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K20 031CD
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"Just one year after his last years CD with Mewark, Lazyfish presents his next multifarious great collaboration album OS -- this time with Alexandroid from Riga. The album contains 11 tracks on CD and nine on the limited LP version (500 numbered copies!). Slow melodic tunes and dark heavy beats altogether! Alexander Potekhin aka Lazyfish's artist name originates from a small pirate company he ran with his friends to produce skateboards. Lazyfish has already released an album on the Russian Label Art-Tek, some dubby techno tunes on Trapez, an interactive track on the Native Instruments compilation (WMF Records) and his above mentioned collaboration CD with Mewark in 2002. Andrew Antonets aka Alexandroid is from Riga. He released an album called Sinoptic with his production partner Alex Matrosov on Art-Tek. Most of the tracks on OS are made by Alexandroid, four by Lazyfish. OS is the digital translation of experiences and emotions, a shadow of the past and a view into the future. At the moment many electronic musicians start playing 'analog' instruments like guitars, bass and drums and seem to be almost denying their past digital productions and interests. Lazyfish and Alexandroid present their rich collection of the (still) wide-range of purely digital-electronic music in many different styles and colours with fantastic additional vocals by Kristi, Alex Matrosov and Andrew Antonets himself."
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"It was in the early nineteen-nineties, as members of the avant-rock group Blim, that the guitarist and the treater began constructing musical works using electric guitar and the electronic treatments of the sounds produced. A significant point came about the day Frank Zappa died, when guitarist and treater performed and produced `The Eagle', a piece of music involving four tracks of slow, simple and sustained, interwoven guitar lines, treated using a variety of exotic effects. Sadly, it is believed that only a poor-quality recording of this piece still remains. In light of this recording, it was suggested that a future project should take place, involving variations, far and wide, on this theme. As events progressed, the guitarist and the treater became separated physically, and time passed. Eventually it was decided that a short, but intense project should, and could take place, the result of which you hold now. The pieces were constructed in the same spirit, manner and framework as with the earlier pieces, a key aspect being that the works were split into two very distinct halves; those of guitar and treatment, the 'sound' being separated into two constituents, those of before and after it leaves the electric guitar. The guitarist played the electric guitar. Though he chose and produced the pitch and duration of the individual notes, he was not involved in any way with the `colour' of the notes, nor the treatments applied to the notes. The treater treated the electric guitar. Though he had no involvement with the choice of pitch or duration, nor of the playing of the individual guitar notes, he applied all the treatment subsequent to each note being produced. Guitar Treatments was produced between the 16th and the 18th January 1998 in Birmingham, UK. In many ways, due to the nature of the pieces, some being ideas, though unheard and unpractised, and others being purely improvisational, this `production' involved the totality of composing, arranging, playing, recording, treating and mixing. This intensity of effort over the two days was expected, was indeed planned, and it was welcomed. It was within in the spirit."
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"Full Spectrum Dominance is an instrumental Hip Hop album by the Berlin based producer Kareem. It contains selected works recorded in the past three years and follows the strong movement of new and more advanced Hip Hop like Def Jux, Fondle 'em, Anticon, Beyond Real, Word Sound, Mush, Counterflow and many others, but this time out of Germany! Kareem's Hip Hop coming out on the well acclaimed vinyl only record 'Ramadan 01' was released some years ago and got massive feedback from the international underground. Kareem aka Patrik Stottrop is so far most known for his label Zhark and numerous dark and minimal techno and experimental noise releases. He is living in Berlin and works at the software company Native Instruments. Let's start the Full Spectrum Dominance!"
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"Alexander Petrunin aka Mewark works as a sound designer & jingle writer for MTV-Russia. Together with Lazyfish he released a collaboration-album earlier this year on K2. Little One is an album which shows Alexander´s talents to combine live recorded instruments with the unnatural but interesting world of Reaktor sounds. The results range from sweet and melodic (almost pop) songs to deep and dark (almost scary) soundscapes. All 8 tracks on Mewark's amazing debut album tell individual chapters of one story. It´s a fairy tale about the 'Little One' and it's just 8 chapters long. They include the beginning and the end. Close your eyes and listen..."
