Acoustic, no-age krautrock from Berlin releasing on Glasgow label, Phase Group. 

The next release on Phase Group unearths a truly unique project that has existed as an outlier in the Berlin underground since 2002. 

A stage decked out with xylophones, tambourines, timpani, wooden percussion, two drum kits, a cello, harmonicas, saxophones and pieces of scrap metal. Eight unassuming musicians playing repetitive, trance-inducing phrases, at times serene, fragile and dream-like and at others wild, primitive and driving. This isn’t a scene you might associate with hazy nights out in Berlin but it’s what you’d find if you ended up at a Kulku show.

Kulku's music is a hard to define blend of percussive minimalism, folk, krautrock, post-punk and no wave, almost exclusively derived from acoustic sound sources. Their debut album ‘Fahren' presents this unique sound-identity that they have been crafting for the best part of two decades. 

The A-side presents 3 tracks of percussive propulsion, minimalist xylophone motifs and repetitive drums alongside monotone organ, dramatic narration and woodwind instruments moving in and out of dissonant howls and melodic improvisation. The B-side is devoted to lighter tones, beginning with the glockenspiel minimalism of ‘Unterm Himmel’ and rounding the record out with trance inducing drone of the album’s title track which builds up into a cacophony of snare drums, dissonant accordion and melodica before fading out like dream.

All songs composed and recorded in Berlin by Wenzlovar, Gatis Silde, Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Johanna Riska, Cornelius Onitsch, Alexander Samuels and Maxfield Gassmann

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

‘Fahren’ is released in August 2022 on Phase Group Records. Distribution via Rubadub.

Fahren

Kulku - Fahren (Preview)

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt
Track: Elevator
Label: https://soundcloud.com/malka-tuti
Format: 2XLP 12" & Digital VA
Release date: 16/09/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/4bp_xHNuem4

One of the most mastodont of modern eclectic underground scene Malka Tuti label is celebrating 7 years of existence. Created by two wunderkind with a great taste in music and understanding how to run a record label (which is Guy Kenneth aka Katzele also know as resident of Berlin's HOR  radio and Asaf Samuel, both born in Tel-Aviv), they quickly won recognition of the most interesting and original producers and DJs.
So now they deservedly celebrating their 7th annyversary, with MTX001 VA - SHEVA (Jesus Christ i can't believe they did only first VA in 7 years), before that MT were hosting artists as: Black Merlin, Tapan, Red Axes, Decha, Linja, Cosmo Vitelli, Die Orange, Khidja in the name of few.
This VA offers you 2XLP 12" by none else then Red Axes, Yovav, Manfredas, Phew, Khidja, Xen, Decha and this 'Elevator' track from one of our most favorite producers and persons as it Benedikt Frey.
Also from here 432Hz Towers we want to join all the fans and lovers of this eclectic label and congratulate you on your 7th birthday and wish many good years to you in the future.

PREMIERE | Benedikt Frey - Elevator [Malka Tuti] 2022

First new music by Vactrol Park on Malka Tuti in years...
A favourite deep sonic experiment by the duo....

Vactrol Park - Seemingly Strange

https://soundcloud.com/odopt
https://odopt.bandcamp.com
Event: https://fb.me/e/233mQNXF5
Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/dusanlilic / https://soundcloud.com/banda-panda
🔊 https://youtu.be/frk_jh_unXs

Odopt's work was never bathing in the shallows. It was never for the fainthearted. But now, with Grisha traveling Europe without a permanent base while his partner Ivan sends hugs from the other side of the planet, this work seems to carry that extra ton speeding up your way to the bottom. 

LAYER number 3-0-6 is also the perfect setup for the party we're hosting with Odopt and Marc Piñol at Opera Social House in Vilnius on December 2nd. With recent visits to Sameheads (Berlin), Control (Bucharest), Poush (Paris), and Drugstore (Belgrade), Grisha sounds confident about the party and announces plenty of new music coming from Odopt in the period to come. 

This is a nice opportunity to announce WhyPeopleWar REMIX volume that Odopt will be a part of so expect lots of good music from our belly, too!

Play on YouTube

LAYER #306 | Odopt

Serenades returns with the continuation of a series of split-format releases that talk about living, working, creating and interacting with completely different people from different parts of the world.

