I first met @adelakram when we were working at Nachtdigital festival and helped to prepare everything for a beautiful weekend. I do not remember exactly what we were talking about but at one point or another it came to vinyl and tape manufacturing and music producing. We met on the bungalow village every year and I have been starting to follow Adel’s musical output since then because I really love what he does and how he sees the world. Various songs were already on the list of getting released. After the premiere of the play „Who Killed My Father“ for which he composed the soundtrack, he sent it to me to have me listening to it. What more to say. I loved it and soon we realized that we have to release it. Now we are here with a happy smile on our faces and bring you Adel Akram’s Music For Theater. Have a great time listening to it.

order: kontrapunktsound.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-theater

release date: 1st January 2022

All songs written and produced by Adel Akram Alameddine for the play "Wer hat meinen Vater Umgebracht" (Qui a tué mon père) by Édouard Louis. The recordings were made in Munich in November and December 2019.

Premiere at Volkstheater München on 13 December 2019.
Directed by Philipp Arnold
Stage and costume design by Belle Santos
Ensemble: Jonathan Hutter, Anne Stein, Jakob Geßner
Playwright: Katja Friedrich

Courtesy of Volkstheaters München

Artwork: Stefanie Wittrisch
Mastering: Markus Broy, DTL-Mastering
Manufactured at r.a.n.d. muzik

Music For Theater

01.01.2022

Adel Akram - Music For Theater (Kontratape 07)

Panta Rex was introduced to me due to his output on Noorden. When I moved to Cologne I was looking for people to start doing music with and Alex from Noorden introduced me to him. Soon he started to show me more of his music. 

I instantly felt in love with Dyade which is a beautiful song to end a set with that lasted the whole night and is ending when the sun is already shining again. By the way the working title of this beautiful song was dtf-uia.  

Youth in the 90s shows you where Panta Rex got his musical background from and it is a homage back to the golden times after the fall of the wall and all the never ending parties. 

Critter is a club hit with a long build-up and a drop that is unique in its own way, that lets you expect something different and it is also hitting very hard. 

Lares in the end is one of those songs that feels like an old Workshop record. House at its best and with lyrics brought onto point.

@panta-rex

Critter

Panta Rex - Critter (Kontrapunkt 06)

I have been knowing @tromboneschoenfeld for many years already and following his musical output. It took a while until we found seven new songs from him for you. Now we are back with a little journey that takes you from hidden castles to the Mecklenburgian countryside, from a family party deep into the jungle and under the water. It all ends with a slow and beautiful song where he finally plays his trumpet again. 

The other side of the tape shows you the danceable side of @kadentberlin - „a cute producer from Berlin with original Berliner Schnauze“. It starts with three of his dub techno songs followed by the summer hit Polarity. He then shows you how to have fun with slow drum ’n’ bass. Doctor Ballerton is really slow but energetic in its own way and Synthetic Substitution brings back the summer and lets me want to dance outside again. 

Enjoy the musical cosmos of both Kadent and Schönfeld.

Rain Is Falling And Flowers Are Blossoming  &  Mountain Dub

Kontratape 08

Schönfeld & Kadent - Kontratape 08

I met @loht-vostok in Gabi's and Nestor’s backyard when we we were attending the after hour from the big party we had in Tegucigalpa. He was playing continuously great music that fit the atmosphere and the mood of the last remaining people really well. At one point I wanted to know a song he played and when he revealed me that it was his own song I was sure I wanted to get some of his music to listen to and to play. Weeks later when I was back in Germany and got some of his music, I could not believe in the variety of styles that I was listening to. So the plan was made to release an album and that’s what we have here. A wonderful range of different genres that we bring to you to listen to. Please enjoy.

Artwork: Katja Meissner
Imagery: David Rauer
Mastering: Markus Broy at DTL-Mastering
Manufactured at r.a.n.d. muzik

Keme

Loht Vostok - Keme (Kontratape 09)

I’ve first got into contact with Jūra Elena Šedytė’s music last year at Yaga festival. I had the slot to play after her live set and even though I was very nervous I was fascinated by the mood and atmosphere that arose around her music. We got into contact afterwards and the plan to do a release together evolved. After almost a year of planning here we go.
Explore her music with three new songs that lead you on a mesmerizing path through her beautiful musical world. From joyous almost childlike melodies through the wickedness of some people’s thoughts down to the sacred hymns of someones birth or funeral all spiced up with some up-to-date lyrics.

Also Nikita is back with five new songs. Made during the last five years he finally decided to show some of his output on his own label again. Starting with a percussive story-telling tale, continuing to the either melancholic or uplifting atmosphere behind some old trails. When it suddenly gets dark and threatening to an almost killing mood, the story continues in a different region with an easy yet remindful melody until it all continues with a long forgotten relation between two parted-away people.

