out now: Si Begg – Permission To Explode [Addictech Records]

 

Artist:
Si Begg

 

Title:
Permission To Explode

 

Label:
Addictech Records

 

Cat#:
ADDICTECH070

 

Release Date:
30th September 2013

 

Format:
2 separate vinyls & digital

 

Tracklist Digital:
01)
Transcend the Disease Through Music

02)
From My Laptop

03)
Kosmiche Stepper

04)
The Push

05)
Lets Roll

06)
Spukhafte Fernwirkung Part 2

07)
If

08)
Runnings

09)
Accelerating Your Intuition

10)
Fresh Breath

11)
And Thats It

12)
Time Is Flexible

13)
I Can Still Remember

14)
Zero Dumb Game

15)
Flat Screens for Flat Lives

016)
Buffer State

017)
Warehouse Music

018)
No Justice Just Us

019)
How the Internet Ruined Your Life

020)
Land of Hope?

 

Tracklist Vinyl 1:
A1)
From My Laptop

B1)
Lets Roll

B2)
Runnings

 

Tracklist Vinyl 2:
A1)
Out Of Sight

B1)
The Mother Ship Has Landed

B2)
Buffer State

 

Info:
Don’t call it a comeback. Si Begg has been here for years, and his genius appreciates exponentially with each passing moment. Since the midT’90s, the UK producer has created several dozen releases for such labels as Tresor, Fuel, Mute subTlabel Novamute, and Ninja Tune affiliate Ntone. His firstfullTlength since Director’s Cut in 2003 sees the difference engine firing on all cylinders, producing a magnum opus of unprecedented ambition and unparalleled execution. History will remember Permission To Explode with high regard, and album worthy of helping define a generation. Clocking in at over 90 minutes and 20 tracks, epic is an understatement.

At the beginning of “Kosmische Stepper” (a track that sounds like its name suggests), there is a vocal recording that says, “They play one tempo, or they do one style. I just can’t do that. It’s not in my nature.” This could be interpreted as the mission statement for Permission To Explode. No two tracks on this album are alike.

Si’s swagger runs the gamut from krautrock (“The Push”) and plunderphonic rock (“And That’s It”) to composed experimental ambient (“Transcend the Disease Through Music”, “Accelerating the Visible Spectrum 2”), glitchThop (“Buffer State”), downtempo breakbeat (“Runnings”), main stage techno (“Out of Sight”, “From My Laptop”), and so much off the IDM deepTend. There’s even a dub twist of the “The Graduation March” on “Land of Hope” and a dubstep evisceration of “Mars, the Bringer of War” from Gustav Holst’s orchestral opus The Planets on “Let’s Roll.” To borrow a line from Futurama, Si Begg transcends genres even as he reinvents them.

Yet, even with such an enormous swath of style, there is a perfectionist’s eye guiding this album. It is far from the typical collection of haphazardly arranged singles that constitute so many electronic leaning releases. All this album’s disparate pieces come together in harmony, flowing from beginning to end. Permission To Explode is intelligently designed for dancefloor ready rockers as well as home listening bliss, and its 20 compositions beg for much larger audiences. It is perfection in form and function. Permission To Explode? Granted!

 

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out now: Moby – Innocents [Little Idiot | Embassy Of Music | Mute | Arts & Crafts]

 

Artist:
Moby

 

Title:
Innocents

 

Label:
Little Idiot | Embassy Of Music | Mute (US) | Arts & Crafts

 

Cat#:
IDIOT024

 

Release Date:
27th September 2013

 

Format:
CD, deluxe 2xCD, vinyl+CD & digital

 

Tracklist Double CD:
CD1-01)
Everything That Rises

CD1-02)
A Case For Shame
[feat. Cold Specks]

CD1-03)
Almost Home
[feat. Damien Jurado]

CD1-04)
Going Wrong

CD1-05)
The Perfect Life
[feat. Wayne Coyne]

CD1-06)
The Last Day
[feat. Skylar Grey]

CD1-07)
Don’t Love Me
[feat. Inyang Bassey]

