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JUZER - Layer of Moleman (w/ Unit Moebius Anonymous Remix) | RUBBER 009

A1 - JUZER - The Saturators
A2 - JUZER - Sweater Weather 
B1 - JUZER - Layer of Moleman
B2 - JUZER - Layer of Moleman (Unit Moebius Anonymous Remix)  

Vinyl / digital: https://rubber-denhaag.bandcamp.com/album/layer-of-moleman-w-unit-moebius-anonymous-remix

JUZER by Beau Wanzer and Dan Jugel finds new stomping grounds at RUBBER with a four track release including a fresh remix by Unit Moebius Anonymous. Wanzer and Jugel, two pillars of the Chicago underground are known for their distor­ted jacked techno which is heavily rooted in the Chicago tradition.
Together with Beau Wanzer we have selected three archival tracks made prior to Jugel’s passing in 2018. The result is a grinding ensemble of raw techno jams that tips its hat to the different electronic flavors of Chicago and The Hague.

Music: JUZER (Beau Wanzer and Dan Jugel, Unit Moebius Anonymous (Jan Duivenvoorden)
Instruments: Roland TR909, Roland TR808, Roland CR78, Roland CR1000, Roland JX3P, Casio RZ1, Akai S612
Recorded: Chicago, IL
Mastering: Lizzie Davis (Real Surreal)
Graphic design: Ruben Verkuylen
Words: Thomas van Linge

Layer of Moleman

JUZER - Layer of Moleman (w/ Unit Moebius Anonymous Remix) | RUBBER 009

skitungen - Längre Än Långtån | RUBBER 009

A1 – inga dRömmaR kvaR
A2 – jag viLL baRa ha aLLt
B1 –  OOOAAAOOO
B2 – Jag SpiLLeR Ut Min Tid På Dig

Vinyl / digital: https://rubber-denhaag.bandcamp.com/album/la-ngre-a-n-la-ngta-n
Distribution (Clone): https://clone.nl/item69522.html

Rubber welcomes Swedish artist Towa Isling (towLie) under her skitungen alias. While some of you might be familiar with distorted drums and seething synth lines from the käfTen records founder, her skitungen project emits a more brazen energy. Längre än Långtån embodies Towa’s raw and DIY approach, but takes an unexpected turn towards the odd and dreamy. This results in a beautiful assembly combining Towa’s ethereal voice with satisfying weirdo beat music.
The 7inch, pressed on Rubber’s signature high quality white vinyl, is accompanied by a cover designed by Berlin-based multi media artist Puck Verkade. 

Music: Towa Isling @towlie
Mastering: Kamilė Rimkutė @caline-with-c
Illustration: Puck Verkade
Design: Ruben Verkuylen
Text: Thomas van Linge

skitungen - Längre Än Långtån | RUBBER 010

Ton Lebbink - Wat Doe Je Met Me? | RUBBER 011

A1 - Wat Doe Je Met Me?
A2 - Denke Nie Gedacht Zu Haben (Ft. Christine & Jasmine)
B1 - For You 

By the late 1980’s Ton Lebbink was a well respected figure in Amsterdam’s alternative scene: he was the drummer for the Amsterdam post punk group Mecano, a true punk poet and worked as a bouncer at Amsterdam’s main music venue Paradiso. He released two solo albums, both in his unique narcotic style: laying absurd Dutch wordplay over stripped down frigid instrumentals.
As the decade came to an end, Ton – already well in his forties – moved away from the often destructive and dangerous nightlife. After a series of odd jobs Ton started as a fitness instructor at an Amsterdam gym called Splash. Meanwhile, the 90’s brought the latest musical craze to Amsterdam: house music began to flourish through clubs like RoXy, iT and Mazzo. With house being the ideal score for his fitness classes, the once well known cult figure faded into anonymity at a 120 beats per minute. His musical endeavours were focusing more on finding the right beats for aerobics exercises with self-devised exercise – eventually leading Ton to bootleg some of them on cassette tapes himself.
In parallel to this radical shift, Ton did not stop making music. On the contrary, piles of demos showed high activity but in a direction no one was looking. Inspired by music to move to, Ton recorded hours of music that activated the body while staying true to his playful mindset. Discarding his voice as an instrument, the Roland W-30 sampler became his tool to communicate. Gathering vocal snippets from close friends, barflies and pets, a repertoire developed where witty repetitiveness could exist. Going through a vast collection of demos, pictures and many anecdotes, Rubber has been able to create an EP that gives insight into Ton’s overlooked 90’s era.
Three playful dance tracks by Ton Lebbink taking his complete own take on the Amsterdam house revolution of the 90's. Full of inventiveness: hip-shaking grooves, hypnotic beats and rousing vocals. Tracks to move to and tracks to groove to. Essential dancefloor workout tunes for you and me. Ah yeah!

