Browse by Label: AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)

Artist:	QUIO
Title:	Gazon Gasolina/So Dazed
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	AGF 001EP

"AGF announces Quio...AGF is a content producer and believer. Living in Berlin, Quio is an MC and singer living in Berlin -- formerly known as MC Looney Tunes. Quio goes pop or occasionally comic. 'Gazon Gazolina' is a downbeat tune recorded in October 2003 when Quio was highly pregnant maybe that explains the speed ??? 'So Dazed' is a spring tune -- and a serious attempt to be charming." File Under: Hip Hop, Clicks and Cuts ragga, pop, two step hybrid, charts. 5 tracks, including AGF remix.

Artist:	AGF/DELAY
Title:	Explode
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	AGF 003CD

"AGF aka Antye Greie (Germany) and Vladislav Delay (Finland), both known for their various solo releases and worldwide performances release their first full length collaborative album. A dialogue between a drummer and a vocalist, 2 musical activists combine their talents and express their views with music they aspire for, exploring in their unique way. AGF and Vladislav Delay exercise a conscious decision to stay away from their signature sounds and styles featured on their solo works. Explode Baby is a complex collaboration with special ingredients both artists possess and bring in. The album hosts big and small stories, where human touch is always present and imagination is given a room to breathe. The album displays a mutual mix of their influences and musical needs. Antye Greie and Vladislav Delay collected inspiration for this album from the contemporary life and people seen around, in news and on the streets. Observing the world from various angles. Recollections of what was witnessed or heard, felt or understood. Bringing the memories in and keeping the emotions open, they translate what's under into an eclectic and personal collage of sound and soul where sometimes less is more. Self-release from home studio. Music in their common language. The world as their inspiration. AGF/Delay share a passion to cross borders, musically and while travelling, with an open mind. Subtle suggestions. Definite expressions. Silent explosions."

Artist:	QUIO
Title:	Like Oooh!
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 004CD

Quio is a Berlin-based MC, singer, and performer who started MCing in 1997 as MC Looney Tunes. This is her first full-length album, and her second release for AGF Producktion. She performed with drum n' bass and hip-hop DJs in Berlin and throughout Europe, going on to meet DJ G-Serve from Audiotaxi and DJ Christine Lang. Quio is also a part of a radio show on Berlin's former pirate radio station TWEN FM. Quio met AGF (Antye Greie) when they both performed in a club, and various collaborations followed. In 2003 they started Quio. AGF and Quio have put together their different herkunft, to come up with some unique new combinations of hip-hop lyrics and experimental electronic beats -- mixing drum n' bass MC rhymes with anthem-like sad tracks. Between walking to playgrounds, talking to mothers, saving babies from being driven over, spoon feeding, clothes washing and food shopping, Quio has compiled an album full of eclectic combinations -- uptempo beats and sweet, melancholy tunes; two-steps and Greek string guitars; heavy metal and electroclash. Quio wants to be misunderstood and taken unseriously. She will break unbearable content into amusing snippets of new sense, or break up nonsense while replacing them with playful clichés. Her ability to MC along with a vast array of breakbeat music such as drum n' bass, U.K. garage, hip-hop etc. has gifted her with both twisted and profound lyrical content. Guest artists include 15 year-old singer Lise, Dr. Dee, AGF, Audiotaxi, Daddy Jotka, DJ G-Serve, MC Chubba, Dr. Data, and Lempapa.

Artist:	ZAVOLOKA & AGF
Title:	Nature Never Produces The Same Beat Twice
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 005CD

This is a collaboration between Ukrainian musician, producer and graphic designer Zavoloka aka Kateryna Zavoloka and German vocalist, poet, musician and producer AGF aka Antye Greie. During several live collaborations and some sound material exchanges they developed the concept of creating techno for trees. Nature beats. The idea was to extract existing environmental sounds and form a variation of beats and vocal snippets to make powerful nature-techno. The inspiration evolved out of the structure of forest leaves and berries, translated into musical rhythm and moods. Nature Never Produces The Same Beat Twice contains 50 one-minute compositions each dedicated to a certain plant. The tracks are split into five subgroups: trees/bushes/meadow/flowers/spices. The structure of the pieces are woody, spicy, discontinuous and recurrent, with flavors like: grain, sappiness, chime, species, extraction and vitality. One technique they used to produce these irregular but repetitive beat patterns was to set up an old-school metronome, count in and start to battle the beat with live drumming played through self-designed sound banks, directly recording into powerful converters. Blending English and Ukrainian folk tradition, this material is feminine and organic and sounds like nothing else.

