Taken from the album "Ormeology"
Out: 17.09.2021
Karaoke Kalk 121 (LP/DL)

Ormeology

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Mimsy - Ginster

Artist. Donna Regina
Title. Welt in einer Stadt
Taken from the 7" release "Welt in einer Stadt"
Out: 08.10.2021

Welt in einer Stadt

Donna Regina - Welt in einer Stadt

Artist: eXe
Title: No Option feat. Anna Elias, Mozeh k and Sir X Samba
Cat.No.: KARAOKE KALK 133-S2
Format: DL
Barcode No Option (Original): 880918267005

LC CODE: 10028

Release Date: 10.05.2024

Tracklisting:

1. No Option (Original Version)
2. No Option (Radio Edit)

"No Option" - A Song about Immigration and Prejudice.

"No Option" is more than just a song - it's a poignant statement about immigration, integration, and the prejudices many people face. It tells of the desperation that drives many young individuals to leave their countries and families in search of a better life, often finding that the reality falls short of their dreams.

This eloquent track features the remarkable voices of rappers Mozeh k, Sir X Samba, and folk singer Anna Elias. Their lyrics bring a personal touch to the subject, allowing us to feel the emotional depth of the narrative.

Special thanks are owed to producer Andrea "Fox" Della Volpe, who impeccably coordinated the rap sections of the song. His talent and dedication contributed to making "No Option" an impressive musical experience.

eXe is the new project by Italian based artis Emanuele Errante. Departing from the ambient landscape, eXe explores a fusion of electronic genres, including urban, trip hop and techno. 


eXe LIVE
11.05.2024 IT-Ottaviano | tba 


Mastered by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering, Berlin

Many thanks to Chris Hooson

Written and produced by Emanuele Errante
Lyrics by Mozeh k and Sir X Samba

eXe - No Option - Lyrics

Too deep like the ocean
Bodies go down in slow motion
Heart cold no emotion
We got to move on no option

No sleep we moving all night
Mommy too worried she praying all night
Non stop till the family alright
Way too rough tell ‘em hold on tight
                    
Look! We start it all poor from zero
We grew up with big plans less ego
Ma dad was ma idol not hero
We neva talking about love Nigga  just figures

We came from a long way
So hungry that I need ma own plate
Too eager can’t roll with ma own mates
Time pass we ain’t not the same place

Too deep like the ocean
Bodies go down in slow motion
Heart cold no emotion
We got to move on no option

No sleep we moving all night
Mommy too worried she praying all night
Non stop till the family alright
Way too rought tell ‘em hold on tight

What’s up niggas
You wanna be the boss nigga
Love to win but hate the lose nigga
tell me how u wanna be the big steppa

Boy aim high dream bigger
Young blood tryna be the next leader
Fake niggas always be the big heater
Big gangster aim high pull trigger
 
I fell in love with the street
Married the game and I swear to never quit
Give ‘em my heart ,lord knows I Neva switch
If you sleep on me boi you know you gone miss (miss)

They wanna know
What’s the reason
We be trappin so hard  every season
People judging the life that we living
They wishing me bad they ain’t know the meaning

See you at home

We came from a long way
So hungry that I need ma own plate
Too eager can’t roll with ma own mates
Time pass we ain’t not the same place
(Level)

They say crime pays. I hope is a good price
I see it from two sides and can’t be here looking too nice.
Grab ma hand real too tight
never gonna leave ma side
Maybe we can end this fight you will no more want to hide
I see real warrior
tolerance real zero.                
Clean up all egos
come on brother here we go                                    
Are you the new negro speak up everything raw              
Are you ready for war tell if you really so                          

I couldn’t be left behind, couldn’t be left behind
When am here to carry myself.                
you can hate me more like are do myself
now you realize ma move is a winning dice
take left mein am going right
standing on ma toes with pride
getting ready for the snake like thieves in the night
still on the rules like killer bee kill and the dealer be real

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No Option

eXe - No Option feat. Anna Elias, Mozeh k and Sir X Samba (Original Version)

