That intro is very similar to Karen Gwyer's 'Lay Claim To My Grub'

After 10 years of producing and recording music I finally release my first ever album and I am extremely excited to share the first info about it with you.

It is called "DÉBUT" and will be released on Broken English Club's label Death&Leisure on November 12th.

It is made of 9 tracks that Oliver helped me select and compile from what initially should have been another EP and ended up forming this first LP I was postponing and avoiding, stupidly scared about this first album myth, for years.

It has been a long process, I am proud about it and can't wait to share it with everyone.

Photo by Marie Quéau
Design by Jonathan Castro

December - Début (LP) snippets (death&leisure)

Mannequin Records is proud to present a 2xLP compilation of System 01, the legendary techno project of Johnny Klimek & Paul Browse.

Moving from acid basslines, 808/909 minimalistic reminiscences and hidden movie samples, the core of the compilation is covering Johnny and Paul whole activity as System 01, spanning from their 1990 debut EP "From Psychodelics To Cybernetics" on Interfisch with Timothy Leary, father of the LSD generation, to 1994, with the release of their most acclaimed album "Drugs Work" on Tresor, naturally placing them in the "Der Klang Der Familie".

For the artwork we thought it was a good idea to contact the legendary Ian Anderson from The Designers Republic, who made the original 'Drugs Work' artwork. The British graphic design studio based in Sheffield are best known for electronic music logos and album artwork for Warp Records, having designed the most iconic releases of Aphex Twin and Autechre.

The story of System 01 starts way before the early 90's, and precisely in the early 80's, when Melbourne-born producer/bassist Johnny Klimek achieved worldwide chart success after a move to Berlin, with an act called ‘The Other Ones’, which included his brother Alf and twin sister Jayney Klimek.

In the years that followed Johnny set up his own production studio in Berlin, and together with Paul Browse went on to infiltrate the electronic music scene with System 01 and Effective Force, with releases on Interfisch/Tresor.

Founder member of the Sheffield cult group Clock DVA, Paul Browse, feeling that this body of work could not be topped, left in 1989 both Clock Dva and England, in favour of Berlin, to start a new life and to continue his occult research. The high point and most successful experiments of his period with Clock Dva can be heard on the album "Buried Dreams".

After a short period of quarantine, Paul was welcomed into Berlin's underground research network, meeting Johnny and embarking himself on a series of joint adventures with the city's most dedicated and driven. Together they established the new sound of Berlin. Moments later the Berlin Wall fell.

In fact, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, unused areas and buildings were ready to be filled with new life all over Berlin, with both parts East and West conquering new open and unclaimed spaces. Clubs, galleries, studios and studios emerge - often only for a few weeks. Berlin will soon be the epicenter of a new culture, attracting thousands of fans from all over the world.

In meantime Johnny Klimek started a side-career, touring in Europe with the Nina Hagen Band as bass player, which would later lead to writing and co-producing her next album in collaboration with Reinhold Heil.

In that same year a partnership with director/composer Tom Tykwer and Reinhold Heil was established, being a 3-piece production team dedicated to the output of film scores, beginning with the 1997 film "Winter Sleepers" and following with ‘Run Lola Run’, which incidentally is the most successful German film in the US since ‘Das Boot’.

After many successfull soundtrack features, including among the others 'Cloud Atlas' - nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score - and Romero's 'Land Of The Dead', Johnny is the composer of the 4th movie of the Matrix saga, 'Matrix Resurrections', due to be released on 18th December 2021. 

released January 24, 2022

Mastered by Rude 66, 2020.
Graphics by The Designers Republic, UK, 2020.
Tracks selection by System 01 and Alessandro Adriani.

MNQ 150 System 01 - System 01 1990​-​1994 2xLP (Snippets Mix)

LIES-178-OD-01
Silent Servant-Solitude Illuminated

Los Angeles' Silent Servant returns to the fold with his first solo offering since his 2018 "Shadows of Death and Desire" lp for Hospital Productions.

Mendez wastes no time on the opener "Cyber Luminescence" featuring Cabaret Voltaire's Stephen Maillinder on vocals, with a modern take on classic synthwave displaying a heavier production style, with fluttering kr-55 hi-hats, synthesized snares, and a chaotic punk energy. This is not without melody and catchiness, as Mallinder drives the track full on; masterfully singing about a dystopian future which we very well may be living in at this moment.

"Raw Optics" is Silent Servant in true form layering an atmospheric backdrop over driving raw sequences and vicious drum programming.

"Solitude Illuminated" is the real centerpiece of the record though, as Mendez goes into a new territory finding a balance between uplifting slow house music and his signature shadowy techno. Where his classic "Lust Abandon" was more Distant Dreams pt. II, "Solitude Illuminated" is more akin to something like Dearborn's house classic "New Dimension" but taking a fresh production approach on this bassline driven seven minute anthem.  Truly a welcome return by Mendez. Each record comes with a large heavy grade paper fold out poster.

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June - Window Of Time (AD017)

Music’s hypnotizing – Roberto Auser delivering the very first album on Leipzigs Lunatic Records. The release consists of 8 uncut gems, carefully mined by the producer to slow-jam their way into your frontal cortex. This record is a cybernetic machine, reaching down to your core to touch your fears. Dystopian synth-melodies, sharp bass lines and resonant snare hits creating the perfect environment for frankensteinian vocal lines that come cracking through the circuits. Auser gives a versatile selection of his work, spanning from tracks like „Fortress“, a four-to-the-floor bulldozer, to slow-electro smashers like „Insecticide“ which sounds like pure bio-sonic weaponry. Edition of 200 copies comes in a handcrafted screenprint cover. Igor, it’s alive!

LUN09 - Roberto Auser - Touch Your Fear Snippets

Premiere of the track "No Future" by Schulverweis, the synth punk project of L.F.T. and Levente, taken from their upcoming 7" on the London based Ferry Lane Records.
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Artist: Schulverweis [@lfttrax + @leventepavelka]
Track: "No Future"
Label: @ferrylanerecords
Format: 7" + Digital
Release date: end of February, 2023
Pre-order: ferrylanerecords.bandcamp.com/

Mastered by Alden Tyrell
Photography by Alexander Trattler

Premiere: Schulverweis - No Future [FLR03]

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