01 Blake Blaxter – Intro
02 Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Microon I
03 David Elpezs – Brisa
04 Somme – Collision With A Pigeon (B&D Mix)
05 Maps & Diagrams – w48-7
06 Frog Pocket – Miall Leath
07 Mind Over Midi – Subdivision
08 Russ Gabriel – Middle Section
09 Linkwood – Solar Panel
10 Severnaya – Glow
11 Insect O. – Icebergs
12 VC-118a – Specter
13 Boards Of Canada – Semena Mertvykh
14 Mønic – T-Net 3
15 Walton – Space Water
16 Shed – Der Wolf Kehrt Zurück
17 Biosphere – Startoucher
18 Max Richter – Organum
19 Tinkah – Thought 5
20 Aquarium – Planet Aquarium (Outro)

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AEM #7 | Alternative Elevator Music by Madera (Mix Session, May 18, 2021)

Boiler Room Berlin Sigha B2b Shifted, Kangding Ray, Deadbeat ft. Tikiman, Headless Horseman, Positive Centre, Dj Flush

[Broadcasted March 12th 2014]

Tracklist & Video at Boilerroom.tv

Kangding Ray Boiler Room Berlin Live Show

Train Wrecks Podcast ft. Dustin Zahn

Train Wrecks #067 - Kangding Ray

This is a recording of the great live set FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER played at our annual Krake Festival. Enjoy!

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Frank Bretschnei­der is a musi­cian, com­poser and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for pre­cise sound place­ment, com­plex, inter­wo­ven rhythm struc­tures and its min­i­mal, flow­ing approach. Described as »abstract ana­logue pointil­ism«, »ambi­ence for space­ports« or »hyp­notic echocham­ber pulse­beat«, Bretschneider’s sub­tle and detailed music is echoed by his visu­als: per­fect trans­lated real­iza­tions of the qual­i­ties found in music within visual phenomena.

He is releas­ing his music and per­form­ing at music/new media fes­ti­vals worldwide.

Bretschnei­der (1956) was raised in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chem­nitz since 1990), where his aes­thetic devel­oped as he lis­tened to pirate radio and smug­gled Beastie Boys tapes in the for­mer East Ger­many. After study­ing fine arts and inspired by sci­ence fic­tion radio plays and films he began exper­i­ment­ing with tape machines, syn­the­siz­ers, and mod­i­fied gui­tars in 1984, as well as explor­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties of exchange between visual art and music by var­i­ous means such as film, video and com­puter graphics.

In 1986, after estab­lish­ing his cas­sette label klang­FarBe, Bretschnei­der founded AG Geige, a suc­cess­ful and influ­en­tial East Ger­man under­ground band. Though lim­ited to the East before the wall came down, they were invited to per­form across Ger­many and inter­na­tion­ally after 1989 and released three albums before split­ting in 1993.

In 1995, Bretschnei­der and fel­low AG Geige mem­ber Olaf Ben­der founded the Raster­mu­sic record label which even­tu­ally merged with Carsten Nicolai’s noton to form raster-noton in 1999.

Most of Bretschneider’s early solo albums — about half a dozen — were under the alias Komet, the first, SAAT, appear­ing in 1996. Since then Bretschnei­der has released his work (in addi­tion to raster noton) on var­i­ous labels includ­ing 12k, Line, Mille Plateaux or Shitkat­a­pult, and con­tributed to some well-known com­pi­la­tions like CLICKS & CUTS on Mille Plateaux and raster-noton’s 20′ TO 2000 series. 2001’s CURVE, his sec­ond album for Mille Plateaux, was crit­i­cally acclaimed and brought Bretschnei­der inter­na­tional atten­tion. Fol­lowed 2003 by GOLD, raster-noton’s most bla­tantly pop album by then. GOLD, how­ever, was topped by the per­cus­sive mas­ter­piece released in late 2007, RHYTHM, an album that was rated very highly by sev­eral major elec­tronic music pub­li­ca­tions, notably »The Wire« mag­a­zine, who put the album among their top releases of 2007. 2010 saw the release of EXP, a rather com­plex and abstract audio-visual work and his 2012 album KIPPSCHWINGUNGEN explores the sound of the Sub­har­chord, a unique elec­tronic instru­ment based on sub­har­monic sound gen­er­a­tion. With 2013’s AUXILIARY BLUE for Dan­ish label Dacapo — a col­lab­o­ra­tive work with com­poser Ejnar Kand­ing — Bretschnei­der enters the ter­ri­tory of new con­tem­po­rary music.

