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out now: T.Raumschmiere – Radio Blackout [NovaMute]

Artist:
T.Raumschmiere

Title:
Radio Blackout

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
NOMU108

Release Date:
22nd September 2003 (original release date)
11th October 2024 (Bandcamp)

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
I’m Not Deaf, I’m Ignoring You

02.
Monstertruckdriver

03.
Someday

04.
The Game Is Not Over
[feat. Miss Kittin]

05.
Drown In The Sea While Watching The Stars

06.
Rabaukendisko

07.
Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Strom

08.
A Million Brothers (Blah Blah Blah)
[feat. MC Soom T]

09.
Querstromzerspaner

10.
Radio Blackout

11.
Musick Boy

Press Info:
The Monstertruckdriver returns for his debut full-length road trip…

T. Raumschmiere, the latest gunslinger signed to novamute, releases his new album, “Radio Blackout”, on 22nd September 2003.

Since 1997 T. Raumschmiere (the moniker is lifted from the William S. Burroughs short story, ‘The Dreamcops’, ‘Die Traumschmiere’ in his native German) has released music on a variety of labels, though predominantly on his own – the wonderfully named Shitkatapult, based in Berlin, but also for Cologne’s Kompakt, and Hefty Records (Chicago).

Without doubt, the T.Raumschmiere experience is best sampled live: for him the live arena is as crucial as the studio, his full- on ‘stay-anti’ motto confirming his punk based refusenik stance. He is a one man ‘electro-punk’ movement.

‘Radio Blackout’ remains conceptually and stylistically stubborn in its refusal to be pigeon-holed and reveals a sparkling diversity: punk, electro, hip-hop, rock and electronic atmospherics are all summarily despatched with such gusto, you begin to wonder what this enfant terrible will turn his machete to next.

‘I’m Not Deaf, I’m Ignoring You’ begins the chaos, belting corporate media conglomerates over the head with rock-hard hard metal riffage. Next up, and moving into the outside lane is the blistering single ‘Monstertruckdriver’, is it glam or punk or techno? Who cares? ‘Someday’ finds us locked in the same padded cell as Dabrye and Prefuse 73 with only a pinball machine for company.

For ‘The Game Is Not over’ Raumschmiere enlists Miss Kittin for punk vox, screaming a go-go, possibly her most unhinged guest performance to date. Digi-punk-rock. ‘Drown In the Sea While Watching The Stars’ is the evolving dramatic dream of melancholic junkies yearning for respite after ODing on downer beats. Next up: mosh to the tech-rock antics of future single ‘Rabaukendisco’ a pogo-meisterwork. ‘Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Strom’ is crack-house music for cable TV kids.

Glasgow-based female guest star MC Soom T. (courtesy of Monkeytribe) waxes lyrical and vocalises seductively in and old skool flavour on the gorgeous ‘A Million Brothers (Blah Blah Blah)’.

Next up, the stomping ‘Querstromzerspaner’ provides us with an eco-friendly method of desposing with open air Goa types and Chai sippers. Following this, the title track brings us back down to earth with the total shut down of all lines of communication, transmissions without receivers. A beautiful track.

To close the album, T.Raumschmiere signs off on the self descriptive “MuSick Boy’ in which a coarse and crackling red thread drags itself through the industrial biosphere back into a human being chained to machines. ‘U make me sick, I make MuSick.’

Snippets:

Videos:
“A Million Brothers (Blah Blah Blah)” [feat. MC Soom T]

“Rabaukendisko”

Special:
“Boiler Room Berlin Live Set 2017”

Recommendations:
T.Raumschmiere’s “Schaukelstuhl” on Shitkatapult
T.Raumschmiere’s self-titled album on AlbumLabel
split EP “Speicher 111” w/ T.Raumschmiere on Kompakt Extra
split EP “Speicher 104” w/ T.Raumschmiere on Kompakt Extra
T.Raumhouse’s “Samstag Nacht” on Iptamenos Discos
st.raumen’s “Hexenmotte EP” on straumenmusic
st.raumen’s “Struktur” on straumenmusic
st.raumen’s “Ponyhof” on straumenmusic
“Echos” by Shrubbn!! on Shitkatapult
all featured NovaMute releases

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out now: Plastikman – Musik (30th Anniversary Edition) [NovaMute | Plus 8 Records]

Artist:
Plastikman

Title:
Musik (30th Anniversary Edition)

Label:
NovaMute | Plus 8 Records

Cat#:
NOMU37VLP | PLUS8043R

Release Date:
06th December 2024

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
Konception
(2024 Remastered)

A2.
Plastique
(2024 Remastered)

B1.
Kriket
(2024 Remastered)

B2.
FUK
(2024 Remastered)

B3.
Outbak
(2024 Remastered)

C1.
Ethnik
(2024 Remastered)

C2.
Plasmatik
(2024 Remastered)

C3.
Goo
(2024 Remastered)

D1.
Marbles
(2024 Remastered)

D2.
Lasttrak
(2024 Remastered)

Press Info:
The 30th Anniversary edition of Plastikman’s Musik, the groundbreaking second studio album by Richie Hawtin as Plastikman, has been announced for release on NovaMute on 6 December 2024.

