Browse by Label: BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)

Artist:	TOL
Title:	Shang
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BINE 002CD

"Included are 11 tracks that will touch the core of you. Tol.Shang is a perfect mixture of dub, reggae and acid jazz components. After his debut album Tol.Trap together with Frank Bretschneider and several CD productions and live gigs with produkt(Bretschneider, Bender, Seidel) Tol is back and better than ever. '... with the new album Tol.Shang I tied in with my last tracks from Tol.Trap. Also the everlasting love to dub, electro and ambient can be found again in the new tracks. Furthermore my impressions and the sounds of my trips to China & Shanghai influenced some of the compositions. All in all I see most tracks as movie sequences, which rather match to the weather in Germany... all compositions were composed and recorded on a Mac and as software I used Cubase and Reason. The major instruments were the clavia nord rack and some software sampler/synthesizer. so far and enjoy'."

Artist:	TOUZIMSKY, THOMAS
Title:	Fold
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BINE 003CD

"Catalogue number 003 is delivered from Obrigheim, a small village in Rhineland-Palatinate. Thomas Touzimsky, co-founder of Binemusic, releases his EP Fold right on Christmas time. Ever since listening to it, electronic music both fascinated and influenced him. The minimalistic yet entertaining sound of the legendary C64 lead him to the infamous Amiga, allowing him to create is first own tracks. Throughout the years, the ongoing change in music hard- and software helped Thomas evolving his music to today's experimental electronic sounds. Thomas himself finds his biggest contemporary influences in the ambient and independent words of various artists including Aphex Twin, The Shamen, Future Sound Of London and the Metamatics. Fold plays four multifarious tracks, harmonically aligned to form a 20 minute journey through sound."

Artist:	EONTA
Title:	Verletzbar
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BINE 004CD

"Èonta aka Andreas Golinksi (Basel/Essen) and Spiro Kapravelos (Bochum/Athens) start in 2004 their music project Eonta with their debut album Verletzbarboth of them are active in many facettes of contemporary digital media: video and sound installations, 'future planning' and 3D-environments, web- and screendesign. In their musicmaking they don't follow a masterplan: ideas and moods are translated into sound. Typical song structures are seldom used, their tracks remind of short films as compact pieces of storytelling. Èonta's music is a projection of their inner world. Direct and raw snapshots of : a quiet day in the park, nature, lines from books once read, late-night emotional brainstorming, movies, one would wish to live in, the beauty of the far east but also noise and the fun in being loud, entangled in an endless loop and sometimes touching silence."

Artist:	BRUNN, BENJAMIN
Title:	Konig Und Drache
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BINE 005CD

"Debut album on Binemusic. All the tracks were written during 2003 and 2004 being heavily influenced by his life in Chemnitz, Dresden and Taiwan while not abandoning his melancholic house style which has already became a trademark on his former releases. The track names were chosen after they were finished, reflecting important and prominent details from the different, yet still similar living areas Germany and Taiwan. König und Drache (king and dragon) substitutionally fight for Germany and Taiwan against each other -- or stand together side by side. In this case they combine their power, of which the results can be heard on the finished tracks. Since 1999 Benjamin Brunn released his music on labels like Mole, USM, out to lunch and the Mathias Schaffhäuser label Ware."

Artist:	SCANNER
Title:	Moskau Disko
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BINE 012EP

"Following the success of Teenage Wochen in 2006, Scanner follows up his slippery electro trip with Moskau Disko, the warped daughter of a night spent in a digital orgy of Wagnerian creative excess on German label Binemusic, home to modest musical surprises. Terrorized vocals open the acid slip-disc party atmosphere, Kraftwerk seduce the Aphex Twin in the kitchen, and James Holden takes photographs of Paris Hilton washing up the beats, and publishes them on Myspace. This bewitchingly groove-laden Russian discothèque is contrasted by the slow motion elegance of 'Russe Traum,' as the stockings are tidied away, the curtains drawn and the lights softly dimmed. Scanner -- British sound artist, Robin Rimbaud -- explores an eclectic mix of activities that place him at the crossroads of academic and digital pop culture. Since 1991, he has been intensely active in sound art, producing concerts, compositions, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden Is Full of Metal (1998) are hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music."

