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13&God

# Ever since sales figures for physical records started to dwindle there has been a debate surrounding the future of the album format. Some people claimed that download practices of the average music fan would make the album as we know it redundant. There were already obituaries for the album as an art-form being published and those who declared that they only listen to single tracks on their iPod anyway. This served as a reminder that the LP was originally nothing more than a collection of a particular artists recent singles anyway. Whether 13&God were thinking about any of this when they started work on their second album „own your ghost“ or not is a different question. Although one might suppose so. For although „own your ghost“ in no way overpowering, it is so diverse that one sometimes has the feeling that one is listening to a compilation. Whoever opens themselves to this album is letting themselves in for an emotional rolercoaster of uncertain terminus. Everything seems to be possible on this record: deathly sad, enchanting indie hymns. Sharp stinging raps by Sharp stinging raps by Doseone with his distinctive voice. Understated grooves, Krautrock tracks, melancholy, lightness... The lyrics and song titles are another strength the album and one that binds it together. For on „own your ghost“ 13&God are dealing with life's big topics: growing old, death and mortality. In other words they are concerned with issues that pop music has traditionally left behind. Lyrics and song titles such as can't get the eat out of death, death major, old age, unyoung, to end, belong down etc. are like a read thread through pretty much all the songs. And the front cover depicts a weightless skeleton floating through the air. 13&God were founded in 2004 under adventurous circumstances by members of the bands Themselves (Adam Doseone Drucker, Jeffrey Jel Logan, Dax Pierson, Jordan Dalrymple) und The Notwist (Markus and Micha Acher, Martin Gretschmann). According to the legend the idea for the project was born on the highway near the Canadian border. A burning laptop and a stuffed fox apparently played central roles in the event. This transcontinental supergroup brings together curiosity, openness and ability. The Notwists signature is unmistakable – the absolute blueprint for experimental indie pop. The same goes for the Anticon band Themselves. That such different musicians time and again continue to surprise their listeners is to their highest credit. „own your ghost“ gives us a sense of how 13&God manage to stay afloat on a see of possibilities, rather than becoming shipwrecked on it.
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Members
adam 'doseone' drucker..dax pierson..jeff 'jel' logan..micha acher..markus acher..martin gretschmann..jordan dalrymple.....themselves.. and ..the notwist..
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Influences
www.anticon.com www.alientransistor.de 

13 & God: Old Age

13 & God - Beat on us

Old Age - 13&God

Out on Morr Music 2016-11-11
With his latest record, Notwist singer & guitar player, film soundtracker and label boss Markus Acher, aka Rayon, offers up a sparse, intoxicating LP of instrumentals.
As the name suggests, the spaces between notes here are treated with as much gravity as the notes themselves – arpeggios spiralling upwards, conflicting yet interlocking in a dizzying overlap of time signatures.
An obvious reference point is Javanese gamelan, with its ensemble of hand-beaten metallophones and bamboo flutes, pulling in all directions at once and yet, like a starling murmuration, maintaining shape as one, rippling whole.
Eschewing electronic equipment, the title track sees marimbaphone, piano and vibraphone appearing to mimic a delay pedal, giving the effect of rain falling with odd regiment into a singing bowl.
This melancholy but weirdly uplifting arrangement surfaces throughout the record, punctuated by mossy synth hums and subterranean rustling. Like much of Rayon’s work, “A Beat of Silence” beams across like a soundtrack for some forgotten documentary: dusty archive footage of cities being built and eroded in time-lapse seeming to flicker across the screen.

Closing tracks “To the Quiet”, a tentative, almost impossibly fragile ballad, and “Kona”, a stretched and mangled wash of orchestral drone akin to Plinth or Edmund Finnis, leave the listener fully enveloped, as this incredibly sensitive work draws to a close.

