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Gentle People - Journey (Aphex Twin Care Mix)

Be Like Water

Suono Assente

Komet - Rausch clips

Unequal cycles in search of synchronous experiences: On his new album »Pounding«, Frank Bretschneider tells of distance, convergence and congruence in a continuous, ever-changing flow of events. What is often regarded as an unquestionable dogma in club music (for which Bretschneider has provided significant impetus since the 1990s) – the groove – appears precarious, unstable, and in motion. Pulse and accent are volatile encounters and have to be found again and again for short, delightful moments. Music becomes a constant process of negotiation.
In search of new sound spaces, Bretschneider has recently worked a lot with modular synthesizers, both solo (for example on »abtasten_halten«, 2020) and in collaborations, including the project Beispiel together with Jan Jelinek. »Pounding« was created using similar means - conceived in 2020 for the Pochen Biennale in Chemnitz, subsequently developed further and recorded in March and April 2023 on a sample-based modular system. And in fact, Bretschneider is once again exemplarily scanning his own sound material, such as dub effects that listen to themselves disintegrate; but also the human voice, or more precisely: the stuttering of fragments of speech, far in the distance but omnipresent, like a mysterious narration. Aesthetically, the eleven pieces form part of a series of works with a focus on percussion. Bretschneider has already perfected this approach with albums like »Rhythm« (2007) and has been shifting the perspective ever since, for ever new results.
Shifting is the basic principle of »Pounding«. Bretschneider combines elements that are in different aggregate states, changing their relationship to each other and thus ensuring the complex overall movement. He lets one to two-bar loops run against each other and through small manipulations, develops a network of rhythms that creates a hypnotic state in the counterplay of repetition and mutation, between clearly recognizable meter and disorientation. There are comparable approaches in aleatoric music. Bretschneider combines them with sounds and patterns that are reminiscent of step sequencer logic and at the same time go far beyond it. The result is relational techno. Never obvious, always restless and exciting.

Pounding

Frank Bretschneider »Evening News« taken from »Pounding«

BAND4BAND Remix

frank bretschneider’s new project SINN + FORM (MEANING AND FORM) is based on the idea of a fundamentally chaotic world as we know it from mathematical or physical theories and models (dynamical systems, probability theory, stochastic systems), and the constant attempt of man to recognize and to describe, predict, control and change this world.

musically, this system is simulated electronically using a modular synthesizer system. various modules produce a constant flow of randomly generated data that modulate the decisive musical parameters (pitch, note length, volume, tone). the attempt of SINN + FORM in this context is to transform this stream of events into a musically relevant system of chaos and order, dynamics and statics, content and form by means of an improvised but deliberate process of constant control and influence.

aesthetically, the project recalls the electronic music of the mid 20th century: studios such as the IRCAM in paris, stockholm’s EMS (elektronmusikstudion), the WDR »studio for electronic music« in cologne, or new york’s »columbia- princeton electronic music center«. SINN + FORM also captures the dynamics and energy of a spontaneous improvisation, last but not least as a reaction to a complex world, a world in permanent crisis.

the material was recorded in july 2014 at EMS, stockholm, using the buchla and serge analog synthesizer systems. 

frank bretschneider. free market (excerpt). taken from frank bretschneider. sinn + form

bring it fine (tekkno) (MEGA SLOWED & BASSBOOSTED)

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Patashnik

Novelty Waves

The SW. album is being given a full release on Apollo/SUED on 14/07.
Pre-order here - http://smarturl.it/sw-the-album

Vinyl LP also due later this summer.

Untitled (SUE015-AMB1706)

SW. - Untitled A2

https://www.discogs.com/Jan-Jelinek-Loop-finding-jazz-records/release/57942

Jan Jelinek - Do Dekor

The Expanding Universe

Drums

Full stream of Frank Bretschneider's dubby "Elastik," a track from his forthcoming album 'Lunik,' out February 16 on Shitkatapult. 

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2018/02/premiere-hear-a-dubby-cut-from-frank-bretschneiders-new-album/

@frankbretschneiderofficial
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Lunik

More info

Premiere: Frank Bretschneider - Elastik

Movements and Tracklist

1. Invincibly Numb
Shadows In Blue - Hodge	
Feelin' Good (Radio Slave Remix) - Laurent Garnier, Chambray	
Turiya (Tessela Remix) - Djrum	
Let The Church - Floorplan	
Kalif Storch - Modeselektor	
EXILE 011 A1 - Johannes Heil	
Life Cycle - Fadi Mohem	
Hit This Ground - Conrad Van Orton	

2.Awareness
Valentin's Blood Flows - Grandbrothers	
Anton I - Robag Wruhme
Nightbus - Burial

3. Reflection & Connection
Louna - Sam Shure	
El Teatro De Los SueÃ±os - PAAX (Tulum)	
When The Past Was Present (Pachanga Boys Purple Mix) - John Talabot	
Yira Yirar - Marco Tegui	
Stone Flower - Namito	
Feather feat. Pippermint (Iorie & Madmotormiquel Remix) - Nhii	
Acoran - Marcelo Cura, Dubelu	
Clouds (Alvaro Suarez feat. Lauge Remix) - Nomads	
Elephante - Sarkis Mikael, Epstein (LA)	
Nata Alma (Club Smash Hit Version) - Robag Wruhme	
Lock 33 - 1979	
Acumulee - Super Flu	
MalecÃ³n Azul - Rodriguez Jr.	

4. Locked In
Terrace - Rampa	
Tales of Roots - Ezikiel	
Idiophono - Fausto Messina		
Sam Stone (Eric Kupper Mix) - Swamp Dogg, Jerry Williams Jr.	

5. Understanding & Acceptance
The Great Escape - Volen Sentir	
We Are All Lost (Nico Stojan Remix) - Oliver Koletzki, Monolink	
The Power of Suggestion - Lance DeSardi	

6. I think I’m Alright
Sunriser - Double Touch	
Arrival - Volen Sentir	
Eyes Of My Mind - Axel Boman

I have spent the three months selecting tracks for a new mix. Over the last month, like many others, I have used music and creativity to reflect how I'm feeling and thinking and the music I've been listening to has varied dramatically. This is the culmination of that. Bear with me. This is my story in music. It is split into movements that express different moments over the last months and emotions. At times, it is a challenging listen. It is intended to be listened to in one sitting, taking the journey from beginning to end and experiencing the Movements together as a whole. I take a huge amount of joy from building a mix like this, stretching myself to build something that means something to me and the people that listen. Keep with it and enjoy x

The Story of my Mind

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