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Those who recall the anarchic electro-punk of the duo's 2003 debut, Bootleg, are in for a surprise. Of course it's possible that this meld of traditional Japanese singing, deft jazz guitar and Gameboy chirping could surprise a lot of people. Junkshop keyboards and punk drums? Drum'n'bass mayhem and Hawaiian lap steel? Oi! is rife with such fiendish concoctions.

In cross-pollinating sounds from different eras, while exploiting a century of popular music, this "no-genre" band has in fact created a new one. Though A&E create "meta-music", or music about music, by placing familiar elements outside their original contexts, they're not overly concerned with culture- clash made into sound - the primary focus is music, not music theory.

On Oi!, pleasant ballads drift into daringly arranged pop songs and at any moment conventional playing can yield to wild experimenting. And these troubadours sing in many tongues: four of the tracks are electric interpretations of Japanese folk songs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries (an era in which Japan opened itself up to western influences). Together, Ota and Sharpley create a montage of stylistic elements, that whether coherent or absurd, has to be taken seriously.

• Follow-up to 2003's ground-breaking debut, Bootleg
  
• The artists formerly known as AE
  
• A&E is Emiko Ota (Mami Chan Band, Sakura, Tornaod, Urban Sax, Villa St Michel) and Andrew Sharpley (Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Dummy Run)

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Summer
  Otemoyan
  Chakkiri
  Shima Guni
  Somewhere Else
  Gion Kouta
  Silver
  Miyazu
  Jay
  4 am
  Green

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Like label-mates Wevie De Crepon, æ produces "meta-music" that is a lot of fun to hear, a welcome disruption of musical stereotypes, and in the end a proud presentation of an animal by the name of "Affrodil."

• Members of Stock, Hausen & Walkman and Urban Sax
  
• Rhythmic cut-ups; crazed, collaged punk; and lounge melodies

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Something For The Weekend
  Cocktails
  Uh
  Testing Time
  Clotted Cream
  321
  Thinkin'
  Carpaccio
  Steak
  Tape Cuts/Hello
  Chinese Whispers
  Not That Hard
  Gauche
  Nori
  String/Coaster
  Scarlet
  Papstar

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Plunderphonics, the joyful, media-critical poaching of the musical rubbish by which we are surrounded, is key to Aelters's work principles. His mixture of scraps of breakcore, scattered hard beats, spoken word collages, clicks, nursery rhymes and scenes of violence from action-packed movies are created "with enough weirdness and clicks to keep both the dancers and the laptop nerds happy." Aural snapshots (a family murmuring over supper, neighbors' sex-noises, those somehow ironic beats) "fall into the right places." His music knows no plan, but "just mutates along."

Some of the compositions on Ardchilds'com.undo are about three years old and have been reworked for this album multiple times; they have been re-re-re-arranged, until barely anything is left in common with the source material. This manic restlessness makes Aelters a typical Sonig artist.

Aelters grew up with heavy metal, '90s pop hits, the traditional Spanish music of his mother, and his friends in Dat Politics.

• A cut-up classic essential to Plunder-philes and glitch-worshippers
  
• Logically appeals to the Tigerbeat6 fanbase

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Goozarintox
  K.Nopshoot
  IDM'Worldnite
  Je T'aime
  Diskrotik
  Diskrotik Part II
  Les Couettes Soap
  Starapeakotop
  Hombrero-Kinsect
  Ginko
  3 Yr's Heli
  Sanki Panki & 1
  Porkfesonki
  Last-All-One
  N/A 1
  N/A 2

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Many of the sounds obviously stem from the direct neighborhood of the Frenchman. Strangely charged personal moments, fragments of conversation and children's voices blend and shuffle in the dust-up of whirling distortion and flickering soundbites. Familiar forms emerge out of apparent cacophony, are immediately subjected to ironic groove makeovers, and seconds later fired back into the sound storm. Bits of rhythm blast out of techno's past and immediately splinter off into whirring sound loops. Miraculously, the beat perseveres throughout, twisted but intact, and one is simply left with the question, "Who knows on which foot to dance to Aelters' music?"

