Wolfgang Tillmans’ latest album, Build from Here, is driven by a desire to explore and to expose. It navigates joy and heartbreak amid ruin and rebuilding, embodying hopeful defiance in uncertain futures. The songs vary in style, from propulsive and catchy to contemplative, featuring lush instrumentals transitioning into danceable beats. Tillmans’ voice, whether growling and confrontational or tender and stripped down, maintains its prominence throughout, serving as the album's core.

Wolfgang Tillmans - Build From Here

Interesting Stuff

New Musik - 24 Hours From Culture

French Lesson

We Are Not Going Back

Primal (Intro)

Cab Ride

Regratitude

Where Does The Tune Hide

Godley & Creme - Under your Thumb, slowed to 62.5%

Under your Thumb (slowed)

Just grabbed me. Relatively simple edit and dj friendly loopwork on an underrated tune off of the Warp album.

New Musik - Hunting Ground (Hober Edit)

In 2006, the musical landscape was very different; there was no streaming, “shazam" was a word used by magicians, and "all-access” was not granted to the general public. Social media, as we know it, was in its infancy and today’s constant digital feed of interruptions, notifications, refreshes and “likes” didn't yet exist. Those with a thirst for the overlooked regions of the record store had to quench themselves in the climes of the online world's music blogs, and while that digital community was surely expanding, NYC’s www.lovefingers.org was something different. Not a blog but a daily unfolding mix — no opinions, reviews, or backstories were coupled with the music, no full albums or submissions from the outside — it was a mysterious watering hole in the burgeoning digital desert where rogue tracks from Wally Badarou rubbed shoulders with those of Holger Czukay, the drama of Sylvester juxtaposed with the quirkiness of Hosono, and countless other coveted artists’ unearthed gems melted in one pot, a digital space where $1 thrift store scores could easily breathe the same dusty air as cosmic holy grails, oddball psychedelics and proto-electronica b-sides comfortably cohabited with $300 private-press folk rarities. With 1 track per day, Andrew “Lovefingers” Hogge created a truly democratic and educated selection of music for our aural pleasure, and labelled them ‘Fingertracks' (numbered 001-999).

The community around Lovefingers’ site was a call-to-action, gathering analogous minds and inviting them all to the same party, and on New Years Day 2010, after 999 Fingertracks and a plethora of (now classic) mixes, the site made a final post stating, “That's all folks!” The collective energy pivoted into the ESP Institute, a record label and art platform to champion new artists who emerged from this foundational community and as a catalyst to push the musical dialogue forward. Now, as the ESP Institute approaches its 10-year anniversary, we revisit the significant role www.lovefingers.org played in shaping where we are today.

'Fingertracks Vol : 1' is a snapshot of aural delights that were on offer to those of the leftfield persuasion, all who discovered the site and tuned-in for their daily shot of sonics proper — a lovingly selected handful of records that re-introduce the story of Andrew’s most influential and essential music resource. The track list is classic Lovefingers, an insight into the free-flowing nature of the daily Fingertracks, context-free but connected through creative threads and energies — lo-fi loner jams brush up alongside sleazed-out Italo powerhouses, Greek new age obscurities tussle against overlooked Hawkwind-related cuts — nuggets that may be more known to the heads now, but whose initial excavation can be accredited to Lovefingers’ site, and are essential to its story nonetheless. Rumor has it that this is merely the first volume in a series, so as it turns out, and gladly so, “That’s not all folks!”

Buy from ESP

RICK CUEVAS - The Birds - SNIPPET

26 April 2024
Build From Here
Download, Stream, LP & CD

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3 March 2023
Your Body Is Yours
Download, stream and music video.

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20 May 2022
Insanely Alive (Remixes) 
Remixes by Pet Shop Boys, Total Freedom & Sami Baha. 
12-inch vinyl preorder here: https://bit.ly/3rRgKxm

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5 November 2021
Wolfgang Tillmans - Moon in Earthlight (Album) 
Download/CD/Vinyl

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2 July 2021
Wolfgang Tillmans – Can't Escape into Space (Honey Dijon's Euphoria Mix)
Download, stream and music video.

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20 December 2020
Wolfgang Tillmans – Can't Escape into Space
Download, stream and music video.

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21 August 2020 
Wolfgang Tillmans – Life Guarding  /  Growing
12'' vinyl, download, stream and music videos.

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17 July 2020 
Wolfgang Tillmans - Growing 
(digital / stream / video) 
Video: https://youtu.be/WhOSPqzKhiU

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4 June 2020 
Volkswagen Art4All Online Edition | Podcast mit Wolfgang Tillmans (in German)
https://bit.ly/3gO2JJw

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16 June 2019, 7pm
17 June 2019, 7pm
An experimental evening with DonChristian, Fragile/Wolfgang Tillmans (Live) + DJ Nedalot 
Kantine am Berghain, Berlin 

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Tickets via
https://www.koka36.de/event_site.php?event=113870
https://amwriezenerbahnhof.app.love-your-artist.com/de/
http://berghain.de/event/2852
https://www.facebook.com/events/623702948101216/

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16 Nov 2018
Powell Tillmans - Spoken By The Other EP (XL Recordings)
12'' vinyl / download / stream 

Preorder EP: 
http://www.xlrecordings.com/buy/powelltillmans-spokenbytheotherep 

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17 Oct 2018
Powell Tillmans – Feel the Night (XL Recordings)
download/stream/video

Video: 
https://youtu.be/OHKAyrNuPYU

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5 May 2018 
Fragile007 - Wolfgang Tillmans - Source (Original / Roman Flügel Remixes) 
12'' vinyl / download / stream 

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2 Feb 2018
Fragile006 - Wolfgang Tillmans – Heute Will Ich Frei Sein EP 
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video 

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17 Nov 2017 
Fragile005 - Wolfgang Tillmans - Hamburg Süd / Nee IYaow Eow Eow 
Cd digipack + 48page booklet / download / stream 

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9 Dec 2016
Fragile004 - Fragile - That's Desire / Here We Are EP 
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video

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16 Sept 2016
Fragile003 - Wolfgang Tillmans "Device Control EP" 
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video

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07 June 2016
Fragile002 - Fragile - Naive Me 
download and stream only

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24 June 2016
Fragile001 - Wolfgang Tillmans  - 1986 / 2016 EP
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video