Kraftwerk
www.kraftwerk.com
The Catalogue
( ;D --> The eight CD box set containing digitally remastered classic albums from the innovative Electronic band:
Autobahn (1974)
Radio-Activity (1975)
Trans Europe Express (1977)
The Man Machine (1978)
Computer World (1981)
Techno-Pop (AKA Electric Cafe, 1986)
The Mix (1991)
Tour De France (2003)
Each CD is housed in a miniature LP CD wallet with inner sleeves and expanded artwork featuring previously unreleased photos. 68 tracks.)
K_amazon
( ;D -->Impressive, Excellent & Sublime collection :). Digitally mastered & enhanced. Neat packaged with awesome booklets. Luscious and minimal Design, especially the soft but firm wrapping material that shelter the 8 eminent CDs, Fits like a glove. Kraftwerk's repertoire also fits delicately through the ages.. It's almost that the collection was created just to match the history of music.. sob, sob ;). Well I believe that it can't get any more disciplined and tasteful than this. Kraftwerk are indeed the Gods of modern music, architects of pure & stringent tunes.)
Monolake / Robert Henke
www.monolake.de
( ;D --> Monolake is among the most acclaimed artists associated with the Berlin-based Basic Channel/Chain Reaction label group, run by Moritz "Maurizio" von Oswald and home to such champions of minimalist austerity as Vainqueur, Substance, and (initially) Porter Ricks. Consisting of Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles.)
Silence
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Robert Henke & Christopher Bauder - atom installation
www.monolake.de/concerts/atom.html
( ;D --> The music for the performance has been reworked and made into a CD and vinyl album release):
The Atom/Document CD
http://www.monolake.de/releases/icm-07.html
Exium
www.myspace.com/exiumlive
www.exium-music.com/eng.htm (Excellent background Ambient track; Musica De Fondo?)
( ;D --> Exium are a techno collective from Gijón, Spain.)
Seleccion Natural: Part 2
E_Juno
The Omega Man
E1_Juno
Kill All Lifeforms EP
E_amazon
Annie Mac
www.myspace.com/anniemac16
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/anniemac
(;D --> Annie Mac is a DJ and television presenter who hosts an eponymous electronic dance music show on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom.)
Annie Mac Presents
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Muslimgauze
www.muslimgauze.org
( ;D --> Muslimgauze was a music project of Bryn Jones (17 June 1961–14 January 1999), a prolific British ethnic electronica and experimental musician, influenced by conflicts in the Muslim world. Bryn Jones was not a practicing Muslim and he never went to the Middle East. The experimental/noise underground increased in visibility during the late '90s, with Muslimgauze productions gradually encompassing heavier beats and a style close in execution to post-industrial beat-heads Techno Animal, Download and Scorn. The Muslimgauze project ended tragically in 1999 when Jones died suddenly of a rare blood disease.)
Madrass Sitar Burner
M_Boomcat
Over and Out
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Flavor of the week #48
CJ Bolland
www.myspace.com/cjbolland
500 Euro Cocktail
CJB_Beatport
( ;D --> CJ Bolland presents his new studio album: "500 EURO COCKTAIL" as part of his '20/20' series representing 20 new tracks to celebrate CJ’s 20 years of producing some of the most influential Dance Anthems.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/01/flavor-of-week-2.html
Alphatronic
www.myspace.com/alphatronicinzec
www.alphatronic.net
( ;D --> Electronica at its best; Alphatronic has brought his wheels, controllers, and buttons to fit the sounds into the perfect spots. The resulting songs are very visual; a soundtrack for the internal eye. Western-scenarios come up, asian tee-shops, happily bustling around kids, the sometimes hectic everyday life and dreamy moments just before waking up. This music is equally for the back- and the foreground, it doesn't scream for attention. But if one takes the time to listen closely, far away places come into vision.)
Sonic Landscapes
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Strotter Inst.
www.myspace.com/strotterinst
www.strotter.org
( ;D --> After more than ten years of making music with turntables, tapes and loops the swiss based musician, artist, performer and architect Christoph Hess started in 1998 the project Strotter Inst. to concentrate just on the manipulation of turntables not using any records or sounds made by someone or something else.)
Bolzplatz
S_amazon
( ;D --> Bolzplatz – a green field, a place somewhere behind an old industrial building, beside an acher, in the backyard of an agglo. No-man’s-land for kids skipping school, to kick, move, run, play and foul. Near darkness for dealers, bored teenagers, village-youth with their mopeds. Everything is in its own rhythm – in the grass, the puddles, on broken asphalt, under clear sky. Some cranes in the background, fences, a cornfield. On the new release “Bolzplatz” at Everstrecords Strotter Inst. is generating his typical dense rhythm-structures. This time a little bit quicker, more complex and multilayered.)
