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CZ 024CD
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Vienna-based label comfortzone presents Decon, the debut release from Tokyo-based duo RESHAFT and the result of a demo tape that the duo sent comfortzone in the summer of 2014. RESHAFT is the collaborative project of Mizukami Ryuta (Motoro Faam) and Yui Onodera. Their music contains elements of minimal dub techno, industrial techno, ambient, and experimental music and reflects a particular way of merging beats and dark textures into slowly evolving compositions. Their rhythmic suits integrate digital anomalies, walls of distortion, micro-noises, voices, and field recordings into a blend of techno grooves and atmospheric soundscapes, always on the edge between experimental music and club culture. Written and recorded by RESHAFT in Tokyo, 2013-2014. Mastered by Martin Siewert.
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CZ 017LP
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LP version. Kumbia Queers are an all-female band hailing from Argentina and Mexico. The six ladies present their third full-length album on the Viennese label Comfortzone. Up to now, they have entertained crowds all over the world, mainly with a bunch of fabulous covers of songs by Madonna, The Cure, Nancy Sinatra and others. On their new album Pecados Tropicales they are now presenting their very own material. The hipster and electronic scenes in New York and Europe (Gotan Project, Quantic, huge electro-cumbia parties) are currently discovering the charm of traditional cumbia sound. Kumbia Queers are reinterpreting the usual Latin-American macho posing in their unique style and combine their wild party sound with a political message. The band was founded after a couple of drinks in 2007 in an effort to take on the legacy of cumbia. Originally the (punk rock) ladies didn't really know how to play this old ghetto music ("Cumbia Villera"). But they soon found out that cumbia is part of everyone's DNA, as singer Ali put it. Kumbia Queers call their style "1000% tropi-punk," a wild mixture of Afro-Cuban and Latin-American cumbia with queerness and the spirit of punk.
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CZ 017CD
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Kumbia Queers are an all-female band hailing from Argentina and Mexico. The six ladies present their third full-length album on the Viennese label Comfortzone. Up to now, they have entertained crowds all over the world, mainly with a bunch of fabulous covers of songs by Madonna, The Cure, Nancy Sinatra and others. On their new album Pecados Tropicales they are now presenting their very own material. The hipster and electronic scenes in New York and Europe (Gotan Project, Quantic, huge electro-cumbia parties) are currently discovering the charm of traditional cumbia sound. Kumbia Queers are reinterpreting the usual Latin-American macho posing in their unique style and combine their wild party sound with a political message. The band was founded after a couple of drinks in 2007 in an effort to take on the legacy of cumbia. Originally the (punk rock) ladies didn't really know how to play this old ghetto music ("Cumbia Villera"). But they soon found out that cumbia is part of everyone's DNA, as singer Ali put it. Kumbia Queers call their style "1000% tropi-punk," a wild mixture of Afro-Cuban and Latin-American cumbia with queerness and the spirit of punk.
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CZ 019EP
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Station Rose/STR was founded by Gary Danner (The Vouge) and visual artist Elisa Rose in Vienna in 1988. After 20 years abroad and living in Frankfurt, Germany for many years, Station Rose returned to Vienna in 2011 and started to produce music again. The new tracks experiment with dubstep, techno, Kraut and psychedelic, creating a unique sound sometimes underlayed with political issues, sometimes with a sweet pop approach.
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CZ 010EP
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"Von Der Liebe" was one of the secret hits on Chra's debut record Derive, which was released in 2009. The track is equally a technoid song as well as an electronic chanson and thereby creates a new relation between techno and melancholia. Mathias Schaffhäuser adds even more techno and also despair in his two remixes, creating two pieces that bring a lost feeling onto the dancefloor.
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CZ 013EP
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The Kumbia Queers were roaming around Berlin when they saw two beautiful women eating some falafel in the Kreuzberg neighborhood. They were dressed so funny that they just knew they were American and were their idols from the amazing duo Scream Club. They spoke with Chra from Comfortzone about their "Rosemary's Baby" idea, and guess what -- you have it here in your hands. Cumbia and electro or electro-cumbia? Just dance anyway.
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CZ 015EP
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Mika Vainio, currently based in Berlin, is one-half of the groundbreaking minimal electronic duo Pan Sonic. Before starting Pan Sonic in the beginning of the '90s, Mika Vainio has played electronics and drums as part of the early Finnish industrial and noise scene. His solo works, under his own name and under aliases like Ø, are known for their analog warmth and electronic harshness. Producing either abstract drone works or minimal avant techno, Vainio always creates unique, physical sounds.
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CZ 007EP
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Late Saturday night turns Sunday morning misty somewhere, someone is playing some strings... snatches of thoughts whispered a stolen text from dirty old Henry Miller, the stereo scratches out a scrap of a poem penned to a dead man like a song to a lover who left without saying goodbye. With the new release of In Comfort, the duet of Lydia Lunch and Philippe Petit move out of the dark psycho-ambience of their previous Twist Of Fate and into a more intimate atmosphere. Using orchestral strings, vanguard soundscapes and collected field recordings to conjure up a dense, cinematic world, the sinister, yet inviting In Comfort mixes acoustic instrumentation with digital filtering, swaying and unfolding amid the psycho-film-noir syntax of a Lunchian universe.
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