Shura | Recreated Silence | Forms & Figures

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01 - Alone (Instrumental)
02 - Snowdrops
03 - Room in a Room
04 - Heaven
05 - Shellac
06 - Alone (Dub Taylor Mix)
07 - Busta Thromp
08 - Brightness

"Recreated Silence" was originally intended to be Dub Taylor’s second album. Since Alex Krüger had just released his Dub Techno debut, the "Forms And Figures" album on Raum…musik in early 2001 and another LP "Detect" was already planned to be released in autumn that same year via Forcetracks, seven of the album tracks had been put out under the Shura moniker on the "3b" Label in summer 2001. It often happens that an unfamiliar name gets overlooked even though it most likely would have reached a wider audience with a bigger name on it. So unfortunately this happened here too. While the two Dub Taylor albums both became genre classics for many in the Dub House/Dub Techno field, though the tracks of the double vinyl were un-mistakenly unique Dub Taylor trademark beauties of that era, the Shura album stayed completely under the radar.
 
What fascinates us the most is, how much "Recreated Silence" is the perfect connection between "Forms And Figures" and "Detect". There's the more dirty, atmospheric and experimental approach of the debut paired with the tools, loops and the minimalism of the Forcetracks LP. If you ask the man himself, he'll tell you that even after twenty years this still is his favourite of the three Dub Taylor albums in 2001. There was also a fourth, yet unreleased album, recorded in 2001 that goes beyond the Detect-vibe. But that’s a different story and very likely to be released here in the future.
 
For the reissue we've chosen to swap the original vocal version of "Alone" with its formerly unreleased instrumental mix. The Recreated Silence sessions also included three more unknown tracks of which we felt the spooky ambient tune "Shellac" to blend in perfectly with the other seven tunes from the original "3b" release.
 
So here it is again, freshly remastered, dubby, dirty and for the first time available digital. We really hope you like it as much as we do.
 
All tracks are remastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Recreated Silence

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Shura | Heaven | Forms & Figures

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Another time travel back to the mid 1990s with PsychoPlasma. These six very analogue Electro tunes were recorded by Jan Gabler and Alex Kruger between 1995 and 1997 in Berlin and have never been released so far. Why? Simply because no-one the guys knew would want to release it because back then most of it was considered to be ,too sick‘ to invest a coin or two into a vinyl release.

‚Isolation‘ is a beautiful, catchy little Pop tune, obviously with a lot of influenced from Gary Numan and the Düsseldorf School. This was the third, last and probably most developed version of the song, so the guys called it their ‚Electric Circus Mix‘. ‚Dance Electronique‘ and ‚Osmosa‘ are both trippy live Electro sessions with on-the-fly arrangements, lots of gear tweaking and unusual sound design. Expect to meet a family of funny synth animals in there. ‚Split Ends’ and the totally nuts ‚Vacuum‘ are rather on the dark & industrial side of Electro with fat drums and lots of disharmony or brutal distortions. The package ends with the
beautiful ‚Jelly Beans‘, a rather funky gem where everything seems to be a little shaky and out of tune. Well, it’s supposed to sound like that.

We think it’s about time to put these crazy tunes into the spotlight since they’ve accompanied us already for a long time and never stopped to inspire us. We hope you feel them too. 

All tracks mastered by Jan Gabler in Berlin.

Lost Tracks Vol.2

PsychoPlasma | Osmosa | Forms & Figures

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FF034
Tigerskin - Leaving You EP
 
01 - Clear
02 - This Place Is Empty Without You (Restored by Stefan Janson)
03 - This Place Is Empty Without You (Montage)
04 - Word
 
After a two months break F&F returns with another batch of Tigerskin's magic. This time we bring you a remastered version of one of his biggest tracks „This Place Is Empty Without You“ which was released just about ten years ago on Dirt Crew Recordings. We added a formerly unreleased earlier version of the track with a more dubby and even deeper approach, originally called „Montage“. „Clear“ and the darker „Word“ are brand new tracks from Alex‘s lab that are equally beautiful and might kill it at your slow dancing party. Lovely jams for the connoisseurs that we hope you‘ll like as much as we do.
 
