"ZERO 5" from RECOGNITION ZERO by Jacek Sienkiewicz - raw techno !

5 tracks from 1996 on limited cassette ! soon !

Before Recognition Recordings emerged, even as an idea, there were experiments in rhythms conducted by Jacek Sienkiewicz in his first bedroom “studio”. “Recognition Zero” brings together some of these tracks, recorded around 1996 without any sequencer, utilising only two machines and some noisy field recordings. 

“Recognition Zero” will be available exclusive from the Recognition Records bandcamp, as digital download and super-limited cassette with custom artwork, and it’s the first in a series of forthcoming re-editions of Jacek’s early works.

RECOGNITION ZERO

"ZERO 5" by Jacek Sienkiewicz (1996)

Tumult Hands "TH" album(R-EP045) out soon on Recognition ! 

The “Tumult Hands” duet is made by Jacek Sienkiewicz and Jerzy Przeździecki - the producers whose composition has - to a large extent- defined the Polish techno music. 

“Tumult Hands” has two EPs on its account – “Tumult Hands EP” (2014) and “Tropic Factory” (2016). Both were published by Recognition. 

The album titled: “TH” (Recognition, 2022) has been prepared for many years. The repertoire was created mainly out of improvisation. As artists themselves say, “it is the result of discovering and accepting a chance event.” For both producers, close contact with instruments was important during their composition; the type of interaction between the maker and an electronic device. Individual works have been maturing for a long time. Paradoxically - the lapse of time did not cause them to be ageing but vice versa - allowed them to mature and gain natural weight.

Tumult Hands "cover story" (R-EP045)

"The sun, kissing the forehead through half-closed blinds…"

"Kristine" is the first single out of the upcoming album „Pristine” by Jacek Sienkiewicz which will be out on vinyl and digital in October 2022 on Recognition Records.

More soon !

Co-Financed By The Minister Of Culture And National Heritage of Poland.

The project has been implemented in co-production with Recognition Records and the National Centre for Culture of Poland.

Pristine

Kristine (edit)

Jacek Sienkiewicz "Kristine" (edit)

Tsar Poloz "I wanna drink" EP - release date 26.05.2014

From the very start, Recognition Digital aims to be a platform for releasing adventurous electronic sounds bordering on club music, also coming from the artists from outside the strictly electronic scene.
Here, we present a brand new release from Tsar Poloz - an extraordinary artist hailing from the bleak, industrial city of Lodz. 
Piotr Poloz is no newcomer - in fact, he's been pretty active on the Polish indie scene, releasing first album in 2001. Apart from a multitude of electronic projects he's involved in, Poloz also sings and plays bass in an indie-rock band Psychocukier.
"I Wanna Drink", his EP for Recognition, is clearly driven by his fascination with some more gritty types of club music, but with a clear pop sensibility - note simple, but catchy melodies and funky bass samples (all played by Poloz on his vintage Polish bass guitar). Somewhere between rough techno and quirky synthpop, Chicago house and cheeky electroclash, three original tunes here are equally amusing and entertaining. These are accompanied by three remixes from well established artists, each providing us with his unique vision of retro-futuristic techno: label boss Jacek Sienkiewicz under his Recognition moniker, up- and coming analogue wizard Chino and a duo of Warsaw veteran DJs - Mic Ostap and Motyl.


Tsar Poloz "I wanna drink" EP (promo snippet) (RED05)

TUMULT HANDS EP

Recognition EP034 (R-EP034)

A: TUMULT HANDS 
B: GLOVE BOX

Recognition Recordings proudly presents the new project on the label - Tumult Hands! This fairly ambiguous name hides the identities of two experienced producers, totally devoted to their machines - Jacek Sienkiewicz and Jurek Przeździecki. Despite being radically different personalities, and despite huge differences in their way of working, Jacek and Jurek joined forces to create one of a kind sonic laboratory. Recognition 034 brings two tracks, created in equal parts by meticulous work and spontaneous studio improvisation. "TUMULT HANDS" is a 10- minute odyssey into the realm of low frequencies - merciless groove carries subsequent waves of bass, swelling, disappearing and reverberating with cosmic echoes, while other sounds culminate in industrial noises - just to release shiny, futuristic melodies. "GLOVE BOX" on the other hand, is an effective club tool for uncompromising DJs - bringing an answer to many questions about the future of minimal techno.
TUMULT HANDS EP is the duo's debut release, but Jacek and Jurek already have more tunes ready to release later this year. We can also expect more live shows from the pair.

Tumult Hands EP (R-EP034) (Promo Snippet)

"Recognition CD" is the first album ever released on Recognition Records - 25years ago. I clearly remember folding the inserts and packing them into jewel boxes. I sent several pieces abroad to my favourite music magazines - the feedback was surprisingly very good. It gave me fuel for further releases and towards fulfilling my dreams of being a creator, producer and publisher of vinyl records. This was the beginning of my label.
There are as many as 15 different tracks on the album. From experiments through Detroit techno and electro to deeper sounds. Today, some of the tunes can be listened to with a gentle smile, while others still work quite well. 
It is only available on Recognition Bandcamp.
https://recognition.bandcamp.com/album/recognition-cd-remastered
Best,
Jacek

Recognition CD

Jacek Sienkiewicz "Part Of My Life" (1999)

25 years of Recognition @ CDV Berlin - 18.05.24

DJ set ...some of my fav tracks from last 20+ years. :)

Thx & Enjoy !