Odopt and Dolphins have created enchanting and enigmatic pieces for different experiences - whether you're left alone with your deep thoughts or on the contrary trying not to think about anything on a full dance floor. That's the magic of music, in its monologue or dialogue with you, it can answer many of your questions.

Things were different when we started preparing this release and we couldn't imagine what the year 2022 would throw us into, but we still try to remain committed to love, peace and mutual understanding.
No war!

Dolphins: https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt, https://soundcloud.com/menqui, https://soundcloud.com/nadia-d-al.
https://soundcloud.com/odopt: https://soundcloud.com/grishanelyubin, https://soundcloud.com/me-is.

Artwork by Alina Tiulina.
Design by Nikita Lanndau.
Mastered by Sergey Luginin.

Distribution by https://soundcloud.com/bordellodistribution
distribution@bordelloaparigi.com

Split

Snippets : Dolphins & Odopt - Split [SRNDS003]

premiere of our A2) Split Ep on Serenades @serenades_show

Dolphins: @freybenedikt, @menqui, @nadia-d-al.
@odopt: @grishanelyubin, @me-is.

Artwork by Alina Tiulina.
Design by Nikita Lanndau.
Dope Mastering by Sergey Luginin.

Distribution by @bordellodistribution
distribution@bordelloaparigi.com

Dolphins - Commander (SRNDS03)

Serenades returns with the continuation of a series of split-format releases that talk about living, working, creating and interacting with completely different people from different parts of the world.

Odopt and Dolphins have created enchanting and enigmatic pieces for different experiences - whether you're left alone with your deep thoughts or on the contrary trying not to think about anything on a full dance floor. That's the magic of music, in its monologue or dialogue with you, it can answer many of your questions.

Things were different when we started preparing this release and we couldn't imagine what the year 2022 would throw us into, but we still try to remain committed to love, peace and mutual understanding.
No war!

Dolphins: Benedikt Frey, Markus Woernle, Nadia D'Alò.
Odopt: Grigory Nelyubin, Ivan Maslov.

https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt
https://soundcloud.com/menqui
https://soundcloud.com/nadia-d-al
https://soundcloud.com/serenades_show

Dolphins / Odopt - Split EP

PREMIERE⚡️Dolphins - Commando High [Serenades]

For eight years now, songwriter and producer Sebastian Lee Philipp has been steering his project https://soundcloud.com/diewildejagd through the field of tension between contemporary electronic music and avant-pop. Between 2015 and 2020, three studio albums were produced as documents of Philipp's rigorous musical creativity. Most recently, «Atem», a composition for Roadburn Festival, was released in 2022, documenting yet another, more experimental side of the project. On the new, eagerly awaited fourth album, all these multi-faceted worlds are brought together in an impressive way.
«Ophio, Ophio» you say. Lies in the end of you Still the best ahead of me?
With these lines from the title track, Sebastian Lee Philipp poses the question that spans over the entire album like a parenthesis. The work entitled «ophio» tells of constant transformation, the blurring of beginning, end, and the various dimensions in between.
«It's about the constant unfolding of the self, about the seductive forces of life, an ode to existence and the transformation to happiness.» Says Philipp himself about his conceptual direction of the album.
The meandering between leaving behind and starting anew is not only found in the lyrics, but also in the music itself. The production seems more consistent than ever before, stripping away all frills and trinkets, like a skin that has become too tight. The compositions form a concentrate in which every single sound finds its space. In a certain sense, it's like listening to an introspection in which the bundled voices become a single, demanding murmur that is both drone and whisper in equal measure. I see you in blows of delight
Where have you been?
Make my eyes to love the things that want to love (From «In Wonnenhieben», engl. «In Blows of Delight»)
As on the previous album «Haut», the drums were played by long-time stage partner Ran Levari. The new album also features cellist and singer Lih Qun Wong («Lihla»), who first joined Die Wilde Jagd for the Live performance of «Atem».
This collaboration sounds particularly impressive on «The Hearth», the band's first English-language song. A beguiling track as if of shiny, heavy tar, carried by Philipp's dense composition, Levari's pulsating beats and lyricist Wong's voice. Other production partners were Philipp Otterbach («Kelch») and Vactrol Park («In Wonnenhieben»). Nina Siegler, who could already be heard as a duet partner in the song «Himmelfahrten», also lends her voice again to the tracks
«Ouroboros» and «In Wonnenhieben».
When the journey ends after just under 50 minutes with the questions «Will your songs blind me again? Be sparkling eyes
to me in the dark?» and dissonant choirs release you out into the distance, it's as if you're right back at the beginning again, only to set off once more. An album as strange as it is beautiful