All tracks mixed by Stefan Janson and mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Leaving You EP

Tigerskin | This Place Is Empty Without You (Restored By Stefan Janson) | Forms & Figures

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FF035 - Dub Taylor & D-Mark - Happy Valley EP
 
01 - Happy Valley ft. D-Mark
02 - Paragon
03 - Ralos
04 - Happy Valley (D-Mark Remix)
 
Dub Taylor’s ‘Happy Valley EP’ was originally released in 2001 on the 3B label, one of the many exploits of the R.A.N.D. Posse. In recent years the rather rare vinyl copies of this Dub Techno/Dub House classic became more and more sought after and many requests to rerelease it at least in digital form, with modern mastering, came in. So D-Mark, who of course is no other than Jan Gabler, took on the challenge to finally make the three rather experimental sounding gems fit for 2022. We also added an original remix to Happy Valley. Jan aka D-Mark produced it back in 2001,  but unfortunately finished it only a few days too late to be added to the original release and therefor it was sleeping in the vaults for the last 21 years.
We hope you dig.
 
All tracks remastered by Jan Gabler in Berlin.

Happy Valley EP

Dub Taylor & D-Mark | Happy Valley | Forms & Figures

Dub Taylor | Paragon | Forms & Figures

Dub Taylor & D-Mark | Happy Valley (D-Mark Remix) | Forms & Figures

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FF037 - Tigerskin - Our Love Is Still Alive / Walk the Lizard
 
01 - Our Love Is Still Alive
02 - Walk the Lizard
 
This month we got two brand new Tigerskin tunes for you. "Our Love Is Still Alive" combines a classic and soulful Tigerskin groove with his more recent, less electronic styles. Here, a filtered, mellow guitar loop and sharp rimshot is pushing the dancer forward. "Walk the Lizard" plays heavily with the Caribbean influence already shown on the last Tigerskin releases. Various acoustic and electric instruments are coming together to form a joyful and uplifting club atmosphere for positive people. Oh Yeah!
 
All tracks mixed by Stefan Janson and mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Our Love Is Still Alive / Walk the Lizard

Tigerskin | Our Love Is Still Alive | Forms & Figures

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FF039 - Tigerskin - Anthems EP

01 - Anthem
02 - Jankowski (Restored by Stefan Janson)
03 - La La La Song (Restored by Stefan Janson)

We're back with three fun Tigerskin party grooves.
‚La La La Song‘ was a secret weapon for many Dj's when it came out in Spring 2011.
We've seen big smiles on the dance floor to this one. The ‚lyrics‘ just go ‚La La La‘ throughout the track, forming a simple canon. Originally the vocal was just recorded as example for a planned vocalist but Alex liked it so much, he kept it that way.

‚Jankowski‘ came out in 2014 on the short-lived Electronique label from Manchester and unfortunately stayed widely under the radar. It's a nice groover with classical strings and a cool break that leads you directly to a mountain pasture full of cows.

‚Anthem‘ is a brand new club tune that will shake your dance floors with it's super catchy percussion patterns, ducked cymbals and a 303 line straight from the alien ship. The vocal gives you a direct command on what you should be doing when hearing it: DANCING!

All tracks mixed by Stefan Janson in Berlin.
Mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Anthems EP

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Tigerskin | La La La Song (Restored by Stefan Janson) | Forms & Figures

Tigerskin | Anthem | Forms & Figures

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For this release David Thalstroem, german Jazz trumpeter, composer and producer and Charly Zastrau, german pianist and arranger based in the Netherlands, team up with Alex Krüger to make an old wish come true. Whenever David and Alex met over the last decade, they fantasised on how they will also work on something else than dance music together one day. Now that day has come. The guys started work on ‚Rosemary‘ during the lockdown days. The difficulties of getting together has promoted a unique personal approach for each of the three and produced a highly emotional listening theme that celebrates endings and new beginnings at the same time. We hope you enjoy ‚Rosemary‘ as much as we do. 

Mixed by Stefan Janson in Berlin. Mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Rosemary

Thalstroem & Charly Zastrau & Alex Krüger | Rosemary | Forms & Figures

Same procedure as last year, our final release of 2023 is dedicated to the label highlights of the past twelve months. Additionally we added a remix that our friend Alfa State, also known as being one half of the Dj project Nature Of Music, did for Tigerskin’s classic ‚Silence of the Lamps’. He recently moved from Toronto to Austin and we’re happy he could take the time to finish this beautiful version for us.

We also wanna take the opportunity to say thank you to everyone involved, especially Stefan Janson aka Jack Jenson, who is one part of Session Two and also responsible for mixing most of our music since many years and of course Peter Gyselaers, who’s running the whole show and making our little label possible in first place.
 
We hope you'll enjoy our offering and wish you all a peaceful, happy and healthy 2024!