Jacek Sienkiewicz @ CDV Berlin  "25 years Recognition" - 18.05.24

This year Recognition Records celebrates its 25th anniversary. Jacek Sienkiewicz's label has already produced several dozen titles, consolidating its position as not only one of the most important, but also the most creative Polish labels. 

Jacek himself consistently follows his own artistic path, moving freely between multi-layered, dynamic (post)techno music and avant-garde experiments with sound. 

On the 25th anniversary of the release of the first album, Recognition presents material from 2000-2001 that has never been released in digital form, only on vinyl. The title "Directions: Meaning & Truth" is a compilation of titles 2, 3 and 4 of Jacek's 12”s, i.e. releases that found a wide response abroad and led to him being recognized as one of the most interesting producers on the European scene. 

"Directions" is, above all, the epic, uplifting "New Direction", but the other two tracks are also perfect examples of strong, uncompromising minimal techno. 

"Meaning" creatively transforms the inspirations of the Detroit sound with an irresistibly party character, but at the same time refers to the digital sounds of glitch aesthetics in an original way. 

"The Truth" creatively develops the ideas from the previous record, but goes into darker regions with visible dub influences. 

All three releases collected here undoubtedly have their place in the history of techno music of the 2000s - and to this day they unquestionably defend themselves not only as club tools, but also as testimony to Jacek's extraordinary, individual style, in some way being ahead of its time. 
We hope that they will get a new life with the digital release. 

The compilation includes an additional, previously unreleased track from the same period.

New Direction

Jacek Sienkiewicz "New Direction" (2000)

Max Loderbauer & Jacek Sienkiewicz "Ridges" (R-EP035)- 30.03.2015.

A: WestRidge
B: East Ridge

"Ridges" is a result of a creative encounter between veteran of improvised avant-electronics Max Loderbauer (among others, co-creator of Sun Electric, member of Moritz von Oswald Trio, and frequent collaborator of Ricardo Villalobos) and spiritus movens of Warsaw-based label Recognition Jacek Sienkiewicz. Meeting takes place not only on the level of investigating pure sound and building complex structures, but also on the level of fascination with mountainside aura and mystique that is common to both artists: Alps (Loderbauer) and Tatra (Sienkiewicz), as well as with the vocal cultures of communities inhabiting theese areas. Deeply introspective and individualistic confrontation between two peer sensibilities and imaginative worlds gave birth to two separate compositions in the vein of contemplative electronic music at it purest.

all tracks by Max Loderbauer & Jacek Sienkiewicz 
processed by Ricardo Villalobos

Max Loderbauer & Jacek Sienkiewicz "Ridges" (R-EP035)

Stand Up

JACEK SIENKIEWICZ @ Garbicz Festival 2015 (Wald)
3+ hour DJ set... classics : from ambient to detroit techno.
the best summer festival of 2015 ! cu there again...

JACEK SIENKIEWICZ @ Garbicz Festival 2015

Jacek Sienkiewicz "Drifting" - Roman Flügel - Remix

Jacek Sienkiewicz "Drifting" Remixes. (R-EP037)

A: Roman Flügel - Remix
B: Ricardo Villalobos - Remix

release date 18.01.2016

distribution: wordandsound.net

Drifting Remixes

18/01/16

Jacek Sienkiewicz "Drifting" by Roman Flügel

Jacek Sienkiewicz "Drifting" - Ricardo Villalobos Remix

Jacek Sienkiewicz "Drifting" Remixes. (R-EP037)

A: Roman Flügel - Remix
B: Ricardo Villalobos - Remix

release date 18.01.2016

distribution: wordandsound.net

Drifting  Remixes

Jacek Sienkiewicz "Drifting" by Ricardo Villalobos

Jacek Sienkiewicz "Modern Dance" Mix (2009) - CORCD020 - Free Download mp3 (192) - Enjoy ! &#13;
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01 Double Secret&#13;
02 All Yours&#13;
03 Jeden (by DWA)&#13;
04 Time Starts Now&#13;
05 Connections&#13;
 06 Modern Dance&#13;
07 Never Landing Story&#13;
 08 My Little Place (Digital Mix)&#13;
 09 Beacon&#13;
10 Skazka (with Pier Bucci)&#13;
11 Forgot To Tell You&#13;
12 Eastern Promises (with Pier Bucci)&#13;
13 Green River&#13;
14 Good Luck (Midas Mix)&#13;
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https://jaceksienkiewicz.bandcamp.com/album/modern-dance

Jacek Sienkiewicz Modern Dance Mix

Jacek Sienkiewicz "9799" (R-EP039) release date : 02/06/2017 - vinyl only !

A1: 140bpm 
A2: part of 97 
B1: galop
B2: dewild 99

Recognition opens up its archives and invites to a futuristic sentimental journey with respective stages set by the records "9702" (CD version) and "9799" - four exclusive tracks on a vinyl EP from the time of Jacek Sienkiewicz's first record (Recognition CD 1997-1999).

