Most tracks in this set were obtained during one visit at (Lilla)Mickes Skivor in Hornstull. https://soundcloud.com/davidbremer, my main record and cd dealer ever since moving to Stockholm, was kind enough to send me a text letting me know that multiple Chain Reaction and similar (dub techno, glitch, idm) cds had just been stocked. He knows I'm not capable of refusing such offers.

01. Thomas Köner - Teimo [Barooni - 1992]
02. Panasonic - Radiokemia [Blast First - 1995]
03. Ridis - Foto [Chain Reaction - 1998]
04. Vainqueuer - Solanus (Extracted) [Chain Reaction - 1996]
05. Ocsid - Balcony/Bunker [Origin - 1999]
06. Substance - Relish [Chain Reaction - 1996]
07. Various Artists - No. 6 (Credit) [Chain Reaction - 1997]
08. Matrix - Milieux [Chain Reaction - 2000]
09. Von Schommer - Wurfel [DeepChord - 2000]
10. Lux - Data [DeepChord - 2000]
11. Techniker - M-3 [DeepChord - 2000]
12. Scion - Emerge [Chain Reaction - 1995]
13. Round One Feat. Andy Caine - Im Your Brother (Quadrant Dub II) [Main Street Records - 1999]
14. Monolake - Fragile [Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music - 1999]
15. Thomas Brinkmann - Xenia1 [Ernst - 2000]
16. Phonem - Mainframe (1040 STE) [Morr Music - 2000]

Hjärngymnastik 180: Kedjereaktorisk Mickes Skivor-expedition

Bourreau Silencieux

Entrepôts De Bercy

Café

Paris

Rayon live at Radialsystem on 20 November, 2016.

Back in November 2016, we've had the great pleasure to celebrate 5 years of UM:LAUT with Markus Acher's project Rayon. With his numerous bands and collaborations (The Notwist, Lali Puna, Tied & Tickled Trio, 13 & God...) Markus Acher has contributed various relevant and exciting chapters to the recent history of music, thereby constantly re-exploring his sound universe and repeatedly widening the horizon of pop music. Within the series of UM:LAUT, Rayon presented the album "A Beat of Silence" (Morr Music) for the first time live and in one of the rare concerts with a full band and an extensive instrumentation.

Special thanks to Markus and the band for the great performance. And cheers to Carlo Grippa for the amazing sound, the recordings and the mastering.

Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

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Rayon @ UM:LAUT - Any minute now (Live)

múm is back in Berlin in February: After their celebrated performances in the last two years, the Icelanders return to the stage of UM:LAUT right in time for Berlinale. Get your tickets now: http://umlautlive.de/menschenamsonntag/

múm (Gunnar Örn Tynes, Örvar Smárason & Samuli Kosminen) live at Radialsystem on 12 February, 2017.

Together with the percussionist Samuli Kosminen, the founding members of múm, Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Smárason, returned to the UM:LAUT stage to once again perform a splendid live score to “Menschen am Sonntag”, a masterpiece of silent film.

Special thanks to the artists for a great performance, to Carlo Grippa for the amazing sound and for mastering this tune.
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Jacob Hansen

Live @ UM:LAUT (12.02.2017)

múm plays Menschen am Sonntag @ UM:LAUT - Live Snippet 3

01. Björn Almstedt - Centralen [Mind'N Ear - 1998]
02. Depeche Mode - Oberkorn (It's A Small Town) (Development Mix) [Mute - 1982]
03. Phonem - Bitstream (Amx) [Morr Music - 2000]
04. Air Liquide - Things Happen [Blue - 1993]
05. Effective Force - Govorit Moskva [MFS  - 1995]
06. Cosmic Baby - Stille [Time Out Of Mind - 1995]
07. Cypher 7 - Falling Backwards [Subharmonic - 1995]
08. Blue Binary - The Veil [New Electronica - 1996]
09. Dilate - Oblivium [Hypnotic - 1996]
10. Suspended Memories - First Blessing [Fathom - 1994]
11. International People's Gang - Diagonal [em:t - 1995]
12. Electronic Eye - Go Back [Beyond - 1994]
13. To Rococo Rot - Prado [City Slang - 1999]
14. Young American Primitive - Flux [ZoeMagick Records - 1993]
15. Edge Of Motion - Glowing State [100% Pure - 1996]
16. Vernal Equinox - The Real Dream [Atomeum Dawn Records - 1988]

Hjärngymnastik 054: Epidurealfårräkning

The Lighthouse Project - Released June 2013

Kola (Lightouse version)

