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OSTGUT 024LP
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2x12" version. Includes download code. Sam Barker and Andreas Baumecker's lives have always revolved around different kinds of music. That's partly why their productions as Barker & Baumecker are more unpredictable, harder to pin down than what you might expect from a label borne out of a techno club. And while their music is clearly built for dancing, listening to it reveals a deep love and respect for many forms of electronic music. Their second album, Turns, is an amalgamation of their unique musical minds, transcending electronic music genres and styles, while further developing and refining the Barker & Baumecker sound aesthetic. With two EPs, an album, and almost 20 remixes under their belt, Barker & Baumecker continue to steadily explore and reshape their shared electronic musical interests, especially in techno, bass, breaks, and experimental terrain. Talking about the title of the album, Barker explains, "the two of us have had quite a lot of ups and downs since the last record, and when you're in a collaboration where you only work together in real-time, in person, both people need to be in the right frame of mind." Baumecker adds, "Turns also had something to do with the tracks - almost every one turns towards the middle." While none of the tracks on Turns are merely functional, Barker & Baumecker do, of course, envision them in the club. There's nothing typical about any of these tracks, but they each share a clean aesthetic and sound palette with a sense of depth and compositional purpose. The ambient intro of album opener "Senden" morphs into a Reichian flow. The low-end drums of "Encipher & Decipher" weigh down the dreamy melodic synths. "Club Entropicana" reduces rhythm and sound to machine signals, akin to Raster-Noton's starkness. Both "Turnhalle" and "Nocturnal" incorporate trance euphoria with break-beats but in different ways, while closer "Statik" has a deliciously slippery garage pulse guiding it through a journey towards house bliss. Never knowing where they'll draw from next, Turns feels like Barker & Baumecker are expanding and refining their own musical dialect. Like most of the music they're both drawn to, it's thoughtful, rich, and ever evolving, but always and completely committed to the club.
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OSTGUT 038CD
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Sam Barker and Andreas Baumecker's lives have always revolved around different kinds of music. That's partly why their productions as Barker & Baumecker are more unpredictable, harder to pin down than what you might expect from a label borne out of a techno club. And while their music is clearly built for dancing, listening to it reveals a deep love and respect for many forms of electronic music. Their second album, Turns, is an amalgamation of their unique musical minds, transcending electronic music genres and styles, while further developing and refining the Barker & Baumecker sound aesthetic. With two EPs, an album, and almost 20 remixes under their belt, Barker & Baumecker continue to steadily explore and reshape their shared electronic musical interests, especially in techno, bass, breaks, and experimental terrain. Talking about the title of the album, Barker explains, "the two of us have had quite a lot of ups and downs since the last record, and when you're in a collaboration where you only work together in real-time, in person, both people need to be in the right frame of mind." Baumecker adds, "Turns also had something to do with the tracks - almost every one turns towards the middle." While none of the tracks on Turns are merely functional, Barker & Baumecker do, of course, envision them in the club. There's nothing typical about any of these tracks, but they each share a clean aesthetic and sound palette with a sense of depth and compositional purpose. The ambient intro of album opener "Senden" morphs into a Reichian flow. The low-end drums of "Encipher & Decipher" weigh down the dreamy melodic synths. "Club Entropicana" reduces rhythm and sound to machine signals, akin to Raster-Noton's starkness. Both "Turnhalle" and "Nocturnal" incorporate trance euphoria with break-beats but in different ways, while closer "Statik" has a deliciously slippery garage pulse guiding it through a journey towards house bliss. Never knowing where they'll draw from next, Turns feels like Barker & Baumecker are expanding and refining their own musical dialect. Like most of the music they're both drawn to, it's thoughtful, rich, and ever evolving, but always and completely committed to the club.
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OSTGUT 099EP
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Barker & Baumecker present the two track 12" Love Hertz/Cipher. "Love Hertz" is a blissful, uplifting, melodic and - at times - bluesy UK bass-inspired cut, shuffling and playfully flicking throughout. The record's alternate lead track "Cipher" is a rework of a two-part track. The track's atmospheric build-up eventually turns in favor of a heavy, dark kick drum and multi-layered percussion, feeling at times as if the duo's hammering onto Berghain's steel staircase. Barker & Baumecker are sound fetishists, carefully and scrupulously sculpting their clang on analog synth machinery, all without turning to cacophony and always staying compositionally sound.
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OSTGUT 062EP
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Sam Barker & Andreas Baumecker present reworkings of four tracks from their Transsektoral (OSTGUT 011LP/022CD) album in new, exciting flavors. Machinedrum's house version of "No Body" is half-tool, half-anthem and Kobosil's techno workout of "Silo" impresses with its punishing drive, subtle, hypnotic synth sounds, escalating hi-hats and crystal-clear production. Blawan takes "Crows" to the nether regions of tough, full-blown industrial darkness while Third Side (comprised of Lucretio, Marieu and Steffi) lend pumping, grooving beats and basses somewhere beyond house and techno.
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OSTGUT 011LP
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Techno comes in all shapes and sizes, and few recent outfits embody that truth more obviously than Berlin's Barker & Baumecker. One operates as Barker/Voltek and the other as nd_baumecker. Both solo projects exhibit unconventional takes on techno inflected by the influence of other genres, from glitch to dubstep to ambient and beyond. Judging from their output so far on Ostgut Ton, one gets the idea that these fellows know a lot about electronic music; their label debut Candyflip was a 9-minute opus spelled out in broken beats and trance-like tones, the kind of track that seems to reference a million different things in one coherent, confident statement. On the double vinyl version, the tracks have been mastered and positioned for maximum analog audio performance.
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OSTGUT 022CD
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Techno comes in all shapes and sizes, and few recent outfits embody that truth more obviously than Berlin's Barker & Baumecker. One operates as Barker/Voltek and the other as nd_baumecker. Both solo projects exhibit unconventional takes on techno inflected by the influence of other genres, from glitch to dubstep to ambient and beyond. Judging from their output so far on Ostgut Ton, one gets the idea that these fellows know a lot about electronic music; their label debut Candyflip was a 9-minute opus spelled out in broken beats and trance-like tones, the kind of track that seems to reference a million different things in one coherent, confident statement.
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OSTGUT 054EP
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Andreas Baumecker (nd_baumecker) and Sam Barker (Voltek) deliver on their second 12" for Ostgut Ton. "A Murder Of Crows (Part 1)" is produced to burn the floor. The dark techno, deep moods and killer breaks lend themselves perfectly to feed the dance-hungry crowds and the far-away siren takes care of the shivers down your spine. "Murder Of Crows (Part 2)" takes the same rhythm track, removes the pumping bass of the A-side and shifts into a not-so-obvious, almost tripping groove.
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OSTGUT 040EP
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Andreas Baumecker and Sam Barker are a production partnership closely founded upon their love for more experimental dance sounds. Straddling the boundaries between emotional, classically-inspired techno and heavy broken beat electronics, "Candyflip" is a wonderfully analog-sounding tribute to years in the underground. Echoes of the past resound throughout this moody epic while stark, futuristic elements urge it forward. Stepping into "The Hole," a darker sound takes precedence, as a deep, tripping techno jam unfolds from the pair's machines.
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