Lazerwhales IV

Column - Der Blaue Dunst (Areal085)

Blaenk Minds is a DJ team producing a video for every track they play. Videos made for the club: dark, flashy & edited to the beat. Audio and video are not seperated - they are one.
“Twisted Skater“ is completely produced on a modular system: recording a session and chopped down to trippy melodies, flirting with phasing basslines. Some solid rhythm and percussive butterflies are painting the perfect backdrop for this track.
Marco Resmann (Upon You Records, Pokerflat) and Areals very own Metope contributed their interpretations of that track.

Twisted Skater

Blaenk Minds - Twisted Skater (incl. Marco Resmann + Metope Rmx) Areal086

Available as 12" vinyl - http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/hysteresis

John Tejada and Arian Leviste are back on Areal after their much celebrated release “Reactance“.
These guys are working for 25 years together meeting up weekly in the studio to try new things. They say themselves that it is their longest and most special collaboration. They use mainly hardware with an old school mind set that comes more from the early 80s NYC hip hop culture than anything else. Early pioneers misusing gear and making the best of their limitations. Their newest release “Hysteresis“ comes along strongly functional for the club.

Hysteresis

John Tejada & Arian Leviste - Switched Mode (Areal087)

Available as 12" vinyl - www.kompakt.fm/releases/hysteresis

John Tejada and Arian Leviste are back on Areal after their much celebrated release “Reactance“.
These guys are working for 25 years together meeting up weekly in the studio to try new things. They say themselves that it is their longest and most special collaboration. They use mainly hardware with an old school mind set that comes more from the early 80s NYC hip hop culture than anything else. Early pioneers misusing gear and making the best of their limitations. Their newest release “Hysteresis“ comes along strongly functional for the club.

John Tejada & Arian Leviste - Hysteresis

Julian Grefe is the creative force behind Pink Skull (Beachcoma, RVNG, My Favorit Robot, Days of Being Wild) and long standing ambient project Clean Plate (RVNG, Metal Postcards).
He makes his debut on Areal Records, stripping it all down to synths only and transforming his live percussion work into two propulsive polyrhythmic numbers.
The title track Nil is a Fm Bell workout that slowly evolves to an ethereal conclusion, whilst LogOn/LogOff is a tough, earthier stomp to save for later in the evening.
A marvelous remix of Nil by Yapacc concludes this release.

Julian Grefe - Nil (Areal088) preview 320kbps incl. Yapacc Remix

Track by Undo/Redo aka Metope and Konfekt from 2002. Remastered and re-released on Ocla 01 along with more tracks of the early millenium by Metope, Konfekt and Ada.

Ocla 01

Undo/Redo - Tagtrauemer (remastered) Ocla 01

Track by Metope from 2002. Remastered and re-released on Ocla 01 along with more tracks of the early millenium by Konfekt, Undo/Redo and Ada.

Untitled2.3

Metope - Untitled2.3 (remastered) - Ocla 01

Track by Ada from 2002. Remastered and re-released on Ocla 01 along with more tracks of the early millenium by Metope, Undo/Redo and Konfekt.

Blindhouse

Ada - Blindhouse (remastered) - Ocla 01

Track by Konfekt from 2002. Remastered and re-released on Ocla 01 along with more tracks of the early millenium by Metope, Undo/Redo and Ada.

Boxed [Estab]

Konfekt - Boxed[Estab] - Ocla 01

Ocla 02

Discordant

Metope - Discordant (remastered)- Ocla 02

Against Luftwiderstand (Mia Grobelny & Falko Brocksieper Remix)

Basteroid - Against Luftwiderstand (Mia Grobelny & Falko Brocksieper Remix)

...And More

Ada - ...And More - Ocla 02 - Remaster

Track from the early 2000's by Undo/Redo aka Metope and Konfekt. Freshly remastered by Jedi Jay, Roofless Creations.

Gleit/Zeit

Undo/Redo - Gleit/Zeit - Ocla 02 - Remaster

Next1

myr. - Next1 (Areal089)

The keeping of pets marks humans’ attempt at taking possession of a part of reality that is not at his disposal. Dressing a piece of the real that lives according to entirely non-human rules and which only in the saddest case does not resist the discipline of the human symbolic order vehemently and in a sustained matter, is a violent act of protection. Because in the non-place of the real, all that which we are helpless in the face of looms: the non-logical and the nameless, the violence and the noise, yet also the unrestrained and unfiltered desire.
The innocuous figure of the pet marks a gateway to an investigation of these eerie milieus, while electronic dance music lends itself to this investigation in an outstanding way. This constellation marks the subject of Column’s ‘Pets II.’ 

