news letter #611

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Komputer!

meditation.

Lied

Experimental

Listen Later

The first public appearance pairing Christian Henjes and Juergen Gleue (inspired by and with names derived from LSD-25, they would become CH-39 and JG-39) was in 1976, at the Dada Nova (a space occupied by Otto Mühl’s AAO commune) in midtown Hannover, Germany. Dada Nova would be a space of enduring clash. From the subtlety of a shat upon organ to the ejection from communal meetings by bodily force, the AAO would display that the presence of the 39 Clocks was one of their constant grief. Known for pranksterism and the destruction of the clubs in which they would perform, friction in every form would continually follow the band. In 1979 they were thrown out of a show in Kassel at Dokumenta (their sounds had disturbed Joseph Beuys). They created an outrage (they wrote a tune with the title “Art Minus Idiots”) at the Filmtage Hannover with their avant-garde Super 8 movies made under the disguise of director Zachius Lipschitz. Rumour claims that at a Hannover show at the Cafe Glocksee, they played the vacuum cleaner and a circular saw instead of guitars, and there was even a knife throwing incident in Bremen.

Inspired, then, clearly, by protest in the broadest and most romantic sense (they wrote a tune with the title “Radical Student Mob In Satin Boots”) their’s was a sound attuned to classic American Punk / Nuggets. Although, this is not Bomp Rock; theirs was a thrust that purposed deconstruction and reassembly in the most modern sense. This collection was put together with the non completeist in mind (originals of some of these records are as rare as Italian underwear), intending to display the general 39 Clocks vibe, but also some of their more curious wrinkles. And as the Clocks were always interested in where they were going and not where they’d been, the chronology here is strictly reversed. Diedrich Diedrichsen wrote the first review of the band (in Spex), and we at DeStijl are very pleased to have had him scribe liner notes.

39 Clocks : DNS

Helm 'Silencer' 12" (PAN 43 / ALT11)
Music by Luke Younger, 2013.

http://www.pan-act.com

Helm 'Silencer' (PAN 43 / ALT11)

Isolation, solitude, contemplation. These are the themes that discreetly weave their way through Disappearance, the first collaboration album between 12k’s Taylor Deupree and pioneering electronic composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto. The two began their musical dialogue in 2006 when Deupree was invited to remix a song from Sakamoto’s album Chasm. “World Citizen” was the song and it sparked continued collaboration as Deupree contributed to two of Sakamoto’s activist projects: Chain Music (http://www.sitesakamoto.com/chainmusic/) and KizunaWorld (http://kizunaworld.org/english/index.html) (as a trio with Sakamoto and Stephen Vitiello.) With the convenience of both artists living in New York they kept in touch, released music on 12k (Willits + Sakamoto’s Ocean Fire) and, in April of 2012, performed live together at John Zorn’s club The Stone. It was this concert that planted the seeds for Disappearance.

The initial tracks for Disappearance were recorded at Sakamoto’s studio in New York City during rehersals for the April concert. The two immediately entered the same sonic mindframe that lead to hours of concentrated, hushed music. Sakamoto’s piano playing, both traditional and prepared, emerged as perhaps some of his most beautifully sparse in recent years, letting the sound of the room and shuffle of chairs take an active roll in the recording. Only the most minimum of essential notes, accentuated by silences and the scraping of the piano’s strings, plays alongside Deupree’s nuanced passages, created with analogue synthesizers, strings, and found objects. These warm, human tones became the means of communication between the two artists who effortlessly created a musical language.

The five tracks that make up Disappearance are delicate and composed, however, they’re not all peacefulness and placidity. Micro-tuned edges, bursts of noise, percussive prepared piano and the warble of old reel-to-reel tape keep the mood grounded and warm, turning it inward and asking the listener to reflect on their path. “Curl To Me,” the album’s final piece, is highlighted by the sounds of Ichiko Aoba, a major up-and-coming singer/songwriter from Tokyo. Both Sakamoto and Deupree have recently worked with Aoba in Japan and wanted her presence felt on the album. Emphasizing the solitude and stillness of the recordings, Aoba provided both her voice and the almost disturbingly intimate sound of her own heartbeat.

Disappearance is a soundtrack for holding breaths. Sakamoto and Deupree lay down worn roads, but don’t leave signs, for a journey woven together by the quiet celebration of the fragility of nature and life.

Disappearance

Jyaku

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Rene Hell 'Vanilla Call Option' LP (PAN 40)
LP/DL - Release Date: 3 October 2013

www.pan-act.com

Rene Hell 'Var_len' (PAN 40)

Dalglish 'Niaiw Ot Vile' LP (PAN 45)
LP/DL - Release Date: 08 November 2013

© 2013 PAN
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Dalglish 'Ciaradh' (PAN 45)

"RE-ENGININEERING" is the title track from Heatsick's Upcoming Full-Length, set for release Nov. 26th, 2013 on PAN.

