PINGIPUNG

"VIA is Andi Otto's fourth solo album, on which he presents his music under his actual name instead of the Springintgut moniker. Hundreds, mostly incognizable microsamples of vocal, instrumental and percussive snippets which Otto found on vintage Indian movie ...
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"Five years ago Sven Kacirek released his album The Kenya Sessions. The drummer's collaboration with musicians from Kenya connected electronic, instrumental and field recordings in a unique manner and received kudos from various scenes between techno and world music. ...
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"Recently, at a gig at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg, Herler (one half of Hey-O-Hansen) picked up the news that a forced sale is imminent on this gem of German club culture. At the end of his show he spontaneously rhymed a two-liner about the threat which this ...
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"On his new album SONGS FROM OKINAWA Sven Kacirek searches for traces of a unique, traditional music of the famous Pacific islands in the south of Japan. He has recorded various musicians, amateurs as well as local celebrities and subsequently added his trademark ...
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"Schlammpeitziger's album yields even more fruit. Six weeks after the release of his longplayer "What's Fruit" Pingipung releases this 12inch EP with remixes. The motley set of six electronic musicians and bands dice Schlammpeitziger's countless melodies into a ...
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"Originally, all they wanted was record one mutual track for the Japan tour in spring 2014. On this tour, Springintgut and F.S. Blumm would present their recent solo records in nine cities in Japan, and one duo track couldn't hurt for an encore. These duo compositions ...
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"With his new album "What's Fruit", Schlammpeitziger touches the dancefloor more than ever before in his 22-year long career. Yet his dancefloor is a playful one. The Cologne based composer's sounds electrify with their multi-layered melodic structures. He weaves ...
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"The Quasi Dub Development (QDD) has been founded as a collective four years ago by Luca Fadda and F.S. Blumm. After "Limousine To The Guillotine" (2011) their second album is now about to be released. The QDD love Dub, obviously, but they play it by hand with their ...
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"Frank Schultge aka F.S. BLUMM has released his melodic experiments around the acoustic guitar for over 15 years. In their contemplative reduction they miraculously always hit right in the heart. "The man makes some damn charming music", Pitchfork said about his last ...
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"Six years have passed since the last album by Andi Otto alias Springintgut, on City Centre Offices. In this period, Otto has done nothing less than inventing a new instrument: His "Fello" is a cello with movement sensors attached to the bow and a corresponding ...
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"Dennis Busch is an artist who is well-known to all Pingipung fans for his "James Din A4" contributions to our catalogue. This man of many faces has also developed a reputation as visual artist. Dennis Busch has delivered an enormous output of odd, melodic techno tracks ...
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