01. Astral Engineering - Azoiaxic [Astral Engineering - 199x]
02. Bochum Welt - Phaedra [Axodya - 1995]
03. Alpha Wave Movement - Binary Code 51 [CUE-Records NL - 1997]
04. Bassline Baby - Hymn Of A Lifetime [Step 2 House Records - 1996]
05. Neural Network - Liquid Oxygen [Origo Sound - 1994]
06. Biochip C. - Inside (Chapter 2) [Anodyne - 1995]
07. Virgo - Proxima Scope [FORM@ RECORDS - 1998]
08. The Sushi Club - Tamashi [Elektrolux - 2000]
09. Monolove - Ra [Elektrolux - 1999]
10. Dron - (dne [Elektrolux - 2000]
11. Terrace - Continuum [Eevo Lute Muzique - 1996]
12. Lynx - Call [Out To Lunch - 2000]
13. Anonymous - Oneway [The Spacefrogs - 1997]
14. Rising Sun - Haze (Blind Mix) [Sublime Records - 1995]
15. Styrofoam - Future Debt Collector [Morr Music - 2000]
16. Speedy J - Fill 14 [Plus 8 Records - 1993]
17. Mode-M - Brighton [Void Records - 1997]

Hjärngymnastik 112: Osteodystrofisk Rymdutforskning

UM:LAUT is a live platform for artists and labels availing themselves of various musical traditions, realising ambitious and unique projects regardless of genre boundaries. The series' focus lies on the experimental range between classical and electronic instrumentation, composition and improvisation, club and concert hall. Considering itself an open stage for cooperations between artists of different disciplines, UM:LAUT aims to present music in dialogue with other art forms – music giving impulses to film, video, photography, installation, dance and performance.

amiina is a band based in Reykjavík Iceland. At present the band counts five people - Hildur Ársælsdóttir, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir, Magnús Trygvason Eliassen and Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson (aka Kippi Kaninus).
The group's origins go back to the late 1990s, when four girls studying string instruments at the Reykjavík College of Music formed a string quartet. The group started out playing classical music, but increasingly moved on to play all sorts of music with various bands in Reykjavík.
In 1999 the quartet joined Icelandic band Sigur Rós on-stage. The collaboration continued for over a decade, with amiina contributing strings to Sigur Rós’ music on tour and in the recording studio on the albums ( ) , Takk, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust and Valtari.
In 2004, amiina’s first EP, AnimaminA, was released, followed by the single “Seoul” (2006), the full-length album Kurr (2007), a Lee Hazlewood collaboration on a 7” vinyl Hilli (at the Top of...) (2008) and the limited release EP Re Minore (2009). In the autumn of 2007, drummer Magnús Trygvason Eliassen joined amiina on tour, adding percussion to the band’s textures. A few months later, collaboration between the electronic artist Kippi Kaninus and amiina was established while preparing a show together for the Reykjavík Arts Festival. The merging of Kippi Kaninus' electronics and rhythms with amiina's sounds and Magnús' percussion became the starting point for more established collaboration between the six musicians.
amiina’s second long playing album, the much acclaimed Puzzle, was released by the band in 2010 in Iceland, getting worldwide distribution the following year. The songs on Puzzle are more rhythmically rugged than amiina's previous work and feature heavier use of electronics. amiina's long-standing fondness for zero-g melodies and open-minded instrumentation, however, continues.
In 2009 amiina started to perform their original soundtracks to pioneering German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger's 1930's silhouette animations of the timeless fairy tales Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Aladdin. The so called Animagica program, originally performed at the Branchage film festival in Jersey, has now been put on show at Art festivals around the world.
The band released The Lighthouse Project in 2013, a work centered around some performances given in Icelandic lighthouses.
In between work with amiina and growing ever larger families, band members have also kept themselves busy, recording or touring with other artist such as Sigur Rós, Yann Tiersen, Spiritualized, Efterklang, Damien Rice, Yukihiro Takahasi, Canon Blue, Pétur Ben, Ben Forst Tilbury, Borko, múm, Jónsi & Alex, Kippi Kaninus, adhd, Moses Hightower and Sin Fang to name a few.

amiina's new album - Fantômas - will be released in November 2016. The release is inspired by the 1913 film Fantômas 2, which amiina is currently touring with an original live score.

Hjärngymnastik is a cratedigger project which aims to dig up and play electronic music released prior to the year 2000.  Styles such as Detroit Techno, IDM, Acid, Electro, Ambient, Bleep, Breakbeat, Jungle, New Beat, Deep House and many neighbouring styles will be heard in these sets.

Each sunday I'll be posting an hour of my selections. Some episodes will include guest mixes from excellent contributors - DJs, producers, record collectors and music enthusiasts. Within the same episode, the guest mix will be heard first followed by mine. A random drawing of brains conducting some kind of suspicious activity will of course accompany the set.

Let me know if you'd be interested in participating. There's always room for guests who can contribute with knowledge and interesting selections.

New tracks tagged #morrmusic