Well known for his epic multi-hour live club sets and acerbic wit, Heatsick characterizes this collection of new material as a "cybernetic poem" that both indulges us in the mores of hypnotic dance music while holding a critical, and at times satirical, lens toward the culture writ large.

"RE-ENGINEERING" is symbolic of this balance, the crisp spoken word poetry communicating hypermodernity in crisis in a piece that equally evokes the masked humour of Chic and the biting surreality of Chris Morris.

© 2013 PAN  http://www.pan-act.com

Heatsick 'RE-ENGINEERING' (PAN 48)

ULU - Deep Aura(dub mix)

From the upcoming album, 'RE-ENGINEERING', released November 2013.

Heatsick 'CLEAR CHANEL' (PAN 48)

CS "Altered Resonance" released 1/14/14 on Patient Sounds Intl http://www.patient-sounds.com/

Dura - 02 The Tempest Calm

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=407

Tracklist /
A Made Up Sound - After Hours (AMUS) 
Batu - Numen (Dub) 
19.26.1.18.5 - Snakes Cave (Horizontal Ground) 
Burlish - Octave Won (Dub) 
Batu - MK9 (Dub) 
Pev & Kowton - Vapours (Livity Sound) 
Webstarr - Agreus (Dub) 
Beneath - Golden Age (No Symbols) 
Wen - Lunar (Keysound) 
Beneath - One Blings (PAN) 
Dolo Percussion - Dolo 2 (LIES) 
Cooly G - Oh Boy (Dub Organizer) 
Lack - Span (Dub) 
Parris - Pressure (Beneath Dub) 
??? - Beneath Remix (Dub) 
Hodge - Renegade (Donus Ytivil) 
Pinch & Mumdance - Turbo Mitzi (Tectonic) 
Acre - Symbol (Dub) 
Alex Coulton - Bleep Sequence (Mistry) 
Asusu - Velez VIP (Dub) 
Alex Coulton - Tension (Mistry) 
Rachael - Okada (Hotline) 
Beneath - Worried (No Symbols) 
Kerridge - Chew (Downwards) 
Shackleton - Death Is Not Final (Skull Disco) 
Beneath - Strike A Pose Logos Remix (Dub) 

Beneath - RA.407 Podcast

M.E.S.H. - Scythians EP (PAN 52)
12"/DL out June 6th.
http://p-a-n.org/

M.E.S.H. 'Imperial Sewers' (PAN 52)

Smoke Machine Podcast 101 Lee Gamble

Boogified flip of Kito and Reija Lee's "Sweet Talk" on Mad Decent.

FREE DL

Kito & Reija Lee . Sweet Talk (ARP101's Boogified Mix)

John fahey - 05 - city of refuge iii

Electric Western And The Pocket Calculators - Roboterphobie

Minimal Wave's sublabel Cititrax, is proud to present new music from Brooklyn based synth duo Innergaze. Their second LP, “Mutual Dreaming” is a highly anticipated release and we’re ecstatic that the vinyl is finally out.

http://minimalwave.com/releases/release/innergaze-mutual-dreaming/

“Innergaze drag us slightly further back into the glorious cradle of dance music. Their music, crushed and static, obscured by sound. EBM, coldwave, early techno fight it out for dominance of the drum machine. Casually brutal vocals force their way through from the Death Factory. As if Chris & Cosey’s dalliances with the Eurythmics had conjured a restless pioneering demon to duet with Annie Lenox but had instead ended up consuming her. Celestial synths coexisting with the industrial landscape bellow.” -20 Jazz Funk Greats

“Innergaze is the musical project of Aurora Halal and Jason Letkiewicz – Letkiewicz is known for his work with or as Manhunter, Steve Summers and Rhythm Based Lovers; Halal a video editor and director. It’s pretty clear that Innergaze is a wholly collaborative effort, as Letkiewicz’s penchant for pulsing beats and organic house mingles with the hazy, psychedelic new-age atmospheres that shine through Halal’s video work, together creating something that could loosely fall under the ‘minimal synth’ tag. Don’t expect some sort of easily placeable sound, though – Innergaze has far more personality than your average electro duo, relying on intuition, emotion and a good jam session to create their music, not a rigid set of pre-determined parameters. Together, it’s like a robot coated in human flesh, sentient yet vaguely artificial, and like most cyborgs portrayed on TV, quite beautiful. I’m pretty sure they are in love, too, which is an interesting dynamic for a sound that often relies on aesthetic impassiveness.” - YellowGreenRed

The “Mutual Dreaming” LP is a limited pressing of 999 copies on 160 gram vinyl, housed in a high quality full color printed sleeve featuring a collaborative artwork concept by Veronica Vasicka and Aurora Halal.

