• CD,  Distribution

    Apoptose – Zukunft

    febrero 24, 2024

    Apoptose – Die Zukunft
    Label: Tesco Organisation ‎– TESCO 128, Tesco Organisation ‎– 128
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Germany
    Released:2018
    Style: Dark Ambient, Ambient, Downtempo, Synthwave, Modern Classical

    In the four years of production Apoptose selected a wide range of different singers for this album. Most outstanding is classical trained tenor Daniel Sans. He sings «What Power Art Thou» – a song that was composed by Henry Purcell in the late 17th century. Apoptose and Sans preserve the complex harmonic structure of the original translating it into a breathtaking five minute ride in apoptotic soundspheres. They succeed in conjuring up Purcell’s «cold genius» that had already fascinated legendary countertenor Klaus Nomi in the 1980s. Other voices on «Die Zukunft» include the gloomy spoken words of the advance single «Time-lapse City», the lost girl’s voice on the title track and two female singers on «Dornen». Consistent with the album title Apoptose does not look back, but is heading for novel territories within the dark ambient music genre

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  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Anne Clark – The Sitting Room

    febrero 4, 2024

    Anne Clark – The Sitting Room
    Label: FD Administration – AC0017-V
    Format: Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album, Reissue
    Country: Europe
    Released: 2021
    Style: Downtempo, Synth-pop

    Anne Charlotte Clark (born 14 May 1960) is an English poet, singer and songwriter. Her first album, The Sitting Room, was released in 1982, and she has released over a dozen albums since then.

    Her poetry work with experimental musicians occupies a region bounded roughly by electronic, dance (techno applies on occasion) and possibly avant-garde genres, with varying hard as well as romantic and orchestral styles.

    Clark is mainly a spoken word artist. Many of her lyrics deal critically with the imperfections of humanity, everyday life, and politics. Especially in her early works she created a gloomy, melancholy atmosphere bordering on weltschmerz. She has been considered one of the pioneers in the spoken-word music genre, as well as being acclaimed for her synth-pop and new wave music, especially across Europe.

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  • Distribution

    CYCLOTIMIA ‎– REGNUM

    agosto 15, 2021

    Cyclotimia ‎– Regnum
    Label: helezobeton ‎– ZHB-LXXXII
    Format: Cassette, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Russia
    Released: 2020
    Style: Downtempo, Electro, Synthwave

    More than five years of silence could suggest that the album «The Invisible Hand of Market» released in 2014 was the last sign of life of this Russian project. However, the musicians of the Cyclotimia duo, who consistently create soundtracks for a society of global capital dominance in their works, still have something to say, as it turns out… The album “Regnum” consists of six tracks and lasts for about half an hour. The compositions have a distinctive vibe of “the blessed 80ies” typical for the synthwave genre that has been in fashion in recent years, yet they distinctively go beyond the borders of this predominantly stereotyped style towards rhythmic post-industrial… «Regnum» comes out in turbulent times. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the cover shows a man walking on a deserted night street into the unknown? And although the musical atmosphere doesn’t inspire anything optimistic in the end, the opening track with the characteristic name “Battlefield” is apparently intended to set the listener in a combat mood in relation to the future.

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  • GH Records

    agosto 18, 2016

    Barbed ‎– Through The Barricades EP

    Label: Auf Abwegen ‎– travel_document #6
    Format: Vinyl, 10", Limited Edition, EP
    Country: Germany
    Released: 2007
    Style: Downtempo

    10” vinyl EP travel document #6 Little Fort Knoxes…. Barbed are Alex Burrow and Alex McKechnie. They formed in London in 1988, and spent the next six years working on their “album”. During that time they worked pretty much 14 hours a day, seven days a week. They didn’t go out or see anyone. Their high concept was to avoid cliche; create a music they’d never heard before and which worked completely in its own space by its own rules. Thanks to the amazing patience and encouragement of These Records (or Recommended Records as they were known then) the album finally appeared in 1994. Where it got reviews, it got great reviews, but otherwise it fell on deaf ears. Shortly afterwards, the term ‘plunderphonics’ came into being (or shortly before – who’s counting?) and Barbed were taken in by this new gang. Happy to be accepted somewhere (even though they had no interest at all in the genre) Barbed tagged along and collaborated in arduously long concerts with Negativland, People Like Us and the Tape Beatles, resulting in a few live recordings and some subhuman contact. Meanwhile, they continued producing low quantities of high quality material, and generally wasting time on dead ends. That’s the trouble with experimental music: not all experiments are successful. Around 1998 disaster struck and Barbed joined the band Add N to X (it was supposed to be just one concert but they ended up staying a year). No recordings survive from this period. Another, more successful diversion came in the form of a collaboration with Joram ten Brink. They spent more than a year doing the soundtrack for his arthouse classic ‘The Man Who Couldn’t Feel’, which divided audiences at the Berlin Film Festival in 1997. In the ten years between the album and now, they’ve leaked their material out to various compilations, live records & remixes, and in 2000 a single appeared on elevatorbath records. So here we are in 2007. That upbeat 2nd record is finally out on LOaF, plus a collection of eccentric short pieces on a pleasing ten inch soon to arrive on aufabwegen. If you’re too poor to pay, check out the archives with Snails and Relics – two free mp3 albums available here. The various threads they’ve been working on these past years have finally come together, and all of a sudden there’s a new collection that makes sense. This year will be a high point in the lives of all Barbed lovers. The results of their experiments released at last. 

    PS: they’ve just gone disco.

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