Pierre Bastien rarely fails to deliver and great to see him team up with Marionette who don't seem to day any wrong either!

@chaperonetechno is often the only thing that will calm me after a long day on Wall Street. Well now the most beautiful man on our label is back with some heavy rippers for the Love Boat nightmare that you're––strangely enough––very much enjoying. Bliss is a lazy word but you can have it. 

Originally released on Crisis Urbana, reissued 2018 on AHT.

Chaperone - Greeting Ships By Night (AHTR001)

General Rehearsal

Pierre Bastien orchestrates his meccano marionettes on Tinkle Twang ‘n Tootle to form the charming imaginative ensemble that he’s been known for since the late 80s. 

Equal parts composer, inventor, mechanic, and performer - Bastien translates his imagination into instruments and compositions that defy any musical categories. Whether it’s preparing instruments like playing a trumpet underwater or through a kazoo, using belt-driven motors and mechanical components to perform cumbersome yet surprisingly musical operations on traditional instruments and household items, or using a fan to hit the strings of a kundi harp with flowing paper - Bastien’s love for tone, rhythm, noise and harmony is poetically reflected across his quite extensive oeuvre. 

Playful and melancholic, the sound sculptures that Bastien invents and plays with are partly inspired by the work of Raymond Roussel, a visionary French author who at the turn of the 20th century wrote a unique form of literature which inspired and guided artists from the surrealist and pataphysical movement and was declared by Michel Foucault as one of structuralism's founding fathers. On that note, the influence of literature and syntax on Bastien’s work cuts all the way through to the palindromes he uses for his track titles - which, much like his machines, infinitely loop. 

True to it’s adorable title, Tinkle Twang ‘n Tootle is a music box of unfolding whimsical structures, half broken rhythms, detuned harmonies, and fantastical sound collages that evoke a childlike sense of wonder and an urge to explore the spaces in between the sounds.

Tinkle Twang 'n Tootle

Pierre Bastien - Pet Step [from Tinkle Twang 'n Tootle]

due to the death of my computer software I made a live jam on my  Tascam Portastudio

Der Computer Sagt "Gute Nacht!"

DAF - Kebab träume
Träneninvasion – Sentimental
Cabaret Voltaire – seconds too late
John Bender – 33a1
Grauzone – film 2
malaria – kaltes klare wasser
No more – suicide kommando
Mag and the suspects – boots and guns
Guerre froide – demain berlin
Better beatles – penny lane
soft drinks- pop stars in their pyjamas
DAF – der räuber und den prinz
Metal urbain – paris maquis
Jimmy smack – hating life
Les Vampyrettes – biomutanten

JJ ulius Minimal electronic mix feb 2020

Guest mix for faitiche's radio show on LYL - Temple of Faitiche, Nº20, 27 March 2020 

https://lyl.live/episode/temple-of-faitiche-20/

Hanno Leichtmann – Selbstbespiegelung
Else Marie Pade – Syv Cirkler
Andrés Lewin-Richter – Study No. 1
Fracture Mechanics – Pendentive
Katrine Ring – Den Politiske Håndvask 1
Boris Hegenbart – Wasser Studie
Marja Ahti – Chora
Hideki Umezawa – Still | Steel
Marcus Schmickler – Wabi Sabi (Part 4)
Boris Hegenbart – Wasser Studie
Nicola Ratti – Bn2
Daniel Majer – Tu Lip
Jan Jelinek – Framework 10 (Remix)
Mads Emil Nielsen – Buchla Sketch
Riviera Tape Stash – Strong Arm Baby
Ahnnu – Dovetail
Boris Hegenbart with Stephan Mathieu – S Anode M
David Moss – Terrain 3
James Sey / James Webb – Book Of Imaginary Wavelengths: Book 5
Mads Emil Nielsen – Framework 3 – 3
Andrew Pekler – Tuanahe

https://faitiche.de/blog/2020/03/25/temple-of-faitiche-march-2020

Temple of Faitiche 20 - guest mix

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Out on August 7th, 2020. Available at https://shop.tapeterecords.com/new/conrad-schnitzler-frank-bretschneider-construct.html

About the Con-Struct series
Conrad Schnitzler liked to embark on daily excursions through the sonic diversity of his synthesizers. Finding exceptional sounds with great regularity, he preserved them for use in combination with each other in subsequent live performances. He thus amassed a vast sound archive of his discoveries over time. When the m=min- imal label in Berlin reissued two Conrad Schnitzler al- bums at the outset of the 2010 decade, label honcho Jens Strüver was granted access to this audio library.
Strüver came up with the idea of con-structing new compositions, not remixes, from the archived material. On completion of the first Con-Struct album, he decided to develop the concept into a series, with different electronic musicians invited into Schnitzler’s unique world of sound.

Bretschneider on his Con-Structions
I read the name Conrad Schnitzler for the first time in the arti- cle about Tangerine Dream in the Rowohlt Rock Lexicon from 1973 (back then, at 17 in the GDR, an indispensable guide). The first time I heard his music was only in 1980, when his wave track “Auf dem Schwarzen Kanal” was played on the ra- dio, an RCA 12“ Super Sound Single in disco remix. Then the man was gone and stayed under the radar again, in spite of his almost inflationary number of releases. Maybe his mate- rial was too obscure or his approach too radical to be noticed by the general public. It wasn‘t until 1988 that I heard from Schnitzler again, a tape on Jörg Thomasius‘ East Berlin Kröten Kassetten label. And again almost 10 years later his Plate Lunch CDs “Rot” and “00/106”. But it was all too rough and raw for me, both in terms of sound and organization, kind of mechanically and not really cool. Only after I heard Wolfgang Seidel at the NBI around 2002 with one of his tape concerts, I came slowly closer.
Schnitzler‘s early role as co-founder of two influential bands is one reason for the ongoing reception. Another is his con- sequence as an artist. “I‘m not interested in having publicity or a public feedback” he declared in an 1996 interview. It remains an open question whether one has to completely refuse to do so. But I was always fascinated by this almost extinct way of being an artist in its full independence. Just as I feel connected, as a self- taught person and as someone who prefers to look forward instead of looking back: “I don‘t want nostalgia.” After all it was Jens Strüver who inspired me to work with Conrad Schnitzer‘s material.
I had the idea of flowing music in which patterns develop, shift, dissolve and finally reorganize. A modular system seemed the most suitable to connect Schnitzler‘s world with my own by triggering and modulating his sounds via a sampling module and supplementing them with my own. Perhaps I have not always succeeded in merging both worlds congenially, sometimes they orbit, sometimes they collide, but they never stand still. As Conrad Schnitzler says in his „Context“ manifesto: “The sounds don‘t come to stay.”

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Croatian Amor & Scandinavian Star - Prose
Charles Webster - The Spell (Burial Mix)
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Mari - Counterplay
Sade - War of the Hearts
Azymuth - Zé e Paraná
Duma - Pembe 666
Yakub - FREEDOM
Susumo Yokota - GEKKOH
Doxa Sinistra - The Other Stranger
X & Yde - Dares Soar
Martin Rev - Salve
Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir - Nobody Knows
ciervo - jakarta

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