The album, originally released via NovaMute / Plus 8, followed 1993’s Sheet One and propelled Hawtin into new levels of international success. On its initial release, in Nov 1994, Hawtin was central to a burgeoning underground scene in Detroit, and the album, which expands on his unique and innovative minimal techno world, was launched with Plastikman’s first ever live performance in Aug 1994 – at the derelict Packard Plant in Detroit, in a room encased in black plastic sheets.

Before the full album hit the shelves, ‘Plastique’ (later described by Q as “… the flipside to Hawtin’s early singles, all ticking percussion, feline acid tweaks and cushioned sub bass”), set the stage for a more dance floor friendly album, albeit one with an unsettling and sinister side.

Musik, which featured tracks such as ‘Freek’, ‘Kriket’ (which Raf Simons used earlier this year in the Prada Men Spring/Summer 2025 show), ‘Fuk’ and ‘Marbles’, was soon heard by a much wider audience. Plastikman live appearances at Glastonbury, Tribal Gathering and a headline slot at Megadog followed soon after, prompting NME to declare Plastikman to be “Fiercer than Orbital, funkier than the Prodigy and more insatiably danceable than anything else on the bill”.

The album, described by The Guardian as “music as you’ve never heard it before” and by The Wire, who made it one of their Albums of the Year, as “… a masterpiece”, defined a moment in techno that still echoes today.

Now, 30 years later, to mark its anniversary, the album has been remastered from the original tapes, reminding us why Plastikman is a name that still resonates and that the album’s intensity – on and off the dance floor – has lost none of its potency in the intervening years.

Manufactured with environmentally conscious packaging, pressed on bio-vinyl.

Full Track Streaming:

Related Release:
remastered CD version

Special:
Richie Hawtin – “Tresor – Berlin, Germany 13.05.2023”

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out now: Nicolas Bougaïeff – EP3 [NovaMute]

Artist:
Nicolas Bougaïeff

Title:
EP3

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
NOMU191

Release Date:
08th August 2024

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Zero Kelvin

02.
Tessellate Desire

03.
Spectral Flow

04.
Tesseract Jazz

05.
Inner Division

Press Info:
DJ, producer and Techno Doctor Nicolas Bougaïeff, has shared the first track from his new five-track EP3 for NovaMute, set for release on 8 August 2024.

This follows the release of EP1 and EP2 on the label, which won support from artists such as Robert Hood, Charlotte De Witte, Chris Liebing, and Paula Temple, among others.

EP3 kicks off with ‘Zero Kelvin’, a driving cut accompanied by atmospheric pads and aquatic synths that bubble to the surface before ‘Tessellate Desire’’s foreboding sonics and scratching textures blend together to culminate in a moody warehouse track. The percussion of ‘Spectral Flow’ then rattles and shakes as electrifying, acidic synths stumble over its subtle hypnotic groove, followed by ‘Tesseract Jazz’, which boasts mind-bending, wonky melodies for the ultimate trip. Last up is the overpowering force of ‘Inner Division’. EP3 upholds Bougaïeff’s experimental and unique approach to electronic dance music and production, featuring his distinctive use of polytemporality.

This also follows the release of Lattice 002, a compilation EP of cutting-edge electronic artists, featuring Bougaïeff’s track ‘Cobalt’, on renowned producer Max Cooper’s label.

Snippets:

Special:
“CLR Podcast 362”

Recommendations:
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Recursive” on Denkfabrik
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Begin Within” on Mute
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s “Higher Up The Spiral” on Mute
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s “Dust (Remixes)” on Mesh
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s “Dreamscape” on Denkfabrik
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Deckalog” on Denkfabrik
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Resilience Interlude” on Denkfabrik
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Les Sauvageries” on Denkfabrik
Nicolas Bougaïeff’s album “Principles Of Newspeak” on Denkfabrik
all release on Mute & sublabels like NovaMute

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Websites:
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out for a while: Luke Slater – Freek Funk [NovaMute]

Artist:
Luke Slater

Title:
Freek Funk

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
NOMU57

Release Date:
20th October 1997 (original release date for physical items)