Second Single Release 

DYL - a7r380R 
Cat.No.: Karaoke Kalk 134-S2
Barcode DL: 880918268132
Release Date: 30.08.2024

Diving Saucer Attack

DYL - a7r380R

Artist: Astrobal
Title: Miami 2064
Cat.No.: KARAOKE KALK 136-S2
Format: DL
Barcode DL: 880918269306

LC CODE: 10028

Release Date: 13.12.2024


As the second single from Astrobal’s third album, »Miami 2064« perfectly encapsulates the open-ended compositional approach that Emmanuel Mario follows across the ten pieces of »L’uomo e la natura.« Neo-noir synth-wave, homages to the masters of cosmic music such as Tangerine Dream, strummed guitars and ethereal vocals: in just six minutes, Mario takes you on an interplanetary journey.

The album "L'uomo e la natura" by Astrobal will be released on February, 7th 2025.

https://www.astrobal.com/
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L'uomo e la natura

Astrobal - Miami 2064

Artist: Donna Regina
Title: Almaty
Cat.No.: KALK DRBC2
Format: DL
Barcode DL: 880918268729

LC CODE: 10028

Release Date: 28.02.2025

Distribution: Available on all major download and streaming platforms.

Tracklisting:

01. Full Silver Moon
02. Dream Pop
03. I'll Travel Light
04. La Madrague
05. In Between Day And Dream
06. Sometimes
07. Siren Calls
08. I'm Your Star
09. Touch Of Spring
10. Almaty

Less than a year after their debut, Donna Regina released their second album, Almaty, in 1993—this time on the Hamburg-based label Strange Ways, which stepped in at just the right moment after Our Choice/Rough Trade had dropped out. The album features nine original songs as well as a cover of the classic La Madrague, originally sung by Brigitte Bardot. With the twelve-and-a-half-minute title track Almaty, the band presented their longest piece to date. In their now eight-track studio, Donna Regina experimented with new sounds, including a Hawaiian guitar, which can be heard right in the opening track, Full Silver Moon.

Now, Almaty returns—available digitally for the first time, making it accessible to a new generation of listeners.

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Almaty

Donna Regina - I'll Travel Light

Taken from the album "Her Beatiful Heart" (Re-Release)

Her Beautiful Heart

Donna Regina - On dirait

Artist: Donna Regina
Title: Gaze aus Staub
Cat.No.: KARAOKE KALK 139-S2
Format: DL
Barcode DL: 880918276847

LC CODE: 10028

Release Date: 26.09.2025

»Gaze aus Staub« is the second single from Donna Regina’s new album »Lilac.« Like the first single »Nothing Heavy,« it highlights the Berlin indie pop duo’s ability to say a lot with very little: playful, almost psychedelic sounds form the foundation for Regina’s melancholic lyrics about what has been lost over time. Just like »Lilac,« it is serious but not quite sad.

Das "Lilac" by Donna Regina will be released on October 31, 2025.

https://linktr.ee/donnaregina
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Lilac

Donna Regina - Gaze aus Staub

Artist: Donna Regina
Title: Nothing Heavy
Cat.No.: KARAOKE KALK 139-S1 
Format: DL
Barcode DL: 880918276830

LC CODE: 10028

Release Date: 22.08.2025

»Nothing Heavy« is the first single from »Lilac,« the first Donna Regina album in six years. Bright guitar tones, floating synth sounds, shakers, and even strings indeed exude a certain lightness. But something broods under the surface. »I want to sing a happier song,« Regina gently proclaims. It is this ambivalence that also characterises »Lilac« as a whole.

The album "Lilac" by Donna Regina will be released on October 31, 2025.

Video:
https://youtu.be/5BRQYjSE2wg

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Donna Regina - Nothing Heavy

Artist: Astrobal & Berend Intelmann
Title: Pink Noise
Cat.No.: KARAOKE KALK 140
Format: DL
Barcode DL: 880918277998

LC CODE: 10028

Release Date: 24.10.2025

Astrobal and Berend Intelmann have never met in person, but mutual respect for each other’s music and their upcoming joint concerts in Berlin and Cologne inspired them to create a collaborative track.

