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DANIEL SANCHEZ (Bla Bla) The Dutch-Spannish Daniel Sanchez is Dj/Producer, Label boss and promotor in one. If the dance, or better, techno scene can be compared with a man’s life, Sanchez saw this former child rising up. He started creating sounds since he was thirteen and contributed to the development of Amsterdam as the dance capital of the world. Nowadays he has an international career, an own label and an ambition to bring music to every place in the world. From the year 2007 minimal techno music was conquering the clubs of Amsterdam. The young Sanchez saw this trend and started to throw legal and illegal parties. Especially the illegal ones in the raw, north of Amsterdam and in a ship called Stubnitz are still renown in the Dutch scene.
Art Of Origin
Kerri Chandler – ‘Pong’. DJ sets were a rarity. Kerri Chandler – Lovin You (Kaoz Drum) (King Street) Super_Collider.
This was also the year Marco Carola and Loco Dice made a remix of his track ‘mumbling yeah’, which became an underground world hit. These successes were one of the reasons Sanchez started his own monthly club night called Bla Bla in 2008 at Studio 80 Amsterdam. He invited a lot of international dj’s for the first time in Amsterdam, for example Barem, Andre Oliva and Mathias Kaden. Because these nights were successful he set up the label Bla Bla in 2009. This label teamed up with El Mundo & Satori, Mulder, and Bas Amro and had a great influence in the scene.
Individually he was also developing and released his first album on the Remote Area label called Untitled Concept. 2010 was an even busier year with many national but also international gigs.
Minimal Techno was more popular than ever and so were the DJ’s. By now he released tracks on the labels Remote Area, Plus8(Richie Hawtin) Saved Records By Nic Fancuilli, Suara and more. Apart from music itself he had (and still has) a great interest in the technical developments of the field, and changed his gear every year. Always up for new musical adventures in 2010 he launched the electronic-dub sub label of Bla Bla: Be Real. At the end of the year he created a minimalistic- dub album called Cirkel, which he released, of course, on his own label Bla Bla. In 2011 he signed a three-year contract with Sensation for the Sensation 3 Year World Tour, where his focus lay on techno. With them he travelled from North- to South- America, Asia and Europe where he created twelve successful shows.
Meeting many new, inspiring people he focuses even more on his international aspirations. Since Sanchez started he played seven times for Awakenings, also seven times for Welcome to the Future Festival, A day at the Park Festival and two times for Time Warp. In 2014 the label Bla Bla celebrates its fifth birthday. One of its presents is that after two years Sanchez is releasing on vinyl again. He established a new label called Cachai with his South American partner. Just like the music scene, Sanchez is always evolving.
Founder of Bla Bla Music www.blablamusic.com DOK DATES: – 27 September 2014 – DO KSHOW @ Numa (BO) LIVE SET youtube id=”mEq2Rvq5SdE” width=”580″ height=”337″. GIANNI CALLIPARI (Cadenza) Gianni Callipari (25J.) born in Switzerland, discovered his love in music when he was 15 years old, at an age, when doormen laugh at you by shaking their heads when you try to enter the club they work for. He entered clubmusic on a professional level when Basel’s club Nordstern stepped into his life. Here he can indulge in his musical visions, here he finds the inspiration he needs and also a community, that shares his ideas. Gianni Callipari is a essential part of the Nordstern music-family and he has shared decks with top shots like: Luciano, Ricardo Villalobos, Andrea Oliva, Loco Dice, Marco Carola, Carl Cox, Seth Troxler, DJ Sneak, Dixon, Dyed Soundorom, Anja Schneider, tINI, Mirko Loko, Ryan Crosson, Shaun Reeves, Jon Gaiser, Guti, Yaya, Monika Kruse, Barem, Enzo Siragusa, Bella Sarris, Randall M, Cassy and many many more.
Gianni Callipari also takes care of his party-serie called „JustLikeThat“ at Nordstern, a platform for young and talented musicians from Basel where they can express themselves. He has joined Aether Artists, a new agency born out of Cadenza Booking focused exclusively on artist management and booking with the aim of promoting and supporting a selected group of djs and performars and soon he will release his first masterpiece on the Cadenza-label. Gianni Callipari also takes care of his party-serie called „JustLikeThat“ at Nordstern, a platform for young and talented musicians from Basel where they can express themselves.