Selected Forms & Figures 2023

Tigerskin | Silence of the lamps (Alfa State Remix) | Forms & Figures

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Tigerskin returns with a batch of three very dance floor oriented tunes for sweaty disco nights. ‚Beautiful’ spreads positive House vibes with bouncy beats, jazzy chords and space cat chatter. E.L.I. is one for the Hippies, Endless hypnotic synth sequences, didgeridoos, trance is everything! The didgeridoo parts were played by Phil Conyngham for Alex Tigerskin’s personal sample library in 1997 and recorded at his apartment during a summer night till the neighbours started complaining. ‚Sliptease’ is ‚made of ecstasy‘. 80s disco synths, handclaps and hands up, this one is super catchy as well as super discoid. We love those tracks and hope you do too! 

All tracks mixed by Stefan Janson in Berlin. Mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Hard Sync Life EP

Tigerskin | E.L.I. | Forms & Figures

Tigerskin | Sliptease | Forms & Figures

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Tigerskin is back on Disco tracks. "City Nights" is a cool late 70s-influenced groover with lots of quotations. Cop cars, dealers and dirt next to organs, guitars and strings.

"Once and for All" brings back early 80s feel. Deep, laid back rhythms, fat claps, synth bass and saxophones. Yes, saxophones. It’s beautiful, isn’t it?
 
All tracks mixed by Stefan Janson.
Mastered by Salz Mastering.

City Nights

Tigerskin | City Nights | Forms & Figures

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Two beautiful pieces from Alex Krüger's Berlin-Friedrichshain crib in 1996 . Unfortunately these were not recorded professional by modern standards but we were able to recover and finish it with the help of AI. Not to perfection but still worth the work. Both tracks breathe the unique spirit of their time, place and document the vibe that later led to Alex’s work as Dub Taylor and Tigerskin. Hypnotic, raw and timeless.

All tracks mixed by Stefan Janson. Mastered by Alex Krüger.

Here Comes the Sun

Korsakow | Soul Brother | Forms & Figures

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Here‘s a wild jam for the party crowd. NXS is packed with strange and sometimes seemingly out-of-tune vocal phrases over a stomping, high energy groove. We hope you‘re properly prepared. 

Mixed by Stefan Janson.
Mastered by Alex Krüger.

Tigerskin | NXS | Forms & Figures

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Camera is a simple and highly addictive uptempo Elektro Synth Rave anthem that will make 'em dance. Nuff said.
 
Produced and mastered by Alex Krüger.

Camera

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Comrade K - Camera - Forms & Figures

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Tigerskin and vocalist Ernesto Eyong from Cameroon recorded this tune 2003 in Berlin. Actually this was the first of several versions but this is the one. “Na Tondi Wa” is a super catchy, raw, mechanic, simple and most effective Techno House tool that even after a twenty years slumber stands out and will put smiles on peoples faces. It‘s about love, too. 
Peace

PS: Unfortunately, as the years went by we completely lost track of Ernesto, if anyone knows anything about his whereabouts, please help us get in touch with him!

Vocal recorded by Bert Pfefferkorn. 
Mastered by Alex Krüger

Na Tondi Wa

Tigerskin Feat. Ernesto Eyong |  Na Tondi Wa | Forms & Figures

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We found this one hidden deep in Alex Krüger’s archives. 3A22, an uptempo Electro Punk tune, was recorded in autumn 1996 with a very small setup including the Korg MS series, a Tr-808 and a Space Echo. It‘s overall vintage sound and several breakdowns with wild modulations of the bass line, it‘s only non-percussion element, still make 3A22 a stand-out tune and very different from Alex‘s other works at the time as well as later. 
Check it out!

Mastered by Alex Krüger

3A22

Tunnel V | 3A22 | Forms & Figures

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Jan Gabler and Alex Krüger recorded this trippy Techno session back in 2001. Walk the Bass, as the name suggests, has something strange going on in the low end that‘s constantly moving and pushing forward. This one‘s definitely for the darker dance floors and for sure not the typical clean Pop production that you‘ll get out there in Techno tracks nowadays.
We love this!

Mastered by Jan Gabler

Walk the Bass

PsychoPlasma | Walk the Bass | Forms & Figures

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Body of Choice is a robotic yet soulful tune that combines an Elektro and Disco feel. It also fits in nicely with Burger Steak's recent „Deep Breaks“ concept, Expect a ride!

Mixed by Stefan Janson. 
Mastered by Alex Krüger

Body of Choice

Burger Steak | Body of Choice | Forms & Figures

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Tigerskin & Haushausen - The Shrine

The Shrine is a dance floor hymn in major, a vocal-wet deep dream sequence, a pool of quotes from the space age or just the Christmas pick by Tigerskin teaming up with Haushausen on Keyboard duties. Play only if you‘re strong enough. Hope you dig. 

