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"The system of scales, and also the fact that the western central Europeans rely on recorded or written script in order to conserve the themes of their music, could lead us to look upon it as a form of art music. Other factors, however relate it to popular music, e.g. ...
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"Master drummer Jaki Liebezeit was very pleased that the craft of drum making has not changed much over the course of time. Be it that a skin is stretched over a drum with cords or bolts or be it that the skin is out of plastic or animal hide - the principle remains the ...
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"What Mortazavi and Friedman have in common is their shared expertise in uneven, cyclical rhythms - the foundation of their trance-like art music, which is both subtle and ecstatic. Through repetition and improvisation in the studio they create "numbers" - groove-based ...
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"Friedman takes liberties in recounting the vast career of the producer and digital composer AtomTM, creating the Replicant Rumba Rockers as a façade that lets him excerpt his favourite bits of AtomTM-dom into wild and wooly new music." (label info)
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"After 10 years, AtomTM and Burnt Friedman have composed and produced their fifth long player. This time, not surrendering to genre-restricting limits, both have progressed from the initial skills shown on their debut album "Templates" back in 1999, which still spins ...
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"With "CLOCK" Burnt Friedman and Daniel Dodd-Ellis offer two brand-new, pared-down extended club tracks and 2 short word and sound-poems that place "microscopically detailed textures, deceptively funky-sounding odd meters, and dubby production techniques" (CD Hotlist) ...
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"Moods and impressions from Friedman's Sub-Saharan concert tour in 2013 as well as fragments of memories of an imaginary future fuse together in the music and text of all eleven tracks. These responses to real-life "kpafuca" ("things falling apart") - conditions in ...
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"With "Skies Okay Blue" Nonplace offers two pared-down vocal tracks that place subtle and unexpected rhythms alongside the manifest regularity of electronic dance music. Measuring in at DJ-friendly 122 to 128 bpm, the seemingly straightforward grooves turn out, on ...
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"Over the past 12 years Secret Rhythms has become the leading Nonplace trademark. In April 2013 Jaki Liebezeit and Burnt Friedman will add a fifth album to a series that also includes three 12" singles and one remix single. Central to the secret rhythms concept is ...
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Remixes by Shackleton and Rashad Becker. "This is the first vinyl edition of the new Friedman & Liebezeit´s Secret Rhythms Remix series, entitled "secret rhythms+", with one of the rare appearances of Sam Shackleton as remixer. He recomposed the CD album track "255-7" ...
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"With this Anniversary Edition featuring 14 exclusive tracks, Nonplace celebrates ten years of labeldom. Ever since Burnt Friedman shortened his pseudonym Nonplace Urban Field to Nonplace back in 2000, the title has provided an ideal formula for music that soars upward ...
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"It is now 10 years ago that the first record was produced for the Nonplace label: Burnt Friedman´s cybernetic Latin escapade Con Ritmo with Joseph Suchy on electric guitar and Atom T on Moog synth. The album sold out quickly and is finally available again.The new, ...
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