He has joined Aether Artists, a new agency born out of Cadenza Booking focused exclusively on artist management and booking with the aim of promoting and supporting a selected group of djs and performars and soon he will release his first masterpiece on the Cadenza-label. DOK DATES: – 27 September 2014 – DO KSHOW @ Numa (BO). LORENZO DE BLANCK A vinyl lover and collector but at the same time attracted by the new technologies related to dj works, Lorenzo De Blanck, was born in 1983 and his way behind the consolle starts when he is 15, when he buys his first Technics and his first records. Layo & Bushwacka have chosen Lorenzo de Blanck and Matador as remixers for one of their new tracks out now on Olmeto records. More tracks on Flash records (Florian Meindl label) and Amazing records (Minicool Boys label).
More tracks and remixes like “Caught” who arrived #1 chart on Traxsource! He has worked as a resident dj since he was young, at the best clubs around his area. Year after year he has grown musically and has refined his passion for the varied traits of dance music.
He played in clubs like Cocorico – Piramide (Riccione), Echoes (Misano), Link (Bologna), Do k Show (Bologna), Peter Pan (Riccione), Folies de Pigalle (Reggio Emilia), Contatto (Bologna), Zanzibar (Marina di Ravenna), Madame Butterfly (Ferrara), Fresh & Fruit (Padova), Frau Marlene (Torre del Lago) and more. Now he has started his new project called “Simple” a techno one-night at Sinatra Club, a wonderful club in Ferrara. He has played with Carl Craig, Dubfire, Luciano, James Zabiela, Tiefschwarz, Daniele Baldelli, Dennis Ferrer, Ryan Crosson, Clockwork, Alan Fitzpatrick, Dustin Zahn, Barnt, Ambivalent, Layo & Bushwacka, Marc Houle, Troy Pierce, Ellen Allien, Skrillex, Nina Kravitz, Tobi Neumann, Little Louie Vega, Robert Owens, Satoshi Tomiie, Pastaboys, Ralf, Dirty Channels and many many more.
DOK DATES: – 31 October 2017 – DO KSHOW @ Numa (BO) – 25 December 2015 – DOKSHOW @ Numa (BO – Italy). VALENTINO KANZYANI (JESUS LOVED YOU / CADENZA Slovenia) Valentino Kanzyani is a founding father of Slovenian techno and has been involved in the country’s dance scene since the mid 1990s. A celebrated DJ first and foremost, Valentino built a solid reputation for himself whilst he was resident spinner of Ambasada Gavioli, one of Slovenia’s most famous clubs. His fame grew when he started spinning on three turntables as standard.
Joining forces with fellow countryman and techno champion Umek, Valentino saw his first release in 1999 under the moniker Recycled Loops. Due to the success of their joint EPs, Valentino Kanzyani and Umek set up Recycled Loops as a record label, which further helped establish Valentino as a major player in Eastern Europe’s techno scene.
A number of world tours, festival appearances and big club gigs followed. Whilst Valentino’s sound has evolved over the years, he is committed to protecting the art of the DJ with real integrity. Valentino set up his label Jesus Loved You in 2005, for instance, just as digital downloading was becoming the main dissemination channel for the music industry. Instead of joining the trend, Valentino decided to release his label’s music mainly on vinyl as a way to support the true original format of the DJ.
And it is his love for vinyl that has seen him flourish today, to become one of most respected underground vinyl djs around. You can find similar credibility in Valentino’s Ibiza-based party project: Next Wave. Set up in 2011 as a way to support the less commercial side of club music on the island, the Next Wave parties have become a resounding success in 2012.
The cream of underground house and techno DJs have played for Valentino at Next Wave including many of Romania’s new breed of vinyl DJs, and occasionally, masters of the scene like Ricardo Villalobos and Luciano have played extended sets at Next Wave.The upcoming 2013 season is very promising as well including acts such as Soul Capsule, Sonja Moonear, Primiesku live, Sammy Dee, Fumiya Tanaka, Thomas Melchior live, Cabanne & Margaret Dygas just to name a few Be prepared for an overindulgence of incredible music this year! Through 2012, Valentino released a series of Eps on Cadenza in the build up to his debut artist album ‘Love & Gratitude’. The latest EP as well as a continuous mixed cd which includes all tracks from the project was released in April 2013.
The project showcases Valentino Kanzyani’s underground house vision and it also represents a new chapter in Valentino Kanzyani’s career – as part of Cadenza’s booking agency. He is currently travelling for his “Love & Gratitude” Album Tour, his track “Bobby on Drums” has just been released on the new mnus MinMAX compilation a few days ago and he has several other exciting new projects coming up this year. Stay tuned: ) DOK DATES: – 22 February 2014 – DO KSHOW @ Numa (BO). SILVIE LOTO (BPITCH CONTROL) Silvie Loto developed a deep connection to electronic music from her early teenage years. At the age of 17, she reaches the shores of club music, through London, Spain and Germany where she discovered the essence of underground dance music and sharpened her skills before coming to the forefront of the scene.