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Pal-Xmas Cheap Gift
Hempluschoul
Soaplinerds
Lucky Complist
Sinchronisiac
Mix Switch This
Usb Gosch Ohm
L'anachorette
First M"chant Jet
Cash-Op Transit

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To a worldwide circle of industrial and electronic fans, C-Schulz is a kind of cult figure. His work has always been detached from the general trends in electronic music (most of which have been hyped to death) and thus it has never lost any of its freshness over the years. On the contrary: far off from any mainstream and the compulsion to be modern, C-Schulz continues working on and expanding his own musical cosmos.

After the disintegration of Kontakta, Cologne's first experimental and electro-acoustic supergroup (including amongst others Georg Odijk of a-Musik and Frank Dommert from sonig), musician, composer and filmmaker C-Schulz started working closely with Marcus Schmickler (aka Pluramon). The result of this collaboration were two albums released inder the name Pol on the Parisian Odd-Size label. July 2000 saw the release of C-Schulz & Hajsch, an album that remains a standard to this day.

• Solo album by C-Schulz-- cult-figure to worldwide circle of industrial and electronic fans
  
• From the label that brought you Mouse on Mars and Jason Forrest
  
• Former member of Kontakta, Pol

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Zwizzeron
  Swelan
  Flicker
  Flimm I
  Flimm II
  Gistemon
  Tarnan
  Weilland

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  C-Schulz "5. Flicker Tunes" (Temporary Whatever)

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Part 1
Part X
Part 2
H Null

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Candie Hank (the mischievous alter ego of Patric Catani) has been messing up the musical landscape from Tokyo to Sao Paolo for some time now. It all started with a cover of France Gall's 'Les Sucettes' in collaboration with Hanayo, followed by the albums Kimouchi on Gagarin Records, Brandy Cramps on the French label Wwilko and a CD release on Solzne Records in Russia (Messer Chups). Despite multiple other releases with A*Class, Very Impossible Person, Puppetmastaz, among others, as well as various theatre and film soundtracks, the artist preferred in this case to produce the album secretly and as a result ended up on the brink of insanity.

And it had all started so nicely with Candie. Even though his first experience in business with his then project, E De Cologne, is kind of a painful memory in his (tender) heart, he nevertheless managed to throw in his extreme and absurd music smoothly and funkily, again and again, as if he were throwing a bottle of good wine into a ballroom.

At the age of 16 the first remixes for Mouse on Mars (Vulvaland) under the monikor E De Cologne & Test Tube Kid, appeared. Then in 1995, there was the move to Berlin enabling the start of the band with Gina V D'Orio (Cobra Killer), EC8OR.

Various tours and releases in Japan and the US followed; in 1997 EC8OR opened for The Prodigy in Japan. The Beastie Boys label, Grand Royal, licensed EC8OR's album All Of Us Can Be Rich for North America and Canada.

In 1999 Patric Catani produced the first hip hop tracks for the monumental radio play 'Steve Hive' together with Paul PM (Wordsound / Blackhoodz). In 2000, together with Gonzales, he produced the first tracks for the Jew Funk project (which aims at your short term memory), along with more and more collaborations with musicians such as Max Turner and Angie Reed. 2000 also saw Candie Hank's first performances in Tokyo and Osaka.

As mentioned earlier, Candie's life hasn't always been all jet set and pure luxury, and of course, there have been one or two confrontations with colleagues. But even in difficult situations he always managed to come to the right decision in the end, strengthening his ever-expanding ego. Sharp tongues describe him as some kind of mogul by now. If you don't find Candie very likable, Hank only confirms this impression. However, its really only on stage where he truly lets his arrogance loose. It's salon music for vampires -- laid back terror. It's a frantic ricochet shot through the rubble of gone eras, a jellyfish tango of the future. Regardless, at the end of the day Candie Hank couldn't care less whether digital world music is wanted or not. In his eyes it just turned out to be 'a mixed German record'.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Invitation to Dance
We All Go Die Tonite (feat. MC Shade)
Le DEsastre
Schurkenlounge
Disko der Auss0/00tzigen
Groucho Won't Die
The Booty Bank (feat. Angie Reed)
Booty Bank (Rob)
Ultima Dub
Kids Stay United
To Russia with Love
Sundown
Up/Down
Psychodixie
Groucho Finds UFO (and Goes Space)
Cortison Zwo (Endless Medley)
[untitled]


