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Hot on the heels of the MOONBUILDING 2703 AD
REMIXES / SIN IN SPACE PT. 1 (KOMPAKT 336),
pioneering duo THE ORB receives a royal remix
treatment by PRINS THOMAS: for ALPINE DISKOMIKS /
SIN IN SPACE PT. 2, the Norwegian disco king reworked
the cut „Alpine Evening“ from The Orb’s most recent
release ALPINE (KOMPAKT 339) and infused it with his
trademark floor magic, turning the psychedelic stomper
into a well-oiled, highly energetic dance machine. It’s not
the first time that Prins Thomas revisits material from
Kompakt artists (following his excellent work on Justus
Köhncke and Vermont), but it certainly ranks among his
very best (and most propulsive) efforts to date. The main
DISKOMIKS gets backed by two versions on the flip
side: the SIMPLER TOOL FOR DJ FOOLS scratches that
string itch, while the SHORT YOGA BREAK drops the
beats altogether for extended atmospheric immersion –
a perfect way to close this round of remixes for The Orb.


Hart auf den Fersen von MOONBUILDING 2703 AD
REMIXES / SIN IN SPACE PT. 1 (KOMPAKT 336) erhält das
Pionierduo THE ORB nun eine fürstliche Remix-Behandlung
von PRINS THOMAS: für ALPINE DISKOMIKS / SIN IN
SPACE PT. 2 hat der norwegische Disko-König den Track
„Alpine Evening“ von THE ORBs aktuellem Release ALPINE
(KOMPAKT 339) neu interpretiert und mit seiner typischen
Tanzflurmagie versehen – der psychedelische Klopfer
wandelt sich unter seiner Hand zur gutgeölten,
hochenergetischen Tanzmaschine. Es ist nicht das erste Mal,
dass Prins Thomas Material von Kompakt-Künstlern in die
Mangel nimmt (man denke an seine exzellente Arbeit mit
Justus Köhncke und Vermont), doch diese Neufassungen
zählen sicherlich zu seinen besten (und treibendsten)
Remixen bisher. Der zentrale DISKOMIKS erhält
Unterstützung durch zwei Versionen auf der Rückseite: das
SIMPLER TOOL FOR DJ FOOLS kratzt das Streicherjucken,
während der SHORT YOGA BREAK die Beats zur
erweiterten atmosphärischen Vertiefung ganz rausnimmt –
eine perfekte Manier um dieses Release abzurunden.

The Orb - Alpine (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) - Snippet

LIES-091
Black Deer-Fascinating Holiday tape
4 snippets from the 9 track release
website only/cassette only release
to be released Nov. 14th 2016

Fascinating Holiday

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Black Deer-Fascinating Holiday "cassette snippets" (LIES-091)

BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/flying-marilyn-12/
Flying was the Italo Disco project of Marzio Benelli and Andrea Venturoli from Firenze, Italy. Marzio specialized in sound engineering at various recording studios in Milan throughout the early 1980s. He opened Emme Studio where we worked with major national and international artists as Claudio Baglioni, Renato Zero, Venditti, Marco Masini, Pieces, Mia Martini, Litfiba, Mick Ronson. In 1984 he met Andrea, a sound programmer who knew his way around analog synthesizers. Their first collaboration was that same year on the song “Computer Sourire” for Alexander Robotnick debut album. 

In 1985 the duo recorded ‘Marilyn’, the debut single for the project Flying that was released the same year on Sound Of Italy. Their basic set up for recording was a PPG Wave 2.3 Synthesizer,  Elka Synthex, Roland Jupiter-8, Roland TB-808 and TR-909 and a Gibson Les Paul guitar. They recruited producer Nicola Serena to program the  DMX Oberheim drum machine.  On vocals was Stefano “Fly” Matteoli, a DJ at discoteques Concorde and Sombrero in Tuscany. Backup Vocals were sisters Antonella Bianchi (Plustwo, Belen Thomas) and Marina Bianchi (Plustwo, Sue Sadlow), who was Marzio’s wife. Stefano confidently sings a haunting love story, full of tragic doubts and cruel dreams. Hand played percussion leads the song complemented by the keyboards that complete the infectious melody, with catchy hooks, and 4/4 beats that clock in at 100 beats per minute. On the B-side, the dubbed out 8 minute “Remix Version” makes use of the Publison Infernal Machine, an innovative multi-FX processor that was the first sampler to change the speed of a song without affecting pitch. All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Each record comes in a full color sleeve featuring the original iconic cover with misspelling of the title art plus a postcard with lyrics and with notes.

Flying - Marilyn (Remix Version)

Headstrong 001

A1. Randomer - Myanmar
A2. Randomer - Spooky Hermann
B1. Clouds - Overflow Ya
B2. Nitrous & Oxide

A1. Randomer -  Myanmar

BEAU WANZER - Jealous God Issue No. Twenty

Tracklisting:
A1  Speaker Sisters	
A2  Kipper Hunk	
A3  He Pushes Meals	
B1  Shitty Cough 17	
B2  In One Ear	
B3  Cave Mace

Available in 300 gr. Black and Red vinyl colours from Ready Made distribution.
https://www.readymadedistribution.com/?product=beau-wanzer-issue-no-twenty-jg020-ep

BEAU WANZER - Jealous God Issue No. Twenty (snippets)

‘Through The Cortex’, @Terence-Fixmer's sixth solo album and his first on Ostgut Ton, is techno with a voice – or rather multiple voices – guiding listeners through hypnotic, space- and social-themed terrain as a kind of dark soundtrack to darker days. Across eight tracks at a compact but varied 40 minutes, the LP touches on an aesthetic hinted at in recent Ostgut Ton releases, revealing a sonic narrative through noisy, screaming synth/vocal riffs with a jagged, guitar-like post-punk sensibility.

The result ranges from the slow John Carpenter-inspired ‘Escape From Precinct 13’ funk of “Expedition” and the patient yet muscular stomp of “Fury” to the mesmerizing Suicide-like pop of single “Accelerate”, where Fixmer, using his voice as an instrument, chants the track’s ambiguous title in an invocation of systemic change/collapse.

Elsewhere, the story is told with more abstract and wailing vocals like on “Shout in A Black Hole”, or in the warm, entrancing chords floating across the stereo image in ostensibly changing time-signatures on “A Halo Somewhere” – the LP’s uncharacteristically kosmische musik come-down. The track, and ‘Through The Cortex’ as a whole, reflect what can be described as Fixmer’s idiosyncratic take on both techno subgenres as well as the larger pool of electronic music in general. This broad approach translates into a sound that is not only difficult to pin down, but also one that lends itself to multiple listens.

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-cortex
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/album/through-the-cortex/1432899334
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7f7IR7dTSF2BNBzavJGKsh?si=VemR9FIaS7KtO7jH9lza5w

Taken from the forthcoming Ostgut Ton album: Terence Fixmer | Through The Cortex [OSTGUTCD44/LP30], out October 12, 2018.
Pre-order album as LP, CD or in digital formats: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-cortex

All info: http://ostgut.de/ton/record/224
Artwork: JPRaether~PTXX, http://johannespaulraether.net | Layout: Yusuf Etiman

Catch Terence Fixmer on the road: http://ostgut.de/booking/artist/terence-fixmer/dates

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