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dekorder (germany) #dekorder 27 lp

black to comm “fractal hair geometry” long playing record

  • negative volumes (7:08)
  • orange record (7:58)
  • play eggchess 3 (5:48)
  • leigh bowery (6:34)
  • m.b. memorial building (7:34)
  • 666909 (3:50)
  • air salon (5:31)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "m.b. memorial building"
october 2008 release ; solo work from dekorder’s marc richter, with guests ranging from kuupuu & guido möbius to members of aosuke & datashock ...

a pervasive electronic gating effect dominates throughout ; i can’t help but be reminded of countrymen (actually, marc’s fellow hamburgers) faust (think : the pulsing noises that comprise “krautrock” before the drum lift-off) - always a good sign ...
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[027] black to comm "fractal hair geometry" lp


black to comm is the solo venture of dekorder label boss marc richter. having released two and a half albums on his own label he is slowly establishing himself as one of the more prolific drone artists out there with a forthcoming album on the american digitalis label, a collaborative cd with datashock on ikuisuus, a 7" on the irish trensmat label and a collaboration with xela in the works

"fractal hair geometry“ is richter's most refined and original work to date, picking up where the electrifying drone works of his monumental double-lp left off. like the last records this album is centered around recordings of a variety of vintage organs. while "wir können leider..." often featured pure harmonium sounds and spacious recordings of chuch organ and mellotron, the new album opts for a more electronic, effects-laden sound, sending an old farfisa compact deluxe and casio sk-5 through an armada of analogue & digital effects pedals. the results are massive one-chord drones layered into dense & ecstatic, flickering & pulsating clusters of psychedelic electronic sound. additional wordless vocal effects, hyperventilating & sizzling drum machines and hypnotic violin and guitar noises make for a hyperactive sound that never stands still even though most of the music is pure drones (sometimes consisting of more than 50 recording layers). decidedly simple but gorgeous melodies shine through the mist from time to time, making a black to comm record always much more accessible than your average drone album.

there's even a heavy 4/4 bass drum smuggled into a track dedicated to the late leigh bowery, one of the most enigmatic creative figures of the mid-80's uk club scene (and singer of minty).

guests include jonna karanka (aka kuupuu) on piano, guido möbius on trumpet and current black to comm (live) band members renate nikolaus on violin and ulf schütte (of datashock, aosuke, etc.) adding electronic sounds.

along the lines of the music, seminal german artist oliver ross has created a massive multi-layered neon-coloured collage artwork which is printed on special ultra-heavy cardboard stock.

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dekorder (germany) #dekorder 27 cd

black to comm “fractal hair geometry” compact disc

  • negative volumes (7:08)
  • orange record (7:58)
  • play eggchess 3 (5:48)
  • leigh bowery (6:34)
  • m.b. memorial building (7:34)
  • 666909 (3:50)
  • air salon (5:31)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "m.b. memorial building"
october 2008 release ; solo work from dekorder’s marc richter, with guests ranging from kuupuu & guido möbius to members of aosuke & datashock ...

a pervasive electronic gating effect dominates throughout ; i can’t help but be reminded of countrymen (actually, marc’s fellow hamburgers) faust (think : the pulsing noises that comprise “krautrock” before the drum lift-off) - always a good sign ...
dekorder press release...

[027] black to comm "fractal hair geometry" cd


black to comm is the solo venture of dekorder label boss marc richter. having released two and a half albums on his own label he is slowly establishing himself as one of the more prolific drone artists out there with a forthcoming album on the american digitalis label, a collaborative cd with datashock on ikuisuus, a 7" on the irish trensmat label and a collaboration with xela in the works

"fractal hair geometry“ is richter's most refined and original work to date, picking up where the electrifying drone works of his monumental double-lp left off. like the last records this album is centered around recordings of a variety of vintage organs. while "wir können leider..." often featured pure harmonium sounds and spacious recordings of chuch organ and mellotron, the new album opts for a more electronic, effects-laden sound, sending an old farfisa compact deluxe and casio sk-5 through an armada of analogue & digital effects pedals. the results are massive one-chord drones layered into dense & ecstatic, flickering & pulsating clusters of psychedelic electronic sound. additional wordless vocal effects, hyperventilating & sizzling drum machines and hypnotic violin and guitar noises make for a hyperactive sound that never stands still even though most of the music is pure drones (sometimes consisting of more than 50 recording layers). decidedly simple but gorgeous melodies shine through the mist from time to time, making a black to comm record always much more accessible than your average drone album.

there's even a heavy 4/4 bass drum smuggled into a track dedicated to the late leigh bowery, one of the most enigmatic creative figures of the mid-80's uk club scene (and singer of minty).

guests include jonna karanka (aka kuupuu) on piano, guido möbius on trumpet and current black to comm (live) band members renate nikolaus on violin and ulf schütte (of datashock, aosuke, etc.) adding electronic sounds.

along the lines of the music, seminal german artist oliver ross has created a massive multi-layered neon-coloured collage artwork which is printed on special ultra-heavy cardboard stock.

