RAT 22 Credit 00 & Wolf Müller - Funk The System

Funk The System! The recipe is simple: Dig deep, listen to your heart, record everything you got on a dusty old desktop computer, leave it to simmer for the time of a pandemic, and if it’s still fresh, serve it up on the finest plate of black wax!

This collaboration started in Düsseldorf in the year 2018. Locked up for a week in the Flanger Studios, Wolf Müller and Credit 00 recorded everything: from the jaw harp to smartphone apps, chopping up GDR Jazz breaks and squeezing the Funk out of every synthesizer and drum machine at hand. 

You will hear the open mindedness towards all sorts of musical influences from the first note. Each of the five tracks showcases a wild mix of flavours: Disco Reggae, B-Girl Breakbeats, Protest Folk, Subway Funk, Tabla Rhythms, you name it... they’ll take it and shake it! It is obvious these two got sonically socialized and educated by the multiculturalism of Hip-Hop in their early days.

After the first Recording Session, the tracks fermented for some time until they were cracked open again. This time in Leipzig at Credit 00’s Westend Workshop. That’s also where Rizmi from Birmingham joined the team and lent her voice to the title track. She reinterpreted the lyrics of the obscure German 1980s Workers’  Rock Song, that Wolf digged out for the Intro Skit of „Funk The System“. 

A long time in the making, Rat Life is very happy to finally publish this EP!

B 1 Funk The System

mastering by audiodrag
cover by ratx.cc

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Пайта - Южный человек (Paita - Yuzhniy Chelovek)
Bandcamp: https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/--7
Stream: https://band.link/yuznniychelovek

Paita is a project of musician and sound producer Kolya Dolgov, currently living in Moscow.

In 2021 the album "What is not" was released, which became the starting point in the formation of the young artist's style and sound.
Experiments with dub and ambient, explorations of "raw" electronics and new-age, participation in punk bands as a bass-guitarist, moves, travelling, meetings and breakups, love and hate. The line of changes through which both the musician and his lyrical hero passes stretches to the new release "Southern Man".

"Southern Man" is an album-metamorphosis, it is a story or better to say a notebook, about the changes that a young guy goes through. Accustomed to seeing the emptiness of the horizon, he is met with monolithic granite structures, and instead of the great water of the sea, there is now a river winding subtly in channels. 'It's what's inside, but you can listen to it' says Пайта (Paita).

The album features collaborations with label residents FMSAO, Shoom Berez, X.Y.R. , NWIII, as well as guest artists 8luetic and Молох. Here you can hear gentle pop ambient, uncomplicated balearic house, juke and dub.

Links:
Пайта
@user-251557634
https://vk.com/paitaskapushonom
https://www.instagram.com/paitaworld

Fuselab
@fuselab
https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.facebook.com/fuselab
https://vk.com/fuselab

Music & lyrics: Nikolay Dolgov
Cover art:  Natasha Lyutik
Design: Dmitry Krylov
Mastering: Evgeniy Schukin

Южный человек

Пайта - Sad In a Jungle (feat. X.Y.R.)

»grain« is the third Innode release following on from »Gridshifter« in 2013 and »syn« in 2021.

A new methodology to make the album is applied yet again from the trio of Bernhard Breuer, Steven Hess and Stefan Németh. The approach is more an anti approach where the trio let the process of creation itself steer the development of the recording, without any prior conceptual agenda.

Irregular rhythmic patterns often served as the initial springboard for each piece with Breuer creating a loop either by playing drums or with the aid of a modelling percussion synthesizer. The results often bypass existing formulaic grids. The outfit embraced these anti-precision steps building shapes around the tarnished templates.

The process of building upon the core structures laid forth alters throughout. In the case of »Splitter« you can hear an example of Bernhard´s core loops dominating a skeletal audio sphere. The title of the track »Impactopium« reflects the process of its construction being a conglomeration of individual titles meshed into a whole. The audio is a non-linear compendium of several fragments of individual elements. A conscious method of exploring a more decentralised architecture saw three disparate elements layered randomly on top of each other with some synths added as a sonic seasoning at the later stages.

Elsewhere sonic elements are restructured in unusual ways. One member's contribution is completely stripped away, quiet sounds captured with contact mics are highly amplified, the last track introduces twisted themes of the first track.

The title »grain« refers to the roughness resulting from these explorations. It also takes note of the term grain as used in analogue photography or in the case of audio as a distorted signal, or »noise.« All of these elements, normally eschewed, are here embraced as a thematic thread to instigate the exploratory proceedings.

This is a playbox of inventiveness, a hall of mirrors and an endless search for unusual tactics and fresh results.

Tackling the initial loop tracks from a wide variety of strategic approaches Innode has concocted a strangely cohesive work. From sparse source material to heavy overdubs of overdubs »grain« is a uplifting collection of works from this relentlessly curious and exploratory Austrian outfit. Humans make the work but the random embracing of unexpected processes means the gentleman of the outfit is not fully ruling what becomes of these works.

grain

Splitter

Innode 'Splitter' (EMEGO311)

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-ignacio-cordoba-agata-ciurkot-luminiferous-aether

Danish record label Pink Cotton Candy line up the debut extended-player ‘Ephemeral, Basal’ from Copenhagen via Berlin production duo Ignacio Córdoba & Agata Ciurkot...Today, we are pleased to premiere ‘Luminiferous Aether‘ – a crystalline ambient polyphony spiralling into the turmoils of illumination. The track encapsulates a meditative interplay of highly-luminescent frequencies and neo-classical piano textures infused with an invigorating human touch. It crescendos into a powerful blackout, surrounded by expansive, space-delayed echoes evoking a deep-seated catharsis.

Ephemeral, Basal

Luminiferous Aether

Ignacio Córdoba & Agata Ciurkot - Luminiferous Aether [Pink Cotton Candy]

No Trace w/ Mjaupurr (07/01/25)

Drive, energy, love and eclectically developed taste, Denis came to the world of electronic music inspired by the Asian and Scandinavian scenes, and more. His tracks, which he plays mostly live, one of which we listened to at Blank in St. Petersburg, are characterized by their rhythmic patterns and sound design, it's more about the primal, going definitely into the vibes of the sound system that immerse you in a full sound pool. In places, it's minimalistic without overload, but insistent and grounded. If to compare, Autechre comes to mind, it is Denis Kalinichenko aka Greenline Engineer, the keeper of "Aspect" formation and a member of KURS Radio team, DJ, sound producer, promoter, co-founder of Skarn cassette label.


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Asyncro is a record label launched by Moscow's electronic music producer OL in 2019. The opening release is an LP by Serwed – the debut collaborative project from @olegbuyanov and his Gost Zvuk label-mate @producedbyflaty. This record offers precise cuts with a wide range of rhythmic structures and  granulated backgrounds, based on the duo’s explorations of free-form generative sound. 

1 SERWED - Initial 
2 SERWED - Angular 
3 SERWED - Ceramic 
4 SERWED - Radiant 
5 SERWED - Ground 
6 SERWED - Linear 
7 SERWED - Bias  
8 SERWED - Rrand  

Out 26 April 2019
Produced by OL & Flaty
© Asyncro, Moscow 2019.

Purchase:
https://asyncro.bandcamp.com/album/serwed
https://boomkat.com/products/serwed
https://bleep.com/release/126706-serwed-serwed

SERWED - I [ASYNC-01]

Smudged and sanguine, Pontiac Streator runs a warm ambient bath for Motion Ward.

'Triz' is out now on Motion Ward.

Buy: bit.ly/2ZzNJbO

@pontiacstreator
@motion-ward