Artist: A/B
Title: A/B
Label: sama recordings
Format: Limited Edition Cassette / Digital Download
Catalog number: samatape012
Release Date: October 25th, 2021

The project name »A / B« references several aspects of the cooperation: The initials of the artist names Akaroid and BYDL, the distance from A to B and the A and B sides of the tape cassette. The two artists worked in a shared folder in their home studios in Berlin and Vienna without ever meeting or making explanatory phone calls. Each musician brought in his own elements, samples, sound designs and production techniques in order to play in new parts using the ping-pong process, to arrange them or to change the material of the predecessor through manipulation and processing. The sound generation and the sound design took place via analog / digital modular synthesizers as well as in the laptop or via conventional miking of acoustic instruments (percussion). The entire EP is supported by a sense of cooperation and innovative ways not to lose common creativity to isolation, even when contact is prohibited.

The basis of all tracks consists of extractions from field recordings. The ambiences and original notes obtained in this way (mainly from Vienna and Berlin - A / B) were not only processed with effects, but also used via MIDI programming to output beat, melody or harmony. As a result, the recordings fit more organically into the track structure and are supported by the arrangement of those elements that are more familiar to the hearing of the recipients. On the one hand, the title of the track reveals the location of the respective field recordings used in the track and, on the other hand, the one or two-digit number in brackets shows how often the project was sent from A to B before it was finalized, which provides a unique insight into the artists way of production.

A/B - A/B

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Not A Coincidence

Chewlie (live) @ sama recordings pres. s c h w e b e n_11.04.2024_Einbaumöbel Vienna

Recorded live at KuH beginning of June '24 by FEELX
@deejayfeelx

FEELX — KuH 2024

My set (with crowd noise) from the Grove Saturday Night 1-3am, after Djrum, before Identified Patient. 

Out to all the sexy witches of the forest, thank you to everytone there + entire crew @sustain-release-nyc :)

<3 Mastered by the best @wordcolour

CCL @ Sustain-Release Year Ten

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio and streaming platform broadcasting 24/7 from a wooden kiosk in the heart of Brussels’ historic 'Parc Royal'.

Essi @ Kiosk Radio 04.06.2025

As a little teaser for the 2025 season here's the first half of @eva-porating 's set from June 2024 which turned out to be one of the most unforgettable moments in Balearic Sunday history. Don't miss this years's dates: 

🏝️ June 22nd: 3pm, objekt klein a
Bianca Lexis (NTS | dublab)
Melizards (Samheads)
Philipp Demankowski (Balearic Sunday | Uncanny Valley)

🏝️ July 27th: 3pm, objekt klein a
Rena Volvo (Automaticamore)
High Light LIVE (Mond Musik | Eine Welt  | ListenListen)
Philipp Demankowski (Balearic Sunday | Uncanny Valley)

🏝️ August 24th: 3pm, objekt klein a
Nadia Wise (Refuge Worldwide)
Electric Evelyn (Tripple Vision)
Philipp Demankowski (Balearic Sunday | Uncanny Valley)

Balearic Sunday

Eva Porating @ Balearic Sunday - objekt klein a (June 2024)

Arthur Robert | Vault Sessions, TILLATEC | 29 JUNE 2025

Love-Songs are a trio from Hamburg and Berlin consisting of Thomas Korf (electronics + vocals) Sebastian Kokus (Bass) and Manuel Chitka (Percussion). They play cosmic, kraut-inspired electro-acoustic music. Thomas and Sebastian also are in charge of the main visual design of Pingipung. Love-Songs selected the tracks for their mix b2b2b via email. 

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Outsiders: Pingipung w/ Love-Songs @ Kiosk Radio 22.07.2025

Nicolas Esterle is mostly known for his rhythmic noise project RIPIT since 1998, and his participation in Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers (Haiti/Be/Fr), Solar Skeletons and Fujako. He has always been a Dub enthousiast and this year he decided to get deeper in it by producing under the moniker RIPinDUB. You can expect deep and dirty vibrations with a massive bass to shake your pants !

RIPinDUB (live) @ Kiosk Radio 30.10.2025

If DoDonPachi was trapped inside of a glacier.

Download here: https://kyleyerhot.bandcamp.com/track/frozen-bullet-hell

Frozen Bullet Hell

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Sama Recordings - founded 2014 in Vienna by Benedikt Guschlbauer - is an independent record label for advanced audio aspects free of aesthetic or genre-based borders and stands for forward thinking music, which enriches body, soul and mind. We would like to showcase diversive creative approaches by local & international artists active in the vast fields of contemporary electronic music. A certain elevating spirit has to radiate from these waves and frequencies we want to present you.

The arabic term "Samâ" refers to whirling or listening in the language of mysticism. During a samâ ceremony, subtle vibrations are created by playing frame drums (daffs) that grasp the heart and also induce mystical trance. Thus Samâ, the art of listening among the Sufis, refers to the perception of inner vibrations. For me personally the word “sama” functions as a methaphore for conscious listening and dancing. 

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