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$17.84

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dekorder (germany) #dekorder 21 lp

black to comm / aosuke “split” long playing record

  • black to comm - blizzard angels of the golden stratosphere
  • black to comm - stereo lung flute

  • aosuke - ping pong mann
  • aosuke - mabu mabu
  • aosuke -ein erdnusstraum
note - due to a little bit of pressing-plant funniness, the labels of sides a/b are in fact reversed (check the run-out groove for verification) - not that it ultimately matters, just sayin’ is all...
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[021] black to comm / aosuke split-lp

limited edition of 500 copies!

this vinyl-only split-lp release is a meeting of two of the most interesting bands coming out of hamburg, germany at this moment, both continuing the long tradition of both challenging and explorative music coming from this city in the last decades. from krautrock to the origins of the so-called neue deutsche welle from experimental sound artists to some of the finest pop ambient, hamburg is regularly spitting out some of the most singular artists on this planet. both aosuke and black to comm have absorbed influences from all these sources (and a million others) while working towards their very own individual vision.

the two brand new tracks by black to comm are continuing the massive organ/voice drone alchemy of the last double-lp while refining and personalizing his sound, reaching new heights of blazing sonic mysticism.

aosuke have decided to home-record their new material, continuing their loop-oriented, monotone yet highly melodic ambient journeys. working with repetition and small abstractions, all instrumental "loops" are played by hand and recorded live without overdubs (one of the main principles of the guitar/electronics duo), creating surprisingly concrete dormant and somnambulistic soundscapes while fortunately completely lacking the washy and drowsy effects of most ambient music.

black to comm is the one-man project of marc richter who is the brain behind the dekorder label as well. so far he has released two albums on his own label ("rückwärts backwards" and "wir können leider nicht etwas mehr zu tun...").

aosuke is the duo of tobert knopp and ulf schütte, the latter being a label head as well (tape tektoniks). last year they have released their debut "monotone spirits" album co-released by hamburg's audiolith label and south germany's meudiademorte label.

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playback-music
plunder-phonic
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dekorder (germany) #dekorder 14 lp

black to comm “rückwärts backwards” long playing record

  • bees
  • levitation
  • lucifer lacca
  • rückwarts backwards

  • el huis pt. 1
  • es gibt kein morgen
  • march of the vivian girls
  • virtuosity is a means to an end
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "rückwarts backwards"
july 2006 release ; limited vinyl edition ...
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[014] black to comm "rückwärts backwards" lp/cd

black to comm is an alias for dekorder label owner marc richter's audio excursions. "rückwärts backwards" is his debut full-length album recorded between 2003 and 2005 in his adopted hometown hamburg and his childhood home in the black forest located in the south of germany. with a background in many musical styles (from psychedelia to pure computer music) btc's music is never easy to pin down.

this album is essentially created from scratchy shellac and vinyl loops merged with ambience field recordings (with some voice manipulations and kitchen gamelan thrown in for good measure). the warm hiss of analogue recording techniques combined with the apparently antique sounds of vintage organs, acoustic & electric guitars, pianos, glockenspiel and mbira used on these tracks generate a kind of hyperreal, fake nostalgia playing with one's perception of a pseudo-recollection. the layering and hypnotic repetition of short loops extracted from old psychedelia, free jazz, vaudeville and traditional records reveal a haunting melodic quality sometimes not distinguishable within the original source material, evoking a hovering feeling of bittersweet melancholy with an omnipresent, slightly disturbing atmosphere hidden beneath the surface.

the 8 songs constantly sway back and forth between simple, almost naive arrangements and dense surrreal drones with rare, yet intense distorted climaxes making this album one constantly absorbing listening experience.

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dekorder (germany) #dekorder 14 cd

black to comm “rückwärts backwards” compact disc

  • bees
  • levitation
  • lucifer lacca
  • rückwarts backwards
  • el huis pt. 1
  • es gibt kein morgen
  • march of the vivian girls
  • virtuosity is a means to an end
dekorder press release...
[014] black to comm "rückwärts backwards" lp/cd

black to comm is an alias for dekorder label owner marc richter's audio excursions. "rückwärts backwards" is his debut full-length album recorded between 2003 and 2005 in his adopted hometown hamburg and his childhood home in the black forest located in the south of germany. with a background in many musical styles (from psychedelia to pure computer music) btc's music is never easy to pin down.

this album is essentially created from scratchy shellac and vinyl loops merged with ambience field recordings (with some voice manipulations and kitchen gamelan thrown in for good measure). the warm hiss of analogue recording techniques combined with the apparently antique sounds of vintage organs, acoustic & electric guitars, pianos, glockenspiel and mbira used on these tracks generate a kind of hyperreal, fake nostalgia playing with one's perception of a pseudo-recollection. the layering and hypnotic repetition of short loops extracted from old psychedelia, free jazz, vaudeville and traditional records reveal a haunting melodic quality sometimes not distinguishable within the original source material, evoking a hovering feeling of bittersweet melancholy with an omnipresent, slightly disturbing atmosphere hidden beneath the surface.

the 8 songs constantly sway back and forth between simple, almost naive arrangements and dense surrreal drones with rare, yet intense distorted climaxes making this album one constantly absorbing listening experience.

