Arte recently shot an interview with the british author John Niven during the promotion tour for his new book, and asked him about his favorite records. The whole thing took place at Dense, and here’s the result. Great accent, nice music selection and, of course, an even better record shop:
First Dense newsletter for 2010, and starting the year with rather problematic news. Our computer has decided to play tricks on us (probably feeling let down that we never use it to play mp3, and jealous of our turntables), and has decided to dismember, disassemble and discard our customer order files. As a result, all of our specific orders have been lost. Therefore, if you have ordered something from us in the last couple of months, please get in touch. Your records might be waiting for you here, but we just don’t know anymore who ordered what. Yeaah for 2010.
All’s not so grim at the beginning of this new year, though, as we’ve got a lot of good beats, bits and blips for everybody.
The lion’s share goes to the breaks and dubstep section, with some jewels such as the new Millie & Andrea record (as usual pretty limited and sure to be gone pretty soon), Untold’s new “Flexible” or three new records by Pinch, Joker and Distance on Tectonic. And I can’t but mention a CD which has brought a pretty wide consensus among us, the new Lone album on Werk Discs, “Ecstasy & Friends”.
More home-listening oriented? Check out some excellent new material by Simon Scott on Miasmah (a label we have been pushing for some time now), or the new album by Peter Broderick and Machinefabriek on Fanbomb.
A bit of product placement to close this newsletter: two of the labels closely affiliated with Dense have brought up some fresh sounds for this new year. Karaoke Kalk starts the decade with “Paper of Pins” by Wells, Schneider, Whitehead and Morgenstern, while Ad Noiseam’s alarm clock comes in the form of “The Words Below Limited Vinyl Edition vol. 3″ by DJ Hidden (the other two volumes and the album are of course still available).
Here’s the list. Enjoy, and again, please get in touch if you have placed any order through Dense in the last couple of months.
ELECTRONICA, DUBSTEP & OTHER BREAKS:
Helixir – Convultions / Let Me Drive Now – 7even Recordings – 12″ – 8.90 €
DJ Hidden – The Words Below 3 – Ad Noiseam – 12″ – 7.90 €
Harmonia & Eno – ´76 Remixes (Shackleton & Appleblim) – Amso – 12″ – 8.90 €
Kap Bambino – Batcaves (Jackson Remix) – Because Music – 12″ – 8.90 €
Kap Bambino – Red Sign – Because Music – 7″ – 4.90 €
Aardvark – Bloom 4 – Bloom – 12″ – 9.90 €
Untold – Flexible – Brainmath – 12″ – 9.90 €
Wu Tang Clan – Enter The Dubstep – Coa Records – 12″ – 8.90 €
Mrk 1 – I’ll kill you – Contagious Recordings – 12″ – 8.90 €
Millie & Andrea – Spectral Source / Ever Since – Daphne – 12″ – 9.90 €
Vivek – Kulture / Meditiation Rock – Deep Medi Musik – 12″ – 8.90 €
Bloody Beetroots – Warp – Dim Mak – 12″ – 8.90 €
Skream / Cluekid / Goth-Trad / Silkie – Sandsnake / Cyber Dub – Disfigured Dubs – 12″ – 8.90 €
The Count & Sinden – Strange Things – Domino – 12″ – 8.90 €
Rusko / L-Wiz – Girl From Codeine City / Acton Dread – Dub Thiefs – 12″ – 8.90 €
Untold – Yukon – Hemlock – 12″ – 9.90 €
Lost – Ironhide / Slaughtered – Hench – 12″ – 8.90 €
Imminent – Cask Strength – Hymen – 12″ – 8.90 €
King Midas Sound (The Bug) – Cool Out EP – Hyperdub – 12″ – 9.90 €
King Midas Sound (The Bug) – Dub Heavy – Hearts & Ghosts – Hyperdub – 12″ – 9.90 €
Mala / Cooly G – Hyperdub 5.5 – Hyperdub – 12″ – 9.90 €
Monolake – Silence – Imbalance – CD – 15.90 €