Richard Greenan (Kit Records, Devon Loch)

A Beat of Silence

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Rayon: Dots



Out on Morr Music 2016-11-11
With his latest record, Notwist singer & guitar player, film soundtracker and label boss Markus Acher, aka Rayon, offers up a sparse, intoxicating LP of instrumentals.
As the name suggests, the spaces between notes here are treated with as much gravity as the notes themselves – arpeggios spiralling upwards, conflicting yet interlocking in a dizzying overlap of time signatures.
An obvious reference point is Javanese gamelan, with its ensemble of hand-beaten metallophones and bamboo flutes, pulling in all directions at once and yet, like a starling murmuration, maintaining shape as one, rippling whole.
Eschewing electronic equipment, the title track sees marimbaphone, piano and vibraphone appearing to mimic a delay pedal, giving the effect of rain falling with odd regiment into a singing bowl.
This melancholy but weirdly uplifting arrangement surfaces throughout the record, punctuated by mossy synth hums and subterranean rustling. Like much of Rayon’s work, “A Beat of Silence” beams across like a soundtrack for some forgotten documentary: dusty archive footage of cities being built and eroded in time-lapse seeming to flicker across the screen.

Closing tracks “To the Quiet”, a tentative, almost impossibly fragile ballad, and “Kona”, a stretched and mangled wash of orchestral drone akin to Plinth or Edmund Finnis, leave the listener fully enveloped, as this incredibly sensitive work draws to a close.

Richard Greenan (Kit Records, Devon Loch)


A beat of silence

Rayon: A Beat Of Silence

Recorded at Mutek Mexico Oct. 22 nd at Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos

Live @ Mutek Mexiko 2016

Read our interview with Markus Acher of @the-notwist and check out this mix's track list here: bit.ly/NotwiPod

Groove Podcast 86

Tracklist

Groove Podcast 86 - The Notwist

Welcome to another episode of Zoon van snooK's (Lo Recordings) Oddtronica show, broadcasting from Dubai.

The regular feature 'Feast From The East' - which showcases Oddtronica artists from all over the Middle East - today comes from Israel and the special guest selector is Newcastle's orchestral glitch don: Ochre (Benbecula Records)

So if you want 2 hours of the very latest electronic-inspired music, and to find out about slicing your own face off and wearing it as a mask, come on in...

First aired: 25/03/17 (Not May as stated on the thumbnail!)

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www.facebook.com/Zoon-van-snooK-3…timeline/?ref=mf
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1. Shobaleader One 'Journey to Reedham'
2. Lusine 'The Lift'
3. Byul.org 'AFKN (American Forces Korean Network)'
4. Focalist 'Jamais Vu'
5. Chrome Sparks 'Wake'
6. Dark Sky 'Cyan'

'Feast From The East'
7. Red Axes 'Sun My Sweet Sun'

8. Spencer Brown 'Divine Intervention'
9. Erik Luebs 'Red C' (Vessels Remix)
10. Paul Mac 'Bleeps Are Foundation'
11. Figure Ground ' Naches'
12. HM505 'Hilt'd'

'Tunes For Zoon' w/ special guest: Ochre
(x 5 - a surprise, you'll have to listen!!!)

18. Ochre 'Light Rail'
19. Arkajo 'Vamp'
20. HBT 'The Mockingbird'

'Left of Field'
21. Soundwalk Collective 'Auditorium Scarlatti'

22. Agents of Time 'Era'
23. Synkro 'Memory'
24. Special Request 'Redrum'

Bloop. London

Zoon van snooK presents: Oddtronica #20 w/special guest: Ochre

Welcome to the latest instalment of Zoon van snooK's (Lo Recordings) Oddtronica show, broadcasting from Dubai.

The regular feature 'Feast From The East' - which showcases Oddtronica artists from all over the Near and Middle East - today comes from Libya and my special guest selector on 'Tunes For Zoon' is Dutch supremo Kratos Himself (@Youngbloods)

So if you want 2 hours of the very latest electronic-inspired music, including the finest song about household furnishings that you've heard in a long time, this is for you...

First aired: 29/04/17

ZvS links:
www.zoonvansnook.co.uk/
www.facebook.com/Zoon-van-snooK-3…timeline/?ref=mf
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@zoonvansnook

Track list:

1. Le Millipede 'Herbst' (LeRoy Remix)
2. Machine Drum 'U Betta'
3. Haramia Tapes 'Farewell Four'
4. Bartellow & DJ Ground 'Shiroi Uma'
5. Dauwd 'Leitmotiv'
6. Gravity's Angel 'Billy Esq. Goes Legit'

'Feast From The East'
7. Ahmed Fakroun 'Yo Son' (Prince Language Edit)

8. Mimicof 'Dropping'
9. Bwana 'Hell Is Other Robots'
10. Chloé 'The Dawn'
11. Gigi Masin 'The Amber Room'

'Tunes For Zoon' w/ special guest: Kratos Himself (Youngbloods)
(x 3 - a surprise, you'll have to listen!!!)

