Art work by Amy Anderson


This album is dedicated to my friends Zion, Tim, Jules and everyone in Fland.

Thank you yanny, fyoum, miss atlas, eve and my goombro for helping me this record 🤝

This album is inspired by cultural diffusion, assimilation and overall Americana culture.


I explore themes of self-discovery and themes of isolation, and emotions of being a poc in America.

I hope others who have experienced the same strifes, resonate with this.


Tracklist:

1. Adrift
2. Peddlers of a Tired Generation
3. If God Exists
4 We Rise, We Fall (With Fyoum and Angelwinter)
5 4th and 5th ave
6 Heaven (With Mimideath)
7 Wish to be free, can’t though (with attic atlas)
8 Questions (With Hidden Contact and attic atlas)

MUSIC HITS DIFFERENT (full album stream)

orsimer

Kindling

Manzanita at skyline

demos from a room . 1

teeth pulling tutorial

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With his seventh full-length release, Unterland, Austrian composer and sound artist Kobermann (Johannes Piller) presents a meditative counterpoint to a culture spinning ever faster — one where the next reel, the next drop, and the next dopamine hit scream for attention. Unterland withdraws from this dynamic, offering instead a deep, slow-burning exploration of repetition, space, and sonic ritual.

Created primarily using modular synthesizers, field recordings, and minimal post-processing, the album moves between ambient, dub, and avant-garde minimalism, drawing influence from early New Age cassettes, contemporary drone practices, and tape-saturated club ghosts. But more than genre, Unterland is a terrain — an imagined topography where each track marks a physical and emotional waypoint.

The 60-minute journey begins with Waves, where blurred field recordings and gently detuned drones wash over the listener like fog over a valley. A child’s voice introduces the piece, speaking of “huge waves” — a fitting metaphor for the undulating nature of what follows.

The 23-minute Hokus Pokus becomes the album’s gravitational core. It’s less a composition than a space to inhabit: modular sequences, feedback loops, and noise textures evolve gradually, encouraging listeners to surrender to a slower sense of time. It’s an invitation to recalibrate — to listen in a way modern life rarely allows.

Alebrijes follows as a surreal, protective presence: ghostly rhythms, laugh-like tones, and deconstructed dub pulses drift through the mix like dream-guardians.

The B-side opens with Strobe Pad, where shimmering pads, panned percussion, and reverb-drenched harmonics suggest a moment of clarity — a brief emergence from the murk. The track serves as a light source before the final descent into abstraction.

Small Cases and Unfold mark a psychological ascent: from the minimalist weightlessness of travel into the oxygen-thin air of revelation. Granular textures and filtered drones evoke both euphoria and disorientation — the moment after a summit, when the world reshapes itself around your breath.

The closing track, Future Schmelz, places the listener at a glacial edge, where crumbling drums and filtered sequences collapse into a dance of entropy. Delayed hats, decaying Moog DFAM sequences, and feedback bursts create a post-dub atmosphere — as if memory itself were dissolving.

All seven pieces were composed and recorded between February 2024 and February 2025 using a modular system, recorded and arranged in Ableton Live. 
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released July 13, 2025

All Tracks written and produced by Kobermann
Mixing & Mastering by Johannes Piller
Photography by Jonny P.
Artwork by Tanja Tuner
All rights reserved © A.T.C. Records 2025

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