vocal version from Rat Life - RAT13
original released on Our Beat Is Still New - Take Two 12"
We Play House Recordings, Belgium ‎– WPH NEW BEAT 3
 Arranged By – Credit 00, Jacob Korn, Sneaker
 Bass – Jacob Korn
 Drums – Credit 00
 Vocals – Sneaker

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Our-Beat-Is-Still-New-Take-Two/release/4962050

Serial Error - Drum Abuse  RAT13

Platform 23 again explores to the dense voids, this time with a touch of the funk, with a reissue of Dutch experimentalists De Fabriek and two tracks from their “Music For” cassette series, this time calling all Hippies.

Featuring both original and reinterpretations from modern-day heads, Dunkeltier and Khidja, this double-pack is something of an oddity, showcasing the bands’ expansive range, moving away from the noise, drone and industrial soundscape releases they had become known for and crafting here, free flowing, groovy longform jams.

Active since the late 70s to today, De Fabriek (The Factory) have never considered themselves a real band – being also a label too – with an evolving and irregular line up centred around Richard van Dellen, they present their music and output as a kind of work-union.

With literally four decades and dozens of releases across all formats, 1988’s cassette release, ‘Music For Hippies’, has become something of a cult curio, with the long improvisational tracks, Lullabye and Coming Down eschewing the rougher, industrial experience for something completely different.

In opener Lullabye, we go full leftfield P-Funk meets Motorik undertones. An incessant beat is laid from the start and doesn’t cease for over 10 minutes, while spoken vocals call closer to the Krautrock realms of Can and hark to Liebezeit’s stylised grooving best.

Analog, echo washed, with touches of glam and wrapped in simple effects pedal work, the secrets are passed to Dresden / Berlin inhabitant Dunkeltier aka Sneaker DJ. His darker moniker, appearing on obscure edits for Macadam Mambo and the much-missed Bahnsteig 23, his ‘Hey Robot’ mix adds bass, percussion, strings and synth to remold Lullabye into a late night, red light, basement denzien. This is followed by an additional, bonus reimagining, creating an all-new time piece, an ear worm of the best kind with Tik Tok Goes The Clock.

De Fabriek’s “coming down lullabye” arriving on vinyl for the first time, with a twist and shake, calling deeper to acceptance.

Music For Hippies

B1 De Fabriek - Lullabye (DUNKELTIER'S 'HEY ROBOT' MIX)

B2 Dunkeltier - Tik Tok Goes The Clock

Out early 2016 on Bordello A Parigi (BAP053)

Distribution: www.dianacharite.com

Past midnight. Empty streets. From an ill lit doorway a sound. A woman. Shadow. A scent. Drawn into one. Smoke and synthesizer music swirls. Bionda E Lupo. Crossing the threshold, tripping into twilight. Analogue emotion, styles twirled like garlands. Nervous shuffles and the touch of fingertips. Weaving, bodies twirl as morning shoulders into night. The realisation. The edge of eyes. Curl of lip. The click of heels with creak of floor. Feeling flows, ebbs, cascades and floods. Lipstick and heavy perfume. Two forms swimming in currents, bending to one another in the warm glow of aging speakers. Breath and pulse quicken. Electricity spiked with passion. The final embrace. Whispered promises. A kiss.

B2 Bionda e Lupo - Le Louvre  BAP053

B1 Bionda e Lupo - Solar  BAP053

A2 Bionda e Lupo - Keep Calm  BAP053

A1 Bionda e Lupo - Ton Rire  BAP053

The track is taken from the first release in our new @MechatronicaMusic White series, dedicated to limited edition white label records across synth, wave, EBM, italo, electro and more. Mechatronica White 1 will feature tracks by Inhalt, Violet Poison, Sneaker / Opus Leopard and Daniel Holt - release date: May 11th, 2018.

Listen to more tracks from the vinyl:
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/sets/mtronw001
The new digi-album of Opus Leopard - 'Kunst oder Katze' on bandcamp features my remix of the single 'Sternzeichen Leopard' from the last album.
https://opusleopard.bandcamp.com/album/kunst-oder-katze

After meeting in Ulm we decided we should try doing something together, so I took the Walhallian music by OL for a remix. The driving arpeggio is done with help of the MIDI-In on my tiny Yamaha CS-01 (thanks, Jacob Korn for installing the kit). Wokosoma (also the singer) did the fabulous stop-motion video you can watch by following the link: 

sneakerdj.com/opus-leopard-sternzeichen-leopard-sneaker-remix/

Kunst oder Katze

Opus Leopard - Sternzeichen Leopard (SNEAKERS REMIX)

Digital bonus from the 2019 vinyl (&digital) re-issue of 'Ou Sommes Nous?' on Platform 23.
Cat.no.: PLA 036

"Platform 23 returns with the reissue of songs from Canadian project, Vini Vidi Vici. With just one privately pressed mini-album in 1989 that bridged the gap between the later years of New Wave and the early vestiges of House, the music included in this edited EP highlights a thriving Montreal scene in its heyday.
[...]
Included is [a digital bonus] remix by Berlin’s Sneaker DJ and he take on Club Stuff. When digging through the tapes a later, tougher demo of the track was unearthed and who better than to send to Sneaker for examination."

