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Kollektiv Turmstrasse July 2013 Mix - Listen & Download NOW!! 

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Tracklist: 

1. Nicolas Jaar - Materials (Original Mix) 
2. Rennie Foster - Devil's Water (Miquell Santos Remix) 
3. Cristian Paduraru - 1st Class Sharing (Deep House Mix) 
4. Norman Zube - Aivioli (Hanne & Lore Mix) 
5. Cassius - The Sound Of Violence (Franco Cinelli Remix) 
6. Hunter Game - Blue Earth
7. Stimming - Cherry Blossom
8. Philip Arruda - Seeds Of Brooklyn (&me Remix) 
9. Ferrein - Meeting Sea (Robag Wruhme's Wolser Schelek NB Remix)
10. Yoko Duo - Close These Curtains (Stimming Remix) 


Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Mix July 2013

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Remix of the track 'Fragments of Self' from 'Fragmented Self' by Max Cooper and Tom Hodge.

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When trying to make creative decisions based on the results of somebody else's process it makes you try things out that perhaps you wouldn't normally think of and I'd say with every remix I've ever done I've come away with something new.  Sometimes its interesting to take a track in a completely new direction but in the case of Max and Tom's collaboration I was immediately drawn to the subtle harmonic undercurrent of the synth lines beneath the main piano parts and figured it would be interesting to put together an arrangement that brought that to the fore. 

I started with a rough layering and overlay of the piano samples - trying to re-arrange them into different combinations than in the original to create something that had the same feel (on a side note, its always pleasing to work with recordings like this of instruments that sound played - i.e., you can hear the movement of the pedals and the fingers on the keys rather than a surgically-extracted sequence of notes) but that came to the main melodies from a different angle.  I can't really compete with Max's glitchy rhythmic production and since this is so distinctive it seemed like a bit of a cop-out to make too much use of these samples in any case so in the end the main part of what I used of the rhythm was a short kick drum sample that I processed in various ways to create the studded melodic cross-rhythm that I used for most of the middle of the track.

With the bare bones in place the majority of the rest of the work came from layering up the arrangement with the kinds of synths and strings that I make use of in my Petrels stuff.  Like I said, I was drawn to the low root synth line in the original that casts a subtle melodic shade over the piano lines so using this as a starting point I slowly built up the orchestration around it so as to make it much more of a focal point.  In the end, hopefully the result is something akin to a huge group of assorted musicians attempting a spontaneous live version of what essentially started as a duet performance. Well that was the idea anyhow.

Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Fragments of Self (Petrels Remix)

Avant-garde classical landscapes, left field electronics, bass productions and straight up Indie rock: the Anglo/German independent label Erased Tapes Records likes it multidimensional. Established by German-born Robert Raths in early 2007, the record company is currently managed by Raths and Sofia Ilyas in London. Over the years, Erased Tapes has become a melting pot for innovative and imaginative musicians including Ólafur Arnalds from Iceland, German composer Nils Frahm, Ukrainian music pioneer Lubomyr Melnyk, American multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick, singer songwriter Douglas Dare, English film composer Michael Price and electronic artist Rival Consoles. For Carhartt WIP Radio Sofia Ilyas has produced a show that gains an insight into the labels musical approach, from classic to electronic and beyond!

Tracklist:
Lubomyr Melnyk - The Six Day Moment
Michael Price - A Tenderness
Douglas Dare - Seven Hours
Kiasmos - Looped
Rival Consoles - Odyssey
Ólafur Arnalds - Endalaus II
Nils Frahm - For - Peter - Toilet Brushes - More
Peter Broderick - These Walls Of Mine II
Codes In The Clouds - Don't Go Awash In This Digital Landscape
World's End Girlfriend - Teen Age Ziggy
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - A1
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears
The British Expeditionary Force - Pleasantly Confused

Carhartt WIP Radio March 2014: Erased Tapes - Radio Show

Novo Amor - Woodgate, NY (Full EP)
Brilliance Records. Download & Limited 12" Vinyls

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LYRICS:
V1
I'll drop and speak a charm,
take the weather from your heart,
and the weight from on your toes,
And theres nothing to your side,
for you to recognise,
it tarnished long ago,
V2
The lake will overflow,
flood all i've ever known,
break walls and sever bones,
Now i'l hold it in my heart,
just for you to fall apart,
Stunt all we'd ever grown,
Chorus
Burn the bed and the dreams i've never met,
those wishes were never for granted,
So burn the bed i'l face wind and fill my head,
those wishes were never for granted
V3 
you'l drop for a new charm,
put the thunder in my arms,
hope for them to close,
leave nothing to my side,
take all I recognise 
and varnish your old blows.

Chorus
(same as first)



Weather

BandCamp

Oxford Drama (raw mix)

grouper 'holding'

Zimpzon & Braak - Numb

benoit pioulard 'a shade of celadon'

22 I Remember

21 Emancipation

18 Missing Photos

14 Gillie Amma I Love You

13 Lady Divine

11 I Remember

09 Babe

05 Verbena Tea With Rebekah Raff

02 Sleepers Beat Theme

Halls- 'Roses For The Dead' (Max Cooper remix)

„Amygdala“ is Koze’s Sgt. Pepper. It’s an unreal 78-minute walk through Koze’s mind, complete with moods, intensities, sounds and scenes as yet unheard of. It feels more like a double album, urging you to turn over and change the records time and time again. "Amygdala" amazes by its sheer musicality, deepness, and its  ethereal sound design; it’s a kaleidoscope of a great variety of soundscapes where you keep discovering new nuances even after listening to it a thousand times. Nobody else could unite artists like Caribou and Dirk von Lotzow, Hildegard Knef and Mathew Dear, Ada and Milosh in such an organic way and on one and the same record as Koze did. There’s never been anything like it.

He weaves new garments around the a capella parts of his guests, garments that only he can tailor, and that’s how the album, for all the diversity of its artists, sounds consistently homogeneous and in the true style of Kosi Kos. It’s all about “the courage to dare”, about letting voices resonate undisguised in all their authentic peculiarity.  About creating  truthfulness.

How much can you cut out, when does the flame die down? On the other hand, under which circumstances could it even burn for ever?

The album, which in large parts has been composed in a Spanish fishing village, starts off with Balinese gamelan sounds from which a relaxed discoid bass peels off, caressed by mystic backwards basslines, balafon resonances and slide guitar chords. You can hear the ceaseless chirping, twittering and cheeping from all the treetops of Koze's exotic jungle.

DJ Koze feat. Caribou - Track ID Anyone?

This is the second idea I worked on with Kathrin deBoer for the Conditions Two EP, and an attempt to make something surreal. I tried to use her voice as an instrument in the track, rather than presenting it as a normal vocal at the forefront of the mix. I used lots of Max for Live fiddling’s to mangle up her vocals into all sorts of weird noises, and then picked out some of my favourites to use in the track. Most of the noises that aren’t the drums and main synths, so pretty much all the weird noises in the track, are made from Kathrin’s voice.



The overall feeling was something soft and organic, where in addition to the unpredictability and non-loopy manner of the vocal effects, the drums also follow a loose and slightly randomised pattern, with lots of shuffle to add to the free feeling. I thought the approach made it end up sounding a bit maddening and messy, and there was also a strong feeling of space in there with the main pads, so this combined with the surrealist approach lead me to the name ‘Falling Into Recursive Space’.

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