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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!

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V/a | Selected Forms & Figures 2023

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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

Download & Stream

Tigerskin | Walk the Lizard | Forms & Figures

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For our 38th release we're happy to present formerly unreleased studio material from 1996, that we found hidden deep in Jan's and Alex’s vaults. The four dubbed-out tunes were part of a row of session recordings, done by the guys in autumn that year. They share a free minimal spirit and were recorded with a limited and beautiful sounding analog setup in a small room in a Berlin backyard.
 
The uptempo “Sinter” is a mesmerising, puristic Electro piece, the never-ending “Karst” more on the Techno side, featuring wild, flanged percussions and an extremely driving baseline. “Stalaktit" & “Stalagmit”, both slower, are nicely oblique, industrial, obscure but sometimes almost funky analog jams.
 
We hope you like these as much as we do and hey...were these came from...there’s much more!
 
Mastered by Jan Gabler.

Plattenkalk EP

PsychoPlasma | Karst | 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

Tigerskin | Jankowski (Restored by Stefan Janson) | Forms & Figures

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FF040 - Dub Taylor x Tigerskin x Korsakow - Irgendein

01 - Irgendein - Mix 1
02 - Irgendein - Mix 2
03 - Irgendein - Mix 3

To celebrate our 40th release we brought our top three of Alex’s monikers to work on three separate tunes together as a trio. Expect deep and trippy groovers between techy House and discoid Dub, each of the tracks could be a remix to any of the others. Nicely done! 

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

Irgendein

Dub Taylor x Tigerskin x Korsakow - Irgendein (Mix 3)

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FF041 - Haushausen & Dub Taylor - Der Sonne Glut

01 Der Sonne Glut (Lange Version)
02 Der Sonne Glut (Kurze Version)
03 Der Sonne Glut (Kurze Version Instrumental)

After their debut album ‚Behind the Roof’ from last December, here’s Haushausen & Dub Taylor's first single. ‚Der Sonne Glut‘ is a very unusual and personal German language hymn to the joys of cycling up a hill in summertime. For full excitement, we recommend listening to the original Lange Version (long version) but we also added a short version (Kurze Version) for those already in a hurry to get their bikes out. Besides Mirko, Andre and Alex ‚Der Sonne Glut‘ also features a friend of the Haus: Oli on Guitar. 

As always, all tracks mixed by Stefan Janson and mastered by Salz Mastering.

Der Sonne Glut

Haushausen & Dub Taylor | Der Sonne Glut (Kurze Version Instrumental) | Forms & Figures

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FF042 - Tigerskin - Tools à la Chef

01 - One For Kenny
02 - Tool à la Chef
 
One For Kenny is one of those super deep, seemingly endless warmup groovers Tigerskin does best. A hypnotic Acid bass line and a woody drum set form the fundament for dub vocals, noise shots and strange, muted sax sounds that explode in and out of nowhere. Tool à la Chef instead comes out with a more uptempo Garage vibe that might set dance floors on fire. It’s main attraction is a far out female vocal in a totally unidentifiable style and language. Wild stuff!
 
All tracks mixed by Stefan Janson in Berlin. Mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Tools à la Chef

Tigerskin | One for Kenny | Forms & Figures

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FF043 - Session Two - Sendersuchlauf Sessions

01 - Grünbach Gerda
02 - Martin Muldenhammer

After their debut "Funkloch Sessions“ on Sofa Tunes and their infamous "Aetherwellen Sessions" earlier this year on Lucidflow, this is the third batch of tunes from Tigerskin & Jack Jenson under their Session Two moniker. The two session pieces of "Sendersuchlauf Sessions" have been condensed to forms of Dark Pop and Electronic Disco with a simple, very danceable groove. As always, their aesthetics are highly driven by voltage controlled radios, Vermona's east German built DRM drum machine from 1987 and the intense use of vocoders, not necessarily for voices but for all kinds of other sounds. Very cool!

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

Sendersuchlauf Sessions

Session Two | Martin Muldenhammer | Forms & Figures

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FF044 | Tigerskin | New Life Ep

01 - Leave Behind
02 - New Life
03 - Summer People

Tigerskin returns to Forms & Figures with three fresh and beautiful groovers. “Leave Behind” and “New Life” are sample-heavy pieces featuring some of Alex’s personal goosebump moments from classic and sometimes widely forgotten Jazz, Soul, Easy Listening and Funk music of the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

“Summer People” goes in the direction of many of Tigerskin’s recent works. Based on misusing guitars for other purposes than just playing notes on the fretboard (e.g. the bass drum was played on a bass guitar), he creates an extremely chilled out atmosphere.
We hope you enjoy these tracks of sheer beauty as much as we do.

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

New Life EP

Tigerskin | Leave Behind | Forms & Figures

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FF045 | Emotional Ketchup Burst (EKB) | Spider Web

01 - Spider Web
02 - Mysterious Fireballs

EKB was a short-lived band project Alex Kruger and Henrik Frenzel, accompanied by vocalist Nadine Hemme, worked on from 1996 until 1998. They played a few gigs in Berlin and only released a single piece, a remix for a tune Alex and Nadine did as Korsakow & Nadine on BCC. The three had each a very different musical background that let to a wild mixture of New Wave, Jungle & Breaks, Triphop, Industrial & EBM, Techno and Ambient, Emo and Hardcore and Punk in general. Since their focus was to play live, they didn’t get much stuff ready to be released and when they prepared to do so, they realised that they didn’t fit together very well. Afterwards Alex and Nadine founded the Echobox project that led to the release of two albums and a 12“ and several other collaborations and Henrik started to work on radio plays and copyright free music.

In the end of 1996, Alex and Henrik did a few sessions to find their own sound. Amongst these recordings were Mysterious Fireballs and Spider Web.
Both tracks are raw and break-oriented, while Spider Web being rather uptempo, driving with an obvious influence by a certain UK sound of that time.
Trivia: Mysterious Fireballs contains a very similar synth sequence as Korsakow’s. ‚Deep In Space‘, originally released on Müller in 2007 and already re-released on Forms & Figures a few years ago. The two tracks were both recorded within a week.

To release these pieces such a long time after their very spontaneous and semiprofessional production, we used an AI program to separate the drums and bass from the rest of the music and then mixed everything back together again with a few additional, modern studio tricks. They do not sound 100% perfect and maybe in ten or twenty years we might be able to get them to sound better but for the moment it is highly satisfying for us to be able to share with you. They have a high personal and historical value for us that we can’t allow to rot in our vaults.

Re-construction mix by Stefan Janson in Berlin.
Mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Spider Web

Emotional Ketchup Burst (EKB) | Spider Web | 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

"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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