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Barker & Baumecker take Turns from techno, bass, breaks, and experimental terrain with their second album on Ostgut Ton.

Sam Barker and Andreas Baumecker’s lives have always revolved around different kinds of music. That’s partly why their productions as Barker & Baumecker are more unpredictable, harder to pin down than what you might expect from a label borne out of a techno club. And while their music is clearly built for dancing, listening to it reveals a deep love and respect for many forms of electronic music – bonding over more experimental dance forms is what brought them together in the first place. Imagining their music at any decent club, but disrupting the flow on the floor is what brings us to their second album Turns. An amalgamation of their unique musical minds, transcending electronic music genres and styles, while further developing and refining the Barker & Baumecker sound aesthetic.

For this pre-listening playlist, to give a better impression of the lengthy album tracks, we skipped through different parts of the songs (beginning, middle and end) and edited the samples into these single sound clips, condensing the up to 13:50 min long tracks (Statik) into 2:00 to 3:00 min edits.

Tracklisting 2xLP:
A1. Senden (12:50)
A2. Encipher (2:20)
B1. Decipher (4:35) 
B2. Club Entropicana (11:08)
C1. Technogate (0:39)
C2. Turnhalle (7:26)
C3. Nocturnal (8:59)
D. Statik (13:50)

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Barker & Baumecker | Statik (edited sound clip)

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Mutism

Q1.2

Lyot Rmx

Quadrant Dub I (Edit)

Radiance II (Edit)

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 | An Unattainable Distance

Listen to all tracks from ‘Utility’ in full at https://sambarker.bandcamp.com/album/utility

On his debut solo LP ‘Utility’, Barker [@voltek] turns his focus toward melding experimentation and dancefloor pragmatism with the psychology behind the musical decision making process.

‘Utility’ is a playful but non-ironic musical approach to a whole spectrum of utilitarian and transhumanist ideas: from models for quantifying pleasure and “gradients of bliss” to abolishing suffering for sentient beings (not just people) through the ethical use of drugs and nanotechnology. Over nine tracks, Barker’s vision ebbs and flows through waves of deeply psychedelic musical vignettes; free-floating and futuristic melodies and rhythms as targeted brain stimulation.

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Barker | Gradients Of Bliss

Void Control

Mutism

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