Wat Doe Je Met Me?

Ton Lebbink - Wat Doe Je Met Me? | RUBBER 011

studio mule 9
only vinyl
distributed by kompakt

b1 face to face  ambient version

studio mule 23
12"&digital
distributed by kompakt

b1 yugao overtone mix

a1 face to face cathédrale saint alain de lavaur mix

Cape Perpetua is a thing of beauty.

Sordid Sound System has taken his unique, raw, dub-infused sonic vision to a new level. With 'Cape Perpetua' we travel dem spaceways to a place that seems to grow more beautiful by the second; a textured, melodic, blissful interplanetary landscape where further words fail. From here Sascha Funke manages to take the controls and steer the mission on a futuristic space odyssey that's as urgent as it is blissful. Faint background signals of the original remain but are violently ejected from the airlock by the most synthetic, syncopated sounds the human ear has ever been exposed to. Flip over and we're straight into 'It's About Time'. This one is equally high octane ..... but this time of the afro-tinted psychedelic surf punk variety. If you aren't dancing to this you're probably dead. No rest for the wicked, however....because before we manage to get our precise bearings and a firm grasp of what just happened the acid techno space rock of 'Pneumonia Gulch' kicks in and takes us to places Hawkwind could only have dreamed of. Respite soon follows when the seductive voice of Eva Geist transports us to yet another beautiful paradise. Slowly it dawns on us that we're now in a dimension elsewhere entirely. Mind boggling. Nothing comes close. If you were to take a cockatil of mandrake, opium, LSD, ecstasy and a variety of amphetamines in the company of the heavenly host, the cosmic machine elves and a group of your best human friends with access to every instrument you ever wanted you would only know the half of it. This takes a very twisted, talented, mystic mind to come up with. I'm sure of it.

Let's open the doors to a whole new world.

A new world where the bastard love child of Tangerine Dream, Hardfloor, Sun Ra and The Gun Club rules supreme.

https://soundcloud.com/sordid-sound-system
https://soundcloud.com/invisible-inc

PRÈMIÉRE: Sordid Sound System - See You On The Other Side Feat. Eva Geist [Invisible Inc]

Vinyl: https://clone.nl/item58377.html
Digital: https://rubber-denhaag.bandcamp.com/album/enter-ja
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/J-A-enter-ja/release/14355774

J A - enter ja | RUBBER006

J A surfaces on RUBBER with six disorienting wave tracks, reigniting the catalogue after a short hiatus. Crafted by Andrea Noce (Eva Geist, As Longitude) and Jonida Prifti (Acchiappashpirt, Opa Opa), these productions find elegance in their noir aesthetic and sketch-like composition, breathing filmic atmospheres of its creative process and the hedonist self alike. 

Straying away from the societal drift for efficiency and make belief, this record was produced over a timespan of five years, while shifting between Berlin and Rome. Dancing and loafing, mirrors were splintered and scattered shards reflected a new light. Here, Noce her serpentine sense of melody guides uncharted signatures of reverber­ating syncopated drums, while soundscapes move in and out as apparitions fogging the mind. The poetic spoken-singing of Prifti  subdues the tracks, through a linguistic form where Albanian and Italian intertwine, channeling her scientific field into art. Cleverly processed, the vocals take on many shapes, blurring lines between instrumen­tation and recognition, creating meaning where language ends.

A1 AKOMA
A2 ORLO
A3 FIND THE WAY
B1 FUSO ORARIO
B2 ORGA
B3 ASHENSORI


All tracks recorded, mixed and produced by Andrea Noce in Berlin and Rome between 2014 and 2019
Lyrics and vocals by Jonida Prifti
Synths and electronic percussions in “Fuso Orario”  by Stefano Di Trapani (Acchiappashpirt)
Pictures and visuals by Jonida Prifti
Mastering by Rupert Clervaux
Graphic design by Ruben Verkuylen
Words by Luke Cohlen

@j-a-66
@andreanoce

enter ja

J A - enter ja | RUBBER006

@2anba2 come through with a piece of sonic experimentation; a “transformation of body and soul to a new existence”, from Athens pair, @ice_eyes.