Wells/Schneider/Whitehead/Morgenstern – Paper Of Pins – Karaoke Kalk – LP + Cd – 15.90 €
Rioteer – Gabberism – Ketacore – 12″ – 9.90 €
Shabushabu – Sono FX – Kumaru – CD – 13.90 €
Vladislav Delay – Tummaa – Leaf – CD – 19.90 €
Compilation (Herve & Sinden) – Machines Don´t Care – Machines Don’t Care – CD – 9.90 €
Obakejaa (Shabushabu & Oorutaichi) – Manpukugo – Okimi Records – CD – 13.90 €
Shabushabu – All In One Pot – Okimi Records – CD – 13.90 €
Scuba – Sub:Stance – Ostgut – CD – 14.90 €
Boy From Brazil – L’Amour, Le Sexe – Pale Music – 12″ – 7.90 €
Kill The Dandies! – I Saw White Fields – Pale Music – CD – 14.90 €
Punx Soundcheck – Serial Killer Tracks 3 – Pale Music – 12″ – 7.90 €
Van Raveschot – Eden East – Pale Music – CD – 14.90 €
Gemmy – Johnny 5 – Planet Mu – 2 x 12” – 16.90 €
Starkey – Ok Luv – Planet Mu – 12″ – 8.90 €
Peverelist – Jarvik Mindstate – Punch Drunk Records – CD – 13.90 €
Peverelist – Jarvik Mindstate – Punch Drunk Records – 3LP – 23.90 €
Wisp – The Shimmering Hour – Rephlex – 2LP – 17.90 €
Icarus – Sylt – Remixes – Rump – CD – 16.90 €
Matias Aguayo – 99 Seconds EP – Soul Jazz – 12″ – 7.90 €
Distance – Clockwork – Tectonic – 12″ – 8.90 €
Joker – City Hopper – Tectonic – 12″ – 8.90 €
Pinch ft. Yolanda – Get Up remixes 1 – Tectonic – 12″ – 8.90 €
Compilation – Emerging Organisms 3 – Tympanic Audio – 2CD – 17.90 €
Compilation – Warp 2010 – Warp – CD – 7.90 €
Unknown Artist – Cunt Trax – Wireblock – 12″ – 10.90 €
AVANT-GARDE, NOISE, EXPERIMENTAL & OTHER WEIRDNESS:
Compilation – Werkstatt Klangapparate – Edition RZ – DVD – 16.90 €
Giacinto Scelsi – s/t – Edition RZ – 2CD – 18.90 €
Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza – s/t – Edition RZ – CD – 18.90 €
Horatiu Radulescu – Clepsydra Astray – Edition RZ – LP – 14.90 €
Jakob Ullmann – Voice, Books Ad Fire 3 – Edition RZ – CD – 17.90 €
Jani Christou – s/t – Edition RZ – CD – 18.90 €
John Mc Guire – Work For INstruments – Edition RZ – 2CD – 22.90 €
Josef Anton Riedl – Klangregionen 1951 – 2007 – Edition RZ – 2CD – 23.90 €
Patrick Kosk – Mondweiß – Edition RZ – CD – 15.90 €
Evapori – Transkript 17 / Transkript 18 – Entr’Acte – 12″ – 15.90 €
GES – Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation – Faitiche – 7″ – 7.90 €
Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek – Blank Grey Canvas Sky – Fang Bomb – LP – 15.90 €
Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek – Blank Grey Canvas Sky – Fang Bomb – CD – 14.90 €
Throbbing Gristle – Buddha Machine – Gristlelism – Black – FM 3 – CD – 30.90 €
Dakota Suite – The Night Just Keeps Coming In – Karaoke Kalk – CD – 15.90 €
Simon Scott – Navigare – Miasmah – CD – 14.90 €
OST – Alain Goraguer – La Planete Sauvage – Pathe Marconi – LP – 19.90 €
Os Mutantes – Jardim Eletrico – Scorpio Music – LP – 16.90 €
Os Mutantes – Os Mutantes – Scorpio Music – LP – 16.90 €
Compilation – Dr. Boogie – Heavy Jelly – Essential Instrumentals – Sub Rosa – LP – 14.90 €
Compilation – Dr. Boogie – Heavy Jelly – Essential Instrumentals – Sub Rosa – CD – 14.90 €
Peter Downsbrough – And That – Sub Rosa – LP – 15.90 €
Nurse With Wound – Paranoia In Hi-Fi – United Dirter – CD – 5.90 €
Lustmord – Beyond – Vaultworks – CD – 16.90 €
HIP HOP:
Nosaj Thing – Drift – Alpha Pup Records – CD – 15.90 €
Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – Bootleg – 2×12” – 19.90 €
The Beach Boys vs J Dilla – Pet Sounds: In The Key Of Dee – Bullion – 12″ – 18.90 €
Pseudo Slang – Broke & Copasetic – Fat Beats – EP – 7.90 €
Pseudo Slang – We’ll keep looking – Fat Beats – CD – 15.90 €
