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BINE 037CD
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Live, love, laugh. Pain, shame, guilt. Grief, consolation, action. Hope, healing, helplessness. Loneliness, egoism, disappointment. Transit-less, we experience a harmonious combination of all these and many more emotions that mesmerize us hypnotically. Here you are confronted with the truth. Uniquely smartly packaged, we may have to end up with the fact that what we can feel from one minute to the next is, indeed, irritable and engaging, but it is exactly this property that makes us human. The ten very different titles devoted to different languages and proverbs take the listener on a journey throughout the emotional worlds of human existence. Or can the interpreted be psychologized at this point, and should the journey be spoken of throughout his sentiment? Mario Hammer's music is a time of reflection and pondering. He calls it life experience. The listener may be part of this realization and perhaps will be aware of how often they can find themselves in the tracks. It is both the creativity, as well as the enormous sensitivity to sounds and sound colors, that make up this album. For fourteen months, Mario Hammer, in collaboration with Josef Steinbüchel, developed an emotion and sound carousel that not only touches the senses, but also stimulates the listener to think. Already the debut album L'esprit de L'escalier (TRAUM 036CD, 2015) was a complete success and gave the listeners a wonderful differentness. Mario Hammer and the Lonely Robot release their new album Je L'ai Câlissée Là is released on BineMusic. Includes a remix by Hannes Bieger.
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TRAUM 200EP
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Mario Hammer And The Lonely Robot present two remixes and one original from their album L'esprit de L'escalier (TRAUM 036CD, 2015). Extrawelt's remix of "Mono No Aware / L'esprit de L'escalier" starts off very quiet, then weaves in accelerating techno beats and electro beats. Cologne born artist Thyladomid aka Charles Thiemann teams up with Jonas Mantey. They present a sensual low-key melodic remix of "Sirimiri (Hammersche Modularverschaltung)" that forgets about stunts focusing on a fine blend of sounds. For the last track, Mario Hammer has written a slightly different version of his album track "Misodoctakleidist" adding piano parts.
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TRAUM 036CD
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This full-length CD by Mario Hammer and the Lonely Robot might come as a surprise -- but Mario has left traces of his skill before, particularly with his modular contributions to Traum's Tour de Traum series and his work as RWAC. Listeners have since caught up to him -- Robert Babicz asked him for remixes -- and Mario has been inspired by DJs like Dominik Eulberg to leave the path of dance culture and simply work with sounds. The result is a 60-minute non-dance full-analog piece of modular music: L'esprit de L'escalier. Mario has been a fan of old analog synths for most of his life and, for some of this album's tracks, has teamed up with Josef Steinbüchel, who shares a similar love for synths. They wrote the album's 13 tracks over a year, with many ideas born in the writing process. Only "Metaphysical Orchestra" and "Sirimiri (Hammersche Modularverschaltung)" are previously released, and appear here in different versions. The album is loosely organized around BPM by following the speed of LFOs and arpeggiators to make the experience totally soothing. The album can be divided roughly into two parts; the mood switches about hallway through when "Yugon" introduces a beautiful and darker side. The pulsating "Mono No Aware" sets free a stream of sounds not unlike a focused, intensive, golden sunbeam before moving toward gracefully archaic melodies. "Chakwira" starts with a polyphonic melody, dazzling in its melancholic tone, then blends into the soothing and warm "Hyggelig," with an enveloping sound as gigantic as the legendary synth sound on Vapourspace's "Gravitational Arch of 10" (Plus 8, 1993). "L'esprit de L'escalier" is one of two almost-ten-minute tracks, and it makes use of a spectacular melodic sequence. On "Sirimiri (Hammersche Modularverschaltung)," Amon Düül, Klaus Schulze, and Cluster spring to mind here. "Symphony of Pulsing" follows in an incredible transition before "Yuyin" calms things down with a loose, improvised feeling. "Eigengrau" catches the remnants to form a track that connects to "Sirimiri," but in a different direction. The final minute of closer "Nefelibata" is enhanced with a sound that Mario Hammer came across, bringing the album to a beautiful analog end.
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