LISOLEIL

Written/Produced/Mixed - Contour
Mastered by 10.4Rog
Art Direction by Ghostdrank

Guitars on Track 1 - Letjoux
Violin on Tracks 3, 7 - Vivek Menon

Song For Me (feat. Demae)

He's back. After a break that felt like an eternity, Cuthead has finally awoken from his creative beauty sleep to check up on his home base, Uncanny Valley, with his new album, THE DETOUR. 

The album is spread over four parts to avoid overexciting everyone's attention span. And he's not coming back as a cheapskate since the album is full of gifts that true Cuthead fans desire. In other words, he does what he does best: Blasting out slick tracks that oscillate between laid-back underground hip-hop, sampling heavy house and vintage acid, but with enough surprises along the way. The tracks were created over the last few years, including some jams from his live set that he made while travelling or in a hotel.

As soon as the typical cosy, warm chords kick in during the INTRO of The Detour Part 1, you immediately feel at home again in Cuthead's world, where it's always Saturday afternoon, and laid-back jams drip out of the speakers (at least on two of the four parts). On top of that, Chester Watson from St. Louis (one of Cuthead's absolute favourite rappers) provided a feature. With his distinctive voice and dreamy flow, Chester explains in not one but two versions of PROCEED how to carry on and stay relaxed despite adverse circumstances. On the other hand, TOUR DE FRANCE is a trapstrumental for the masses in which a hi-that thunderstorm is intertwined with a wind sample that constantly twists around itself.

The second in Cuthead's tetralogy is what we can undoubtedly call a house monster. It starts with a track named after one of Cuthead's special skills: MPC JAM. With its filter attacks and unmistakable drops, the track builds on Cuthead's great house floor fillers, leaving no ass standing still. SUNDAY 5 PM enters the floor as a bird of paradise with room-filling disco strings before SPACED OUT follows with Theo Parrish-like grooves. MIDNIGHT ROUTE closes The Detour Part 2 with broken beats and an unusual but irresistible electronic bassline.

The opener of the third part once again praises the old promise of the House Nation, not without ZUBU being refined with the very own Cuthead spin, which puts the track on a techno floor as well. POWER ACID lives up to its name and comes across as a classic warehouse acid screw that takes every rave to the edge. Understatement is also not required. PARTY LIKE IT'S 99. After all, every Saturday afternoon is followed by a Saturday night a piano house bomb with a little ounce of acid always goes down well on such an occasion

The final chapter of THE DETOUR opens promisingly and in typical Cuthead style with the aptly titled BONKERS and the kind of weirder head-nodding beat that only the Dresdenresident can squeeze out of his samples. In LISOLEIL, Malone the Chemist drops his lines over what feels like an aquatic jazz foundation. Cuthead spotted the Canadian rapper when he posted a freestyle under a tweet from Flying Lotus. After that, the snares are turned up again at the FOXY FOXY sample fest. OUTRO is almost epic by Cuthead standards and could easily be the soundtrack to a modern Giallo film. The album is accompanied by beautiful animations created in collaboration between illustrator Robert Deutsch and animator Tobias Kramer.

⚡️BUY⚡️

PREMIERE: Cuthead - Party Like It's 99 [UNCANNY VALLEY]

GA$ [HIGHAF x $OUDIERE]

stanley ipkuss 
beat: https://soundcloud.com/countbazzy-2
cover shot by Hilary Sander

ott (prod. Toonorth)

1. old habits
2. oopsies
3. opportune
4. idrk
5. (de)pressed
6. ott

All songs produced by Toonorth ( https://soundcloud.com/countbazzy-2 )
All raps by Stanley Ipkuss

old habits

old habits (prod. Toonorth)

The Rascals of the Leipzig-based Old New Records Gang are joining forces this winter with allies and friend who share the same love for this wonderful thing called Groove. It's a digital release with twenty tracks, twenty perspectives, twenty grooves that join forces and culminate in the label's very first sampler. Under the flag of FXXK GENRES, the tracks are part of a musical spectrum that ranges from soft to hard, fast to slow, quiet to loud. The label is very proud that it can bring together so many talented and experienced musicians and at the same time illuminate the output of its own members. This also underlines the label's claim to support every artist who lives for the music - whether undiscovered or already known. And another hint - no synthesizer was harmed during the creation of this sampler! ;)

FxxK Genres

buy / stream

ONRD 006 / FXXK GENRES ///    OUT NOW!

Distance

Friends, it is time for a finish. Here’s the seventh and last chapter of the festivities that we put together for our 50th catalogue number. Once again, the mighty graphics wizards Doppeldenk from Leipzig provided us with a delightfull artwork. And once again, you’ll get a record that sports a kaleidoscope of dance music from Uncanny Valley veterans and newcomers. This time with the emphasis on bright and positive timbres which can be associated with the colour yellow.

Cuthead starts things with a bang and his PARTY CHORDS set the tone perfectly (including neck pain after nodding your head to the beat like there’s no tomorrow). If chords could be president this would get a lot of votes. 

https://soundcloud.com/uncanny-valley-dresden
https://soundcloud.com/cuthead

Uncanny Valley 50 YELLOW

PRÈMIÉRE: Cuthead - Party Chords [Uncanny Valley]

@cuthead's contribution for @kommerz-records: Kommerz Season 1: Anti-Virus compilation, out August 21st.

More Info: https://bit.ly/cutheadche

Kommerz Season 1: Anti-Virus

Cuthead - Che

Hailing from the cold and windy highlands of Transnistria, Karvan de Robartosz a.k.a. “Cuthead” has travelled the world for over 45 years with nothing more than an MPC, a microphone and one pair of sandals, before finally settling down in the cold and windy lowlands of Dresden, Germany.

It was only there and then where he met The Lunatic Profezzor (Adriano Stefano Juliani), with whom he promptly proceeded to stirr up a ruckus in the local KryptoTekk music scene.



Over the years their collaborative efforts (read: wild parties, often bordering on orgies) under the moniker of KunstStoffBreakz have attracted lots of attention from local scenesters,hipsters,dandys and law enforcement alike.


Cuthead, after many years of devastating the KryptoTekk landscape, making love to beautiful women and taking pictures of butterflies, has now entered a more introspective phase in his life which consists mainly of making love to beautiful women, shooting slow-motion movies of various insects including butterflies, and producing experimental hiphop/breakbeats and electro.

Che

Cuthead

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