The Wizard of Lies (Music from the HBO Film)

The Club Colette Jam / Big Noise from Winnetka Medley

Artist: Muellie Messiah & Punk Not Punk
Title: Exq I
Cat#: faitiche 30
Release: March 3rd 2023
Format: LP/DL
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpbisn5TAC8

Faitiche presents the album Exq I by Berlin underground techno legends Muellie Messiah & Punk not Punk, mainly known under their 100Records moniker. Weighing in at 36 minutes, the track was recorded in 2010, effortlessly intermingling dub, drone and collage, a blend achieved thanks to the duo’s jazz-inspired approach to improvisation.

100records is one of the last undiscovered treasures of the Berlin underground of the 1990s and 2000s. Like Elektro Music Department, 100records is unthinkable without techno and the club scene, but with a few exceptions the duo’s tracks are not aimed at the dancefloor. With a claim to universality and a broader frame of reference, 100records developed a more extensive understanding of sound that rests on three pillars: the understated analogue drums of the Roland TR-808, a blurred, dubby sound, and improvisation.

On first hearing, Exq I has little in common with the groovy, detailed, variation-rich sound usually associated with100records. Recorded at the end of a highly productive decade, it is an echo speaking of exhaustion in which dub, drone and collage converge to form something whose jazz sensibility makes it readily identifiable as the work of 100records.

100records was founded in 1994 by Muellie Messiah (Dirk Budde) and Ekki 808 (Ekkehard Rau), who were joined in 1999 by Punk not Punk (Martin Osti). Around 2002, Ekki departed, leaving Budde and Osti to continue as a duo. Since then, their relationship has shaped 100records: Budde is the driven lone genius doggedly pursuing sounds, Osti the pragmatist who turns ideas into music.

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Atari Cubase sequencing became their speciality, with Budde and Osti sometimes working several days on a single sequence. The counterpart to these prepared sequences was live improvisation – on stage and in the studio. The recordings were edited by Budde, circulating as a weekly series of CD-Rs among friends and fellow musicians. In 2010 they stopped making music because, as Osti says, “we couldn’t do it any more”. From then on, the material was edited into final versions. In 2020, they completed their “legacy” in the form of 101 tracks. A number of these tracks have been released on SJ Tequilla’s Shot of T label, on Dynamo Dreesen’s Acido Records – and now on Jan Jelinek’s faitiche.

The faitiche release Exq I was made in the late period, in 2010, referred to by Osti as the New Music phase, when their productions became sparser and simpler. “This track is special for us. It made itself in the production process while we fought a weeks-long sound battle. The analogue equipment got warmed up over a few days, it wanted to keep going. We were like: Wow!”

In the decade-long process of editing the track, the focus was on reduction and deceleration: heavy dub. “Once we took some strong ecstasy. That heightened the effect, giving us a direct experience of the hallucinatory impact of the extended modulations.” Alexis Waltz, 2023

Muellie Messiah & Punk Not Punk: Exq I (excerpt)

Padre Osti
"The Ghost Pimp" Test 5 recording 
recorded :
08-14-2024
2:40 pm
live from the 
Mixing Desk
no Cuts 

One Sample:
Strings by :
Serge Garant
"Offrande 1" (1969)
sampled into 
an 
Akai S612 Sampler

Padre Osti  " The GhostPimp " (Ghosts Of Strings/ PimpTest05 )

With the new acido 038, Budde & Osti from 100 Records present almost a small sample library, which they have called their "experimental playground" - in order to offer listeners an additional listening perspective that allows an insight into their work. A jazz and house-heavy six-track with the experimental highlights of the Trash Archives - a collection of 99 pieces that can be freely downloaded from Bandcamp. All pieces were recorded live in the studio using largely analogue equipment and masterfully mastered here by Mike Grinser.

Acido 038 Snippets

Frankskeyes

https://libraryofmodernsound.bandcamp.com/album/-

PAINT BY NUMBERS

Padre Osti decides to  " Ostillate " and fade into the Ostillator ©
keep it simple (?)
fast recorded stereo, live from the mixing console 
03-13-2025
no edits 
no snakeoil
*mastered by ostilator©
  maybe the soundcloud autolimiter 
  was tricked or it is leveled beyond.
Backed by "Punk Not Punk"

Drum From Miami

Padre Osti - Drum From Miami (ostillation© session)

Clone West Coast Series just released the album "DJ Sotofett & The Colours Of Computer Generated Instruments" - 15 cuts widening the spectrum of electro, with 80's Nintendo console vibes and holy grail analog vs digital synthesis. The album is filled with surprises, seamlessly transitioning from acid infected vibes and catchy electronic pop to avant-garde electro cuts. But this is "The Mixtape", a 45 min energetic and deep dive into essential Electro and Detroit Techno. Mixed by DJ Sotofett, with 2 x Technics 1210mk2 in the tradition of old school Hip-Hop mixtapes, it holds several cuts from the album (even an unreleased version), as well as excellent tracks by Aux 88, Skatebård, Carl Craig, Cosmic Baby, Westbam & Nena, Kraftwerk, DMX Krew, DJ Hell, Pom Pom, The Advent, Victor Duplaix, Dopplereffekt, Gus Gus, Reese Project, Daft Punk and The Jonzun Crew.

Album @ bandcamp
https://djsotofett.bandcamp.com/album/dj-sotofett-the-colours-of-computer-generated-instruments

Album @ Hard Wax (EU)
https://hardwax.com/84864/dj-sotofett/dj-sotofett-and-the-colours-of-computer-generated-instruments/

Album @ Juno (UK)
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/dj-sotofett-the-colours-of-computer-generated-instruments-vinyl/1056299-01/

Album @ Naminohana Records (Japan)
https://naminohana-records.com/?pid=185460268

Get Album here!

DJ Sotofett & The Colours Of Computer Generated Instruments - The Mixtape

Central American born Silent Servant has performed worldwide in clubs from LA, Berlin to Osaka. A chance meeting with Karl O'Conner in 1999 would establish a friendship that would open the door to the Sandwell District label in 2006. Silent Servant's sound is a reinterpretation of early '80s post-punk electronics, paired with the deep, metallic sounds of Basic Channel and Downwards.

Silent Servant - Live at Honey Soundsystem [4-21-13]

onoffmuzak is a mutation of onoffrecords.de
Presenting here a collection  of fragments...fr... fra... frag.. fragments.....