CITI005-Innergaze-Mutual Dreaming

1.duktails_the_mall_live_at_radio / 2.pure_ecstasy_dwldwd / 3.kurt_vile_beach_on_the_moon / 4.washed_out_clap / 5.vega_other_end / 6.mgmt_congratulations

minimorningmixtape "yesitcomessoon"

Four tracks that did not make it on to A Hem of Evening. Released August 20, 2012 on MIE Music. Feel free to download and enjoy. 

Leaking, locked door

Originally released on CD via "TSM - Compilation 0002" (The Scrap Mag Label, 2012).

Subsequently included in "Beyond the Zero" vinyl LP (Peripheral Minimal, 2015).

Contour Lines

PEINE PERDUE (Coco Gallo/Stephane Argillet) - 2012
excerpt from the album "No Souvenir" (Cold Beats records, 2014)

Les sentiments inachevés
S'obstinent
À changer de fleuve

Le désespoir est à son comble

Mon âme, retient mon corps
Emporté par le courant

Le naufrage se poursuit

Scène intermédiaire
D'un drame immense

Fuite de l'existence

Au-delà des retenues
Passent les rapides
Prisonniers de la cartographie

Les liaisons transatlantiques
Ne se font plus

Les trains de nuit vers l'Est
Faussent compagnie
  
Les Ferry-Boats
N'abordent plus les tempêtes

Les long-courriers
Plient bagages

Au-delà des retenues
Passent les rapides
Prisonniers de la cartographie
 
Le naufrage se poursuit
Tous ne reviendront pas

Les sentiments inachevés
S'obstinent
À changer de fleuve

Le désespoir est à son comble
Le naufrage se poursuit
Tous ne reviendront pas


Peine Perdue - FAUSSE COMPAGNIE

NHK'Koyxeи 'Dance Classics Vol.II' (PAN 35) 
LP/DL - Release Date: Nov 2nd 2012

Kouhei Matsunaga's 'Dance Classics Vol.II' is the continuation of his ongoing development of his more dance oriented material, as seen from his sets with Sensational and also his other minimal techno project NHK.

PAN | http://pan-act.com 

NHK'Koyxeи '101' (PAN 35)

Live mix performed by Ernst Karel at Sensate's ambleNOLA event at the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Art Space in New Orleans on 19 Nov 2010.Sound elements consist of location recordings made in New Orleans by Peter McMurray, Philip Cartelli, and Ernst Karel; recordings from Open Sound New Orleans (opensoundneworleans.org) and Mondo Bizarro's I-Witness Central City (mondobizarro.org); and telephone messages called in from various sites around New Orleans as part of ambleNOLA (sensatejournal.com).


ambleNOLA-livemix

An audio excursion into a wide variety of public and private spaces in Bath, Maine. Under the direction of Sharon Lockhart, Sert Practitioner and 2007-08 FSC-Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, a group of Harvard students traveled to Bath, Maine, for two days to explore the sounds of place. 

The first day began in the early morning at Southgate Family Restaurant, situated outside the south gate of the Bath Iron Works, the site of Lockhart's two film works, Lunchbreak and Exit. From there, students fanned out through the town, each with their own stereo microphones and audio recorder, meeting people and recording sounds wherever their various paths led them, until late into the evening. Places included a fishing vessel outside of town, a high school band rehearsal, the inside of a police car, the town's solid waste facility, a conversation with an Iraq war veteran working out in the gym, and a nursery school classroom, among many others

On the second day, the students worked with Lockhart and composer Ernst Karel to begin to carefully craft an impressionistic audio documentary that brings the listener into the physical and cultural spaces of this Maine town.

Safari recordists:
Alex Berman
Alex Fattal
John Hulsey
Lisa Jing
David Molander
Josh Neff
JP Sniadecki
Stephanie Spray

Sound Safari: Bath, Maine

We’re proud to present a limited edition reissue of one of our favorite cassettes, The Dadacomputer. The Dadacomputer was the first incarnation of what would later become Five Times Of Dust. It was the result of a long-distance collaboration between Robert Lawrence and Mark Phillips who came together during the summer of 1981 living between Bristol and Cardiff, UK. They collaborated by sending tapes back and forth through the mail and also worked together in their respective home studios. Later that year, they self-released The Dadacomputer on both MAP tapes and Quick Stab. Roughly 100 copies were made in total and soon sold out.

We discovered the tape a few years back with great excitement and favored one track in particular, Computer Bank. Soon after we tracked down Robert Lawrence and licensed it for The Hidden Tapes compilation. The track was an instant hit, both at home and on the dance floor. The limited cassette run of The Dadacomputer will be released on May 4th, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Flea Record Fair. It is essentially an introduction to the world of Five Times Of Dust. A double LP of selections from the vast Five Times Of Dust archives (over 15 hours of recordings) will soon follow, slated for release in July 2013.

The Dadacomputer cassette will be out May 4th: http://minimalwave.com/releases/release/the-dadacomputer

Five Times Of Dust - Computer Bank

Stuck In A Square World

Label based in Berlin, est. 2008. http://www.p-a-n.org