CD1-08)
A Long Time

CD1-09)
Saints

CD1-10)
Tell Me
[feat. Cold Specks]

CD1-11)
The Lonely Night
[feat. Mark Lanegan]

CD1-12)
The Dogs

CD2-01)
I Tried

CD2-02)
Illot Motto

CD2-03)
Miss Lantern

CD2-04)
Blindness

CD2-05)
Everyone Is Gone

CD2-06)
My Machines

 

Tracklist CD & Digital:
01)
Everything That Rises

02)
A Case For Shame
[feat. Cold Specks]

03)
Almost Home
[feat. Damien Jurado]

04)
Going Wrong

05)
The Perfect Life
[feat. Wayne Coyne]

06)
The Last Day
[feat. Skylar Grey]

07)
Don’t Love Me
[feat. Inyang Bassey]

08)
A Long Time

09)
Saints

10)
Tell Me
[feat. Cold Specks]

11)
The Lonely Night
[feat. Mark Lanegan]

12)
The Dogs

 

Info (English):
Moby is one of the most innovative and individual forces in electronic and popular music today. He has sold over 20 million albums, headlined Glastonbury, and is back with arguably one of the best albums of his career, Innocents.

Moby chose to make this record with a stellar cast. For the first time in his career he worked with an outside producer, friend Mark “Spike” Stent, whose résumé includes Madonna, U2, Muse, Björk, and Massive Attack. The list of eminent collaborators on Innocents includes Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips), alt-rock legend Mark Lanegan, Cold Specks, Skylar Grey – best known for co-writing and performing on Eminem and Rihanna’s Love The Way You Lie; indie-folk singer Damien Jurado, and Inyang Bassey who was the vocalist on The Right Thing from Destroyed. He has named them the Innocents.

“I guess I just accept that the music business has fallen apart,” says Moby, describing the unexpectedly fruitful environment that spawned his upcoming album, Innocents, set for release October 2013. “That demise means that, as a 47-year-old musician, when I make a record, it’s simply because I love making records – I don’t expect commercial success. There’s no reason to second guess whether something’s going to sell well, or if a radio programmer is going to like it – so I can just make the record I want to make.”

Indeed, that’s exactly what Innocents entails. Moby’s 11th studio album to date proves an uncompromised, fully realized work from one of the most iconoclastic, innovative, individual forces in electronic music – or popular music, period. As such, Innocents proves distinctively a piece with Moby’s discography, while simultaneously pushing the artist born Richard Melville Hall towards new challenges.

 

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out now: Schneider TM – Guitar Sounds [Bureau B]

 

Artist:
Schneider TM

 

Title:
Guitar Sounds

 

Label:
Bureau B

 

Cat#:
BB 145

 

Release Date:
27th September 2013

 

Format:
CD, vinyl+CD & digital

 

Tracklist:
01)
Landslide

02)
Teilhard

03)
First Of May

04)
Grinder In The Sky

05)
Elefantenhaut

06)
Überzahl

 

Info (English):
“Sounds” series part two: Electric guitar explorations

Dirk Dresselhaus a.k.a. Schneider TM turned building site noise into music on “Construction Sounds”, the album which preceded “Guitar Sounds”. On his latest offering, he explores the full potential of the electric guitar and an array of effects.

Dresselhaus is no stranger to the instrument, it is fair to say. He played guitar in the 1990s for several experimental indie combos and has made liberal, idiosyncratic use of the instrument over the past couple of decades as Schneider TM in electronic music, film, radio plays and various other sound projects.

Technical perfection is not paramount on “Guitar Sounds”. The focus is on spontaneity, improvisation—if the result is flawed in the classic sense of the word, this concerns him not one iota. Dresselhaus is interested in atmosphere, in the intensity and magic of the initial moment when decisions are made and played without knowing which direction they will take or where they might end—music without a safety net, so to speak.

Unleashed, the guitar sound takes on its own lease of life, in the spirit of generative music. At the decisive moment, Dresselhaus reins it back, like a dog owner tugging on the lead, thereby creating an energy field between tension and relief, harmony and disharmony, control and loss of control, construction and deconstruction, positivity and negativity, sobriety and humour. Or to use a more striking image: surf sound dualism.