Artist:	SCANNER
Title:	Rockets, Unto The Edges Of Edges
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BINE 018CD

This is the second full-length release for UK-based Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner on BineMusic. In his most intimate and forceful recording in years, Scanner maneuvers across fresh terrain that embraces the traditional -- guitar, vocals and string arrangements, and the more eclectic -- hundreds of found voices, radar transmissions and environmental recordings. Opening the album with "Sans Soleil" featuring Michael Gira (Swans, Angels Of Light) on guitar, Scanner sings for the first time on his album, his voice hovering through a barren landscape of fragile loops and harmonies. Crisp, distressed melodies with crushingly fat beats unite on "Pietas Ilulia" to map a cinematic landscape populated by N.E.R.D by way of Robert Fripp and John Barry. "Anna Livia Plurabelle" paints an achingly melancholic picture through which celebrated Mumbai-born soprano Patricia Rozario soars and flies with a radiant timbre. Having effectively been the muse for British composer John Taverner for some years, Rozario brings a dexterity and humane conviction to this electronic soundscape. The ghostly presence of William Burroughs and philosopher Bertrand Russell weave their way through some of the pieces, opening into the dark heart of "Yellow Plains Under White Hot Blue Sky," an epic, almost menacing work, with corrosive voices, noises and abstract shapes over a primordial electronic beat, that continues to build and ignite with bowed strings into a picturesque, precise explosion. "The Last European" casts phonetic Croatian and Korean into a rhythmic bed of pulses and instrumental melodies, tripping through itchy rhythms that entangle themselves upon one another, while "A Clearing Between Earth And Air" closes the album with a highly organic and textured mix of voices, drifting harmonies and Krautrock pulses, breeding a drifting melancholy from the union of voice and electronic and acoustic instrumentation. By far his most mature and personally sombre album, Rockets... is in equal parts sumptuous and achingly beautiful, sentimental and exploratory. Jean Baudrillard once depicted paradise as mournful, a fitting location for this ravishing soundtrack.

Artist:	MARCONI UNION
Title:	Tokyo
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BINE 020CD

This is UK-based Marconi Union's first release for the Binemusic label. Since 2003, Marconi Union have recorded albums for a number of different labels and created pieces for art installations, film and TV in Europe and America. In 2008, Marconi Union established their own label, Mu- Transmissions. Marconi Union's music is an evocative combination of electronica and ambience. Often incorporating organic sounds from field recordings, acoustic instruments and guitars, they create a distinctive sound-world where beautiful melodies are offset by darker undercurrents. In a genre of music that is frequently accused of being clinical and dispassionate, their music is unanimously recognized as having a deep, emotional resonance. On Tokyo, the band wanted to produce an album that had a hi-tech ambience in order to conjure up images of the Tokyo of films, books and TV. This record isn't about creating "authentic" Japanese music, or faithfully documenting the actual city (which neither of the members have visited). Rather, it is an attempt to capture a sense of the imagined and often-iconized version of Tokyo.

Artist:	BEDOUIN ASCENT & MOVE D
Title:	Interference
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	BINE 021EP

The tracks bought together on this release feature many of the live jams and improvisations Bedouin Ascent and Move D immersed themselves in over short summer nights almost 15 years ago. The sessions remain as they were laid down in 1995 -- no post-production, overdubs or re-editing; just the simple interplay of TR808, TR909, MS-20, Pro-One, Frontline X2, Yamaha TX802, etc. These tracks were as much a blueprint of the future as they captured the sensibilities of an era.

