This is our instrumental brass cover version of the all time classic "Can´t Help Falling In Love" original performed by the King himself. With Eva on trombone and organ, Moni on clarinet and myself on cornet, guitare, vibraphone and fender bass VI. Have fun with it...
p 2021 for monokino-productions
the original song is writen by George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti & Luigi Creatore for Elvis Presley in 1961

Can´t Help Falling In Love - kaas & kopje and family - instrumental brass cover version

This is a instrumental cover of the john lennon song imagine. He wrote it as a song for peace and freedom on earth over 50 years ago. This is unfortunately a current statement. Also as a instrumental cover version. So in this day´s it is one of the things we can do as a musican, shout it out to the world. Stop war and suffering. Be a human and do peacefull things with your instruments...
Eva on trombone, me on guitar and piano...
Pay attention, share it and pray for a better world without war...

Imagine (Trombone Cover Version) - kaas & kopje - (song for peace and freedom)

Shake

"the best.." is inspired by the poem "speed dating" (May-Lan-Tan)which i recorded on voicemailpoems.org. 

the best is yet to come

This is a Track from the beginning. Before we build a Techno-Live Band. It´s from our PROBERAUM recordings from spring 1993. Stefan on guitare and vocals, Ecki on drums, Me on bass and André on second guitare. It´s nice to hear it again after all these years. A kind of Noise-Shower from the past for me. Have fun with it...

c & p by T.E.V.O. for monokino productions 1993

I Know (Original 1993 Recording) - T.E.V.O.

This is our version of "Only You" from the Platters performed by kaas & kopje at our wedding-party in july of 2016. Our present to our guests at this special day for us. Love, Peace and Harmony. Have fun with it...

Only You - Kaas & Kopje (Wedding Version)

This track is dedicated to The Good Old T.E.V.O.-Boys. It makes a lot of fun to reanimate the stylistics of my old Techno-Live-Orchester with my Korg-Micro-Sampler yesterday. Here it´s the result. Listen to my T.E.V.O.-Archive on soundcloud if you have questions about how to play Techno in a Live-Orchestra:-)https://soundcloud.com/monokino-productions/sets/t-e-v-o
Have fun with it.
c & p der minotauros for monokino productions 2017

Let´s Do The T.E.V.O.-Style - der minotauros /(Dedicated to The Good Old T.E.V.O.-Boys)

Labelled a world music artist, Muito Kaballa, in fact, exhibits the charismatic abandonment of a punk provocateur. Informed by such post-punk luminaries as Maximum Joy (an outfit that was formed from the ashes of ‘70s peace-disturbers The Pop Group and Glaxo Babies, and employed Afrobeat rhythms), Kaballa executes an honourable balance between focused discipline and wily experimentation. Like Maximum Joy, Kaballa offers grooves of an Afrobeat persuasion, refracted through the restless energy of punk; kindred spirits Ebo Taylor and Fela Kuti, legends of African highlife music, impress upon his work indelibly. Such musicianship has produced a pleasing cacophony in Everything is Broke, Kaballa’s debut album, which takes in his usual influences of street funk, jazz, Afrobeat and just the slightest etchings of hip-hop. Edging out even further in his experiments this time, the artist now explores the nervous, juddering energy of New Orleans inspired pop, running freely the course of the album with the sensual sounds of the city’s Latin Quarter.

Built on the back of improvisation, Kaballa’s music employs an on-the-pulse approach in style, where, for every measured arrangement, there is the sense of using every rudiment skill on hand. Essentially a one-man band, Kaballa is as adroit with the various live instruments he plays as he is with the electronic sequencers he uses to loop his grooves. He ensures there are surprises at every turn and his experience playing to crowds on the hustling and bustling streets of Cologne has taught him such ingenuity.

Sweet jams like “Quasi” bristle with Dixieland funk and salsa rhythms while a searching, Moog-rippled number like “Tin Tin” riff smartly with jump-start drums. The Brazilian notes on the chunky “Lugor Ao Sol” are underpinned by an Afrobeat sway, and the lambent, twilit “The Easy Way” opens the album as softly and warmly as the coastal waters that surely inspired it.  At turns elegant and rough-hewn, these eight ventures into a textured and multifarious pop are very much rooted in the street culture it was born from; the sly, punkish element that runs through Kaballa’s work is still firmly in place here. And, yet, Everything is Broke dreams of cities far beyond the ones the listener could ever hope to know. It is the sound of the hustling and bustling of people everywhere, making their way across a traffic-congested city to a dream of elsewhere...

Cat.-no.: 			SRLP 009 
Release: 			10.05.2019
Format:			digital & vinyl LP

Muito Kaballa

Mbule Mwule (snippet)

Protassov - The Ride

Journeying through the surreal No Man’s Land between percussive electronica and ambient funk, The Ride is relaxing and unsettling in equal measures. For the DJ/dancefloor there is Protassov’s signature dominant beat throughout: heavy, upfront and uncompromising. The melodies are constructed from a bewildering array of sources – including live instruments - with a structure that demands repeated and careful listening. This is electronic dance music as fine art.