All tracks are improvised (“Instant Composition”), none composed in advance. Some pieces were inspired by films or were improvised to film (e. g. “Teilhard” by Christoph Ischinger). The basic “Überzahl” track and elements of “Landslide” were used in Carsten Ludwig’s film “In der Überzahl” and completed with overdubs for this album.

The equipment list runs as follows: various electric guitars and bass guitars, lap steel guitar, travel guitar, line amplifiers and combo tube amplifiers, reverbs, echoes, delays, looper pedals, octave effect boxes, pitch shifters, isolation cabinets, filters, cello bows and bottlenecks.

Short bio:
Schneider TM is a multidimensional music project from Dirk Dresselhaus, named after his nickname Schneider. Since the late 80’s, Dirk has been active in different musical fields. From 1989 until 1997 he played and sang in adventurous rock and pop bands like Hip Young Things and Locust Fudge before he became more active in electronic music around 1996. Schneider TM is responsible for a couple of experimental electro-freak-pop albums and mini-hits like “Reality Check”, “Frogtoise” and a cover version of a song by The Smiths called “The Light 3000”, a collaboration with Kptmichigan that was hugely acclaimed by John Peel, “The Wire” etc. As well as work on a variety of one-off projects—including the production of music for movies, theatre and radio plays—Dirk has been performing & recording with noise & drone outfits like Angel (w/ Ilpo Väisänen of Pan sonic + guests like Hildur Gudnadottir & Lucio Capece) and Real Time (w/ Reinhold Friedl of Zeitkratzer) on a regular basis since 1999. For a while now, Dirk has also been moving Schneider TM in the direction of instantly composed freeform music, employing varying instruments including guitar, electronics, balaphon as well as field recordings. Sometimes the work is solo and at other times together with artists like Jochen Arbeit (of Einstürzende Neubauten, Automat), Damo Suzuki (ex-Can), video artist Lillevan or Japanese dancer Tomoko Nakasato. The first result of this open & soundscape-y direction is the Schneider TM album “Construction Sounds”. Based on field recordings of Berlin construction sites combined with electronics, it was released in September 2012.

 

Info (German):
Teil zwei der „Sounds“-Serie: Erkundungen der elektrischen Gitarre

Auf seinem vorigen Album „Construction Sounds“ hat Dirk Dresselhaus a.k.a. Schneider TM aus Baustellenlärm Musik gemacht. Auf „Guitar Sounds“ lotet er aus, was man alles mit einer elektrischen Gitarre und vielen Effektgeräten anstellen kann.

Dabei ist die Gitarre für Dresselhaus kein unvertrautes Instrument. Er spielte sie bereits in den 90ern als Teil experimenteller Indie-Bands (s. u.) und hat über seine Arbeit als Schneider TM mit elektronischer Musik, Filmund Hörspielmusik und diversen Soundprojekten über die letzten 20 Jahre einen eigenen, befreiten Ansatz des Gitarrespielens gefunden.

Auf „Guitar Sounds“ geht es nicht um technische Perfektion. Es geht um Spontaneität, um Improvisation – wobei das Ergebnis durchaus im klassischen Sinn fehlerhaft sein darf. Dresselhaus interessiert sich für die Atmosphäre, Intensität und Magie des ersten Moments, in dem etwas entschieden und gespielt wird, ohne zu wissen, wohin der Weg führt und wo er endet – Musik ohne Sicherheitsnetz, sozusagen.

Der Gitarrenklang kann sich dabei gelegentlich verselbstständigen, ein Eigenleben führen und so etwas wie generative Musik werden. Im entscheidenden Moment holt Dresselhaus ihn dann wie einen Hund an der langen Leine zurück. Dabei erzeugt er ein Energiefeld zwischen Spannung und Entspannung, Harmonie und Disharmonie, Kontrolle und Kontrollverlust, Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion, Positiv und Negativ, Ernsthaftigkeit und Humor. Oder plakativer gesagt: einen Surf-Sound des Dualismus.

