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Cluster - Zuckerzeit (remastered Spv Digipack Of 1974 Album) Cluster - Zuckerzeit (remastered Spv Digipack Of 1974 Album) The most important and consistently underrated space-rock unit of the '70s, Cluster (originally Kluster) was formed by Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler as an improv group that used everything from synthesizers to alarm clocks and kitchen utensils in their performances. Continuing on as a duo, Moebius and Roedelius eventually recorded many landmark LPs - separately, as a duo, and with all manner of guest artists from Brian Eno to Conny Plank to Neu!'s Michael Rother - in the field of German space music, often termed kosmische. Cluster also continued to explore ambient music into the '90s, long after their contemporaries had drifted into tamer new age music or ceased recording altogether. Zuckerzeit (Sugar Time) is a well titled release; after the stark and (at times) testing Cluster II, this is an altogether sweeter affair. The music here is much denser, with more colour and a much greater degree of poppiness, all lending the album a pleasingly light and upbeat feel. One very obvious difference to Cluster II is the extensive use of drum machines, meaning that where tracks had previously consisted of layers of synthesizer noise, they now have a definite rhythm, seeming to free the melodic side of the band. Actually, Zuckerzeit is an album put together by two separate artists operating under a collective title, with Moebius and Roedelius each contributing five tracks and while this kind of behaviour rarely produces a unified outcome, here the album holds together nicely. Although Cluster are less well known than the likes of Kraftwerk, this material deserves to be considered as being as influential and important in the development of electronic music. This is powerful and creative music and for anyone looking to venture into the less Rock side of Krautrock, or into groundbreaking electronic music, it s a very fine place to start. 1. Hollywood 2. Caramel 3. Rote Riki 4. Rosa 5. Caramba 6. Fotschi Tong 7. James 8. Marzipan 9. Rotor 10. Heisse Lippen
₪99.00
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno - The Equatorial Stars Robert Fripp & Brian Eno - The Equatorial Stars In many ways, this album is everything one would have expected-- somehow the natural successor to "No Pussyfooting" and "Evening Star". In other ways, its nothing like I would have expected-- the usual stamps of Fripp and Eno's recent work seems to be missing. Its really quite hard to largely identify the identity of the musician generating the sound on much of this material, there's obvious stuff (we'll come to that in a minute), but as a rule, the backgrounds could be either of them. Sonically, it moves through a number of backdrops, with delicate, percussive, synthish loops dominating the early part of the record ("Meissa", "Lyra", "Tarazed"), wheras the middle of the record feels more like their old collaborations updated, the sort of modern Fripp soundscapes being more apparent ("Lupus", "Ankaa"). The remainder of the album features on track that is totally unexpected, the downright funky "Altair", with its train shuffling rhythms, drum loops, and funky guitar (in ways similar to material from the Eno/Schwaum "Drawn from Life" record), and the closer, "Terebellum", is an aggressive, haunting, and almost angry sounding piece almost reminiscent of "Radiophonics" or the other more aggressive soundscapes. Over this material, Fripp largely solos using a variant of his legendary fuzz tone-- its a bit mellower, and rounder though, similar to his leads on "Starless" and "The Power to Believe Part II" but in a more hushed feel. So that tells not much, the real question is, what's it like? Largely an ambient affair, the collaboration is what you'd expect-- there's no real incindiery moments here-- don't look for a "Baby's On Fire", but it is comparable to their previous collaborations in quality, and it certainly sounds nothing like Crimson. Some of it is full of delicate beauty ("Lyra"), some of its just a blast ("Altair"), some of its actually quite hard to listen to at all ("Terebellum"). For fans of ambient music, especially the work of these two gentelemen, this one will be quite rewarding. It falls short somehow of being a masterpiece, but it is really a great record. Recommended.
₪79.00
Senor Coconut & His Orchestra - Yellow Fever Senor Coconut & His Orchestra - Yellow Fever Continuing on its cockeyed way through genre exercise and radical reinterpretation, Se?or Coconut, having redone one set of electronic legends in Kraftwerk years back, takes another turn with the archly titled Yellow Fever For indeed, it's the Yellow Magic Orchestra that gets the treatment this time out, but unlike the earlier effort, this is done not only with the individual participation of all three YMO veterans, but with any number of musical guests, from Towa Tei to Mouse on Mars. The sheer number of mix-and-match efforts throughout, highlighted by a number of shorter pieces that serve as bridges between the full-on covers, could almost be a hip-hop album in an alternate universe, but the basic consistency at the heart of the album is clear -- Uwe Schmidt in his Se?or Coconut guise, with vocalist Argenis Brito appearing throughout, transmogrifying YMO songs into classic Latin pop numbers. Anyone well familiar with the memorable hooks of songs like "Rydeen" and "Behind the Mask" will love the end results; anyone coming to it all completely as-is for the first time could readily enjoy it as such. The guest appearances make the album even more of a random surprise, as when Akufen applies his patented hyper-cut-up procedure to "Coco Agogo," or when Tei and Nouvelle Vague's Marina kick up their heels on a swinging multilingual '30s jazz original, "Mambo Numerique" -- which of course is punctuated by a electronically growling vocal break. Perhaps the most appropriate reworking is "Limbo," which YMO member Yukihiro Takahashi smoothly performs as well as he did the first time around while the arrangements almost explode around him. Haruomi Hosono's lead on "The Madmen" is no less deft and playful, while Ryuichi Sakamoto's turn on "Yellow Magic (Tong Poo)," if less immediately apparent, completes the trifecta nicely.