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9702

9799

Jacek Sienkiewicz "9799" (R-EP039) - vinyl only (02/06/2017)

New Jackname Trouble "juicek" - 
check:
https://soundcloud.com/j-trouble

Jackname Trouble "juicek"

jacek sienkiewicz @ barka / warszawa classic 90s set  (22.07.2017)

after party after "140bpm exhibition" (The exhibition 140 Beats per Minute explores the links between rave culture and contemporary art in Poland in the 1990s.)

https://artmuseum.pl/en/wystawy/140-uderzen-na-minute-museum-on-the-vistula

"The title is a reference to the number of beats per minute in classic techno music. Jacek Sienkiewicz, a pioneer of techno in Poland, whose works are presented in the exhibition, played in this tempo in the 90s. The term “rave” is used to refer to underground dance events with electronic music—mainly techno which took hold in Poland along with the transformation in the political and economic system in the early 1990s. On one hand they were an expression of the authentic if often naive optimism of the period of transformation. On the other hand they manifested the anxieties of those times of civilizational and technological acceleration."

jacek sienkiewicz @ barka / warszawa - classic 90s techno set

Who Told You That ? R-EP029 on Recognition 

Who Told You That ?

Who Told You That ? Pier Bucci Remix (RED003) - soon !

...epic, psychedelic, tropical forest-like reinvention by Pier Bucci - mashing all the elements of original track into a journey into some kind of moss garden inhabited by all sorts of digital insects…

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Who told you that pier bucci rmx

Who Told You That ? Reprise Remix (RED003) - soon !

DJ and overall aficionado, Motyl, and Piroman. Their rework sounds like a homage to the golden years of analogue wizardry, adding layers of warm melodies and acidish hooks to a steady, driving rhythm. One for the club for sure!

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Who told you that reprise rmx

Ostrowski “Primary Fluctuation” (R-EP041) 29.10.2018 - vinyl / digital

“It’s Maths classes. A red-haired boy sits in the back, rhythmically tapping his fingers on a table like a madman. Although other students’ eyesight is focused on the formula being written on the blackboard, the boy could not care less. Out of a corner of his eye he notices as the sequence of numbers slowly begins to melt off the blackboard, glittering with colours, and finally spills all over the floor like a fractal leakage from some other dimension. Students from the first rows, scared, put their legs up - and then you start to hear the rhythm. The sounds, once set free, feedback from the walls and find their way to all chinks and cracks, circle all around to finally reach the teacher’s ear. The lady cannot stop the upcoming fury, grabs Krzysztof Ostrowski (number 28) by his ear and circumventing the leakage she leads him out of the classroom. It’s not the first nor the second time such thing happens. Years later, the boy finally sits by the machine; subtle light comes through the window slightly ajar, the curtain dances with the wind. Krzysztof, bent, is programming the rhythm.”

It’s warm and bright Autumn of 2018 and Krzysztof emerges again, this time on vinyl released by Jacek Sienkiewicz’s label Recognition. The experimental style of “Primary Fluctuation” might come as a surprise to many of Jacek’s followers, but there are surely some common features for the two artists - from attention to detail to a kind of serious melancholy present in their music. Ostrowski’s record is a journey through futuristic polyrhythm, with enough space for menacing basses or unorthodox samples, reminding the aesthetics of fusion of broken techno and bass music championed recently by the labels like Timedance or Livity Sound. Four tracks (five in digital version) make up a cohesive, intriguing and surprising record, announcing series of special releases prepared by Recognition for the forthcoming months.

Krzysztof Ostrowski lives in Bygdoszcz; for years he’s been creating all forms of electronic music, from elusive sonic research to forthright techno with an experimental twist. Additionally, his work as a trumpeter in a military marching band surely broadens his musical scope. He records solo as Freeze, or in duets with Piotr Cisak or Mateusz Wysocki/Fischerle (as IFS).

Primary Fluctuation

Ostrowski “Primary Fluctuation” (R-EP041) preview

LIGHTIN

Recognition

Jacek Sienkiewicz "TRAKER" (Recognition EP043)

CHINO – EARLY DAYS EP (RECOGNITION EP 031)

A1 Raw & Rugged 
A2 Estate 
B1 Early Days 
B2 Early Days /Legowelt Remix/

Digital only bonus track : Tatry

Written and produced by Artur Oleś.

www.recognition.pl

Raw And Rugged

Recognition EP 031 A2

CHINO – EARLY DAYS EP (RECOGNITION EP 031) - OUT SOON !

A1 Raw & Rugged 
A2 Estate 
B1 Early Days 
B2 Early Days /Legowelt Remix/

Digital only bonus track : Tatry

Written and produced by Artur Oleś.

www.recognition.pl

Estate

Jacek Sienkiewicz "A Way To Know Things" from "Techne" album (2002)

A Way To Know Things

Recognition Recordings was founded in 1999 by Jacek Sienkiewicz as a platform for releasing his very own vision of electronic music. 
contact: info@recognition.pl

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