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"Dennis Desantis was born in 1973 in Warren, Michigan to parents who were semi-professional musicians with diverse and eclectic listening tastes. He serves as a performer and administrator with the group Alarm Will Sound, with whom he has recorded the music of Steve Reich for Nonesuch and Cantaloupe Records. Meanwhile, by the spring of 2001, Dennis had produced enough finished techno to feel comfortable about letting it be heard. Almost immediately after circulating some of these tracks online, he began receiving offers from DJs and independent labels. He eventually signed with the Kanzleramt sub-label k2o, who released his debut 12" 'Deviant' (k2o13) in January of 2002. Selling out almost immediately, 'Deviant' has garnered rave reviews from De-Bug and Groove and has appeared in the sets of such luminaries as Dan Bell and Laurent Garnier followed by the even more successful 'Promotion Of Vice' 12inch. Clock Wise -- possibly the most emotional techno/house debut album ever -- features the most diverse stylistic elements of it´s genre all together compiled in sweetest perfection of harmony."
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"Diego Hostettler, creator of such essential Kanzleramt releases like 'SuperPosition', 'From Here To Now', 'Mouthfull of fresh cut Flowers', 'Persuasion Channel' and also member of the K2O dub-techno project shapes&forms with Dave Ellesmere musicalized his new brainchild: Echelon Network. The first 12inch 'Directions' presents Diego´s understanding of future techno: A bit of Plenet E flavour, the Funk of Drum & Bass, some electronica sounds and melodies melting in a deep techno flow for groovy beats shuffling against the usual 4/4 bass-drum. With 'Directions' Diego once again explains his further interest in the development of techno and related styles. The son of a Jazz-Musician plays with his deepest influences: Music, Composition, Jazz." Limited stock, deleted release.
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"Since the Kanzleramt sub-label K2O got reactivated in May 2001 one year of consistent work and many diverse releases brought the label a very positive international feedback. No Space For Dogma celebrates some of the best previous moments on k2o, some exclusive and unreleased tracks as well as some parts of the forthcoming albums by Monophace and Kareem, one track from the debut 12inch by Diego Hostettler´s project Echelon Network and Jake Mandell´s DVD release." Artists also include: Lazyfish/Mewark, PSI Performer, Clubsessel, Multicast, Tenecke, Lazyfish, Dennis Desantis, Apathism, Shapes & Forms.
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"Block Terrain is the amazing debut album by Tenecke out of Brooklyn / New York. Tenecke is a project created by Wayne B. Magruder. Combining found sound, live recordings, sequenced beats and sampling, Tenecke surveys aural terrain, cementing opposing styles forming beat-heavy, textural, Brooklyn-inspired music. Wayne B. Magruder was born and raised in Texas, where he met Sean Donovan (his Calla band colleague on Sub Rosa) at grade school. They played in various bands throughout highschool together and finally formed Fallen Vlods, an experimental electro-acoustic duo (1992-1996). Magruder studied design at the University of North Texas, where he joined The Factory Press (ND Records) as drummer with Aurelio Valle and Pete Gannon. When the band relocated to New York City, Magruder joined Bowery Electric as a live drummer. Subsequent Bowery Electric touring with E.A.R. in '96, and Main in '97 followed, as well as playing live percussion with Robert Hampson and drums with Windsor For The Derby. In 1997, Magruder recorded with Bowery Electric on their second LP, Beat (Kranky). In late '97, desiring to integrate electronics, triggers, and samples in a rock format, Magruder formed Calla with Donovan and Valle and released their debut LP on Sub Rosa in 1999 and Scavengers in 2000 on Quatermass/ Young God. In late 2000 Magruder released Tactile Defense EP on Eacherhundreds under the name Tenecke, combining NY-inspired beats with textured debris. Currently Magruder is half of 'Crumbles Recovery', an improv electro-acoustic duo with Donovan and is 1/3 of Calla."