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Nicolas Baudoux (aka DJ Elephant Power) is the "Scratch" in Scratch Pet Land; an extremely nimble turntablist, he's also the antithesis of what one would normally call a perfectionist-- a turntablism void of battle-attitudes or the vanities of the DJ. No Si, Ni So has a lot in common with the music of Scratch Pet Land. But one could also mistake it for the lost Zappa-album Jazz From The Dangerous Kitchen. The music is never phat or tight, but simply meanders on (and on). Musical themes are introduced and then left by the wayside, only to reappear unexpectedly. The percussion, which at times seems to have more in common with a domestic accident than with beats, is cushioned by a surprisingly jazzy Rhodes piano and obliquely filtered Moog sequences. This music is laid back, artful, never silly but, in spite of its intelligent trickiness, immune to artificial seriousness, as well as krautrock-y and funky in the "played mainly on kitchenware and samplers" sense. The tracks start casually, almost nonchalantly, with structures suggesting origins in live sessions, but then diverge and follow new roads. DJ Elephant Power creates music that does not want to fool. Cheerful and, in spite of all contrary rhythmic motions, very relaxed, neither demanding nor compelling, it just is. DJ Elephant Power offers a timeless and convincing DJ attitude which will set new standards for future DJ contests!

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Une Minute Une
Electric Rainbow
Foreuse Reveuse
Scrrrratccchindia
Elepha Tamachaat
MC Jeanbaufou
Nervolution
Crolalbum
ThaOly Loves High Frequencies
Thunderous
Doi Sutheep Rythmes
Aaa vs Aaareuu
Torrenostra Field Recording
D.D.D.
Seasi Juggle

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An anti-perfectionist, Baudoux performs on the verge of complete loss of control; his tracks are anything but tight, yet they groove like hell. He constructs monumental grooves from tinny hip hop samples, coaxes grime from electric guitars and layers jolty drum patterns, pumping distorted bass and clanging string instruments to create some radical dynamics.

As one half of the duo Scratch Pet Land, Baudoux belongs to a posse of Belgian artists known for their improvisational electronics and absurdist humor. Scratch The Hulu has plenty of both. It's club music that doesn't belong in any club-- nothing in its place, but everything fits. More conventional DJs might consider Scratch The Hulu dancefloor suicide, but as anyone who's had the pleasure of catching Baudoux's live set will testify; dancing is compulsory, though at times seemingly impossible.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

An'j Like Altitude
Scratch The Hulu
Siberia Impro
MC Doux Doute
Do Ti
Feu Flute
Hi Hat Fader Flip
Gong Or Song
High Tools
Huuu
Choose Se Se Se
Trop Vite

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New limited edition release in sonigs' generic sleeve by Belgium's super futuristic band, the Fan Club Orchestra featuring Laurent Baudoux aka Sun OK Papi K.O.: (Electronic director), Quentin Hanon (Scratch Pet Land): Electric Guitar & Sage Ann: Game Boy Guitar, Ukulele.

The Fan Club Orchestra is a variable dimension. This time they are adapting to a fast car of the late century. Their music is a result of listening intensively to soundtracks of seventies and eighties science-fiction. It is nothing like playing covers, but there is a strong will to give back to the future, it's lost image of "progress and harmony for mankind". The Fan Club Orchestra will play a motorik music with fat riffs produced by Gameboys.

themes:
Biology Fan Club
Futuristic Fan Club
Motorik Fan Club Adapting Fan Cub

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Fan Club Orchestra "Sun Papa and..." (Sonig)

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Now he's back with Lady Fantasy, a moody and expansive new EP. The tone is set on "The Work Ahead Of Us," a tense, abstract collaboration with avant-garde songwriter David Grubbs reminiscent of the drone-krautrock of Neu or Berlin-era Bowie. Then the title track, "Lady Fantasy," hits hard like a prog-rockfueled interstellar collision of massive synths, overdriven freejazz/ breakcore drums and cellphone bleeps. Then "The Lure Of You," co-written with Italian singer songwriter Margareth Kammerer, with its strangely light pop/rock feel surprises with subtly and mass-market appeal. The EP ends with "Sperry and Foil," a song in many parts, in many different directions, like a sprawling '70s prog epic. The song jumps between electro, bucolic rock, and anxious digital soundscapes yet holds a somewhat sweet and nostalgic feeling throughout. This eventually builds into a final rocking crescendo that prepares the listener for the big rock sound to be found on Forrest's full-length album due later this year.

