King Midas Sound — Solitude
Format: 2xLP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. CR09

Buy album: bit.ly/2WuIsPc

King Midas Sound have returned! 
Reverting to the original duo of Roger Robinson and Kevin Martin, ’Solitude’ is their first release since the Fennesz collaboration ‘Edition1’(Ninja Tune), which dropped in 2015.

Solitude is a meditation on loss. A loss that has been enforced and unexpected. It’s about processing the irrational and incessant feelings of rejection and loneliness, like listening to the tenderness of love disappear and it being replaced by skewed logic. Kevin Martin provides a predominantly beatless musical backdrop, simultaneously minimal and menacing, but periodically extremely beautiful. It stalks the isolated characters created by Robinson’s haunting vocals, as the poet shapes, the protagonists troubled lives into increasingly desolate narratives.

For the artwork, the pair has here collaborated with Japanese contemporary photographer Daisuke Yokota. His mastery of monochrome tone and texture perfectly matches the word/sound power of KMS, mirroring the same obsession with atmosphere, density, and finish.

A soundtrack of pure melancholy which demands total immersion, radiating desolation and dread. The appeal of Solitude is in the oppositional binaries it drives on: technology and emotion, talk and drones, overt and hidden feelings, love and melancholy. Immerse yourself in its mourning.

Words: Roger Robinson
Produced: Kevin Richard Martin 
Cover Photography: Daisuke Yokota 
© Cosmo Rhythmatic 2019

King Midas Sound - Zeros (CR09)

Cosmo Rhythmatic is a Berlin-based label curated by Shapednoise with the collaboration of Ascion and D. Carbone.
The imprint presents the abstract, noisy and organic side of REPITCH Recordings.

I am a live-act & electronic music producer from Berlin, active since 2005. 
More than 150 releases of deep, hypnotic, percussive, minimal techno, microhouse and electronica under the CLIKNO guise.
CLIKNO is infused by Musique Concrete, Dada, Minimalism and life at all and is made of field recordings and found sounds.

www.linktr.ee/dr.nojoke

bandcamp
www.drnojoke.bandcamp.com
www.clikno.bandcamp.com
www.rand.bandcamp.com

spotify playlists
Club Architects
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3zsE39u1QIbv0VFf9kzRCo
CLIKNO
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1flKVXgrwFRBBiTReJiWAG
Music for Peripheries
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jtKoxvUAssIgDTmpdGiZa


out now:

WRONGWRONGRIGHTRIGHT
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/wrongwrongrightright

rand - III
https://rand.bandcamp.com/album/iii

ILO BABO RISI
https://stellierecords.bandcamp.com/album/dr-nojoke-ilo-babo-risi-ep-st017FUSO

FUSO
https://archipelmusique.bandcamp.com/album/fuso

M
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/m

REMIXES 2
https://drnojoke.bandcamp.com/album/remixes-2-2

ALMA ATA OUM
https://goldminmusic.bandcamp.com/album/alma-ata-oum

rand - PERIPHERIE REMIXES
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/peripherie-remixes

rand - PERIPHERIE
https://rand.bandcamp.com/album/peripherie

projects:
@CLIKNO label
@rand_gerdes_drnojoke "rand", duo with @jan-gerdes
@anomali solo-dronescapes
@ploberlin electronic music impro orchestra
@thepoolberlin collective
@paralelo-trioon duo with @J-Lab
@UNOIKI collective | label | network


Info:
Dr. Nojoke is a producer, performer and musician– his live sets continually bring new and unique sounds to the table, a combination of field-recordings, self-made sounds, and highly conceptual production that redefine the way we understand electronic music.
A Berlin native and leader in directional minimal techno (or “clikno” as he describes it), Dr. Nojoke is a master of rethinking ordinary musicality and procuring new uses for the everyday.

Dr.Nojoke´s live show may feature instruments such as radio, crushed plastic bottles and souvenirs as Dr.Nojoke celebrates the joy of finding special sounds in everyday objects not usually appreciated for their musicality.

Since 2005 performances in clubs and on festivals in Brazil, South Africa, Canada, Sweden, UK, Italy, Russia, USA, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Moldova, Slovenia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Spain, Portugal, France and throughout Germany.

More than 150 releases (EPs/albums/remixes/contributions) on labels such as CLIKNO, Archipel, Goldmin Music, Sleep is Commercial, Klangscheiben, UNOIKI, Pluie/Noir, Destroy All Monsters, Minim.all, Autist, Eintakt, Resopal ...