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Introduced as one of the „coolest musicians in Berlin“ by Ex-Berliner, Electrosexual presents his new Single «Tempelhof» exploring an hypnotic and aerial «Synthechno» where Moroder meets Blade Runner.
The remix by David Carretta transports the original version to an even more brutal sci-fi soundtrack. It will be available on the Compilation of the French Magazine «Tsugi» in March.
Already playlisted By Acid Washed & Plastique de Rêve, «Tempelhof» announces Electrosexual’s Debut Album «Art Support Machine» to be released in April with vocal participations from Hard Ton (Gigolo) & Hanin Elias (formerly of Atari Teenage Riot).
The visual for the Single is a print created by Lukas Julius Keijser and Philip Marshall who already illustrated Steffi’s last 12“ «Schraper» released on Ostgut Ton.
A videoclip (nominated for Berlin Music Video Awards) will premiere during 2 release parties : on the 7th of March in Berlin’s Naherholung Sternchen with Acid Washed and on the 8th in Paris’ Le Pigallion with David Carretta.
The bonus track «Crystal Flesh(Voxless)» is an instrumental alternative version from the album. a futuristic hommage to David Cronemberg tainted with Analog Science Fiction.
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Churches Schools and Guns. A provocative name for a provocative album of techno from one of the genre’s most consistently intriguing producers, Lucy. This, his second solo album, pushes forward from his debut full-length, 2011’s Wordplay for Working Bees, and firmly establishes him in a league of his own. Over the past few years Lucy’s label, Stroboscopic Artefacts, has became a watchword for techno’s vanguard – providing a platform for new artists pushing at the genre’s boundaries and a harbor for some of the most experimental work from names you already recognize. Lucy’s progress as a producer has followed that same trajectory, moving from relatively straightforward dancefloor-driven material to deeper, murkier places. Churches Schools and Guns continues on, a collection of 12 tracks that sound – more than anything else – like the act of searching.
Because, despite its title, Churches Schools and Guns asks more questions than it answers. Indeed, the song titles are often red herrings: a disembodied voice asks someone to “Leave Us Alone.” But who is it asking? And who does it speak for? Why do bells sweetly twinkle in the background, adding light to the lumbering beat that pulls everything to the ground over and over again? What elemental force flies around “The Self As Another,” soaring above, below and between the beats?
With track names like “Human Triage” and “Laws and Habits,” you might mistake Churches Schools and Guns for a brutal industrial techno record, designed for destruction. The songs here unsettle, surely, but they do so with misdirection and unpredictability. “Human Triage” slithers and slides in a similar manner to Zeitgeber, Lucy’s recent collaboration with Speedy J. “Follow the Leader” presents overtone singing in a techno framework, finding the similarities in both as hypnotic and ritual forms.
What’s perhaps most ear-catching about Churches Schools and Guns, though, is Lucy’s sense of space. The album is by no means a dub techno record, but the intent is the same. How do twist recognizable sounds into new ones that have little or no relation to their origin? And, yet, for all its alien wonder, there’s rarely a moment where you feel cut off from something human. Even when the beat gets heavy, you can’t help but feel that you’re in the room with it. Every time things feel digital, there’s always something natural that complicates things.
As the record goes along, it continues to pull away from reality – and the Lucy you once knew. “We Live As We Dream,” “All That Noise” and “The Best Selling Show” all propose possible futures: Elegiac, dystopian and somewhere in between. And then comes “Falling,” which sounds like nothing you’ve heard from Lucy before. But that’s to be expected. Contradictions. The search for an answer being the answer itself. Catch-22’s. The illusion of choice. These are the important things to take away from Churches Schools and Guns, Lucy’s masterful second album. After all, we live in a world where everything is not as it seems. Or do we?
Tracklist: A1)
Ich Bin Meine Maschine (Boys Noize Remix)
A2)
Ich Bin Meine Maschine (Linear Remix)
B1)
Ich Bin Meine Maschine (Function Remix)
B2)
Ich Bin Meine Maschine (Album Version)
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ich bin meine maschine is a spiritual track
ich bin meine maschine is a musical track
ich bin meine maschine is a scientific track
to underline this tryptic statement (and to demonstrate the diversity) of one of atomTM’s compositions that appeared on his 2013 “HD” album, raster- noton now releases a vinyl ep featuring remixes by boys noize, function and atomTM himself. “ich bin meine maschine”, in an elaborate manner, illustrates uwe schmidt ´s main musical concern – the exploration of electronics in pop music. inspired by a statement of the cybernetician heinz von foerster, atomTM constructed/generated a message that is playing around with a widely-cited kraftwerk quotation, turning “ich bin eine maschine” into “ich bin meine maschine” (i am my machine). besides the album version of “ich bin meine machine,” the ep features some dominantly techno influenced versions that perfectly connect the pop attitude of “HD” with dancefloor functionality. the boys noize remix shows off alexander ridha ´s deft skills for translating atomTM ´s futuristic pop into his own rough and driving electronic language. on the other hand, atomTM’s “linear remix” breaks down the original structure of the song and turns it into a reduced and much straighter, forward looking composition. function – one of techno’s true underground heroes – provides a remix that is breathing the air of solid and hypnotic club music, in which just the essential elements are streamlined and condensed into perfection.
all 3 remixers adapt the track to their particular universe. by doing so, they prepare the 12“ vinyl for its final destination – the club.
r-n146 is available as standard vinyl and as 180 gr heavy vinyl, limited edition, special cardboard box.