Mixed by Stefan Janson. 
Mastered by Alex Krüger

The Shrine

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Tigerskin & Haushausen | The Shrine | Forms & Figures

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Dub Taylor is back with ocean deep chord bubbles, a container ship full of echo chambers and spring reverbs. Mechanic rhythms take you to places. Sharp hats and low kicks give your knees the order to dance. Do it!

Mixed by Stefan Janson. 
Mastered by Alex Krüger

Across the Sky

Dub Taylor | Across the Sky | Forms & Figures

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Tigerskin's offering for the winter of 2025 is pure Dark Disco. Red Lipstick won’t hide its urban 1980s roots, cold war, B movies, way too much lipstick and very grey houses. East Berlin vibes including Eastern Block drum machine. We dig, hope you do too.

Mixing by Stefan Janson
Additional Mixing and Mastering by Jan Gabler

Red Lipstick

Tigerskin | Red Lipstick | Forms & Figures

We took a little break to prepare a proper 60th release here on Forms & Figures.
We’re back with a good bit of weirdness from Tigerskin.

‘Grünkohl’ (German for ‘Kale’) is a galloping, deep dance piece with alien vocal, 
out-of-tune bleep-synths and a car race in the background. Just like Kale with sausage, ‘Grünkohl’ is nothing that comes up every day. We love this and hope you do too.

Mixing and Mastering by Alex Krüger.

Grünkohl

Tigerskin | Grünkohl | Forms & Figures

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Already some years ago the idea had come up to re-issue some of Alex Krueger's now sought-after (and increasingly expensive) early works as Korsakow, Dub Taylor, PsychoPlasma and many other alter egos and collaborations as well as pieces from more recent days that, with new technology available, can now be re-mixed and re-mastered to audiophile standards. 

First in a series of restored recordings of classic tracks are two Tigerskin songs from 2008, originally released on Dirt Crew Recordings. His big jam 'Peters Secret Weapon' and the trance-infused 'Platin'. The last track is taken from the second release on the short-lived Monza Records that pretty much disappeared at some point, and unfortunately, took with it this beautiful piece called 'The Beach', one of our personal favourites from Alex's musical output in 2008.

All tracks were restored and mixed again from their original parts by Stefan Janson and re-mastered at www.salz-mastering.com.

Peter’s Platin Beach EP

Tigerskin | Peter’s Secret Weapon (Restored by Stefan Janson) (Preview)

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FF002 | Korsakow | Crazy Abduction In Deep Space EP | Out 16.07.2018

1. Abduction
2. Make You Crazy
3. Deep in Space
4. Deep Love

For our second offering here on Forms & Figures we’re heading back 22 years. Released under Alex Krugers early alter ego Korsakow, the original vinyl pressings from 1996 and ’97 are pretty rare and very expensive nowadays, and we‘ve got numerous Dj and fan requests from all over the world who asked to bring them back again into the digital ages. 

‚Abduction‘, released on Dole & Kom’s BCC Records, was the title track to Alex‘s second solo 12“ as Korsakow. It’s a simple yet hypnotic tune with classic 808-driven House groove, that goes on and on. It was rediscovered by Raresh a couple of years ago, who included an edit of it into some of his mixes which finally led to a vinyl re-release on the Malonian label in 2016 including the original version and two of Rareshs edits under his Benon alter ego. Since not everybody owns a record player anymore it‘s about time to also re-release it to the virtual world without ground noise, crackles and guaranteed right speed. 

‚Deep in Space‘, the twelve minute monster dub with a twist, came out in 1997 on Frank Müllers ‚Müller Records‘. It‘s one of those tracks that‘s hard to categorise. Starting with a dub groove garnished with spacey pianos and vocal, bits that fly around the room, it builds up into a proper Techno stomper just to fall apart again into a groovy old school Trance thingy. Whatever you call it, it‘s just beautiful. 

Both ‚Make U Crazy‘ and ‚Deep Love‘ are taken from Alex‘s first  Korsakow Solo-EP ‚Korsakows Modulated Mind‘, released with the USM Label run by the R.A.N.D. posse, today famous for their record pressing plant in Leipzig. As the story goes, back in 1995 Alex was selling a synthesizer that broke during shipment. That incident and it’s pretty long journey to get it back to life and home to it’s new owner again led to his second vinyl release with the crew of music lovers from east germanys beautiful south.

While ‚Make U Crazy‘ is a timeless atmospheric and stripped down Deep Techno tune with rolling 909 drums, chord-melody and noise stabs out of analog synthesizers, ‚Deep Love‘ takes us into the depths of one of his early views on more sample-oriented groovy House, a production genre that, over the following 22 years, Alex always enjoyed to revisit.

