Dopplereffekt to Kontra musik
For those of you who missed Dopplereffekts appearance on February 2nd or perhaps haven´t had a chance to see them yet, make sure to catch up 
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Dopplereffekt are one of the strangest and most mysterious units of the contemporary electronic music scene. There are no interviews and hardly any live appearances. Nobody really knows who they are, their releases have so far only been available on limited vinyl on Dataphysix/Detroit. The composers hide behind strange German pseudonyms whereas the song titles and lyrics are in English and make up a strange mixture of scientific, sexually explicit and political allusions.
Dopplereffekt’s music is also highly eclectic and unusual. Even if at first sight the forefathers Kraftwerk seem to be more than present Dopplereffekt have developed a very own and highly influential sound aesthetic, without which the current electro-hype seems to be unthinkable.
Dopplereffekt also always went an unusual path with their stylish anti-style in cover artwork, which has always been surprisingly and provocatively plain.
The brain behind this mythical group is scientist Heinrich Mueller (Drexciya, Arpanet, Japanese Telecom, der Zyklus etc). They had a great impact on the electro clash sound around 2000 and tracks like Plastiphilia (listen) and Rocket Scientist (listen) are strong soundtracks to this era. What few people know is that the tracks were produced already 5 years earlier, in Detroit…
Today their music is more experimental but at the same time also more daring, mature and interesting. The experimental album Linear Accelerator, released on International Deejay Gigolo was this year followed by their latest release, Calabi Yau Space. This Rephlex release is a beautiful melodic and rhythmic journey in to the world of theoretical physics and string theory (listen).
Great melody, rhythm and harmony begins with sound itself and it is on this level that Dopplereffekt is concentrating. This is ’Techno’ in the sense that the term was originally intended.
Discography:
“Gesamtkunstwek” – Clone Classic Cuts (2007)
“Calabi Yau Space” – Rephlex (2007)
“Linear Accelerator” – International Deejay Gigolo (2003)
“Myon-Neutrino/Z-Boson EP” – International Deejay Gigolo (2002)
”Scientist Mixes EP” – International Deejay Gigolo (2001)
“Scientist EP” – International Deejay Gigolo (2001)
“Gesamtkunstwek” – International Deejay Gigolo (1999)
“Sterilization EP” – Dataphysix Engineering (1997)
“Infophysix EP” – Dataphysix Engineering (1995)
“Cellular 7-inch” – Dataphysix Engineering (1995)
Do you enjoy fat EBM drums…
….than check out this guys. A couple of really nice tracks and an excellent debut album was released last year.
Click the image below to go to their website:
10.000 mark reached last night
Last night this blog reached, at least in my mind, an amazing 10.000 level – meaning that this blog, since its start last spring, now has had more than 10.000 unique visitors.
Thanks for your great support and let us continue to inspire the electro community with good stuff during this year.
Shout!!
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Have a great weekend!!
Synthmusic in commercials?
Synth music has a tendency to stick in the sub-cultures of the music scene, but once i a while you find some indications that things might ne changing, although I am still scepticle that it will ever be so. Remember the old synth pioneers Devo, well these guys arguably has done some work to put synth music on the map and recently saw this add where IT-giants Dell actually uses Devo for one of their commercials – although you have to watch the video for some time before you actually understands what the video is all about, LOL
DEVO wrote this song called “Watch Us Work It” and recorded it in Los Angeles, CA, and produced by Sweden’s famous Teddy Bears. DELL heard it because Paul Malmstrom and Linus Karlsson at the Mother agency in NYC played it for them as a possibility for a song for their TV campaign featuring a newly developed, high-end laptop computer. DELL liked it, and now you can of course enjoy it here too. I do not claim to give you some brand, hot news directly out of the press, the video is about 6 months old, but still…
Enjoy!
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Want to know more about what is going on with Devo >>
Yazoo will re-unite next year
At least rumours has it that Vince Clarc and Alison Moyet will go on tour next year. And perhaps I will have to chew my last entry about not watching performances by old 80’s bands. Yazoo would definately be worth seeing live – much rather them than the utterly boring Erasure band.