Atomic Skunk
www.myspace.com/atomicskunktunes
www.atomicskunk.com
( ;D --> San Francisco Bay Area based electronic musician, Rich Brodsky aka Atomic Skunk, weaves together ambient field recordings, lush pads, and organic acoustic instruments with high-tech arpeggiated synths, glitchy, chaotic rhythms, and haunting melodies to create a unique psychedelic ambient soundscape.)
Binary Scenes
A_amazon
Man With No Name
www.myspace.com/martinfreeland
www.manwithnoname.co.uk
Interstate Highway
MWNN_amazon
( ;D --> M.W.N.N. was one of the defining artists in the goa scene since its beginning. He started producing techno in 1990 but as trance came along he switched to this style. From his very first (trance) production he soon became popular for his melodic style of trance, with his immediately recognisable sound suiting the hardcore psy heads and the more laid back general trance listener. He also did tons of remix work; perhaps the most famous being the remix of Moonraker originally from Disco Volante. M.W.N.N will always remain a legend for those old enough to remember him since the early days of goa.)
Azymuth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=alS1tlsu7EU
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/cjbolland
500 Euro Cocktail
CJB_Beatport
( ;D --> CJ Bolland presents his new studio album: "500 EURO COCKTAIL" as part of his '20/20' series representing 20 new tracks to celebrate CJ’s 20 years of producing some of the most influential Dance Anthems.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/01/flavor-of-week-2.html
Alphatronic
www.myspace.com/alphatronicinzec
www.alphatronic.net
( ;D --> Electronica at its best; Alphatronic has brought his wheels, controllers, and buttons to fit the sounds into the perfect spots. The resulting songs are very visual; a soundtrack for the internal eye. Western-scenarios come up, asian tee-shops, happily bustling around kids, the sometimes hectic everyday life and dreamy moments just before waking up. This music is equally for the back- and the foreground, it doesn't scream for attention. But if one takes the time to listen closely, far away places come into vision.)
Sonic Landscapes
A_amazon
Strotter Inst.
www.myspace.com/strotterinst
www.strotter.org
( ;D --> After more than ten years of making music with turntables, tapes and loops the swiss based musician, artist, performer and architect Christoph Hess started in 1998 the project Strotter Inst. to concentrate just on the manipulation of turntables not using any records or sounds made by someone or something else.)
Bolzplatz
S_amazon
( ;D --> Bolzplatz – a green field, a place somewhere behind an old industrial building, beside an acher, in the backyard of an agglo. No-man’s-land for kids skipping school, to kick, move, run, play and foul. Near darkness for dealers, bored teenagers, village-youth with their mopeds. Everything is in its own rhythm – in the grass, the puddles, on broken asphalt, under clear sky. Some cranes in the background, fences, a cornfield. On the new release “Bolzplatz” at Everstrecords Strotter Inst. is generating his typical dense rhythm-structures. This time a little bit quicker, more complex and multilayered.)
Atomic Skunk
www.myspace.com/atomicskunktunes
www.atomicskunk.com
( ;D --> San Francisco Bay Area based electronic musician, Rich Brodsky aka Atomic Skunk, weaves together ambient field recordings, lush pads, and organic acoustic instruments with high-tech arpeggiated synths, glitchy, chaotic rhythms, and haunting melodies to create a unique psychedelic ambient soundscape.)
Binary Scenes
A_amazon
Man With No Name
www.myspace.com/martinfreeland
www.manwithnoname.co.uk
Interstate Highway
MWNN_amazon
( ;D --> M.W.N.N. was one of the defining artists in the goa scene since its beginning. He started producing techno in 1990 but as trance came along he switched to this style. From his very first (trance) production he soon became popular for his melodic style of trance, with his immediately recognisable sound suiting the hardcore psy heads and the more laid back general trance listener. He also did tons of remix work; perhaps the most famous being the remix of Moonraker originally from Disco Volante. M.W.N.N will always remain a legend for those old enough to remember him since the early days of goa.)
Azymuth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=alS1tlsu7EU
Over And Out
Friday, November 13, 2009
Flavor of the week #47
Vince Watson
www.myspace.com/vincewatson
www.vincewatson.com
( ;D --> The way Vince Watson manipulates the keyboards, bringing complex multi-chords, dense & fully melodic patches to the contemporary dance music is simply amazing. It makes you feel like a small grain in a deep, huge atmosphere, condensed among the melodies, emotion and rhythms, which by the way seem to fit perfectly in the ears of the intense listeners.)