In 2008 she started to play at Tenax club in Florence and it was the starting point for her to play at the best clubs all over Italy, being on the same bill as many international djs. She has been a resident of the legendary party Ultrabeat at Goa club in Rome and the well-know Nobody’s perfect party at Tenax club in Florence since 2010, where she proved to be capable of delivering the best sets from warm-up to peak time. Summer 2012 she took part of Marco Carola’s widely acclaimed “Music On” party at Amnesia Ibiza, and carried on to Europe and the USA over the winter, playing alongside Marco Carola. Following this first edition’s success, she will be joining the “Music On” family again in Ibiza during summer 2013. Her sets mix House and Techno influences and her broad knowledge of the electronic music allows her to deliver versatile and deeply emotional sets.Summer 2013, Silvie released “Solstice” EP on BPitch Records, delivering a truly wide palette of sounds and atmospheres that showcases perfectly her sensibility. DOK DATES: – 15 February 2014 – DO KSHOW @ Numa (BO).
Having co-compiled two albums. The real sound of chicago and the real sound of chicago and beyond for bbe. Dj and producer mark grusane steps out of the shadows to present the real sound of mark grusane. A highly personal selection of modern soul. Disco and a little touch of boogie.
These rare tracks have all been respectfully edited. Chopped up or extended by mark himself. Apart from the odd private vinyl pressing. Or occasionally handing an edit over to close friends and djs such as fellow bbe artist sadar bahar. Mark has never before made these tracks available (despite the throng of people waiting around to ask each time he finishes a set). Spacetalk is proud to reveal its most exciting release to date: a collection of long-lost recordings from forgotten californian duo morrison kincannon. Rescued from the dusty tape archives of the pair’s lead songwriter.
Norman morrison. With only a handful of sought-after private press 7” singles to their name. Morrison kincannon are all but unknown outside record collecting circles.
Yet norman morrison and terry kincannon wrote and recorded some superb songs during the 1970s and early ‘80s. Desperately hoping for the break that would see them released on vinyl. Their time has finally come. Without new jersey native kerri kaoz chandler. House specifically deep house would sound very different.
Ever since his teens he has been making and playing music with a unique sense of soul. Jazz and deepness. From majors like atlantic. King street sounds and nervous via his own madhouse.
His releases are never short of genre-defining classics that have spawned a thousand copycats. Affectionately referred to as the stevie wonder of house.
Kerri’s dj sets take him all over the world and often find him playing live keys next to his informed selections. He’s meticulous about sound. Which means that no-ones kicks hit quite like kerris. His instantly classic and timeless dj-kicks mix. Takes him out of the club and through a world of influences and inspiration.
Double vinyl release. Including download code and 12x12 inch foto book.
For the past two years. Nils frahm has been building a brand new studio in berlin to make his 7th studio album titled all melody. Which will be released on january 26th. 2018 via erased tapes.
Before nils embarks on his first world tour since 2015. Since the day nils first encountered the impressive studio of a family friend.
He had envisioned to create one of his own at such a large scale. Fast forward to the present day and nils is now the proud host of saal 3. Part of the historical 1950s east german funkhaus building beside the river spree. It is here where he has spent most of his time deconstructing and reconstructing the entire space from the cabling and electricity to the woodwork. Before moving on to the finer elements.
Building a pipe organ and creating a mixing desk all from scratch with the help of his friends. This is somewhere music can be nurtured and not neglected. And where he can somewhat fulfil his pursuit of presenting music to the world as close to his imagination as possible. Sometimes he sounds like the euphorigenic warmth of a spring wind. Sometimes he send us on a fluorescent roller coaster ride through the bends of our brain: mollono.bass creates a world of sound that has many different climate zones. His remixes are probably the most vivid proof of this characteristic feature.
They cover quite all aspects of electronic dance music. But frequently they also come from genres that are surprisingly remote.
Somehow he manages to merge all these different vibes and inspirations into one compelling flow of danceability. Thats why the fourth part of the mollono. Bass remix collection is like a panoramic view of all these different layers of mood and atmosphere. The cd version includes a poster inspired by the aesthetic of the label. Which sums up the journey of involve since it first started in 2012. After the resounding success of ‘trave generation’ ep.
