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For Böser Herbst, Thomas Fehlmann returns to the sediment of ages, drawing from a similar lexicon of sounds to that used on 2018’s ‘1929 – Das Jahr Babylon’. Like that album, Böser Herbst was produced as the soundtrack to a documentary made by Matthias Luthardt, ‘Herbst 1929, Schatten Über Babylon’, which offers historical insight to the third season of the television series Babylon Berlin. It adds yet another string to the bow of this most forward-thinking and creative artist, whose history takes in NDW (Palais Schaumburg), techno (3MB) and psychedelic ambience (The Orb), plus a clutch of gorgeous solo albums that explore wide terrain, from the dancefloor through supine home listening to compelling soundtrack work. Fehlmann’s approach here was to ‘capture’ samples of contemporaneous music, “picking up the dirt and dust of original 1920s archive sound and music excerpts and shaping the essence into this selection of tunes,” he recalls. After delivering the material to the editing room, Fehlmann “threw all the pieces up in the air, deliberately lost the overview in consequence, researched the atmospheric thread and assembled it for this album.” That explains the singular nature of the material here, and its ability to sit together so neatly and discretely, as its own entity. For Böser Herbst is a music box of possibilities, shadowed by its historical provenance, but never crudely beholden to it, rather “keeping the references only as a distant nod, a scent.”

It’s certainly an evocative listen, a cornucopia of textural pleasure and sensual, tactile assemblage. The spiralling, psychedelic cycle of “Karnickel” winds its way between the ears like thread to the needle; “Mit Ausblick” immerses the listener in deep, gaseous tones, only to be lifted into the air by the glassy drones of “Umarmt”. “Wunschwechsler” crackles with the unpredictability of weather systems while a guitar-like loop unspools across the horizon. Throughout, you can catch tiny tastes of the source material, but they’re pressed into greater service, Fehlmann using these sources for their evocative capacity and then saturating them with grain and rumble, abstracting outwards. It’s a music of temporal disjuncture and clairvoyant resonance, “speaking with the past – alert, distant and quixotic.”

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Label: @https://soundcloud.com/dalmata-daniel – DDC08
Title: Pride Or Die
Release date: 21st of May, 2025
Link for the release: https://dalmatadaniel.bandcamp.com/album/pride-or-die-compilation 
Mastered by – Mule Driver
Artwork/Art Direction by – Daniel Jani (Studio Jetski)

Pride Or Die is Dalmata Daniel's new fundraiser compilation released in solidarity with Budapest Pride.

In March 2025, the Hungarian Parliament rewrote the country’s assembly law, tightening the rules for all public demonstrations — with wording clearly aimed at shutting down Pride. The amendment threatens marchers and organisers with fines of up to €500 and allows police to deploy facial‑recognition systems. It follows a 2020 ban on legal gender recognition and the 2021 law censoring LGBTQ+ content for minors.

Meanwhile, the government continues targeting civil organisations more broadly, signalling an even darker outlook for the future of democratic rights and community spaces in Hungary.

To answer this attack on basic civil and queer rights, Dalmata Daniel teamed up with 34 artists from Hungary and across the globe to contribute exclusive tracks. The result is a diverse, powerful collection that channels solidarity, resistance, and care through sound.

All proceeds will be donated to the Budapest Pride Foundation.

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DDC08 - 14 - 2:29 - Moving Deadline

The Year of The Radical Romantics

Even It Out (Radical Romantics Session)

Myth Takes

A New Name

Hobby HOrse

Hobby Horse

HOBBY HORSE

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Lyrics:
Would you break me down? 
I'm bulletproof now
I can see every word bounce off you and I realized I spoke too soon
If I fold, will you take me out? If I fold, will you take me down?
You'll never find your way back
I'll never find my way back
Blindfold me so I won't know where to aim
I can't reach you now

Even It Out (Radical Romantics Session)

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