Jūra Elena Šedytė / Nikita von Tiraspol - Ready When You Are / Änderungsvorschläge (Kontrapunkt 07)

„Unter dem ungewöhnlichen Gehäuse des Schönfeld-Albums @tromboneschoenfeld stecken viele kleine Zahnräder, surrende Treibriemen, elastische Stützbänder und klackernde Zylinderköpfchen, die das experimentelle Gerät Richtung Tanzfläche drücken wollen und es auch schaffen.
Eine Ameisenstadt mit funktionierender Infrastruktur von deren Türmen die vom Meister höchst persönlich gewohnt professionell eingespielten Trompetenriffs erklingen.
Die sture Andersartigkeit mit der kittenden Handschrift des Künstlers ist es, die dem Album einen vorübergehenden Platz auf meinem MP3-Abspieler sichern.“ - @sandrow_m

"Under the unusual casing of the Schönfeld album are many small cogwheels, whirring drive belts, elastic support straps and clattering cylinder heads that want to push the experimental device towards the dance floor and succeed in doing so.
An ant city with a functioning infrastructure from whose towers the trumpet riffs, professionally played by the master himself, resound.
The stubborn otherness with the artist's masticating signature is what secures the album a temporary place on my mp3 player." - Sandrow M.
credits
releases March 1, 2024

Artwork: Katja Meissner
Imagery: Vismante Ruzgaite
Mastering: Markus Broy at DTL-Mastering
Manufactured at r.a.n.d. muzik

Schönfeld - Interconnected Lip Vibes (Kontratape 10)

New Leipzig label Kontrapunkt's inaugural record presents a richly diverse collection of music that spans from world music infused house in the vein of many Sex Tags releases to break ridden, hard hitting, low-fi techno through to considered ambient music. Despite the variation Kontrapunkt is held together by a unifying underground style that every track shares. An excellent first release from a label that's sure to become a major underground player.

A1 Drone Operatør- Himalaya Drone Bite
A2 Carmel & Nikita - MN
A3 Nikita von Tiraspol - PB
B1 schönfeld - allãhu akbar
B2 Carmel - Kampfsport Afrika
B3 Drone Operatør - Piece for ƒ Tøne

release date: 19.09.2017

artwork: Stefanie Wittrisch
distribution: Shite Music

buy it over here:

Juno http://tinyurl.com/yblje4ph
Decks http://tinyurl.com/yd3stmhv
deejay http://tinyurl.com/y74v43n7
Redeye http://tinyurl.com/y7z44ph4
HHV https://tinyurl.com/ycghuqph
Oye https://tinyurl.com/yct5bk46

discogs: https://www.discogs.com/master/view/1221918

video for the track "MN" can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geQVOzWlYDA

Kontrapunkt 01

B1 of Kontrapunkt 01 comes from Dresden musician schönfeld. In the words of frohfroh "he delivers a filigree-percussive piece of music which brings you back the minimal techno vibe - including ambient surfaces, polyrhythmic digressions and arabic sounds and singings."
Come in and listen.

schönfeld - allãhu akbar

For release #2 Kontrapunkt makes a journey into different fields of electronic music. French based producer Octave Diesis delivers an album full of melancholic yet thoughtful neoclassical songs. The songs live mostly from the enigmatic piano melodies paired with some well-thought synthesizer sounds he composed. Expect ambient environments and dramatic, soothing layers.

A1 Mercurius (pars I)
A2 Mercurius (pars II)
A3 Venus
A4 Terra
B1 Mars
B2 Jupiter
B3 Saturnus
B4 Uranus & Neptunus

release date: 27.02.2018

artwork: Stefanie Wittrisch
distribution: Shite Music

buy it over here:

Juno https://tinyurl.com/ybafu8lo
Decks https://tinyurl.com/ycml72da
Deejay https://tinyurl.com/ybjtncst
Redeye https://tinyurl.com/y7ojutcu
HHV https://tinyurl.com/ycvw8uuk

Telluric

Octave Diesis - Telluric (Kontrapunkt 02)

For their next release Kontrapunkt goes deeper into the realm of experimentation. It reaches from neo trance techno tracks to some spiritual  influenced tribal tracks. There will be discoveries in the breaks area as well. And in the end it is all about how rough techno can sound today.