Ou Sommes Nous?

Vini Vidi Vici - Club Stuff (SNEAKERS 2019 BIRTHDAY MIX)

..aka Dunkeltier aka Lupo aka the voice of Serial Error aka ½ of EBM-DJ-duo GOTT

Das beste NDW-Album der letzten 25 Jahre!
biondaelupo.bandcamp.com/album/la-deutsche-vita
Bestellung über biondaelupo@gmail.com! 38€+VK
10 Songs auf 2 LPs von Bionda e Lupo.
"La Deutsche Vita" - Sehr zu empfehlen!

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12"s on : Fit Sound, The Black Lodge, Uncanny Valley, Eine Welt, Rat Life, Emotional Rescue, Frigio, Charlois, Bordello A Parigi, Macadam Mambo, Bio Rhythm, Bahnsteig 23, Platform 23, H45T86W95, ULM, Lunatic, We Play House, Lustpoderosa, Lux ...

Sneaker has been on a mission to reveal the origins of electronic music for more than twenty years now. Whether as a producer or DJ – Sneaker is doing it properly but always after careful consideration. He loves music which imparts atmosphere and attitude towards life, even in a parodying way that doesn’t take it all or itself too serious. Early on, he fell in love with Detroit and Chicago but furthermore there are the obscure Italo, new wave and minimal synth gems that make his sets and Dunkeltier edits special and provide his productions with that edgy Sneaker flavour.

If he doesn’t reflect on the history of dance music, the graduate of Fine Arts shuttles extensively between his part-time-hometowns Berlin and Dresden, where he operates the TailOut mastering studios with long-time collaborator Jacob Korn. He remixed classic EBM and minimal synth bands such as Twilight Ritual, Esplendor Geométrico, Absolute Body Control, S.M. Nurse and Click Click on his contributions on Frigio, based in Madrid, Bahnsteig 23 and the Macadam Mambo Edits label from Lyon.

The pricky bomb that is ‘You Think You Think!’ on Uncanny Valley Rec. has enriched the sets of Daniel Bell (DBX), Crème-head TLR, Cassius, Traxx and Deetron. It was featured on the FabricLive-CD of Daniel Avery. After the collaboration ‘Heteronomous’ on Jacob Korns debut album (featured by Mano Le Tough in the Boiler Room and liscensed to the Future 303 compilation on Toolroom Records) he became specialiced on edits of dance (un-)classics to be witnessed on his releases on Rat Life and Mond Musik. The end of 2021 will finally bring a return of the Sneaker to Uncanny Valley with an EP of an unheard mixture of New Beat and Deep House played solely on an Emulator II and a 909.
In the past whirlwind years Sneaker has seen an enormous output with EPs on Bio Rhythm, ULM, Lunatic, Bordello A Parigi plus numerous contributions on vinyl labels such as Platform 23, The Black Lodge, Lustpoderosa and Mechatronica. In disguise as the carnivorous part of the synth pop duo Bionda e Lupo on Eine Welt, slow jak beats on Fit Sound, Detroit, plenty of new Dunkeltier edits on wax. In 2019 he introduced the DJ-duo GOTT with his partner Scannoir from Zurich by two EPs of top-notch synth-wave/EBM on Uncanny Valley, a follow-up due in 2022.

Artist sites:
sneakerDJ.com
tailout.de
instagram.com/tailout_tapemasters
instagram.com/sneaker.dj/
facebook.com/SneakerDJ
uncannyvalley.de
residentadvisor.net/DJ/Sneaker
soundcloud.com/SneakerDJ


upcoming vinyl:
GOTT - Mutationen EP  /Mattoni Pazzi  mps002
De Fabriek - Sneaker Mixes  /Platform 23
Sneaker Edits  /Deep Cover #8

recent vinyl:
Bionda e Lupo - La Deutsche Vita 2xLP
De Fabriek - Sneaker Mixes  /Platform 23

still fresh:
VA - Sneaker pres. Give'N'Take 2 /Uncanny Valley
Sneaker - The Flow EP  /Uncanny Valley UV057
Bionda e Lupo - Camp Cosmic /Eine Welt

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