Name: Limbic Crisis For Sparkle And Foam by Thee Koukouvaya
Duration: 4 min 36 s
Description: From "Ancient Race of Techo-Voyagers" LP (Fiercely Indie Records 2016)

100% improvised live jam from late summer of '99. 
some gear, Jan Gabler, Ulrich Schnauss and Alex Kruger.
recorded at the construction site of the 'berlin hauptbahnhof'. 
foto (c) Christian Schultz
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Ameisenautomat & Ulrich Schnauss Live at 'Kunst Am Bau' Berlin | 28/8/1999

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Ancient Race of Techno-Voyagers is the second full-length album from collaborators John O’Hara and Brian Wenckebach, following their debut LP This is the Mythology of Modern Death (Saint Marie Records) and their ambient EP Witches’ Jelly (soundinsilence). Magnet Magazine described This is the Mythology of Modern Death as “dark and claustrophobic electronica,” while Penny Black Music hailed the album as “an atmospheric masterpiece” and Stereo Embers Magazine found themselves “mesmerized, ecstatic, and chilled out down to our very marrow” by “an absolute mind-fuck of seductive electronic imagination.”

The nine electronic experiments on Ancient Race of Techno-Voyagers build on the sound established on that first LP, crafting expansive, cinematic narratives out of dense layers of synthesizer melodies and complex electronic percussion, this time around producing even darker, more esoteric results. Though on the whole moodier in tone than the previous album, Ancient Race of Techno-Voyagers still expresses a range of emotions, like the anxious jitter of “Limbic Crisis for Sparkle and Foam” and the cathartic longing of “Margaritas by the Pool,” which includes a vocoder performance by Ulrich Schnauss, one of electronic music's most forward-thinking artists.

Ancient Race of Techno-Voyagers

Margaritas By The Pool (feat. Ulrich Schnauss)

Limbic Crisis For Sparkle And Foam

Pain Is Just A Cloud Remix by Ulrich Schnauss

PainIsJustACloud (Ulrich Schnauss Remix)

Thee Koukouvaya is the conceptual aural sister city to Vilandredo, Rethymno, on the island of Crete. The group’s architects, based on the East Coast, approach post-rock inflected techno, ambient, and IDM with an eye for depth and structure, assembling crystalline lattices of meticulously programmed drum patterns, frenetically sequenced analog synthesizer rhythms, and luxuriant glacial drones.

Both ominous and celebratory, Thee Koukouvaya engineers inhuman otherworldliness steeped in sci-fi paranoia. The result is a deliberately damaged music, generating a sonic liminal space between the organic and the mechanical.


Ancient Race of Techno Voyagers 

Thee Koukouvaya & London Burning

Cassiopeia (The Leaf Library Remix) taken from the new five-track EP from Rodney Cromwell (released 11 November 2016) on Happy Robots Records www.happyrobots.co.uk

RODNEY CROMWELL LIVE AUTUMN 2016
 
Sept. 14 London - Sebright Arms, Bethnal Green
Nov. 4   London - Haunt, Stoke Newington (A Happy Robots Records Night)
Nov. 5   Norwich - Epic Studios (with Marsheaux)

FIND RODNEY CROMWELL AT

https://www.facebook.com/happyrobotsrecords/ 
https://twitter.com/robot_rocker
https://www.instagram.com/robot_rocker

FIND THE LEAF LIBRARY AT

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ABOUT THE LEAF LIBRARY

The Leaf Library are guitarist Matt Ashton (formerly of Singing Adams and Peel favourites Saloon), singer Kate Gibson, bass player Gareth Jones and drummer / synth wizard Lewis Young. Live they are joined by guitarist Simon Nelson, also of the band Cosines. They make multi-layered, two chord drone pop, channeling the warm fuzz of Yo La Tengo, the spacious repetition of Talk Talk, and Movietone’s seaside melancholy to beautiful effect.