Artist:	LAUB
Title:	Deinetwegen
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 006CD

Laub are Antye Greie and Jotka and Deinetwegen is their fifth studio album. Deinetwegen sounds like a 21st century post techno version of the blues. Since their previous release, both members found families and developed into serious adulthood and are ready to show the world what a German post-techno band can do. The duo are ready to show the blues, with all their dust, moody narratives, and other complicated arrangements, much in the spirit of John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters -- clear, simple, reduced, honest. This is their interpretation of German 21st century blues. No sampling of old records, but certainly studying the old material helped them to write lyrics about things observed in the multimedia offices of Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. The title track is the key song, with Laub-trademark vocals and pop references that refuse to function as pop. The song is not only a love song to the people in their lives, it is also a pure devotional hymn to the blues.

Artist:	QUIO
Title:	Phiu!
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 007CD

Quio, the MC and singer based in Berlin's buzzing club scene, has finished her second album with electronic producer, AGF. She is one of the few female MCs in Germany, and she drops her rhymes over drum'n'bass, garage and dubstep. With Phiu!, she continues to follow her own path. She is already highly acclaimed by critics for her first album, Like Oooh!, released in 2005. On this record, the versatile vocalist shows once again how multi-faceted her styles can be. From the angry rapper to the delicate singer, from the light-hearted MC to the serious speaking artist. Be assured, with Quio's vibrating mixture of hip-hop, club, electronica and pop you will never get bored! She plunges readily in and out of her collected influences: from Ol' Dirty Bastard over the Beastie Boys to Tanya Stevens, Lady Saw and Sovereign, from The Smiths to Phoenix. All these are minced up, recombined and given the unique electronic flavor of Quio's producer, AGF aka Antye Greie. Strong beats support high-impact rap, and deep bass brings out the tangent fragility of Quio's vocal lines. Quio has also invited some prominent guests to support her crazy styles: Nicolette, Edu K, Audiotaxi, Lise, Afia, Kwaku, Nanie, Lempapa, Dr. Data and Al Haca.

Artist:	AGF
Title:	Words Are Missing
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	AGF 008CD

Berlin-based AGF (aka Antye Greie) is a vocalist, software musician, producer, label-owner and e-poet. With her fourth solo album, Words Are Missing, she leaves words behind, instead using voice, beats and drones to create a huge palette of unique sounds to work around the phenomenon of silence, speechlessness, deconstructed language and impeded communication. The subjects in which the wordlessness is expressed are carefully chosen and vary from dark-memory experiences like visiting the concentration camp in Buchenwald (when the artist was 16) to beat-driven humorous content, like the track called "Kreuzwortraetsel ("crossword"). The listener witnesses a recorded alphabet turning into a trilogy of compositions called "Letters Make No Meaning (Weapons No War Germs No Disease) I," "Cognitive Modules Party II" and "Ooops For Understanding III," and the differences between recorded silences in tracks 8A. "Present" and 8B. "Absent." The album's artwork delivers a deeper insight into the meaning of the compositions which features a total of 16 works of calligraphy, drawings and photography by AGF designed into an elaborate book format by the renowned designer, Alorenz. The CD comes in an upright digipack with a 20-page booklet that distracts the origin of words into a conceptual letter play derived from abstract calligraphy. Exploring a personal form of poetry into electronic music, pop songs, calligraphy and the world wide web, AGF's entrancing live performances and sound installations have taken place all over the world in museums, auditoriums, theaters, concert halls and clubs.

Artist:	GREIE (AKA AGF), ANTYE
Title:	Einzelkämpfer (Lone Warrior)
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	AGF 011CD

This is the sixth solo album by East German software musician, producer, label-owner and e-poet, AGF (aka Antye Greie), who is now based in Hailuoto, Finland. The artist herself on Einzelkämpfer: "As the title suggests, the work investigates lone warriors -- from the deep sea creatures to the human individuals, the woods, our earth, achievements through solitary action and considerations about this. I based my thoughts and research on scientific papers, ancient and recent literature, personal emotion and created poetry in my audio-composing technique, called 'poem producing.' While my recent releases were based around beats, the new album misses beats for most of it and turns its attention to ambient, noise, poetry and singing on experimental ground. This work is solely created and released on my own label. By doing so, I underline the concept of a lone warrior." Warning: contains irregular beats, noise and low frequencies (speaker system required).

Artist:	AGF & CRAIG ARMSTRONG
Title:	Orlando
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 014CD

