The track has become a classic in the history of music, along with The Robots, Metropolis, Neon Lights, Numbers, Pocket Calculator, Home Computer, Tour de France, Musique Non-Stop and The Telephone Call. Kraftwerk have been one of the most sampled artists of all time, and there have been countless cover versions of their songs. In 2005, perhaps the biggest rock band of the time Coldplay incorporated the melody from Computer Love into their hit Talk. Almost all of the group’s best-known tracks date back to the “classic” line-up. In 2012 Kraftwerk performed a retrospective of this repertoire in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Karl Bartos left the band in 1990. Subsequently he became an independent producer and writer – for his project Electric Music, as a solo artist, and also together with fellow friends and musicians – Bernard Sumner (New Order), Johnny Marr (The Smiths) and Andy McCluskey (OMD).
In 2004 he co-founded the Master of Arts course “Sound Studies – Acoustic Communication” at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where he was a visiting professor, teaching Auditory Media Design up until 2009.
OFF THE RECORD – THE ALBUM
For Off the Record, Karl Bartos has opened up his music archive for the very first time. He rediscovered and analysed hundreds of tapes, piles of sheet music, and years of digital media. Inspired by his acoustic diary and adding his experience as a composer and producer, he has created twelve brand new songs – written and performed with masterly skill.
It took him two years to accomplish this original Bartos album: iron crystal music, vocoder newspeak, robot sounds, digital glitch, techno pop, catchy melodies, electronic avant-garde, roaring silence, futurism, and, of course, those rhythms! Rhythms of brutal minimalistic impact as found on the much-sampled Numbers recorded three decades ago and described by Mike Banks of Underground Resistance as “the secret code of electronic funk.”
ON TOUR – LIVE CINEMA
For Bartos, music alone has never been enough! Fascinated by the interplay of image and sound Bartos also works with the medium of film – the latest example of which will be seen on the Off the Record tour in 2013. Forget about technical nostalgia in 3-D; instead tune into LiveCinema: 90 minutes of music and film – rhythmical, modern, intelligent.
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DAS NEUE ALBUM DES EX-KRAFTWERKERS
„Off the Record” ist eine Sensation! Denn was da zu hören ist, war eigentlich nicht für die Öffentlichkeit bestimmt: Rhythmen, Riffs, Hooks, Sounds und Melodien, die Karl Bartos in der erfolgreichsten Zeit der Elektro-Band Kraftwerk komponiert und in seinem akustischen Tagebuch dokumentiert hat. Aus diesen musikalischen Notizen hat er jetzt zwölf neue, zeitlose Songs geschrieben.
KARL BARTOS – THE MELODY MAKER
Karl Bartos war der Zweite von links im „klassischen” Line-up von Kraftwerk. In seinem Studio entstanden viele der Ursprungsideen für die stilbildenden Rhythmen und zeitlosen Melodien, die die Band aus Düsseldorf auf den Olymp der Popmusik führte.
Spätestens seit er für „Die Mensch-Maschine” (1978) und „Computerwelt” (1981) als Co-Autor seine kreativen Ideen einbringt, wird Bartos’ Einfluss auf die Musik Kraftwerks spürbar. Über diese Zeit urteilt „Rolling Stone”-Autor Mike Rubin: „There’s something timeless and universal about their songwriting of this period.”
steigt „Das Model” auf Platz eins der britischen Charts. Das Stück ist heute ein Klassiker der Musikgeschichte, ebenso wie „Die Roboter”, „Metropolis”, „Neonlicht”, „Nummern”, „Taschenrechner”, „Heimcomputer”, „Tour de France”, „Musique Non Stop” oder „Der Telefon-Anruf”. Kraftwerk gehören zu den weltweit am meisten gesampelten Künstlern, ungezählt sind die Coverversionen ihrer Titel. Zuletzt arbeiteten Coldplay für ihren Hit “Talk” mit der Melodie von „Computerliebe”. Fast alle bekannten Titel stammen aus der Phase des „klassischen” Line-ups. Mit einer Retrospektive dieses Repertoires traten Kraftwerk im Jahr 2012 im Museum of Modern Art in New York auf.
1990 verlässt Karl Bartos die Band. Er will endlich wieder das tun, was für ihn das Wichtigste ist: Neues komponieren, Musik machen – für eigene Projekte wie Electric Music, als Solokünstler, gemeinsam mit Kollegen wie Bernard Sumner (New Order), Johnny Marr (The Smiths) und Andy McCluskey (OMD). Daneben arbeitet er als Produzent und ist Mitbegründer des Masterstudiengangs „Sound Studies – Akustische Kommunikation” an der Universität der Künste Berlin, unterrichtet dort als Gastprofessor bis 2009 Auditive Mediengestaltung.
OFF THE RECORD – DAS ALBUM
Für „Off the Record” öffnet Karl Bartos erstmalig sein Musikarchiv. Hunderte von Tonbändern, Notenblättern und digitalen Speichermedien hat er wiederentdeckt und analysiert. Und aus den spannendsten musikalischen Fundstücken innerhalb von zwei Jahren zwölf neue Songs gemacht — meisterhaft geschrieben und eingespielt.
Herausgekommen ist ein Original-Bartos-Album: Eisenkristallmusik, Vocoder-Sprech, Roboter-Sounds, Digital Glitch, Techno Pop, Melodien für die Ewigkeit, Elektronik-Avantgarde, tosende Stille, Futurismus. Und natürlich diese Rhythmen! Rhythmen von einer minimalistischen Wucht wie etwa der von „Nummern”, den Mike Banks (Underground Resistance) als „the secret code of electronic funk” bezeichnet.
ON TOUR – LIVE CINEMA
Fasziniert von der Interaktion zwischen Bild und Ton, arbeitet Bartos immer auch mit dem Medium Film – zu sehen während der „Off the Record”-Tour 2013. Keine Techniknostalgie in 3-D, sondern LiveCinema: 90 Minuten Musik und Film – rhythmisch, modern, intelligent.