Regal and involve are back with a brand new release. This time is all about a compilation cd featuring some of the strongest names in the worldwide techno scene. The label commemorates with this release its fifth anniversary. Five years full of music. Experiences and learning. Five years representing its own values and following a path that has led to making involve one if the greatest acid techno labels. Aesthetic the pillars in which the brand leans are the ones that pop up now stronger than ever.
Ideas that have shaped the becoming of something that is much more than a record label. A way of understanding electronic music and society in general. Involve is not just a music platform. It’s a spirit.
A representation of the personalities of the artists that are part of it. Kuf create emotion-laden dialogues across layers of time and dimensions of sound. Voices recorded in private are chopped up and brought out center-stage to sing with beats hammered out right here and now. Glowing synths push forward. Basslines rise to grab the melodic role of a track while a vowel is truncated and locked into a grid. Driving the rhythm. Voices move within the frame of a sample.
Performed by hands pushing keys. Guided by the ear.
Immersed in a trio sessions deep flow a vortex of quirky hands. Responsive ears and glowing circuits. Since thomas a. Edison first recorded the human voice in 1877. The recording arts have changed music forever. Musicians have explored the endless possibilities of bouncing their input onto layers of tape. Off the walls of an echo chamber or the circuitry of electronic helpers - technology that modulates.
Divides or multiplies the work of human hands and mouths. An era of sampling offered a cubistic analysis of the recorded past and djs took dancers onto intricately fractured time travels. This is the historic foundation that kuf keep probing. Just like the sampler and the dj before them. They found new ways to re-allocate where machine and man stand when making music together. Most importantly.
They turn the resulting friction into sparkling bursts of energy. ‘universe digs deeper into the android vocal chords. The album offers sweeping melodies.
Different beats and persistent bass. Immerse in the intimacy of the voices.
Probably recorded in trains. Backstage areas and at late night private parties during berlin lichtenberg warehouse rehearsals.
By striking the keys. Kuf squeeze out and serve up all the soul accumulated in those savory phonetic shreds. Just as magnified record grooves reveal dust constellations and lunar landscapes. So too does godblesscomputers third album.
Solchi is a deep search into previous moments in lorenzo nadas lifetime. Influenced by the presence and power of music.
His process began with the recovery of some old cassettes. Mixtapes nearly forgotten. Audio recording of voices from his childhood. And lots of dusty jazz.
And hip-hop records. As the starting point of this travel merge with its end. Past and present combine to form gbcs current sound. Warm electronic production rooted by grooving bass lines form the core of a kaleidoscope of sixteen tracks. Colored by synthesizers.
Guitar echoes. Fading voices and kalimba. The album is a collection of sixteen stories. Sixteen soundscapes.
Each of them gbcs tribute to the path taken thus far. An homage to his love for music. The recording and studio work took place over a year. With the adding and subtracting of many elements. Its that time of year when thoughts turn to lazy afternoons down the beach.
Early evenings sat watching white isle sunsets and sticky nights of loved-up debauchery. In other words. It s the perfect time to dive into the latest volume in the consistet balearic compilation series. There s naturally much to admire in the now-familiar cafe del mar/cafe mambo style. From the horizontal. Flute-laden samba shuffle of the madrigals the ride to the moon and shay lovers exceedingly drowsy black & white.
To the warm chords and head-nodding beats of steve cobby s remix of tradewinds by penelope antena. And tropical exuberance of maajos musa paradisa. Is mudd s impeccable mix for emma of zee erf s blissful cover of southern freeez. Which is one of the most stunning tracks you ll hear all year.
How much do you really know about nina kraviz? Shes a russian techno dj. An accomplished producer. One of dance music’s breakthrough names of the last five years. But theres so much more to her story than that.
Shes one of electronic musics most interesting characters. Someone who has stuck to her musical guns since day one. Someone who has wide-ranging roots that run deep in the past. Yet shes also the embodiment of the future. Her signature sound is a raw blend of house and techno with a very acidic feel. If that feels very now. Kraviz has a lot to do with it.
Which is why she was asked to mix the latest instalment of!k7’s landmark ‘dj kicks’ series. Late 80s south african dance floor winners only! Selected by dj okapi and antal. The compilation holds tracks by jivaro.
The hard workers. Ayobayo band. This is the sharp electronic music that fuelled the local pantsula dances during the 80s and 90s. A must have for fans of bubblegum and kwaito music. The 12 tracks selected for pantsula!