Artist:	SCHIENHAMMER, SVEN
Title:	Altostratus Translucidus
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BINE 022CD

Named after a condensed, rainfall-including weather situation, Sven Schienhammer develops a directorial melange of dub influences, chord arrangements, minimalism and field recordings over the course of 11 tracks. Both individualistic and drawer-defying, Schienhammer arranges compressing instrumental compositions without any copycat allures whose sensitively spreading emotionality draws from the analog production methods. Its emphasis on warm and cold chords in particular in combination with playful fields of white noise files shifts the album near Wolfgang Voigt's minimal Gas imprint as well as the early pre-'90s home-listening era in both dramaturgy and sound. On Altostratus Translucidus, Sven Schienhammer puts across technical skills in combining the diffused intensity of minimal club aesthetic with powerful chords whose unpretentious minimalism modulates the first half of the album, making it easily recognizable. The album's final quarter is heavily devoted to resonating dub and abstract trip-hop interconnections between the pads which reflect Schienhammer's influences in aesthetic modesty. Thus all the tracks form a closed system which portray the essential quintessence of the album's meteorological title: volume - concentration - discharge. The associated focusing of auditive expression manages the balancing act between new age chill-out and half clock-steered club feeling. Altostratus Translucidus draws its energy from the unparalleled presentation of not being pigeonholed in a single genre while musically reflecting current events. Often labelled the heir of Basic Channel , the artist softens the basic attitude of his musical lead and wipes out his traces in the raw and analog grain of his music through meditatively-unfolding rhythms.

Artist:	VA
Title:	2010
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	BINE 023LP

Vinyl release. Like all its previous releases, BineMusic's first compilation is more about quality than quantity, so it had to be released on double vinyl. At the end of the day, new and upcoming artists like Severence should be accommodated just as much as those the label has fostered for years. Düsseldorf artist Lars Leonhard, who's already well-known among fellow techno freaks, makes his debut for Bine and starts off with the Twin Peaks-ish and lovely grooving "Citylights," while Thomas Touzimsky pleases with a chirring beat on "Insect." A remarkably straight Scanner track showcases the better side of trance, followed by the minimal house sounds of Tol. Move D's live recording back from the '90s paves the way for a warm, guitar chord-driven ambient piece by New Zealand's Ben Swire. Along with Move D, Benjamin Brunn is one of the label's cornerstones and finds his place among Taylor Deupree aka Ando and Marconi Union. What unifies all of these artists is the idea of combining abstract, emotional thoughts, which also reveals itself in the formidable, cosmic artwork.

Artist:	STEINBRUCHEL
Title:	A\B\C\D
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	BINE 024EP

A\B\C\D forms sounds into structures, turns loops into rhythms; starting from recordings of acoustic objects, Steinbrüchel segmented and wove them into new textures. Every sound becomes a string -- some stronger, some weaker, interlacing with each other and turning themselves into new structures. Once more, Steinbrüchel uses atmospheric and melodic sounds built upon micro-loops, layered and arranged to create a repeating structure. The overlay of all these loops is held together by clicking particles which lead through the compositions like a seam.

Artist:	MARCONI UNION
Title:	Glassworks
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	BINE 025EP

The heat of summer in an urban canyon's night of fresh air. In Berlin. Or Manchester. Maybe in Budapest, even. It is warm, but not that close and hot anymore. A soft wind blows through the leaves and ripples the surface of the small puddles the rain left on the streets. With three reworkings of one of their tracks from the album 13, Marconi Union conjures such an atmosphere on this 12", inviting you to (day-)dream or bob across the dancefloor.

Artist:	LEONHARD, LARS
Title:	No Comment
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BINE 027EP

Lars Leonhard releases No Comment, a six-track 12" EP including bonus remixes by renowned label colleagues. The dynamically-dense title track features pumping beats layered with soft pads and has been further edited by the artist into two additional versions. "No Comment - Before Sunset" is Leonhard's decelerated take and the outer space sound of "No Comment - Anywhere" invites the listener to drift into another world. His chilled versions are followed by dancefloor remixes from Thomas Touzimsky, Sven Schienhammer and Scanner.

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