Alle Tracks sind improvisiert („Instant Composition“) und nicht im Vorfeld komponiert worden. Einige Stücke sind von Filmen inspiriert oder zum Film impovisiert worden (z. B. „Teilhard“ von Christoph Ischinger). Der Basic-Track von „Überzahl“ wurde wie auch ein Teil von „Landslide“ für den Film „In der Überzahl“ von Carsten Ludwig benutzt und für dieses Album mit Overdubs vervollständigt.

Equipment: diverse E-Gitarren und -Bässe, Lap-Steel-Gitarre, Reisegitarre, Line- und Combo-Röhrenverstärker, Reverbs, Echos, Delays, Looper, Octaver, Pitch-Shifter, Isolatoren, Filter, Cello-Bogen und Bottleneck.

Über Dirk Dresselhaus
Dirk Dresselhaus, Jahrgang 1970, spielte und sang von 1989 bis 1997 in Indie-/Noiserock- und Pop-Bands wie Locust Fudge und Hip Young Things. 1997 begann er sich unter dem Pseudonym Schneider TM mehr mit elektronischer Musik zu beschäftigen. Neben anderen Arbeiten wie Komposition und Produktion von Musik für Filme (1. Mai, 66/67, Polnische Ostern etc.), Theater (The Scorpionfish, Louis & Bebe mit Joanna Dudly) und Hörspiele (Release, Hochhaus mit Paul Plamper) spielt Dresselhaus seit einigen Jahren regelmäßig in Noise-Improv-Bands/Projekten wie Angel (zusammen mit Ilpo Väisänen von Pan sonic), Mr. Schmuck’s Farm (mit der isländischen Cellistin Hildur Gudnadottir von Lost In Hildurness / Mum etc.) und Real Time, einem eher an Neuer Musik orientierten Duo zusammen mit Reinhold Friedl von Zeitkratzer. Daneben spielt er seit einiger Zeit regelmäßig Improvisationskonzerte mit wechselndem Equipment wie Gitarre, Elektronik, Balaphon oder mit Fieldrecordings, manchmal solo und manchmal mit Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Haut), Damo Suzuki (Ex-Can), der japanischen Tänzerin Tomoko Nakasato und anderen

 

Listen:

 

Videos:
“Elefantenhaut”

“Überzahl”

Videos created by Yukikoh Okura.

 

Recommendation:
album “Construction Sounds” on Bureau B

 

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out now: Hans Bouffmyhre – Catapult EP [Electric Deluxe]

 

Artist:
Hans Bouffmyhre

 

Title:
Catapult

 

Label:
Electric Deluxe

 

Cat#:
EDLX032

 

Release Date:
30th September 2013

 

Format:
12 inch & digital

 

Tracklist:
01)
Catapult

02)
Mesmeric

03)
Pulsing

04)
Secret Strobe

 

Info:
Back in April last year Hans Bouffmyhre joined the EDLX family with ‘Hypnosis’, a driving three-track EP and tool package that saw the Sleaze man get deep and loopy. Now the young Glaswegian is back with more heavy hitting slabs of his “no nonsense” type of techno.

Hans Bouffmyhre, real name Stephen Gorrie, is definitely one of the harder working twenty-somethings in the scene today. Since turning to production in 2007 he has released a frightening number of records for labels like Perc Trax, Viva Music, Soma, and 8 Sided Dice; all the while keeping abreast of a busy gig schedule and manning his just as prolific Sleaze Records. In that time his discography has coursed through techno’s many variants, but minimalism and a purest aesthetic have remained steadfast traits throughout.

On ‘Catapult’ Gorrie plays to his strengths, turning in four blends of tension-building techno crafted with all the poise and subtleties we’ve come to expect from him. “Catapult” is the EP’s teasing opener before Gorrie plunges ever further into the aching, growling belly of the beast. “Mesmeric” is as it’s name suggests, heady hypnotism in it’s wildest form. “Pulsing” slams ‘Catapult’ into sweaty peak time with pistons and alarm bells, leaving “Secret Strobe” to keep this dystopic party marching well past dawn. We said ‘Hypnosis’ was dark; ‘Catapult’ then is verging on evil.

 

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