Pseudo Slang – We’ll keep looking – Fat Beats – LP – 15.90 €
Sneaky – Feel Like A King – The Bigchill Label – 7″ – 7.90 €
Lone – Ecstasy & Friends – Werk Discs – CD – 16.90 €
INDIE, METAL AND OTHER GUITARS:
The Hidden Cameras – Origin:Orphan – Arts & Crafts – CD – 15.90 €
Pan Sonic / Keiji Haino / Goem – Atak Night 3 – Atak – DVD – 24.90 €
Cluster – Curiosum – Bureau B – CD – 15.90 €
Cluster – Sowieso – Bureau B – CD – 15.90 €
Moebius / Plank / Neumeier – Zero Set – Bureau B – LP – 15.90 €
The Gnomes – The Gnomes – Crafty Recordings – CD – 9.90 €
Ethernet – 144 Pulsations Of Light – Kranky – CD – 18.90 €
Moimir Papalescu & The Nihilists – Analogue Voodoo – Pale Music – CD – 14.90 €
Boris – Japanese Heavy Rock Hits Vol. 3 – Southern Lord – 7″ – 8.90 €
Melt Banana – 666 – Unhip Records – 5” – 7.90 €
TECHNO & MINIMAL:
Andy Vaz – Shadow City EP – Background Records – 12″ – 7.90 €
Eddie Zarook – Who cares – Background Records – 12″ – 7.90 €
Kez YM – Butterfly EP – Background Records – 12″ – 7.90 €
Yore Bag – Black w/Red Print – Background Records – Record Bag – 7.90 €
Yore Bag – Black w/White Print – Background Records – Record Bag – 7.90 €
Flashnap – Suludada EP – Beyond – 12″ – 9.90 €
Erol Alkan & Boys Noize – Waves, Gonzales Reworrks – Boysnoize Records – 10″ – 9.90 €
AGF / Delay – Connection Remixes – Bpitch Control – 12″ – 8.90 €
Paul Kalkbrenner – Berlin Calling – The Movie – Bpitch Control – 2 DVD – 28.90 €
Uner – Uner & Friens EP – Diynamic Music – 12″ – 8.90 €
Deadbeat & Fenin – Romeo Kalimba – Echocord – 12″ – 8.90 €
Tiger & Woods – Caddy Shag EP – Editainment – 12″ – 9.90 €
Mario Basanov – Apres 4 – Future Classic – 12″ – 9.90 €
Egbert – Dezelfde Weg EP – Gem Records – 12″ – 9.90 €
Slagsmalsklubben – Brutal Weapons – Kitsune – 10″ – 8.90 €
Ada – Lovestoned Remixes – Kompakt – 12″ – 8.90 €
The Field – Yesterday And Today – Kompakt – 12″ – 8.90 €
Anders Ilar – Cellular Memories EP – Level – 12″ – 9.90 €
Hobo – Trackz – M_nus – 12″ – 8.90 €
Marco Carola – Walking Dog – M_nus – 12″ – 9.90 €
Ion Ludwig – I Won’t Listen – Motivbank – 12″ – 9.90 €
Nsi. – Eitherrway – Non Standard Productions – 12″ – 9.90 €
Planetary Assault Systems – Remixes – Ostgut – 12″ – 7.90 €
Maayan Nidam – Don’t Know Why – Perlon – 12″ – 9.90 €
Compilation – 10 Years Sender – 2 – Sender – 12″ – 8.90 €
Will Saul – Tech Noir – Simple – 12″ – 7.90 €
&Me, Fischer&Kleber – Bleed – Souvenir – 12″ – 9.90 €
Oliver Koletzki – Großstadtmärchen Remixed – Stil vor Talent – 12″ – 8.90 €
Guy Gerber – My Invisible Romance – Supplements – 2 x 12” – 17.90 €
Nico Purman – Rhapsodies – Vakant – 12″ – 9.90 €
PRINTED MATTER:
De:Bug – #139 (Januar 10) – de:bug – Magazin – 3.80 €
Neural – #32 (English Edition) – Neural – Magazin – 6.00 €
Neural – #34 (English Edition) – Neural – Magazin – 6.00 €
Uebergrund – Fotomagazin – Uebergrund – Book – 8.00 €
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 €
Freunde,
diese Woche haben wir was ganz Feines für euch! Wir verlosen wir 2×2 Karten für das Wordsound Label-Showcase im Josef heute abend! Zu Wordsound als Label und Spectre und Sensational als Künstler muss man wohl kaum was sagen, da sie eindeutig ein paar Meilensteine in den Bereichen Hip Hop und Dub gesetzt haben. Wer sie kennt, wird sowieso heute Abend dort sein und wer noch nicht von ihnen gehört hat, bildet sich mit Hilfe der Links weiter und kommt dann garantiert auch vorbei. Und vier von euch sogar umsonst. Also, schreibt uns ‘ne Mail an dates (at) dense-shop.de und mit etwas Glück und Voodoo könnt ihr euch zu den Glücklichen zählen!