Craig Armstrong, a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores and AGF (Antye Greie) collaborate once again. In 2001, Armstrong invited Greie to contribute a song to his second solo record As If To Nothing (2002); subsequently, both artists collaborated on Piano Works (2004), The Dolls (2005 with Vladislav Delay), Memory Takes My Hand (2008) and now Orlando. AGF is a digital songwriter, sound composer and poet and has released 20 records and numerous collaborations under such aliases as AGF/Delay (with Vladislav Delay), Greie Gut Fraktion (with Gudrun Gut), and The Lappetites (with Kaffe Matthews and Eliane Radigue). Greie has produced records for numerous other artists, including Ellen Allien (Sool (BPC 175CD/LP). Orlando - The Play: In 2010, AGF composed and performed original music in the Cryptic theater company's staging of the Virginia Woolf masterpiece Orlando, directed by Cathie Boyd. This staging features live vocals and electronics by AGF and an original soundtrack by her and Craig Armstrong. Orlando - the CD: For this CD, these two very different composers scored this theater piece, combining their work and writing compositions in a cohesive flow following the narrative of the book. This work is meant to take the listener on an inspiring journey. Field recordings and recordings of classical cello, voice and digital processing are the key elements here. The music is lush, clever and beautiful -- the combination of Armstrong's melodic strength and Greie's delicately-voiced electronic inventiveness working together like a dream. AGF composed and recorded a piece about writing to introduce the nature of Orlando, sitting in his oak tree, secluded from the world, building his own powerful and wonderful universe in nature and fantasy. Craig wrote the opening theme on cello, and AGF used words from the text as well as recordings of her feet breaking dry wood and a sub-bass frequency. Pieces like "The Tree," "Betrayal," and "Sleep" see AGF and Armstrong incorporate drone and digital processing. The poetry pieces "Yearning Years," "I Held A Queen," "You Sleep On," "Sex At Thought" and "Rain Falls" are deconstructed texts, as recognizable as any of the poemproducer pieces AGF has written before. The core of this CD bears the mark of the outstanding book which Virginia Woolf wrote 100 years ago, though with a 21st century sound score of magnificent, compelling fragility.

Artist:	AGF
Title:	Gedichterbe
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 015CD

Gedichterbe is a project by AGF (Antye Greie) that investigates German poetry and the heritage of the German language within electronic music and society. Including the first-known female German poet Frau Ava (11th century) and today's "wunderkind" poetess Ann Cotten (born 1982), poets were chosen from the romantic period of the 18th century, from Jewish poets during the 20th century and poets from East/West Germany after World War II. Personalities from the German electronic music scene help AGF interpret the poems: collaborators vary from the famous techno DJ Ellen Allien, the underground avant-garde legend Gudrun Gut, the prolific German rapper Pyranja, Berlin's electronic star Barbara Morgenstern, the scandalous Gina D'Orio from Cobra Killer, and more. AGF presents poets and poems close to her heart, and here the relationship between sound and music is investigated and interpreted. So how does this sound? Can Quio rap Frau Ava? Do Friedrich Schiller and Karoline von Gnderode stand the test of time? Can Else Lasker-Schler and Paul Celan inspire us today? The music is radical modern and contemporary minimalistic, supporting the poetry as well the history around it. The historical text is interpreted with digital sound technology and aesthetics. Sometimes poems are deconstructed and cut-up and processed to the point of non-recognition, sometimes the poems remain pure and untouched. The voluminous CD book includes numerous calligraphic drawings by AGF and an extended scientific text in German by Christine Lang about language and sound in context of this work. Other contributing artists include: Quio, TBA and Bothnian Draale Pack.

Artist:	AGF
Title:	Beatnadel
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 016CD

AGF aka Antye Greie releases her seventh solo record. Beatnadel (trans. "Beat Needle") is a piercing sonic outburst of razor-edged beats and pilot vocal art. AGF is a rare combination of composer/producer and vocalist. This is digital songwriting with beat structures and penetrating sound sculptures to inspire the mind. The tracks have been constructed out of large, self-designed sample banks, voice, bass, synthesized sounds and discerning effect treatments. The music is sequenced to a large extent and holds an aggressive undertone compared to her recent works. AGF has cut out original tracks with surprising narrative and breathtaking precision in editing and sculpturing the sound. Deconstructed poetry, aggressive beat patterns, tender songwriting, drone parts, full-frequency spectrum. "I want to built a new tradition, an aural tradition, transmitted via the ears." --Karlheinz Stockhausen, London 1971. "He says, the one who is not afraid is anyway cheerful and does not need to sing" --Janosch in Kleiner Hase, Großer Held. "It's not a question of time, it's that people today lack a certain frame of mind. Time is no excuse, your time should be spent on self-improvement, there's no better way to spend your time." --Ai Wei Wei in his blog. Having worked with great composers of our time such as Vladislav Delay, Eliane Radigue and Craig Armstrong and produced records for Ellen Allien with Gudrun Gut and many others, AGF once again concentrates on voice and post-club crossover. After finishing a stage play soundtrack to Orlando (AGF 014CD) with classical composer Craig Armstrong, and releasing a conceptual poetry work Gedichterbe (AGF 015CD) about the German heritage of language, Beatnadel is a very personal form of expression with no compromise. "Lingu-tik" features the voice of Prof. Noam Chomsky. Otherwise, the work is composed, recorded, mixed, mastered and executed by AGF. Artwork and calligraphy also by AGF.

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