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Pax Britannica

Answer Code Request | By The Bay

Negative Fascination (Expanded)

Temptation & Desire

Invocation Of Lust

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In a Syrian Tongue

Blood Witness (Original 12" Mix)

Today the musical vision offered by Berghain resident @AnswerCodeRequest, real name Patrick Gräser, has proved far-sighted. While at first glance electronic music in 2018 seems increasingly balkanized, borders between genres have once again become fuzzier. Now, on his follow up LP ‘Gens’, Gräser looks beyond the bass euphoria of his debut album ‘Code’ (Ostgut Ton, 2014) toward darker horizons and a desolate atmosphere befitting of current global circumstances.

Catch Answer Code Request on the road: http://ostgut.de/booking/artist/answer-code-request/dates

Listen at
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qJ1sNQM9FakZj5oCz0oMP
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/gens/1333506695
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/de/album/54754852

Pre-order the album at
Bandcamp: https://answercoderequest.bandcamp.com/album/gens
Ostgut Ton: http://ostgut.de/ton/record/211
Bleep: https://bleep.com/release/94140-answer-code-request-gens
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/gens
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/gens/1333506695
Juno: https://www.junodownload.com/products/answer-code-request-gens/3644172-02/
Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/917376/gens

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Answer Code Request | Cicadae

Our mix series returns March 15, 2019 with the 9th edition mixed and compiled by Vatican Shadow. It includes 13 exclusive tracks available for download or on 2x12“ vinyl  [O-TON 119].

Since becoming a Berghain resident in 2017, Dominick Fernow’s risk-taking hybrid live/DJ sets as Vatican Shadow have become conduits for infusing techno with contrasting musical ideas – from noise, industrial and ambient to distorted melodies and rhythms that push the club’s borders in unexpected ways.

It’s an idiosyncratic approach to techno rooted not only in Fernow’s 25-plus years as an experimental and noise musician under more than a dozen aliases (e.g. Prurient, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement) but also in his role as founder of the vital New York-based Hospital Productions, whose discography exceeds some 500 releases. The label – which in 2017 celebrated its 20-year anniversary – is also home to the majority of Vatican Shadow output to date.

Under that alias, Fernow’s numerous albums and 12”s (including 2017’s ‘Rubbish Of The Floodwaters’ on Ostgut Ton) oscillate between ominous, distorted machine-funk, techno and ambient electronics; equal parts noise, melody and rhythm. Since 2011, the project’s intentionally ambiguous visual identity has been defined by War on Terror-related imagery and track titles – and the media’s role therein.

Both the ‘Berghain 09’ mix and accompanying exclusive 12”s – featuring exclusive tracks by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Virile Games, Los Angeles Death Cult, Ron Morelli, Volvox, JK Flesh, Alberich, Ugandan Methods | Prurient and Merzbow – reflect Vatican Shadow’s composite musical influences and relationship to Berghain as a club. Stylistically, the two vinyls are divided between clubbier and experimental electronics, with vocal samples of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge acting as a bridge between the two. All tracks on Side D end in locked grooves.

As Fernow describes in his own words:

“My interest in DJing developed naturally out of industrial music traditions such as mail art, tape trading, and sound collage. While this mix, of course, does not solely focus on cassettes, they were used as the bridge between the seemingly disparate areas and cross-sections of underground electronic edits you will find sewn together from diverse factions to create a sonic ‘cut up’. Accordingly, the artists featured with exclusive tracks span several continents and generations of electronic music subculture, from the birth of industrial in the UK and the rhythmic loops of Japanese noise, to the raw collision of genres found in the NYC underground. ‘Berghain 09’ is a tribute to the techno mixtapes that influenced me during my introduction to raves and dance music in the 90s.”

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Ugandan Methods | Prurient | Venom Timetables

The First Siren

Born of Ashes

Some Techno. Soundcloud of Ancient Methods and the Persephonic Sirens label.

worldwide booking: clara@acheron-booking.com