Das Kalyug Festival bringt nach langer Zeit mal wieder Braunschweigs wichtigsten musikalischen Export auf eine Berliner Bühne: Troum. Ehemals als Maeror Tri unterwegs sind die Drone Records Macher bekannt für ihre Mischung aus analogem Ambient und ritualhaften Soundscapes, die manchmal in den Post-Rock reichen. Eine intensive Atmosphäre ist garantiert.
Wir haben sie euch ja vor ein paar Monaten schon Mal empfohlen und tun es dieses Mal wieder: Fliehende Stürme, Deutschlands deprimierteste Düsterpunk-Band ist mal wieder in der Stadt. Also, setzt euch ein Vogelnest auf den Kopf, holt die Lederjacke mit dem Bauhaus-Patch aus dem Schrank und packt ‘ne Flasche Sterni als Reiseproviant ein…
Darüber hinaus gibt es am Donnerstag einen Abend mit der Scape-Supergroup Groupshow (Jan Jelinek, Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann), bei dem mal wieder gezeigt wird, wo der Hammer in Sachen improvisierter Musik hängt. Und auch das Umlaut-Festival beginnt und lädt zu vier Tagen Musik, Kunst und Performances ein.
Wie ihr seht steht mal wieder einiges an. Wenn ihr aber zwischendurch von all der Aufregung eine Pause braucht kommt bei uns vorbei, wir vermissen euch schon. Aber das wisst ihr wahrscheinlich, oder?
Euer Dense Records Shop.
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a) 02.10.: Wordsound – Crooked Redux Tour 2009 @ Josef
b) 02.10.: Kalyug Festival pt. I @ Raum18
c) 03.10.: Kalyug Festival pt. II@ Wallywoods
d) 07.10.: Fliehende Stürme @ Kato
e) 08.10.: Groupshow @ White Rabbit
f) 08.10.: Umlaut Festival (bis 11.10.) @ Theaterkappele & AT.18
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Freitag, 02.10.:
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WORDSOUND – CROOKED REDUX
European Tour 2009
live:
SPECTRE (Wordsound / Black Hoodz)
http://myspace.com/spectretheillsaint
SENSATIONAL (Wordsound / Quatermass)
http://myspace.com/chunkobliss
MENTOL NOMAD (Wordsound / TheAgriculture)
http://myspace.com/mentolnomad
X.A.CUTE SOUNDSYSTEM (Anorakism / Mesk)
http://www.myspace.com/xacutesoundsystem
BOSSY (Way Of The Dub // Barish Rec)
http://myspace.com/bizzybossy
“They already sounded like today’s hipsters Flying Lotus and Samiyam at the end of the nineties.” (Generation Bass)
…. und sie kommen wieder: Der König des freigeistigen Krächz-Rap, der unkorrumpierbare Don des Underground-Dub und sein begabtester Adept. Sensational, Spectreund Mentol Nomad öffnen die Pforten der Wahrnehmung als klandestines Dreigstirn im Zeichen des Bass. Auf geheimer Mission verbreiten sie eine einmalige, weltweit einflussreiche Soundmixtur aus Hip-Hop, Dub, outernationalen Beats und tiefempfundener Basswellen-Esoterik direkt aus den Kerkern des verrottetenden großen Apfels. WordSound wurde Mitte der 90er Jahre von Skiz Fernando Jr. und einer kleinen Gruppe von befreundeten Bassverrückten gegründet, die in den Kellern und Studios von Brooklyn eine düstere, urbane, politisch und mystisch aufgeladene Spielart von Dub produzierten. Damit nahmen Producer und Künstler wie Spectre (Fernandos Pseudonym), Roots Control, Scarab, Professor Shehab, We™, Bill Laswell und viele andere der auf den „Crooklyn Dub Consortium“ Samplern vertretenen Künstler, einige Merkmale vorweg, die heute dem britische 2Step-Derivat Dubstep ihren Reiz verleihen: die verschleppten Tempi, die verrauchte Klangästhetik, das Interesse für den Orient und vor allem den massiven Bass. Darüber