Dense

Yes, unbelievable but true: one week after its unannounced resurection, the Dense newsletter is already back with a vengeance. How far will it go?

Before we beging: do not miss the show by The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble this very Thursday (Dec 10th) at Maria Am Ostbahnhof.
Not only is TKDE an amazing band released on Ad Noiseam (a label closely associated with Dense), playing their first gig ever in Berlin, but the supporting acts are Dense-favorite Lambent (who has also released on this other Dense-related label that is Stillavailable) and Oktopus of the ever impressive Dälek, but the whole thing is co-organized by your humble servants and the Club Transmediale. Add to this that entrance costs only 10 Euro and that the shows are quite early (be there before 10 PM at any rate), and you get something that nobody has the right to miss. Beware, we know who you are and will take retaliatory measures on those of you not attending.

Then, the new sounds for this week are a bit less electronic than usual. Let’s kick in with the new album by Curse Ov Dialect on Staubgold for some quality hip hop, and mention that we are also stocking a lot of releases by the Projet Mooncircle label, also in the hip hop aisle.
A lot less hip hop and a lot more evil, don’t pass on the live CD / LP / DVD by Wolves In The Throne Room (available in all formats), or the Kodiak and Nadja split LP on Denovali.
The rare amongst us who not only have ears but also eyes will enjoy the new issues of De:Bug and of the spanish luxury design magazine Belio, both of which are in stock now.

Finally, note that we’re making your Christmas shopping a bit easier this year, by re-stocking a lot of classics (such as a big chunk of the Warp backcatalog for very nice, friendly prices). The time has come to help your friends and significant others discover the albums that changed your listening habits some years ago.

Here is the list, and remember, we’ll see each other this Thursday at Maria Am Ostbahnhof. Be there and be dense.

ELECTRONICA, TECHNO & BREAKS:
Si Begg – Cuntok 5 ep – 12″ – algorithme – 7,90 €
Christian Marclay – Moving Parts – CD – Ash – 7,90 €
Stimming – Buxton Pipes – 12″ – Audiomatique – 9,90 €
DJ Vadim – Hidden Treasure – 12″ – BBE – 9,90 €
Bass Clef – May The Bridges I Burn Light The Way – CD – Blank Tapes – 15,90 €
Fairmont – I need Medicine ep – 12″ – Border Community – 7,90 €
Gunjack – A Murder of crows ep – 12″ – Consume – 7,90 €
Riz MC – Radar ep – 12″ – Crosstown Rebels – 7,90 €
Compilation – Desolat X Sampler – 2 x 12” – Desolat – 17,90 €
Moodymanc – Omlette – 12″ – Dessous – 9,90 €
Hot Blood – Disco Dracula – 12″ – Disco Dracula – 9,90 €
Savath & Savalas – Golden Pollen – CD – Epitaph – 13,90 €
GES – Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation – 7″ – Faitiche – 7,90 €
Venegas,Leix & Ronro – Seito – 12″ – Fumakilla – 9,90 €
Modeselektor – Art & Cash – 12″ – Get Physical – 9,90 €
Drums of Death – Breathe ep – 12″ – Greco – 7,90 €
Basti Grub – See Seniol – 12″ – Höhenregler – 9,90 €
Oliver Huntemann – h-3 – 2 x 12” – Ideal Audio – 20,90 €
Paddington Breaks – Smart but casual – LP – Ill – 12,90 €
Animals on Wheels – FYA B/Spare parts ep – 12″ – iLL – 7,90 €
Biochip C – M-aibo attack – 12″ – Inex – 7,90 €
Swayzak – Groovetechnology v1.3 – 2CD – K7 – 9,90 €
DJ T – Try to understand – 12″ – KIndisch – 9,90 €
TBA – Georgia is like Spiritual – LP – Max.Ernst – 9,90 €
Oliver Ho – First Take ep – 12″ – Meta – 7,90 €
Sebo K – Spirits – 12″ – Mobilee – 9,90 €
Tom Demac – Crewcuts & curls – 12″ – Murmur – 9,90 €
V.A. – Onedotzero Select 1 – DVD – Onedotzero – 14,90 €
V.A. – Onedotzero Select 4 – DVD – Onedotzero – 14,90 €
V.A. – Onedotzero Select 2 – DVD – Onedotzero – 14,90 €
V.A. – Onedotzero Select 3 – DVD – Onedotzero – 14,90 €
Shinedoe – Sound Travelling – CD – Pure – 16,90 €
Felix Kubin – Fernsehpropheten – DVD – Raum für Projektion – 16,90 €
Compilation – Under Control – DVD – Raum für Projektion – 16,90 €
STL – Silent state – 12″ – Smallville – 9,90 €
Dimi Angelis & Jeroen Search/Lowtec – Our Life with the wave – 12″ – Smallville – 9,90 €
Vector Lovers – Ping Pong – 12″ – Soma Recordings – 7,90 €
Pfadfinderei & Modeselektor – Labland – DVD – Sony – 16,90 €
Cult of the 13th Hour – Wickedness ep – 12″ – Soul Jazz Records – 7,90 €
Simian – Never be alone – 7″ – Source – 5,90 €
Chris & Cosey – C & C Music – 12″ – T&B Vinyl – 7,90 €
Wareika/Tomboy – Mountain ride – 12″ – Tartlet – 9,90 €
One Inch Punch – Tao of the one inch punch – LP – Virgin – 12,90 €
Mathew Jonson – Ghost in the Al ep – 12″ – Wagon Repair – 9,90 €
Two Lone Swordsmen – Stay down – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
V.A. – Warp 10 & Infuences – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Two Lone Swordsmen – Further Reminders – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
V.A. – Warp 10 & Classics – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
V.A. – Artificial Intelligence 2 – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
V.A. – We are reasonable People – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Prefuse 73 – Vocal Studies & Uprock.. – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Clark,Chris – Empty the Bones of you – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Clark – Body Riddle – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Prefuse 73 – Preperations – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Disjecta – Clean pit & Lid – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Leila – Blood Looms and blooms – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Jackson and his Computer Band – Smash – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Clark,Chris – Clarence Park – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Harmonic 33 – Music for Film;TV.. – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Clark – Turning Dragon – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Plaid – Spokes – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Plaid – Trainer – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Savath & Savalas – Folk Songs for Trains.. – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Plaid – Not for threes – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Prefuse 73 – One Word Extinguisher – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Seefeel – Succour – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Prefuse 73 – Surrounded by silence – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Prefuse 73 – Security Screenings – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Savath & Savalas – Radar ep – CD – Warp – 13,90 €
Buck 65 – Wicked & Weird B/W – 12″ – Wea – 7,90 €
Man Parrish – Hip Hop Bee Bop ep – 12″ – White – 7,90 €
Ratatat – Mirando ep – 12″ – XL Recordings – 7,90 €