Column is the name of Cologne based renaissance man Jan Philipp Janzen, who, as chief emissary of Cologne’s pop internationalism, has been playing the field in various functions for Von Spar, Cologne Tapes, Urlaub in Polen, Owen Pallett, Scout Niblett or The Field, and who has also, in one way or another, been involved in most relevant records coming out of Cologne for the past number of years. After his
excellent solo debut ‘Pets I’ (Areal, 2016), Janzen presents another extraordinary record in ‘Pets II,’ perfectly complemented by another ghostly oil work of Burkhard Moennich on the cover.
Sonically, ‘Pets II’ marks a clear development for Column. In its exploration of the thresholds of the real, it sets two points of focus, corresponding with the split in sides A and B. Side A, on which Janzen teams up with long-time friend myr. (PNN), explores the uncanny as a fissure of the symbolic order, and the subsequent breaking in of the real. It opens with two peaktime rockets that have their wooden, nether-regional groove narrated by grim, down-pitched vocals. The ethereal remix by Leibniz (hundert) seems to be observing the situation from a hiding place, and is the side’s clandestine and no less dark closer. Side B, for which Janzen invited studiomate Marvin Horsch (Dorfjungs/Beats in Space) along, delivers two swaying synthesizer workouts, the second of which, “Molly and Swerve,” is directed firmly at the dancefloor again. What is at stake here is the transition between a free, undirected jouissance of the real and a more ordered becoming-lust. Here, as in
Map.ache’s (Kann/Giegling/Altin Village) remix which closes out ‘Pets II,’ it becomes clear what connections dance music can foster between a free, impersonal desire and the sphere of interpersonal wanting, but also the losses that are negotiated in it.

Above all, however, it becomes evident what a courageous daring project ‘Pets II’ is in all of its conceptual and aesthetic determination; with Von Spar’s standout ‘Garzweiler’ 12” (Altin Village & Mine, 2017), it documents a New Cologne Realism.

Pets II

Hostels (Map.ache Remix)

Column - Hostels (Map.ache Remix)- IRR017

The keeping of pets marks humans’ attempt at taking possession of a part of reality that is not at his disposal. Dressing a piece of the real that lives according to entirely non-human rules and which only in the saddest case does not resist the discipline of the human symbolic order vehemently and in a sustained matter, is a violent act of protection. Because in the non-place of the real, all that which we are helpless in the face of looms: the non-logical and the nameless, the violence and the noise, yet also the unrestrained and unfiltered desire.
The innocuous figure of the pet marks a gateway to an investigation of these eerie milieus, while electronic dance music lends itself to this investigation in an outstanding way. This constellation marks the subject of Column’s ‘Pets II.’

Column is the name of Cologne based renaissance man Jan Philipp Janzen, who, as chief emissary of Cologne’s pop internationalism, has been playing the field in various functions for Von Spar, Cologne Tapes, Urlaub in Polen, Owen Pallett, Scout Niblett or The Field, and who has also, in one way or another, been involved in most relevant records coming out of Cologne for the past number of years. After his
excellent solo debut ‘Pets I’ (Areal, 2016), Janzen presents another extraordinary record in ‘Pets II,’ perfectly complemented by another ghostly oil work of Burkhard Moennich on the cover.
Sonically, ‘Pets II’ marks a clear development for Column. In its exploration of the thresholds of the real, it sets two points of focus, corresponding with the split in sides A and B. Side A, on which Janzen teams up with long-time friend myr. (PNN), explores the uncanny as a fissure of the symbolic order, and the subsequent breaking in of the real. It opens with two peaktime rockets that have their wooden, nether-regional groove narrated by grim, down-pitched vocals. The ethereal remix by Leibniz (hundert) seems to be observing the situation from a hiding place, and is the side’s clandestine and no less dark closer. Side B, for which Janzen invited studiomate Marvin Horsch (Dorfjungs/Beats in Space) along, delivers two swaying synthesizer workouts, the second of which, “Molly and Swerve,” is directed firmly at the dancefloor again. What is at stake here is the transition between a free, undirected jouissance of the real and a more ordered becoming-lust. Here, as in
Map.ache’s (Kann/Giegling/Altin Village) remix which closes out ‘Pets II,’ it becomes clear what connections dance music can foster between a free, impersonal desire and the sphere of interpersonal wanting, but also the losses that are negotiated in it.

Above all, however, it becomes evident what a courageous daring project ‘Pets II’ is in all of its conceptual and aesthetic determination; with Von Spar’s standout ‘Garzweiler’ 12” (Altin Village & Mine, 2017), it documents a New Cologne Realism.

Molly & Swerve

Column & Marvin Horsch - Molly & Swerve - IRR017

On October 1, 2000 Konfekt, Basteroid and Metope founded the electronic music label Areal. Their productions up to this point were the main reason for this decision: no matter wether it was a solo production or a collaboraton, one could always reduce their work to a common denominator. So they decided to give their music a ground to develop: the Areal. In 2008 we established our sublabel IRR (International Records Recordings)

Demo Submissions:

We receive probably 100 demos a week, thats about 25 hours to listen to music.
And guess what! 99% of the music received has nothing to do with what we release on Areal or IRR, so in most cases it's a waste of time to you and to us. If you know the labels and you have the feeling, that it is great to release here and it suits with the areal or irr-sound, then send us your soundcloudlink via email to info @ areal-records.com

We apologize for being so strict, but our time has to be managed well. We just dont have the time to listen to more than 15 demos a week.

Hope you can understand

Have a nice day.

Areal Records-Team 

Areal

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