Come from a very unique. Very different time and place. They represent the birth of electronic dance music in south africa. Through the songs of one particular independent label from the time: music team. The sound represents the culmination of the bubblegum era. When south africa’s disco artists outgrew their american influences and forged an increasingly electronic and ‘local’ pop sound. Re-issued again.
With new liner notes. Rare record wrapped in a mysterious yet playful ambiance. Or maybe it s just the impression that the japanese language often gives me. Suiren is an odd jazz-fusion-wave tune that sounds like its boiling. Waiting to burst but somehow manages to stay in control. Like the nervous tick of a leg fidgeting under the table of a restaurant on a first date.
Yasuaki shimizu is a japanese composer. Producer and saxophone player born in 1954. He worked with ryuchi sakimoto on certain arrangements.
With the south korean artist nam june paik on art+sound installation pieces and even dj towa tei (of deee-lite fame). Suiren was released in 1981 and is the opening title on the sought-after kakashi album and is my personal favorite on this overall brilliant record. It weaves behind new wave.
Ambient and experimental music.cd version with exclusive track!. after three stand out eps over the last three years for l.i.e.s. Tzusing delivers his debut lp for the label. Here we get seven tracks of precison crafted electronics. Unmistakenly taking the artists signature industrial fueled sound and opening it up to a new dimension far beyond the typical metal beat clang. Ltd edition pressing. Dark and powerful.
The album title taken literally means -invincible east- based on a character (a swordsman) in a jin yong novel who must make the ultimate sacrifice to attain knowledge and transform. The narrative goes in hand with the artists observations living and travelling throughout asia and provides a haunting soundtrack for a bleak future where few dare to subvert the power structures at hand. New long player from manchester s claro intelecto. Entitled exhilarator.
The 13 track album marks a return to action for the esteemed producer. A cinematic album of icy techno. Weighty bass and poignant melody. From plaintive keys and slow motion drums awash with melody to corrugated industrial drums that don t let up. This is a diverse album in both mood and texture.
Moments of ambient celestial beauty exist next to breezy and summery grooves while skewed and sludgy acid sits next to serene underwater dub. Stewart s mission to step outside his usual self has resulted in another landmark electronic album.
Killer release! After the slightly more conceptual principe del norte-album. 5 takes two steps forward and one step back collecting a batch of tracks that was recorded right after it s preceder and in tandem with the recent square one-album with bjoern torske.
A freedom-album of sorts. Beyond the slightly misleading album opener here comes the band there s a variety in these tracks tracing inspiration from 35 years (unhealthy)obsession with all things good music played enthusiastically.
5 also marks the launch of my new label prins thomas musikk. Damon wild and david sumner (aka functions) relationship dates back to 1991 at lord michaels future shock. New york city when damon was running experimental records via northcott productions. He first saw something in dave and added him to brand x. A record pool run by moneypenny.
But their bond is based around a period 5 years later when dave had an apartment above rogue music at 251 west 30th street in midtown. It was during this time damon developed him as a synewave artist and released his first ep as function in the fall of 1996 catalog number sw-24.
Falling in and out of touch over the years. Across continents. The two have somehow remained on the same cosmic path. So it’s not a coincidence that now damon has turned to dave to release his first album in 13 years. During the time he is reissuing that first synewave ep on recompiled i/ii & ii/ii (a-ton lp02/03).
This is where those paths cross again. 21 years later.
Dave will release cosmic path on infrastructure. The cosmic connection.
Rezzs involvement in the toronto scene helped grow her gritty style. Events like bassmentality and older shows at the legendary guverment helped shape not only rezz. But an era of electronic music producers who became inspired from early dj college tours. Mass manipulation is a commentary on how easily our minds can become manipulated by the things we consume in society.
We consume heavily through the media. Tries to curate our thoughts and dictate how we as humans are supposed to live and behave. This album plays off this idea and invites people to become hypnotized.
Allowing their brains to be manipulated by my music in the hope they might see things through a new perspective (perhaps an outer world viewpoint) one where everyone is free from the unrealistic expectations planet earth has drawn for them. A world of acceptance and hypnosis. Say what you wanna say. But you have to give strahil velchev this: the man’s a powerhouse. Recording and playing live under the kink alias.
He went on to become one of finest purveyor’s of funk in techno and house. By definition.
Ain’t exactly clear. And that is the beauty of it. Kink’s music is unifying in the best possible way. Channeling the spirit and feeling of a time where it didn’t really matter who the faces behind the music were.
