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12"
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SMALL 077EP
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$20.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 9/4/2026
Rupert Marnie, co-founder of The Press Group and Remoto Records, makes his debut on Smallville with some serious curveball action. Once you immerse yourself in the wonderful breadth of Hamburg's subculture, it is quite likely that you will soon hear about Matthias Schubert also known as Rupert Marnie. Four raw and gritty tracks, deeply driving yet bouncy, wobbly at times and definitely with a Curveball-appeal and no compromises.
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TPG 010LP
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Rupert Marnie's debut album Evocative Rhythm Experience is a singular object to begin with. Split over two parts, each one working as an individual piece and under seemingly endless configurations when played together on a pair of record players, "Evocative Rhythm" is an elusive piece of musical abstraction you will play a crucial role in shaping, fashioning it as you dabble with it -- certainly curious and cautious at first, then manipulating its raw clay more firmly as you envision it with a clearer idea of where to go with it. Or is that just a mirage? Fruit of geographical meanderings through Hamburg's tentacular architecture, Rupert Marnie's maiden full-length effort reflects that of the city's tonal, rhythmic and harmonic structures in a uniquely vibrant way: dance-y and not, ethereal and full-bodied, oneiric and anchored. From field recordings garnered here and there across town, then either truncated, morphed, stretched out beyond recognition via a wide palette of technical means (granular synthesis, time-stretching, use of resonators, delay, reverb, pitch-shifting...), Marnie weaves a narrative that bridges the gap continually betwixt non-formulaic beatless meditation and proper club-focused functionality, plus the countless possible creations that will emerge when combining both sides of the disc to form your own story out the battery of elements at reach. Evocative Rhythm Experience is much more than the sum of its parts. A mirage of ambient, techno, electro, whatever style and labels that could be stuck all over it, yet never managing to say a true word of it.
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TPG 003EP
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The Press Group's new issue is a tale of lost love and broken hearts. "Blaine Mcconchie" is a constantly evolving minimal-heyday-inspired trip through bleeping artifacts driven by an organ chord, while on the flipside "Dog Park" is a classic groover for lush summer evenings. Frankfurt's Phil Evans gives "Blaine Mcconchie" his treatment, taking the central melody and building a sparse rhythm workout around it. 180 gram vinyl; Transparent sleeve.
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TPG 002-5EP
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It was in June of 1980. Rupert Marnie met spiritual highness Frater loannis and became his apprentice. The Magus told him invaluable things, like controlling his precious bodily fluids and the holistic mastery of others' endocrine glands. The greatest wisdom though reached him on his seventh day, when Frater loannis professed him an ancient ritual that allowed him to meet the Titan UFOhagen, aka CDboy. Rupert stood in awe, immediately losing his newly gained fluid control, and started crafting a piece of music, that would remind mankind that not all is lost, as long as there is almighty Ufohagen. Single-sided.
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TPG 002EP
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The Press Group presents Rupert Marnie's 4 Days EP. This EP moves into the sinister territory of pre-postmodern robotics, Japanese swamps and the bird call of the ending of a century. An opaque surface reflecting a tremble in the mist - Onibaba's (1964) gaze dipped in thickness.
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TPG 001EP
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180-gram vinyl. Hamburg-based label The Press Group spreads 300 copies of fine, raw, and modern house cuts. The Masala EP is not only the label's first release, but also the debut of label cofounder Rupert Marnie. The record brings three tracks for the dancefloor. Starting with some dubbed-out 115-BPM followed by more peak-time-friendly material and a melodious track for after hours.
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