“Pink Noise” connects their sonic worlds through synthesizers and electronic drums — the shared language between their two musical approaches.
The song reflects on two places close to their hearts yet far apart geographically: Emma’s home in southern France and Berend’s in Berlin.

Earlier this year, Astrobal released his acclaimed album "L’uomo e la natura" in February, while Berend followed with his equally impressive album "Mother Nature" at the end of May. The two artists will perform together on 13.11.2025 at Panke – Berlin and 15.11.2025 at 674FM – Cologne.

All instruments, vocals, production, and mixing by Astrobal & Berend Intelmann
Music and lyrics written by Astrobal & Berend Intelmann
Mastering by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering, Berlin

Astrobal LIVE
02.11.2025 FR-Nantes | Lunde Froide w/ Gaétan Nonchalant, Lenparrot (DJ Set)
03.11.2025 FR-Paris | Le Folia w/ Polycool
04.11.2025 NL-Nijmegen | Merleyn w/ Nina Savary
06.11.2025 CH-Genève | Bongo Joe
11.11.2025 DE-Munich | Bellevue di Monaco w/Nina Savary
13.11.2025 DE-Berlin | Panke w/ Berend Intelmann
15.11.2025 DE-Cologne | 674FM w/ Berend Intelmann

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https://linktr.ee/berend_intelmann
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Pink Noise

Astrobal & Berend Intelmann - Pink Noise

With "Daily Battles," US-American musician Marla Hansen, who lives in Berlin, kicks off her new cover project "Laugh Into the Leaves", a fully acoustic EP that places voice and strings at the forefront. Hansen interprets Thom Yorke’s song – originally released in 2019 as part of the soundtrack for Motherless Brooklyn – as a quiet, intimate meditation on the pressure to adapt in everyday life.

Marla Hansen - Daily Battles

Artist: we didn't care
Title: Dere Geliyor
Cat.No.: KARAOKE KALK 142-S1 
Format: DL
Barcode DL: 880918278674

LC CODE: 10028

Release Date: 12.12.2025

we didn’t care is the Berlin-based producer and musician Engin Oeztuerk. He creates a world of atmospheric, guitar-driven songs that remain accessible despite their depth. His music guides listeners into a quiet yet uplifting state, without ever needing to be loud.

Drawing on his background as the son of Turkish guest workers in Germany, subtle traces of Turkish folk traditions flow into his music. These sit alongside influences from punk, hip-hop, indie, and electronic dance music, which he considers all building blocks of the same sonic language. Together, they form a diverse yet cohesive musical identity. The songs remain pared-down and slightly mysterious, reflecting both his cultural roots and global influences.

With 'Dere Geliyor,' we’re releasing his first single – a colorful film of someone too impatient to sit still, waiting to finally be with their beloved.

The EP Live at the Low End follows on February 20, 2026.

Performed, produced and mixed by we didn’t care. 
Mastered by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering, Berlin

https://www.instagram.com/we.didnt.care/
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we didn’t care ist der in Berlin ansässige Produzent und Musiker Engin Oeztuerk. Er erschafft eine Welt aus atmosphärischen, gitarrengetragenen Songs, die trotz ihrer Tiefe leicht zugänglich bleiben. Seine Musik versetzt die Hörer:innen in einen ruhigen, aber aufbauenden Zustand, ohne laut auftreten zu müssen.

Ausgehend von seinem Hintergrund als Sohn türkischer Gastarbeiter in Deutschland fließen feine Spuren türkischer Folk-Traditionen in seine Musik ein. Diese stehen neben Einflüssen aus Punk, Hip-Hop, Indie und elektronischer Tanzmusik, die für ihn alle Bausteine derselben Klangsprache sind. Gemeinsam formen sie eine vielfältige und zugleich stimmige musikalische Identität. Die Songs bleiben reduziert und leicht geheimnisvoll und spiegeln sowohl seine kulturellen Wurzeln als auch weltweite Einflüsse wider.

