Etui welcomes Tim Kossmann. With Lockdown Loops the Westfalia dub techno mastermind presents a very personal EP with 3 deep, loop based tunes recorded in extreme isolation during lockdown. The situation created a feeling of lonesome remoteness and uncertainty, transcended by putting in more man hours in the studio.

The EP starts with Loop A, a dreamy dub techno riddim that has nice distant echoes and mint chords. The 2nd track Loop B has a more noisy, warped chord progression topped with atmospheric piano riffs.

Loop C on the b-side consists probably of the most heavenly sounding melancholic chord loop he has recorded so far. Expect a tune composed of atmospheric bluster combined with a banging deep mono bass and different layers of noise. It is simply an epic lofi sound anthem.

Tim Kossmann is a Germany based producer who focuses mainly on dub techno and ambient. Since 2016 he has been releasing on a constant basis on labels like Telrae, Greyscale and Superordinate Dub Waves among many others.

He loves to explore the deep side of techno, with the aim of creating deep, lush chords and soundscapes filled with echo and spaced out delays, where deeply banging bass and moving whitenoise are combined with sophisticated harmonics in order to push the boundaries of the genre.

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Tim Kossmann
Lockdown Loops

Tracklist:

A1 Loop A
A2  Loop B
B1 Loop C

Street date:

vinyl: April 1st 2022
digital: April 8th 2022

written & produced by Tim Kossmann
mastered by SALZ Mastering
photo by Oliver Hartmann
artwork by Daniel Madlung

Lockdown Loops

Loop A

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Tim Kossmann - Loop A - ETUILTD018

Insect O. composes music for travelling between ambient, dub and techno. The journeys are the inspirations for his hypnotic sound. In his studio he creates musically memories using tones of analog synthesizers, sounds from his modular system, endless echoes and warm reverbs.

In 2018  he released his first full lenght album Atacama on his own imprint Etui  Records. Together with Melbourne’s Echo Inspectors he also recorded Bourne Dub and Bribie Dub, which has been released on Australian Primary  [Colours] imprint.

The roots of his music are somewhere between dub and detroit techno,  inspired by artists like Basic Channel or Maurizio. His goal is to transform dub techno in an up-to-date audio frame, ranging from spheric and hypnotic to rough and driven. In 1998 he founded the label Etui Records and worked with many new and upcoming artists.

Always on the  look to enhance his art of music production he attended to FELD workshop  with Ulf Langheinrich at ICAS festival 2015, DAVE Workshop Camp with  Electric Indigo, Thomas Wagensommerer and Robert Henke at University of  Music in Dresden 2017 and 2018.

Nowadays he is member of DAVE festival board with focus on organising  workshops about music production and music business.
http://www.insect-o.de

Founded by Insect O. aka Oliver Hartmann in 1998 and co-runned by Soren Matschiste from 2006 - 2010 Etui Records has been released over 30 vinyl releases, 7 compilations and several digital only releases. In 2011 Etui started the new vinyl series Etui Low Tech Dub to focus on the deep and dubby side of techno and transfer it into an up-to-date audioframe


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