ROCK, METAL & EXPERIMENTAL:
Kodiak vs. Nadja – Split – CD – Denovali – 17,90 €
Blueneck – The Fallen Host – 2×10″ – Denovali – 27,90 €
Kodiak vs. Nadja – Split – LP – Denovali – 17,90 €
Josephine Foster – Graphic As A Star – LP – Fire – 16,90 €
Mono – Hymn to the Immortal Wind – CD – Human Highway – 15,90 €
Ari Benjamin Meyers – Symphony X – CD – Potomak – 14,90 €
Wolves In The Throne Room – Live At Roadburn 2008 – CD + DVD – Roadburn Records – 17,90 €
Wolves In The Throne Room – Live At Roadburn 2008 – LP + DVD – Roadburn Records – 18,90 €
The Low Frequency In Stereo – The Last Temptation Of… Vol.1 – LP – Rune Grammofon – 16,90 €

HIP HOP:
Asusu – Small hours/Taurean ep – 12″ – Project Mooncircle – 7,90 €
Cyne – Starship Utopia – LP – Project Mooncircle – 13,90 €
Obba Supa – To am free am – LP – Project Mooncircle – 13,90 €
40 Winks – The Lucid effect – LP – Project Mooncircle – 13,90 €
Mr. Cooper – What else there is,.. – 2×12” – Project Mooncircle – 15,90 €
Robot Koch – Death Star Droid – LP – Project Mooncircle – 13,90 €
Robot Koch – Death Star Droid – CD – Project Mooncircle – 12,90 €
Disc System & Inner Science – S/T – 12″ – Project Mooncircle – 7,90 €
Compilation – Silent in truth – 2×12” – Project Mooncircle – 15,90 €
Obba Supa & Fuil Ed – Midnight Mathematics feat.John Robinson – 10″ – Project Mooncircle – 7,90 €
Curse Ov Dialect – Crisis Tales – CD – staubgold – 16,90 €
Curse Ov Dialect – Crisis Tales – LP – staubgold – 13,90 €