hinaus erschienen auf WordSound LPs aus den Bereichen Drum&Bass/World Music (Leon Lamont, Dr. Israel), eine Zusammenarbeit von DJ Vadim und Kevin Martin (erstmals unter dem Namen The Bug), eine Serie von Hip-Hop-Instrumentals mit Beats von u.a. Rob Swift und Jungle Brother Afrika Baby Bam (Subterranean Hits Vol 1–3), sowie die ersten Veröffentlichungen von rappenden Grenzgängern wie dem verrückten MC Paul Barman oder auch dem jüngst wiedervereinigten Anti Pop Consortium auf dem Vinyl-only-Ableger Black Hoodz. Und nur wenige wissen, dass auch Techno-Liebling Superpitcher dort unter dem Namen Sir Positive eine Handvoll derber Dubs veröffentlichte. Ein Höhepunkt der WordSound-History ist sicherlich „Crooked“, ein selbstproduzierter, semibiographischer Film über Aufstieg und Fall eines genialen Rappers, gespielt von einem der Vorzeigeacts des Labels: Sensational. Ehemaliges Mitglied der Jungle Brothers, ein Young Dirty Bastard und wohl der einzige Rapper, der auch über Stockhausen reimen kann. Nach Jahren der erfolgreichen Zusammenarbeit haben Spectre und Sensational mit “Acid & Bass” erstmal ein gemeinsames Album eingepielt und begeben sich abermals auf ihre gefährliche Mission durch Zentraleuropa. Dritter Mann ist dieses Jahr der zwischenzeitlich in Japan ansässige DJ, Producer und Musiker Mentol Nomad, der in „Crooked“ die zweite, an Skiz’ Biographie angelehnte Hauptrolle spielte und der sein Debut „Mentallica … and its Inhabitants“ ebenfalls auf WordSound veröffentlichte. Seitdem sind mit „Image Eye Nation“ und „Pineal Proof“ zwei deutlich gereifte Nachfolger erschienen, die das WordSound Erbe eindrucksvoll ins ins neue Jahrtausend tragen.
22 Uhr
10€
Josef (Maria am Ostbahnhof)
An der Schillingbrücke/ Stralauer Platz 33-34
10243 Berlin – F’hain
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KALYUG FESTIVAL pt. I
live:
TROUM
SOLAR SKELETONS
LUNAR DOPA
BEX
+ records and merchandise: (T)reue um (T)reue & Night On Earth Records
Can there be a more beautiful place to get over the national holiday weekend than a vacant Berlin factory hall? A place that is recaptured by counterculture every now and then for concert experiments and sound installations.
In October’s early dawning a pan-european brigade of second hand vanguards, deep drone operators and psychedelic post-industrialists will gather in exactly that kind of place to celebrate a double night orgy in order to paint the eschaton deserts of our everyday lives in brand new colours.
22 Uhr (pünktlich)
Raum 18
Ziegrastraße 11
12057 Berlin – Neukölln
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Samstag, 03.10.:
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KALYUG FESTIVAL pt. II (different location)
live:
DE GRÂCE (ex- HIS DIVINE GRACE, feat. Laszlo P.S. and Soeur Estaque Immakulata)
1997EV
TZII
NIEDOWIERZANIE
+ records and merchandise: (T)reue um (T)reue & Night On Earth Records
Can there be a more beautiful place to get over the national holiday weekend than a vacant Berlin factory hall? A place that is recaptured by counterculture every now and then for concert experiments and sound installations.
In October’s early dawning a pan-european brigade of second hand vanguards, deep drone operators and psychedelic post-industrialists will gather in exactly that kind of place to celebrate a double night orgy in order to paint the eschaton deserts of our everyday lives in brand new colours.
