Minimal Synth Group - October 2017

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Mats Gustafsson & Joachim Nordwall: " A Map of Guilt" ( from "A Map of Guilt , LP)

Walser

Robert Piotrowicz: "Tingal" ( Walser, LP., Musica Genera/Bocian)

Release date: March 31st, 2017

http://www.bureau-b.de/con-struct.php


Who is Conrad Schnitzler?
Conrad Schnitzler (1937–2011), composer and concept artist, is one of the most important representatives of Germany’s electronic music avant-garde. A student of Joseph Beuys, he founded Berlin’s legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club, in 1967/68, was a member of Tangerine Dream (together with Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese) and Kluster (with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and also released countless solo albums.

Who is Pole?
The Düsseldorf-native musician, producer, remixer and mastering engineer Stefan Betke looks back on a steady two decade career in abstract electronic club music. Together with Barbara Preisinger he created the label „scape Records” and his own mastering studio „scape-mastering”. 

What is the concept of the Con-Struct series?
Conrad Schnitzler liked to embark on daily excursions through the sonic diversity of his synthesizers. Finding exceptional sounds with great regularity, he preserved them for use in combination with each other in subsequent live performances. He thus amassed a vast sound archive of his discoveries over time. When Jens Strüver, the producer of the Con-Struct series, was granted access to this audio library at the outset of the 2010 decade, he came up with the idea of con-structing new compositions, not remixes, from the archived material. On completion of the first Con-Struct album, he decided to develop the concept into a series, with different electronic musicians invited into Schnitzler’s unique world of sound.

A few words from Pole on his con-structions
To be honest, in earlier times I never quite warmed to Conrad Schnitzler's work. Back then, in the middle of the 80s, we were still occupied with traditional band projects. We played hip-hop, jazz, avant-garde, but with guitars, drums, etc. We still asked ourselves the question: "How can we actually get away from these instruments and structures?" They seemed so outmoded. Then came my first contact with Conrad's productions: a Tangerine Dream album that he co-produced and on which he played violin, synthesizer and typewriter. It wasn't a good start. I didn't much like the album. Nevertheless, something had happened. I made a unilateral decision for the band, brought a TR-808 and a Minimoog to rehearsal and announced: "We're going electronic." After that, everything happened all by itself. I found out more about this Schnitzler from Berlin who always impressed me with his complexity, his humorous nature and almost absurd variety. So years later, when I was asked if I would participate in the Con-Struct series, there was no way I could refuse. His influence had since become too important for me. Contrary to the original Con-Struct concept, however, it was my idea to do it half and half: 50 percent sounds from Conrad and 50 percent from me. The collaboration went according to the following rules: I myself use four things – a modified old rhythm machine, two old synthesizers, and my modular system. From Schnitzler come four complex sounds, which are always run through a modular patch. Coincidence should play an important role. Then I sent everything through my mixer – for dubbing. It worked almost automatically. His sounds led and I joined in. It felt a little bit like we could understand each other. The two of us. I would have liked to have met him.

Con-Struct

Conrad Schnitzler & Pole - Con-Struct (Snippets)

Gedenkgottesdienst in der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, 20.12.2016.

Gedächtniskirche / Das letzte Wort

European Song

Kreidler - European Song (Snippets)

n the year 1975 Conrad Schnitzler recorded various pieces of music to accompany films which had yet to be made. Fittingly, he labelled this collection of songs "Filmmusik". The music is extraordinarily accessible for Schnitzler: hypnotic bass lines, stoic drum rhythms, dark drones, crystalline shards of melody. "Filmmusik 2" features five tracks from the 1975 recordings plus one 23 minute track called "Lichtpunkte und schwarze Zeichen", recorded in 1978 for Schnitzler's film project of the same name. Out Feb 10, 2017 (CD/vinyl/digital)
https://shop.tapeterecords.com/conrad-schnitzler-filmmusik-2.html

Conrad Schnitzler - 1 05 1980 (BB245 Filmmusik II)

Original by Robot Koch and Savannah Jo Lack
Available on all services: https://robotkoch.lnk.to/Reimagined

Particle Fields Reimagined

Stream

Instructions For Time Travel - Deru Remix

CD/LP kaufen

Schneider Kacirek - Radius Walk (Snippets)

From "Māra II", released on July 28th, 2017. Available via https://shop.tapeterecords.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=esmark

Mara II

Esmark – Husby-klit Bk.

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MANNEQUIN _ astro

Shortened preview. This track is from the upcoming 6-track Mini-LP "Walking the labyrinth" on Falco Invernale Records from France; scheduled for October 2017.  After this no further solo-EP/LP/album is planned for 2017/2018. 2018 will be a year of collaborative projects.

Lyrics (by Dante Alighieri):
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Which in the very thought renews the fear.
So bitter is it, death is little more;
But of the good to treat, which there I found,
Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
So full was I of slumber at the moment
In which I had abandoned the true way.

Beta Evers - Canto I (Canto One)

False Memories - Pons Asinorum

Handstamped 12" in a white disco sleeve.
Order here: https://pinkman.bandcamp.com/

Having already debuted on the Pinkman main label, Identified Patient now steps up for the Pinkman “Broken Dreams” series for your stripped back content. The whole EP is furnished with the sinister and commanding vocals of Sophie du Palais, also known as “Vrouwe Fataal,” creating an infectious vortex of panic and scare to abort your dreams.
 
Throughout the release, hazy percussion is carefully seasoned with the bitter synth lines and guitar riffs from Lasznkioff. The first track, “Peaceful Panic” is in full seduction and fetish mode, setting the scene for the better corners. “Sleep Without Rest” violently tightens up the leather and gives you your kicks for thrills. The EP ends with frenzy: messed up intermezzos with Lasznikoff, mixing up an 808 with his destructive guitar rig and, as he states, “everything is done.”

PBD10 | Identified Patient & Sophie du Palais - Aborting Your Dreams (Out Now)

LIES-102
S.English-Bilocation Drift
from the upcoming "Eris" lp
to be released Oct. 10th 2017

Eris

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S.English-Bilocation Drift (LIES-102)

"Il Mare" Luminace Ratio ( "Reveire" - LP on Bocian 2013)

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