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It’s been over a year since his last EP, but finally, it is with mixed feelings that the Brainwaves crew have decided to release Thomas Bodenständig’s sophomore album, Speed Am Rhein. 

Sometime in May of 2020, as the first wave had already wreaked havoc throughout western Europe, our friend Thomas got in touch with us once again, sending us a box of 66 cassettes in mismatched dusty cases along with an enigmatic letter from his home in North Rhine Westfalia. We do not feel comfortable with disclosing the entire contents of the letter, but we can say that it shook us to the core to find out that our dear friend Thomas had been suffering from covid19 with complications for a number of weeks already, and that it seemed to be affecting his already degenerate mind. 

As he has always done in difficult times, Thomas turned to his twin passions of filterless cigarettes and industrial electronic music during this tough period, and so by the time he got in touch with us in mid-May, he had already recorded an album complete with remixes from two carefully selected french producers, Warzou and Christian Coiffure. Each one of the 66 cassettes we received was hand-numbered and individually recorded by Mr. Bodenständig himself, and his slightly worrying instructions were that we were to release the album if we did not hear from him in the coming months. 

2020 has been a complicated year for everyone, and the crew’s natural immunity to the viral agents that only affect carbon-based lifeforms gave us a certain amount of confidence, so we were devastated when we found out that our closest Leverkusen-based affiliate Mr. Bodenständig was affected by the virus. Since May, all five of us have been doing all that is in our power in order to get in touch with Thomas, as he seems to have completely disappeared. His apartment is vacant, with no trace of him, his favourite barstool in Leverkusen’s dirtiest Kneipe is gathering dust, and his cellar seems to have been emptied of all his synthesisers and recording equipment. We have sent our notorious alien friend Brian to comb the streets of Leverkusen, we have been looking behind every barstool in every sleazy bar in the region, we’ve even checked all Leverkusen hospital and morgue records in order to find some trace of his name, but to no avail. 

It has been a long search and we do not plan on giving up, but we have finally decided that it is time to follow the great man’s instructions, and so today, after six months with no news from him, it is with a mixed emotional bouquet of sadness, pride and nostalgia that we release Speed Am Rhein and put the 66 cassettes on sale. 

All tracks mastered by Julien Guillot aka Stazma
Artwork by Thomas Perrodin

Thomas Bodenständig - Hochgeschwindigkeitshandel (Christian Coiffure Remix)

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Lil Taty, Belgrade based producer and DJ. Co-owner of Minor Adjustments records and MURK podcast head-honcho. Releases music under various pseudonyms: Lil Taty, BOTANIKA, Smetnja, DJ ANA KOURNIKOVA. Supported by etiquettes such as Lowlife Cartel, Clan Destine Records, Classical Trax, SEAGRAVE, HEEL.ZONE and more...

Cover photo by: Tatjana Radičević Planinčić

Lil Taty [01.03.2021]

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