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UME 002LP
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Restokced. Stephan Mathieu's FrequencyLib was originally released in 2001 on Mille Plateaux's Ritornell sub-label. A quintessential document of the late 1990s/early 2000s Pismo PowerBook era of digitally manipulated audio, FrequencyLib is an adept meditation on the entropic possibilities inherent in popular music. Included with this reissue is the complementary Sad Mac Studies EP -- first issued in a run of 100 on Robert Meijer's boutique En/Of label. Exploring similar themes/processes as FrequencyLib, Sad Mac Studies reimagines and deconstructs the sonic world of Sesame Street.
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DSART 006CD
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2009 digipack release. Radioland is Stephan Mathieu's 5th full length studio work, following his acclaimed The Sad Mac CD from 2004. Exclusively based on real-time processed shortwave radio signals, Radioland takes the listener on a carpet ride across endless, majestic shimmering landscapes. Radioland is a mesmerizing reflection on the bubble of information that's all around us, all the time, by one of the truly unique minds in today's abstract digitalia. "...this was the most complete and fully-realized Mathieu recording to date, one that took his familiar methods of signal processing and applied them to a set of radio transitions for one of the most haunting pieces of grainy ambient music to emerge this year. " -- Dusted
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HAPNA 018CD
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"Stephan Mathieu is an electronic musician from Saarbruecken, Germany. Starting out as a drummer in various improvised contexts he made the switch to working mainly with computers in the late 90´s. Since then he has released a string of highly acclaimed recordings on labels like Ritornell, Fällt and Orthlorng Musork. His music is mostly based on acoustic instruments but so far it has always been more or less heavily computer processed. On Tape is a pivotal work for Mathieu as this is the first time we hear him leaving his source material unprocessed. Mathieu started building this record from recordings provided to him by Swedish trio Tape and saxophonist Magnus Granberg. Adding his own subtle drumming, field recordings and electronics this is a beautiful album that weaves elements from the electronic and acoustic worlds to a seamless whole. A very clear and uncomplicated atmosphere around this piece distinguishes it from a lot of electronic music."
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KP 3012
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Original recordings from a Kapotte Muziek concert from August 1996, reworked by Stephan Mathieu. "With my rework for the Dutch band Kapotte Muziek, this concept topped itself out. I spent eight months processing raw material, resulting in the usual several gigabytes. When it was about time for me to finish the piece I returned to my files to edit them down in ProTools (Mac OS9). I re-listened to everything, made some adjustments, and then rebooted in OSX to work in Soundhack. After a little while my machine crashed, hard -- so hard that all I could do to restart it was to take out the batteries. When I finally rebooted in OSX it did nothing else but play this music for 30 minutes, a medley of my Kapotte Muziek material, finished by the computer itself. Kapotte Muziek, ironically enough, translates as 'damaged music'."
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