A1 SDW - intro
A2 schönfeld - happy sledging
A3 hedon the cat - stardancer
A4 Leo - ~~~~
B1 Lenny Frings - Enjoy Your Meal
B2 Nikita von Tiraspol - Es sehen bessere Zeiten
B3 Lige Uge og Ulige Uge - Myggens Fridag
B4 Quincy - White Noise Accused of Copyright Infringement
B5 Edelbert - Bruuuum

release date: 23 October 2018

artwork: Stefanie Wittrisch
distribution: shite music

buy it over here

clone    https://tinyurl.com/y88ugfvl
decks    https://tinyurl.com/yahuuc7h
deejay    https://tinyurl.com/ybzzpljr
redeye     https://tinyurl.com/yc4c4q2f
juno           https://tinyurl.com/yc8qc3ty
hhv https://tinyurl.com/y9rw8gbk

Kontrapunkt 03

Kontrapunkt 05

New tape arrived. This time it is a split tape.

Side A features 45 minutes by Dresden based musician @tromboneschoenfeld.
Deep Drones combined with heavy to spacey ambient. Rhythmic excursions paired with heavenly arpeggiators. From tribal drums to slick synths.

Side B features 45 minutes by Leipzig based musician @lenny-frings.
Tribal drums will appear all over the record. Some might make you feel lost deep into the jungle. Others might make you slow down your car from 150 to Tempo 90. And some feel like the night is over now.

order: https://kontrapunktsound.bandcamp.com/album/kontratape-04

release date: 16.05.2019
artwork: Stefanie Wittrisch

Kontratape 04

schönfeld & Lenny Frings (Kontratape 04)

Tim Jackiw is back with an ep of 4 brand new tracks. Focused on dense melodic, musical techno and inspired by futurism and technological landscapes. City in the clouds ep features music made in Tim’s Mill Park 313 Studio in Melbourne from 2018 to 2019 using a blend of hardware.

A1 Light Cycle
A2 Planetary Tide
B1 City in the Clouds
B2 Tension

distribution: www.shite-music.com
artwork: Stefanie Wittrisch

read a review from DJ Mag over here: https://tinyurl.com/y3cc7g7c

City in the Clouds EP

Tim Jackiw - City in the Clouds EP (Kontrapunkt 04)

After bombing the net with their harsh and wicked quasi-free jazz over the last three years, @droneoperator are finally dropping their first handy release for your home high definition stereo systems. Expect gloomy drones paired with sacred ambient. Ødd metal riffs meet spoken poetry. Mad soundscapes make love with executed office noises. World-infused melodies fight against the quietness of no sound at all. 'Lil Œuvre' is a tasteful selection out of almost 300 songs by Drone Operatør. It's their first album so to speak. If you want less friends, play it out loud to them.

You can buy it over at Bandcamp: https://tinyurl.com/whcgfl5

Find out more about Drone Operatør at their homepage: http://www.droneoperator.info/

2x45 minutes tape
Produced by Drone Operatør
Artwork: Stefanie Wittrisch

Lil Œuvre

Drone Operatør - Lil Œuvre (Kontratape 05)

With Kontrapunkt 05 we bring you a record packed with songs for every different occasion. It opens with the majestic and overwhelming Propagate by Humanoid, continues with All True's dirty, harsh and rough Suspended Sisterhood and closes the A-side with Doc Sleep's straightforward, without-compromises MJF.
The B-side comes in a more gentle yet spacey approach. It starts its journey to the universe with Deeper Call by Hedon The Cat followed by a trip back to earth for Carmel & Nikita's summery Nebenan and lifting you back to space with the atmospheric Last Interstellar Transmission by Adel Akram.

All tracks mastered by Getlifted Mastering except A3 mastered by Johnny Igaz.
Artwork by Stefanie Wittrisch and Stefan Ibrahim
Distribution: Shite Music

You can purchase it over at Bandcamp. More copies will be available in most regular stores as well.

Split tape. Double Album.

Side A features music from Brussel based musician @laura-trance. As the name suggests you can expect passionate and radical trance rhythms combined with lush and mesmerizing singing. Also you do not have to wait for fresh trap beats anymore. Finally it is all mixed with some ambient beats as well. 

Side B comes from Düsseldorf musician @awel-true. Originally a painter, he is finally ready to release some songs from his last ten years of music production and we are now releasing some songs from all over the production period. Tribalistic drum rhythms come together with dreamy synth lines and it all ends in a thunderous, majestic finale.

order: https://kontrapunktsound.bandcamp.com/album/kontratape-06

release date: 1st May 2021
artwork: Stefanie Wittrisch
imagery: Nikita Schmitz
mastering: Marcus Broy, DTL-Mastering

Kontratape 06

01.05.2021

Laura Trance & All True (Kontratape 06)

record label. based somewhere between Cologne, Leipzig and Vilnius
questions, contact, infos, demos and everything else: either over contact form 
or to moritz [at] randmuzik.de
run by @nikitavontiraspol

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