22 Uhr (pünktlich)
Wallywoods / Kulturhaus Peter Edel (Seiteneingang)
Berliner Allee 125
13088 Berlin – Weissensee
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Mittwoch, 07.10.:
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FLIEHENDE STÜRME
http://www.myspace.com/fliehendestrme
VELVET CONDOM
http://www.myspace.com/velvetcondom
20 Uhr
9,50 € VVK
Kato
U-Bhf. Schlesisches Tor
10997 Berlin – Kreuzberg
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Donnerstag, 08.10.:
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GROUPSHOW
http://www.myspace.com/thegroupshow
GROUPSHOW is a project by three producers of electronic music based in Berlin: Jan Jelinek, Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann.
The three artists, steeped in the formal language of minimalism, engage in a boundary-free collective improvisation that has its ancestors in both Fluxus and Krautrock. GROUPSHOW performances do not recreate previously rehearsed or recorded music. Instead, they attempt to make an open-ended aesthetic process both audible and tangible.
The pursuit of these aims has several practical consequences. Wherever possible, GROUPSHOW position themselves and their equipment in the middle of the performance space, avoiding the use of a stage, risers or any kind of spatial separation between performer and audience. The lighting remains static and clinical throughout the performance while real-time video, filming from directly above the musicians and projected onto a wall or screen, shows the three members playing and manipulating their tangled pile of equipment.
Whenever possible, GROUPSHOW begin playing before any audience members enter, thus deliberately avoiding the dramaturgical imperative of an opening from which the rest of the musical narrative is expected to unfold. As the intensity of the music and degree of the audience’s attention are both subject to flux, GROUPSHOW set no time limit to their performances and members of the audience are free to come and go, engage and disengage with the music as they please.
20 Uhr
White Rabbit / Gallerie der Künste
Potsdamer Str. 98
10785 Berlin
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UMLAUT FESTIVAL (08.10. – 11.10.)
http://www.myspace.com/umlautfestival
08.10. (Theaterkapelle), 21h:
“COMPOSITION 11″
Pierre-Antoine Badaroux
“BB”
Florian Bergmann – bcl (GER)
Clement Nourry – git (FRA)
Fred Jaques – irish bouzouki (BEL)
Hannes Lingens – acc (GER)
“PEEPING TOM”
Pierre-Antoine Badaroux – sax (FRA)
Joel Grip – db (SWE)
Antonin Gerbal – dr (FRA)
09.10. (Theaterkapelle), 21h:
“FO[U]R ALTO + DANCE”
Florian Bergmann – sax
Special Guest – sax (GER)
Christian Weidner – sax (GER)
Benjamin Weidekamp – sax (GER)
Barbara Pereyra – dance (ARG)
Valeria Garre – dance (ARG)
“LYENN”
Fred Lyenn Jaques – voice/baritone guitar/irish bouzouki
“OBLIQ & CHRISTOF KURZMANN”
Pierre Borel – sax (FRA)
Derek Shirley – db (CAN)
Hannes Lingens – dr (GER)
Guest:
Christof Kurzmann – g3 & lloopp. (AUT)
10.10. (AT.18), 16h:
spontaneous Solos
related to works of art
by Dominique Piveteaud
11.10.09 (AT.18), 20h:
“DOWLAND WATERS”
Almut Kühne – voc (GER)
Johanna Borchert – pno (GER)
“RISSER/RÜHL”
Joris Rühl – cl (FRA)
Eve Risser – pno (FRA)
“HOMMAGE À PER-HENRIK WALLIN”
Hermann Keller – p
Joel Grip – db
Sven-Ake Johansson – dr (SWE)
“CUT/PASTE”
Performance
by Dominique Piveteaud
Umlaut ist ein Netzwerk junger europäischer Musikerinnen und Musiker mit dem Ziel künstlerische Prozesse zu fördern. Kern des Netzwerks ist das Independant Label Umlaut Records.
Das Umlaut Festival Berlin ist eine Initiative von Florian Bergmann, Pierre Borel und Hannes Lingens und findet 2009 zum ersten Mal statt.
Theaterkapelle
Boxhagener Str. 99
10245 Berlin – F’hain
AT.18
Jungstr. 18
10247 Berlin – F’hain