The band released their debut album Daylight Versions last year, a record of woozy love songs about meteorology and the incoming sea that Uncut described as “a charming debut, with songs soaked in atmospheres that conjure thoughts of hazy mists and setting suns”, and the Guardian called “a melancholy wonder”. Live they bring a volume and intensity to their performances that’s belied by the gentle drift of their records, with motorik drums busying themselves over a bed of constantly unfurling synth tones.

The band have also released a drone companion piece to last year’s album (‘Nightlight Versions’), a compilation of early recordings called ‘Different Activities, Similar Diversions’, and a number of singles on various labels, including London label wiaiwya, Beko in France and Amsterdam’s The Hooter Listens. They are currently working on a new album and a number of collaborative releases.

The ‘Fax Message Breakup’ EP will be available for digital download on November 11, 2016. The Rodney Cromwell album 'Age of Anxiety' is out now on CD and digitally. Both are released by Happy Robots Records and distributed by Cargo Records.

Fax Message Breakup EP

Cassiopeia (The Leaf Library Remix)

RODNEY CROMWELL Cassiopeia (The Leaf Library Remix)

From "Ancient Race of Techo-Voyagers" LP (Fiercely Indie Records 2016)

Recreated geogaddi with nothing but my lips in 36 hours, including one nights rest and a couple of hours of dwarf fortress.

Geogacca (BoC's geogaddi - acapella)

Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk: "Passage" out now on CD/LP (via Azure Vista Records) and digital (via Pedigree Cuts)!

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Following the release of ‘No Further Ahead Than Today’ last November Ulrich Schnauss (now a member of Tangerine Dream) wastes little time in bringing us the long awaited sequel to his 2011 eponymous collaboration with Jonas Munk.

There's a prismatic, multi-dimensional quality to these 11 tracks, most likely stemming from the fact that these two producers have each worked with a wide range of styles and musicians throughout their 15+ year careers: Ulrich cut his teeth as a drum and bass producer in Berlin, before releasing a string of highly influential neo-shoegaze records on labels such as Domino and City Centre Offices. Since moving to London in 2006 he's been a member of the bands Engineers and Longview, remixed many artists (from Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys to Mojave 3) and since 2013, been a member of legendary band Tangerine Dream.

While Jonas initially became known to the electronica community via his Manual albums on Morr Music and Darla Records, he also has a career as a noted producer on the European psych scene, as well as working on film soundtracks and experimental minimalism.

Fans of the first album’s euphoric and blissful moments will find much to love here, but also themes that gradually unfurl into crisp, symphonic soundscapes. The album is perfectly titled - it certainly has the feel of a journey but not in a literal sense. It feels like an ‘emotional passage’ or one that plays out via a series of dreams.

Opener ‘Amaris’ has many of the Schnauss hallmarks that we’ve come to enjoy from his many shoegaze collaborations and Munk is the perfect foil for this side to his oeuvre - the track chimes and sways beautifully before one of his trademark melodies hits and leaves you breathless. Munk introduces a more progressive aspect to the release than previously heard by the pair on 'genau wie damals', which recalls several 70’s guitar based giants, though in 2016 this is somehow a natural diversion for a record bearing Ulrich’s name.
Mst’ is certainly one for those yearning for the open armed rush of the first album will surely embrace - 80’s guitars and electro drums set the scene for some of the most gorgeous sequencing and melodic synth work on the album. In truth though, there’s no shortage of highlights. The retro futurism of ‘Spellbreaker’ is awesomely addictive and modest standout ‘Caffeine blues’ combines tasteful guitar strokes with a standard of Berlin school sequencing that surely only a member of one of the scene’s key exponents could summon.

Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk: "Ao Hinode"

A reworked version of one of the tracks used in the soundtrack to Surface Area Dance Theatre's production, 'Auricular'.

Auricular was performed in April 2017 at CCA, Glasgow (16 April), Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed (22 April)and at Turner Contemporary, Margate (29 April),

http://www.surfacearea.org.uk/auricular/

GB 2 Re/r/ed

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