Listen Closely is a Record Label for Jazz and Improvised Music, Sound and Creative Music.

Listen Closely is based in Vienna.

On this Soundcloud page you can hear teasers and the occasional full track from our releases. It's also a showcase for demo and live recordings of our bands and artists.

artist | composer
electroacoustic music
based in Vienna, Austria

Booking/Enquiries: office@affinerecords.com

It would be a little bit too easy to brand Sixtus Preiss only as a jazzman. He offers more than that. As a producer he oscilates between razorsharp drums, lush layers of synth and a clear and precise idea of a hook line.

Sixtus is a studied and qualified drummer who celebrated his debut release in 2011 on The Loud Minority 7 Inch series. In the same year he joined Affine Records – with original releases like „Samba Feelin Beein This“ and especially “Lololo” he received spins and attention all over the world. Sixtus creates Beat Music with a very own twist, reduced to their essence: loud and vibrant! Affiliated and part of “the new viennese jazz generation” he collaborates in various formations – just recently he established a virtuoso allstar-group together with Lukas König, Manu Mayr and Peter Rom from the famous “Jazzwerkstatt Wien” collective.

But Sixtus is also an accomplished tinkerer. Mostly he builds things like handmade microphones, amplifier boards or custom-made sound installations. In total: „Sixteen Million Priceless Skillz“ – there’s a lot to be discovered in the universe of Sixtus Preiss.

ALL INQUIRIES: clemens_bacher@gmx.at
BOOKING AUSTRIA: sebstian@konvoi.at

Ramjac Corporation is one of UK's unsung electronic pioneers, known for his voltaic live shows during the acid house explosion, jamming his original flavour of sampled beats live from his Atari and Emulator sampler. Ramjac performed at the now legendary Sunrise, Energy and Back To The Future raves, touring with Orbital, The Shaman and The Irresistible Force.
Best known for his releases on cult record label Irdial Discs, his now highly sought after and much heralded classic “"Cameroon Massif!” EP has become a feature of the more ground-breaking DJs again and was re-issued last summer by Emotional Rescue Recordings, including a never heard before “live" version, now to be followed by further unreleased material from the period, mixed and also being performed live from 8 track reel to reel tape machines.
Ramjac''s rhythmic programming style, weighted by his training with West African and Cuban drummers, led him to work with the likes of Coldcut and Herbie Hancock, Juno Reactor and Ojos de Brujo, Mark Stewart and Asian Dub Foundation. According to ADF's Dr Das, “What Ramjac does, is show up the relationships between different musics and the routes they have taken. More than a lot of people, Ramjac is the missing link between house, acid house, breakbeat, jungle and dub and percussion based musics.”
Ramjac's current live reel to reel shows regularly feature long time collaborator Milo Lapis of the 50-50 Sound System, as heard on Resonance 104.4 FM for the past 17 years.

Mex-German sound-freak living in Berlin. 

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