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dekorder (germany) #dekorder 06 ep

black to comm “black to comm” ten inch single record

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  • untitled (3:12)
  • untitled (1:48)
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[006] black to comm 10" limited edition of 250 copies! clear vinyl!

debut release by this new outfit from our homebase hamburg, germany. an exciting mixture of dark, slowly evolving drones, beautifully distorted melodies which have been compared to early fennesz, pimmon and the like, obscure hard rock sampling meets raw data manipulation sounding like earth jamming with merzbow, digital noise and computer improvisations. a beautiful and disturbing record! on this release black to comm works with mp3-sampling, photoshop composition and broken software.

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electro-acoustic-improvisation
analogue-synth
beat-research

quasi pop (ukraine) #qpop 040 cd

“million ways to spend your time” compact disc

  • black to comm “sleeep”
  • continental fruit “a trusted friend”
  • peel off the bass “between scylla and charybdis”
  • monofilament “straum og honning”
  • tv pow “downtown afternoon”
  • lasse marhaug “spook asphalt”
  • andrey kiritchenko “for behemoth who was afraid of darkness”
  • origami epileptika “beatmaster”
  • 8rolek “repeated fall (everyday blues)”
  • jorgen knudsen “frogs”
  • o. lamm “a pistol for yuka and haruki”
  • the complainer “ultragigolette (goes ukraine version)”
  • andreas brandal “electric hole”
  • alexey petrov «two clowns»
  • batcheeba “are you afraid”
  • charsky “cats and dogs”
  • biblioteka prospero “...v pleske lezviy...”
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "black to comm - sleeep"
nice compilation of guitar-heavy electronica & abstract digital music from the ukrainian quasi pop label, featuring hits from black to comm, tv pow, lasse marhaug, audrey kiritchenko, origami epileptika, etc...
quasi pop press release...
v/a · million ways to spend your time

qpop cd040
cd in digifile
limited edition 500
total time: 72:18

“…a thousand girls, a thousand thrills, a million ways to spend your time when we get back, i'll drop the line…”

cd compilation “million ways to spend your time” is dedicated to 5th birthday of ukrainian label quasi pop. it represents new & rare works works by label mates and exclusive tracks from quasi pop's friends from different countries:

black to comm — fantastic deep gentle track made with vinyl loops, sounds like “old kraut-drone-psychedelic stuff”. this project runs by dekorder label owner marc richter from hamburg, germany.

continental fruit is the member of bergen's experimental scene, but he hasn't got huge discography yet. continental fruit have been released only 7" vinyl on smalltown supersound, but we got really rare new track from him!

peel off the bass — our favourite ukrainian rock group recorded especially for this cd first track (in romantic garage kraut-style) for the last few years.

monofilament — the first recorded track after 10 years break by this experimental duo from bergen, norway. monofilament are: andreas brandal & espen sommer-eide (phonophani, alog). crazy tape manipulations!

tv pow — deep environmental piece from this chicago-based free-improv trio. tw pow are well-known artists after their successful releases on labels such as box media, bottrop, erstwhile, staalplaat & gentle giant.

lasse marhaug — surely, the main man of norwegian noise. lasse is an active solo-artist, also he is a half of outstanding duo jazkamer. besides he owns the label, working as designer and takes part in projects origami republica and del. here he presents psychedelic-noise-collage stuff.

andrey kiritchenko — quiet electro-acoustic piece with beautiful guitar drones and overtones. probably, andrey is the most prolific & successful ukrainian electronic/experimental artist. he is also the core founder of experimental ukrainian label nexsound.

origami epileptika — norwegian multi-culture, cross-genre art-unit origami (replika, republika etc). one of his faces is weird psycho-country drone composition which is represented here.

8rolek — cracking and swinging electronic record by one of the leading artists from great polish label mik music.

jorgen knudsen — inexhaustible norwegian inventor, dreamer and experimentalist recorded for our release congratulant ecologic froggy jazz. pop, noise & circus-maximus!

olivier lamm — “j-pop style” song from one of the leading and most interesting artists from french super avant-pop label active suspension.

the complainer — another powerful beat-based outfit from poland runs by wojtek kucharczyk, he is also the main force of mik music label.

andreas brandal — “analogue wizard” and our good friend from norway presented us probably the loudest, most abrasive and intensive track on the compilation. pretty good record in “old good industrial style”.

alexey petrov — he is the author of this minimalistic, but great-sounding piece for laptop and 2 samples. he is most likely our favorite electronic artist for the moment. actually, he is one of the most talented young audio experimentalists from ukraine.

batcheeba — the newest composition from very talented singer/songwriter janne waage berset from bergen, norway.

charsky — the new and exclusive song from mysterious & charismatic ex-leader of the cult ukrainian group nekraina.

biblioteka prospero — single-minded but spontaneous live improvisation for saxophone, vintage soviet synth, prepared piano and bass. also you can hear the short «festive» text in russian.

great thanks a lot for all contributors!
this cd comes in high-quality digifile with nice “sexy jazzy gdr” style.
this edition is limited to 500 copies only.

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