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Purely

02.
Score One

03.
Origin

04.
Score Two

05.
Are You There?

06.
Score Three (Message from Hulal)

07.
Engine One

08.
Freek Funk

09.
Zebediah

10.
Bless Bless

11.
Filter 2

12.
Time Dancer

13.
Score Four (Black Cloud Over Zin Vortex)

14.
Love

15.
Black Cloud (Epilogue)

16.
Walking The Line

Press Info:
Something of an unique talent, Luke Slater does not run with the pack. Shunning the obvious and adopting the different, Slater has forged an eclectic album of esoteric techno, chilling ambience and funk driven grooves. ‘Freek Funk’ is the album that so many have striven to make, an album that smashes the nuances and particulars of the techno genre into little pieces, rearranging them in a strange pattern to create a truly original album of polar opposites and polyrhythmic twists. ‘Freek Funk’ indeed.

A self-motivated individual, Slater stands alone, looking in on a scene he has helped to mould. Unconcerned with the vagaries of fashion, Luke is all the better for his almost isolationist position and is left to mould a rich and rewarding blend of sound that owes as much to his own frantic imagination as to the techno tradition.

Boasting an output as frenetic as the Dagenham Ford motor plant, Slater has progressed through a series of guises and labels at a rapid rate. From his newly forged relationship with NovaMute, Luke has etched out an album, ‘Freek Funk’, that is the perfect remedy for techno’s current painting-by-numbers attitude. Seemingly never content nor happy with its course, the album progresses, twisting and turning and spitting out warped takes on familiar themes. Simply passing it off as another techno album would be absurd. Luke Slater has much more to offer.

‘Freek Funk’ sees the ascension of a prodigious talent to his rightful position. Opening with the funk-driven ‘Purely’, we are then transported to ‘Score One’, a darkly futuristic soundscape which melts into ‘Origin’ and ‘Score Two’, a bubbling mass of weird sounds and deep beats. The trip continues throughout the album with the warped relatives ‘Scores Three And Four’, popping up intermittently throughout proceedings with the stealth of a John Carpenter score. Electro gets a nod with ‘Are You There?’, with its rich string arrangements and soothing waves of bell chimes this is a ‘Tour De France’ for the 1990’s. ‘Bless Bless’ is a different creature altogether, a spacedusted silver surfer’s rare groove anthem. Onwards to ‘Time Dancer’, where James Brown meets Liz Frazer on a car production line – ethereal industrial funk if you like. And not to forget the stellar beauty of ‘Love’ that ranks alongside UR’s ‘Amazon’ as a track to break hearts at 40 beats and the otherworldly madness of ‘Walking The Line’, a jazz odyssey that conjures forth the Saturnalian spirit of Sun Ra.

An untouchable album by an untouchable talent. Luke Slater, the future starts here.

Snippets:

Full Track Streaming:
“Are You There?”

“Score One”

Special:
“@ Rockit Festival, Utrecht – NL, 31 July 2010”

Recommendations:
all stuff by Luke Slater and his aliases
all stuff on Mute & sublabels

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Websites:
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out now: JakoJako – Segmente EP [NovaMute]

Artist:
JakoJako

Title:
Segmente EP

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
NOMU196

Release Date:
26th July 2024

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Modus

02.
Flux

03.
Afterglow

04.
Introspektion

Press Info:
Berlin based modular synthesist and DJ JakoJako, aka Sibel Koçer, has shared the first track from her new four-track Segmente EP for NovaMute, set for release on 26 July 2024.

Listen to the exhilarating new track, ‘Modus’, accompanied by Reza Hasni’s abstract psychedelic artwork below.

Koçer’s passion for electronics began with an urge to play with sound, and a desire to learn more about the world of modular systems and patch cables. Her meticulous studies soon progressed into performing regular live sets in Berlin, a Berghain Residency and a position at Berlin electronic music institution, SchneidersLaden.

In recent years, her success as a performer has grown steadily, and she has also been involved in several motion sensor dance projects with dancers at Superbooth and Kraftwerk Berlin, has performed at the Royal Albert Hall with Bonobo, and at the Barbican in London with an improvised ‘Circle Of Live’ performance that featured dance and a specially commissioned art installation.

JakoJako’s unmissable live performance has fed directly into the new EP – all four tracks originated in her live show – giving the EP a propulsive urgency imbued with her distinct take, described by RA as “fragile techno written in the key of wonder”.

The new EP follows the Verve EP, her debut for Mute, a full length album, Metamorphos (2022, Bigamo) and her collaboration with Rødhåd, In Vere (2022, WSNWG), both of which came hot on the heels of two blistering remixes for Mute – New Order’s Be A Rebel and Martin Gore’s Vervet.

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