Vince Watson "A Very Different World (Funk D'Void Epic Remix)"
VW_Soundcloud
My Desire
VW_amazon
The eMotion Sequence
VW1_amazon
Ethereal EP
VW2_amazon
Renaissance EP
VW3_amazon
Sublimina
VW4_amazon
Funk D'Void
www.myspace.com/funkdvoid
www.funkdvoid.com
www.somarecords.com
( ;D --> Lars Sandberg AKA Funk D'Void, is a DJ and producer who has been at the forefront of the global electronic music scene since the mid-90s.)
Sci-Fi Hi-Fi
FDV_amazon
Funk D'Void Vs Chicco Secci
FDV_C_amazon
A Raven Wheeling Overhead by Funk D'Void & Sian
FDV_S_amazon
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/10/flavor-of-week-41.html
Deafcenter
www.myspace.com/deafcenter
( ;D --> Inspired by old silent 8mm film reels, the historical architecture around them and the call of the alluring Norwegian landscape, the duo set out armed with microphones to record whatever they could to capture these feelings. Sounds from battered old records, cash registers, broken machines and a half-dead piano were all blended into the mix to add a warm, homely depth to the recordings. These sounds are most evident in the track Loft, where knocks and wooden creaks give an almost claustrophobic feel to the music. Again on The Clearing a subtle field recording gives the track a rich and involving background and helps build up the mysterious aura before launching a skewed 1930s circus-waltz.)
Dakota Suite - Deaf Center Remix
DS_DC_Boomcat
( ;D --> Not so much a remix album as a remake of Dakota Suite's The End Of Trying long-player, reconstructed according to the original record's tracklisting with the help of a list of artists who might be said to represent a kind of Boomkat in-house favourites list: Peter Broderick, Machinefabriek, Arve Henriksen, Deaf Center & The Boats.)
Pale Ravine
DC_amazon
( ;D --> After the critical acclaim of their Neon City EP, Pale Ravine is the long awaited full-length realization of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totlands musical ideals. Taking up where Neon City left off with its epic sound collages and textural soundscapes, Pale Ravine manages to provide a sound altogether more Lynchian and grimly cinematic. Using influences from further back in their lives, the two Norwegian musicians have looked deep into their own family histories to piece together a dusty and nostalgic epic.)
Neon City
DC1_amazon
Dakota Suite
www.myspace.com/dakotasuite
www.dakotasuite.com
( ;D --> The loosely configured lineup of Leeds-based Dakota Suite is centered around the group's talented frontman, singer/guitarist Chris Hooson; the only other firm member of the group is producer Richard Formby -- formerly a collaborator with Spaceman 3, the Telescopes, and Jazz Butcher -- who handles occasional guitar chores and various other instrumentation, including harmonium, Fender Rhodes, lap steel, bowed double bass, and tape effects. Various other members have included David Buxton on bass guitar and pedal steel; John Sheppard on drums; Peter Haslam on piano; and Colin Dunkley, who also plays the piano, provides the strings, and co-writes much of the group's instrumentals. Hooson -- whose vocal style is often compared to Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek, Spain's Josh Haden, and Mark Eitzel -- often bases his songs on haunting personal experiences; he attempted suicide in late 1995.)
The End of Trying
DS_amazon
Quantec
www.myspace.com/quantec
www.svenschienhammer.de
( ;D --> Sven Schienhammer's Quantec project comes with the very highest pedigree and a stamp of quality that followers of Sven Weisemann, Deepchord, Murmur and the like will find impossible to ignore. "Realm Of Possibilities" opens the twelve with a 10 minute reverb-drenched epic, singular synths and an edgy bassline evoking classic Chain Reaction material, with a widescreen quality lending proceedings a more contemporary sheen.)
Cauldron Subsidence
Q_amazon
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/vincewatson
www.vincewatson.com
( ;D --> The way Vince Watson manipulates the keyboards, bringing complex multi-chords, dense & fully melodic patches to the contemporary dance music is simply amazing. It makes you feel like a small grain in a deep, huge atmosphere, condensed among the melodies, emotion and rhythms, which by the way seem to fit perfectly in the ears of the intense listeners.)