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"Something´s going on between the club and the lounge: Clubsessel! A new project recently started by Christopher Bleckmann and Hannes Wenner, whose minimal recordings for M-nus / Detroit added some new aspects to the minimal techno-world. Keeping the faith to minimal sound-structures, Clubsessel combines rhythm-pattern which may appear simple with deep pad-sounds and noisy ambient soundscapes. The club is always part of the music but more in the background, like a memory. Steady live editing and mixing of sounds while recording add an live-performance-like atmosphere to the tracks. One part of each track coming from the machines, the other coming from the hands of the producers, Clubsessel comes with the human touch of a live-recording-session in this slowly developing soundscapes. Somewhere between noisy ambient and minimal techno Clubsessel finds its own way of sound. Not necessarily dance-music, but music to move your head slowly while listening: in a lounge or at home, or wherever you may find this music appropriate."
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"Since 1996, projects including Multicast, Ted Sturgeon and Freq Modif represented this perspective to the contemporary electronic ideology, but with a more psychedelic and improvisational twist. From tracks constructed with the basics of noise and rhythmic sequences to full on melodic washes, Obliq artists sculpt aural images aimed not at the dance floor but the armchair. These artists employ methodologies of sequencing not too familiar with modern technology, but rather more traditional and improvisational in approach. Multicast, for example, creates most of their tracks from live, late night sessions. Guitars, electric mandolins, kalimbas, modular synthesizers, analog sequencers & effects and digital synthesizers are all part of the Obliq arsenal located at the Larkspur, Wallsteet and Erie facilities. Think of Multicast as an ever-evolving music project. A revolving door of ideas. A meeting of the minds from various individuals involved with the other projects within Obliq. It's the flagship and corner stone project and even further an ideal representation of the Obliq record label as a whole. If you listen closely to the Multicast material, you will notice a sort of mesh of musical influences and backgrounds from all individuals involved yet close attention is paid in how the various parts are combined. The physical landscape of rural Colorado surrounding members of Multicast play a big part in the environmental influences in the music itself. These are wide-open spaces with room enough for ideas to flourish away from the confines and distractions of an urban environment. This isn't to say that Multicast lives in a music vacuum or an environment void of art and music culture. Rather, the geographic location gives the project an opportunity to observe the world of electronic music from the outside in and not consumed by a metropolitan music clique. Therefore, members of Multicast rely on each other to be energized and inspired to create and follow through with ideas and bring them into being. A lot of the popular software-based music making tools -- the ones dominant in modern day electronic music -- are put aside which allow Multicast to focus on improvisational and organic composition. All members of Multicast are DJs, but styles may be surprising as compared to their musical output."
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"Dennis Desantis was born in Warren, Michigan in 1973 and was raised in Sterling Heights. His early musical influences included jazz, funk, classical, and roots electronica (Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, etc.). After college, and several years of playing drums in rock and funk bands, Desantis now lives in Rochester, NY where he is a graduate student at the Eastman School Of Music. Beside his house productions he is active as a composer of contemporary concert music, a percussionist, and as an organizer & producer of concerts and multimedia events with the organizations Ossia/Alarm Will Sound and the Minimum Security Composers Collective. With his debut 12" 'Deviant' Dennis Desantis has returned to his roots in the minimal electronic sounds of Detroit, drawing inspiration from such artists as Theorem, Maurizio, Richie Hawtin, Aril Brikha, and Kenny Larkin."
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"The final remix 12" of that extraordinary remix series contains the final six remixes including two vinyl exclusive mixes by Iceland's Sanasol member Thor and the well-known Italian Rephlex artist Bochum Welt. Remixes by Two Lone Swordsmen, Thor, iota, Sutekh, Tal, Bochum Welt, Isan. "
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"PSI Performer, Anthony Rothers alter ego for experi-mental electronics, gets back to his roots on k2o Records. About 30 remixers coming from different fields of electronic music rebuild the PSI Performer original album in their very own ways. On five 12" parts and two separate CD´s you´ll find the following artists: 310, Andrea Parker, Anthony Child, Bochum Welt, Calla, Dinky, DJ Slip, Faithful Echo, Gimmik, Isan, John Tejada, Karl O´Connor, Metamatics, Move D, Multicast, Ovuca, Pan American, Pole, Rude Solo (A. Weatherall & Keith Tenniswood), Russ Gabriel, Scorn, Sender Berlin, shapes & forms, Solar X, Solvent, Spectre, Stars of the Lid, Sutekh..." This first volume features 6 remixes by: Shapes & Forms, Sender Berlin, DJ Slip, Gimmik & Wechsel Garland. Limited stock of this deleted release from 2001.
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