3 Shades is a collective of musicians (and guests) that one could call a "Supergroup". Based in and around Munich/Germany the group was founded 9 years ago. Famous for their rare but exciting live performances it was just a question of time before they released their debut album. And they had time. But now the waiting is over and "Thank God For Beatniks" is ready to enter/penetrate your ears.
Maybe it's some kinda jazz. But spelled wrong and with other results. Maybe it's a quest for all the promises made about music and freedom.
"Thank God For Beatniks" is not an answer to all these subjects, but 3 Shades asks the right questions. 

3 Shades: Tiny Bits Of Terrible

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!)

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

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
twitter.com/Zoon_van_snooK
@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

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.

3 Shades: Tiny Bits Of Terrible

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