Philipp Otterbach’s psychedelic music never been a sunshine pleasure pill. But yet, the souls of his notes are deeply gentle. With “Everything Else Matters” the Berlin based DJ and producer now introduces his debut album, that follows a long introduction. 
Already since a while he devotes himself with endurance to music. He was an early resident at Düsseldorf’s shrine for outernational grooves Salon Des Amateurs. Since 2014 he releases music under his given name or as Grand Optimist on labels like Grokenberger Records, Knekelhuis or Themes For Great Cities and leaves marks as a remixer for artists like DJ Normal 4, Brainwaltzera, Wolf Müller and Niklas Wandt on labels like Growing Bin Records or Second Circle. His long DJ nights and already released music prefigures the spirits, that he now bunched on his first album. It’s a record, that does not want to pursue a straight categorization. It rather aims to spellbound with an atmosphere, that is made for moments in the absence of hysteria. Tribalistic, trip-hopping rhythms, menacing sounds, cold cool vocal passages, drone chants, morbid goth-ambient spheres, Indie rock indications: its many facets meld into some kind of black highway sound for thoughtful night prowlers in a dissociative state of mind. In context all particles achieve delicate sculptural effects that operate like the surprising architecture of a dream. A forward-thinking dream, that bundles something otherworldly, something unspeakable, that lives hauntingly between the sounds, rhythms and suggested melodies.

Double Vinyl with Gatefoldcover including Downloadcode + Insert.
Graphic and typography by Omnigroup
Mastered by FPSF

Distribution by Bordello a Parigi
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Bandcamp 
https://riolabel.bandcamp.com/album/philipp-otterbach-everything-else-matters

Everything Else Matters

Philipp Otterbach - Everything Else Matters

R.i.O. is a record label founded by @freybenedikt @menqui & @daloworks . With their shared passion for a broad range of music they established this new outlet in order to shift perceptions of reality.

Berlin based DJ / Warning Resident

Inquiries: marsleder@warning.berlin

2023

24.06. @ Krake Festival , ://about blank, Berlin
15.09. @ Golden Pudel, Hamburg 
03.10. @ Gelegenheiten, Berlin
07.10 @ fragmented:backyards, Dresden


2022

11.03. @ White Noise, Stuttgart
17.04. @ ://about blank, Berlin
24.05 @ HÖR
18.06. @ Camp Warning
26.08. @ ://about blank, Berlin
17.09. @ White Noise, Stuttgart
23.09. @ Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig
14.10. @ Transit, Chemnitz

2021

04.07. @://about blank, Berlin
12.11. @ Krake Festival , Anomalie

2020:

04.03. Paloma Bar, Berlin

2019:

01.03. @ ZGK, Berlin
20.03. @ Farbfernseher, Berlin
24.03. @ Suicide Circus, Berlin
29.03. @ Labil  # 1,  F***** R*****, Berlin
13.04. @  White Rabbit Club, Freiburg
20.04. @ ://about blank, WARNING 1901
14.06. @ Golden Pudel, Hamburg 
13.07. @ Mother's Finest / Griessmühle, Berlin
14.09. @ ://about blank, WARNING 1902
05.10. @ Griessmühle, Berlin
19.10. @ Mother's Finest / Griessmühle, Berlin
27.10. @ Wilde Renate, Berlin

done:

23.09.2017@ Staub,  ://about blank, Berlin
30.09.2017@ Spaceship, Mensch Meier, Berlin
21.10.2017 @ Raven gegen Grauzone, Kulturhaus Kili, Berlin
29.3.2018@ Sick Picnic, Mensch Meier, Berlin
07.07.2018@ Spaceship, Mensch Meier, Berlin
23.11.2018 @ Domestic Affairs, Berlin
31.12.2018@ Gelegenheiten, Berlin

Attendances was born in 1987 in Ancona, a small city on the east coast of Italy. He's an Italian dj and producer influenced by different types of music, mainly progressive, trance, new wave, electrobeat, EBM, industrial, leftfield, techno, indie-dance, dark disco and electronic music.

His interesting in DJing began almost as a game and he started playing and then working in different clubs and social centres such as Thermos and Kontatto (Ancona).

During university years he began studying different softwares for the creation of sounds, producing songs intended as a photograph of the soul within the passage of time.

After several years of working in sound creation, in 2014 he started his project called "Attendances", he then created his podcast series "Retrofuture" and started publishing some songs with different labels such as Play Pal, Maleante, Esthetique and Emerald & Doreen.

In 2018 he became a member of the Italian-Spanish crew "Carajillo electronique" In 2022 he became also a member of another crew "Circuits" playing in different clubs and festivals in Italy, Spain and France such as:

Bunker 83 Club - Urbino (IT) 2018
Torrione Club - Città di Castello (IT) 2018
25 April REDD BBQ - Ancona (IT)2018
Camping Electronique Festival - Caprese Michelangelo (IT)2018
Freedonia Club - Barcelona (ES) 2018
Sideral Club - Barcelona (ES) 2018
Slow Club - Barcelona (ES) 2018
Torrione Club - Città di Castello (IT) 2019
BE ONE’S club - Arezzo (IT) 2019
El Casal - Valencia (ES) 2019
Umami Club - Manresa (ES) 2019
25 April REDD BBQ - Ancona (IT) 2019
Camping Electronique Festival - Caprese Michelangelo (IT) 2019
ÖND 3rd Birthday at UBU in Rennes (FR) 2019
BE ONE’S club - Arezzo (IT) 2021
DONG (Circuit night) - Macerata (IT) 2022
HANGAR - Ancona (IT) 2022
ELECTRIC WAVES Pescara (IT) 2022
PITINO ELETTRICO (Circuit night) San Severino Marche (IT) 2022
DONG (Circuit night)  - Macerata (IT) 2022
MAGMA - Tolentino (IT) 2023
SISMA (Circuit night) - Macerata (IT) 2023
REDD BBQ - Ancona (IT) 2023
REDD BBQ - Bologna (IT) 2023
COPACABANA July - Porto Recanati (IT) 2023
ELECTRIC WAVE Silvi Marina (IT) 2023
COPACABANA August - Porto Recanati (IT) 2023
LIBECCIO 2.0 - Numana (IT) 2023
BORDERBASS Arcobaleno beach - Cingoli (IT) 2023
MAGMA (Circuit night) - Tolentino (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO Oct (Circuit night) - Recanati (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO Nov (Circuit night) A-TWEED - Recanati (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO DIC (LUST LAST LOST NIGHT ) - Recanati (IT) 2023
SPAZIOTEMPO GEN (Circuit night) NICK HANZO - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO MAR (Circuit night) OLTREFUTURO - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO APR (Circuit night) - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO APR CLOSING PARTY WINTER SEASON - Recanati (IT) 2024
SPAZIOTEMPO AGO CIRCUIT SUMMER FEST - Porto Recanati (IT) 2024

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