SUPER.TRIGGER his lat­est album for raster-noton and an absolute trove of per­cus­sive ten­sions will be out in July 2013.

Frank Bretschneider @ Krake Festival - 2013-08-10 (Suicide Circus)

This is a vinyl mix containing 30 out of the 49 of the records I acquired in 2024.

Looking over those 49 records, I will say that I have doubled down on the dubby rhythms, totally neglected the UK sound and stayed strong on the trippy techno buzz. In general, I am seeking out more stripped back minimal tracks, be that of house or techno, and I do not entertain as much "aggressive" music as I used to (except in the live setting).

My favourite record from this year might be Hess & Fürstenberg - Campfire Dialogue on Echocord Color, of which both sides were included in this mix. These tracks make for great transitions up and down in tempo and atmosphere.

In terms of my Plattenladen habits - Hard Wax and Audio In reign supreme 👑

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Σ - A1
Unknown Artist – Untitled [Knowone 010]
Hidden Sequence - Shift
Babe Roots - Sufferation Time (Felix K Reinterpretation)
Hidden Sequence - Traveling
Stojche - Damascus Dub
Marco Shuttle - End Of A Nightmare
Melchior Productions Ltd. - Different Places [Perlon]
Luke Hess - Platte
Emptyset - Seclusion
Barem - Censored Elephant
Marco Carola - Over Love [M_nus]
Elias - Red Lantern
Markus Suckut - Skeleton Dance
Psyk - Spires [Non Series]
Struktur - Mycelium III
Andy Stott - She's Gone Wrong
Pom Pom - Untitled [Pom Pom 03]
Elias - FM Therapy
DVS1 - Merge [Hush]
Kaiser - Sopravvissuti
Curve - Free Falling (Aphex Twin remix)
Mika Vainio - Barbarians [Raster Noton]
Zadig - Maniac Mansion
Psyk - Arcade [Mote-Evolver]
Fadi Mohem - Process
Basic Channel - Q1.1/I
Marko Fürstenberg - Site 312
Norm Talley - Cosmic Waves (Delano Smith remix)
Fresh & Low - Interlude [Rawax]
Nthng - I'd Love To Fly
Bicep - Dahlia
HVL - Lime Melody

Waxquisitions: 2024

Экспериментальный лайв, записанный основателем лейбла raster noton, саунд-дизайнером и музыкантом - Frank Bretschneider на m_division ∞ years стал третьим в серии. 

m_division podcast - это музыкальные картины, основанные на истинном погружении в глубину мира музыки.

Больше 40 лет Frank Bretschneider посвятил музыкальным экспериментам, исследованию синусоидальных волн, белого шума и сложных переплетенных структур ритма, которые он использует в качестве исходного материала, за эти годы он издал 26 альбомов и 30 различных релизов как под собственным именем, так и под псевдонимом Komet на собственном raster-noton, так и на лейблах 12k, Shitkatapult, Mille Plateaux, Fällt и многих других. 