Vince Watson "A Very Different World (Funk D'Void Epic Remix)"
VW_Soundcloud
My Desire
VW_amazon
The eMotion Sequence
VW1_amazon
Ethereal EP
VW2_amazon
Renaissance EP
VW3_amazon
Sublimina
VW4_amazon
Funk D'Void
www.myspace.com/funkdvoid
www.funkdvoid.com
www.somarecords.com
( ;D --> Lars Sandberg AKA Funk D'Void, is a DJ and producer who has been at the forefront of the global electronic music scene since the mid-90s.)
Sci-Fi Hi-Fi
FDV_amazon
Funk D'Void Vs Chicco Secci
FDV_C_amazon
A Raven Wheeling Overhead by Funk D'Void & Sian
FDV_S_amazon
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/10/flavor-of-week-41.html
Deafcenter
www.myspace.com/deafcenter
( ;D --> Inspired by old silent 8mm film reels, the historical architecture around them and the call of the alluring Norwegian landscape, the duo set out armed with microphones to record whatever they could to capture these feelings. Sounds from battered old records, cash registers, broken machines and a half-dead piano were all blended into the mix to add a warm, homely depth to the recordings. These sounds are most evident in the track Loft, where knocks and wooden creaks give an almost claustrophobic feel to the music. Again on The Clearing a subtle field recording gives the track a rich and involving background and helps build up the mysterious aura before launching a skewed 1930s circus-waltz.)
Dakota Suite - Deaf Center Remix
DS_DC_Boomcat
( ;D --> Not so much a remix album as a remake of Dakota Suite's The End Of Trying long-player, reconstructed according to the original record's tracklisting with the help of a list of artists who might be said to represent a kind of Boomkat in-house favourites list: Peter Broderick, Machinefabriek, Arve Henriksen, Deaf Center & The Boats.)
Pale Ravine
DC_amazon
( ;D --> After the critical acclaim of their Neon City EP, Pale Ravine is the long awaited full-length realization of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totlands musical ideals. Taking up where Neon City left off with its epic sound collages and textural soundscapes, Pale Ravine manages to provide a sound altogether more Lynchian and grimly cinematic. Using influences from further back in their lives, the two Norwegian musicians have looked deep into their own family histories to piece together a dusty and nostalgic epic.)
Neon City
DC1_amazon
Dakota Suite
www.myspace.com/dakotasuite
www.dakotasuite.com
( ;D --> The loosely configured lineup of Leeds-based Dakota Suite is centered around the group's talented frontman, singer/guitarist Chris Hooson; the only other firm member of the group is producer Richard Formby -- formerly a collaborator with Spaceman 3, the Telescopes, and Jazz Butcher -- who handles occasional guitar chores and various other instrumentation, including harmonium, Fender Rhodes, lap steel, bowed double bass, and tape effects. Various other members have included David Buxton on bass guitar and pedal steel; John Sheppard on drums; Peter Haslam on piano; and Colin Dunkley, who also plays the piano, provides the strings, and co-writes much of the group's instrumentals. Hooson -- whose vocal style is often compared to Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek, Spain's Josh Haden, and Mark Eitzel -- often bases his songs on haunting personal experiences; he attempted suicide in late 1995.)
The End of Trying
DS_amazon
Quantec
www.myspace.com/quantec
www.svenschienhammer.de
( ;D --> Sven Schienhammer's Quantec project comes with the very highest pedigree and a stamp of quality that followers of Sven Weisemann, Deepchord, Murmur and the like will find impossible to ignore. "Realm Of Possibilities" opens the twelve with a 10 minute reverb-drenched epic, singular synths and an edgy bassline evoking classic Chain Reaction material, with a widescreen quality lending proceedings a more contemporary sheen.)
Cauldron Subsidence
Q_amazon
Over And Out
Friday, November 06, 2009
Flavor of the week #46
Paul Kalkbrenner
www.myspace.com/paulkalkbrenner
( ;D --> Although being one of BPitch_Control's oldest members and most productive, err, producer, Paul Kalkbrenner always kept a low profile, never reaching the iconic status of label’s boss Ellen Allien or the relative success of label mates such as Smash TV, Sascha Funke or Tok Tok (their ‘Missy Queen’s Gonna Die’ with Soffy O. has got to be the label’s most instantly recognizable track, and one of electroclash’s sole highlights). After three albums for the Berlin-based label (‘Superimpose’, ‘Zeit’, and ‘Self’, all released between 2001 and 2004), Kalkbrenner is now back with ‘Reworks’, a collection of, well, reworks of some of his well-known or more obscure tracks. And, strangely enough, this could be his most coherent album to date.)