• Teaser EP for upcoming full-length
  
• Features collaboratrions with David Grubbs and Margareth Kammerer
  
• Breakcore meets prog-rock
  
• Vinyl version features bonus track "Faust Respoke"

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  The Work Ahead Of Us
  Lady Fantasy
  The Lure Of You
  Sperry And Foil

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• Features guest appearances by David Grubbs, Norwegian composer Maja Ratkje, Timeblind and country singer Laura Cantrell

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  The Walls Of The City Shake
  New Wave Folk Austerity
  My 36 Favorite Punk Songs
  Storming Blues Rock
  Nightclothes And Headphones
  Dust Never Settles
  Dreaming and Remembering
  Skyrocket Saturday
  War Photographer
  Evil Doesn't Exist Anymore

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Convicted plunderphile melding the best of hair metal, prog rock, '70s pop, big-band brass, and plenty of disco

Upcoming release on Tigerbeat6

First full-length after numerous 7- and 12-inches

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JASON FORREST "Satan Cries Again

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JASON FORREST "Satan Cries Again

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JASON FORREST "Satan Cries Again

30-second RealAudio excerpts:

Spectacle to Refute All Judgments
Satan Cries Again (feat. Dan Walsh)
An Event (helicopter_passing--(edit)--251001.mp3)
180 Mar Ton
INKhUK
Recording in a Nice Venue
Stepping Off
Big Outrageous Sound Club
Ceci N'est Pas Du Disco
Why I Love ELO
10 Amazing Years

"I Wish That Everything Was Gold" was created from manipulated samples of the always big and synthetic ELO and reduces them to a more generalized wash. "Drieze Cassette" is the eldest of the bunch, hard as fuck with a brainy, expansive center that is very basic and genuine. The flipside begins with the party stomper "Dragonattack," an homage to both Queen and early Michael Jackson, with its a rock-and-roll rollercoaster disco beats and the occasional acid riff. Things get more funky with "Doubleneck'd Liar," a glitchy disco funk number with horns and Casio beats. "Gonna Take You To Hell" ruins the party with good intentions cursed by drunken antics.

• Very limited edition 12-inch, the first in a new series that will include Wevie de Crepon, Schlammpeitziger, æ, et al.

It's not an ambient record by any means, nor is it purely musique concrete. It's rather an acid fulled hallucination of how to detect an idea of the future in the noises that surround us. Though he uses some of the sound editing methods like his contemporaries (and his own other groups), this doesn't mass into huge pools to make a statement; the basslines, hums, jolts and whooshes divide and multiply into sections like buildings and streets are divided, from sub-basements to rooftops, alleys and boulevards, by stories. Lithops' narcoleptic programming has a precision which holds the listener completely captive-- difficult, haunting and highly enjoyable.

Since 1997 St. Werner has also recorded under the alias Lithops. The last Lithops release, 2003's Scrypt, impressed with its non-linear compositional structures and dense organic sounds, a rare synthesis in electronic music. His latest seems almost carelessly light in comparison. From the first track Queries surprises with subtly bouncing electronica, intuitive rhythms and comical bleeps and clonks-- quite a surprise, considering Scrypt managed almost entirely without beats.

Collecting previously unreleased and rare material from the late '90s, Queries offers an enlightening view of a time when abstract sounds established themselves as significant elements in electronic music. It's delightful to discover a ten-year old sound aesthetic that remains as groovy and tangible as ever. It's a relief to find that any sort of music can remain relevant if it is produced with authenticity and an abundance of ideas.

• Lithops is Jan St. Werner of Mouse On Mars
  
• Contains rare and previously unreleased material from 1995n1999
  
• For fans of Mouse On Mars and Microstoria

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Kahn
  Wackler
  Moggast
  Blasphere
  Sequenced Twinset
  Tubino See-Through
  Tenson
  Filterabend
  Swingern In Flingern
  Blasmusik
  Fi Intro
  Fi