PRINTED MATTER:
Belio – Die Young #8 – Magazin – Belio – 19,90 €
Belio – Die Young #9 – Magazin – Belio – 19,90 €
De:Bug – #138 (December 09) – Magazin – de:bug – 3,80 €
Belio – #30 – Back To The Roots – Magazin – Belio – 20 €

Wait, what’s that, do you ask yourself in disbelief, checking the subject and sender of this email. Yes, the world shakes to its very foundation as the Dense newsletter rises back from the dead, ready to inform you about beats, breaks and riffs that you just need to listen to. Let it be known, that after a period of internet silence, we’re back with a vengeance. Just like that.

And what’s burning hot, you ask? How about you learn about 2562‘s new album, “Unbalance”, considering how much everybody here loved last year’s previous “Aerial”? Or to stay in the grey waters between dubstep, techno and electronica, give a try to Shackleton and Invasion‘s “Wizard in dub”, or the two new Ikonika records on Planet Mu and Hyperdub? And yes, I’m told you all should know that we also have in stock the new Four Tet 12″ on Domino, containing a remix by Roska. We’ve also received some new 8-bit dub from the Jahtari roster, and some seriously broken hardcore from The Outside Agency.

Those of you who want things a bit rockier should enjoy the new Fuck Buttons album, “Tarot Sport”, Yo La Tengo‘s “Popular Songs” or a really nice DVD documenting Einstürzende Neubauten‘s first concert in the then not yet reunited East Berlin. After this, you might chill out with the long delayed but finally there vinyl version of Rafael Anton Irisarri‘s excellent “Daydreaming” album on Miasmah.

Finally, we’re feeling particularey generous lately and want to educate your ears a bit more. Therefore, everybody buying for more than 30 € in the coming days will be able to go home with a free copies of Nurse With Wound‘s “Paranoisa In Hi-Fi” CD, an album which the Dirter label is making available only through regular indie shops like ourself. So come, get some record and get acquainted with the nurse.

Here’s the list, rejoice, and enjoy and replay:

ELECTRO, DUBSTEP, IDM, BREAKCORE…
Oyaaarss – A La Holeage – 12″ – Abstractions – 9,90 €
Peter Kurten / Throttler – Arythmia / Human Value – 12″ – Amalgam – 8,90 €
The Teknoist / Scheme Boy – The Clone Wars – 12″ – Anticlone – 7,90 €
David Grubbs – Hybrid Song Box.4 – CD – Blue chopsticks – 17,90 €
DJ Hidden / Throttler – Grim Noire / Digital ID – 12″ – Bugklinik – 8,90 €
The Teknoist / Dolphin – The Glitch War Part 1 – 12″ – deathchant – 8,90 €
Four Tet (Joy Orbinson / Roska) – Love Cry remixes – 12″ – Domino – 9,90 €
Chasing Shadows – Ill / Amirah – 12″ – Hench – 8,90 €
Ikonika – Sahara Michael / Fish – 12″ – Hyperdub – 9,90 €
King Midas Sound (The Bug) – Waiting For You… – CD – Hyperdub – 17,90 €
Compilation – Thesis 1 – CD – Impulsive Art – 14,90 €
Tapes – Hissing Theatricals – 12″ – Jahtari – 7,90 €
Soom T – Dirty Money – 12″ – Jahtari – 7,90 €
Kowton – Stasis / Countryman – 12″ – Keysound – 7,90 €
Animals On Wheels – Dummy – 12″ – La Madame Avec Le Chien – 8,90 €
Skull / Matar & Greyone – Struktur Alpha / Tortured By Darkness – 12″ – Manticore – 8,90 €
Aerosol – Airborne – CD – N5MD – 15,90 €
Producer Snafu – The Brown Cloud – 12″ – NGM – 9,90 €
The Outside Agency – The Quadrilogy EP – 12″ – NGM – 9,90 €
Starkey / Pacheko / Dnae Beats – Street Bass 4 – 12″ – Seclusiasis – 9,90 €
Synkro – Lost For Words – 12″ – Smokin’ Sessions – 8,90 €
Hyetal – Neon Speech / Gold Or Soul – 12″ – Soul Motive – 8,90 €
Synkro – Autumn – 12″ – Synkro – 8,90 €
Pinch ft. Yolanda – Get Up – CD – Tectonic – 5,90 €
2562 – Unbalance – 3LP – Tectonic – 18,90 €
2562 – Unbalance – CD – Tectonic – 14,90 €
Shackleton / Invasion – Wizards In Dub – 12″ – This is Music – 9,90 €
Aphex Twin – 26 Mixes For Cash – 2CD – Warp – 11,90 €