Berlin Calling Soundtrack
PK_amazon
Berlin Calling Vol. 1
PK1_amazon
ReWorks [EP]
PK2_amazon
absynthe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQRWBj5GxU&feature=player_embedded#
M-Seven
www.myspace.com/msevenmusic
( ;D --> Drifting instrumental compositions for your imagination. Cinematic atmospheric soundscapes combined with mantra downtempo rhythms and shifting sequences of flight. A fusion of electronic, ambient and experimental sounds.)
Stimulus
M-S_amazon
Activate
M-S1_amazon
Electronic Flip & Contained
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcppai447Kc&feature=related
Tristan Boyle
www.myspace.com/tristanboyle
Future Fabric
TB_SaikoSound
( ;D --> Future Fabric is the debut album from Australian producer Tristan Boyle. With elements from jazz, techno, progressive trance, this album delivers a very tasteful eclecticism that has been described as "the business".)
Interior Design
TB_amazon
Bush Food --> Neshika Bavakasha
TB_BeatPort
Marconi Union
www.myspace.com/marconiunion
( ;D --> Marconi Union is a reclusive electronic duo from Manchester, England. Their sound has been described as "a post rock cinematic orchestra." Distance, their first U.S. release, is unique, individual and timeless, fusing acoustic sounds, strings and pianos with electronica, post-rock guitars and even occasional nods towards jazz and dub. Described by the band as "a soundtrack to a film that has not yet been made.)
Distance
MU_amazon
Lustmord
www.myspace.com/lustmord
www.lustmord.com
( ;D --> While his days are spent working on sound design for Hollywood scores by Graeme Revell, sound designer Brian Williams records experimental ambience and dark space music as Lustmord. His recordings have been embraced by a variety of ambient fans, ranging from the '70s traditionalists at the Hearts of Space label to the ambient-techno experimentalists at Plug Research.)
Other
LM_amazon
Other Dub
LM_VaultPrime
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/paulkalkbrenner
( ;D --> Although being one of BPitch_Control's oldest members and most productive, err, producer, Paul Kalkbrenner always kept a low profile, never reaching the iconic status of label’s boss Ellen Allien or the relative success of label mates such as Smash TV, Sascha Funke or Tok Tok (their ‘Missy Queen’s Gonna Die’ with Soffy O. has got to be the label’s most instantly recognizable track, and one of electroclash’s sole highlights). After three albums for the Berlin-based label (‘Superimpose’, ‘Zeit’, and ‘Self’, all released between 2001 and 2004), Kalkbrenner is now back with ‘Reworks’, a collection of, well, reworks of some of his well-known or more obscure tracks. And, strangely enough, this could be his most coherent album to date.)
Berlin Calling Soundtrack
PK_amazon
Berlin Calling Vol. 1
PK1_amazon
ReWorks [EP]
PK2_amazon
absynthe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQRWBj5GxU&feature=player_embedded#
M-Seven
www.myspace.com/msevenmusic
( ;D --> Drifting instrumental compositions for your imagination. Cinematic atmospheric soundscapes combined with mantra downtempo rhythms and shifting sequences of flight. A fusion of electronic, ambient and experimental sounds.)
Stimulus
M-S_amazon
Activate
M-S1_amazon
Electronic Flip & Contained
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcppai447Kc&feature=related
Tristan Boyle
www.myspace.com/tristanboyle
Future Fabric
TB_SaikoSound
( ;D --> Future Fabric is the debut album from Australian producer Tristan Boyle. With elements from jazz, techno, progressive trance, this album delivers a very tasteful eclecticism that has been described as "the business".)
Interior Design
TB_amazon
Bush Food --> Neshika Bavakasha
TB_BeatPort
Marconi Union
www.myspace.com/marconiunion
( ;D --> Marconi Union is a reclusive electronic duo from Manchester, England. Their sound has been described as "a post rock cinematic orchestra." Distance, their first U.S. release, is unique, individual and timeless, fusing acoustic sounds, strings and pianos with electronica, post-rock guitars and even occasional nods towards jazz and dub. Described by the band as "a soundtrack to a film that has not yet been made.)
Distance
MU_amazon
Lustmord
www.myspace.com/lustmord
www.lustmord.com
( ;D --> While his days are spent working on sound design for Hollywood scores by Graeme Revell, sound designer Brian Williams records experimental ambience and dark space music as Lustmord. His recordings have been embraced by a variety of ambient fans, ranging from the '70s traditionalists at the Hearts of Space label to the ambient-techno experimentalists at Plug Research.)
Other
LM_amazon
Other Dub
LM_VaultPrime
Over And Out
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