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"A new Cluster album is always full of surprises. That hasn't changed over the last 35 years. QUA is written with the typical, slightly scrawly hand of Cluster but, to stay within the metaphor, the musical text now is completely new. 17 rhythmic and harmonic miniatures ...
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"Onwards! In music, as well as in art, the question of how to progress is always in the foreground. Digital evolution has changed everything, not least the way we live. But do we really want to live as this new world proposes and attempt to ingratiate ourselves? Or do ...
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all copies are wavy, not a perfect pressing "Hans Joachim Irmler (faust) follows up his work with Carl Friedrich Oesterhelt (F.S.K). After their first release "FORMEN" they this time musically interprete "Die Gesaenge des Maldoror", the six cantos of the influential ...
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"Audiac, a duo, located in Tübingen and Hamburg, made up of Alexander Wiemer van Veen and Niklas David, promise their listeners an enormous amount. Each song is a journey into sound, each strophe - a sonic adventure, each refrain - dreamlike. This we know of Audiac. ...
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"Berlin psychedelic pop craftswoman and experimental vocalist, Mary Ocher returns with an all encompassing new album, her darkest yet, in times of confusion. It is a document on social indignation and the deconstruction of our identities as citizens. 'The West Against ...
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"In 2012, Studio Braun created FRAKTUS, a mocumentary about a fictional namesake band who, in the early 1980s, accidentally invented techno and broke-up shortly thereafter. Fraktus band member and optician, Berndt Wand, subsequently formed Fraktus II with his parents. ...
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"Mary Ocher + Your Government is a sub-religious experience with the mysterious spirits of the ancients, in an audio-visual explosion of cult futuristic rock&roll, with the queen outsider of Berlin Avant-Pop exploring the depths of forbidden tribal, electronic ...
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"No beauty without danger? A standing organ sound. An amplified, distorted bass-spring. Inverted percussion. A mesmerizing triangle pattern. Repetitions on the xylophone. Snatches of conversation in sub-bass. Jazz grooves painted with brushes. Concrete sounds, taken out ...
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""Space Trash", the fourth album by Austrian band villalog, plays with bending and distorting coordinates of space and time. Whereas their last album, "Cosmic Sister" was more of a space-disco sci-fi trip, the new album, "Space Trash", looks pointedly towards the earth. ...
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"There are records on which we hear newly composed music, and yet simultaneously have the impression of travelling through time, space and sound. With "ILLUMINATION", Hans Joachim Irmler and Christian Wolfarth have presented us just such a jewel. There are electronic ...
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"Bob Rutman founded The Steel Cello Ensemble in 1975. After intensive touring in the seventies the ensemble took a sabbatical until 1990, when Matthias Osterwold encouraged Rutman to move back to Berlin. There, he pursued the ensemble in several different line-ups. Hans ...
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"The Nightingales reformed infrequently before starting again in earnest in Spring 2004, with Lloyd being joined by original Prefect Alan Apperley and, after trying out various other members (including percussionist Aaron Moore of avant garde combo Volcano The Bear and ...
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