These four timeless tunes, juicy mastered by Salz Mastering, will most likely bring back good memories for the aged House & Techno lover and hopefully make new friends with the generations who followed and missed out on these due to their years of unavailability. Re-mastered at www.salz-mastering.com.

Enjoy!

Crazy Abduction In Deep Space EP

Korsakow | Abduction (Preview)

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FF003 | Tigerskin | Silver Sun EP | Out 03.09.2018

1 - Bordeaux (Restored by Stefan Janson)
2 - Silver Sun (Restored by Stefan Janson)
3 - Neontrance (Restored by Stefan Janson)
4 - Suzuki Rider (Restored by Stefan Janson)
5 - Wanted (Restored by Stefan Janson)

For our third offering we’ve chosen four Tigerskin classics for you plus one unreleased tune from Alex Krüger’s Archives. 

‘Bordeaux’, from 2008, is a dark and lush space hymn that set the tone for many of Tigerskin’s productions in the years to come. It features acoustic kicks and percussion, sequenced synth toms, subtle pitch changes and has lots of atmosphere which, back then, you‘d rather expected in Drum & Bass. 

‘Silver Sun’, unreleased til today, was taken from the same 2005 recordings session as ‚Neontrance‘. A minimal groove and a ton of bass marry a big room full of breathing acid synths and reverbs while little artefacts fly around like mosquitos.  

‘Neontrance’ is one of Alex‘s widely known ‚acid techno‘ pieces. Rhythmically changing synth-patterns are built around a proper booming Tr-808 until that hi pitched synth line comes in... Simple. Effective. This one’s still killing dance floors all over the world since it‘s 2006 release on Dirt Crew Recordings.

The last two, ‘Suzuki Rider’ and ‘Wanted’ have been originally recorded and released in 2008, also with Dirt Crew, as part of th ‘Peter’s Secret Weapon Ep’ and since we and many others out there always loved both for their beauty and elegance we won‘t want to keep the fresh versions from you any longer.

All five tunes have been beautifully restored again from their original parts by Stefan Janson.

Silver Sun EP

Tigerskin | Neontrance (Restored by Stefan Janson) (Preview)

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FF007 | Dub Taylor | Detect | Out 04.03.2019

1. Detect
2. Sweet Lips ft. Eddie & Wallace
3. Observer
4. Newmen
5. Something Sometimes (Instrumental)
6. Our Youth ft. Per Fourier
7. John Wayne
8. I can’t (Fall in Love With Another One) ft. Per Fourier (Edit)
9. Dirty Highways ft. Stan Eknatz
10. 2scale ft. P.One
11. I can’t (Fall in Love With Another One) (Instrumental)(Bonus Track)
12. Lush (Instrumental)(Bonus Track)

'Detect' was Alex Krüger's second album as Dub Taylor, released in late summer 2001 on Forcetracks. It included the surprise hit from a year earlier 'I Can't (Fall in Love with Another One)'. For this reissue we decided to swap 'Something Sometimes' with the instrumental version. We also added the original full Instrumental version of 'I Can't (Fall in Love With Another One)' and the full thirteen minute version of 'Lush', the original B2 of Forcetracks 21, a fan favourite, as bonus tracks. 

Bonus Tracks mastered by Salz-Mastering.

Detect

Dub Taylor | Dirty Highways Ft. Stan Eknatz (Preview) | Forms & Figures

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FF008 | Tigerskin | True Light EP | Out 22.04.2019

01 True Light
02 Zanabi
03 Silence of the Lamps
04 Flypaper
05 Neverending

With these five new pieces, Tigerskin, completely unperturbed by current trends, goes his own way. Here, sampling and analog synthesizer sounds are on equal footing with acoustic key and string instruments combined with various sounds of nature. The titles propagate deepness, are quite danceable but not compulsively club-oriented, sometimes pop shines through, sometimes jazzy deep house, always euphoria, melancholy, but never uniformity. 

All Tracks were beautifully mixed by Stefan Janson and mastered by Salz-Mastering.

True Light EP

Tigerskin | True Light (Preview) | Forms & Figures

Crazy Abduction in Deep Space EP

Make You Crazy

We'll Always Have November

November (Restored by Stefan Janson)

I Can't (Fall in Love With Another One) (Edit) [feat. Per Fourier]

"Forms & Figures" will release restored and remastered classic, lost and new music by Alexander Krueger aka Dub Taylor aka Tigerskin aka Korsakow and friends.
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