₪39.00
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (gatefold Vinyl Lp) Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (gatefold Vinyl Lp) RECEIVED AN 8.6 BEST NEW MUSIC RATING FROM PITCHFORK. TIM HECKER's latest work approaches a form of secular musical transcendentalism from within the battered temple of spirituality. Recorded in a church in Reykjavik, Iceland and using a pipe organ as the primary sound source, this new piece is essentially a live recording. In reality, it exists in a nether world between captured live performance and meticulous studio work, melding the two approaches to sonic artifice as a unity. It is in parts a document of air circulating within a wooden room, and also a pagan work of physical resonance within a space once reserved for the hallowed breath of the divine. While the title of the piece "Hatred of Music" might be a clue, the album is also partly an attempt to confront a pervasive negativity surrounding music. Historical rituals of destroying pianos, mountains of pirated CDRs pushed by bulldozers in Eastern Europe, or the melancholy of the digital music era began as sideline motifs which quickly informed the work on this record. They also really didn't at all. Despite that the context is wide open in such a form of musical abstraction, the substance of these immersive compositions showcases Hecker?s continued mastery of organizing sound into a visceral near entity. It is an almost physical presence that the listener feels as much as hears. This work is a significant contribution to Hecker's oeuvre, one which spans over ten years of musical production. Ravedeath is an enigmatic document of beauty and force. The album was recorded mostly over the period of one day in July of 2010. Iceland-based musician Ben Frost assisted with the engineering and performs on this recording. 8th release since 2001 from this conceptual electronic experimentalist out of Montreal, Canada. Recorded in an Icelandic church with a pipe organ as the primary sound source, here's a chance to be engulfed by a cathartic, dark & sweeping beauty--on a ride of gently soaring and continuously expansive soundwave vibrations with an infinite potential for universal transcendence to an unknowable destination. A powerful, mesmerizing mix of subtly terrifying drone-noise chasms in an ambrosial ambient haze of floating opiate spirituality. Recalls Ben Frost (who plays on the album), Bjorn Olsson, Stars Of the Lid, Mike Oldfield (charlie quaker)
₪99.00
Unkle - Where Did The Night Fall (ltd Edition Box Set Cd+book) Unkle - Where Did The Night Fall (ltd Edition Box Set Cd+book) Doing away with any preconceived notions, UNKLE changed things up drastically for their fourth official album. With Richard File out of the picture and Pablo Clements picking up the reins as James Lavelle's sideman, the duo leaves trip-hop and digitally skewed breakbeats at the wayside. As a substitute, the new incarnation goes the band route, using primarily live instrumentation and a garage rock/psych pop sonic palette. Those who followed UNKLE after the breakout success of Psyence Fiction will be familiar with Lavelle's inclinations to try to rock in a post-Spooky world, which usually led him down a road of mediocre results, but where War Stories fused electronic aspects with saturated stoner rock, Where Did the Night Fall is a focused production of thick, heavily orchestrated Brit-rock, along the lines of Clinic and Muse. Per usual, vocalists take turns, phoning in from their respective area codes, and Autolux, Mark Lanegan, Elle. J, Big in Japan, Sleepy Sun, and the Black Angels turn in excellent performances. Even so, the studio band of Joel Cadbury, James Griffith, Matthew Pierce, and drummers Graham Fox and White Denim's Josh Block (among others, including the Heritage Orchestra) steal the show. The songs feel less flawed than previous experiments, with a unified vibe due to the eerie cement-wall production that overlays everything. No hip-hop MC detours. No dodgy instrumentals. Just groovy fuzz basslines, wayward drumming, chugging guitars, pulsing organs, and echoey vocals sung over minor chords that give way to tense, white-hot hooks. It's an explicit leap into new territory for the band, and though the second half may drag a bit, songs like "Natural Selection," "Joy Factory," "The Answer," and "On a Wire" make for some of UNKLE's all-time best singles, ones that rank right up there with "Rabbit in Your Headlights" and "Lonely Soul."
₪149.00