Kink plays with the elements of genres and sub-genres as if the future of it all is still wide-open. At the same time it could be accused of retro-fetishism. As much as the pope himself is infallible. The pure need to recreate moments.
Feelings and experience - rather than carbon copies of existing designs - was what started kink’s production work. Hailing from bulgaria. It was nearly impossible to get your hands on all the records and music that fed into a system of raves. Clubs and record shops that seemed far away from sofia. And financially it might as well have meant another galaxy. Wanting to dj without having access to the tracks that spun the carousel meant that you had to create them yourselves. Here we go with a private bootlegger gone public mastermind and one of the loudest voices in house.
Techno and beyond. From kink’s early productions with neville watson to his smash-hit for ovum. A cerebral album for macro. Tons of remixes & tracks and his mind-bending live act. Playground seems to take all that into a blender. Simultaneously a sound-summary.
The harvest of a field of ideas. And the exhibition of an artist in his prime. It also works as a sort of kink dictionary: avant-garde soundscapes stand next to boisterous bangers. Classic club tracks and peak time emotions. Since jim coles took on the mantle of om unit.
The english producer has sought to challenge himself and his audience by going beyond the confines of genres and styles he has so far explored. In the process he has found success by striving for more feeling.
For a more human and daring electronic music. This journey continues with ‘self’. Coles’ third album as om unit and a true follow-up to his 2013 debut ‘threads’. ‘self’ captures coles in a period of growth. And experimentation.
Inspired by personal psychological and emotional healing work. And a vision of the self as an egg — which coles later on discovered is a jungian archetype — the album blends dubwise. Bass-heavy music with the space of experimental ambient compositions and the daring imagination of a cold wave science fiction soundtrack.
The first om unit album on coles’ own cosmic bridge label. ‘self’ offers new forms amid familiar touches. Stripping away what people might expect. Coles deconstructed and reimagined his work so far as a challenge to himself and.
On limited edition compact disc. Generated instinctively in the moment from resampled chunks of previous output sandwiched between unheard waveforms from a distant future whilst underwritten by voltage controlled rumblings from actual synthesisers than can be seen and touched and wrecked by roadies. Traversing known knowns and unknown knowns from drone to drone. Harvesting new and slightly less new artefacts of the digitaux variety and crash landing in the ghetto of the lysergic jungles visited by g@ng5tas of yesteryear. All for your personal enjoyment.
Performed live at the red rattler in sydney. Australia on the 16th of april 2017 for the strange signals / house of mince crews. The performance is slightly more than just the insane ejaculations of an unhinged mind. But a true insight into one of the internets least popular twitter accounts. Dutch producer and live act conforce is back with autonomous.
A fifth artist album and the latest in his long relationship with delsin records. Conforce is boris bunnik.
A producer who explores the deepest realms of dub. Techno and electro under many different names. His conforce alias is where his most club orientated material comes from and this new nine track album finds the transcendent label boss producing dark syntheses inspired by his hometown and harbour city. And its automated industries. A masterfully conceptual album that really paints a vivid picture of a harbour as heard from deep down in the depths. Semiomime is the more spherical alter ego of dj hidden/the outside agency. 6 years after his previous album “from memory” and his “six steps” ep.
It was time to return to mindtrick records with a new album. “close ones” is an absolute musical milestone for semiomime showing his more sensitive side. All songs have been written over an extended course of time. They needed to grow and transform to become impressions of memories and the emotions attached to them. He wanted to capture their essence. Translate the way they are stored in his head.
By doing this. This album became a very personal album. It will make you think of some of those things that can make life special.
Remind you of your close ones. This is gajek. Dont worry if you see a flute in the sink. Matti gajek s followup to his 2014 debut album restless shapes opens the floodgates to signals from a future best navigated by ear. Moving through polyphonic pulses. Layers of grooves and sounds. Zooming in and out of ever evolving patterns of concentration and decomposition.
The ten tracks of gajeks 17 are electrifyingly futuristic clubmusic true to the almost five decades old motto of berlins zodiak free arts lab: „total freie musik - totally free music. Paying tribute to electronic pioneers like hans-joachim roedelius and florian fricke while staying clear of historical mystification gajek revisits the abstract clarity and improvisational audacity of 1970s electronics from a perspective this is not 71. Today motoric rhythms emerge and elapse from postdigital aural scapes. Intense and sublime. Linking the thermodynamic to the ephemeral.
Beyond the echoes of past utopias 17 discovers present signs for possible tomorrows.