Hamburg’s Polycarp Records delivers the ‘Never Ever’ EP by Bonn this January, backed with remixes from Johannes Albert and The Cruiser. The Polycarp Records imprint was launched in 2016 by Simon Ferdinand and across its past ten releases has unveiled an array of material from the likes of Pleasant Systems boss Tilman, Frank Music founder Johannes Albert and Simon Ferdinand and Basch both under their own artist names and of course their collaborative project, Bonn. In 2019 Ferdinand and Basch inaugurated their Bonn guise with a debut album entitled ‘Forget Forgot Forgotten’, 2021 saw the release of a follow up EP entitled ‘Ravenous’ and here the story continues with the pair’s latest collaborative works.
The original mix of title-track ‘Never Ever’ opens the EP and lays down crunchy, off-kilter drums alongside mystical atmospherics, an unfurling acid bass lead and loopy, fluttering stab sequences. Johannes Albert’s twist on ‘Never Ever’ follows next, the fellow German producer takes things down his signature cosmic, nu- disco path via bubbling arpeggio lines and 80’s tinged resonant leads melded together with fragments from the original composition.
‘Phero’ then opens the flip side and sees Bonn deliver a twitchy house workout fuelled by fidgety synth bleeps, dubbed out chords and bumpy, saturated drums. Last up to round things out, The Cruiser turns in a high- octane interpretation of ‘Phero’, upping the tempo and reshaping the original’s raw elements into a murky, dynamically unfolding thumper.

Mastering: Lopazz
Distribution: Word and Sound
Cat No.: PCR011 
Releasedates:

11.01.2023 (Vinyl)
23.01.2023 (Digital)

Tracklisting:
A1 Never Ever
A2 Never Ever (Johannes Albert Remix) B1 Phero
B2 Phero (The Cruiser Remix)

Never Ever

Bonn Never Ever

Polycarp boss Simon Ferdinand delivers the cinematic electronica ‘Six Months’ EP in 2024, recorded across this time period and influenced by travels to Sicily, Baltimore and Zanzibar.
Hamburg, Germany’s Polycarp is the brainchild of Simon Ferdinand and has been active as a platform for the music of Simon under his own name, Basch and their music together as Bonn, as well as further notable artists such as Tilman and Johannes Albert. Here, Ferdinand returns to the imprint with another solo sonic adventure, traversing through a range of emotions and influences with elements of glitch, ambient, electro, breaks, EBM and more instilled within the project.
‘Broken’ leads the release and sets the tone through an amalgamation of hazy, glitched out jazz loops obscured and processed throughout. Title-track ‘Six Months’ then shifts towards a more ethereal deep house aesthetic with cossetting textures, stuttering synth chords, elongated bass drones and jazzy organic drums. ‘In The Lab’ follows next and sees Basch join forces with Simon to create a haunting slice of broken beat deepness fuelled by murky low-end pulsations, saturated drums and gritty stab sequences.
First up on the flip-side is ‘The Beginning’, shifting gears towards classic electro tropes with boomy 808’s, unfurling arpeggios and twitchy resonant synth bleeps before ‘Santa Marina’ rounds out the release with a contemporary electronica feel, fusing fluttering square wave bass lines, crisp amen breaks and intricately intertwined textural elements.
Track List:
1. Broken
2. Six Months
3. In The Lab (feat. Basch)
4. The Beginning
5. Santa Marina

Six Months

Simon Ferdinand - Six Months EP

A1 // Kingsize
A2 // Kingsize (Map.ache Queensize Remix)
B1 // Bound
B2 // Flashbone


Simon Ferdinand // Kingsize EP

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Cat#: 
PCR002

Titel: 
Poly V.A.

Text:
Poly V.A. is the second release of Polycarp Records. It comes with tracks from Simon Ferdinand, Johannes Albert, Tilman and Basch – a colorful collection of Music from friends for friends.

Track-Titel:
A1. Simon Ferdinand - Hold on
A2. Johannes Albert - Pressing Plywood
B1. Tilman - It´s A New Day
B2. Basch - Nondres

Mastering:
Michael Jürgens

Artwork:
Angela Gerlach

Releasedate:
02.12.2016

Distribution:
Shite Music

Poly V. A.

POLY V. A. // PCR002

Poly V.A. is the second release of Polycarp Records. It comes with tracks from Simon Ferdinand, Johannes Albert, Tilman and Basch – a colorful collection of Music from friends for friends.

Track-Titel:
A1. Simon Ferdinand - Hold on
A2. Johannes Albert - Pressing Plywood
B1. Tilman - It´s A New Day
B2. Basch - Nondres

Releasedate:
02.12.2016

Distribution:
Shite Music

PCR002 VA

Poly V.A. // Johannes Albert - Pressing Plywood (full track)

Iron Curtis B2B Markus Mutzenbacher PAL/Moiré Hamburg 20.05.2018

Bonn Remixes
Bonn return on Polycarp Records with a follow-up EP of their recently released debut album „Forget Forgot Forgotten“. This time they are in good company: Frankfurt’s finest Lauer and handsome Iron Curtis set their hands to the original versions of „Le Jardin“ and „Endless“ and contributed their very own interpretation of the two tracks. Again the artwork has been designed by Atelier Disko and all tracks were mastered by Michael Jürgens. Bonn are from Hamburg.

Tracklist:
A1. Bonn - Endless
A2. Bonn - Endless (Iron Curtis RMX)
B1. Bonn - Le Jardin
B2. Bonn - Le Jardin (Lauer RMX)

Releasedate: 15.11.2019
Distribution: WordAndSound

Bonn Remixes

Bonn Remixes // PCR004

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