More: weareinsert.com/audio/ice_eyes-fall-anba/

Article

Premiere: Ice_Eyes - Fall [ANBA]

Artist: J A https://soundcloud.com/j-a-66
Track: Orlo
Release: enter ja
Label: RUBBER https://soundcloud.com/rubber-6
Release: 04 12 2019
Cat No: RUBBER006
Preorder: https://rubber-denhaag.bandcamp.com/album/enter-ja

DT PREMIERE: J A - Orlo [RUBBER006]

J A, live, recorded at Rhizom Festival 2019

@j-a-66

J A is a sonic poetry duo formed by electronic artist Andrea Noce (Eva Geist) and poet Jonida Prifti (Acchiappashpirt). Through obscure layers of stasis and glimpses of madness, J A sings declaiming in honor of abstraction and subconscious. "Orga" is a short collection of electronic sonets inspired by Jonida's verses and developed around lazy and sensual sonic repetitions. "Orga" is an uninhibited tribute to the charmer power of female voice.

J A - Rhizom 2019

The 'B-side' often becomes the 'A-side' ...... 
So as we present our new release, we thought it was an interesting way to jump out of the blocks giving the listeners a chance to tune into track 2 from our new Ep 'RIDE'. 

After many releases on Malka Tuti, our spiritual birth place, we decided to try releasing ourselves for a little while to create a fluid movement from our minds to your speakers. 

This track, alongside another original and remixes from Manfredas and Gum (Jay Watson) & Ginoli mark a new chapter for us. We're happy to have you along for the journey. 

Saft Für Alle.

Ride

🍊Bandcamp 🍊

Burnt Bay  [Feat Eva Geist]

Bandcamp [only] https://rubber-denhaag.bandcamp.com/album/bakara

UVB76 — BAKARA | RUBBER007

UVB76 on RUBBER sees Parisians Gaëtan Bizien and Tioma Tchoulanov transposing their sonic con­coctions into the outskirts of club music. Re-thinking industrial reductionism, the duo presents us an experimental signature of clattering tones, field-recordings, and rapidly fluctuating effects. Breakneck rhythms in an ever-shifting dream phase—this is musique concrète at full speed.

1 – Hong
2 – Gauze
3 – Bakara
4 - Kong

All tracks recorded, mixed and produced by Gaëtan Bizien and Tioma Tchoulanov @uvbsoixanteseize
Mastering by Rupert Clervaux @cvx
Graphic design by Ruben Verkuylen
Words by Luke Cohlen

BAKARA

Bandcamp only

UVB76 - BAKARA | RUBBER007

RUBBER is happy to present you MINIGOD - De Bus. A three track 7 inch piece of music history. 

MINIGOD - De Bus EP | RUBBER 008

A1 - MINIGOD - Her Darkness
A2 - MINIGOD - De Bus
B1 - MINIGOD - Plastic Tears

Vinyl / digital: https://rubber-denhaag.bandcamp.com/album/de-bus

Rubber brings it back to home ground by diving deeper into Jan Duivenvoorden's shoeboxes. Travelling beyond Unit Moebius, Funky Sobrietas and even Leuk & Ko, there was MINIGOD. 

Back in 1987, at a local youth centre in the ever-dull Zoetermeer, a group of seven non-musical friends started what could be considered a freeform band ”electronic ’beuk‘ music with noise guitar and lyrical texts”. This band was called MINIGOD and rose from the ashes of the performative act Aars/rugklachten. Their change not only meant an upgrade in instruments - from jerrycans, barrels and worn-out bass guitar to keyboard and synthesizers - but also from simply screaming into the void towards songs with something of a structure. 

The release portrays MINIGOD quintessentially -- energy above professionalism. From a large number of tracks Rubber made a precise selection allowing punk and satire to dance cheek-to-cheek. MINIGOD believed that every human can be a tiny bit of God, and that was just the way this music was intended. If only everybody believed in themselves, and in others. 

MINIGOD is Jan Duivenvoorden (Unit Moebius), Richard van den Bogaert (Leuk & Ko), and Rob de Bakker played keyboard and synthesizer, Edwin Zuidwijk played guitar, and Siuli Ko and Bart Barendregt did the vocals. 

Limited to 123 copies.

MINIGOD - De Bus | RUBBER 008

International Oddities & Local Cult.
Record label founded in Den Haag.

J A - enter ja | RUBBER006

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