PREMIERE : Die Wilde Jagd - The Hearth (ft. Lihla)

https://soundcloud.com/killy44
https://soundcloud.com/bureau-b
🛒 https://orcd.co/saeko-killy
🔊 https://youtu.be/Ivksp7vU0bk

'Morphing Polaroids' is the debut album by Japanese born Saeko Okuchi alias Saeko Killy for Hamburg-based Bureau B. After moving to Berlin in 2018 Saeko Killy found herself in the orb of Club Sameheads, where she made herself known as a DJ and live performer After releasing her first EP "嘘みたいな世界で踊れ – Dancing Pikapika" with the label Chill Mountain from Osaka in 2021, followed a fruitful Jam session during the pandemic lockdown, resulting in the eleven titles collected together here for the album 'Morphing Polaroids ' produced by Brussels DJ and selector sofa elsewhere. The LP is a contemporary leftfield club sound, effortlessly combining elements of dub, post-punk and kraut with electronic beats.

Back in Japan, Saeko Okuchi started to learn the piano as early as four years old and at sixteen she started to play the guitar. Through her parents influences, Saeko discovered Jazz and Brazilian music. Visiting Techno-Parties in Tokyo awoke her interest in the spheres of electronic dance music. DJs who played renegade club music to the mainstream played an important part in that. Through those DJs, Saeko discovered artists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, who greatly inspired her with their Industrial sounds. Driven by those impulses, Saeko Killy became a DJ herself. During her time travelling in Brazil, she played at Underground-Parties, organised by the artist collective VOODOOHOP in São Paulo. A context that showed free artistic expressions and broadened her horizons, both politically and musically.

Alongside DJing, different band projects in Tokyo and Berlin became her way of experimenting vocally. A Lo-Fi-Improv-Snapshot of her krautrock-post-punk-esque voice is found on the Vax!-EP (2021) by des Sameheads on the track "Die in Seconds" by the group "Automattenfall". To produce music herself, for her either English or Japanese lyrics, she began to experiment with Synthesizers. 

After the release of the first Saeko Killy EP (2021), the Belgian scene DJ and producer soFa elsewhere asked her to contribute vocals on his song "The Dream" ("All My Friends Are Witches", Planet Trip, 2022). The musical collaboration worked out so well that he invited Saeko for an improv Session at his home studio in Brussels:

"The whole process was started during the pandemic – I was very depressed at home and soFa pulled me out of Berlin to Brussels. So I can see through the songs, it was also a process to find my own fire again. The fire looked out but was actually still burning silently; looks changing, and morphing, but still there, coming back, again and again."

The meandering described by Saeko Killy during the production process is reflected in the album title as well as in the lyrics and sound of the entire record especially the lyrics to "Sun Shower" and "Intimate Flame” which describe the resurgence of her artistic vigour after it being dulled down and paralysed by the pandemic lockdown. The two found out that they complement each other delightfully and had much fun recording many tunes, from which this album came into being. This interplay virtually challenges the intuitively emerging lyrics. Almost rapped the voice becomes an instrument. 'Morphing Polaroids' casts a spell as psychedelic dance music, which unfolds its magic through a certain form of opposing disturbance, similar to the Japanese avant-garde.

Tracklist:

01. Confusion And Friction
02. Vitamin D
03. Belgium
04. Mars Rocks
05. Lullaby For Nightmare
06. Strawberry Flips
07. Alt!
08. Sun Shower
09. Red Moon
10. Intimate Flame
11. Insecure Drive

PREMIERE: Saeko Killy - Intimate Flame [Bureau B]

From Cosmo Vitelli's  "Medhead Remixes", Out March 17th

idol-io.link/MedheadRemixes

Second single out of Medhead's Remixes, this is a auto-remix by Cosmo Vitelli.
Down The Hatch is given an 80s electrofunk “boogie dub” treatment, thanks to bubbling analog synths and old school drum machines. It is a catchy and funky exercise in less is more production.