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The Beast is like a 10-song best friend peppered with pop-hooks-- a digital and acoustic orchestra arranged into a tight pop structure. Each song has an amazing complexity and listenability. In addition to playing guitars (acoustic, electric, nylon string, and bass), bongos, computer, drum set, egg shakers, hand claps, harmonica, keyboards, leaf crunch, marimba, melodica, piano, recorder, tambourine, vibraphone, vocals, vocoder, and whistles, Michel expands and elaborates on his previous vocal work, layering his voice and harmonies, and further develops his own quirky lyricism. His music is rooted almost entirely in acoustic instruments, but all are recorded separately, edited, processed and rearranged in the computer, putting him among laptop deviants like Dat Politics and Max Tundra as well as the true masters of studio recording like Todd Rundgren, Jeff Lynne, and Brian Wilson. One is reminded of Wilson and Burt Bacharach in Michel's intricate harmonies, dense instrumental layering, and avant-pop congeniality.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Dust
Planet
The Beast
A To B
RAM
Status Dive
Suds
Simple Animal
ErmaSel
Cricket

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Nathan Michel "The Beast"

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Even a band born in the studio realizes the magic of sound possibile from the stage, and any group with a great live show dreams of capturing that magic on tape. However, live albums are in a way absurd. Trying to package the spur-of-the-moment artist/audience dynamic may not be possible. So many live albums are like holiday photos-- pale two-dimensional documents of a once-enchanting moment.

For that reason Mouse on Mars avoided releasing a live recordings for ten years. They left the documentation of their stage shows to bootleggers, secret archivists and fidelity resistant butterfly collectors. Apart from a limited seven-inch and some quietly-tolerated bootleg CDRs, the band had never released anything that hadn't been painstakingly assembled and galvanized in the studio. But now Live04-- highlights of extensive touring in 2004 culled from about 600 hours of live material-- makes clear as day why the band's gigs can be just as exciting and unpredictable as their records. The music of Mouse On Mars is constantly reinventing itself and this magical energy, benefiting from ten years of live performance, is especially evident when the band takes it to the stage.

Track listing:

1. Mine Is In Yours
2. Diskdusk
3. All The Old Powers
4. Distroia
5. Twif
6. Gogonal*
7. Wipe That Sound
8. Actionist Respoke
9 Frosch*

*CD-only tracks

• First-ever official full-length Mouse On Mars live release
  
• Culled from nearly 600 (!!!) hours of live recordings from the bandis 2004 world tour
• Features bonus video for the track "Wipe That Sound"

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Mine Is In Yours
  Diskdusk
  All The Old Powers
  Distroia
  Twift
  Gogonal
  Wipe That Sound
  Actionist Respoke
  Frosch

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30-second MP3 excerpts:

Gezischel In Fremdorient
Hallimaschbomba Im Kreisverkehr
Mausefaltenfripp
Spaceagent Zimmerman
Quietschquarklaute
Mango Und Papaja Auf Tobago
Spacerokkmountainrutsch
Konfliktfickfahig
Verhorspielquakerseat
Elektronischer Country
Honkytonk Schlickummpittz
Hydraulicmeisters Halbtagstanz
Keine Sitar

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Schlammpeitziger "Collected Simplesongs" (Sonig)

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Track listing:

1. Vert Stumbling Gallopwood
A surprising electro-acoustic ragtime-house number. Elegant, unpretentious, nimbly instrumented with lots of piano, accordion and electronica, irresistible, and catchy

2. Wevie Stonder A Buddha Made of Mud
Freaked-out and complete with Casio-polka rhythms. A mix of English and fake German

3. Andreas Dorau Club Sonnenbankwende
This German popstar veteran of the early '80s new wave has still got it

4. Electronicat Prä-Frag Behäbige behäbige 67
The club-friendliest track, kicking and booting in fine style, cementing Electronicat's reputation as a rocker in disco outfit. Witness the birth of a new genre: Glamtrance!

• Limited edition 12-inch in Sonig's _ the Irregular series, following Jason Forrest 12-inch
  
  Exclusive re-mixes by cutting edge Sonig artists Vert, Wevie Stonder, Electronicat and German new wave hero Andreas Dorau

Everything Without All Inclusive perfects and expands his signature friendly Casio-grooves and irresistible melodies with surprising elements beneath the surface - seriousness and doubt. Schlammpeitziger always augments his melodious tracks with subtle layers of noise. Many here have an ambiguous quality that's hard to grasp; arrangements are shot through less with a barrel-organ sort of humour than with desire and melancholy. Nevertheless, this music is surely big fun and good for love at first sight. But it also stands the test of the second and third sight. On further hearings, this music reveals qualities submerged by a wave of sympathy in the initial encounter.