Mit "Dere Geliyor" veröffentlichen wir seine erste Single – ein farbenreicher Film von jemandem, der zu ungeduldig ist, stillzusitzen, und darauf wartet, endlich bei der Geliebten zu sein.

Die EP Live at the Low End folgt am 20.02.2026.

Performed, produziert und gemixt von we didn’t care.
Mastering: Mike Grinser bei Manmade Mastering, Berlin.

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Live at the Low End

we didn't care - Dere Geliyor

Taken From The Album "Far Islands And Near Places" By Quentin Sirjacq
Karaoke Kalk 93 (CD/LP)

Far Islands And Near Places

Quentin Sirjacq - Aquarius

Quentin Sirjacq - Orange

Quentin Sirjacq - It's Raining In My House

Taken from the album A Handful Of Dust Is A Desert - Karaoke Kalk 101

A Hnadful Of Dust Is A Desert

Hannu Karjalainen - Breaks My Heart She Aria (Preview)

Taken from the album Transient
Out: 22.02.2019

Transient

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Donna Regina - Lass uns so tun

Taken from the album Transient - Karaoke Kalk 111 (CD/LP/DL)
Out: 22.02.2019

Donna Regina - Royal Blue

Taken From The Album L'infini, l'Univers et les Mondes
Karaoke Kalk 112 (CD/LP/DL)
Out: 26.04.2019

L'infini, l'Univers et les Mondes

Astrobal - Le Frisson Ultrasonique

Karaoke Kalk is a record label founded in 1997 in Cologne. The name comes from the „Köln-Kalk“ district where the label started out. Over the past 25 years the label has amounted a superb catalog totaling well over 120 releases by a dazzling array of artists spanning the broadest possible spectrum of musical output.

Some of the most notable musicians to have released on Kalk include Scottish post-jazz pianist Bill Wells, To Rococo Rot bassist Mapstation aka Stefan Schneider, Static aka classically trained drummer Hanno Leichtmann, tireless musical activist Guido Möbius and the meister of prepared-piano Hauschka. Of all the acts to appear on KK, the later has undoubtedly reached the widest audience, with continued success and international acclaim, it was Kalk that first brought Hauschka's unique style to the world. While between them Bill Wells and Stefan Schneider have worked with everyone from Aidan Moffat and Barbara Morgenstern to Mahar Shalal Hash Baz and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Other well established acts that have released on Kalk include the electronic pop duo Donna Regina and the English post-jazz ensemble Dakota Suite.
Of course, besides all these well known names Karaoke Kalk is very much about supporting new talent and bringing to light fantastic new artists who might not otherwise get a break. And so the label is proud to support young artists which recent releases by the likes of Emanuele Errante, Toulouse Low Trax, Roman and J.R.Plankton goes to show.

In 2004 the label relocated from Cologne to Berlin where label head Thorsten Lütz aka DJ Strobocop is extremely active with residencies and regular appearances at some of the best clubs around town. The label is now firmly established as one of the finest the „Musical Capital“ of Europe has to offer. A year later, Karaoke Kalk spawned the Kalk Pets sublabel again proving the Kalk's ongoing support of the clubscene with a focus on remix 12“s. So far the sublabel has released over 20 vinyl Eps with contributions from the likes of DeWalta, Paul Frick (from Brandt, Brauer, Frick), Daniel Meteo, Atom TM and Chica Paula. Kalk Pets proves the labels undying love for the vinyl format and affinity with traditional djing and ever changing club landscape. Since 2006 the label has had its own publisher too - Karaoke Kalk Musikverlag – empowering its artists to retain control of their rights. 

Karaoke Kalk release wonderful electronic and indie sounds beyond the cliches: label boss Thorsten Lütz likes to sit on the fence, creating his own niche for music beyond all the fleeting trends and typical media categorizations. It is one of the few genuinely eclectic labels out there, covering an astonishingly wide range of genres encompassing everything from ambient and indie to electronic, experimental and singer-songwriter. It's one of the true joys of Karaoke Kalk that one just never knows that the label is going to release next: it could go in any direction. The fact is no matter what style of music the label selects, its always of the highest standard and never fails to surprise and delight with each new release.

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