EXPERIMENTAL, NOISE, AMBIENT…
Jesu – Opiate Sun – LP – Aural Exploits – 19,90 €
Einstürzende Neubauten – Elektrokohle (Von Wegen) – DVD – Good Movies – 23,90 €
Fred Bigot – mono/stereo – CD – Holy Mountain – 16,90 €
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Daydreaming – LP – Miasmah – 14,90 €
Oren Ambarchi – Intermission 2000-2008 – CD – Touch – 17,90 €

GUITARS:
John Fahey – America – 2LP – 4 Men With Beards – 37,90 €
Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport – 2LP – ATP – 18,90 €
Animal Collective – Danse Manatee – LP – Fat Cat – 24,90 €
The Raincoats – The Raincoats – LP – Kill Rock Stars – 18,90 €
Efterklang – Parades – CD – Leaf / Rumraket – 18,90 €
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs – 2LP – Matador – 20,90 €
Port Royal – Dying In Time – CD – N5MD – 15,90 €
Parenthetical Girls – Safe As Houses – 10″ – Tomlab – 15,90 €
Gay Against You – Righteous Signals – LP – Upset! The Rhythm – 18,90 €
Bibio – The Apple and the Tooth – EP – Warp – 20,90 €

TECHNO, MINIMAL & HOUSE:
Pepe Bradock – Path Of Most Resistance – 12″ – Atavisme – 9,90 €
Cassius – Youth Speed … remixes – 12″ – Cassius – 9,90 €
Tiefschwarz – Fall in / Keep On – 12″ – Cocoon – 9,90 €
Guti – Las Cosas Que No Se Tocan – 2LP – Desolat – 17,90 €
Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald – Recomposed remixes – 10″ – Deutsche Grammophon – 8,90 €
Kollektiv Turmstraße – Like The First Day – 12″ – Diynamic Music – 8,90 €
Chris Lattner – Deep As Hell – 12″ – Einmaleins Musik – 8,90 €
Simon Beeston – Dusty Black Room – 12″ – Highgrade – 8,90 €
Antonelli Electr. – Cancel – EP – Level – 9,90 €
Donnacha Costello – Ten Thousands Hours – 12″ – Look Long – 9,90 €
Gaiser – Flashed EP – 12″ – M_nus – 9,90 €
Marcel Knopf Feat. Camara – Crazy About Skinny Bitches – 12″ – Mo’s Ferry – 9,90 €
The Revenge – Leave Your Mind – 12″ – Mule – 8,90 €
Moritz Piske – Real One remixes – 12″ – Opossumrec – 8,90 €
Markus Nikolai – Kiss Your MInd – 12″ – Perlon – 9,90 €
Alexi Delano & Alejandro Sab – Slipping Through The Cracks – 12″ – Plus 8 – 9,90 €
Steve Bug – Collaboratory rmx 1 – 12″ – Poker Flat – 8,90 €
Fever Ray – Seven – 12″ – Rabid – 9,90 €
Compilation – Five Pt.2 – 12″ – Rotary Cocktail Recordings – 8,90 €
Betke – The Road, Loose And Blowsy – 12″ – Slices Of Life – 9,90 €
STL/Julius Steinhoff – Neurotransmitting Clouds On The Secret Freeway – 12″ – Smallville – 8,90 €
Niko Schwind Vs Kellerkind – s/t – 12″ – Stil vor Talent – 8,90 €
Format: B – Vivian Wheeler – 12″ – Stil vor Talent – 8,90 €
Marco Resmann & Mathias Mesteno – Di-Va – 12″ – Upon You – 9,90 €
Gunnar Stiller – Cubicle – 12″ – Upon You – 8,90 €
Chez & Trent – Inner City – 12″ – ,90 €

HIP HOP:
Themselves – Crowns Down – 2LP – Anticon – 19,90 €
2econd Class Citizen – A World Without – 2LP – Equinox – 17,90 €