What makes this EP fascinating is the attention to detail. The choice of samples and sounds is elaborate and unexpected. The obsessive processing of each noise reveals Protassov’s microscopic fascination with the parameters of engineering. And throughout, there is a hyper-sensitivity to the precise balance between the weight of the beat and the finesse of the melodies.

The EP opens on deceptively familiar territory. “At The Freakshow” comes in hard with a grinding, slow electro break; the crunchy snare funks things up nicely. As it progresses, however, the ecstatic synths, glitching soul samples and edge-of-ear arpeggios turn this groovy tune into an unnerving and distinctly trippy experience.

Slowing things down for “Dance Like That”, Protassov offsets ambient synth waves with jittery notes and hints of drill. Somewhere in the far distance an old skool rave sample screams its way towards us until it bursts in the room, staggering the mashed ravers into action, before Protassov returns them to the womb of the mellow. 

The opening grimy synths of “March of 100” and its insistent hiphop beat do not prepare us for a mystical prog rock evolution. Suddenly we are riding on a magic carpet out to some smoky souk in Cairo. Before we know it, the vision has dissolved like a hit of hashish in a lunch-break. Protassov’s finely-tuned engineering of the guitar in this track reveals his long love affair with the instrument.

“The Ride” begins like a dusty rip of a long-lost gramophone record, before a fog-horn baritone sax pulls us down underwater. We’re at a live jam session at an old blues bar at the bottom of the sea, with the reverb set to “abyss”. Protassov pulls us back to the surface with some crisp snare-driven breaks, until drunken synth lines emerge to duel with the sax and to send us back to the deep. The sax player on this track is cabaret virtuoso Andreas Booter, improvising live on the beat with no edit. 

On “It’s OK!” we stay dusty and analogue. A hypnotic xylophone drips melancholy; a rainy walk in the park in alienation-land. A siren voice promises warm illusions, but the beat keeps us out walking in the cold.

The last track is a minimalist, musical statement of unmistakable regret. Protassov’s simple guitar notes are achingly intimate, underpinned by a repeated minor piano chord - the ticking of a clock that cannot be turned back. “We Solve Problems Later” indeed…

This set is a deep listening experience with powerful rhythms and moments of gratifying emotional intensity. Protassov has spent long in the studio and it shows - the tracks reward total immersion to experience each and every detail. They are the statements of a musician, crafted obsessively. So set aside your consciousness, dust off your boots and get ready for… The Ride.

The Ride

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GrimeGrimeGrime Mix002 w/ Doc Bader (@doc-bader-1)

Tracklist:
Sir Hiss feat. Emz - Rolling (Kahn Remix)
Drone - Narroways
Bruke - Blue Tongue Skink
Nights - Combat Mode
Sukh Knight & Mystry - Suckaz
Kotei - Ichi (Glume & Phossa Remix)
q100 & Dmg - OddBells
Rocks Foe - Hold That (L)
Filthy Gears - Peace Treaty
Squarewave & Doctor - Police Officer (Vital Techniques & Mickey B Remix)
Charlux - Riposte
Chad Dubz - Reptialian Bitch (LSN Remix)
Taiko - Trenches
Commodo feat. Rocks Foe - Set it Straight
Gramz - Illa
Sir Hiss - Danny Uzi Vert
Spooky - XE2 VIP
Soundbwoy Killah - Burning
Boylan & Slimzee - Reinforced
Burke - Dracula
Spooky feat. Nasty Jack - Swaggy in the Baggy
Joker feat. Footsie - Marching Orders
TMSV - Maniac Mansion
EVA808 feat. Flowdan - Exchange (Welcome to London Vocal)

GRIMEGRIMEGRIME - MIX002 - DOC BADER

Philo is a bass music connoisseur and bad gal reppin from Cologne, Germany. When she  rinses out, you can expect a fine tuned blend of old and new flavours: from deep, atmospheric D&B through to dubby jungle, footwork and tribal amens. She’s one part of Degree Recordings, a writer for German D&B mag Trommel&Bass, and you can lock into her show on Jungletrain.net every second Wednesday from 11pm CET.

EQ50 08 - PHILO

Protassov´s Stefan Fuß is a German Music Producer based in Hamburg.
He began his Music career as a singer and guitarist in the late 80ies in several bands in the Ruhr Area DIY scene.
In 1992 he joined the myth enshrouded Techno Band TEVO and played countless gigs all over europe.
He began recording  HipHop influenced Beats in 1998 and teamed up with Tom Strauch of the Ancient Astronauts who founded Switchstance Recordings in 2001.
In 2008, Stefan released his album debut „Shalina Music“ on Switchstance Recordings, followed by 3 EP´s.

Stefan takes multiple influences and turns them into something that's his very own stile.

Protassov´s work has been remixed by Jon Kennedy, Hint , Flevans and Dr, Rubberfunk.
He is always in search for fellow musicians to  collaborate and develope his creative outcome.

the best is yet to come

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