15. Kratos Himself 'Strong In Silence'
16. Moon Boots 'Tear My Heart' feat. Lulu James (Extended Instrumental Mix)
17. Roosevelt 'Colours' (Prins Thomas Diskomiks Instrumental)
18. Deetron 'The Grand Cruiser'
19. Jan Jelinek 'They Them'

'Left of Field'
20. Aitor Etxebarria 'Tía Luisita'
21. Nuage 'Habitat'
22. Bjarki 'B.U.S.Y.
23. Spirituals 'Canadian Nationals'
24. Clark 'Hoova'

Zoon van snooK presents: Oddtronica #21 w/special guest: Kratos Himself

Our friend Misha Shkurat introduced us to Florian Zimmer, the musician behind Driftmachine and Saroos (currently working on new albums in both projects) living in Berlin. The man has a great record collection and the mix he recorded for us is inspired by the nights at now-defunct Neu Bar in Berlin where he played alongside Monique (Sonic Pieces) and Erik (Miasmah Records) the widest range of music: Japanese weirdos, cosmic kraut, gaze haze, whiskey hits & more. «It’s a very mood-driven mix featuring some records I came back to quite often this year like You Have Already Gone to the Other World by A Hawk and a Hacksaw or African Skies by Kelan Phil Cohran And Legacy as well as some new discoveries like Illtet (Mike Ladd has one of those voices I can listen to forever) or Köln – February 23, 1975 a stunning recording by Don Cherry, Terry Riley and Karl Berger, which has been very inspiring while working on new music».

@driftmachine @saroos

Krossfingers Podcast 125 - Florian Zimmer

Cookies" is the first single from Odd Nosdam's upcoming album "Mirrors" out on Alien Transistor 12-04-2019

This spring, acclaimed abstract hip-hop producer and cofounder of Anticon Records, Odd Nosdam, will release MIRRORS - a new LP via Alien Transistor. Composed entirely of found sounds, most of them sourced from rare and private press vinyl, MIRRORS’s instrumental beats and sound collages pulse with a sense of exploration and rediscovery that has been Nosdam’s calling card since the turn of this past century. Its every track presents a treasure trove of unique aural gems, each nestled in atmospheric textures that swirl like a cloud of dust just blown off of some once-overlooked heirloom.

Mirrors

Vinyl

Odd Nosdam: Cookies

Taken from "OLU" out on Alien Transistor 2020--03--06
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Tatsu Jam

Vinyl/DL/Stream

Saroos - Tatsu Jam

And so laughs the calendar
Day domesticated and nailed up
Like a hung hunted beast head boast
It is time taxidermed
For a man kind to pet

…and so you dip your scarfs in iron….
These Are troubled times and….
so you dip your scarfs in iron…
These Are troubled times and….soooo…

They always were…
That’s all time has as edge
Is our jeopardy
Otherwise a most desperate creature
Like you or I
Only longer
And most lonely

A terrible thing really
Like a corpse left with the slightest of quick
A creature of specific 
and infinite gears
not just a mountain of decade length blades with clouds on top
It’s workin’s are
Not a rigid stab of adder only…you are whats sensitive to it…
Put Simple, Time always cuts away from itself…
Not at you….

May you not flash
Unprotected neck
At such an edge so readily


this lil Diddy about death, is off of 13&god  "Own Your Ghost"

13&god "Armored Scarves"

Alien Transistor was founded in 2003 by Markus and Micha Acher from The Notwist.The labels concept is to produce music that has a musical or personal relation to the Notwist- microcosm: From electronic soundscapes through abstract hip-hop to laptop-treated contemporary, from processed oriental music to Nick Drake-inspired-songwriting: Alien Transistor doesn’t respect any musical boundaries.

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