Track listing:

1. Behäbige Alarmschwarmlage (Sluggish Alarm Swarm Scenario)
2. Prä-digitaler Volksstuhlhänger (Pre-digital Folk Stool Hanger)
3. Verordentliche Unruhe (Tidified Restlessness)
4. Im Rehaglänzgasboot (In the Rehaglossgasboat)
5. Frag nicht nach Nord-Süd-Fahrt (Just Don't Ask For North-South-Drive)
6. Club Sonnenbankwende (Club Sun Bed Turn)
7. Aufstand des Neoflötisten (Neo-Flautist's Revolt)
8. Starter für argwöhnische Anhängsel (Ignition for Suspicious Hangers-on)
9. Stolperndes Galoppholz (Stumbling Galoppwood)

• Previous release licensed to Thrill Jockey
  
• Ambiguous electronic noise - big fun, no?
  
• Just look at those song titles and attempt to suppress the giggles
  
• See, it ain't easy, is it?

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Beh0/00bige Alarmschwarmlage
  Pr0/00-Digitaler Volksstuhlh0/00nger
  Verordentlichte Unruhe
  Im Rehagl0/00nzgasboot
  Frag Nicht Nach Nord-S,d-Fahrt
  Club Sonnenbankwende
  Aufstand Des Neo-Fl^tisten
  Starter F,r Argw^hnische Anh0/00ngsel
  Stolperndes Galoppholz

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On Schwingstelle Fuer Rauschabzug, Schlammpeitziger discovers deep frequencies and pulsating beats. All of a sudden, his familiar combination of eloquent melodies and lively rhythms acquires a completely new pull. With this album, Zimmermann pulses his listeners into hypnosis. This new quality transforms Schlammpeitziger's music in a remarkable way: it remains friendly and weird, but gains in seriousness and depth. The hidden qualities of this kind of club-suitable pop music (or radio-friendly club music?) readily disclose themselves on a second or third listen. This "musical double entendre" was already hinted at on the last album Everything Without All Inclusive. Now it has become Schlammpeitziger's new trademark. Still, the listener is caught up in a net of intricately woven melodic lines.

Schwingstelle Fuer Rauschabzug was mixed by Andi Toma (Mouse On Mars/Von Suedenfed) at St. Martin Tonstudio, Duesseldorf. Pingipung Records' Springintgut, who recently released an album on City Centre Offices, contributes a remix of "Bassbestie's Blaesse" (available as a bonus track on the CD only). Furthermore, the CD contains a beautiful video for the track "Rastplatz Rastlos" by artist Ulrike Goeken (also responsible for Schlammpeitziger's live visuals and other music videos).

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Bassbestie's Blaesse
Stompja Stricksekret
Rastplatz Rastlos
Wuup Wolgawahn
Konservatives Einzelzimmer
Zuegelloser Zeilenzieher
Uma Express
Von Dubtisten
Dauerdachdeck Dritter
Bassbestie's Blaesse [Springintgut Remix]

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Scratch Pet Land "s/t" (s/b Solo Soli iiiii) (Sonig)

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It goes without saying that Orchestre Philharmonok (what is this Belgian obsession with orchestras?) presents music that has o seriously o never been heard before. Scratch Pet Landis influences are never too far away, but Laurent Baudoux raises his cocktail of broad bass, game boys, metal guitars, trashy keyboards and cracking beats to the next level. Bizarre string instruments from the Far East twist and turn in the grooves yet most of the album sounds fabricated from some new synthetic miracle plastic.

A musical dilettante and professed non-virtuoso, Sun Ok Papi K.O. creates music with the innocent attitude of the enthusiast, free from any impulse to repeat or mimic. Orchestre Philharmonok is like club culture without the club or avant-garde without the music theory. Itis got the unmistakable, euphoric appeal of authentic fan admiration, unburdened by clichE or stylistic reference, probing ceaselessly for unexplored turns at an incredible speed.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Intro Otcho
Rascalica (Featuring MC Illreme)
Koyesyes No 2
Andi Booty (Featuring MC Illreme)
Spl Fov
Star Daughter
Super Puni
Waisvisz Beat
O> <K
Papiko Riddim (Featuring MC Illreme)
Spiderman Alphabet
Bakalo Style (Featuring MC Illreme)

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go to iTunes to browse downloads for Sun OK Papi K.O. "Orchestre Philharmonok"

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