Cosmo Vitelli (Ft. Truus de Groot) - Down the hatch (Cosmo Vitelli Boogie Dub)

A little throwback. 
Thank you Pako Vega @soundsofogigia

DJ Set At Sneaky Pete's For Sounds Of Ogigia (8.5.2019, Edinburgh)

Dj Booking & Inquiries : lesyeuxorange@gmail.com

Next ==>

28/01/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad LYO / 10 Years Party! w/ Lauer, Younger Than Me, Lydia Vilas etc...
04/02/2023 @ La Péniche Mécanique, Strasbourg
10/02/2023 @ Control Club, Bucarest (Rumania) 🇷🇴
18/02/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
24/02/2023 @ Selecto, Paris
03/03/2023 @ Casa Pompi, Merida (Mexico) 🇲🇽
04/03/2023 @ Vagalume, Tulum (Mexico) 🇲🇽
05/03/2023 @ SundaySunday, Mexico City (Mexico) 🇲🇽
11/03/2023 @ Bar Oriente, Mexico City (Mexico) 🇲🇽
12/03/2023 @ SundaySunday, Guadalajara (Mexico) 🇲🇽
17/03/2023 @ Sai-ko, San Miguel (Mexico) 🇲🇽
18/03/2023 @ Zodiac Festival, Leon (Mexico) 🇲🇽
19/03/2023 @ Kokoro, Queretaro (Mexico) 🇲🇽
24/03/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
31/03/2023 @ Petit Prince, Paris
07/04/2023 @ Minus Eden, Skopje (Macedonia) 🇲🇰
15/04/2023 @ L'International
29/04/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
30/04/2023 @ Disco Disco, Paris
06/05/2023 @ Mazette, Paris
13/05/2023 @ Sakral Festival, Kilowatt, France
19/05/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
28/05/2023 @ Athens (Greece) TBC 🇬🇷
03/06/2023 @ KulturA, Liège (Belgique) 🇧🇪
16/06/2023 @ Insula Festival, France
17/06/2023 @ La Marbrerie, Montreuil
30/06/2023 @ Sacré, Paris
15/07/2023 @ Terrazza, Barcelona 🇪🇸
22/07/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
20/08/2023 @ Mazette, Paris / Amour sur Seine 
23/09/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
28/10/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad
25/11/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad Grand Format + Guests
15/12/2023 @ La Rotonde Stalingrad


Past Gigs : 
Paris => Cabaret Sauvage, Trabendo, Rex Club, Badaboum, La Java, Mazette, La Machine du Moulin Rouge, La Prairie Du Canal, Petit Bain, Nexus, La Madrague Festival, Palais de Tokyo, La Rotonde Stalingrad, Silencio, ZigZag, La Clairiere, Wanderlust, Nuits Fauves, Double Vie, Pamela, Virage,  Le Monseigneur etc...

France => Calvi On The Rocks, Cabourg Mon Amour, We Love Green, Sarcus Festival, Tres cool Festival-Deauville, Highfive Festival-Annecy, Briques Rouges Festival-Lille, Bains Numeriques Festival-Enghien, Macadam Nantes x2, Lieu Unique Nantes, Le Sucre Lyon x3, Le Terminal Lyon, Le Petit Salon Lyon, Iboat Bordeaux x3, Chapiteau Marseille, 1988 Live Club Rennes, Gare Saint Sauveur Lille x2, Ostra Nancy, Grenoble Campus, La Bobine Grenoble, Angers, Nuit Blanche Saint Denis etcetc...

Europe => London x4 , Manchester x3, Leeds x2, Edinburgh, Berlin x3, Hamburg, Freiburg, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm x2, Copenhagen, Geneve x4, Lausanne, Neuchatel, Zurich x4, Bern, Lucern, Madrid x2, Ronda, Barcelona, Porto, Prague, Budapest, Sofia, Vilnius x2, Palanga, Belgrade, Zagreb, Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, Moscow etc...

PREMIERE : Die Wilde Jagd - The Hearth (ft. Lihla)

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