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Full Track Streaming:
“Ich Bin Meine Maschine (Boys Noize Remix)”
Format:
CD, vinyl+CD, Rough Trade editions with bonus CD & digital
Tracklist: 01) Mask Maker
02) Vox Tuned D.E.D.
03) I’m No Gold
04) Pro Anti Anti
05) Can’t Hear Well
06) Mess On A Mission
07) Darkslide
08) Boyzone
09) Dress Walker
10) Perpetual Village
11) Left Speaker Blown
Tracklist Rough Trade Bonus CD: 01) I Saw You From The Lifeboat
02) Perfum Tear
03) Mask Maker (Extended Version)
04) Boyzone (Instrumental Version)
05) I’m No Good (Instrumental Version)
06) The Chain
07) Blah Vets
08) Tempotantrums
09) Mr Your On Fire Mr (Saint Laurent PFW SS14 Remix)
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Mess is the follow up to 2012’s WIXIW, the sound of a band in an ambiguous, fragile in-between state. Mess, on the other hand, is Liars with their balls out – an angry, ecstatic, primal burst of ritualistic electronics that sacrifices self persecution for potent, purposeful abandon.
Explains Angus Andrew, “We are a reactionary, or maybe a better word is schizophrenic band. We go from one extreme to the other. Working on the last record was really doubtful and paranoid, and that’s fine, but it just meant that when work started on this one, it was the exact opposite. It was way more instinctual, fun and confident.”Produced by Angus Andrew and mixed by Timothy “Q” Wiles (whose previous production credits include label-mates VCMG), the new album is less concerned with place as on previous albums, but sees the band back in their own studio in LA.
Mess is the sound of Liars not only facing their fears, but chewing them up and spitting them back out in all their technicolour glory.
Info (German):
LIARS (Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill und Julian Gross) veröffentlichen Details ihres kommenden Albums, das am 21.03.2014 erscheint. Zudem gibt es mit Mess On A Mission einen ersten Track zu hören (siehe unten).
Mess ist das Nachfolgealbum des 2012er Werkes WIXIW – war letzteres ein Album am Scheideweg, ambig und fragil, zeigt Mess die Band erneut voller Kraft und Hingabe, ein ekstatischer Ausbruch, ein Aufbruch in die Welt der Elektronik.
Sänger Angus Andrew sagt: “We are a reactionary, or maybe a better word is schizophrenic band. We go from one extreme to the other. Working on the last record was really doubtful and paranoid, and that’s fine, but it just meant that when work started on this one, it was the exact opposite. It was way more instinctual, fun and confident.”
Produziert von Andrew und gemischt von Timothy “Q” Wiles (der zuletzt unter anderem für VCMG verantwortlich zeichnete), handelt das Album weniger vom Ort seines Entstehens als seine Vorgänger, aufgenommen wurde es im bandeigenen Studio in LA.
Mess wird als CD, Doppel-LP und Download erscheinen.
In ihrer Geschichte haben die Liars so einige musikalischen Schubladen gestreift, ohne je fassbar zu werden. Sophisticated Punk Funk; subkutaner No-Wave, ekstatischer Noisepop, Postrock, sublime, psychedelische Elektronika, you name it. Nun schauen die Liars der Welt erneut in die Augen – nicht nur stellen sie sich ihren Ängsten, sie scheinen sie zu verdauen und in überlebensgroßen, bunten Stücken auszuspucken. Die ersten ihrer neuen Stücke wurden bereits letztes Jahr im Metropolitan Museum of Art vorgestellt, und beim Primavera- und Sonar-Festival. Was die Livepräsenz dieses Jahr angeht, sind bislang zwei US-Festivals bestätigt, das Desert Daze im April und das Austin Psych Fest im Mai. Die Daten ihrer bevorstehenden Europatournee werden in Kürze angekündigt.
Listen:
“Mess On A Mission”
more see full track streaming
Listen Rough Trade Bonus CD:
“Mr Your On Fire Mr (Saint Laurent PFW SS14 Remix)”
Notes:
Gabi Delgado, one of the guys behind EBM/Industrial legend DAF (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft), will release a solo album soon. About these track he wrote “dear Friends…these tracks will NOT be included on my forthcoming álbum ‘EINS’ … they have no comercial purpose and are a just a give for my Friends and followers…gabi delgado”.