Most likely their will also be a re-issue of their old stuff – why anyone would want to buy them, since readers of this blog most likely have everything by Yazoo already, maybe one can hope for some unreleased tracks…
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Gladiator from Tone2
Seems like we have to wait until Xmas to see this beauty in action on Mac – can´t wait
Advanced HCM (new synthesis), FM, AM, PWM, sync, phase modulation, Vocoder sounds, waveshaping, distortion, supersaw, additive sounds, resynthesis sounds, phase distortion sounds, sample playback, 30208 waveforms, 18 OSCs per voice, 40 different stereo filters, 20 effects, real stereo, 162x oversampling, programmable ARP & Step LFO/trancegate, BPM syncable, microtuning, EQ, modular routing
Gladiator is the biggest Tone2 project so far.
You need (must) to listen to it …
Really good sounding electro >>
C=iao
Modeselektor says Happy Birthday
Since my son had his birthday this week I thought I´d follow that up with a Happy Birthday song from Modeselektor plus a bonus video
Grattis Lukas – click on image to go to their MySpace website and listen to the Happy Birthday song
Bonus – Modeselektor live:
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Twice a man – new album on its way
The old dolphines and whales sampling pioneers are due with a new album early next year. Their old album has always been a good source of inspiration. Their new album Clouds will be released on Jan 25th so make sure to check it out.
Clouds:
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01: Opening 02: Novemberness 03: Solitude 04: Mars Is Still Around 05: Microhive 06: Skylark 07: Letters 08: Clouds 09: Conquerer 10: When September Shined 11: Shoe |
This is the first release from Twice a Man since Johnny Friberg joined founders Dan Söderqvist and Karl Gasleben as a permanent member. He hasn’t joined the band on stage yet though, but is responsible for a lot of the quite advanced rhythm programming. Shall be quite interesting to see what he can add.
Below one of my old favorites:
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C=iao
Spacesynth
Excellent resource for Spacesynth
Spacesynth, synthdance, spacedance, spacedisco or whatever you want to call it is instrumental upbeat synth music that focuses on melodies instead of rhythm. Driving basslines, catchy synth riffs, sci-fi influences and futuristic track titles and album covers have always been a major part of spacesynth.
Spacesynth originated in the mid 80’s. At that time synthesizers and electronic sounds had become an essential part of popular music and were widely used by such artists as Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Art of Noise. Synthpop hits like Magnetic Fields 2, Pulstar and Magic Fly are well known tracks even today.
Protonic Storm is a synthdance project by Krzysztof Radomski. The creator of Protonic Storm lives in Kowary, Poland. He’s the first synthdance artist from Poland who has released music abroad! Krzysztof has been making music since 1997, mainly synthdance, but sometimes also psychedelic trance and ambient. At first he put some of his tracks to traxinspace.com, then to sites like Spacesynth.de (formerly known as Laserdance.de) and finally MP3.com.
Resources
Epsilon Pages, www.epsilonpages.net
Front 242
Before the weekend starts
As one of the most commercially successful industrial acts of the late ’80s and early ’90s, Front 242 still adhered to the gritty, stripped-down basics of industrial rock even after finding limited commercial success.
Forming in Belgium in 1981, Front 242 took the minimalist ethos of post-punk acts such as Public Image Ltd. and combined them with techno sounds, pioneering the harsh sounds of industrial rock. Industrial sounds were intended to reflect modern industrial society, both through a reliance upon technology reflecting modern production methods and through the band’s attitude toward making music.
With massive, pounding beats generated through a drum machine rather than a live player providing Front 242 a heavy backbone for its harsh sounds, the band emphasized its synthetically produced sounds. With steady machine-like tempos pushed out by drum machines, Front 242 further strengthened the link between its sound and industrial production.
While heavy beats dominate the band’s sound, other aspects shine through musically. Keyboards and synthesizers pump minimalist melodies throughout each song, and guitar work is held to a similarly withdrawn sound. With a combination of grating, repetitive sounds and random bursts of modest harmonics, Front 242’s style was designed to both embrace and assault listeners.
Full story here >>
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Have a nice weekend
C=iao
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