Франк родился в 1956 году и вырос в Карл-Маркс-Штадте (ныне Хемниц) в бывшей Германской Демократической Республике (Восточная Германия). В юности, вдохновленный научно-фантастическими радио-пьесами и фильмами, он начал экспериментировать с плёночными проигрывателями, синтезаторами и модифицированными гитарами. В 1986 году он сформировал группу AG Geige, на творчество которой очень повлияло арт-движение дадаизма и советской научной фантастики. В 1995 году, Бретшнайдер вместе c другим, бывшим участником AG Geige - Олафом Бендером (Byetone) основал лейбл Rastermusic, а уже в 1999 году этот лейбл объединился с лейблом Noton Карстена Николаи (Carsten Nicolai, Alva Noto), образовав уже культовый экспериментальный лейбл современности Raster-Noton и трио Signal в которое входят все три основателя лейбла.

www.frankbretschneider.de
www.raster-noton.net/artists/frank-bretschneider

m_division podcast 003 : Frank Bretschneider [live]

This is an extract from the two hours journey of DASHA RUSH at the Kuboraum Gallery in Berlin during the third episode of their event series held during Berlin Atonal Festival since 2015 (www.berlin-atonal.com). 
DASHA RUSH is the best example of sophistication, perfectionism and beautiful execution in the scenario of electronic music. DJ, performer and producer on labels such as Raster-Noton and her own Fullpanda imprint. This extract from Dasha's astonishing dj set in the dense and unique atmosphere of the Kuboraum wunderkammer will literally open the doors of your dreams, a full immersion in the oblivion of time, drifting into universal states.

Dasha Rush extract from Kuboraum Session

For this episode we are happy to welcome David Letellier aka Kangding Ray. There are few musicians who manage to explore the convergence between techno and experimental music as successfully as David Letellier. Letellier’s foundations in rock and experimental music give his sound a vitality and a distinctiveness that has won fans the world over, from discerning avant-garde music listeners, all the way to devoted clubbers.

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Sonia Sanchez had a stutter as a child, which she cured by sheer self-will. She dug her nails into the palm of her hand, as a reflex to stop the stutter. 

In her first collection of poetry the fractured style of ee cummings is repurposed to serve the Black Power message. The results are for me her finest hour becaue there is a stylistic/emotional memory of her childhood stutter. 

Having a stutter is much more common amongst boys, so it’s interesting to note that her father viewed Sonia as the son he never had.

This track is a single long stutter, without any rhythmic variation in the source sounds. Sometimes, the source sounds trigger Harmonica samples (I’ve isolated overtones and recombined them into new instruments). In this setting the Harmonica samples remind me of Sterling Brown, and the ever-present folk memory behind his poems. In the context of a young Sonia Sanchez, it seems apt to mix high modernism with the Blues.

There are two sine waves slightly detuned in the left and right channels respectively. When listening through speakers, the two independent frequencies meet in the air, generating a single shimmering tone (rather like tuning a guitar). What is interesting is that you hear the same shimmering tone when listening on headphones (called ‘psychoacoustic beats’). Your brain adds the frequencies and generates the same effect. It’s an accident of cognition, over which you have no control – rather like a stutter.

I also picture the ‘sharpness’ of the sine waves as the sound of her nails digging in. For me the young Sonia Sanchez is a heroic figure, who instinctively repurposed the modernism of cummings, to her own emotional end. The overall effect should be impassive, propulsive, striking, and well… sassy.


Sonia Sanchez

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Label. 
Concept.
Playground. 
Music Lovers.
Open Collective.

KRAKE is an annual Berlin based fes­ti­val for chal­leng­ing elec­tronic music. Krake means octo­pus and the fes­ti­val is organ­ised in a com­pa­ra­ble way: reach­ing out to selected loca­tions dur­ing one week pre­sent­ing the best in elec­tronic music, what­ever style it is.

The fes­ti­val is not huge, not expen­sive, does not have big spon­sor­ing deals or four dif­fer­ent colour area passes. It’s just a good and so far suc­cess­ful try to bring back the focus on artists who dare to step off the beaten tracks.

A fes­ti­val for music lovers.

Connecting club culture to the wider world, on screen and irl through parties, film and video.

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