Audiac’s 2003 debut, Thank You For Not Discussing The Outside World (Klangbad), was produced by Hans-Joachim Irmler of Faust and continues to maintain a top-20 ranking on rateyourmusic.com’s trip-hop chart between Portishead and Massive Attack. The sound occasionally recalls the radio-ready freeze-dried chansons of Bowie or Björk, but its emotional nudity anchors it firmly in the tradition of performance art. With hooks, of course – Alexander Wiemer and Niklas David may be slaves to the self-assigned task of designing a musical universe from the inside out, but they have no intention of inhabiting it alone.

The new album – due out in September 2017 – takes the duo even farther into the realm of musical abstraction. David weaves keyboards, samples and synthesizer into landscapes of shimmering harmony, then deconstructs them with powerful gestures of dissonance. Wiemer’s dynamic, jazz-inflected vocal stylings skate across frozen lagoons of polyphony or draw on the power of interjected rhythms. Ringer Anja Füsti provides commentary in the language of classically trained percussion. The only constant is drama.

“Beats are all about getting into a zone and staying there,” David explains. “To me, melody and harmony are the interesting part.” Increasingly, he says, Audiac takes its inspiration from Romantic and classical music. But there is nothing classical about their sound. Audiac has made a clear commitment to keeping art rock firmly straddled on the cutting edge of technology. As Greg Lake so eloquently put it, “You can change the world, but if you lose control, they will take away your T-shirt.”

Audiac’s live shows are legendary. As a performer, Wiemer melts women’s hearts and makes men’s balls cramp to the size of hazelnuts, a boon to bartenders everywhere. Only the necessity of staring fixedly at a bewildering array of sound generators saves David from sharing the audience’s fate: As his wife can attest, his T-shirt never leaves his body. The last time I saw Wiemer, I think he was wearing a stiff, transparent vinyl blouson over his erect nipples. But I can’t really say because I went blind that night. That is, if you get a chance to see where Audiac’s music comes from, don’t miss it. Headphones only tell half the story.

AUDREY SUMNER

Hello, we’re NASA. You may have seen our astronauts, rocket launches, or Mars rovers — but have you heard our sounds? From interviews with astronauts and engineers to stories that take you on a tour of the galaxy, NASA’s audio offerings let you experience the thrill of space exploration without ever leaving Earth.

'THOUGHT FORMS'
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"Lippy Kid" is the name of the electronic music project created by Derbyshire based musician Paul Scott.

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Right now I'm using Linux Multi Media Studio to make some electronic music and I'm putting it on this here internet thing.

I'm an electroacoustic composer interested in mystic, spiritual and ritual sound. I approach music through the intricacies of timbre, acoustics and spatiality, and I extract compositions or "soundspaces" from elements of ancient/classical music, (dark) ambient, (dub) techno, free improvisation and architectural ideas. By shaping a semi-abstract sound, I want to transcend the drama of emotion, reach beyond it, towards the patterns and noises of consciousness (the micro cosmos), outer space (the macro cosmos) and nature.

"...a fascinating contemporary classical-techno-ambient hybrid, miles away from even a lot of the post-classical music you hear these days. This is driving, jazz-inflected experimental electronic music deeply rooted in classical instrumentation and form." - Create Digital Music(2015)

"Beautiful, elegant, mysterious..." -Murcof (2015)

"We were blown away..."
- Rewire Festival organisation about the live show (2014)

"Fascinating!"
- Hubble Space Telescope (ESA) about the Cynquery video (2015)

Other projects:
@hypnoticschool
@diskettedeluxe
@auxpulse

Behold Finders Keepers, a British record label, 40 years in the making, introducing fans of psychedelic, jazz, folk, funk, avant-garde and whacked-out movie musak to a lost world of undiscovered vinyl artifacts from the annals of alternative pop history.

Catering to record collectors and DJ-producers alike with a huge emphasis on sample friendly soundscapes, rocksteady back-beats and primitive electronic experimentalism. Discerning purveyors of the bizarre and abnormal should expect the Japanese choreography records, space-age Turkish protest songs, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, Welsh rare-beats, bubblegum folk, drugsploitation operatics, banned British crime thrillers and celebrity Gallic Martini adverts... presented on CD, 7" and traditional black plastic discs in authentic packaging.

Following in the very same footsteps as the mind boggling "Music To Watch	Girls Cry" and "Songs In The Key Of Death" mix CDs for Fat City Records and the original 5-star rated Finders Keepers compilation LP in 2001, Manc-based vinyl-vulture, recording artist and record producer Andy Votel enlists the skills of fellow B-Music DJ and Rare Disc Detective Doug Shipton to form a team of psychedelic librarians and cosmic-pop-quiz-elitists to run their new Twisted Nerve distant sister-label, leaving no progressive pebble unturned or record collection un-rifled.

Future compilations and re-issues will feature collaborative curators such as David Holmes, Cherrystones and Bob Stanley and further contributions from mystery A- / B+ pop-celebrity fanatics of outsider music and ultra-rare bakelite discs. Finders Keepers is an 'accidental world music label' with a punk aesthetic and DJ friendly ethos which allows the desperate listener to sit back while we deliver schizoid cultural channel-hopping compilations and rocking-horse-shit & hen's-teeth re-releases to the comfort of your psych-starved living room...

Jonteknik has worked with Paul Humphreys (of OMD) and Claudia Brucken (Propaganda/Act) on their 'Onetwo' project as well as working on his own projects.

Jonteknik considers remix work and collaborations with vocalists/songwriters. Please contact mail@jonteknikmusic.com

The new 12 track album 'Giants Under The Microscope' is out NOW on download and promo 24 bit CD only (in a colour wallet sleeve). It has been mastered by Dave Stawecki from the USA and is more of an experimental electronic album heavily influenced by OMD and Kraftwerk.

Tracklisting:
01 Traffic
02 Manoeuvres
03 Robot Music
04 Unst
05 Finsterlin
06 Thule
07 Head In Hands
08 Muckle Flugga
09 Up On The Downs
10 Metal Party
11 Giants Under The Microscope
12 Shoreline


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